In Depth

In Depth

Enterprise software

• Natural language generation progresses from robo-journalism to finance

  While the robots are coming for journalists, might natural language generation also make inroads into financial, legal and medical analysis?  Continue Reading

• First steps taken on 'omni-channel' customer experience

  The future customer experience might be personalised, but there is a long road ahead yet  Continue Reading

• Four CIO tips for implementing DevOps

  Esure CIO Mark Foulsham shares his advice for IT leaders about successfully implementing DevOps methods to become a more agile organisation  Continue Reading

• Does Cambridge University Hospital’s Epic project indicate NHS lacks capacity?

  Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust’s £200m eHospital project was seen as a model of how an NHS trust could revolutionise its IT, autonomously. A tale of over-ambition?  Continue Reading

• Object storage: Cloud vs in-house

  Object storage is a rising star in data storage, especially for cloud and web use. But what are the pros and cons of cloud object storage or building in-house?  Continue Reading

• Genomics big data compels IT to rediscover efficiency techniques

  Genomics is generating big data at such a scale that research institutes such as the Sanger in Cambridge are having to rediscover storage techniques from the past  Continue Reading

• Why the cloud provider community needs to get on board with ISO 27018

  Despite being published more than a year ago, cloud providers are only really just starting to take notice of ISO 27018. We explore what it is and why it matters to the enterprise  Continue Reading

• HP Inc lays the foundations for a digital future

  Following HP’s split on 1 November 2015, how will the printer and PC components of the business define the future of HP Inc?  Continue Reading

• Next‑generation CIOs: The changing role of IT leaders

  The position of CIO is changing and there are more people in the role from less technical backgrounds than in the past  Continue Reading

• Is digital disruption a threat or an opportunity for banks?

  Banks have been relatively unaffected by the digital revolution that has transformed other industries – but that's about to change  Continue Reading

• Microsoft wins the PC argument for Windows 10

  Microsoft stands a good chance of gaining wide acceptance for the operating system on enterprise PCs in cutting admin with automated updates  Continue Reading

• CW500: Are you human or are you machine?

  As more things become internet-connected, systems designed to authenticate people now need to deal with machine-to-machine authentication  Continue Reading

• EU Data Protection Regulation: What the EC legislation means for cloud providers

  With the European Commission's data protection rules set to drop before 2016, take a look at what the changes mean for the cloud and datacentre community  Continue Reading

• Six CIO tips for business innovation with data

  First Utility CIO Bill Wilkins shares his advice for IT leaders about how to run data projects to deliver real business benefits  Continue Reading

• Virtualisation and disaster recovery: DR features in Hyper-V

  We run the rule over the key functionality in Microsoft Hyper-V that can help with disaster recovery, including backup, migration, high availability and replication  Continue Reading