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• June 15, 2021 15 Jun'21

  How healthcare organisations are tapping data analytics

  Healthcare providers are harnessing data analytics to improve clinical and operational outcomes even as they continue to face challenges in data aggregation and data protection

• June 11, 2021 11 Jun'21

  CIO interview: John Hunter of Council of Europe takes cloud route to document management

  John Hunter, CIO of the Council of Europe, describes how his team has modernised the human rights organisation’s document management in the cloud

• June 08, 2021 08 Jun'21

  Oracle and Crown Commercial Service renew MoU to continue cloud use

  Oracle and the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service have renewed a memorandum of understanding for the continued use of the supplier’s cloud infrastructure and applications

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  BT claims £2m in savings with Qlik data analytics

  BT claims it has secured £2m in cost savings by putting Qlik data analytics in the hands of 1,200 members of staff in its Consumer business

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  BCS: Lack of communication over NHS GPDPR ‘astonishing’

  The Chartered Institute for IT has warned that millions of people are not being properly informed of NHS Digital plans to harvest their data

• June 03, 2021 03 Jun'21

  Sapphire 2021: Klein vaunts rebooted Ariba business network as sustainability driver

  At the virtual Sapphire 2021 conference, SAP CEO Christian Klein trumpeted the supplier’s procurement network, Ariba, as the core of a revamped global engine for promoting sustainable economic growth

• June 02, 2021 02 Jun'21

  Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19

  Public cloud giant adds Mulberry to its roll-call of retail customers

• June 01, 2021 01 Jun'21

  NHS trust’s Pioneer data platform joins up care delivery and improves outcomes

  University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust aims to improve patient care by bringing together anonymised health data from different care settings to better understand the patient journey

• May 31, 2021 31 May'21

  Great Eastern doubles down on data analytics

  Singapore insurer Great Eastern has started a centre of excellence to drive adoption of data analytics and hone its capabilities in data governance and data engineering

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Singapore deploys drones to monitor reservoir water quality

  Singapore’s national water agency PUB is deploying autonomous drones at six reservoirs to monitor water quality and other activities to improve operational efficiency

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Databricks unveils data sharing protocol as part of data lakehouse

  Databricks announces launch of open source project called Delta Sharing at Data + AI Summit, with backing of data providers and business intelligence tool suppliers

• May 26, 2021 26 May'21

  Disabled travellers promised better train journeys by Passenger Assistance app

  An app developed by UK startup Transreport for the Rail Delivery Group aims to improve train travel for disabled passengers

• May 24, 2021 24 May'21

  Melbourne taps AI to ease traffic congestion

  University of Melbourne has teamed up with public and private sector organisations to build an AI application that can predict traffic congestion up to three hours ahead

• May 20, 2021 20 May'21

  Government sets out implementation plan for genomics strategy

  The 2021-22 implementation plan for government’s 10-year Genome UK strategy includes improving diversity of genomics data, rolling out whole genome sequencing to rare diseases patients, and delivering a proof of concept for a next-generation ...

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Legacy data and IT issues ‘laid bare’ during Covid-19, says NAO

  The pandemic has exposed challenges with legacy data and IT systems in government, and has made the government response more challenging, says the National Audit Office

• May 18, 2021 18 May'21

  Government response to National Data Strategy consultation depicts data as ‘asset, not threat’

  Government responds to consultation with a promise of delivery, putting an emphasis on data as an asset, not a threat, and finding respondents keen on levelling up

• May 17, 2021 17 May'21

  Oxford University uses Oracle Cloud to speed up analysis of Covid-19 variants

  The University of Oxford is availing itself of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the genomic sequencing and analysis of SARS-CoV-2, in part to identify new Covid-19 variants

• May 14, 2021 14 May'21

  Dutch police used deep learning model to predict threats to life

  Dutch police developed a deep learning model in their EncroChat investigation to predict which messages contain serious threats to life

• May 13, 2021 13 May'21

  NHSX data strategy due in ‘a few weeks’

  NHSX director of policy and strategy Simon Madden says the long-awaited strategy is expected to “trigger huge debates” on issues such as access, choice and transparency, and will be published in draft form shortly to allow for consultation

• May 12, 2021 12 May'21

  Engineering firm Briggs of Burton maps global expansion with SAP’s Rise service

  Briggs of Burton, an engineering firm that makes hygienic equipment for drinks, food and pharmaceutical companies, has chosen SAP’s Rise service to guide its global expansion, initially in China

• May 11, 2021 11 May'21

  How the British Red Cross harnessed digital mapping honed abroad for the domestic Covid-19 crisis

  The British Red Cross and the Voluntary and Community Sector Emergencies Partnership have been putting digital mapping to work throughout the Covid-19 pandemic to help match human needs to local organisations

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Monmouthshire County Council digitises HR with Zellis cloud

  Monmouthshire County Council is using a cloud HR system from Zellis as part of its digital transformation programme, aimed at being lean and agile

• May 07, 2021 07 May'21

  Nordic real estate industry moves digital

  The Nordic real estate is investing in technologies like IoT to prepare the sector for the changing demands from customers post-Covid

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Premier League promotes football analytics with Oracle Cloud

  From season 2021-22, the Premier League will provide in-match statistics and analysis for fans, made possible by Oracle Cloud

