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Open source banking

 19 December 2011

The Bank of East Asia chose open source business intelligence infrastructure to meet its reporting requirements

Putting old PCs to good use

 25 July 2011

How IT equipment donated by UK businesses is helping rural African communities develop economically

Upgrading the exchange

 25 July 2011

Online betting exchange Betfair is midway through an infrastructure upgrade designed to support business growth

Show them the money

 18 April 2011

Lloyds TSB builds a web-based finance management application to improve customer engagement

Monitoring the health of NHS IT

 18 April 2011

A blow-by-blow account of how NHS Connecting for Health developed a system to monitor the performance of its various outsourced IT services

Building a web community for frequent flyers

 22 March 2011

Lufthansa connects its customers using a bespoke mobile application 

Fine-tuning an SOA

 28 February 2011

How Hiscox resolved the performance blind spots in its service-oriented architecture

Testing the game plan

 28 February 2011

Simulating the Olympic Games to stress-test London 2012’s IT infrastructure

Light work

 20 December 2010

In a bid to meet its carbon reduction targets, Westminster City Council is rolling out a system that allows it to control streetlight infrastructure at the click of a button

Agile intelligence

 20 December 2010

Database innovations and agile development techniques are giving rise to a new approach to business intelligence, says BSkyB’s head of BI

Tough job

 12 October 2010

HSBC’s hard-nosed approach to recruiting Agile software developers

How BA uses Agile

 13 September 2010

The airline’s head of IT delivery Mike Croucher explains how the Agile methodology has helped IT projects to deliver more value, sooner

The Guardian attempts to commercialise openness

 20 May 2010

As rivals discuss paywalls, UK newspaper unveils business model for syndicating content through an open platform based on open source software

Ingres’ open source rebirth unlocks value for AAH Pharmaceuticals

 30 March 2010

Pharmaceutical distributor has found the Ingres database better value and more forward moving since its 'commercial open source' makeover

A Smart move

 21 October 2009

How US utility provider Duke Energy is making the Smart Grid vision a reality

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