'Information systems poor at London firms'
08/04/2008 10:40:34
Tools to access information systems at a number of London corporate firms are so archaic that business productivity is hampered as a result, a survey has found.
In a poll by enterprise search vendor Sinequea, 59 per cent of workers rated the tools given to them by their employers for searching information systems as either 'poor' or 'very poor', Itpro.co.uk reports.
A third of employees questioned said that as no best practices for sharing information were in place, searching for data was "time consuming and frustrating" while 46 per cent claimed information searches at their workplaces were "generic and not comprehensive".
"There is increased pressure on companies to do something about the unstructured data they are continually creating and storing," Colin Hadden, country manager at Sinequa, told the website.
Some 200 London office workers were interviewed for the survey.
Meanwhile, research by technology marketing consultancy Vanson Bourne recently revealed that many retailers in the UK are failing to monitor access to data used in credit card transactions.
In a poll of 60 medium-to-large retail companies, 45 per cent said they are unable to track data access, reports computing.co.uk.
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