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Business applications
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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?
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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
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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
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July 31, 2014
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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.
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July 30, 2014
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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July 23, 2014
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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
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July 22, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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July 22, 2014
22
Jul'14
JLT monitors user service experience with NetEvidence Highlight
Jardine Lloyd Thompson is using using NetEvidence’s Highlight SaaS monitoring tool to check datacentre service levels and ensure that users can access applications
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July 21, 2014
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Jul'14
Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?
Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?
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July 21, 2014
21
Jul'14
Lessons from Apollo 11: Is IT ready to go mission-critical?
IT has changed radically since 1969 when Nasa's computers helped Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins fly Apollo 11 to the moon
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July 18, 2014
18
Jul'14
IBM grows security and mobile businesses, but services decline
Following its ground-breaking alliance with Apple, IBM has reported major growth in its security and mobile businesses
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July 17, 2014
17
Jul'14
IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue
IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%
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July 17, 2014
17
Jul'14
Microsoft makes severe job cuts - 18,000 to go
Microsoft is cutting 18,000 jobs next year with Nokia bearing the brunt of the company’s strategy
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July 17, 2014
17
Jul'14
SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana
SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and Hana
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July 16, 2014
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Jul'14
Apple and IBM pair up to tackle enterprise mobility
IT giants Apple and IBM have entered a partnership to develop business applications to focus on improving enterprise mobility
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July 16, 2014
16
Jul'14
Microsoft and Cisco work together on cloud and datacentre
Cisco has entered a three-year sales collaboration with Microsoft to deliver enterprise cloud and datacentre services
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July 15, 2014
15
Jul'14
Imperial College and KPMG join forces with £20m business analytics centre
KPMG and Imperial College London have combined to create a £20m ‘KPMG Centre for Advanced Business Analytics’
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July 15, 2014
15
Jul'14
Why Rackspace is betting on managed cloud amid doubts over future
Rackspace has relaunched its public cloud services as managed cloud to differentiate its costly services from cloud heavyweights. Will the move help?
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July 15, 2014
15
Jul'14
Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk
Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation
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July 15, 2014
15
Jul'14
The billion-customer challenge of ITC CIO VVR Babu
ITC CIO VVR Babu explains the challenges for a business that targets over one billion consumers with its goods
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July 14, 2014
14
Jul'14
Bank branches being used more despite online services surge
Customers' use of bank branches is increasing in parallel with the surging take-up of online banking services, according to research
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July 14, 2014
14
Jul'14
SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup
Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in Brazil
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July 11, 2014
11
Jul'14
Microsoft backs cloud rival Google’s open-source Kubernetes project
Microsoft has joined rival Google to support the Kubernetes open-source project on its Azure platform
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July 11, 2014
11
Jul'14
Network Rail outsources automated rostering system roll-out to Capgemini
Capgemini is to implement a new rostering system for Network Rail that will automate the management and rostering of signalling and maintenance staff to improve train punctuality and infrastructure reliability
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July 11, 2014
11
Jul'14
AWS targets mobile with Amazon Cognito, analytics and SDK
AWS has expanded its capabilities for mobile developers with Amazon Cognito, Amazon Mobile Analytics and a unified mobile software development kit (SDK)
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe
Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups
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July 10, 2014
10
Jul'14
Retailers need chief algorithm officers to make e-commerce pay
Michael Ross, chief scientific officer at eCommera, an ecommerce software and services company, calls for chief algorithm officers
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July 09, 2014
09
Jul'14
Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach
At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products
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July 09, 2014
09
Jul'14
London Stock Exchange harnesses Wipro global delivery for reconciliation platform
The London Stock Exchange has teamed up with Indian IT services company Wipro to make its UnaVista reconciliation platform available globally in a pay-as-you-go model
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July 09, 2014
09
Jul'14
Software asset management can drive down licensing costs
With suppliers pulling the audit card, IT needs to get licence key in order. But strong software asset management (SAM) offers more than just licence compliance
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
CIO interview: Bill Peters, head of IT, Caterham Formula 1 Group
Bill Peters, head of IT at Caterham, talks about the challenges of delivering IT to scientists, engineers and F1 drivers
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP
Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Airbus deploys modular datacentre strategy to boost HPC capacity
The aircraft manufacturer has deployed HP's performance optimised datacentres (PODs) to increase its high performance compute capabilities for its engineers
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
M&S suffers sales decline due to website glitch
Marks & Spencer’s e-commerce revenues drop 8.1% because of a glitch in the company's newly launched web platform
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July 08, 2014
08
Jul'14
Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation
Data science company Dunnhumby has launched a project to globalise its back-office business processes using Oracle Fusion cloud
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July 07, 2014
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Jul'14
Pennine NHS Trust prepares for major digital patient initiative
The Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is planning to digitise 100 million paper-based patient records
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July 04, 2014
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Jul'14
NHS trusts in Microsoft’s sights for licence shortfall
Microsoft auditors are expected to target NHS trusts for using unlicensed software
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July 04, 2014
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Jul'14
What IT challenges would an independent Scotland face?
