Information management

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

Interview: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK

Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech, thinks there are other places besides London to start a digital business in the UKNews | 21 Jul 2014

John Lewis IT operations team uses Splunk to target web bugs

The IT operations team at retailer John Lewis has used Splunk’s business intelligence tools to improve website performance and identify problem areasNews | 18 Jul 2014

SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and HanaFinancial results | 17 Jul 2014

Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre

KPMG and Imperial College London have combined to create a £20m ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’analytics centre | 15 Jul 2014

Data mining evolves in the era of new data science

As more and more firms look to analyse ever larger datasets, so data mining technology is becoming increasingly critical to data scientistsFeature

SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup

Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in BrazilEnterprise software | 14 Jul 2014

Hadoop 2, YARN set to shake up data management and analytics

Consultant Wayne Eckerson says Hadoop 2, with its key YARN component, qualifies as a flexible big data operating system. And it could quickly take the open source framework into the IT mainstream, he predicts.Feature

Retailers need chief algorithm officers to make e-commerce pay

Michael Ross, chief scientific officer at eCommera, an ecommerce software and services company, calls for chief algorithm officersInterview | 10 Jul 2014

Microsoft attacks UK government decision to adopt ODF for document formats

Microsoft has questioned the merits of the UK government’s decision to adopt ODF - but meeting minutes show OOXML was given due considerationAnalysis | 23 Jul 2014

UK government confirms ODF as standard document format, rejecting Microsoft proposals

The government has confirmed plans to standardise document formats and has resisted Microsoft lobbying by rejecting its preferred standardNews | 22 Jul 2014

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

Interview: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK

Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech, thinks there are other places besides London to start a digital business in the UKNews | 21 Jul 2014

Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of locationcollaboration | 08 Jul 2014

HP Autonomy executive: big data transcends analytics

Robert Youngjohns, executive vice-president at HP, speaks to Computer Weekly about why big data does not reduce to analyticsQ&A

Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.Open data | 03 Jul 2014

Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiativeNews | 02 Jul 2014

Hosting Wimbledon’s website

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Morisson Utility Services fills in holes faster with ETADirect

Morrison Utility Services is digging and filling in holes in the road more efficiently by using cloud-based mobile workforce management tool ETADirect from TOA TechnologiesCase study

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

Why are businesses using email for everything? Jack Vile gives the younger generation's perspectivesocial media

Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.Open data | 03 Jul 2014

Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiativeNews | 02 Jul 2014

Hosting Wimbledon’s website

Wimbledon bunker tour: The IT behind the tennis championships

Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to investigate the technology supporting of one of the biggest tennis championshipsPhoto Story

The IBM bunker at Wimbledon

Court-side

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

Interview: Gerard Grech, CEO, Tech City UK

Tech City UK CEO, Gerard Grech, thinks there are other places besides London to start a digital business in the UKNews | 21 Jul 2014

John Lewis IT operations team uses Splunk to target web bugs

The IT operations team at retailer John Lewis has used Splunk’s business intelligence tools to improve website performance and identify problem areasNews | 18 Jul 2014

SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and HanaFinancial results | 17 Jul 2014

Law gives 'arbitary' protection against surveillance, tribunal told

Your choice of mobile phone service can determine whether the government can legally spy on you, tribunal toldNews | 17 Jul 2014

Drivers ready for connected cars, says Telefónica report

Telefónica’s second annual Connected Car Industry report uncovers rising awareness of in-car connectivity among users, and says connected services are starting to influence buying decisionsInternet of things | 17 Jul 2014

Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre

KPMG and Imperial College London have combined to create a £20m ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’analytics centre | 15 Jul 2014

Data mining evolves in the era of new data science

As more and more firms look to analyse ever larger datasets, so data mining technology is becoming increasingly critical to data scientistsFeature

SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup

Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in BrazilEnterprise software | 14 Jul 2014

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue

IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%Financial results | 17 Jul 2014

SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and HanaFinancial results | 17 Jul 2014

Perspective and preparation: Data modeling concepts still vital in business

In this book excerpt, data modeling instructor Steve Hoberman discusses the importance of using modeling for business success and the variety of implementations for data models.Feature

MicroStrategy World 2014: Saylor announces AWS partnership and demos Usher

MicroStrategy unveils partnership with Amazon Web Services and a beta programme for Usher password replacement technologyIT suppliers | 08 Jul 2014

Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation

Data science company Dunnhumby has launched a project to globalise its back-office business processes using Oracle Fusion cloudNews | 08 Jul 2014

Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.Open data | 03 Jul 2014

Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiativeNews | 02 Jul 2014

Wimbledon's social command centre

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

Why 'logical data warehouse' is no longer a logical term

Consultant Rick van der Lans contends that data warehouses are inherently logical and don't need to be qualified as such. What really matters, he says, is that they present an integrated view of enterprise data, no matter where it's stored.Feature

Data modeling techniques explained: How to get the most from your data

In this interview, author and data modeling instructor Steve Hoberman discusses techniques for dealing with challenges that may arise in the data modeling process.Feature

Imhoff: Data warehouse architecture must go beyond the traditional

In a video interview, consultant Claudia Imhoff discusses the increasing need to augment data warehouses with technologies such as Hadoop and real-time analytics systems.Video

Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.Open data | 03 Jul 2014

Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiativeNews | 02 Jul 2014

Wimbledon's social command centre

Hosting Wimbledon’s website

Wimbledon bunker tour: The IT behind the tennis championships

Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to investigate the technology supporting of one of the biggest tennis championshipsPhoto Story

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.Open data | 03 Jul 2014

Case study: OpenStack hybrid cloud powers CERN’s experiments with universe

Particle physics lab CERN uses OpenStack private cloud and Rackspace cloud services to provide the high-throughput compute power researchers needcase study | 02 Jul 2014

Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiativeNews | 02 Jul 2014

Wimbledon bunker tour: The IT behind the tennis championships

Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to investigate the technology supporting of one of the biggest tennis championshipsPhoto Story

The IBM bunker at Wimbledon

Court-side

Data for Wimbledon

Digital Wimbledon

World-class enterprise architecture

The world is changing at a pace faster than ever experienced. Several trends in demographics, technology, the environment, globalization, public attitudes, and political institutions are driving Government and Industry agendas as never before. In order to respond to the demands and needs of their stakeholders, organizations need to develop new and better ways of managing continuous change at ever-increasing pace to deliver significant value in a transparent manner. Organizations need an enterprise architecture function as an integral capability in order to support the requirement for continuous change. However, over the years, many organizations have attempted to set up enterprise architecture practices only to see them fail after a few years. These failures are due to several reasons, such as an inability to merge enterprise architecture processes with the other management processes within the organization – for example, demand management – or the lack of authority for enterprise architects – for example, when making strategic decisions or quality assuring programs and projects. In spite of these previous failures, organizations are again trying to set up enterprise architecture functions as they have found that no other pragmatic alternatives exist.E-Handbook

NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databasesGovernment IT | 22 Jul 2014

Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?analysis | 21 Jul 2014

MicroStrategy World 2014: Saylor announces AWS partnership and demos Usher

MicroStrategy unveils partnership with Amazon Web Services and a beta programme for Usher password replacement technologyIT suppliers | 08 Jul 2014

Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.Open data | 03 Jul 2014

Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiativeNews | 02 Jul 2014

Wimbledon bunker tour: The IT behind the tennis championships

Computer Weekly goes behind the scenes at Wimbledon to investigate the technology supporting of one of the biggest tennis championshipsPhoto Story

The IBM bunker at Wimbledon

Court-side

Data for Wimbledon