Charity IT in the press

A couple of charity IT items in recent issues of Computing magazine:

Oracle donates database to UK Muslim charity. As part of a training project for a team of three graduate trainees …. they tailored the database to help analyse the nature of calls to the Muslim Youth Helpline charity, and make it quicker for information to be recorded into the system.

Barnardo’s revamp to save £1m for charity. An IT revamp will save £1m a year, which it will redirect into charitable work. Areas of change include installing the LiveLink document management system and consolidating 260 Novell systems across the UK into one virtual server.