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• July 04, 2018 04 Jul'18

  Singapore company turns to blockchain to improve food security

  SMC Nutrition is using a blockchain distributed ledger developed by a Singapore-based company to gain visibility across its supply chain and ensure food security

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Case study: Logistics firm GWC moves from paper to digital HR in three months

  Qatar-based logistics firm Gulf Warehousing Company introduced smart appraisals for employees, cut the time it takes to recruit, and gave staff and managers access to accurate HR data by replacing paper systems with human resources software

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Singapore’s Fullerton Health gears up for the cloud

  Private healthcare service provider Fullerton Health is moving business applications to Microsoft’s cloud services before rolling out data analytics and artificial intelligence to enhance operations and patient care

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  HSBC puts humanoid in New York branch

  HSBC has put its first humanoid member of staff into a branch role in New York City

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  SAP outlines approach to data management

  Through its Hana Data Management Suite, SAP hopes to alleviate the challenges of managing data amid growing data security needs in an increasingly hybrid IT landscape

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  IBM early findings on disastrous TSB core banking system migration released

  Report released by Treasury Committee criticises lack of rigour in preparation for core banking system migration, but TSB says report’s content is out of date

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  CDO interview: Andrei Belevtsev, Gazprom Neft

  Russian oil giant will harness the latest technologies right across its business, says chief digital officer

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Teradata sues SAP over Hana for stealing trade secrets

  Data warehousing supplier Teradata is suing SAP in a Californian court for stealing trade secrets, copyright infringement and antitrust violations

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Nine out of 10 enterprises will use robotic process automation by 2020

  Robotic process automation take-up expected to reach 92% of European enterprises within two years, finds ISG survey

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Oracle full-year results show 6% growth, but cloud revenue opaque?

  Oracle’s full-year results for 2017-18 reveal total revenue of $39.8bn, up 6%, but reporting of cloud with on-premise revenue under “bring your own licence” policy has raised qualm over cloud weakness obfuscation

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  More APAC consumer goods firms expected to adopt blockchain

  The adoption of blockchain technology is likely to increase in the consumer goods industry as more businesses use the technology to address fraud and improve supply chain management

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Chief data officers go to summer school

  Authors of the “Chief data officer’s playbook”, Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, are running a summer school, supported by data governance software supplier Collibra

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Government Geospatial Commission opens up OS MasterMap data

  The Geospatial Commission, announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in his 2017 Autumn Budget, has opened up some Ordnance Survey MasterMap data to boost small businesses

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  London wants to show it’s open for business in Tech Week 2018

  London Tech Week 2018 kicks off with attracting young people into tech a key theme

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  SAP banks on “intelligent enterprise” at Sapphire 2018

  SAP, at its SapphireNow 2018 conference, promoted the “intelligent enterprise”, with Hasso Plattner and head of machine learning Markus Noga setting out the philosophy