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Self-styled ‘continuous intelligence’ company Sumo Logic has detailed news of ‘digital omnichannel ecommerce’ agency Vaimo now has adopting its technology to provide security analytics for its ...

This is a contributed piece for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Chris Pope, VP of innovation at ServiceNow. ServiceNow is a cloud-based platform company that specialises in ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is off to Las Vegas for UiPath FORWARD III 2019 to gorge on all things RPA. Robotic Process Automation (RPA)… or sometimes intelligent Robotic ...

SIBOS audience welcomes UK governments defeat in Supreme Court with a round of applause

In 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 ...

Can 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 wooly, 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 to ...

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 ...

Last 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 ...

My 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 ...

This 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 ...

Oracle 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 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 ...

The extension of a compliance deadline for PSD2 should not be a signal for banks to reduce preperations

This 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 ...

This 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 ...

Continuous 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 ...

We 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 ...

Prime 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 ...

Evolution 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 is not just about investors making money

Customer 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 ...

Tandem Bank names seasoned artificial intelligence expert to drive its journey to personalise banking

An 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 ...

The 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 ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider team blog written by Joe Drumgoole in his capacity as director for developer advocacy across EMEA region at MongoDB.  Drumgoole ...

Azimo has made its first profit as the fintech moves onto its next phase of growth

It is not enough to have policies that satisfy the conflicting requirements of the EU and US for data protection, including notification to attract fraudsters to the victims of a breach, like ...

The other day, the government announced yet another consultation on the future of the UK's digital networking infrastructure, this time exploring the possibility of liberalising the planning laws ...

Technology skills platform company Pluralsight acquired developer productivity specialist GitPrime back in Spring of this year. It was a move that made logical enough sense. This was a coming ...

The latest version of Siren’s ‘investigative intelligence’ technology includes five new artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities: entity resolution, deep learning-based predictive analytics and ...

Additional news tabled at this year’s Pluralsight LIVE 2019 saw the company’s philanthropically-driven ‘social enterprise’ division Pluralsight One now partnering with the US national workforce ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nate Clinton, Designit executive director.  Designit offers integrated strategic design and innovation services, ...

The Government Digital Service (GDS) insists that its plans for Gov.uk Verify “remain on track” despite the withdrawal of three of the five remaining identity providers (IDPs) supporting the ...

Apple has reiterated its searing contempt for the hoi polloi that uses its products by releasing a physical credit card you’re not supposed to put in your wallet. The titanium card is, in Apple’s ...

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 ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team has started its week in Utah at the Pluralsight LIVE 2019 conference. For those that would like a reminder, Pluralsight specialises in online cloud-based ...

Like any milestone birthday it’s a time for reflection, writes Andrew Meyer, director of NHS Digital's Digital Delivery Centre. Have you achieved what you wanted in the time passed, are there ...

A few months ago Automation Anywhere began collaborating with freelance software developer recruitment platform, Toptal, on robotic process automation in the human workforce. The concept is called ...

DevOps started as a grass-roots movement led by practitioners. The motives were pure, and focused simply on finding better ways of doing things for the good of everyone involved in software ...

UK businesses could put themselves at risk because of myths surrounding the PSD2 security standard

CRM is, of course, Customer Relationship Management... apart from when it's not. Some days, CRM is CRM (as above)... but, increasingly, CRM is also Cloud Resource Management. This is a software ...

This is a guest post by Stephen Dane, managing director for cyber security at Cisco Asia-Pacific, Japan and Greater China We live in a multi-cloud world. A world where a multitude of offerings from ...

Had some very interesting conversations in the past few weeks with a number of US-based vendors across primarily the security and optimisation sectors, with one commonality - established in the ...

Funding Options took a few years to realise that dating sites were the perfect model for a fintech helping small businesses get access to the right loans for them

Banks and retailers have work to do to ensure that open banking and PSD2 don't open doors for fraudsters

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog written by Matt Boyle in his capacity as lead software engineer at Curve. Curve allows users to spend money from all their ...