• May 06, 2021 06 May'21

  Wipro’s AI platform to improve vaccine safety

  Wipro is partnering a stem cell technology firm on the use of its Holmes artificial intelligence platform to help researchers ascertain the safety and potency of vaccines

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Interview: ONS data science chief Tom Smith on government data capability

  The managing director of the Office of National Statistics’ Data Science Campus, Tom Smith, describes the organisation’s data capability building activities for and across government

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Cambridge scale-up company Eagle Genomics expands in India

  UK data analytics life sciences-focused scale-up company Eagle Genomics announces Indian expansion to coincide with government declaration of UK-India trade partnership

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Executive interview: Juergen Mueller on SAP’s tech strategy

  SAP CTO Juergen Mueller offers a glimpse into the company’s thinking around delivering business applications as microservices, among other areas and updates in its technology strategy

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Nebulon helps DCI offer high-performance edge hyper-converged

  Cambridge-based cloud and colo provider DCI will offer DataQube servers with Nebulon, which marries a cloud control plane with local PCIe-connected flash storage

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Government digital chiefs outline plans for CDDO and GDS

  Paul Willmott, Joanna Davinson and Tom Read talk about establishing a digital, data and technology sub-board, plans to hire a chief technology officer and a chief data officer, and a five-year plan for the Government Digital Service

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  Shadow ministers call for public consultation on health data review

  Two Labour shadow ministers want a public consultation following the findings of Ben Goldacre’s review on the use of health data for research and analysis

• May 04, 2021 04 May'21

  How Transport for NSW is tapping machine learning

  Transport agency in New South Wales taps machine learning to restore public confidence in the state’s transportation network amid the pandemic

• April 30, 2021 30 Apr'21

  EncroChat: Top lawyer warned CPS of risk that phone hacking warrants could be unlawful

  Lord David Anderson QC warned prosecutors that there were formidable arguments against the lawfulness of a police operation to infiltrate the encrypted phone network, EncroChat

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  SAP Q1 2021: Revenue nudges up 2% year-on-year, S/4 adoption up 2.5% on prior quarter

  SAP has reported first quarter 2021 revenue of €6.35bn, up 2% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 1% year-on-year, and S/4 adoption is up 2.5% on the previous quarter

• April 20, 2021 20 Apr'21

  Drax partners with Solace to manage biomass supply chain

  Event-based IT architecture helps energy provider optimise its biomass supply chain and drive greater efficiencies, but questions remain about the fundamental sustainability of biomass as an alternative to coal

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Informatica streamlines APAC operations amid growing cloud business

  Informatica has consolidated its operations in four key Asia-Pacific markets in a move that will enable it to better meet the demand for cloud-based data management software

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  SAP users identify data skills shortage as importance of analytics spikes

  Research from the SAP UK & Ireland User Group has demonstrated a data skills dearth among users and a delay in using the SAP Hana in-memory database until full S/4 Hana ERP implementations

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

  The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

  The summer school for chief data officers, run by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, promises data leaders a curriculum to match the elevated salience of the CDO role

• April 07, 2021 07 Apr'21

  Unpatched SAP applications are target-rich ground for hackers

  Report from SAP and cyber threat research company Onapsis warns that hackers are attacking mission-critical SAP business applications that contain unpatched vulnerabilities

• April 01, 2021 01 Apr'21

  ASEAN enterprises face hurdles in digital transformation

  Southeast Asian firms know what it takes to transform digitally, but they are not as adaptable as they would like to be, a survey has found

• March 31, 2021 31 Mar'21

  DCMS publishes report on opening data access to stoke economic growth

  Research from Frontier Economics with economist Diane Coyle describes how the government could prime data sharing to stimulate economic growth

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Privacy campaigners hail legal victory over Hancock and Palantir

  Civil liberties organisation OpenDemocracy says it has scored a legal victory over health secretary Matt Hancock regarding the involvement of Palantir in the NHS Covid-19 data store

• March 30, 2021 30 Mar'21

  Executive interview: Tearing down data silos

  Alteryx’s senior vice-president for Asia-Pacific addresses some misconceptions about data analytics and what the company is doing to stake a bigger claim on the market

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Recognising APAC’s top industry leaders

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts to tap new business opportunities, improve efficiencies and solve pressing issues

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: How DBS is transforming credit processes

  DBS Bank’s credit architecture programme has digitised and reimagined credit processes through a unified platform that has improved the productivity and efficiency of its credit teams

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Flybuys cranks up cloud for service efficiency

  Australia’s biggest loyalty platform takes 12-month journey towards the cloud, slashing time to deliver customised offers to less than 45 minutes, among other outcomes

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Bharat Petroleum refines operations with a digital nerve centre

  Bharat Petroleum has developed a digital nerve centre powered by the internet of things and artificial intelligence technologies to monitor the journey of its products

• March 29, 2021 29 Mar'21

  CW Innovation Awards: Jio Platforms taps machine learning to manage telco network

  Why India’s largest telecom operator built its own machine learning platform to meet the growing data and signalling requirements of new networks

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  TUC warns of gaps in British law over use of AI at work

  The TUC has published a report warning of AI-powered discrimination against working people enabled by gaps in existing British employment law