Richard Barker, CEO of Sovereign Business Integration, argues that the recession will turn IT white elephants into endangered species. The past decade has been defined by conspicuous consumption across the board. The cheaper goods have become, the more the nation has bought. And the IT department has been one of the biggest culprits in encouraging…
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Infrastructure
LHA-ASRA’s eight-year deal with Atlanta Technology
After eight years of working with Atlanta Technology, the ICT team at LHA-ASRA report on their development of a new IT infrastructure, the adoption of virtualised servers and the delivery of a new disaster recovery service. LHA-ASRA’s relationship with Atlanta began in 2001 when the hosted ICT specialists developed a remote-access corporate email system; Atlanta…
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Waterstons’ SoA platform for Home Group
As part of a five-year IT strategy, Home Group has implemented a service-oriented architecture (SoA) across its operations. Developed by Waterstons, the focus for Home’s SoA was content consolidation and management against a background of continuous business change and regulatory oversight. One of the UK’s largest housing providers with 52,000 properties and 4000 employees, Home…
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Out with the old, in with the new
Neil Jones, head of IS at Newport City Homes, explains how the transfer of Newport City Council’s properties to NCH has required a completely new enterprise-wide technology and telephony infrastructure. Newport City Homes, one of the largest social landlords in Wales, was established in March 2009 after a stock transfer of around 9100 properties from…
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NTL voice & data network at Glasgow Housing
Glasgow Housing Association, the UK’s largest social housing provider, has installed a new voice and data network from NTL:Telewest Business to improve services for its 90,000 tenants and homeowners across the city. Since the fibre-optic network went live in August 2009, GHA customers now have a single number to call for all queries, ranging from…
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InTechnology adds voice to unified communications
InTechnology has launched the UK’s first unified communications (UC) solution with integrated IP telephony, video calling and audio/video conferencing on demand. In partnership with voice specialists POSTcti, InTechnology is offering a hosted Microsoft Office Communication Server service integrated with its desktop telephony service, resulting in an estimated 50 per cent reduction in unwanted email and…
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