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July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16
IT outsourcing falls steeply in second quarter but IT as a service sees strong growth

Sales of IT as a service growth in Europe helped offset a huge fall in the total value of traditional IT and business process outsourcing contracts
July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16
SAP Q2 2016: cloud revenue edges forward, 3,700 S/4 Hana customers

Second-quarter results show 3% growth in cloud revenue to reach 14% of the €5.2bn revenue total, as operating profit jumps 10%
July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16
Insurance firm frees itself from legacy shackles

Insurance intermediary is moving its IT infrastructure into the cloud in a 12-month project that also sees it update its end-user computing technologies
July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16
BT broadband users hit by UK-wide outage

Telecommunications giant incurs the wrath of BT broadband users after thousands struggle to get online, following power outage at third-party datacentre provider

July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16
Oracle targets cloud sales at Asia Pacific’s mid-sized firms

Software giant aims to hire 1,000 professionals to drive mid-market growth in Apac region
July 15, 2016 15 Jul'16
Chef bangs the drum for greater diversity in DevOps teams

More diversity in DevOps teams could expand the total addressable market for the products and services they create, says Chef
July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16
Chef CTO urges action to prevent DevOps staff burnout

Chef CTO Adam Jacob has called on enterprises to cultivate a supportive working culture to protect DevOps staff from burnout
July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16
Trio of English universities pilot data analytics course

Cranfield University, the University of Central Lancashire and the University of Leeds trial one-day course with support from Tableau
July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16
DevOps skills shortages hit enterprise digital transformation efforts

Enterprises face challenges when recruiting and retaining experienced DevOps practitioners as demand for agile experts soars
July 13, 2016 13 Jul'16
Investigatory Powers Bill: rushed through under cover of Brexit

The government should delay the Investigatory Powers Bill to allow time for proper scrutiny following the political chaos that has engulfed Britain after the Brexit vote

July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16
Inforum 2016: Travis Perkins commits to Infor for cloud transformation

Construction industry company Travis Perkins strikes a deal with Infor to use its CloudSuite enterprise software to build better customer relationships and improve employee productivity
July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16
Irish data challenge could cost businesses billions, claims Facebook

Facebook and Irish business groups say a legal challenge to Standard Contractual Clauses, used to permit data transfers between Europe and the UK, could cut 1% from Europe's GDP if it succeeds
July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16
New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard
July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16
Amazon.com CTO cautions enterprises against underestimating value of test and development

Speaking at the AWS Summit in London, Amazon.com CTO hits out at legacy suppliers and urges enterprises to get experimental to protect themselves against competitive threats
July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16
Saudi Telecom Company leads nation’s transformation agenda

Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services
July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16
Case study: Inside JP Morgan's Glasgow developer centre

JP Morgan chief development officer Stephen Flaherty heads a team of developers in Glasgow, one of the bank's strategic hubs
June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16
Lauri Love using illness as a shield against extradition, claims prosecution

Prosecution lawyer questions whether activist Lauri Love is not fit enough to stand trial in the US over hacking charges,as expert witnesses warn that US prisons are ill-equipped for people with mental health problems.
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
MongoDB offers cloud overflow scaling with Atlas database as service

MongoDB has announced its entry into cloud computing with a database as a service, dubbed Atlas, at its annual developer conference in New York City
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
Facebook data case raises US national security issues

Dublin court case on the legality of Facebook’s data transfers to the US raises issues that affect US national security, claims US Department of Justice
June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16
Lauri Love suicide risk if extradited to US over hacking allegations

Westminster Magistrates’ Court hears evidence from medical experts that alleged hacker Lauri Love is at risk of suicide if extradited to the US
June 24, 2016 24 Jun'16
UK IT community rocked but keeping calm in face of Brexit

The UK IT sector reacts with alarm, tempered by a calm pragmatism, to the British Referendum verdict to leave the European Union. Reporting by the Computer Weekly team
June 21, 2016 21 Jun'16
Amazon cloud crash forced Australian enterprises to take heads out of sand

Enterprises in Australia need to rethink their cloud backup strategies following the recent AWS outage in Sydney
June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16
Wimbledon deploys smartphone app to engage fans

The Wimbledon tennis championships previously used digital tech to engage fans unable to attend matches – but has switched focus to fans in the grounds for 2016
June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16
Gulf Air tinkers with Oracle suite and explores hybrid cloud models

Bahraini airline Gulf Air is looking to make productivity gains across its enterprise resource planning system
June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16
Only quarter of banks have company-wide digital strategy

