We are not looking at reducing downtime by a factor of 50 per cent, but by several orders of magnitude. But this doesn't help address the related requirement of scalability. While most of the industry is looking to towards high availability through...
IBM remains the world's largest hardware vendor and Alliance Lite is part of an initiative to retain that position by keeping customers loyal and reducing the risk of them migrating to Sun- or Intel-based hardware platforms where ecommerce...
The company is also giving clients access to a web-based system, reducing the need for them to call up and find out where their delivery is - instead they can track it from their desktops as it moves, street by street.
We have had great success in reducing benefit fraud. The DWP said while many benefits are linked to each other, business processes are not fully automated so errors can creep in as staff have to make calculations offline.
The biometric data would be stored on documents or cards, not on a central database, making the information faster to process and reducing the security risk. Automated biometric systems will eventually replace the often laborious system of repeated...
It would also go some way to reducing the frustration that exists in the IT department. So can the business help address this area? Given those facts, why are so many organisations gambling with software systems availability?