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• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  SAP grows cloud revenue by 45%

  SAP’s revenue from cloud services has grown 45% year-on-year

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  Software considerations essential to risk management, says SAFECode

  Enterprise risk management must consider the software the organisation buys and uses, says Eric Baize of SAFECode

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Salesforce aims beyond CRM as a platform for developers and analytics

  Salesforce.com has become more than a cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) system, says CEO Marc Benioff

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  B&Q launches online kitchen planning and design tool

  The DIY retailer debuts its B&Q Spaces planning and design tool which allows customers to plan their kitchen, bathroom and bedroom projects online

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  Russian cyber criminals exploit Microsoft bug

  Russian hackers have used a vulnerability in Microsoft software to spy on targets including NATO and Western European governments

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Is the BIS GrowthAccelerator scheme worthwhile for technology startups?

  UK startups in the technology sector may be missing an opportunity to grow by ignoring GrowthAccelerator programme

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  SAP teams up with Birst to offer cloud analytics on Hana

  SAP is working with cloud BI supplier Birst to provide “instant analytics in the cloud” on the Hana in-memory database platform

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies

  Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  Application integration demands a light touch in the cloud

  The appeal of cloud applications is irrepressible but in-house applications will not go away. How to integrate them in the cloud?

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Reed.co.uk and Bitcoin – using agile to drive innovation

  CIO for Reed.co.uk Mark Ridley explains how agile development has helped the firm quickly adopt Bitcoin

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  All Olympic systems to be on the cloud by 2018

  Systems underpinning Olympic Game events will be run from the cloud by the time of the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  HP plans to split business, say reports

  Hewlett Packard is planning to split the company into two separate businesses, according to reports

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Ben Hine, technology director, UKTV

  UKTV director Ben Hine says every piece of the company's technology has been replaced over the last four years

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Lloyd's Register goes mobile with Oracle

  Lloyd’s Register Group tells delegates at the Oracle OpenWorld 2014 conference how it developed a mobile working application for clients and staff

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Privacy fears change from country to country

  Retailers need to translate consumer privacy fears at a local level, says Dunnhumby CIO Yale Cosset

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Are retailers lost in a sea of technology, data and insight?

  As Oracle's OpenWorld user conference closes for another year, Computer Weekly reflects on the challenge retailers face in the age of big data

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  IBM and Lenovo complete content migration

  T-Systems has migrated essential content from IBM x86 Lenovo’s systems

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Microsoft readies Windows 10 Technical Preview

  Microsoft is today releasing a preview of Windows 10, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

  Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Canonical moves to HR as a service

  We got to the point where we could not scale says Steve George, vice-president of operations

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Toms expands global e-commerce

  Footwear retailer Toms relaunches e-commerce websites with Oracle platform to grow and improve customer experience

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Larry Ellison demonstrates Oracle’s commitment to the cloud

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison highlighted Oracle’s commitment to the cloud by announcing new products at its OpenWorld conference

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO, University of Oxford

  Darrell Sturley, deputy CIO at the University of Oxford, discusses plans to replace current IT systems with managed services

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Public shared service cuts costs and improves operations

  Kent's Fire and Rescue and police force's shared command and control system saves costs and improves operations

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Lancaster University supports SDN development with HP Networking

  Lancaster Uni deploys 40 OpenFlow-enabled HP switches to run SDN research and production environments concurrently

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Why you should drop staff who are not cloud savvy

  CIOs may need to lose staff who are not prepared to move to new ways of working brought on by cloud computing

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Oracle releases OpenStack Support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

  Oracle has made its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available to support customers

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Why app developers should reconsider data harvesting

  An ICO study recently reported that app developers are asking for too much personal information

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Non-IT committees influencing IT spend

  CIOs are being influenced by a diverse group of executives when making buying decisions, says research

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Orange steps up to growing demands on business networks

  Orange Business Services is extending Business VPN to cater for growing use of internet networks for cloud and web services

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  KPMG and Oracle target FTSE 350

  KPMG is targeting the 350 biggest businesses by providing services through software giant Oracle’s cloud offering

• September 22, 2014 22 Sep'14

  SAP integrates Hybris into a customer experience and commerce service

  SAP has further integrated its 2013 acquisition Hybris, a customer engagement software company

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

  SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Oracle clocks $475m in cloud services for 2014-15 first quarter

  Oracle's Q1 2014-15 revenues were up 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn and non-GAAP was up 2% at $2.8bn

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  How the HSCIC rebuilt NHS Spine

  The Health and Social Care Information Centre has successfully upgraded the infrastructure behind the NHS Spine platform

