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• 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

• 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