Almost all banks are doing some kind of digital transformation, but they are missing out on the full benefits due to a lack of focus on end-to-end change, according to research
June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16
Salesforce gears up for e-commerce with Demandware deal

CRM and cloud platform software company Salesforce is set to acquire Demandware -- taking its cloud-commerce software offering with it
June 14, 2016 14 Jun'16
GE unveils the industrial internet operating system

The GE Predix platform is now positioned as an operating system to run industrial machines more efficiently
June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16
Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26bn

Microsoft is taking over LinkedIn, with boosts to its Dynamics and Office 365 businesses expected
June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16
Poor tech choices damage productivity and cut income

Mid-sized businesses are less efficient and are losing money because they give staff the wrong computing devices to do their jobs
June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16
Unlicensed software rife among Asean computer users, says BSA

The Asean region has the highest levels of unlicensed software use, according to the 2016 Global Software Survey from the Business Software Alliance (BSA)
June 07, 2016 07 Jun'16
Swedish bank Sparbanken Syd expands IT outsourcing to trading

Swedish bank Sparbanken Syd outsources the IT that runs its trading business to Finland's Tieto supplier, to cut costs and improve the quality of its services
June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16
Rio 2016 Olympics passes final IT test

IT services firm Atos completes its 200,000 hours of testing the IT systems for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics
June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16
‘Considerable risk’ if Post Office replaced Horizon system, says chairman

Post Office chairman Tim Parker says there would be ‘considerable risk’ associated with changing its Horizon computer system
June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16
Cloudera users put pattern recognition at heart of new business ventures

Cloudera users Barclays, BT, Sky Betting & Gaming and Markerstudy are finding new business development opportunities through the use of the Hadoop ecosystem
June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16
MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data
May 31, 2016 31 May'16
Natural Resources Wales adopts Unit4 ERP in digital transformation drive

The Welsh government’s environmental protection body is using Unit4 enterprise resource planning, from Trustmarque, as part of a digital transformation programme
May 27, 2016 27 May'16
Bristol Water outsources IT as business model transforms

Bristol Water outsources IT to Wipro to support it through a period of transformation to its operating model
May 26, 2016 26 May'16
Santander uses blockchain for international payments

Bank is using blockchain to underpin its latest app, which enables customers to make international payments 24 hours a day, which clear the next day
May 26, 2016 26 May'16
Healthtech brand Qardio adopts NetSuite OneWorld

Qardio, a brand offering health technology devices, wanted an ERP system to deal with billing, accounting and taxes in different regions of the world
May 26, 2016 26 May'16
Salesforce to run more of its services from the AWS public cloud

Cloud CRM giant Salesforce names Amazon Web Services as preferred public cloud provider, as it sets out plans to expand use of its infrastructure-as-a-service offerings
May 26, 2016 26 May'16
European cloud buyers unmoved by low prices, suggests 451 Research

451 Research’s latest Cloud Price Index investigates link between low-cost cloud services and provider market share
May 25, 2016 25 May'16
Atos hits Rio 2016 Olympics IT milestone

The IT underpinning the 2016 Olympics in Rio enters a critical phase as one of its essential event management systems starts to work
May 24, 2016 24 May'16
Australia’s government commits to fintech innovation and blockchain

Australia’s latest government budget included commitment to the financial technology revolution, but what developments are already afoot?
May 24, 2016 24 May'16
Benelux CIO interview: Stefaan Motte, Materialise

CIO of Belgian 3D printing company explains how selling software to competitors is good for a fledgling industry
May 24, 2016 24 May'16
TVOne deploys NetSuite ERP to utilise data analytics

Audio visual hardware producer TVOne chooses NetSuite’s ERP application to help handle and interpret its new and historic data
May 24, 2016 24 May'16
The emergence of the Creative CIO

A new kind of transformational and strategic CIO has started to appear, willing to harness disruption techniques and add value to the organisation
May 23, 2016 23 May'16
CIO Interview: Grant Hodgkinson, Mimecast

CIO and vice-president of digital operations at the email security expert explains the importance of electronic communication in the modern business environment
May 23, 2016 23 May'16
Middle East CIOs put ambitious IT projects on hold as cheap oil hurts business

A lack of business confidence leads some organisations in the Middle East to delay or abandon ambitious IT projects that may not show an immediate return
May 23, 2016 23 May'16
Singapore retailer shifts IT infrastructure to the cloud

Challenger is moving its IT infrastructure to the cloud to enable it to respond better to business growth
May 20, 2016 20 May'16
Allo, allo: Google I/O unveils Microsoft-like feature set

