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• 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

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  AWS to lower skills and cost barriers for database migrations using cloud

  Cloud giant seeks to make it easier for firms of all sizes to adopt business intelligence tools and take advantage of database migrations

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  More businesses put ERP in the cloud

  Businesses are increasingly moving enterprise resource planning to the cloud to make expansion easier

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Tesco decides to keep Dunnhumby after strategic review of business

  Supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped plans to sell analytics arm Dunnhumby after restructuring and analysing its assets

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

  Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  HP Cloud 28+ enters beta and introduces self-certification scheme for providers

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) gears up to launch its Cloud 28+ service catalogue in December 2015, talking up the opportunities it presents for European providers

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  CIOs need to expand service management beyond IT department

  CIOs believe organisations are missing an opportunity by not applying IT service management outside the IT department

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  TelecityGroup to offer private Azure ExpressRoute connection to Office 365 users

  Datacentre operator confirms availability of private Office 365 connection via its Cloud-IX platform

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

  The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  Nationwide Building Society deploys artificial intelligence to reduce back-end complexity

  Nationwide Building Society is using artificial intelligence to help it reduce the complexity of its back-end systems as it introduces more digital products

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Businesses fail to test or maintain mobile applications

  A survey from Accenture finds that despite enthusiasm for mobile applications among enterprises, senior decision makers are not properly prepared to implement and support them

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  IT problems put Enfield patients at risk, claims MP Joan Ryan

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust invests in patient management systems after Enfield Town MP Joan Ryan claims waiting times put patients at risk

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  SAP user group finds big minority adopting Run Simple mantra

  SAP UK and Ireland User Group research suggests big minority of SAP customers are moving to Simple Finance

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Nordea Bank signs Temenos and Accenture for core banking transformation

  Nordea Bank AB has chosen the core banking system it wants to build its digital future on, signing Temenos and Accenture as technology partners

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Microsoft Azure partners with DataStax

  Microsoft Azure and Cassandra company DataStax announces a partnership that will see the DataStax Enterprise package available on the Azure cloud platform

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Salesforce Thunder, Lightning and Wave show new app economy at work

  At Dreamforce 2015, Salesforce.com's Adam Gross and Stephanie Buscemi discuss the internet of things app economy and action-orientated business intelligence apps

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Is Microsoft Office 2016 reliable enough for business?

  A day after a major Skype outage, Microsoft unveils Office 2016, which, ironically, offers tight integration with Skype

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Health chief 'should be held to account' for whistleblow errors

  Former nurse and clincial commissioner Bernie Rochford claims unfair dismissal after blowing the whistle on IT problems which put patient care at risk

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Mads Madsbjerg Hansen, FLSmidth

  When Mads Madsbjerg Hansen joined Danish engineering giant FLSmidth he wanted get to know the company and its people, adjust the IT strategy where needed and change the IT organisation to fit that adjusted strategy

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  American Airlines forced to ground flights over IT issues

  US airline confirms "connectivity issue" that prompted it to halt flights from several airports yesterday has now been resolved

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Dreamforce: Benioff follows Stevie Wonder onstage to vaunt giving back

  Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff beats the drum for tech’s broader social mission at Dreamforce 2015, praising Uber and Western Union for giving back

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Asean businesses fall behind in cloud business agility

  Businesses in Asean countries are slower to harness cloud computing than in other regions – but could overtake them, with much less legacy IT to deal with

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push

  Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Nurse 'scared' to return to work after blowing whistle on IT problems

  A former nurse felt unable to return to work after raising concerns about the accuracy of records on a patient database at a London NHS trust

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Jobs with low risk of automation growing faster than jobs being replaced

  Jobs that cannot be automated have increased since 2001, providing the UK economy with a significant financial boost

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Almost 30% of retailers use facial recognition technology to track consumers in store

  Retailers are using more technology in store to track customer behaviour, with the younger generation finding it useful for their shopping experience

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Salesforce adds Thunder to Lightning as Dreamforce 2015 kicks off

  Cloud supplier Salesforce adds real-time processing engine Thunder to app development platform Lightning as its 2015 Dreamforce event begins in San Francisco

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  Accenture buys Cloud Sherpas for SaaS applications push

  Accenture sets out plans to acquire Salesforce consultancy business and give enterprises a helping hand with moving to the cloud

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Rob Threadgold, global head of IT infrastructure and operations, ICBC Standard Bank

  Standard Bank is taking a global approach to IT challenges following its acquisition by Chinese banking giant ICBC

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Richard Corbridge, CIO, Health Service Executive in Ireland

  The Irish equivalent of the NHS is making great strides in digital healthcare and technology innovation

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

  Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub stokes local business with CRM

  Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub has turned to Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology to report and organise work more effectively

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Financial services watchdog wastes money on Oracle licences

  The Financial Conduct Authority admits it has fallen victim to the complex nature of software licensing that dogs companies in the sector it serves

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Apple datacentre plans win cautious approval from Galway County Council

  Galway County Council planning department says development can proceed – so long as Apple commits to meeting 12 separate construction conditions

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  John Lewis sales grow, but profit falls as restructuring shakes up the business

  The retailer reports a growth in sales, but blames omnichannel shift for a fall in operating profit

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  Case study: French delivery company Chronopost looks to NoSQL for big data challenge

  French delivery company Chronopost is using open-source NoSQL systems to improve services and customer retention

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Digital kiosks fail to stem Argos sales decline

  Retailer Argos reports a small increase in sales in comparison to its last quarter, but still suffers revenue decline year-on-year despite digital initiatives

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Tipping point for big data and advanced analytics in Australia

  Data from analyst firm IDC shows that big data and advanced analytics in Australia could be about to accelerate.

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Report highlights benefits and challenges of data use in Australia and New Zealand

  NetApp identifies the benefits organisations in Australia and New Zealand can glean from data and highlights the challenges they face in doing so

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Early plans for Universal Credit show DWP expected to complete project in two years

  An early plan drawn up by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) for its Universal Credit scheme reveals unrealistic ambitions for the troubled project

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  The Data School: Former Facebook employee launches training programme for future data analysts

  After working at Facebook as a data analyst, Andy Kriebel explains why he moved to the UK and launched a training programme for data scientists

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Case study: How Ebury took a cloud-first approach to delivering financial services

  Financial services firm outlines how it is helping customers expand their businesses internationally with the help of cloud

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Open Energi switches on Hadoop data storage to expand footprint

  Electricity market company Open Energi is using Hortonworks Hadoop for data storage and analysis to move its business on

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Al Rayan Bank finds business agility in cloud applications

  Al Rayan Bank believes its investment in cloud applications gives it an edge in business agility

• September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15

  Cloud users speak out about day-to-day SaaS frustrations

  New research highlights problems users encounter when using cloud and suggests some might be planning to go back on-premise

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  SAP embraces Spark on Hadoop with Vora

  SAP announces Vora software to “deeply embrace” Hadoop as it evolves with Apache Spark

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  HSBC BACS glitch leaves thousands without bank holiday pay

  IT failure affecting the bank’s BACS system has led to thousands of payments failing to arrive on time

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Office 365 overtakes Google Apps as business users' preferred cloud productivity suite

  Use of Microsoft cloud suite has risen steeply over the past 12 months, leaving Google Apps trailing, research shows

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Why business should bet on open source

  Online bookie William Hill has deployed a stack of open-source tools to present time-sensitive web content

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Asean banks use technology to reach rural areas

  Floating bank charts new course to provide banking services to remote populations

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Asean financial services firms more cautious on cloud

  South-east Asian finance companies are adopting cloud technology with more caution than in other regions of the world

• August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15

  Logistics software innovator Sendle takes on Australia's package-delivery monopoly

  Software is shaking up the delivery services sector in Australia. The creator of a new challenger talks to Computer Weekly

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Kjell Rune Tveita, If Skadeförsäkringar

  Kjell Rune Tveita's first job as CIO at Nordic insurance giant If Skadeförsäkringar was to integrate three companies across three countries

