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November 11, 2019
11
Nov'19
How SAP is supporting ASEAN’s digital economy
A regional SAP executive outlines what it takes for Southeast Asia’s workforce to tap the opportunities offered by the region’s booming digital economy
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November 08, 2019
08
Nov'19
Singapore makes mark on AI with Apache Singa
The Apache Singa distributed deep learning platform has been conferred top-level project status and is already being used by hospitals to model the progression of diseases
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November 06, 2019
06
Nov'19
Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud
Workday’s vice-chairman explains how machine learning can help employees become more effective, and hints at the company’s moves beyond finance and HR software
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November 06, 2019
06
Nov'19
General Election affects National Data Strategy
A series of workshops, including the public’s involvement to guide the plan’s vision, have been postponed
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November 01, 2019
01
Nov'19
CIO must focus on easing data access to help data scientists build models more quickly
Data scientists struggle to get the right data in the right format to build artificial intelligence models, so to benefit from AI, CIOs will need to simplify data access
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October 23, 2019
23
Oct'19
Kinetica opens Melbourne office, bullish on data analytics
Analytics startup is bullish about the Australian market as more organisations leverage GPU-based platforms to support real-time analytics
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October 22, 2019
22
Oct'19
Australia, Singapore emerge tops in data readiness index
Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific region in harnessing data to achieve key business outcomes
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October 21, 2019
21
Oct'19
Many companies fail to empower employee data-driven decision-making
In a data-driven business, staff need access to the right data at the right time to help them do their jobs, but there appears to be a data gap
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October 18, 2019
18
Oct'19
Talent shortage impedes UK business data analytics efforts
Research from data blending and preparation supplier Alteryx finds UK businesses struggling to make the most of their data due to a shortage of data analytics expertise
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October 16, 2019
16
Oct'19
Zopa continues in its mission to apply a Netflix user experience to banking
Zopa has made a credit scoring tool available as it continues to expand the portfolio of products it offers beyond loans.
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October 15, 2019
15
Oct'19
Software architects struggle with relational database legacy
Legacy relational database management systems were originally designed as systems of record, but they don’t work as well in modern, cloud-native designs
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October 15, 2019
15
Oct'19
CIO interview: Hugo Mathias, CIO, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
For all the talk of a ‘paperless NHS’, replacing legacy systems and eliminating paper records is a challenge – but one that Hugo Mathias is tackling through real-time information and cultural change
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October 11, 2019
11
Oct'19
SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down
McDermott will be replaced by SAP board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein
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October 10, 2019
10
Oct'19
CIO interview: Shaun Le Geyt, CIO, Parkinson’s UK
A major shift from Microsoft Office 365 to Google's G Suite, the implementation of Salesforce and better use of data are combining to help the charity enhance its support for people with Parkinson’s
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October 10, 2019
10
Oct'19
Kroger drives data-driven customer experience
Scott Crawford, data science lead at 84.51°, the data business at US grocery retailer Kroger, discusses data projects and iterative programmes
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October 08, 2019
08
Oct'19
CIO interview: Matt Harris, head of IT, Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
The IT chief at the world-leading Formula 1 team is focused on using technology to support and deliver marginal gains in performance for the team’s drivers
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October 07, 2019
07
Oct'19
PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?
We thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost
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October 07, 2019
07
Oct'19
Government departments sign up to web data-sharing plan
All but four Whitehall departments have so far agreed to share web analytics data to allow the government to monitor user behaviour across the Gov.uk domain
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October 04, 2019
04
Oct'19
How data drives wins at Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport
We find out how Mercedes-AMG Petronas Motorsport uses data to drive its business and Formula One race strategy
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October 03, 2019
03
Oct'19
Why data-driven applications need a governance framework
Data is the new oil – but without tight control, how can business determine that the data is valid? Data catalogues are back in vogue
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October 02, 2019
02
Oct'19
How Qlik is driving the data revolution in Australia
Australian firms are using data management software from Qlik to speed up data analysis while grappling with how to make data more accessible under a new consumer data-sharing regime
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October 02, 2019
02
Oct'19
British Heart Foundation £10m data science centre set in train
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Health Data Research UK have set up a £10m data science centre
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October 01, 2019
01
Oct'19
Citrix looks to grow APAC footprint with the intelligent workspace
Citrix is looking to expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific – particularly in Japan, where firms are starting to warm up to flexible work arrangements
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September 30, 2019
30
Sep'19
CIO interview: Michael Ibbitson, executive VP for technology and infrastructure, Dubai Airports
Former CIO at Gatwick Airport took flight to the Middle East three years ago, and is using data to transform the technology and infrastructure at Dubai Airports
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September 30, 2019
30
Sep'19
Pure Storage APAC CTO talks up storage trends
Flash-based storage will be around for at least two decades more, while crystal- and DNA-based storage needs a lot more work before becoming mainstream, according to Pure Storage’s CTO for the Asia-Pacific region
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September 27, 2019
27
Sep'19
How Graphcore is putting AI on steroids
UK chipmaker Graphcore’s intelligence processing unit may just hold the key to unlocking the full potential of artificial intelligence
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September 27, 2019
27
Sep'19
Bristol, CNRS and Oracle join forces against tropical disease
Scientists from the University of Bristol and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Grenoble have identified a candidate synthetic vaccine against tropical disease Chikungunya, using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
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September 27, 2019
27
Sep'19
GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?
Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to
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September 25, 2019
25
Sep'19
Can Oracle substantiate its cloud bluster?
Larry Ellison talks aggressively about having more datacentres than AWS and how Oracle’s cloud sales are growing – but it may have to provide legal proof
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September 25, 2019
25
Sep'19
Executive interview: Speed is cloud apps benefit, says Oracle’s Miranda
In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World 2019, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s approach to cloud applications, digital assistants and machine learning
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
Australia’s RMIT teams up with AWS on cloud skills training
Two new online courses will equip IT and business professionals with the skills to thrive in a cloud-first world
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September 24, 2019
24
Sep'19
How Malaysia is nurturing data analytics talent
The Southeast Asian nation has spearheaded several programmes to build up its data analytics talent pool in efforts to improve efficiency and productivity of Malaysians
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September 23, 2019
23
Sep'19
Basic data and skills needed to fix UK social care
Foundations need to be in place to save the social care system from collapse, and NHSX needs to step up to the task, according to a Doteveryone report
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September 19, 2019
19
Sep'19
Government insists 'nothing sinister' about web user data gathering
Government Digital Service responds to allegations that personal data gathered through Gov.uk portal could be used to target political messaging to citizens
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September 18, 2019
18
Sep'19
Facebook automatically generates pages for Islamic State and Al-Qaeda
Facebook algorithms have auto-generated hundreds of Facebook pages for the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, according to a whistleblower
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise
Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
Oracle Open World 2019: Ellison states ‘fully autonomous cloud’ as goal
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison said a ‘fully autonomous cloud’ is now Oracle's goal, eliminating human labour, during his main keynote at Open World 2019. AWS was, again, in his sights as an inferior rival
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September 17, 2019
17
Sep'19
US lawmakers demand internal Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon documents in antitrust probe
US lawmakers have given big tech companies a deadline to disclose a wide range of documents as the House Judiciary Committee’s bipartisan investigation into competition gathers pace
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September 12, 2019
12
Sep'19
How Zendesk plans to crack the enterprise market
Zendesk has been courting enterprises by billing itself as a customer experience software company and is leaning on its design smarts to stand out among bigger rivals
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September 12, 2019
12
Sep'19
ICO to probe government over Gov.uk data collection plan
The ICO is to look into the government’s leaked data collection plans over fears they may breach the law
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
Brexit disrupts FCA exploration into data use in wholesale banking
The extra work for banks due to Brexit preparations has caused a delay to FCA work on the use of data in the wholesale banking sector
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
Nokia, NTT Docomo and Omron to test 5G at factory floor
Three firms – Nokia, NTT Docomo and Omron – have banded together to test the feasibility of running a layout-free production line operated by 5G-connected robots and human technicians
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September 10, 2019
10
Sep'19
How Zuellig Pharma is fighting fake drugs with blockchain
The Asia-Pacific pharmaceutical giant is using a blockchain platform from SAP to help consumers identify the provenance of medicine
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September 09, 2019
09
Sep'19
Terror watchlist faces reform after court rules it violates rights of people entering US
A secret US terrorist database containing information on more than 1.2 million people – who face repeated interrogations, detentions and electronic searches – violates constitutional rights, a US judge said last week
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September 04, 2019
04
Sep'19
Executive interview: How Figleaves uncovers a data Eden
Online lingerie business that started out at the height of the dot com boom is now focused on using advanced analytics to reveal new data insights
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September 04, 2019
04
Sep'19
Lack of executive leadership lowers digital project success rate
A new survey has found that IT may be working on projects that do not deliver tangible business benefits
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September 03, 2019
03
Sep'19
Assessing China’s machine learning platforms
In a new market research report, technology analyst firm IDC offers insights on key suppliers of machine learning platforms in China
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August 29, 2019
29
Aug'19
Microsoft claims AI breakthrough in Chinese game of Mahjong
An artificial intelligence system trained by Microsoft Research Asia is now nearly as good as human players in the ancient Chinese game of Mahjong
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August 28, 2019
28
Aug'19
APAC is epicentre of the experience economy
The experience economy is emerging in the Asia-Pacific region, but to succeed, enterprises will need to understand both operational and experience data
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August 23, 2019
23
Aug'19
Travel company Clarity bakes ThoughtSpot into analytics tool
Travel management company Clarity has turned to ThoughtSpot to create an analytics tool for clients as well as for internal use