18 November 2009
Reading, UK | December 2nd, 2009
Microsoft Business Integration UK Road Show Event
Executive Summary
Tough economic times bring us back to focus on improving efficiencies, cutting cost and extracting more value from existing systems. These times also present excellent opportunities to streamline information-sharing among partners, customers, employees and suppliers, as well. This event is focused on the topic of how Business ...
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Posted @ 01:48
11 November 2009
Following on from my post about Saving Money with SharePoint in the Public Sector where I talked about the OEP and how SharePoint might help with cost efficiency, I thought you might be interested in hearing about an event one of our partners, PCubed is running in London on 17th December which looks at how we can improve project delivery capability in the public sector. Clearly even shaving a few percent off the cost of delivering projects running across a significant programme of work, reducing project failures and delivering more of those projects on time ...
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Posted @ 09:42
6 November 2009
Did you know that Microsoft published a paper on the five ways in which SharePoint can save you money with customer stories and evidence early in 2009? In May, the Treasury published the Operational Efficiency Programme report with recommendations about how to save money around IT and back office. I thought it might be interesting to have a look at both documents and see where public sector SharePoint investments might just dovetail with OEP and help Public sector organisations deliver cost savings with their IT assets, particularly if they already have SharePoint.
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Posted @ 16:38
3 November 2009
Isn’t it ironic? One of the delights of Live Meetings is that you do not have to gather everyone in the same room and risk spreading coughs and sneezes. So far, our current series Public Sector Live Meetings (webinars) has been disrupted by presenters falling foul of bugs and viruses at the last minute.
We are now back on track and thought you would like to see the revised programme below for November and December. Simply click on the hyperlink for each Live Meeting and enter the invitation ...
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Posted @ 07:03
23 October 2009
For those interested in the subject of open government, innovation and how technology can support better public services through transparency, collaboration and open participation over the web you've probably already looked at http://innovate.direct.gov.uk/apps and the work that groups like mysociety and rewiredstate.org are doing to marry public data sets and Web 2.0 into something useful to both citizens, government and business. You might even be inspired by the work happening in the US around the Open Government Initiative on Data.Gov and the apps for ...
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Posted @ 06:55