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Coventry City Council Cuts Overhead by US$414,000 by Migrating 24% of Spend to Online Purchasing: Coventry City Council provides local government services to 306,000 residents and businesses in the United Kingdom's eleventh largest city. Coventry City Council wanted to streamline and e-enable financial and purchasing processes following a government Best Value Review assessment and improve budget management and gain advance visibility of spending by introducing...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Council, Coventry City Council, Channel Management, Government, Operational Accounting, Marketing, Finance; Case studies 2008-02-01
Building a Structure for Success: Regional Government Improves Financial Management Efficiency and Functionality With New Business Management Solution: Developing infrastructure has its challenges, whether that infrastructure is for a company, town, or country. Omusati Regional Council helps settlements in Namibia's Omusati Region establish necessary water, sewer, and electricity services. The goal is for the settlements to become official municipalities that can govern themselves. The Omusati Regional Council deployed...; Tags: Financial, Business Management, Council, Government, Strategy, Litigation, Financial Management, Management, Business Operations, Financial Planning, Finance; Case studies 2007-09-11
Council Improves KPI Monitoring With Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007: Maroochy Shire Council wanted to improve communication to enable more insightful decision making. As part of the Microsoft Queensland Spotlight 2007 program, it worked with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner Dimension Data to create a collaboration portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007. The solution provides a more effective way...; Tags: Solution, Council, Microsoft Corp., KPI, Portals, Microsoft Office, Internet, Office Suites, Software; Case studies 2007-08-15
United Kingdom Council Gets Best Value From IT Refresh With Strategy Consultant: The London Borough of Newham, one of the United Kingdom's top-performing local authorities in IT, briefly considered open source software options when embarking on a complete back-office and desktop refresh. Conscious of the need to hit its efficiency savings targets under the Gershon Review, Newham needed a new platform that...; Tags: Information Technology, Council, Microsoft Corp., Business Structures, Strategy, Open Source, Finance, Management; Case studies 2007-06-01
London Borough of Haringey Improves Service and Doubles Constituent Contacts While Controlling Costs: One of 32 London boroughs, Haringey is a multicultural area that covers 11 square miles and serves 224,000 residents, who speak 149 languages. Haringey Council was providing an inconsistent first contact service to its residents and risked missing key government targets and initiatives. The council, in response, launched a major...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Resident, Council, Constituent, Government, Vertical Industries, Taxes, Benefits, Free Trade, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources; Case studies 2007-05-01

Newport City Council Simplifies Content Management and Improves Constituent Service: Newport City Council, the eighth largest authority in Wales, provides a variety of services such as education, leisure, housing, social services, planning, and highways. Newport City Council was keen to maximize the information available to residents and businesses online. To do this, the council realized it needed a content management...; Tags: Oracle Corp., Council, Content Management, Web Technology, Enterprise Software, Software; Case studies 2007-05-01
Council Makes Over £100,000 Worth of Efficiency Savings With Smaller and More Powerful Infrastructure: Local authority Maidstone Borough Council, in Kent, is responsible for a population of more than 140,000 residents. As part of a drive to meet the new efficiency targets, the council looked to reduce IT maintenance costs and increase utilisation of existing hardware. One of the key drivers for the Council...; Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Council, Storage Area Networks (SAN), Strategy, Storage, Hardware, Management; Case studies 2006-06-28
Is OMB taking aim at CIO Council?: In 1996, Bill Clinton signed an executie order creating the Chief Information Officers Council. Recently, George W. Bush rescinded it. According to an Office of Management and Budget spokesperson, it's just a matter of cleaning up the paperwork, since key provisions have been codified in the Electronic Government...; Tags: Council, OMB; Blog posts 2006-05-16
A website to promote public service: In the wake of baby boomer retirements and widespread difficulty in recruting top managers to government, the Council for Excellence in Government launched a site today to promot public service as a smart career move. The site will provide talking points and data to help commencement speakers and others promote...; Tags: government; Blog posts 2006-04-25
