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• 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

• March 14, 2016 14 Mar'16

  CIO Interview: Janne Suuriniemi, Finland’s National Police Board

  Finland’s National Police Board CIO overhauls a major IT transformation in mid-flight. He tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and his answers to them

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Payments regulator makes progress in introducing competition

  UK payments regulator has slashed the time it takes for finance firms to join and use real-time payments system

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  The Christie speeds up SPC charts to improve clinical processes

  Cancer specialist NHS trust implements statistical process control chart creation tool in data visualisation software Tableau to improve processes and save money

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  RWE chief executive points to SAP billing system as cause of npower losses

  Npower has announced a radical restructuring plan, shedding 2,400 jobs on the back of losses of €137m. Its parent company’s CEO identified an SAP billing system as the source of the UK unit’s woes

• March 08, 2016 08 Mar'16

  Gartner warns IT leaders about the perils of using private platform as a service

  Industry watcher Gartner warns IT leaders pursuing a private platform-as-a-service (PaaS) strategy to build cloud apps could be in for disappointment

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  Meg Whitman uses Q1 results to argue the case against Dell/EMC

  HPE posts its first financial results following the split of the business

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  Australia’s fintech community will target China

  The Australian government is injecting money into the country’s financial technology community to help firms break into lucrative Asian markets

• March 01, 2016 01 Mar'16

  Cern uses AppDynamics to improve application performance

  The home of the Large Hadron Collider has deployed AppDynamics’ APM tool to improve the speed and efficiency of application monitoring

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Israeli high-tech startups seek UK funding

  Israeli high-tech startup companies visit London in search of venture capital and angel investors

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Outsourcer MSXI puts Microsoft cloud in driving seat

  Business process outsourcer MSXI has replaced Salesforce with a Microsoft business applications stack to support its car dealership business

• February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16

  Vision Direct rewrites enterprise applications using Mendix cloud-based platform

  Eyecare company has used the Mendix application platform as a service to create new apps to support the business

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  UK Sport and CGI team up to boost Olympics and Paralympic hopes

  UK Sport has teamed up with IT services firm CGI in a data analytics programme to improve the performance of British athletes in the Olympics and Paralympics

• February 18, 2016 18 Feb'16

  Two-thirds of UK firms plan to take their IT estate all-in on cloud, research claims

  According to the Cloud Industry Forum's latest cloud adoption research, UK firms are steadily coming round to the charms of running their IT off-premise

• February 17, 2016 17 Feb'16

  Interview: Digital Marketplace director Tony Singleton on why he is leaving G-Cloud

  With the government’s Digital Marketplace now a bona fide source of £1bn of public sector IT spend, Computer Weekly asks its programme director why he is moving on to pastures new

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  Mobile apps could put an end to ‘hated’ staff appraisals

  Josh Bersin, founder of Bersin by Deloitte, reveals the top HR technology trends for 2016

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Ismo Platan, SSAB

  Retiring CIO of Swedish steel company tells Computer Weekly about the progress made in merging two Nordic steel firms and looks at the biggest hurdles that lie ahead

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Insurance giant RSA announces another outsourcing deal

  Insurance company RSA has penned its second major outsourcing contract in a week as it extends a BPO contract with Accenture

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  Cloud computing in Belgium: a grey picture

  Organisations in Belgium and Luxembourg are turning to the cloud for their IT, but there are striking differences in the level of take-up within the region

• February 10, 2016 10 Feb'16

  AstraZeneca IT insourcing exceeds expectation

  The man heading up AstraZeneca’s project to insource its IT updates Computer Weekly on progress and explains the early benefits being reaped

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Invest in people or risk ‘digital culture shock’, says Accenture

  Marc Carrel-Billiard, Accenture’s global director of technology R&D, tells Computer Weekly that companies must invest in people if they want to benefit from innovative technology

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Executive interview: Oracle's cloud chief on why suites win

  As Oracle ramps up its new cloud offering, we speak to Shawn Price, senior vice-president for cloud, about the company’s plans

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  EC awards first cloud contracts to Accenture, Atos, BT and IBM

  The European Commission has revealed details of the suppliers that have secured a place on the three Lots making up its Cloud I framework

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  Barnsley uses SAPUI5 apps to help housing field staff work smarter

  Council IT staff work alongside Bluefin Solutions in agile project to digitise maintenance work carried out on social housing estates

• February 08, 2016 08 Feb'16

  Post Office faces group litigation over Horizon IT as subpostmasters fund class action

  Subpostmasters who claim to have been wrongly convicted of fraud take the Post Office to court after getting the funds for a group action

• February 04, 2016 04 Feb'16

  Gartner says $16.9bn BI market in last stage shift from IT to business

  Gartner says the global BI and analytics market is set to hit $16.9bn in sales in 2016, as buying shifts from IT to business in organisations

• February 03, 2016 03 Feb'16

  Accenture revs up Six Nations analytics programme with rugby stalwarts and VR

  Rugby experts Nick Mallett, Ben Kay and David Flatman join the data analysts for the 2016 championship, and virtual reality will play a part

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  Oracle fleshes out UK cloud strategy with Slough expansion

  Oracle launches UK-based platform as a service (PaaS) – but can it deliver value for money compared with Azure and AWS?

