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Finetch Akoni brings corporate treasury capabilities to the SME sector with Google functionality the Holy Grail

Amazon has had to rein in the artificial intelligence it was using to help vet job applicants after picking up on its male chauvinist tendencies. As is the case with its human bigot counterparts, ...

Last week's IP Expo at EXCEL wasn't all bad news; we escaped the first night into proper London, to a brewery disguised as a pig restaurant and then, naturally, to a (posh) curry house. Well, it is ...

Me and Load-Balancers (the artist wot became known as the Application Delivery Controller at some point in its life, even though it always did this anyway) go back a long way; 20 years basically, ...

India is an opportunity and a threat when it comes to any tech focused sector and the UK government wants to ensure it is a friend in Fintech.

Depending on your perspective, Gov.uk Verify is now either secure in its future at the heart of the UK’s emerging digital identity ecosystem, or it has one foot in the grave and is on the way to ...

This is a guest post by Bhupendra Warathe, chief information officer for corporate and institutional Banking, information technology and operations at Standard Chartered Bank As the world adopts ...

Technology marketplace company Spiceworks has detailed how it thinks new Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities can be used to drive a 'new personalisation factor' at the connection point ...

Application Programming Interface (API) development company Postman has conducted a state of APIs survey. Well, an API dev tools company would, wouldn’t it? Questioning its 5 million community ...

How many times have you heard people tell you that ‘deadline for submissions is midnight on Tuesday’ (or insert weekday of your choice)..? Sysadmin guru and technology commentator extraordinaire ...

Low-code application development company Appian has conducted its Future of Work survey through IDG. Before looking at the ‘findings’, let’s remember the three cynical forewarnings that should ...

Technology 'marketplace' and collaboration platform company Spiceworks held its annual developer, customer, partner and related tech-practitioner conference this month in the Texan capital city of ...

Banking IT professional speaks out against worrying software development methods used in the UK

In this contributed blog post Leon Brown, owner of Nextpoint, talks about the role exclusion pays in the technology industry's diversity gap. Attracting and retaining skills required to develop and ...

Read how UK insurtech Wrisk was born and raised

The UK government has condemned Russia’s military intelligence service for a variety of cyber attacks in its routinely stern way, but at this point, we might as well be told about this kind of ...

Technology events generally host ‘inspirational’ speakers at some stage, usually on the last day. After the product keynotes, the technical sessions, the platform updates, the CTO breakdowns and ...

A Singapore startup that has developed a blockchain-based platform to connect farmers with global markets has turned to SAP’s S/4 Hana Public Cloud for its digital core. Called CrowdFarmX, the ...

Developers need thought leadership, it’s a fact. It is for this reason that software application development focused tech vendors often employ futurists, evangelists and advocates. Computer Weekly ...

Machine data intelligence and analytics specialist Splunk has detailed a number of product updates at its annual .conf user and customer conference this month. The self-styled real time operational ...

Blockchain answer to Irish border question, but what about Facebook?

Why do UK banks suffer more outages than banks in other countries?

Real-time operational intelligence specialist Splunk hosted its annual .conf conference in Orlando this October to detail the state of its platform development, showcase customer use cases and dig ...

This is a guest blogpost by Colin Elkins, global industry director, process manufacturing, IFS. Global food waste, or food loss as it is classified by growers and manufacturers, is around 1.3 ...

This is a guest blog post by Savinay Berry, VP of Cloud Services at OpenText Microservices are an increasingly important way of delivering an alternative to traditionally large, complex and ...

Here’s a suggestion for you… software application developers should be looking at the technical newswires to gauge where the global interconnection pipes of the web are going to next strengthen up ...

Splunk has expanded its cyber threat security portfolio with advanced software-as-a-platform powered Security Automation, Orchestration and Response (SOAR) features. Here we find a use case library ...

Rewind a few years and I was carrying out a series of test projects for a UK-based ISV client, AppDNA, whose focus was the analysis of application compatibility when migrating between different ...

Recently returned from the sunny climes of the Algarve at this year’s round up of IT reprobates at Netevents (congrats, as ever, to the Netevents team for a) organising the event and b) surviving ...

Everywoman is giving people an extra two weeks to put women forward to be considered for the 2019 FDM everywoman in Technology Awards. Now in its ninth year, 2019’s awards focus on the theme ...

Who are the UK companies trying to have a share of the trillions of pounds that will be created by the Blockchain industries

This year’s Computer Weekly diversity in technology event focused on the importance of inclusivity in attracting and retaining diverse talent. Inclusivity can mean many things to many people, and ...

Uzi Eilon is chief technology officer at cloud-centric continuous testing company Perfecto. As CTO of a test automation specialist, Eilon says he has seen software application developers have to ...

CreditLadder is helping renters build up their credit scores and helping the rental industry get good renters

Among the findings of the Committee of Inquiry (COI) that looked into the massive SingHealth data breach was the startling fact that a non-IT staff was tasked with managing the server which was ...

