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February 08, 2016
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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
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February 08, 2016
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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
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February 04, 2016
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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
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February 03, 2016
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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
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February 02, 2016
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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?
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February 02, 2016
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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
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February 01, 2016
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Oracle to build cloud datacentre in Abu Dhabi
Move seen as acknowledgement that local presence is required for increased cloud growth
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February 01, 2016
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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
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January 27, 2016
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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
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January 27, 2016
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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
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January 26, 2016
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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
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January 26, 2016
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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
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January 22, 2016
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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
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January 21, 2016
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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
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January 21, 2016
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UK contactless card payments hits £1bn in a month
Contactless cards accounted for more than £1bn worth of UK payments in November 2015
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January 20, 2016
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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
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January 19, 2016
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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
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January 18, 2016
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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
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January 15, 2016
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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
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January 14, 2016
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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
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January 14, 2016
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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
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January 14, 2016
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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
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January 12, 2016
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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...
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January 11, 2016
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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
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January 06, 2016
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Italy wakes up to new IoT opportunities
Organisations in Italy are investing in internet-connected technologies, with infrastructure providers building the underpinning networks
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January 05, 2016
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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
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December 30, 2015
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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
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December 30, 2015
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Top 10 premium content articles for CIOs in 2015
Computer Weekly presents the top ten premium content articles for CIOs in 2015
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December 29, 2015
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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
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December 24, 2015
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Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2015
The financial services industry is undergoing unprecedented change, driven by IT and regulation.
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December 23, 2015
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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
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December 23, 2015
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Top 10 APAC IT stories of 2015
The top 10 Computer Weekly articles about enterprise IT in the Asean and ANZ regions
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December 22, 2015
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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
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December 21, 2015
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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
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December 21, 2015
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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
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December 18, 2015
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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
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December 17, 2015
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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
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December 17, 2015
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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
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December 16, 2015
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Ageas moves into Philippines cloud platform for insurers
Insurance firm adopts cloud-only business application suite to support south-east Asian expansion
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December 15, 2015
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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
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December 14, 2015
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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
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December 14, 2015
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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
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December 11, 2015
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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
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December 11, 2015
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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
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December 11, 2015
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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
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December 10, 2015
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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
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December 08, 2015
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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
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December 08, 2015
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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
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December 08, 2015
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Action for Children uses Mendix to power efficiency drive
Children's charity uses visual programming environment from Mendix to create bespoke administration applications
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December 04, 2015
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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
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December 03, 2015
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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
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December 03, 2015
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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
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November 27, 2015
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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
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November 26, 2015
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CIO interview: Turkka Keskinen, UPM
Finnish paper and forest products firm’s CIO tells Computer Weekly about the journey towards cloud-only IT
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November 23, 2015
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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
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November 23, 2015
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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
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November 23, 2015
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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
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November 20, 2015
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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
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November 20, 2015
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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
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November 19, 2015
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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?
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November 18, 2015
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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
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November 17, 2015
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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
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November 17, 2015
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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
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November 13, 2015
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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
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November 12, 2015
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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
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November 09, 2015
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Gartner: Time to take algorithms seriously
Legacy systems and existing supplier relationships are barriers to digitisation. Instead, CIOs should focus on algorithms, says Gartner
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November 06, 2015
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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
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November 06, 2015
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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
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November 05, 2015
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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
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November 02, 2015
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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
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November 02, 2015
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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
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November 02, 2015
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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
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October 30, 2015
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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
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October 29, 2015
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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
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October 29, 2015
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Fitness club goes digital to recruit new staff quickly
Equinox turns to digital technology from SmartRecruiters to speed up hiring employees
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October 29, 2015
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Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’
HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive
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October 29, 2015
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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
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October 28, 2015
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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
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October 28, 2015
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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
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October 27, 2015
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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
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October 27, 2015
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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”
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October 26, 2015
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Malaysia’s AmBank Group increases digital banking spend
AmBank Group is using middleware to integrate its core banking platforms with its legacy infrastructure
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October 26, 2015
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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
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October 26, 2015
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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
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October 26, 2015
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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
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October 23, 2015
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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
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October 23, 2015
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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
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October 22, 2015
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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
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October 22, 2015
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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
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October 21, 2015
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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
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October 21, 2015
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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
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October 20, 2015
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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
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October 20, 2015
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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
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October 19, 2015
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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
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October 16, 2015
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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
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October 13, 2015
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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
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October 13, 2015
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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
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October 13, 2015
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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
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October 09, 2015
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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
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October 09, 2015
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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