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SIBOS audience applauds Boris Johnson’s loss in the Supreme Court
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 27 Sep 2019SIBOS audience welcomes UK governments defeat in Supreme Court with a round of applause
Ahead in the Clouds
Getting cloud under control: A how-to guide for CIOs
Senior Editor, UK 26 Sep 2019In this guest post, Dave Locke, chief technology advisor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, at IT service provider World Wide Technology, sets out why organisations need a clear, consistent and ...
Amazon has revealed it will soon be introducing an option for users to change its Alexa virtual assistant’s voice to that of self-appointed Kangol ambassador Samuel L Jackson. The announcement ...
Fintech makes the world go around
All bank staff will have to understand APIs as the industry transforms
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 26 Sep 2019Can you describe what an API is in two sentences? If you work in a bank you might have to.
Industry-specific cloud application company Infor staged its Inforum user conference this week in New Orleans, Louisiana (NOLA) and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to gorge on ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the tough ...
As a term, digital transformation is too woolly, too high-level, too broad and too vague. Yes, we know that it denotes the move to cloud platforms, the move to mobile-first technologies, the move ...
There’s an old saying in corporate communications: when there’s no news, do a press survey. That’s mostly true and the Computer Weekly Developer Network is notorious for our disdain of contrived ...
Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
To be strategic, IT companies must align with business strategy
Managing Editor 20 Sep 2019Last year, Singapore Airlines (SIA) announced a strategic relationship with the Chinese cloud giant, Alibaba. The term “strategic” is often bounced around the IT industry and usually means the ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Going online for a SIBOS press pass was harder than applying for a bank account
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 19 Sep 2019My troubles getting a press pass online for SIBOS made m,e appreciate how easy mobile banking is
Oracle used the Code One section of its Oracle Open World 2019 conference to detail some of the more developer-centric elements of its total platform. Code One derives its name from JavaOne, the ...
Gatwick has announced it will become the UK’s first airport to use facial recognition cameras for passenger boarding on a permanent basis, condemning those of us who aren’t quite yet in sync with ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Jon Theuerkauf, chief customer officer at Blue Prism - and this story forms part of a series of posts on CWDN that dig into ...
CW Developer Network
RPA series: Enate - why initial RPA projects fail… & how to succeed
17 Sep 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Kit Cox, CEO at Enate – and this story forms part of a series of posts on CWDN that dig into the fast-growing topic of ...
CW Developer Network
Oracle Open World: Autonomy, Acceleration, Assistants & Applications
17 Sep 2019Oracle used its Oracle Open World 2019 conference to produce its customary barrage of product announcements. Amidst this volley of customer wins, platform enhancements, application enrichments and ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Niko Lehtonen, head of training at Digital Workforce – and this story forms part of a series of posts on CWDN that dig into ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to Percona Live 2019… or, to give it its full title… Percona Live Open Source Database Conference Europe 2019. Staged in the salubrious surrounds ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Fintech Bud cuts 20% of workforce
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Sep 2019Fintech Bud is cutting support staff as it focuses on engineering open banking software capabilities
Oracle has announced the availability of Java SE 13 (JDK 13) during the company’s Oracle Open World conference and exhibition in San Francisco. Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) is used by ...
According to a landmark UN report compiled by the world’s top scientists, the climate crisis is damaging the ability of the land to sustain humanity, with cascading risks becoming increasingly ...
Fintech makes the world go around
PSD2 security deadline extension is not a reason for further can kicking
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 17 Sep 2019The extension of a compliance deadline for PSD2 should not be a signal for banks to reduce preperations
CW Developer Network
RPA series: Appian - creating an integrated robotic workforce with RPA
16 Sep 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Sathya Srinivasan, principal solutions architect at Appian -- and this story forms part of a series of posts on CWDN that ...
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is in San Francisco for Oracle Open World 2019. As day one kicks off, we start with a resounding message from Oracle central: this is the point at which ...
Companies normally keep things pretty quiet in the run up to their annual user conferences, so they can pepper the press with a bag of announcements designed to show how much market momentum and ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bob De Caux, director of AI and RPA at IFS. IFS is known for its industrial cloud software deployments with a specific ...
Once a new technology becomes mainstream the industry needs to find a new thing to sell its customers. It’s been this way since the time IBM provided big metal boxes with integrated software and ...
Sumo Logic CEO Ramin Sayar delivered his keynote at the company’s Illuminate 2019 conference to reinforce his assertion that there is ‘a massive intelligence gap’ throughout modern technology ...