Google appears to be following Microsoft with new features to Android, including add-ons that look similar to rivals Skype, OneNote, HoloLens
May 19, 2016 19 May'16
ING Turkey uses digital technology to improve services and grow customer base

Turkish bank uses business process management technology to offer financial services through 1,500 grocery stores, technology outlets and post offices
May 19, 2016 19 May'16
SuiteWorld 2016: Focusing on customer experience dragged us away from the call centre, says Aspect

Aspect Software adopts NetSuite OneWorld to cope with consumer-led business transformation
May 18, 2016 18 May'16
Sapphire 16: SAP’s McDermott stresses customer empathy as Microsoft pact declared

Microsoft’s Nadella says companies have ‘an existential need to bring our best together’
May 13, 2016 13 May'16
European IT buyers prioritise BI and data management over ERP and CRM

Data warehousing and business intelligence top dogs in the UK, finds 2016 TechTarget IT spending priorities survey
May 11, 2016 11 May'16
Salesforce turns to AWS for internet of things cloud test support

Cloud CRM giant is reportedly using the AWS public cloud to give it the capacity it needs to cope with the internet of things data deluge
May 10, 2016 10 May'16
Nordea Bank launches crowdfunding platform in Finland

The Nordic financial services group offers a technology bringing together investors and startup businesses
May 10, 2016 10 May'16
Tel Aviv: A smart city where community engagement is the measure of success

Israel’s capital is using the latest technologies as a way of placing the needs of local citizens at the heart of regional government
May 09, 2016 09 May'16
SAP users lack clarity on cloud portfolio

The UK and Ireland SAP user group has found a majority of members to be using the supplier’s cloud portfolio, but many are unconvinced by its business value
May 05, 2016 05 May'16
Romanian companies look to attract programmers

Romanian organisations are training software developers internally after having problems recruiting people with the right skills and experience through the labour market
May 05, 2016 05 May'16
Visa chooses Singapore for its first innovation centre in Asia

Visa opens its first innovation centre outside of the US to work with partners and customers to develop payment technology for the Southeast Asian market
May 03, 2016 03 May'16
EMC World 2016: Tucci and Dell vaunt datacentre modernisation

EMC World 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas, with the supplier vaunting datacentre modernisation, based on software-defined storage, cloud, flash and scale out architecture
April 29, 2016 29 Apr'16
Tech-savvy Asean populations shake up enterprise IT, says AIA CTO

A young, urban and tech-savvy population in the Asean region has forced enterprises to rethink their IT strategies
April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16
GE launches Predix-power application for the industrial internet

GE’s digital division is now a fully fledged software business with the introduction of an asset performance management system
April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16
Nordic corporations open their doors to tech startups

Traditional Nordic corporations are starting to take advantage of the vibrant startup community in the region, and they are changing the way they think
April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16
Singapore online grocer RedMart uses cloud ERP to drive growth

Online retailer RedMart turned to cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) when its existing system struggled to keep up with business growth
April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16
DevOps advocates bust myths around use of agile software development in enterprise

Continuous software delivery experts set out why enterprises could be missing out by shunning DevOps
April 20, 2016 20 Apr'16
SAP's financials point to boom in cloud and Hana

SAP is steadily growing its cloud business, but on-premise software licensing and support remain the cash cows
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
IBM financials squeezed but cloud, mobile, security and analytics show growth

Cloud, security, mobility and analytics are the future for IBM as revenue drops for 16th quarter
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
La Poste delivers internet of services

The French postal system is taking existing services and adding a digital dimension to support a new business model
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
Singapore SME makes HR analytics affordable for other small companies

A small supplier in Singapore is offering other SMEs a SAS-based HR software shared service
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
How BI can improve healthcare in Asean

The Asean region is developing fast and lifestyles are changing, but healthcare services are not keeping pace and the sector will be stretched
April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16
Potential for sales bonanza as Oracle accelerates into cloud

The supplier's shift to cloud means now could be a good time to starting accepting calls from Oracle sales reps
April 18, 2016 18 Apr'16
Teradata Universe 2016: MPP architecture recast as ‘Intelliflex’

Teradata announces a re-architecting of its “massively parallel processing” data warehouse, the expansion of managed cloud service to Europe, and availability of its database on AWS
April 15, 2016 15 Apr'16
Capgemini to build 100-strong team of blockchain specialists

The IT services firm is building a team of 100 blockchain experts as banks start to consider the technology as the future of financial services
April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16
IBM and Oracle fortunes hit by rapid growth of PaaS, Gartner claims

