Met Police signs early £190m outsourcing deal
The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has extended its contract with IT network management company Capgemini until December 2015. However, despite requests for a briefing and further information all...
View ArticlePublic sector IT can avoid Osborne's contract freeze with loophole
Just this week we reported on the Metropolitan Police's renewed outsourcing contract with IT management and comms firm Capgemini for a staggering £190 million. We were worried that tying itself into...
View ArticleBrits spent £250 billion online in last 10 years
People in the UK spent a whopping £250 billion online within the last 10 years, according to the latest IMRG Capgemini e-Retail Sales Index.With a population of around 60 million that would mean every...
View ArticleUK consumers to spend £600 billion online over next decade
UK consumers spent £5 billion online in July alone, an increase of 18 percent on the same time last year and the largest increase since 2007 before the recession began. If the trend continues it means...
View ArticleHMRC spent £1.75bn on Capgemini, Vodafone, others in last year
The HMRC spent 44 percent of its 2009-10 supplier budget on an IT outsourcing deal led by Capgemini.Overall, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) spent £1.75bn on suppliers in the last financial year.The...
View ArticleMinistry of Justice handed HP £121 million in supplier budget
HP scooped a seven percent chunk of the Ministry of Justice's (MOJ) 2009 - 2010 supplier budget. According to an FOI request looking at the MOJ's spend with its top 100 suppliers, this meant that the...
View ArticleIBM, Accenture, Capgemini lock up employees to stop attrition
Major IT companies in India are thinking hard about how they can retain employees - as the high attrition rate is back to a serious concern. Bigwigs like IBM, Accenture, Cognizant, and Capgemini are...
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Capgemini announces audited 2010 results
Capgemini, the services and IT company, looks set to turn a profit on the back of public sector cuts. While cuts are not yet fully in effect, it has secured plenty of contracts including with Transport...
View ArticleUS firms increase spending on carbon and energy management software
Spending on carbon energy management software by large firms in the US is expected to grow from $108million in 2010 to $558 million in 2014. According to a new report from analyst firm Verdantix,...
View ArticleCapgemini grabs huge contract with EDF Energy
There doesn't seem to be any credit crunching for energy companies who are shelling out for IT deals left, right and centre. Earlier this week HP scooped a nice and expensive outsourcing services...
View ArticleCapgemini wins £100 million BAA contract - including passenger tracking
Outsourcing firm Capgemini has laid claim to another £100 million contract with a deal that will see the firm takeover “core IT services” from airport company BAA. Not long after the firm was handed a...
View ArticleToo much too soon for blundering HMRC's new tax system
Exchequer secretary David Gauke has confirmed that Her Majesty's Revenues and Customs will proceed with a controversial Real Time Information scheme for tax payment. In an answer to a written...
View ArticleCapgemini buys Artesys and Avantias for some millions
Huge services company Capgemini has bought two dull-as-dishwater French companies, probably before the rival En Francais, Atos Origin, got the chance. The companies, Artesys and Avantias, will...
View ArticleCapgemini buys Prosodie
Capgemini is once again splashing its cash. The services company, which has been raking in the dosh from big contracts from BAA and EDF, has announced it's discussing money with Apax Partners and the...
View ArticleHMRC blames tax fiasco on internal blunders
Around a million Brits will be told that they will have to cough up around £600 following yet another HMRC tax fiasco. Carrying out a check on changing tax codes over a number of years, an IT system...
View ArticleBusiness growth hit hard by late payments
Businesses in the US are suffering a cash flow crisis because of late payments, and there's a real worry it could get worse in some quarters. A survey from Capgemini, looking at Fortune 1000 companies,...
View ArticleFrancis Maude claims IT disasters will not be tolerated
Cabinet Secretary Francis Maude is meeting with a list of big IT suppliers as he promises to make tighter spending controls permanent and threatens not to tolerate poor performance. Maude is set to...
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