Greater Shepparton City Council Connects Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 to TRIM Context Document-Management System Making It More User-Friendly, Effective and Functional: Since its amalgamation into one council, the Greater Shepparton City Council's need to store and retrieve vast numbers of documents increased exponentially. Greater Shepparton City Council implemented Tower Software's Total Record Information Management TRIM system approximately five years ago, but staff members found it a chore to search for and...; Tags: Council, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Office Suites, Software, Management; Case studies 2006-01-01
NYC city council wants to study broadband options: News.com reports that NYC is finally promoting broadband. The initiative comes not from the city administration but from the City Council: "[the] legislation that creates a special broadband commission to advise Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the city council on how the resources of city government can be used to help...; Tags: broadband, city council; Blog posts 2005-12-21
Council Improves Project Planning With New Technology: Birmingham City Council is responsible for delivering a large and complex range of services ranging from Housing, Social Care, and the highway infrastructure through to dealing with abandoned vehicles, to the city's 1 million customers. While project management is important to the council, Microsoft Project was used by Project Managers,...; Tags: Council, Project Manager, Microsoft Corp., Birmingham City Council, Business Structures, Team Management, Microsoft Project, Finance, Management, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software; Case studies 2005-10-01
NY CIO Council: Federated approach to ID and access management: New York's CIO Council will release a roadmap document for identification and access management that advocates a federated approach, much like Visa takes for credit card verification, the Digital Communities site reports. The site notes the benefits of this approach:New York - probably like many states - currently uses a...; Tags: Council; Blog posts 2005-09-22
Procurement: It's Your Business!: Procurement (which includes work that is sometimes called buying, purchasing or contracting) is a big part of the Suffolk county council's business with nearly £300 million spent on goods, services and construction every year. Procurement across the council has been reviewed as part of the Best Value Programme and a...; Tags: Council, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, Business Operations; White papers 2004-10-01
US January retail sales up 5.8%: Sales climbed 5.8% at U.S. merchants during the month, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers, which forecast a 4.5% gain. That increase was the highest gain for January since 1999, according to Michael Niemira, chief economist at the International Council of Shopping Centers.; Tags: Shopping Centers, Council, International, International Council; Blog posts 2004-02-07
Quest For Glory V : Dragon Fire updated (exe): The king of Silmaria has been assassinated, and a new king must be chosen. The council has set before its heroes the seven Rites of Rulership to determine who is worthy of the crown. Triumph, and you'll save the kingdom and win the throne. Fail, and Silmaria is toast. This...; Tags: Council, Vivendi Universal Games Inc., Games, Personal Technology; Software downloads 1999-01-25
SAP Case Study: Salford City Council: Salford City Council, situated to the west of the Greater Manchester conurbation, provides just under a quarter of a million residents with their council services and employs 11,500 staff. Previously the council had difficulty in identifying the overall purchasing pattern, as different departments used numerous suppliers. Salford Council recognised that...; Tags: Staffing, Council, SAP AG, Operational Accounting, Finance; Case studies
North East Derbyshire District Council - Review of the Council's Corporate Procurement Strategy by the Scrutiny (1) Committee: Why should a council decide to review procurement? Well, in NE Derbyshire Dales' case, the existing strategy was produced in 2001, and, as such, was considered out of date. There had also been several developments since its development that the council needed to take into account. These included the National...; Tags: Council, Procurement, Purchasing & Procurement, E-government, Strategy, Business Operations, Government, Management; Case studies
London Borough of Haringey - SME Development: The London Borough of Haringey is an area of vast cultural diversity. There are areas of prosperity in the west, whilst there are areas of deprivation in the east of the borough. Most of the businesses within the London Borough of Haringey are SMEs, i.e. small and medium sized enterprises...; Tags: Small And Medium Enterprise, Council, Haringey Council, Smb/Sme; Case studies
Vehicle Fleet - Christchurch City Council: Christchurch City Council has a large vehicle fleet and recently undertook a comprehensive process to assess and determine where improvements to sustainability could best be gained. Christchurch City Council found that the use of fleet vehicles was an emotive issue for staff, especially when council looked to decrease fleet numbers....; Tags: Vehicle, Council, Christchurch City Council, Quality, Business Operations; Case studies