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• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Global Experian research finds wrong data is on the rise

  Experian research suggests companies in the UK, the US, Australia and western Europe have poorer quality data this year than last

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Cloudera CEO Reilly: ODP is 'affront to the Apache Software Foundation'

  The Open Data Platform initiative is “an affront to the Apache Software Foundation”, says Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly

• March 12, 2015 12 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Ben Booth on transforming IT at the National Offender Management Service

  The UK's National Offender Management Service (NOMS) has ended a year of IT-led transformation, managed by interim IT chief Ben Booth

• March 06, 2015 06 Mar'15

  SAP cuts jobs as it prepares for 2020 strategy

  SAP is set to cut its workforce by 3%, with around 2,200 people set to lose their jobs

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Financial sector cloud adoption on the rise despite security concerns

  Cloud Security Alliance research reveals softening attitude towards off-premise technologies from financial services firms

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  European Commission outsources IT

  Unisys-led consortiums have won a chunk of a €900m European Commission IT outsourcing programme

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Met Police to cut 700 IT jobs in outsourcing plan

  The Metropolitan Police is to cut 700 IT jobs under a plan to outsource software development and IT services in its Digital Policing arm

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  CIO interview: Connected cars set CIO agenda at Volvo

  IT has always tried to align with the business, but for Klas Bendrik, group CIO at Volvo Cars, it seems business has aligned with IT

• March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15

  Latest new UK bank launches virtually

  Challenger financial services firm Charter Savings Bank has been launched, taking advantage of the lower cost of a virtual presence

• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  RBS should be broken into 130 local banks that use the same IT systems

  The UK economy would receive a multibillion-pound boost by breaking up the majority state-owned RBS into 130 local banks, according to a think tank

• March 03, 2015 03 Mar'15

  Surrey and East Sussex councils to share IT services

  Surrey County Council plans to save millions of pounds by sharing services, including IT, with East Sussex County Council

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Berkshire NHS trust gets Microsoft Lync as a service through G-Cloud

  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has made its first IT purchase using the G-Cloud framework

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Hortonworks president Cunitz: 141% customer renewal rate bodes well

  Hortonworks president Herb Cunitz says his company’s recently declared 2014 results are cause for celebration

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  Amey awards $87m IT services contract

  Engineering company Amey outsources application development and management to CSC as part of seven-year contract

• February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15

  ARM unleashes internet of things potential with starter kit

  Chip-maker ARM has collaborated with IBM to launch the mbed IoT Starter Kit, pitched at SMEs and application developers

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Sainsbury’s latest retailer to commit to banking with branches planned

  Sainsbury’s plans to open bank branches in some stores as it expands further into financial services

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  NHS data service SUS to be more flexible after transition from BT

  The Secondary Use Service NHS database will offer “a more agile system that can respond better to NHS needs”, according to the HSCIC

• February 18, 2015 18 Feb'15

  Enterprise IT faces upheaval to move to cloud-first computing

  IT departments should prepare to change working practices to support cloud-based computing

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Yahoo chooses Splunk’s Hunk to do Hadoop analytics

  Yahoo is using Splunk’s Hunk tool to do analytics on Hadoop and NoSQL data stores

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Microsoft achieves ISO cloud certification

  Microsoft says it now complies with ISO/IEC 27018, which aims to establish a uniform, international approach to data protection in the cloud

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

  Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  NHS names suppliers for £1.25bn IT framework

  An IT procurement framework developed by the NHS and its shared services partnership with IT services firm Steria has gone live

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  SAP Hybris launches a 'contextualised' marketing platform

  SAP introduces marketing system that brings customer data into one place for “contextual marketing”

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  ShopDirect selects IBM managed service with SoftLayer hybrid cloud

  Shop Direct is using IBM’s SoftLayer hybrid cloud in a 10-year outsourcing deal to provide analytics, mobile and social applications

