The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) has installed Changepoint, Compuware's IT portfolio management suite to help manage all its projects.

UK IT techies are putting in longer working hours without extra pay, according to a survey by online recruitment firm www.theitjobboard.co.uk.

Lancaster Landmark Hotel Group hopes to gain better insight into internal talent, training and career succession as well as streamline employee performance towards its business objectives, by implementing SuccessFactors' Performance and Talent Management suite.

Analytics and data management software provider Fair Isaac has launched an online community to enable financial institutions to fight fraud and crime.

Integration and application development company Software AG has upgraded its webMethods Application Modernisation Suite to include automated application discovery, code analysis, and identification of code for reuse.

Fashion retailer Next hopes to gain better insight into online customer behaviour by implementing Tealeaf's customer experience management (CEM) system Tealeaf CX Suite on its e-commerce site.

Kronos will automate employee scheduling for The Carphone Warehouse across the retailer's stores in seven European countries.

Gartner has identified eight technologies that will transform business over the next decade and should be on the radar of CIOs today.

An autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), developed by QinetiQ in partnership with Aberystwyth University's new biosciences centre IBERS, has flown for the first time in the UK for agricultural monitoring.

Derby Council and St Edmundsbury Borough Council will install GreenRoad Technologies' Safety Center across their fleet of vehicles, to assess drivers' driving skills and give them an instant feedback.

Luxury airport hotel Sofitel London Heathrow will manage its pricing strategies with the help of IDeaS Revenue Optimization's hospitality revenue management suite IDeaS V5i.

IT consulting company Unisys will integrate Focus Solutions' focus:technology into its own multi-channel mortgage origination platform, to offer a single processing model to banks and building societies dealing with mortgages.

Metroline hopes to improve the travel experience of its passengers by ensuring that its drivers are careful enough on the roads. It has deployed GreenRoad Technologies' Safety Center in its fleet of 100 buses at Perivale depot in West London, to assess the driving skills of its drivers and provide them with instant feedback.

Oce Technologies, a Netherlands-based print and document management company, has selected Cezanne's talent management software, in an attempt to gain better visibility of its talent pool.

Infonic, a provider of information management software, will combine its text analytics division with that of Lexalytics, to form a new $40m UK-based company called Lexalytics Limited.

The Commissioning Support Service (CSS) of the NHS has selected Trillium Software System from Harte-Hanks, to measure the quality of patient, clinical and service data collected from health provisioning services in the London region.

CEOs are making collaboration a key priority over the next three years and expect IT to support their increased interaction with customers, partners and suppliers.

Telephonetics VIP, a provider of voice automation and speech recognition technology, has integrated its Contact Centre telephony with Enterprise Case Management software from Lagan, to enable government organisations to improve call handling abilities.

The British Library has upgraded its network infrastructure to support its ongoing projects to digitise content and embrace virtualisation.

Kwik Fit Insurance, a motor insurance distributor in the UK, has selected Tealeaf's customer experience management (CEM) suite to gain visibility into online customer activity on its website and identify fraudulent insurance claims.