Sixty-eight per cent of the IT directors polled by Hitachi Data Systems said cost savings from technology consolidation in the wake of mergers and acquisitions seldom materialise as quickly as business executives expect.
IT will be key to short-term cost savings in the £8.5bn takeover of Abbey by Spanish bank Santander Central Hispano but it is unlikely to result in large numbers of job cuts in the UK, according to industry analysts.
The National Projects programme, which supports 22 projects to create standard products, systems and best practice that can be adopted by councils across the country, has been declared a success with projected cost savings of £320m.
Given that reducing cost was one of the main reasons CIOs gave for outsourcing, this was a worrying observation, and suggests there is still a gulf between the savings that CIOs expect to achieve and the savings that are actually being delivered...
Cost savings will be a top consideration for public sector organisations migrating to Windows Vista - but it's not the only factor in their decision. Terry Smith, director of Microsoft's UK public sector business, said: "The big thing to drive...
By implementing Barcelona a typical user can make annual cost savings of $120,000, Meyer claimed. Meyer was keen to translate the quad-core energy savings into eco capital - describing the benefit as being equivalent 'to taking 100 cars off the...