PSD2 widens the target for fraudsters preying on consumers through social engineering and other non technical attacks

Earlier in August, Huawei announced it was launching its own open-source operating system, named HarmonyOS, which may replace Google’s Android on its devices, writes Promon head of development, Jan ...

1 Action Fraud had an impossible task The Times undercover investigation at Action Fraud  has led to a rash of publicity, both tabloid  and professional . The only surprise is that it has taken so ...

Managing and securing access to multiple public cloud services can be a challenge for enterprises that are embarking on a multi-cloud strategy. Besides making sure that only authorised members of ...

Gartner's latest magic quadrant report on cloud infrastructure puts IBM in the bottom left quadrant, as a niche player, alongside Oracle and Alibaba. IBM is hoping the £34bn it has spent on buying ...

A teenage girl has turned to her family’s smart fridge in a desperate quest to reach Twitter followers, after her mum confiscated her electronic devices one by one. The 15-year-old, known to her ...

Codefresh is the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD technology, with CI denoting Continuous Integration and CD denoting Continuous Delivery, obviously. The organisation has this month worked to improve ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is fond of craft beer, Mormon temples, clean air and an opportunity to dig into cloud-based enterprise technology learning platforms. That’s lucky ...

Hence the need to address the cyberskills for justice and deterrence , not just those for cyberwarfare, protection and surveillance. And the more widespread those skills, the more dangerous the ...

Hermes is the Greek god of trade, heraldry and commerce… but also the Greek god of thieves and trickery. Facebook was presumably thinking of Hermes’ more virtuous qualities when it named its ...

In this guest post, Will Grannis, founder and director of the Google Office of the CTO, sets out how adopting a multi-cloud strategy can help enterprises navigate IT challenges around value, risk ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikita Ivanov, CTO and co-founder of GridGain Systems. GridGain specialises in software and services for big data systems ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) team is extremely partial to baked beans, broiled lobster, New England architecture, Sam Adams beers and ERP systems that boast specific competencies in ...

This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Nikita Ivanov, CTO and co-founder of GridGain Systems.  GridGain specialises in software and services for big data systems ...

Now that we have Wi-Fi at home and at work, good options for global cellular roaming and (for times when neither of those are accessible) we also have Wi-Fi portable hotspots too. One would imagine ...

Pulsant specialises in managed cloud hosting, colocation and application hosting services. As a core competency, Pulsant works on hybrid (value-added) cloud solutions with a core focus on ...

In this guest post, Dob Todorov, CEO and chief cloud officer, HeleCloud, sets out why it is wrong to declare cloud not fit for business use in the wake of the Capital One data breach. In two ...

As we watched a former porn site merchant’s video statement, him sat there in front of a Benjamin Franklin backdrop to the sound of a military bugle call, defending 8chan’s white supremacist ...

This is a guest blogpost by Sean Martin, CTO and co-founder, Cambridge Semantics The post-big data landscape has been shaped by two emergent, intrinsically related forces: the predominance of ...

With its roots and foundations in the open source Apache Cassandra database, Santa Clara headquartered DataStax insists that it likes to keep things open. As such, the company is opening a wider ...

The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is a big fan of smoky casinos, 1-cent slot machines, cloud-based CRM software platforms, intelligent workflow automation technology and basketball legend ...

Red Hat… no, wait, stop there -- not Red Hat the IBM company, actually just Red Hat -- that’s how the company is still putting out news stories. We’ll start again, open source enterprise software ...

In this guest post, Justin Day, CEO of hybrid cloud connectivity platform provider Cloud Gateway shares his thoughts one why some enterprises are choosing to pull back from off-premise life and ...

Developer-centric automation software company CircleCI has launched general availability of support for Windows in its product set. CircleCI (the clue is in the name) has a specialism in Continuous ...

Gov.uk Verify – the government’s flagship digital identity system – faces a critical few months ahead. Again. As the clock ticks down towards the end of March 2020, when further public investment ...