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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
December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15
Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries
December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15
For data analytics leaders in Asia Pacific, success comes from willingness to fail

Adopting data analytics technologies is something business and IT professionals in the APAC region will have to master if IDC predictions are right
December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15
Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together
December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15
Airline global distribution system Amadeus offers cloud scalability

Amadeus, the airline flight ticketing system, has used Google Compute Platform to scale its service to support internet flight searches
December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15
Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs

London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing
December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15
Scottish Government gets electronic voting system for local elections

The contract to design the electronic vote counting system for the 2017 local elections in Scotland has been awarded to CGI
December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15
Dropbox urged by users to open-source soon-to-be shut Mailbox app

Dropbox finds itself in the firing line after calling time on much-loved email app
December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15
Action for Children uses Mendix to power efficiency drive

Children's charity uses visual programming environment from Mendix to create bespoke administration applications
December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15
Europe's CIOs must raise their game in testing software quality

CIOs across Europe have more work to do to ensure the structural quality of software is sound as IT becomes more important to organisations across different sectors
December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15
Swedish health company Elekta recoups costs of HR project in a year

Medical company Elekta transforms its human resources (HR) processes by replacing legacy technology with cloud systems serving 3,800 staff in 24 countries
December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15
Workday ringfences support in Europe after Safe Harbour ruled unsafe

US cloud HR and financial services provider reponds to Safe Harbour failure by ringfencing European data
November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15
TUI develops apps to keep in touch with holidaymakers all year

Travel group plans to create mobile apps for holidaymakers to ask questions, book excursions and potentially plan their next trip
November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15
CIO interview: Turkka Keskinen, UPM

Finnish paper and forest products firm’s CIO tells Computer Weekly about the journey towards cloud-only IT
November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15
UKISUG 2015: Minority of users see SAP as digital protagonist

An SAP user organisation survey, released at the 2015 UK & Ireland SAP User Group conference, indicates that the supplier is seen as a digital transformation leader by around one-fifth of customers
November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15
Fintech growth rates explode in Australia

Financial technology companies in Australia are growing at high rates and come as a warning to the nation's enterprises that are yet to join the digital revolution
November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15
SAP UK&I User Group Conference 2015: Newcastle University puts ERP on Hana

Newcastle University has put enterprise resource planning and data warehouse data on SAP’s Hana platform in a proof of concept project
November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15
Citrix cuts jobs and spins off GoTo business to drive profits

Virtualisation giant Citrix will rationalise its operations after a large-scale business review that focuses on its core desktop virtualisation products
November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15
Departing DVLA technology chief says 'job done', moves back to centre

DVLA's former chief technology officer returns to Cabinet Office after executing 'exemplar' GDS programme
November 19, 2015 19 Nov'15
Inforum 2015 Europe: ERP data analytics cannot avoid MDM challenge

Infor is promoting analytics within enterprise resource planning applications. Might that approach founder on lack of master data management?
November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15
Post Office IT support email reveals known Horizon flaw

An email from Post Office IT support reveals a problem with the Horizon system and supporting processes that could lead to accounting errors
November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15
Fujitsu announces MetaArc cloud platform, acquires UShareSoft

At Fujitsu Forum 2015 in Germany, Fujitsu announces a cloud platform called MetaArc and acquires French software business UShareSoft
November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15
Deutsche Bank signs India’s HCL Technologies for digital services and systems integration

Deutsche Bank is expanding its long-established relationship with IT services supplier HCL Technologies as it forges on with its digital transformation
November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15
Framework agreement boosts public-sector digitisation in Sweden

Swedish public sector procurement organisation creates a framework to make it easier for organisations to offer digital services
November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15
Informatica launches big data management platform

Informatica has launched a “big data management” suite that it says adds data quality, governance and security to its data integration offer
November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15
Gartner: Time to take algorithms seriously

Legacy systems and existing supplier relationships are barriers to digitisation. Instead, CIOs should focus on algorithms, says Gartner
November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15
Inforum 2015 Europe: Infor targets majority cloud revenue

Infor is aiming at half its licence revenue coming from cloud installations in 2016, according to president Stephan Scholl
November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15
Coop Norway inks infrastructure deal with Wipro

Norway's Coop becomes the latest Nordic firm to outsource IT to an Indian company after the retailer penned a deal with Wipro
November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15
Communication Workers Union warns subpostmasters of flaw in Post Office Horizon accounting system

The union that represents Post Office subpostmasters has warned of a problem with the Horizon accounting system at the centre of a long-running dispute
November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15
Australia's outsourced datacentre market rising on back of cloud computing

Datacentre investment in Australia is growing fast as corporates use data-intensive applications delivered via the cloud
November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15
A tale of two HPs: Hewlett-Packard splits into two digital businesses

The two Hewlett-Packard (HP) businesses are both digitally aligned. HP Enterprise is pushing hybrid clouds; HP Inc is taking the road to 3D printing
November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15
CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier
October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15
Alcatel-Lucent transformation cuts HR costs by 30% with cloud platform

Alcatel-Lucent expects to have its cloud human resources (HR) platform used in 62 countries by the end of the year, replacing aging on-premise HR IT systems
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits

The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Fitness club goes digital to recruit new staff quickly

Equinox turns to digital technology from SmartRecruiters to speed up hiring employees
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’

HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive
October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Digital transformations will spur software quality measurement

Ever more customer-touching systems will force organisations to ensure their underlying software is robust enough to prevent IT problems becoming public and causing brand damage
October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15
Oracle’s Ellison says push security down stack to win cyber battle

At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, Larry Ellison called for next-generation security, pushed down the stack to the hardware level and always on
October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15
British American Tobacco saves £1.4m after automating candidate selection

British American Tobacco uses custom profiling software to cut the number of applications managers have to screen by half, as part of a major re-organisation of its recruitment processes
October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15
Why IT is making companies less productive

Research finds that although organisations are introducing innovative technology they are failing to match this with innovation across the rest of the business
October 27, 2015 27 Oct'15
Data visualisation service 'more modern than Tableau', says Oracle

At Oracle OpenWorld 2015 the supplier launches a data visualisation service it says is “more modern than Tableau”
October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15
Malaysia’s AmBank Group increases digital banking spend

AmBank Group is using middleware to integrate its core banking platforms with its legacy infrastructure
October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15
Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals

Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15
Transforming Singapore Post through modern technology

When Singapore Post realised it had to change its business model to survive, it appointed its first CIO to front the technology transformation
October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15
Yakult uses data analytics to boost growth in the Netherlands by 20%

Probiotics maker Yakult is using analytics and data visualisation tools to boost its sales in the Netherlands
October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15
UK retailers could use data analytics more to cash in on Black Friday

Research by data visualisation supplier Tableau suggests British retailers could do better with analytics as Black Friday looms
October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15
German rail and transport group turns to virtual reality in war for talent

Deutsche Bahn claims to be the first company in Germany to use virtual reality as a recruitment tool
October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15
Speech technology matures but mainstream adoption is elusive

Apple, Google and Microsoft have given people a way to talk to devices but, although the technology is available, widescale adoption is still not guaranteed
October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15
New Zealand beauty firm moves business onto Netsuite

New Zealand based beauty product supplier The Beauty Collective talks to Computer Weekly about its transformation to business software in the cloud
October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15
MySQL 5.7 aims at deeper convergence with Oracle tech and NoSQL

MySQL 5.7 has been released with next-generation hardware in mind, offering greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies
October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15
James Arbuthnot takes Post Office IT fight to House of Lords

James Arbuthnot takes his seat in the House of Lords and continues campaign for subpostmasters who claim to have been wronged by faulty Horizon IT system
October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15
SAP Q3 2015 results: On-premise and cloud grow in parallel, says Cohen

SAP’s third-quarter 2015 results show overall cloud revenue growth of 116% year on year, and SAP European president Cohen says parallel on-premise growth is strong
October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15
IBM reports continued sales decline in Q3 results

IBM reports sales and profits down again in its Q3 results, as the company continues its transformation across the business to fight off competition
October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15
Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists
October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15
NHS Education for Scotland deploys ServiceNow to power digital transformation

Driving a digital strategy requires top-down executive support, says NES interim director of digital transformation Chris Wroath
October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15
Enterprise software contracts stifle digital business initiatives

Two software licensing groups have joined forces to put pressure on the European Commission to investigate leading software companies
October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15
Corporate boardroom technology scales down to non-profit sector

Housing association Viridian uses the same technology as large corporations to ensure the board receives all the information it needs, securely and cost-effectively
October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15
Hybrid clouds to dominate the IT landscape in Australia

Organisations in Australia are increasingly opting for hybrid cloud services that enable them to buy some processing power upfront and rent more when needed
October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15
Silicon Valley startups pitch to solve next-generation business IT problems

We visit Silicon Valley to meet some of the emerging tech companies focusing on enterprise IT
October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15
Nasa and Philips emerge as early adopters of AWS IoT app creation platform

Cloud giant debuts AWS IoT, which it claims will make it quicker and easier for enterprises to create apps for connected devices