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Larry Ellison leaves Oracle CEO job to Hurd, Catz

  Oracle’s Larry Elllison has resigned as chief executive after 35 years at the helm of the company he co-founded in 1977

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Guy's and St Thomas' licensing centre aims to standardise NHS software asset management

  A licensing framework set up by Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust is attempting to establish a SAM centre of excellence for working with suppliers like Microsoft and Adobe

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

  Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  Three quarters of businesses don’t trust cloud suppliers on data protection

  Almost three quarters (72%) of European businesses accuse cloud service providers of failing to comply with data protection regulations

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  EU data protection reform threatens NHS record-sharing plans

  Proposed changes to EU data protection law could obstruct NHS plans for seamless data integration across GP surgeries and hospitals

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  IBM unveils natural language-based cognitive service Watson Analytics

  IBM launches Watson Analytics, a natural language-based cognitive service designed to make predictive analytics easy to use

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Microsoft pitches new Dynamics CRM 2015 as ‘one cloud for all’

  Microsoft is making its Dynamics CRM 2015 available next quarter along with updates to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online services

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Infor launches Dynamic Science Labs

  Infor launches Dynamic Science Labs organisation at its customer event in New Orleans

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Jeanne Harris: Successful business analytics combines data and intuition

  Accenture's executive research fellow explains how successful business analytics needs a crucible of skills

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Five signs that VMware is becoming a developer platform company again

  With its Docker and OpenStack love, and DevOps and mobile initiatives, is VMware under pressure to bring back developer platform capabilities?

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Claims against Post Office IT system approach completion

  Investigation into sub-postmaster claims against the Post Office over problems with its Horizon accounting system coming to an end

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  HP buys Eucalyptus as it bets on open cloud future

  HP is acquiring open source software specialist Eucalyptus that helps build private and hybrid enterprise clouds as it bets on open cloud future

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Hague reassures MPs on Office 365 data storage as Microsoft ordered to hand over email data

  UK government reassures MPs parliamentary data is safe on Microsoft servers as US judge finds Microsoft in contempt for refusing to hand over data

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Accenture: 48% of UK survey respondents fail to find big data talent

  An Accenture survey has found that nearly half of UK respondents are struggling to find enough skilled data management professional

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Smartphones could render smartmeter in-home display redundant

  The Public Accounts Committee’s latest report on smartmeters has warned that the government risks being locked into technology

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  The iPhone 6 and Apple Watch – will they be used in business?

  Apple has announced its iPhone 6 and Apple Watch, along with capabilities such as Apple Pay, NFC and health monitoring

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Fresh questions raised over Post Office IT system's role in fraud cases

  A leaked report has revealed more details about the role of the Horizon accounting system in sub-postmaster fraud cases

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  University of Westminster uses mobile devices to share data

  The University of Westminster allows students and staff to view and share academic timetables and course information using smartphones

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  Capgemini and VMware collaborate for enterprise mobility

  Capgemini is teaming up with VMware to bundle its consulting and mobile services with VMware’s MDM capabilities

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company

  The Weather Company is a huge advocate for cloud-based technology, and everything it has built is cloud-enabled

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Barclays bank launches biometric authentication

  Barclays bank plans to launch biometric readers that read users' finger veins to authenticate customers

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Locala community health partnership moves to mobile working

  Locala Community Partnerships has introduced a mobile working strategy to transform the way it operates

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  NHS England informatics head wants more CCIOs

  NHS England director wants to see a chief clinical information officer in every NHS provider and clinical commissioning group

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

  Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Oxford University restructures communications systems to drive collaboration

  Oxford University replaces its communications systems with voice, video and messaging technology to drive BYOD and collaboration across campuses

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  UK lags France and Germany in big data analytics, but sees itself ahead

  UK firms are falling behind their French and German peers in big data analytics, but see themselves as ahead, according to research

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Tesco to reduce IT spend in a bid to cut costs

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be cutting costs from its IT budget to save money

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Ocado’s technology under fire, causing share price to fall

  Ocado’s IT has come under fire in a financial analyst's report that claims the market has over-valued the retailer's automation technology

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Surface Pro 3: An enterprise IT review

  The latest version of Microsoft's Surface Pro tablet is the company's most compelling alternative to Apple. But how does it fit into corporate IT?

