News for Manufacturing & Construction
Monday, February 06, 2012
Russia’s answer to Silcone Valley planned
Viktor Vekselberg, one of Russia’s richest men, is spearheading an initiative to create a Russian rival to Silicone Valley or the UK’s own Tech City.
Skolkovo Research and Business Park, expected to cost 6bn, will be used to create an innovation cluster of a university, a research park and a city housing 35,000. It will be Russia’s first PPP (private public partnership) concerning education and enterprise. Construction has already started; the first students are expected in 2014.
Multi-billionaire Vekselberg will bring a delegation of executives to the UK next week, in the hope of attracting more international companies and institutions to join the project.
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
CSC Snap up £500m BAE Contract Extension
Defence giant BAE Systems has inked a 5-year £511m ($800m) deal with its long term partner CSC, that covers a full range of IT services such as support BAE's service desk, physical and virtual servers, mainframe, storage and networking. The deal also features project work and application support.
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Thursday, September 08, 2011
Thorntons in line from £2m savings from outsourcing
UK chocolate brand Thorntons has stated that outsourcing its IT and other activates will help deliver an annual cost saving of £2 million.
“This, together with the ongoing benefits of our procurement review and the recent restructuring of our head office cost base, should deliver a full-year benefit of £2 million that will flow through in full in the 2012/13 financial year,” said a Thorntons spokesperson.
HP provides Thorntons end-to-end management and support for IT, networking and applications.
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011
BAE Systems says cloak not just for Klingons
BAE Systems has announced it has developed a Star Trek-esque invisibility cloak that makes tanks invisible to the enemy.
The invisibility cloak, called Adaptiv uses on board thermal cameras to record the tanks surroundings. It then relays the information to the external cloak, which is made up of hexagonal pixels that can change temperature very quickly. This renders the tank invisible to infra-red sensors at makes them extremely difficult to detect at night.
The technology also has the capability can also make tanks look like a cow.
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Capita secures five-year contract with Melin Homes
Melin Homes, which provides affordable homes in South Wales, has signed a five-year deal with Capita's software services division. It is hoped the deal will create efficient working processes and streamline operations.
Capita is to provide a number of services for Melin, including CRM facilities, online access to tenancy information, customer profiling and satisfaction surveys, as well as CRM facilities.
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Wednesday, September 01, 2010
Sony increases outsourcing to Taiwan
Japan’s Sony Corp is increasingly outsourcing television manufacturing to contract makers, primarily its Taiwanese partners, during this fiscal year to boost its market share.
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Sunoco awards application support services deal to IBM
Sunoco has awarded IBM a deal that will see the manufacturer and marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products outsource its managed business process services and application support services.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
Carillion posts healthy results
UK support services and construction service provider Carillion has recorded a healthy set of interim results, with profit before tax up 17% at £58.8m for the six months ending 30 June 2010; close to £9m higher that during the same period last year.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Hydro selects Accenture for three-year SAP contract
Oslo-based aluminium firm Norsk Hydro has awarded Accenture a three-year application outsourcing (AO), which covers support and maintenance of two of Hydro's SAP systems globally.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Unisys awarded Flowserve end-user services ITO contract extension
Unisys Corporation has been awarded a five-year extension on its contract to provide end-user support services to oil & gas supply manufacturer Flowserve Corporation.
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