Gartner’s application infrastructure market tracker reveals how PaaS growth is shaking up the supplier landscape
April 14, 2016 14 Apr'16
Government surveillance under fire across Europe

UK and US government surveillance programmes are facing criticism from the courts, MPs and data protection regulators
April 13, 2016 13 Apr'16
Hadoop Summit 2016: Data in motion governs Hortonworks roadmap

Hadoop distributor Hortonworks uses Hadoop Summit 2016 in Dublin to announce alliances and product developments to support data in motion focus
April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16
Enterprises that shun cloud comprise a business threat, says 451 Research

Hosted IT reaches a tipping point as analyst house 451 Research claims that enterprises shunning cloud technology constitute a risky proposition
April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16
Want to adopt Blockchain? Better start playing, says panel

A panel of financial services experts discussed adoption of blockchain technologies at the Innovate Finance 2016 Summit
April 12, 2016 12 Apr'16
UK poised to lead global fintech sector, says Tech City chair Eileen Burbidge

Tech City chair and venture capital expert says the UK is in a position to become a world leader in financial services and sheds light on how cloud can provide failing firms with a stay of execution
April 11, 2016 11 Apr'16
Activist Lauri Love faces order to disclose encryption keys

The UK’s National Crime Agency takes an unusual legal step to force a former university student accused of hacking to disclose encryption keys
April 08, 2016 08 Apr'16
CIOs lack faith in IT’s ability to meet digital demands of business

VCE research suggests IT departments lack confidence in their ability to meet the digital demands of their organisation
April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16
Gateshead NHS Trust uses data visualisation to boost performance

Trust is using the Medway BI system provided by System C to enhance clinical, operational and financial performance
April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16
Cargotec saves €2m by moving HR systems to the cloud

Cargo handling equipment manufacturer Cargotech reduces the cost of managing its 11,000 employees by moving HR systems to the cloud
April 07, 2016 07 Apr'16
How an IT department in a portacabin supports UK’s biggest critical infrastructure project

The man in charge of the IT supporting the UK's largest critical infrastructure project – the redevelopment of London Bridge station – tells Computer Weekly about life in a portacabin
April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16
Large global companies still manage supply chain with phone, fax and email

Digital supply chain management is still five years off for almost half of the west’s global firms
April 06, 2016 06 Apr'16
Atom banking app goes live

Digital-only bank makes app available to iPhone and iPad users, with Android version to follow soon
April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16
Digital Single Market: European Commission warned not to over-regulate online platforms

Ministers from 11 EU member states warn European Commission off over-regulating use of online platforms during the creation of the Digital Single Market
March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16
Aeroflot puts IBM analytics on board to personalise customer targeting

Russian airline Aeroflot has turned to IBM analytics technologies, including BigInsights and SPSS, to improve customer targeting
March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16
Fintech axe to fall on a third of banking jobs over next 10 years

More than a third of jobs at European banks will disappear over the next decade as the adoption of fintech-based services grows
March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16
Hackers to probe engine control units amid emissions scandal

ICCT hires computer whizz-kids to find out who else besides Volkswagen uses ‘defeat devices’ in cars
March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16
San Francisco data analytics early-stage firms point to third-wave BI

California start-up and early-stage data analytics companies are positing technologies that point beyond second-generation business intelligence, such as Qlik and Tableau
March 23, 2016 23 Mar'16
Danish utility NRGi goes offshore for IT platform transformation

Danish utilty NRGi has outsourced its IT to Indian services supplier Wipro as it attempts to transform its operations amid increased competition
March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16
Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time
March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16
CIO interview: Mogens Kristensen, Sydbank

Danish bank’s IT head explains the advantages of sharing some IT systems with other banks
March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16
TechUK calls for closer ties between cloud and communications providers

Technology association TechUK outlines measures to encourage greater adoption of cloud computing in the UK - starting with greater connectivity
March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16
Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system
March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16
Oracle Q3 2016: cloud revenue grows, US currency strength takes toll

SaaS and PaaS combined contributed $583m in third quarter, up 57% in US dollar terms, while IaaS was down 2% in dollars to $152m
March 15, 2016 15 Mar'16
Automated financial advice service causes RBS job losses

RBS announces job cuts as it invests in automated services designed to give online financial advice
March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16
New UK law will criminalise failure to hack on demand

MPs have been given only two weeks to read 1,200 pages of documents which disclose new powers to require technology companies to install secret surveillance capabilities in software, computer equipment or networks