Information management

Businesses look for tech solutions to big data security issues

The growing adoption of big data analytics applications is complicating data security challenges -- and creating a need for new security strategies.Feature

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Royal Bank of Scotland maps transaction supply chain

Data collection practices spark debate on big data ethics, privacy

The increasing emphasis on collecting and analyzing big data is driving a debate on whether tighter privacy rules are needed to protect customers.Feature

Dell skips smartphones to focus on convergence

With the smartphone industry grinding to a halt,Dell has chosen to take the software avenue rather than trying to push into the smartphone space.News | 17 Apr 2014

SAP declares 8% revenue growth in EMEA

SAP has declared 8% revenue growth in the EMEA region for the first quarter of 2014, “despite uncertainties in the CIS due to the Crimea crisis”.News | 17 Apr 2014

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has his Trustworthy Computing moment

In 2002, Microsoft chief Bill Gates sent out the Trustworthy Computing memo to staff. Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, had his Trustworthy Computing moment this week.News | 16 Apr 2014

Technology investment returns to the CEO agenda

For the first time in nearly a decade, CEOs believe technology can make a difference. But is the CIO best placed to drive the technology business agenda?Analysis | 16 Apr 2014

Interview: Alex Alexander, multichannel technology director at Asda

Asda has been on a cloud-based e-commerce journey for the past six years after taking its general merchandising (GM) and George clothing websites to the cloud, allowing the retailer to concentrate on innovating its retail offeringInterview | 16 Apr 2014

Interview: How Ordnance Survey supports geolocation startups

Ordnance Survey has named three budding geolocation startups as winners in its latest Developer Challengeinterview | 15 Apr 2014

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Interview: Alex Alexander, multichannel technology director at Asda

Asda has been on a cloud-based e-commerce journey for the past six years after taking its general merchandising (GM) and George clothing websites to the cloud, allowing the retailer to concentrate on innovating its retail offeringInterview | 16 Apr 2014

Interview: How Ordnance Survey supports geolocation startups

Ordnance Survey has named three budding geolocation startups as winners in its latest Developer Challengeinterview | 15 Apr 2014

EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services

The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365News | 15 Apr 2014

Most cloud services pose security and compliance risks to European businesses

About 99% of cloud services used in Europe either don’t have enterprise-grade security or store data outside Europe’s jurisdictional boundariesCloud computing | 14 Apr 2014

Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analyticsNews | 08 Apr 2014

Businesses must rethink HR IT as traditional jobs disintegrate

HR software needs a complete rethink to deliver services to an increasingly dispersed workforce, says cloud technology specialistNews | 02 Apr 2014

Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UKNews | 24 Mar 2014

Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patientsInformation governance | 21 Mar 2014

The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information CentreIT in healthcare | 20 Mar 2014

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Bywaters waste management uses BI to improve customers’ recycling

Bywaters, a recycling and waste management company, has improved productivity by 4% using Pentaho data integration and business intelligence softwareCase study

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty gears up BI with QlikView toolbox

Messier-Bugatti-Dowty, an aviation industry specialist in aircraft landing and braking systems, is using QlikView to support business process improvementCase study

Mölnlycke Health Care and Axfood demonstrate divergent ERP strategies

Two Swedish firms, Mölnlycke Health Care and Axfood, demonstrate divergent ERP strategies - one standardised, one customisedFeature

Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patientsInformation governance | 21 Mar 2014

The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information CentreIT in healthcare | 20 Mar 2014

Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions

Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditionsbig data | 20 Mar 2014

Analytics across the ecosystem

Analytics is a key enabler for life sciences and healthcare organizations to create better outcomes for patients, customers and other stakeholders across the entire healthcare ecosystem, according to this research from IBM.News | 12 Mar 2014

Gartner: How to build an online community

Gartner analyst Julie Hopkins explains seven ways to lure people to participate in online communities and shows how to choose the tactics that will best suit your business needs.News | 12 Mar 2014

Rubber and plastics converter Miers chooses Business One on Hana

Three common business intelligence training mistakes to avoid

Expert Brian Jordan discusses three common mistakes that BI teams make when training business users and offers advice on how to avoid them.Answer

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has his Trustworthy Computing moment

In 2002, Microsoft chief Bill Gates sent out the Trustworthy Computing memo to staff. Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, had his Trustworthy Computing moment this week.News | 16 Apr 2014

Interview: Alex Alexander, multichannel technology director at Asda

Asda has been on a cloud-based e-commerce journey for the past six years after taking its general merchandising (GM) and George clothing websites to the cloud, allowing the retailer to concentrate on innovating its retail offeringInterview | 16 Apr 2014

Interview: How Ordnance Survey supports geolocation startups

Ordnance Survey has named three budding geolocation startups as winners in its latest Developer Challengeinterview | 15 Apr 2014

Supplier profile: Workday

Computer Weekly analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the rapidly growing cloud HR and finance software company, WorkdayFeature

Are retailers using data analytics to their advantage?