Much like every other industry, retail is becoming consumed by technology adoption to the point where the two are no long separate sectors. “Every company is a technology company” is a phrase heard ...

If you were to make a list of things least worthy of your tears, the wistful tale of a man who sold his soul to Facebook for billions of dollars would surely nestle somewhere between, say, Tim Cook ...

In this guest post Anna Faelten, associate partner at EY, talks about the difference in investment between male and female run startups, and how we can start to close this gap. According to data ...

Cloud computing happened, then the Earth cooled. Actually, cloud computing happened and then we started to look at ways of engineering this service-based approach to computing into our existing and ...

As part of its Infor Inforum conference and exhibition held in Washington DC this September, industry-specific cloud applications company Infor and #YesWeCode today announced the launch of GenOne. ...

This blog from Computer Weekly’s business editor, Clare McDonald, discusses the technology innovations that are evolving the retail sector, including the technology retailers are adopting, the ...

IBM named its AI engine Watson after its first CEO, Thomas Watson. Salesforce called its play in the AI game Einstein, alter Albert, obviously. Much of SAP’s machine learning and AI is encapsulated ...

Quocirca's Print 2025 Spotlight report Digitisation: the key to SMB success reveals that SMBs are accelerating their digitisation initiatives through the use of digital workflow services and ...

The fintech industry is maturing to the point that it now has subcategories, find out about some of the companies making hay in the sector.

The headline grabbers in storage are usually the quick – flash, NVMe etc – or the harbingers of the next generation, such as the cloud. But in some ways these are the extremes, the outliers. In ...

It’s hard to believe, but it has been four years since the Computer Weekly Developer Network set foot on Texan soil for a Spiceworks SpiceWorld event. As we have detailed before, Spiceworks is a ...

This is a guest blogpost by Francois Ajenstat, Chief Product Officer, Tableau Data analysis is only as good as the quality of your data. Anyone who has ever analysed data knows that the information ...

CloudBees are (is) a bunch of busy social bees (presumably why the firm called themselves that). The enterprise DevOps company used the DevOps World | Jenkins World event to announce CloudBees ...

The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has been conducting a review of digital identity since taking over policy responsibility from the Government Digital Service (GDS) in ...

An insurtech company set up a few years ago has dislodged 130 year old global insurance giant Allianz in BMW deal

The art of 3D printing has suffered a setback in Kuwait, after pressure from hysterical clergymen forced the closure of its local Doob 3D store with accusations of idolatry. The company offers a ...

If banks and big tech firms go head to head for customers fintechs will benefit because the banks need them if they are to have any chance of winning the customer satisfaction battle

Developers using Artificial Intelligence (AI) ‘engines’ to automate any degree of decision making inside their applications will want to ensure that the brain behind that AI is free from bias and ...

Singapore’s National Environmental Agency (NEA) is roping in Alphabet life sciences research outfit Verily’s technology to separate male mosquitoes from female ones in an ongoing project to tackle ...

Pardon us… your company doesn’t have a technology experimental division? Okay sorry, it might be called the prototyping department, the Proof of Concept (PoC) laboratory, the exploration ‘foundry’, ...

What do you do when the coders you want would rather manage than code?

Document exchange and transaction management company Amalto has come forward with early adopter options for its Platform 6 enterprise application framework. This developer toolset is designed to ...

This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network blog by Johan Karlsson in his capacity as senior consultant at Perforce Software. Perforce is known for its version control ...

Pulumi Corporation has come forward with new libraries and tools for Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration system. Pulumi who? Ah yes sorry, Pulumi is quite new (founded in 2017 and ...

A study commissioned by Stripe has revealed that the Singapore economy has the potential to grow by S$1.6bn each year, if companies harness developer resources more effectively. Conducted by ...

SAP is bringing a new element of automation to Human Resources (HR) with a new open community designed to create purpose-built and easy-to-consume HR applications. The hope is that organisations of ...

Hyperledger (or the Hyperledger project) is an umbrella project of open source blockchains and related tools. The project was founded by the Linux Foundation at the end of 2015 with the intention ...

You don’t need to be told by two self-satisfied dudebros that poking AI with a stick might come back to bite us one day, but Joe Rogan’s recent podcast with Elon Musk has certainly reminded us to ...

Today IT trade group techUK announced some of the things it wants the UK post-brexit immigration policy to include. Just yesterday I was talking to the fintech lead at Tech Nation about this very ...

The digital revolution is challenging the regulatory environment across every westernised, developed economy. Governments in the EU, UK, France, Germany and the US are each trying to take a lead in ...

SAP used its Human Resources (HR) and Human Capital Management (HCM) conference this week to develop its software roadmap offerings and announce new products. The brand is (take a deep breath) SAP ...

Once upon a time, pretty much every meeting had a minute-taker – someone who kept notes, summarising who said what. These meeting minutes were circulated afterwards for comment and correction, and ...

Sauce Labs’ head of open source Isaac Murchie talks to Computer Weekly Open Source Insider to deconstruct open source and ask what happens next in terms of what matters, examine who is (and isn’t) ...

