Top 10 IT disasters

Number 10, BBC’s Digital Media Initiative

When the British Broadcasting Channel launched its Digital Media Initiative back in 2008, it was an attempt to create a digital production system to improve the way workers created, used, and shared audio and video content.

The project was put to a halt in the middle of 2012 after an internal review was launched. The review found that the BBC displayed significant weakness in project management and reporting as well as a lack of focus on business change.

The project was halted in mid-2012 after the BBC Trust launched an internal review. It engaged PwC at a cost of £250,000 to review the management and reporting of the initiative. All in all £100 million was spent on the project

 

Number 9. Distribute.IT hack

 

In June 2011, domain registrar Distribute.IT was attacked. This resulted in the loss of information on it’s servers which caused an estimated 4800 websites and related data to 4000 customers to be lost.

Who was the cause of this attack? A truck driver from Cowra in NSW was charged for the cyber attack as well as attacks on the University of Sydney and Platform Networks.

The attack crippled Distribute.IT and they were put out of business soon after the attack.

Number 8. HealthSMART modernisation program

During 2008, the Australian government displayed its $360 million HealthSMART program which would modernize and replace IT systems across the public sector.

Last October, the costs for just implementing the new system had surged to $145.3 million, 150% more than the original budget of $58.3 million according to a report. The report also suggested that the absence of efficient controls and effective mitigation’s at certain sites pose significant risks to patients.

 

Number 7. MyKi smart card system

The Australian government’s myki public transportation smart card system has been constantly troubled with problems which have caused delays and the cost to rise significantly.

The smart card system along with HealthSMART and the Regional Rail Link were the cause of an estimated $2 billion in cost overruns for the government. Myki was estimated to cost $1.4 billion by itself and early reports state that the card is not user friendly. In fact, some customers wait up to three days for their funds to be transferred from the website to the card.

 

 

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What’s new in IPA (Infor Process Automation)

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Infor Process Automation IPAWhat is IPA (or LPA Lawson Process Automation)

IPA is a tool that enables users to automate business processes. IPA is an umbrella term for two software components. Infor Process Designer and Process Server.
The Designer is a utility that allows users to graphically define a business process.
The process server allows a user to maintain processes and administration setup.

Main differences between PFI and IPA

  • IPA is built on Landmark
  • Designer is built on Eclipse (I know it’s the same in the latest version of PFI) “Same same but different”
  • Admin tool based on SmartOffice (Lawson Canvas) and it encopasses everything. A single app to rule them all.
  • Reduced footprint: Menu.do and RMI Server are gone, Java clients are now part of Smart Office, Event manager and scheduler are now part of Landmark.
  • Now works with a single data area at a time. In fact you have to specify your data source when you log in.
  • Process/Logs stored in database. You XML files are now .lpd files and they’re stored directly in the database not in pfrepository
  • Inbasket is now a part of Smart Office / Rich Client. Also in Ming.le and workspace.
  • A true debugger that allows you to set breakpoints, check variables, and move step by step through nodes

Nogalis Inc. Joins the Infor Partner Network

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Infor Continues to Expand Local Resources for Customers

NEW YORK – March 19, 2014 – Infor, a leading provider of business application software serving more than 70,000 customers, today announced a new alliance partnership with Nogalis Inc, a global IT service provider headquartered in Newport Beach, California. Nogalis will deliver implementation, project management and consulting services to North American customers across several of Infor’s target industries, including healthcare, public sector, manufacturing and financials.

As an Infor Alliance partner, Nogalis will work with Infor Cloverleaf, the Infor Lawson suite, Infor Healthcare Revenue Cycle Management, Infor Certpoint Learning Management and Infor ION. With extensive technical, functional and management expertise across 12 major industries, Nogalis will act as an experienced resource for Infor customers through the full cycle of their product selection, deployment and management.

“One of our primary guiding business principles is to make quality contributions that help our customers improve their day-to-day operations,” said Tan Rezaei, president and chief executive officer, Nogalis. “We believe that by partnering with Infor, we can both expand our service offerings and provide our industry-specific expertise to the Infor client base.”

From training and certification to marketing, the Infor Partner Network (IPN) delivers the tools that partners need to grow their business with Infor products. Infor works with alliance partners at the planning, design and operational levels to ensure that products and services deliver the greatest value to customers.

“The specialized needs of organizations in industries such as healthcare and public sector are constantly changing,” said Lynn Sauder, vice president, Global Alliances and Channels, Infor. “Working with knowledgeable partners like Nogalis helps us to keep pace with these needs and provide our customers access to recognized leaders with well-established reputations in the market.”  For more information on Infor Alliance partners, please visit www.infor.com/partners/.

About Nogalis Inc.
Nogalis is a global IT service provider specializing in ERP solutions. With a team of skilled industry professions with decades of field experience, Nogalis assists clients in all stages of implementation, from selection to go-live and beyond. With Nogalis, customers always have an experienced guide to address the challenges of running their business. For more information, please visit www.nogalis.com.

About Infor
Infor is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping 70,000 customers in more than 200 countries and territories improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Infor offers deep industry-specific applications and suites, engineered for speed, and with an innovative user experience design that is simple, transparent, and elegant.  Infor provides flexible deployment options that give customers a choice to run their businesses in the cloud, on-premises, or both. To learn more about Infor, please visit www.infor.com.

For more information:
Dan Barnhardt
Infor
646-336-1731
[email protected]

Healthcare’s next innovation will involve terabytes of Data

In the past, Data from patients and the medical industry has not been used efficiently. A patients various doctors had a tough time of getting their past medical records which led to slow diagnosis’. But now there is a plan to change that.  New enterprise-wide data warehouses are being created around the country that will have the analytic capability to provide a full view of healthcare operations. Some of these operations include: Patient visits, diagnoses, test results, prescriptions, referrals. Understanding the connections between these operations will make it possible to improve patient care and outcomes.

“By reducing the silos and bringing information together, you can start doing care coordination, best clinical practices, and personalized medicine. That’s really the promise of where we’re going,” says Marc Perlman, Global Vice President of Healthcare and Life Sciences with Oracle. “And all of that boils down to how you integrate the data.”

Providers of healthcare know that the potential of the data created by electronic healthcare represents a huge possibility of information that contains great potential for improving patient care and outcomes, lowering costs, and showing to the world what a priority healthcare is to the world.

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CRM software revenues forecast to hit $23.9bn in 2014

An analyst from Gartner has forecasted that CRM will continue to grow in importance as the market is expected to hit 23.9 billion this year. Of that revenue, cloud revenues make up almost half of that figure.

“The key area at the moment is mobile,” Thompson said. “Large organisations especially have their hands full with trying to understand how to make the most out if mobile technology. ”

With the number of mobile phone users constantly growing it’s importance will only grow as well in the CRM industry.

“Mobile is becoming much more important in all sorts of ways that we do not really understand yet,” Thompson said. “I was talking to a supermarket and they are finding that mobile phone can help them with shopping trolleys. They lose thousands of them but if they have a chip in them then the supermarket can track them down and get them back. It was uneconomic to do this, but now it is possible. When chips costs hundreds of pound it was uneconomic but when they cost pennies…”

 

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Infor Introduces Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management to Market

Infor, the leading business application software creator, has announced the released of a new program called Infor Fashion Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). This new software will be able to link different areas of product development to the supply chain. These areas include planning, design, development and sourcing, production, inventory management, customers and distribution. PLM was written with the latest technologies to help brands, manufacturers and private brand retailers to create styles, materials and trims faster, more efficiently, and have consistent quality while staying on schedule.

 

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