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• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Muji takes on cloud platform to increase sales

  Retailer Muji is using a cloud-based platform from IT services firm Infosys to help it understand customers and target sales

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Stephen Hale, head of digital, Department of Health

  “I want to make digital less of a novelty,” says the Department of Health’s head of digital Stephen Hale

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Retailers need to adopt ‘fail fast’ attitude to technology

  Retailers experimenting with digital technologies must take a “fail fast” approach so they can deliver new innovations quickly

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Accenture: 48% of UK survey respondents fail to find big data talent

  An Accenture survey has found that nearly half of UK respondents are struggling to find enough skilled data management professional

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Bayern Munich teams up with SAP to hit sporting and commercial goals

  FC Bayern Munich and SAP today cemented a sports analytics and enterprise software partnership at the club’s Allianz Arena

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  CIO interview: Dave Ubachs, CIO, Staples Europe

  Staples is undertaking major IT projects in Europe that will see e-commerce improvements and back-end consolidation in 16 countries

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14

  Cameron announces £300m big data human genome database project

  Prime Minister David Cameron has announced £300m government support for a big data human genome mapping project in England

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup

  Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in Brazil

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Wimbledon to analyse social interactions at tennis championship

  The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon will be analysing social interactions throughout tennis championship

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

  Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  IT departments unprepared for internet of things

  Only 41% of IT professionals are working on projects to prepare their business for the internet of things

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

  NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Business Objects use increases among SAP users, but Hana uptake low

  More UK and Ireland SAP customers are using Business Objects now than even two years ago, but only 15% are using Hana

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  Shell thinks technology first in preparation for internet of everything

  Shell is reshaping its business to think technology first as it uses the internet of everything to change its business processes

• May 08, 2014 08 May'14

  CIO interview: Robert Teagle, European IT director, Starbucks Coffee

  Robert Teagle leads IT across the 30 markets that Starbucks owns and operates in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  City University London launches data science and cyber security courses

  City University London will this year begin its first post-graduate courses in data science and cybersecurity.

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?

  Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?

• April 29, 2014 29 Apr'14

  Case study: How big data powers the eBay customer journey

  With 50TB of machine-generated data produced daily and the need to process 100PB of data, eBay has an astronomic data challenge

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  Gartner: CIOs spend more on BI as business growth returns

  The return to business growth is driving IT spending among UK and Irish CIOs, according to Gartner's 2014 CIO Agenda survey

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has his Trustworthy Computing moment

  In 2002, Microsoft chief Bill Gates sent out the Trustworthy Computing memo to staff. Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, had his Trustworthy Computing moment this week.

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  Are retailers using data analytics to their advantage?

  Computer Weekly looks at the challenges the retail sector faces in taking advantage of data analysis

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  CIO interview: Leandro Balbinot, global CIO, HJ Heinz

  Food giant HJ Heinz is gearing up to expand its international presence with a technology modernisation programme encompassing 23 countries

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Analysis: Care.data – where next?

  Following the public debate surrounding the NHS Care.data plan, it was unsurprising the topic dominated the UK’s largest health IT event

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Mine machine data to boost business value

  Businesses risk losing their competitive edge if they are unable to drill down into the information captured by machine-generated data

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Committee report calls for “presumption of openness” with public data

  The government should have a “presumption of openness” when it comes to public data, the Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) said

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Red Bull ramps up network for 2014 F1 championship

  An extended relationship with AT&T will support RedBull Infiniti Racing on and off the track as it prepares its 2014 championship bid

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  British Gas uses SAS analytics to reach customers

  British Gas, one of the UK’s energy suppliers, is to use SAS analytics to improve marketing efficiency

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Channel 4 CTO Bob Harris leaves to set up consultancy firm

  Channel 4 chief technology officer Bob Harris is leaving the broadcaster at the end of March to set up his own consultancy business

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  HP Autonomy unveils healthcare analytics system for textual data

  HP has unveiled a new healthcare analytics product to enable medical staff to interrogate text and data in relational databases

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Case study: Scottish Fire and Rescue advances national BI strategy with QlikView

  The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is using QlikView business intelligence software to bring together its data streams for external reporting and operational intelligence

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Teradata launches analytics product as SAP BW replacement

  Teradata has released an analytics product for SAP ERP, as a full-blown alternative to SAP BW

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  CW500 Club in 2013

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data

  The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Tech spend to increase in 2014 as executives explore big data

  Over three-quarters of chief financial officers plan to increase technology investments in 2014

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Mobile business intelligence adoption slows, BARC BI survey finds

  Mobile BI adoption is slowing and much vaunted social media analytics are little deployed, according to the latest BARC BI global survey

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Paolo Cinelli, CIO, Ikea

  Ikea's priority is to get closer to its customers using a multi-channel approach which combines digital and traditional methods

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Government calls for more data scientists in the UK

  The government is calling on industry and academia to help produce more data scientists in the UK

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop

  Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT