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European Commission accepts SAP’s on-prem ERP commitment

The ERP provider has accepted that it will no longer charge admin fees for returning maintenance customers, and has stated it will offer on-premise flexibility
Tech giants come under watch of UK finance regulators

IT suppliers critical to the UK finance sector are now within the remit of the UK’s financial services regulators
The quiet rise of digital identity

Governments are rapidly expanding digital identity systems, promising greater convenience and faster access to services, but concerns around privacy, trust, surveillance and inclusion continue to grow
Singtel and Thales launch multi-operator IoT eSIM network

Bridge Alliance service will allow enterprises to provision and manage connected devices across four Asia-Pacific mobile operators through a single platform
Singapore investors embrace AI but still lean on human advisers

Singapore’s affluent investors are among the world’s keenest adopters of AI for investment research, but most still want a professional adviser to validate machine-generated insights
Verizon gears up as BMW US vehicle connectivity provider

Leading comms provider named as US connectivity provider for global car manufacturer’s newly manufactured vehicles, delivering 5G standalone and LTE connectivity through partnership with Japanese telco

Forrester: Managing supply chain volatility with agentic AI

As well as churning through mundane tasks, artificial intelligence agents promise to transform supply chain management
CW@60: Preserving the wonder of a life in tech

Mozilla's Linda Griffin shares how a life-changing experience taught her how life in tech ought to be
CW@60: Living with the digital revolution

Parliamentarian Lord Tim Clement-Jones highlights the growing impact of technology in politics across his career

Iris AWS collaboration widens aperture to semantic-enriched agentic knowledge- CW Developer Network

Oslo-based Iris (stylised as Iris.ai) provides what it calls a “semantic-enriched knowledge foundation” for enterprise software stacks building agentic AI services. To clarify, Iris builds ... Continue Reading
The road to optical networking: IOWN & distributed infrastructures- CW Developer Network

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sean Lawrence, vice president, head of IOWN development office, research and development planning department at NTT, Inc. ... Continue Reading
IBM Bob bolsters, boosts & broadens AI-driven software application development - CW Developer Network

IBM called its agentic software development platform Bob. Was this because Big Blue wanted another three-letter acronym to sit alongside IBM perhaps? Bob could mean Best of Breed. Or it could ... Continue Reading
What to expect from Grafana ObservabilityCON- CW Developer Network

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team has been following the growth of observability for more than a decade now. Although some may define observability as a sub-sector function that sits under ... Continue Reading

Why legal control beats location in data sovereignty

US law can access global data via providers, making local data residency insufficient. Businesses must prioritise true jurisdictional control over "sovereignty washing" marketing
Digital devolution and taking back control

Why Andy Burnham's vision needs data cooperatives to deliver a transformation in digital public services
The US is set to delete a datacentre security rule. Bad timing

The US Federal Data Center Enhancement Act expires soon and will remove critical physical security baselines. This risks eroding standards during the AI-driven global infrastructure boom