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  GCHQ surveillance was illegal until last year, rules tribunal

  Human Rights groups plan to challenge tribunal ruling in European Court of Human Rights

• February 06, 2015 06 Feb'15

  Symantec continues cloud investment in spite of poor Q3 results

  Symantec has reported third quarter 2015 revenue of $1.64bn, a drop of 4% compared with $1.70bn over the same period in 2014

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Teradata reports tepid growth alongside big data investments

  Data warehousing company Teradata has reported revenue of $2.732bn for 2014, an increase of 1% on 2013

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Heinz puts SAP HANA in the cloud to boost global efficiency

  Food producer Heinz deploys SAP HANA on Virtustream’s xStream platform-as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure to boost efficiency

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  DataStax acquires open source graph database company Aurelius

  NoSQL company DataStax has acquired the Titan graph database distributor Aurelius

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Aeris and Tech Mahindra to launch carrier IoT platform

  M2M technology provider Aeris has linked up with services supplier Tech Mahindra to target mobile carriers that want to develop their IoT business

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  SAP unveils S/4Hana as 'biggest launch in 23 years'

  SAP launches what CEO Bill McDermott calls “our biggest launch in 23 years, if not in the entire history of the company”, SAP S/4Hana

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  Post Office CIO would talk to any subpostmaster about IT problems, promises CEO

  The CEO of the Post Office defended the organisation’s support for users of its accounting system in a select committee inquiry into alleged problems

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Self-service BI, data integration top information management issues

  Self-service business intelligence and data integration top information management challenges for IT and finance professionals

• January 30, 2015 30 Jan'15

  IT sector outdoing rest of economy despite rise in IT supplier insolvencies

  Insolvencies among information and communication suppliers increase by a fifth as the economy continues to pull out of recession

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  CIOs admit they are concerned about Saas management

  The majority of organisations are running applications in the cloud, but IT managers are concerned they are losing control of the Saas budget

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Microsoft gets a step closer to Office everywhere with Office on Android

  Microsoft has released a preview version of Office for Android, almost 10 months after the iPad version was released

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis

  The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers

• January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15

  Your digital projects are doomed to failure, warns Cisco

  At Cisco Live! In Milan, Cisco set out the challenges of going digital, with many projects doomed to fail unless businesses embrace ‘Fast IT’

• January 26, 2015 26 Jan'15

  Will the mainframe survive IBM job cuts?

  The mainframe survived minicomputers, the client server, the web and Y2K, but its future is under scrutiny as IBM prepares a rethink

• January 23, 2015 23 Jan'15

  Mobile banking will help the poor transform their lives, says Gates Foundation

  Mobile banking can help the poor change their lives and two billion people who don’t have bank accounts store money by phone by 2030

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

  Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  MPs force inquiry into Post Office subpostmaster mediation scheme

  MPs force inquiry into Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters claiming to have been wrongly punished for false accounting

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

  SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  Challenger bank Lintel puts IT at centre of plans

  Lintel Bank could soon be the latest challenger bank to hit the UK with IT an important differentiator

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  NHS to bring two IT systems in-house away from BT

  Two NHS IT systems will be moved from BT to be managed in-house by the Health and Social Care Information Centre from February 2015

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  HMRC trials Gov.uk Verify in busiest month of the year

  Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs is to trial the government’s Verify identity assurance scheme in its busiest month

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  Microsoft Azure had more downtime in 2014 than main cloud rivals

  Microsoft Azure suffered more downtime than its main rivals in 2014, according to detailed analysis

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Public sector must make big data relevant

  Big data is set to revolutionise public services but projects should focus on those that the public will understand

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Supplier relationship management lessons from the car industry

  IT can learn a lot from the car industry, which has transformed supplier relationship management

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  BlackBerry: We’re not selling to Samsung

  BlackBerry has issued a statement denying recent claims it is to be bought by consumer electronics brand Samsung

