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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
August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14
AstraZeneca rolls out IT self service using ServiceNow

Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca has rolled out ServiceNow self service IT to 51,500 staff globally in four months
August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14
Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?
August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14
Welsh police to develop mobile app for witness statements

Two Welsh police forces are to develop a mobile application that will allow officers to record and send witness statements while on the beat
August 01, 2014 01 Aug'14
Sepa grace period comes to end

Deadline for Eurozone to be able to make and take payments using Sepa formats has been reached
July 31, 2014 31 Jul'14
Smart meters, digital channels and CRM are top priorities for British Gas

Smart meters, digital channels and reducing customer complaints by implanting a new CRM system are top of the agenda for British Gas over the coming year.
July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
Migration pains cause businesses to buy custom support for Windows XP OS

Although Windows XP support ended on 8 April 2014, some large businesses are still running the Microsoft operating system (OS)
July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
East Kent Services deploys Citrix virtual desktop

East Kent Services has issued Citrix mobile workspace technology to organisations to reduce operational cost and increase collaboration
July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020
July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14
Service providers must rethink how they approach digital transformation

Service providers are ill-equipped to support the growing demand from businesses for digital transformation projects.
July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14
Royal Free Hospital digitises legacy patient medical records

Royal Free teaching hospital in London has digitised 750,000 legacy case notes which contain patient medical records
July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14
Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Gartner: Businesses set to standardise supply chain systems

Businesses are expected to standardise on integrated supply chain systems to improve the visibility of their business processes
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS
July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14
London’s Orchard and Fig join Docker

San Francisco firm Docker has acquired London-based Orchard Labs and its orchestration tool Fig
July 23, 2014 23 Jul'14
VMware Q2 revenue up 17% as investor pushes for spin-off from EMC

VMware has reported a 17% year-on-year revenue growth to $1.46bn for the second quarter of 2014
July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14
Infosys takes the wheel in Daimler European datacentre deal

Daimler has signed a multi-year agreement with Infosys to run its datacentre operations in Europe
July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14
Microsoft forges more open-source partnerships for added cloud interoperability

Microsoft has forged additional partnerships with open-source communities OpenNebula and Packer.io
July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14
NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases