This sort of activity is often carried out over the telephone but IM, with proper logging, will give the company an audit trail. Although many examples of enterprise IM focus on its formal use in applications such as supply chain management, IM is...
The government’s flagship system for doing criminal background checks on people who work with children and vulnerable adults came in for some stinging criticism today from the National Audit Office and MPs on the Public Accounts Committee.
The figures were compiled from National Audit Office and parliamentary investigations into the projects. Taking a handful of examples, government overspend on IT projects is already nearly £2bn. Other projects covered are the Inland Revenue's...
The National Audit Office (NAO) has slammed the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for failing to improve IT systems used for benefits payments. In a statement, Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office said: "There is a balance to be...
Ten of silicon.com's 12-man CIO Jury IT user panel this week said they believe technologies that have their roots in the consumer market, such as Google Desktop and the iPod, will continue to make inroads into enterprise IT and impact IT...
Vendors who are involved in SOA success stories need to bring these case scenarios to their customer and prospective customer bases, not as deep tomes of technical details but as examples of how organisations addressed a specific business need.