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Mobile shopping matures, but retailers must link up dispatch

  Mobile shopping matures, but retailers need to rethink logistics

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  Case study: Scandinavian Airlines hands pilots worldwide Wi-Fi pass

  SAS has implemented iPass Wi-Fi across its iPad estate, giving pilots and crew access to 15 million hotspots around the world

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  SAP’s 2014 preliminary cloud revenue grows by 45% to €1.1bn

  SAP’s preliminary 2014 financial results indicate total revenue of €17.58bn, of which €1.1bn was cloud subscriptions and support

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Retail technology useless without back-end support, says John Lewis

  Retailers can’t just rely on customer-facing mobile apps and websites to be successful – they need to invest in the back-end support too

• January 12, 2015 12 Jan'15

  Gartner: Cost of customer relationship management set to fall 25% due to price war

  The cost of customer relationship management (CRM) software is set to drop by 25%, according to the latest forecast from Gartner

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?

  Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  Standard Chartered bank cuts thousand of jobs in digital strategy

  Standard Chartered is the latest bank to cut thousands of jobs as it cuts costs and encourages its customers to use digital channels

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Retailers need to plan for online peaks and troughs

  Almost a third of British online shoppers experienced problems with their orders over the Christmas period

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Forrester: IT maintenance saps budget as tech spending increases

  Technology spending is set to rise modestly, but the majority of IT spending will still go on maintaining existing systems

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Car companies showcase automotive digitisation

  Autonomous automotive technology has stolen the limelight from the usual fodder of gadgets at CES in Las Vegas

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  British Gas goes live with WANdisco for Connected Homes programme

  British Gas has stepped up trial it did in 2014 with WANdisco’s ‘Nonstop Hadoop’ product to advance its Connected Homes initiative

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  Sainsbury's Bank IT system problems a warning to new banks

  Sainsbury's Bank has experienced IT problems that left customers unable to use their credit cards for a day

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  CERN gets real-time data with Software AG’s Terracotta BigMemory

  CERN is using Software AG’s in-memory data management software BigMemory to support system availability for the Large Hadron Collider

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

  In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Case study: UniCredit uses Fico to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

  Italian bank UniCredit is using Fico software to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

• January 06, 2015 06 Jan'15

  CES 2015: LG launches G Flex 2 and predicts a ‘better’ future driven by IoT

  LG’s vision of a "better" and "more beautiful" future will be driven by innovation in the home-centric sector of the internet of things

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Enterprise mobility is now all about applications

  2014 was an excellent year for mobile applications, with many businesses investing in apps to improve mobility

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Deal between RBS and CA over IT failure will remain secret

  The details of the financial settlement between RBS and CA Technologies in relation to a massive IT failure will remain secret

• December 31, 2014 31 Dec'14

  Top 10 PC stories of 2014

  Sales of PCs have been steadily decreasing over the past few years, but market changes saw the PC market bounce up, down and back up again in 2014

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Top 10 cloud stories of 2014

  Cloud computing has evolved, giving businesses an increasing array of options from simple IT infrastructure up to full business applications

• December 22, 2014 22 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Catherine Doran, CIO, Royal Mail

  Royal Mail’s CIO is upbeat because after two years at the postal service she has started to see the results of her plan to transform the IT function

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  How AWS remains resilient and enterprise focused

  Eight years ago no one had heard of Amazon Web Services. Today it is at the forefront of enterprise computing

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  Basildon and Thurrock NHS Trust digitises 450,000 patient records

  Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has completed an electronic medical records system to digitise its patient records

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mark Maddocks, Cambridge University Press

  Technology has prompted unprecedented innovation and transformation in the media sector – Cambridge University Press is no exception

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  MP accuses Post Office of acting "duplicitously" in IT investigation

  MPs claim Post Office was being "high handed" towards MPs and running a "flawed, deteriorating" accounting system

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  US interception in the EU faces new legal challenges