Computer Weekly looks at the challenges the retail sector faces in taking advantage of data analysisanalysis | 14 Apr 2014

Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data

The Nordic countries have played a leading role in epSOS, an EU project to establish infrastructure for patient records data exchangesFeature

Online loyalty programmes help wholesalers fill data void

Wholesale retailers are using online loyalty programmes to gain insight into customers who purchase in-storeretail it | 10 Apr 2014

Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analyticsNews | 08 Apr 2014

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

SAP declares 8% revenue growth in EMEA

SAP has declared 8% revenue growth in the EMEA region for the first quarter of 2014, “despite uncertainties in the CIS due to the Crimea crisis”.News | 17 Apr 2014

EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services

The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365News | 15 Apr 2014

Most cloud services pose security and compliance risks to European businesses

About 99% of cloud services used in Europe either don’t have enterprise-grade security or store data outside Europe’s jurisdictional boundariesCloud computing | 14 Apr 2014

Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data

The Nordic countries have played a leading role in epSOS, an EU project to establish infrastructure for patient records data exchangesFeature

Online loyalty programmes help wholesalers fill data void

Wholesale retailers are using online loyalty programmes to gain insight into customers who purchase in-storeretail it | 10 Apr 2014

Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analyticsNews | 08 Apr 2014

Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacleNews | 08 Apr 2014

Teradata Database 15 adds JSON, addresses internet of things

Teradata has added JSON to its data warehouse. Teradata Database 15 is said to fill out the logical data warehouse, much vaunted in the industry in recent yearsdata management | 07 Apr 2014

Seven secrets of SQL Server Management Studio

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is the principal interface for working with Microsoft SQL Server. However, many subtleties of this powerful tool evade even the most seasoned professionalsTip

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Big data vendors should stop dissing data warehouse systems

Wayne Eckerson examines the roles of data warehouses and big data systems in analytical environments -- and says he's tired of data warehouse bashing.BI Experts Panel

Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analyticsNews | 08 Apr 2014

Teradata Database 15 adds JSON, addresses internet of things

Teradata has added JSON to its data warehouse. Teradata Database 15 is said to fill out the logical data warehouse, much vaunted in the industry in recent yearsdata management | 07 Apr 2014

Accenture’s UK analytics head sees clients reorganising for digital

Ray Eitel-Porter is managing director of analytics for Accenture UK & Ireland. He talks to Computer Weekly about how data management has assumed a more elevated strategic role as companies go digitalInterview

Analysis: Care.data – where next?

Following the public debate surrounding the NHS Care.data plan, it was unsurprising the topic dominated the UK’s largest health IT eventNews | 24 Mar 2014

Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patientsInformation governance | 21 Mar 2014

The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information CentreIT in healthcare | 20 Mar 2014

Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions

Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditionsbig data | 20 Mar 2014

Without Care.data “we won’t have a health service for much longer,” says NHS

Without the care.data programme, the health service will not have a future, said Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS EnglandNews | 19 Mar 2014

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Most cloud services pose security and compliance risks to European businesses

About 99% of cloud services used in Europe either don’t have enterprise-grade security or store data outside Europe’s jurisdictional boundariesCloud computing | 14 Apr 2014

Accenture’s UK analytics head sees clients reorganising for digital

Ray Eitel-Porter is managing director of analytics for Accenture UK & Ireland. He talks to Computer Weekly about how data management has assumed a more elevated strategic role as companies go digitalInterview

Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patientsInformation governance | 21 Mar 2014

The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information CentreIT in healthcare | 20 Mar 2014

Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions

Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditionsbig data | 20 Mar 2014

SAS opens analytics R&D centre in Glasgow, trained on combatting fraud

SAS has opened a research and development (R&D) centre in Glasgow, focused on combatting fraud and financial crimesData analytics | 17 Mar 2014

Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture

Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved serviceNews | 06 Mar 2014

Royal Mail recruits data scientists to support £70m barcode drive

The newly privatised Royal Mail is recruiting data scientists across the data management field, from Hadoop heads to statisticiansNews | 24 Feb 2014

Effective information management: Using data as a competitive weapon

In today's global economy, information is becoming a major competitive asset, a weapon to drive business advantage.Opinion

Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and servicesNews | 22 Apr 2014

Nordics lead initiative to share European patient records data

The Nordic countries have played a leading role in epSOS, an EU project to establish infrastructure for patient records data exchangesFeature

Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analyticsNews | 08 Apr 2014

Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patientsInformation governance | 21 Mar 2014

The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information CentreIT in healthcare | 20 Mar 2014

Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions

Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditionsbig data | 20 Mar 2014

Without Care.data “we won’t have a health service for much longer,” says NHS

Without the care.data programme, the health service will not have a future, said Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS EnglandNews | 19 Mar 2014

Case study: How John Lewis conquered the web

An in-depth look at the inside story of John Lewis' £40m e-commerce strategy.Case Study

SAS opens analytics R&D centre in Glasgow, trained on combatting fraud

SAS has opened a research and development (R&D) centre in Glasgow, focused on combatting fraud and financial crimesData analytics | 17 Mar 2014

CIO Interview: Norfolk County Council's Tom Baker on using data to improve public services