IT Services

InfoSec Needs Greater Business RelevanceInfoSec must change. Vendors currently spend three days selling themselves at the show, but the needs of business organisations and their users must become the top priority. Rather than delivering a sprawl of disconnected technologies, the show needs to have more of a business and industry ... read more..

NCC ITDA Case StudyGallions optimises its IT with flagship NCC schemeMichael Dean talks to Ali Jaffri, IT manager at Gallions Housing Association, about why it chose to join the National Computing Centres business improvement programme, the IT Department Accreditation (ITDA) scheme. Ali discusses the accreditation experience and the value Gallions ... read more..

NCC ITDA Case StudyIts not about pass or fail, its about quality of service, professionalism and continuous performance improvement.Aster Group is now accredited to the National Computing Centres Standard for IT Departments. IT director Roy Thompson talks to Michael Dean about why Asters IT team applied, the benefits the company ... read more..

No software developer sets out to produce bad code and create insecure applications, but there appears to be a lack of understanding towards securing software in the corporate infrastructure. Security weaknesses in software systems of enterprises are routinely exposed by hacking incidents; the Sony and Play.com breaches are the most ... read more..

NCC ITDA Case Study A blueprint for an outstanding future Phil Pettifer, information services manager at Walsall Housing Group, speaks to Michael Dean about ITs role in helping the organisation become truly outstanding. Phil tells us why whg chose to seek accreditation to The National Computing Centres Standard for IT ... read more..

NCC ITDA Case Study ...it is much better when a respected third party says were good too! Michael Dean talks to Rick Smith, IT manager at the Vale of Aylesbury Housing Trust, about its successful application to become accredited to The National Computing Centres Standard for IT Departments and the ... read more..

Chatter challenges the new world of social mediaSalesforce.com has unveiled its new Chatter Servicethis allows enterprises to integrate and use publicly available information about their customers via social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook with their CRM.Chatter Service is intended to improve the customers experience because enterprises have ... read more..

public sector procurement IT procurement specialist and Probrand MD, Peter Robbins, explores the barriers restraining the public sector from doing more business with SMEs. The current process design and management results in duplicated requests for information, suppliers being engaged for an unnecessarily long time and SMEs being excluded as distinct requirements ... read more..

NCC Media ReleaseFrom the National Computing Centre, Manchester UK. 12th September 2011.A new survey from the National Computing Centre, The Benchmark of IT Spending and Strategy 2011 shows that UK organisational Information Technology (IT) spending remains in decline. A significant divide in IT spending between public and private sectors ... read more..

ITDA CASE STUDY: Aircelle Michael Dean talks to Steve Simpson IS Manager at Aircelle, the first engineering company to be accredited to the National Computing Centres Standard for IT departments. He finds out why they applied for accreditation and what they got out of the process. The company Despite the ... read more..

ITDA CASE STUDY: Royal Pharmaceutical Society Chris Lord, Head of Information Management and Technology at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society took the organisation through the National Computing Centres IT Department Accreditation following a significant demerger. Michael Dean finds out why and discovers the benefits realised. The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) ... read more..

ITDA CASE STUDY: Bedford Borough Council ICT ServicesMichael Dean talks to Sharon Hayes, Quality Manager and Project Officer, Bedford Borough Council and finds out why the Unitary Authority applied for accreditation to the National Computing Centres Standard for IT departments and what they got out of the process. Bedford Borough ... read more..

Michael Dean talks to Paul Day, Head of IS and Business Support at British Transport Police about their accreditation to the National Computing Centre Standard for IT Departments For the British Transport Police (BTP) 2012 will be a defining year. Policing the London Olympic and Paralympic Games will be a ... read more..

Being the first NHS organisation to obtain this accreditation shows our level of maturity provides reassurance to the Trust that the ICT department is amongst the best, providing value for money. Michael Dean talks to Ricky MacKennon, Deputy Director of ICT at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust about ... read more..

Management StrategyBigger, smaller or non-existent? How will the IT department look in 2020? At the launch of this year's CI0 50, the UK's top IT chiefs considered whether the IT department will be a very different beast in a decade's time, or even existFollow this link ... read more..

