Noel J. Bracken, MIAP is a consultant with 15 years in the IT Industry providing software solutions to real time problems. His skills include analysing and developing using OO, E/R and Data Flow Diagrams, Normalisation, VB, VB.Net, COM, COM+, SQL Server, Oracle, PL/SQL, ASP, JavaScript, VBScript. He’s available now. Email him at PlanWServices@aol.com. John Rees, […]

Two conferences at the Rutherford Conference Centre, 76 Portland Place, London W1: e-Healthcare: Joining up health and social care through IT is on 1 July and Delivering the National Strategy for local e-government: Transforming business services is on 17 September. For details of both events, see www.kablenet.com. Super Softworld is at NEC Birmingham between 24 […]

Council member Scott Levy, FIAP has been involved in building software businesses in the financial services industry since 1990. He is co-founder of D&S Concepts, an organisation established to ensure delivery of value-creating solutions within the financial services sector. In this article, he discusses the use of non-executive directors within the SME software sector. Over […]

New Administrator Most of you will know by now that Nicole Edwards has left us. Nicole was the Institution’s Administrator for ten years. Over that period she built up a hugely useful knowledge of the IAP’s operations and became a good friend to many individual members. Nicole has moved on to a rather similar post […]

Council member John Ellis, FIAP muses on the plethora of software tools that we can call on and the difficulties of choosing the right one for a particular circumstance. Recently I had to create a system that allowed multiple users requesting real-time quotes to connect to a quotes engine that only allowed single processes. An […]

Angelina Jones, LIAP is currently completing a BA (Hons) Business Studies specialising in Information Management. Her skills lie in Business I.T, database design and Web authoring. She will shortly start a MSc in Business Information Technology and is looking for a P/T job where she can hone her skills in hardware & software or analysis […]

The 4th Annual CIO and IT Directors’ Summit takes place on 5 June at the Radisson SAS Portman Hotel, London. E-mail weurope_customerservice@economist.com for information and to register. The Government Computing Conference and Exhibition 2003 (GC2003) is the leading event for those involved in developing and radically improving government services. It’s at the Business Design Centre, […]

Jean Davison is researching a technique for identifying and analysing stakeholders in process improvement projects for her PhD at the University of Sunderland. She has presented the work at international conferences in York and Orlando. David Deeks FIAP, who has written in these pages before, is supervising the work. Here, they introduce us to these […]