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Birst steps up European cloud BI business with Amazon Web Services

  The Financial Times is among several new UK customers using cloud-based business intelligence from Birst

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  How to evolve desktop IT beyond Windows 7

  CIOs need to evolve their desktop strategy after Windows 7, but migrating totally to the next Windows version may not be the best option

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Can IT change the course of history? The story of Graham Tottle, the IT guy trapped in Iraq

  Rarely does an IT worker affect history, but in 1990 Graham Tottle was in Saddam Hussein’s HQ at the start of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Banks are not contemplating core system replacement

  European banks are maintaining rather than replacing core banking IT, in spite of recent, high profile failures in such systems

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  London private equity firm shifts IT to the cloud to cut office move downtime

  London-based private equity fund manager SOF Investments overcame the IT nightmares of an office move by migrating IT to the cloud

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Case study: Borough of Poole uses Huddle for child adoption meetings

  The Borough of Poole has been using Huddle to enable local government teams to collaborate securely on issues of child welfare

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Land Registry digital project at risk after senior IT leaders depart

  A major digital project at the Land Registry is at risk after two key executives on the programme left due to their tax arrangements

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  VMware rebrands its cloud service vCHS to VMware vCloud Air

  VMware has rebranded its infrastructure-as-a-service offering vCloud Hybrid Service (vCHS), to VMware vCloud Air

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  SAS top data scientist competition trains guns on UK energy market

  A “top data scientist” competition, sponsored by analytics company SAS, is training its focus on a UK energy crisis

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  UK government backs consortium's search for IOT standard

  The UK government has awarded £1.6m to a consortium of 40 British firm, tasked with finding a standard specification for the internet of things

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Digital vouchers firm picks DevOps automation to speed apps deployment

  Digital vouchers provider Eagle Eye is deploying DevOps to manage the cloud infrastructure that supports its product network

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Stuck between a rock and a hard place: How to renegotiate software contracts

  As a ruling against support provider Rimini Street demonstrates, suppliers can and will exploit any doubt in a software contract

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Bayern Munich teams up with SAP to hit sporting and commercial goals

  FC Bayern Munich and SAP today cemented a sports analytics and enterprise software partnership at the club’s Allianz Arena

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Five pitfalls to avoid when doing DevOps

  As the DevOps movement gains traction in the enterprise space, here are five pitfalls CIOs need to avoid to make it work for the business

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Half of UK IT unfamiliar with software-defined datacentres, shows study

  Software-defined datacentres may be touted as the next big thing in enterprise IT, but 50% of IT pros are unclear of its benefits, study shows

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Office Depot uses Teradata Active EDW to perform real-time data analytics

  Office Depot is using data warehousing technology from Teradata to do real-time data analytics

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Dundee starts data engineering masters to span computer science

  The University of Dundee is adding a data engineering MSc degree to its business intelligence and data science masters programmes

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  How wearable tech, big data analytics and cloud help in Parkinson’s disease research

  Parkinson’s disease charity MJFF is seeking to improve research with wearable devices, big data analytics and public cloud

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Universal Credit uptake slows to lowest since infancy

  The rollout of the Department of Work and Pension’s (DWP) troubled Universal Credit system has slowed to its lowest uptake since its infancy

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  M&S deploys Microsoft Azure cloud to run festive ad campaigns

  Azure powered M&S's multi-million pound Christmas campaign Magic & Sparkle starring Helena Bonham-Carter and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  HP Autonomy: Sushovan Hussain responds with HP cover-up

  Sushovan Hussain, the former CFO of Autonomy, has responded to HP "fraud" claims, alleging mismanagement of the 2011 bungled acquisition

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Lloyds uses NightWatchman to cut electricity bill by £2.3m in eight months

  Lloyds Banking Group has used PC power management software to make energy savings

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

  The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Energy Saving Trust deploys Esri for Cognos to support policymakers

  The Energy Saving Trust, has deployed Esri for Cognos to provide instant access to its mapping analytics portal

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  European Medicines Agency signs €4.5m Serco contract for IT support

  The European Medicines Agency EMA has signed a €4.5m contract with Serco for an outsourced IT helpdesk

• August 07, 2014 07 Aug'14

  Sacked BBC CTO wins unfair dismissal case

  Former BBC chief technology officer John Linwood has won his case for unfair dismissal against the broadcaster

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  New College Durham improves internal processes using Advanced workflow app

  New College Durham has improved its finance system and internal business processes using Advanced Business Solutions' workflow system

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  How Intel’s datacentre strategy is helping it retain market dominance

  Intel’s tactic of binding together software-defined infrastructure, cloud and HPC components in its datacentre strategy could keep it ahead

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  HP sues former Autonomy CFO

  HP is suing Autonomy's former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, for his part in the 2011 acquisition of the UK software company

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  Met Police awards £90m command and control integration contract

  The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has appointed Lockheed Martin as systems integrator of its new command and control system