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IT Case Studies in Business Applications

Service management at Brit Insurance 

 20 September 2011

The UK commercial insurer's service management team selected its own SaaS-based solution, but the IT department's support was required for security and compliance

A human giant

 15 November 2010

Siemens’ human capital management system is said to be the largest cloud computing deployment in the world

Putting the iPad to work 

 18 August 2010

How one furniture retailer has found a business use case for Apple's tablet device

Q&A – Aviva Europe

 18 June 2010

When the European division of the UK’s largest insurer standardised its HR management systems, it chose a software-as-a-service supplier over its enterprise applications partner. HR director Andy Moffat explains why

Aviva guides staff through restructuring with self-help HR system

 10 December 2009

UK insurer Aviva deployed a self-service HR information system to help employees through major organisational upheaval

Running lean

 21 October 2009

Business process management software helps shoe maker New Balance apply lean manufacturing principles in the office

Keeping the Netherlands on track

 14 July 2009

Optimisation software helps Netherlands Rail manage the busiest railway network in the EU

Welcome to the service department

 23 June 2009

Service-oriented architecture spells the end for the IT department as we know it, according to I Want One Of Those’s Angus Gow

Betting the business on SaaS

 23 June 2009

Two businesses share their experience of extensively deploying software-as-a-service

The intelligent warehouse

 14 April 2009

E-commerce operator iForce has deployed advanced business intelligence to keep abreast of the recession-challenged retail market

Signs of decline

 14 April 2009

Gartner's gloomy predictions for IT spending in 2009 were corroborated by financial results from Oracle, Accenture and on a more positive note, Red Hat

Trading in a Bear market

 10 December 2008

Consumer electronics retailer Technosila is emblematic of a new breed of Russian business: entrepreneurial, competitive and tech-savvy

Fire-proof IT from Google

 10 December 2008

Trialling Google's online applications help construction industry services provider survive a serious disaster

IWOOT's open source odyssey

 10 December 2008

A disastrous chain of event lead online retailer I Want One Of Those to adopt open source business applications - and it has never looked back

GameStop guns for growth

 06 December 2007

Single instance of business apps to support international expansion at games retailer.

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