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  University moves library management to Capita cloud

  University of Lincoln puts its library management system into a cloud hosted by Capita to improve student experiences

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Oracle to build cloud datacentre in Abu Dhabi

  Move seen as acknowledgement that local presence is required for increased cloud growth

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Microsoft Office 365 is beating Google Apps in enterprise adoption – Gartner research

  Gartner’s take on the use of cloud email tools within the enterprise shows that Microsoft Office 365 is leading the way

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Defra minister Rory Stewart plugs data analytics at IEA launch

  Reading University’s £13m Institute for Environmental Analytics launches with demonstrator projects in train, and three new partners

• January 27, 2016 27 Jan'16

  Gartner advises CDOs on how to overcome resistance from IT

  Gartner estimates that 90% of large organisations globally will have chief data officers by 2019. It advises a canny political game

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Challenger finance firms will kill only those banks that fail to evolve

  It’s not doom and gloom for the UK’s traditional banks – as long as they can learn from fintech and transform themselves

• January 26, 2016 26 Jan'16

  Wal-Mart to make huge data and analytics investment in India

  Retail giant Wal-Mart is investing heavily in its IT development centre in Bangalore, turning the city into its most important centre outside the US

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  SAP doubles cloud revenues to €2.3bn in 2015 financial year

  SAP saw its cloud revenues nearly double to €2.3bn and 11% of its overall revenue of €20.8bn for the 2015 financial year

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  Broadgroup: Colocation providers must act on competitive threat posed by AWS

  Datacentre analyst house uses annual finance forum to coach colocation sector on how to respond to AWS and its public cloud

• January 21, 2016 21 Jan'16

  UK contactless card payments hits £1bn in a month

  Contactless cards accounted for more than £1bn worth of UK payments in November 2015

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Microsoft to donate $1bn worth of cloud computing resources

  Microsoft's $1bn cloud computing donation is aimed at helping NGOs, academic research and developing countries

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  SAP executives see internet of things as flesh on digital skeleton

  SAP’s senior management are putting the internet of things at the heart of the enterprise software supplier’s digital transformation offer

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Kim Lindgren, Tieto

  Tieto's CIO is taking the Finnish IT services company through a “cloudification” transformation, starting with Google Apps and with cognitive computing on his horizon

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Kari Saarikoski, Finnair

  Finnair is on a digital transformation journey and the airline’s CIO is changing the IT department as it progresses

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  One-fifth of consumers will trust tech firms for all financial products by 2025

  Research suggests fintech companies will progress rapidly from niche products and services suppliers to join the financial mainstream

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Oracle to recruit 1,400 cloud sales professionals with Europe-wide recruitment campaign

  Software giant hopes to capitalise on growing momentum around cloud with sales-focused hires

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Over a million Visa contactless payments made to travel in London on a single day

  Over one million journeys on the London tube network were paid for using contactless Visa cards in a single day in the run-up to Christmas

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  St Claraspital deploys virtual desktops to boost staff efficiency

  St Claraspital took home the prize for best desktop virtualisation project at the 2015 Best of VMworld Europe User Awards – and this is why...

• January 11, 2016 11 Jan'16

  Smartphone-based UK bank gets additional £48m backing

  Starling bank, which only offers a smartphone-based current account, has received multi-million pound backing and named its board of directors

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  Italy wakes up to new IoT opportunities

  Organisations in Italy are investing in internet-connected technologies, with infrastructure providers building the underpinning networks

• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Amazon WorkMail goes on general release in Europe

  AWS readies challenger to Gmail and Office 365 as cloud battle with Google and Microsoft enters new phase

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 information management stories of 2015

  The maturing of big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases has been the standout theme of 2015, along with machine learning and predictive analytics

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 premium content articles for CIOs in 2015

  Computer Weekly presents the top ten premium content articles for CIOs in 2015

• December 29, 2015 29 Dec'15

  Top 10 mobile and BYOD stories of 2015

  For mobile device management, 2015 was the year enterprise IT fully embraced the trend for bring your own device (BYOD) programmes

• December 24, 2015 24 Dec'15

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2015

  The financial services industry is undergoing unprecedented change, driven by IT and regulation.

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group

  The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  Top 10 APAC IT stories of 2015

  The top 10 Computer Weekly articles about enterprise IT in the Asean and ANZ regions

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2015

  SAP’s continued building on Hana and Oracle’s march to the cloud were features of 2015, with a new wave of digital customer engagement and the internet of things

• December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15

  Top 10 HR technology stories in 2015

  2015 saw businesses replacing their on-premise HR systems with cloud services at an accelerating rate. More companies are turning to virtual reality, analytics and other disruptive technologies to help recruit and retain talented staff

• December 21, 2015 21 Dec'15

  Royal Mail acquires cloud platform

  Royal Mail acquires cloud-based delivery company as automation and better use of data become essential in a rapidly changing sector

• December 18, 2015 18 Dec'15

  Exasol and Birst join in-memory database to ‘networked’ BI to aid mutual expansion

  German in-memory database company Exasol and California-based BI cloud supplier Birst join forces

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Oracle Q2 2015-16 results: Strong US dollar affects revenue growth

  Oracle’s Q2 results for the 2016 fiscal year indicate 26% growth in cloud revenue to $649m, 7% of its total revenue

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  SThree to rein in IT budget by moving to cloud

  Recruitment group plans to expand by 10% a year, but moving to the cloud will allow it to do more with the same IT budget

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Ageas moves into Philippines cloud platform for insurers

  Insurance firm adopts cloud-only business application suite to support south-east Asian expansion

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Poundland launches e-commerce Christmas push with Rackspace managed support

  Budget retailer has turned to Rackspace to ensure its first foray into online retail can withstand the seasonal rush

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Mobile advertising network Billy Mobile bets the farm on Hadoop

  Barcelona-based mobile advertising network Billy Mobile has opted to bet its business on the Hadoop stack with Hortonworks