In Depth

Master data management (MDM) and integration

Southern Water’s centralised data team geared for silo busting

Southern Water has centralised its data specialists and overhauled its data management and business intelligence technology to support business decision-making at scale Continue Reading
Australian organisations unprepared for GDPR

Faced with the double whammy of complying with Australia’s upcoming data breach notification requirement and Europe’s new data protection regime, Australian firms are behind where they need to be in their compliance efforts Continue Reading
How Cyient streamlined its HR functions with the cloud

The India-based supplier of engineering services is counting on a cloud-based human resource management system to improve efficiency and support its growing business Continue Reading
Managing data in a multi-cloud world

Asia-Pacific organisations that are hopping onto the multi-cloud bandwagon need to overcome potential data management issues in order to succeed Continue Reading
Q&A: From backup to data management

Beyond data backup, extracting more metadata to improve business processes and data management will become more important, says a senior Veritas executive Continue Reading

Master data management gains ground in UK public sector

Local authorities and NHS organisations in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland are making slow but sure progress with master data management technology to gain a single view of the citizen Continue Reading
Netherlands needs ‘bottom up’ approach to create smart cities

Dutch municipalities see the need to make their cities smarter, but often lack the necessary knowledge and do not know where to begin Continue Reading
CW@50: Data management – Five decades of prospecting for business value

Data management and business intelligence have been at the heart of business value creation for decades. Read about how Computer Weekly has tracked their promise and tribulations 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
How Asean organisations are untangling big data storage challenge

If organisations are to benefit from the promise of big data they must get on top of a legal and regulatory minefield when it comes to storing data. How are Asean IT departments navigating this? Continue Reading
Analytics helps Asean organisations read between the lines

Asean organisations need to develop an enterprise-wide approach to analytics and draw on customer insight if they are to maximize the business value of data Continue Reading

Australian businesses running the numbers on analytics-driven customer service

Australian businesses, such as the University of Adelaide, are gaining customer insights from large volumes of data through data analytics technology. Continue Reading
Welsh Water billing replacement programme offers customers new tariffs

Welsh Water (Dŵr Cymru) scooped a Computer Weekly award for a billing replacement programme for which it was its own systems integrator Continue Reading
British Gas Smart Metering consolidates data with Qlik on Hadoop

British Gas Smart Metering has used QlikView dashboards on Hadoop data lake to gain single view of its business Continue Reading
CIO interview: CABI’s Andrea Powell on feeding the world

CABI CIO Andrea Powell says the not-for-profit agri-science data provider aims to solve the world’s agricultural problems with data, structured and unstructured Continue Reading