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

  Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why

• August 17, 2015 17 Aug'15

  Home Office develops Online Application Service for visas with Equal Experts

  The Home Office explains how its implementation of the Online Application Service for visas bagged it the 2015 Computer Weekly European User Award for Best Public Sector Project

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Cega Air Ambulance uses Microsoft Dynamics for patient treatment

  Air ambulance and repatriation service Cega has adopted Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve data searches and speed up the bidding process

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Domino's Pizza orders Hitachi Consulting to advise on DevOps push

  Pizza firm hopes agile development and continuous IT delivery will help it stay one step ahead of its competition

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Elizabeth Eastaugh, director of technology at Expedia

  Elizabeth Eastaugh is on a mission to add diversity to the software engineering community

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  IT budgets squashed by 20% currency price hike

  CIOs could struggle to get the best value from next year's IT budget as the strong US dollar drives up costs

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Video effects firm Framestore offloads rendering to Google Compute Engine with Avere

  The Avere filer appliance is being used to run rendering jobs on the Google cloud

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Sage Summit 2015: The move to cloud technology and the death of ERP

  Accountancy software firm Sage has released new cloud-based software, highlighting the gap between the use of cloud and on-premise in the workplace and declaring a move away from traditional ERP

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Windows 10: your desktop upgrade strategy

  Microsoft says Windows 10 allows companies to bring the latest innovation to their existing PC fleet, but how good is the latest version of the operating system really?

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Transport Systems Catapult launches transport, mapping datasets site

  The Transport Systems Catapult launches a website that shares data from 200 transport information sources to accelerate innovation

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Rackspace and Intel outline plans to increase enterprise appeal of OpenStack

  Managed cloud company and chip maker are creating an innovation centre in Texas to accelerate maturity of OpenStack

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

  Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  AirBnB, LinkedIn, Spotify & Twitter sign up for Box cloud storage

  As enterprise file sync and share supplier announces latest customers wins, but competitor flags data sovereignty limitations of Box's operations

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

  Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  IBM steps up open-source cloud commitment to developers

  Big Blue has unveiled several open-source initiatives geared towards helping developers make cloud apps

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Microsoft grows cloud business

  Microsoft's Azure and cloud business experienced triple-digit growth in its fourth quarter of 2015, according to CEO Satya Nadella

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  CIOs need to reboot supplier relationships

  IT leaders need to rethink the balance of spending between maintaining traditional suppliers and introducing innovative new providers

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Microsoft pushes portability of experience with latest Visual Studio

  Microsoft has been focused on making its own applications portable – now it wants Windows developers writing cross-platform.

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Cloud Native Computing Foundation forms to drive open-source cloud standards

  The newly formed CNCF group aims to develop cloud standards for container technologies

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  SAP Q2 2015 results: Cloud revenue grows as portion of overall sales

  SAP’s second-quarter 2015 results show 5% growth in cloud revenue as a proportion of overall revenue. Emea triple-digit cloud booking growth in Q2 2015, above expectations

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

  Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Comparethemarket uses Cloudera to gain single view of customer data

  Price comparison site Comparethemarket has turned to Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to get a better view of customer data from different channels. Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop, explains

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

  Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Enterprises miss out on cloud cost benefits by sticking with on-demand pricing plans

  451 Research suggests cloud users that sign up to long-term contracts with providers get better pricing overall than those who don't

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Defra could face a further £370m in penalties if CAP reform fails

  An additional £370m in fines could be faced by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs by 2021 if its revised CAP scheme fails to take off

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Lotus Formula 1 gears up for racing with Microsoft Dynamics

  Microsoft Dynamics tools drive the Lotus F1 team's data analytics in ratcheting the performance of its cars, engineers – and business

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

  Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

  The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Andy Haywood, group CIO, N Brown

  Digital transformation is driving the technology agenda at retail group N Brown, previously best known as a specialist in catalogue-based selling

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  BA opens up API on flight information

  British Airways offers an open application programming interface (API) for flight information to encourage developers to create value-added travel applications