Computer Weekly Editors Blog

February 2017

• SAP/Diageo case shows software licensing needs to adapt to digital realities

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 24 Feb 2017

Here we are, it’s 2017, on-demand and pay-as-you-go software is all the rage, cloud is the rising and soon-to-be dominant IT architecture, and yet we’re still talking about software suppliers ...

• Gov.uk Verify ID providers eye the prize of HMRC’s digital users – but what happens without them?

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 21 Feb 2017

In all the recent talk about whether HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is truly committed to the Cabinet Office’s Gov.uk Verify service, there’s been less said about the commitment of the external ...

• HMRC ID vs Gov.uk Verify – what’s the difference, and why it matters

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 15 Feb 2017

The long-term row between HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and the Government Digital Service (GDS) over online identity assurance broke into the open this week. HMRC published a blog post that ...

• GDS, HMRC and Verify: so much for cross-government digital collaboration

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 14 Feb 2017

Less than a week after Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer announced the new government transformation strategy, its central premise is already in question after HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) ...

• Government digital strategy ticks the boxes - but real transformation needs more radical ambition

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 10 Feb 2017

The long wait for the new government digital strategy may have caused frustration in some places, but clearly within the Cabinet Office the extensive delays have brought expectations to a peak of ...

• GDPR - the essential compliance burden to keep the UK trading post-Brexit

  Bryan Glick - Editor in chief 03 Feb 2017

If GDPR compliance is not near the top of IT leaders’ priorities for 2017, you have a problem. GDPR – the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation – was always going to be a major ...