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TECHNOLOGY > SOA > NEWS
18/03/2008
Carphone Warehouse automates SOA governance
A new IT governance system has boosted the adoption of service-oriented architecture (SOA) technology at the Carphone Warehouse.
03/01/2008
Eclipse prepares open source SOA framework
The Eclipse Foundation is developing an open source SOA framework for enterprise applications.
10/12/2007
Banking industry looks to drive out costs with smaller contracts
Banks squeeze margins in software and services
05/12/2007
ITIL v3 gaining ground in enterprises but doubts remain
ITIL v3 is slowly being adopted, but there is still confusion in the marketplace
04/10/2007
Telecommuting saves carbon emissions
Telecommuting leads to a significant reduction in carbon emissions even when increased home-based carbon emissions are taken into account.
19/07/2007
Open source is a strategic imperative
The acquisition and deployment of open source software is now a strategic imperative for UK business, according to research released today.
12/07/2007
UK businesses must save to invest in agile IT
British businesses must try harder to cut their existing IT overheads and channel the savings into new systems that could make their businesses more agile, HP's UK managing director has said.
Oracle 11g makes debut
Oracle has released a major upgrade of its database management system for grid computing, promising customers hundreds of new features including the ability to patch without taking systems offline, simplified application testing, and several green upgrades, such as compression of data, to make it three times smaller.
10/07/2007
IT recruitment 'crisis' holding business back
A shortage of technology experts in the UK is holding back many businesses, a major industry body has warned.
FSA adds £6.5m outsourcing deal
The Financial Services Authority, the UK’s statutory regulator for the financial services industry, has awarded a £6.5 million contract to design and build its new Mandatory Electronic Reporting system to Capgemini UK.
Granger defends IT record
NHS IT chief Richard Granger has claimed the costs of the National Programme for IT he oversees have been inflated.
VMware goes for $740m IPO
Intel said it plans to buy a $218.5 million (£108.4m) stake in the software firm VMware. The purchase will be part of an initial public offering (IPO), in which VMware plans to sell 10% of the company in the hopes of raising as much as $740m.
04/07/2007
MOD outsources Health and Safety IT
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) has signed a multi-million pound deal to outsurce the development of a new Incident Recording Information System (IRIS).
NHS boosts UK health IT spending
Research published today has found national IT projects will be a major source of growth in spending within the UK healthcare IT market in the next five years.
03/07/2007
How does a CIO become CEO?
Do you know your Executive Quotient (EQ)? By figuring your EQ, you can determine how well you're positioned to be the strategy-oriented CIO that businesses are demanding.
02/07/2007
Business needs free software
Free Software Foundation leader Richard Stallman said at the launch of the group's new version 3 of the General Public Licence that businesses are "foolish" not to adopt non-proprietary technologies.
29/06/2007
Late IT projects equals lower profits
For more than one third of companies surveyed worldwide, 25% or more of IT projects are delivered late, finds global survey.
28/06/2007
IBM tackles 'dirtier' metadata issues
A new IBM product tackles the problems associated with managing and reporting on metadata, which has implications for regulatory compliance, business intelligence, service-oriented architecture and data integration projects.
IT skills gaps hinder corporate change
Chief information officers and IT managers say skills gaps in the IT department are hampering businesses' change management programmes, research has revealed.
27/06/2007