CW Developer Network
RPA series: ABBYY - RPA shortcomings in automating content-centric processes
12 Sep 2019This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Bill Galusha in his role as director of product marketing for RPA & Data Capture at ABBYY. ABBYY specialises ...
CW Developer Network
Sumo Logic Continuous Intelligence report details the 'state of the stack'
12 Sep 2019Continuous intelligence company Sumo Logic is has laid down its latest ‘state of the nation’ report. Specifically, the Continuous Intelligence: The State of Modern Applications and DevSecOps in the ...
When IT Meets Politics
A Cybercommunity Safety Partnership to address On-line Harms and Abuse
Winsafe Ltd 12 Sep 2019We need voluntary co-operation to join up cybercommunity safety across silo boundaries without waiting for governments, regulators and lobbyists
The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) and Open Source Insider team want to talk code and coding. But more than that, we want to talk coding across the diversity spectrum… so let’s get the ...
Software is eating the world… and open source software is creating a new set of recipes, chewing it up and sticking it all into a completely different kind of sandwich with a whole new set of ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Simon Harbour, UK Technology Lead, delaware. The company... delaware consulting works to create ERP and ICT solutions ...
Over to Hangzhou now, where the richest man in China has thrown himself the mother of all retirement bashes by performing in front of an audience of 60,000 employees. Alibaba founder Jack Ma donned ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
Could Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings' ‘secret’ data sharing plan work?
Editor in chief 11 Sep 2019Prime minister Boris Johnson and his controversial special advisor, Dominic Cummings, are “secretly” working on a plan to gather citizen data from across Whitehall to be used for targeting ...
Fintech makes the world go around
A Deep Learning experience was the spark for Evolution AI: Fintech interview 27
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 11 Sep 2019Evolution AI is selling technology to banks that can enable a computer to read any text in any document and make decisions based on what it reads
Commvault’s $225 million purchase of software-defined storage maker Hedvig looks like a rational move given the way the backup market is changing. But it also looks like a massive and potentially ...
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Joe Michael in his role as head of pre-sales for UK at IPsoft. IPsoft the company is an Artificial Intelligence specialist ...
This is the fifth year the Computer Weekly Developer Network team has previewed Spiceworks SpiceWorld, the Texan tech gathering designed to connect IT buyers, sellers and other assorted industry ...
Everybody has one book in them, or so the saying goes. We also know that many tech industry CEOs will at some stage in their career lay down a tome of some note. Bill Gates famously wrote The Road ...
Now, don’t get us wrong: we’re as jittery about living in a future of wearable technology as the next milquetoast loser. Some nights we can’t even sleep due to the nagging noughties fear that our ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Don’t forget fintech the service amid the record investment headlines
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 05 Sep 2019Fintech is not just about investors making money
CW Developer Network
Freshworks Freshsuccess: a software tool for the ‘customer-for-life’ vision
04 Sep 2019Customer engagement software company Freshworks Inc. has used its Refresh 19 conference and exhibition in Las Vegas this month to announce Freshsuccess. That was Freshworks Freshsuccess at Refresh, ...
This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Rebecca Fitzhugh in her role as principal technologist at Rubrik. Fitzhugh writes from here... One exciting change that has ...
Customer engagement software company Freshworks Inc. hosted its Refresh 19 conference and exhibition in Las Vegas this month... and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to drink it ...
The recent Open Source Summit was held in the balmy climes of San Diego and, among the news emanating from the event itself, the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team were made aware of ...
Fintech makes the world go around
Tandem Bank steps up its artificial intelligence training with appointment
Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA 04 Sep 2019Tandem Bank names seasoned artificial intelligence expert to drive its journey to personalise banking
When IT Meets Politics
The UK's leading employer bodies call for Apprenticeship Levy to be opened up
Winsafe Ltd 02 Sep 2019An open letter to the Chancellor The Recruitment and Employment confederation has pulled together a coalition of business organisations, representing tens of thousands of employers and millions of ...
Computer Weekly Editors Blog
GDS reveals details of digital identity pilot for passport data checks
Editor in chief 30 Aug 2019The Government Digital Service (GDS) has published details of the planned pilot project for opening up passport data to companies that wish to offer digital identity services. GDS recently held a ...
Scylla [pronounced: sill-la] was (and to all intents and purposes still is) a Greek god era sea monster whose mission is to haunt and torment the rocks of a narrow strait of water opposite the ...