21 June 2011 Download the presentations The CxO experience David Evans former CFO of a major retailer and Global CIO of Aon Group Richard Nichols former Group CTO at Legal General Assurance ... read more..

Media ReleaseFrom the National Computing Centre, Manchester UK. For issue 20th June 2011The majority of organisations are dissatisfied with the quality of information that they are able to produce from their finance systems. This is according to new research commissioned by the National Computing Centres Evaluation Centre service. (www.evaluationcentre.com).The ... read more..

geographical information systems Geographical information systems (GIS) technology has been around in some shape or form for over 40 years, helping analyse and make sense of spatial data. But today, GIS is helping solve a raft of new challenges in both the private and public sector, as it comes of ... read more..

IT Department Accreditation - case study Michael Dean finds out how and why the Department of Justice, Northern Ireland became accredited to the NCC Standard for IT Departments. The criminal justice system in Northern Ireland never sleeps, incidents and crimes can occur at any time of the day and often ... read more..

Michael Dean discusses Northern Ireland Housing Executives accreditation to the National Computing Centre Standard for IT Departments with Colleen Long Assistant Director and Head of IT Services at NIHE. The Northern Ireland Housing Association (NIHE) which is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year is Northern Irelands Regional Housing Authority, ... read more..

Is there a market for another enterprise search product? US/German company Q-Sensei is starting to actively promote its enterprise search platform. This product, like many others, is aiming to give organizations a single combined interface for all of their information and social media feeds. However, in Q-Sensei's case, it aims ... read more..

The Evolution Before we explore the differences between .NET and Java, lets first find out why they exist at all. If we cast our mind back to the early days of computing, programming was a very difficult task. There were many different computers with wildly different architectures. (Soviet computer Сетунь ... read more..

CMS is the hot topic for 2011Ovum participated in Danish-headquartered J Boye's inaugural European CMS Expert Group in London in February 2011. This non-competitive community of practice intends to draw together the lessons and best practices around content management systems (CMSs), particularly their deployment, to enable organizations to get the ... read more..

ICO bares its teeth Are we entering a new regime of enforcement around data protection compliance? Early in February, the Information Commissioners Office* issued two new high profile fines for data Protection breaches. Ealing Council and Hounslow Council were fined 80,000 and 70,000 respectively after two unencrypted laptops, containing the ... read more..

Join us for a Webinar on 24th February 2011 Hosted by Danny Dresner, Head of Information Assurance, National Computing Centre. The Information Commissioner and the Financial Services Authority can wield hefty fines. And did you know that terrorists and criminals want your network more than your data? Whilst social networks and counterfeit ... read more..

A real possibility or an impossible business requirement..? Business enterprises fuel the digital economy by generating the wealth to provide public services, to create more and better jobs, higher standards of living and a more sustainable economy. Financed through taxation, the public sectors role is to deliver goods and services ... read more..

The National Housing Federation's IT in Housing Conference We are delighted to support the National Housing Federation (NHF) and will be there at Stand 25 to talk about how we, the National Computing Centre, are working together with the NHF to improve their IT department effectiveness. As Rob Green, Head ... read more..

Optimizing resources in a changing environment December 2010 Catalyst IT management needs to ensure that it is in a position to help the organization benefit from the opportunities that present themselves in an ever-changing environment, creating a flexible IT function that can exploit existing and emerging technologies to best advantage. Key Findings: ... read more..

IT vendors do themselves no favors by delivering underwhelming presentations at conferences and events. Sponsoring the event may seem to confer the right to deliver a marketing pitch, but this still needs to be informative and relevant to the attendees to leave the right impression.OH NO, ITS THE VENDOR PRESENTATION...:Enterprise ... read more..

cloud computingAs cloud computing adoption accelerates, the associated risks are becoming increasingly apparent, the most prominent of which is security. Rob Winter, chief engineer and Tracey Stretton, legal consultant both at Kroll Ontrack look at the challenges from their different perspectives. The benefits of cloud computing are undeniable. ... read more..