Tesco is speeding the way it prepares and releases new applications across its online business.
The supermarket chain is deploying application release automation software from Nolio. Tesco will use Nolio ASAP as its standard solution for application releases across Tesco.com via its virtualised datacentres.
Vipul Shah, head of release, deployment and software configuration management at Tesco.com, said: "Nolio allows us to greatly speed-up our roll-out processes and ensure higher quality of releases. The product's ease of use is hugely beneficial to us in terms of maintainability and reducing overheads."
Shah said the deployment would support Tesco's core "Go Faster" strategy.
"Nolio ASAP fits in well with this ethos and ensures we have the right mechanism in place to deliver exciting new offerings to our customers," Shah said.
Nolio centralises application release processes by using an XML manifest as its live "system of record" throughout the deployment. The technique, supported by Nolio's Application Release Automation Platform, separates deployment payload data from process. This means that application changes are deployed with nominal manual changes, reducing the risk of human error, preserving the new application architecture as the roll-out progresses, and ensuring a faster time to market.
Earlier this month Tesco rival Sainsbury's announced it would be investing in its IT systems to support and develop its growing online platforms.
Source: www.pcadvisor.co.uk
Wembley appearance is lined up for Leicester Tigers - Leicester Mercury
Leicester Tigers look set to make their first ever appearance at Wembley three weeks into next season.
Details of a fixture between home club Saracens and Leicester are already being advertised on ticket-selling website www.eticketing.co.uk – a service used by many top Premier League football clubs.
The site has ticket details, a date of Saturday, September 15 and a start time of 2.15pm.
It also bills the entertainment for the day as being from "chart-topping sensation, Cover Drive" – a four-piece band from Barbados. Adult tickets range from £16 to £65 with concessions for juniors.
It reads: "On Saturday September 15, Saracens will take to the Wembley stage once more.
"This fixture will welcome Leicester Tigers to Wembley for their first appearance against Saracens at their second home."
Despite this detail, Premiership Rugby (PRL), the Aviva Premiership's governing body, say that no apparent plans will be made concrete until the 2012-13 fixture list is released on Wednesday July 4.
A spokesman for PRL said: "The fixture list has not been confirmed yet and they will be released on July 4, as planned."
It is understood that Saracens have requested a home fixture for that third round of competition though and, if Tigers are confirmed as their opponents, it will provide a first visit to the iconic national football stadium.
Saracens used Wembley for home games on two occasions last season.
They beat the Ospreys 31-26 in the Heineken Cup in a game that attracted 41,036 supporters.
They lost to Harlequins 24-19 in March at the same venue but attracted 83,761 for the all-London clash – a world record for a club rugby game.
Saracens will play their home games next season in Barnet at the renovated 10,000-seater Copthall Stadium.
Tigers did not wish to pass comment.
Source: www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk
Tesco offering double Clubcard points cash-in towards cost of new smartphones - Know Your Mobile
Tesco's Phone Shop is now running an offer which will allow you to cash-in your Clubcard Points and get double the value towards the cost of a new smartphone.
Regular shoppers at Tesco supermarkets who have a Clubcard can take part in the ‘Summer Clubcard Voucher Exchange' and buy a variety of handsets from the Tesco Phone Shop.
The deal means your Clubcard points are effectively doubled, cash-in £50 worth of Clubcard points and you can get £100 off an up-front payment for a brand new smartphone, for example.
Amongst the handsets available is the iPhone 4S, which can be had on contract with O2 with unlimited texts and 500MB of data for £21.50 per month and £100 worth of Clubcard points, saving £100 from the usual price.
Samsung's Galaxy S2 can be had for £13.50 per month with unlimited texts, again on and O2 tariff for £50 worth of Clubcard points.
BlackBerry fans can get hold of the Bold 9900 on O2 with unlimited texts, 200 minutes and 500MB of data for £21.50 per month and £50 worth of Clubcard points.
There are plenty of other handsets available through the deal as well. The offer is set to run for one month and ends on June 13 2012.
Source: www.knowyourmobile.com
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