London & Belfast, July 28th, 2010 – Kainos, (www.kainos.com), a leading electronic document and records management (EDRM) solutions specialist, has announced another prestigious public sector win, this time with the Northern Ireland Tourist Board (NITB).

Lagan awarded the contract to implement a pilot program utilizing cloud-based enterprise case management software for the Government of Bermuda.

Visitors to the City of London Police website can now have the pages read aloud to them, thanks to a specialist computer program called BrowseAloud.

The BrowseAloud software aims to improve the accessibility of a site by reading web pages aloud in a high quality, human-sounding voice. As the text is read aloud, words are highlighted, which aids literacy and comprehension.

Business software innovator Singularity is helping ease the insolvency plight of some of the UK’s poorest debtors.

A technology tool it has designed for The Insolvency Service is giving hard-pressed small debtors in England and Wales a cheap way to start afresh.

The Insolvency Service, says rollout of its new Debt Relief Orders (DRO) scheme, which uses Singularity’s highly automated tailored technology, is a major success.

Lagan today announces that Lagan customers, Buffalo 311, Hampton 311 and San Francisco 311 have been designated by Public Technology Institute (PTI) as “Citizen-Engaged Communities.

CSD choose Singularity’s ‘Agile-Delivery’ Methodology to Transform Services for Disabled Children

Customer Service Direct (CSD), Suffolk County Council’s provider of ICT services, has selected Singularity, leading Business Process Agility specialist, to develop a new website showcasing short breaks for disabled children in the County using Singularity’s ‘Agile-Delivery’ Methodology. The new site delivers a travel agency style service enabling disabled children, young people and their parents and carers to book short breaks, and create online communities using innovative web 2.0 tools such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr.

CUT WASTE FIRST! Managing the Public Sector in today’s Economic Climate is an immensely difficult task.

The recently announced budget cuts of £128M coming on top of required £370M efficiency savings the NI Departments have already been asked to make, and with the prospect of yet more cuts to follow in the Autumn.

I am sharing my set of powerful web-based interactive business simulations with their real-time graphs, dashboards, sliders, guages and avatars. I developed these over a number of years using the excellentithinksimulation environment as essential tools to support what-if analysis, management learning games, experiential learning, balanced business scorecards and scenario planning.

A subsidiary of the Local Government Association of Queensland, Resolute Information Technology, a Brisbane-headquartered leading supplier of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) solutions to Local Government and the public sector, today announces a strategic partnership with Lagan Technologies, the global leader in Government to Citizen (G2C) technology.

Denbighshire Council have recently speech enabled their website with a revolutionary product called BrowseAloud, which will allow people to hear online content being read aloud.

Online visitors simply go to the home page of Denbighshire County Council - www.denbighshire.

Rob Whiteman, the new Managing Director of the Improvement and Development Agency for local government addressed the Learning Pool conference, telling the assembled delegates that the available spend to local government will go down by between 15 and 25% in the next 3 to 5 years.

Joining the IDeA from London Borough of Barking and Dagenham where he was Chief Executive, Rob commented on the challenges facing local government in his keynote address to this year’s Learning Pool conference.

The stark reality he said, was that “in the last 10 years we have seen public sector spending increase by unprecedented levels.

BHSCT appoints Novosco to build private cloud

Novosco, Ireland’s leading provider of virtual and cloud IT infrastructure and services, today announced it has been appointed to implement private cloud computing throughout Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. This project represents the first Public Sector deployment of V-Block in the UK and Ireland, containing elements from the VCE coalition, using technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC.

Built on Cisco’s Unified Computing System, the new private cloud based virtualised infrastructure will facilitate significantly greater numbers of virtual machines on the same piece of hardware.

As part of Chevin Housing Group’s ongoing commitment to improving access to their website, they have enabled their site with an innovative new product called BrowseAloud.

BrowseAloud is a text-to-speech solution that reads all accessible website content aloud in a high quality, human-sounding voice which can be altered to suit the individual’s specific needs. As text is read aloud, words are highlighted; a useful tool which aids literacy and comprehension.

Lagan today announces that Cobb County, GA has selected Lagan OnDemand, the Lagan Software as a Service (SaaS) cloud-based solution for government Customer Relationship Management (CRM).

Northgate Managed Services (Northgate) has been shortlisted in a total of nine categories across a number of prestigious awards, all of which will be announced over the next few weeks.

Northgate has been shortlisted for Technology Industry Company of the Year, Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year, and Mobile Technology Project of the Year with the Department of Agriculture and Regional Development in the 2010 ICT Excellence Awards, Ireland. The Awards will be presented on Thursday 20 May at an industry Gala Dinner in Dublin.

Bluecube Interactive, in partnership with Ipsos MORI, has been appointed to redesign the Northern Ireland Assembly website.

Singularity, leading Business Process Agility (BPA) Software Company, will sponsor the upcoming Microsoft Government Solutions Forum on Wednesday 19th and Thursday 20th May at Grieghallen, Edvard Griegs Plass 1, 5015 Bergen, Norway. 

Microsoft and the City of Bergen will co-host the fourth annual Microsoft Government Solutions Forum. The theme of this year’s event is ‘Delivering Sustainable Citizen Services in the New Economy’ 

As part of this year’s track, Singularity will be showcasing their Case Management and BPM solutions at the event.

Lagan, the global leader in Government to Citizen (G2C) technology, today announced that Jeff Wylie, CFO, and Lagan were selected to participate in the exclusive UK & Ireland Tech Tour 2010. 

The European Tech Tour Association visits each of the six regions on a three year rotation giving entrepreneurs the opportunity to meet international investors more frequently and facilitate investor access to a wider range of start-ups.

The UK & Ireland Tech Tour 2010 will be held in London and Dublin on April 27-29, 2010.

Northgate Managed Services continues to provide effective telephone booking service for local drivers with 99.5% of  Callers totally satisfied*

The Driver Vehicle Agency (DVA) has proven to be a leader in the delivery of effective and efficient public services after receiving its two millionth phonecall booking. 

The positive uptake of the telephone and online booking system, which has been implemented and managed by Newtownabbey-based  Northgate Managed Services since 2004, highlights how the DVA  has responded to the ‘Modernising  Government’ agenda.

Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust First to Embrace Evolve™ Which Enables Instant and Secure Meaning-based Access to Patient Medical Records

London & Belfast, April 22nd , 2010 – Kainos, (www.kainos.com) a leading IT consulting company, and Autonomy Corporation plc (LSE: AU.

Singularity, leading Business Process Management (BPM) Software Company, today announced that Dermot McCauley, VP of Corporate Development, will be presenting his insights from the newly published book “Mastering the Unpredictable; The Adaptive Case Management Revolution” at the Process.gov conference on Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at the Oracle Reston HQ, in Reston, Virginia.

As part of the conference’s Adaptive Case Management track, Dermot’s presentation, titled “Achieving Agility – the role of the Case Management Platform”, will preview insights from his chapter in the “Mastering the Unpredictable” book being launched at the conference.

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