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Welcome to the Evaluation Centre, a unique interactive service guiding you to successful IT procurement:
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Find the software, services and technology you need from our 11 Evaluation Centres. |
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Access our library of independently audited vendor reports. |
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Download expert guidance on the whole IT project lifecycle. |
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Each Evaluation Centre has a Service Centre for further information and advice. |
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Management consultancy firm Accenture...
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| Online auction house eBay is axing 1,000 jobs to save around £85m in costs a year, whilst spending almost £740m on three acquisitions.
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Asian investment bank Nomura is using IT skills acquired from bankrupt Lehman Brothers to support its global expansion.
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| "Father of the internet" Vint Cerf has called on IT professionals in the UK to volunteer.
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IT contractors in the financial services sector are being paid 12%...
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Business is abandoning traditional IT in favour of emerging software-as-a-service...
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T-Mobile has admitted losing 17 million German customer records, with the records being offered online by criminals.
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Microsoft's updated desktop management toolset for users with volume licensing contracts and Software...
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The open-source implementation of Microsoft's...
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| Microsoft is once again extending the life of Windows XP, now taking the cut-off point to July 2009.
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New Strategic Briefings |
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Painting the bigger picture
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| Many companies use established project methodologies such as PRINCE2 to help manage and deliver a portfolio of projects, but the results achieved can still be disappointing. Hugh Buckley of Quortex says that creating a wider delivery framework can help. See our Project Management Centre.
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Stakeholder management – am I bovvered?
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| Good stakeholder management is fundamental to the ability of a business to deliver enduring change. But there are different groups that need to be accommodated in a stakeholder management plan – and you need to be clear how you will deal with them, says Rob Brickle of Bsquared Consulting. See our CRM Centre.
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Perfecting performance
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| Corporate performance management and the adoption of performance technologies can bring many potential benefits, but a high percentage of companies are not achieving their desired results and subsequently falling short of their performance goals. Tom Griggs of Parson Consulting suggests a practical approach to getting CPM right. See our Data Warehousing Centre.
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