Interesting article on Finextra about the pay packages of top fintech executives. According to research from Morlands Human Capital, cited by Finextra, the average package of a CEO at a fintech ...

There are networks, there special interest groups, there are consortia, there are working groups, there are foundations, there are alliances and there are coalitions. There are also common ...

Testing was once a just a ‘thing’, now it’s an as-a-Service (aaS) software application development utility and in many cases it is positioned as a platform in its own right. BrowserStack is one ...

An API is an API is an API, right? No, it’s not that simple… and here’s why. As we have explained before now, an Application Programming Interface is code that allows two other pieces of software ...

Machine Learning (ML) doesn’t just learn, it needs training… and there’s no ML training without a ML training model. The so who’s doing the training and who’s building the models? Enterprise AI ...

Had a great couple of online sessions recently with Joe Merces of the splendidly named CloudDaddy. The aim of CloudDaddy is to simplify one of the great pain points of IT (no, not repairing ...

The government’s flagship digital identity system Gov.uk Verify has become a car crash in motion, accelerating towards its demise. The Cabinet Office’s project watchdog has condemned Verify by ...

Virgin Mooney will probably scrap its plan to build a digital bank if it merges with Clydesdale and Yorkshire banks, because the latter already has an established bank.

If you’re an IT professional managing a large desktop estate or an end user with a Windows 10 PC, you’ll be aware that Windows is undergoing a tortuous transformation, with only enthusiasts and ...

Australian tourist favourite Bondi Beach has taken a bite of the app market by creating a mobile app which tells lifeguards whether there’s a shark nearby. According to the Telegraph the system of ...

As we know, an Application Programming Interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other. The API defines the correct way for a developer to write a program ...

Unless you understand the past you cannot make sense of the present let alone make sensible preparations for an uncertain future. Unfortunately most discussion on education and training policy is ...

GUEST BLOG: In this guest post Mark McBride-Wright, founder of EqualEngineers, talks about how the #MeToo campaign has impacted the technology industry  The #MeToo campaign has become one of the ...

There is an impending storm heading towards corporate IT, and the outlook doesn’t look sunny for cash-strapped, time-constrained IT departments. Just like in 1999 with Y2K, there is an absolute ...

Tibco has been through a good many changes over the last half decade -- as a result, the company's product set needs some deconstruction, clarification and extrapolation. Where better to do that ...

First, there’s business. Then, there’s business that also operates with socially-charged philanthropy-fuelled magnanimously-enriched humanitarian awareness designed to help channel a proportion of ...

Question: In what kind of world do tech reporters gravitate toward log file machine data analytics conferences three years in a row in preference over (perhaps what might be) some of the other ...

Enterprise technology learning platform company Pluralsight used its ‘Live’ 2018 user, partner and customer conference this month to detail a set of new products and host what is now its second ...

We know what blockchain is by now. Blockchain is an immutable distributed ledger system for maintaining a permanent and tamper-proof record of transactional data as a decentralized database that is ...

Enterprise technology learning platform company Pluralsight used its ‘Live’ 2018 user, partner and customer conference this month to detail a set of new products, announce an increase in its ...

What’s all this about deepfakes? We can’t move lately for the sinister imagery that accompanies this ubiquitous news item designed to make baby boomers put down their Oat So Simple. While the likes ...

From Huawei’s Kirin 970 system-on-chip (SoC) that packs in a neural processing unit to Google’s new Edge TPU that performs machine learning tasks on IoT devices, the use of dedicated chips to speed ...

I recently looked at the Hays Index for 2017 to put the UK skills situation into international context. I strongly recommend reading the  report on "Regional dynamics of the Global Labour market - ...

When analysts and journalists write about Agile and DevOps, the focus is typically on the technology and infrastructure – what it means for software and systems development in an age when the ...

GUEST BLOG: In this contributed blog post Bryony Hill, Technical Data Scientist at Nominet, discusses the misconceptions around being a data scientist.  When I tell people I’m a data scientist, ...

As every good competent and loquacious speaker knows, no true gift of the gab is ever reasonably achieved without first visiting the Irish city of Cork to kiss the Blarney Stone. But there’s more; ...

It’s not every be company that gets to call its annual conference and user symposium after itself. IBMference doesn’t work, Dellevent is silly and Oraclefest sounds too much like a German bierhaus ...

Essentially open source Business Process Management (BPM) software company Bonitasoft has introduced its Bonita 7.7 iteration release. This is BPM software with Intelligent Continuous Improvement ...

The creation of tech startup Trint by a journalist brings home the importance of intimacy with a business problem

In this guest post, Chris Hodson, chief information security officer for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at internet security firm Zscaler, takes a closer look at why cloud security remains ...

Why is there so much publicity for 40 year old AI techniques, albeit with more processing power, bigger data files and more reliable communications lines?

What a season of technology events this is. Well, to be clear, what a season of technology events awaits us through the 'fall' period in 2018. All the tech symposia and conference proceedings about ...