  US government orders against Microsoft to hand over email data 'infringes privacy legislation' in other countries

• December 16, 2014 16 Dec'14

  MPs to debate subpostmaster IT injustice claims

  Debate about the Post Office scheme to redress grievances of subpostmasters will be held in Westminster Hall

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  Nats funding emphasises cost control over investment

  The Civil Aviation Authority has announced it will review Nats' licence following the failure of air traffic control on Friday

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  IT spending grows at fastest rate in five years

  Agile IT departments are emerging with the ability to flex their budgets quickly to meet new business demands

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Interview: SAP ramps up pressure on customers to move to Hana

  Philip Adams, chairman of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group, says SAP is increasing pressure on customers to move to Hana

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Sarah Leslie, CIO, Iglo Foods Group

  Sarah Leslie, CIO at Birds Eye manufacturer Iglo Foods Group, is focused on delivering simplified and standardised IT systems

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  MobileFirst iOS apps released for airlines, retail and financial services

  Apple and IBM have delivered the first fruits of their partnership announced in July 2014

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Why MPs lost faith in the Post Office's IT investigation, but vowed to fight on

  A group of 140 MPs has removed its backing for a Post Office scheme to redress subpostmasters' grievances over alleged false accounting

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  MPs blast Post Office over IT system investigation and remove backing

  Post Office scheme to redress sub-postmaster grievances over IT system is failing, say MP group supporting alleged victims

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  Waitrose rolls out touchscreen customer experience hardware

  Waitrose has implemented interactive touchscreen terminals across its estate of convenience stores to gather customer feedback

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  KPMG says businesses do not take IT risks seriously enough

  UK businesses are paying out £410,000 per year for unplanned IT problems, a study from KPMG has warned

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  Sheffield Hallam University inaugurates SAP 'centre of excellence'

  Sheffield Hallam University has expanded its long-standing academic relationship with SAP with the launch of a study centre

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Interview: Jane Moran, global CIO, Unilever – the most influential person in UK IT 2014

  The first woman to top Computer Weekly's UKtech50 list, Jane Moran is innovating while balancing the tech demands of a global giant

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  HP puts big data in the cloud and announces services enhancements

  On the opening day of HP Discover in Barcelona, HP has announced a major milestone in its big data strategy

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  ABN Amro re-signs IBM for 10-year, multibillion-euro IT contract

  ABN Amro has extended its multibillion-euro outsourcing deal with IBM by another 10 years

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  UK set to establish digital cheques in 2015

  In January 2015 the UK government is expected to make the digital image of a cheque legal tender, leading to the end of paper cheque processing

• November 26, 2014 26 Nov'14

  HP results disappoint ahead of split

  HP has announced disappointing fourth-quarter earnings ahead of the company’s planned split aimed at reversing its recent decline

• November 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  Pressure on Universal Credit’s digital service mounts as testing begins

  Risks remain for Universal Credit as DWP continues its twin-track gradual roll-out of live and digital services

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  Customers say SAP knows too little about their businesses

  51% of SAP's customers find the supplier’s account managers don't know enough about their businesses, according to a user group survey

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  CA makes secret payments to RBS over 2012 IT meltdown

  CA Technologies, which supplied RBS with the software that caused the bank's IT outage in 2012, has paid it millions of pounds

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: North Wales Fire and Rescue Service secures email for public sector collaboration

  The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) has secured its information exchange with Egress Switch encryption

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Home Office continues to engage with suppliers over Emergency Services Network

  The Home Office is continuing its discussions with suppliers around the requirements for the new Emergency Services Network (ESN).

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: JustGiving develops Facebook-like graph on HDInsight

  Online fundraising site JustGiving has created a Facebook-like media graph database to understand how people donate

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: SThree uses SAP BusinessObjects to see true profitability

  Recruitment firm SThree is using SAP BusinessObjects to decide which of its business units is profitable and sustainable