If Scotland votes ‘Yes’ for independence in September, what are the costs and challenges of building new government IT systems?
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July 02, 2014
02
Jul'14
Case Study: Marston's Telecoms taps Blue Coat Wi-Fi manager
Marston’s Telecoms, the in-house ISP of pub and brewery chain Marston’s, rolls out Blue Coat PacketShaper appliances to take control of its onsite Wi-Fi networks and cut bandwidth costs
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July 01, 2014
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Jul'14
Just Eat opens Bristol centre to boost native app development
Just Eat is setting up a development centre in Bristol to build native mobile apps and support its back-end e-commerce systems
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July 01, 2014
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Jul'14
Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT
Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts
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June 30, 2014
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Jun'14
HP set to settle with shareholders over lost Autonomy billions
HP is close to settling the legal dispute filed by shareholders over the acquisition of British software company Autonomy
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June 30, 2014
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Jun'14
Hybrid cloud powers business strategy for Notonthehighstreet.com
Notonthehighstreet.com deploys a hybrid cloud and DevOps strategy to grow, innovate and respond to business needs quickly
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June 30, 2014
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Jun'14
Net-a-Porter integrates testing and development
Online fashion retailer Net-a-Porter has integrated software testing and development to support agile methodologies
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June 27, 2014
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Jun'14
Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships
Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP
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June 27, 2014
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Jun'14
Interview: Remote monitoring will revolutionise long-term care
Electronics equipment maker Philips has partnered with Salesforce to develop a platform to support internet-connected healthcare devices
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June 25, 2014
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Jun'14
Cloud app logins reused in piracy scam
Software piracy will remain prevalent even though more applications are delivered as a service, according to the BSA
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June 25, 2014
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Jun'14
Oracle develops private cloud engineered system
Oracle is going head to head with HP, IBM and Cisco with the introduction of a converged infrastructure appliance
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June 25, 2014
25
Jun'14
CIOs unaware of application usage
CIOs grossly underestimate the proportion of installed applications that are not being used in their organisations
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June 23, 2014
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Jun'14
Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition
Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros
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June 23, 2014
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Jun'14
CW500: Digital customer engagement
The CW500 Club event in June blew away the myths around digital customer engagement
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June 20, 2014
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Jun'14
Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years
Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010
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June 20, 2014
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Jun'14
Energy companies prepare for data sharing
The government and several utilities are working on developing systems that automate access to customer billing data
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June 20, 2014
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Jun'14
Oracle trumpets 25% cloud revenue growth in Q4
Oracle’s fourth-quarter 2014 results show 25% growth in cloud revenues to $322m and total annual revenue of $38.3bn, up 3% year-on-year
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June 19, 2014
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Jun'14
BBC sets up expert group of cloud controllers
The BBC has set up a central group of IT, security and user communities to manage its purchase and use of cloud computing
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June 19, 2014
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Jun'14
BlackBerry makes small profit in light of internal shakeups
BlackBerry has achieved a net profit of $23m with revenue of $966m in three months from May until the end of March 2014
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, head of IT, Wellcome Trust
The world’s largest medical charity is shifting its technology focus to improving ways of working
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Lush cleans up on data with QlikView
Cosmetics retailer Lush has reduced wastage and made its shops more profitable through using QlikView business intelligence software
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Don’t let bean counters determine your cloud strategy, says Bank of England CIO
John Finch, the CIO of the Bank of England, warns users to be wary of financial promises made by cloud providers
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Use of geographical information systems increases
Remote management and analytics overlaid with geospatial data is being used to manage real-world networks
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud
eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software
Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business
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June 18, 2014
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Jun'14
Coca-Cola bottler seeks to put mission-critical systems on the cloud
Coca Cola bottling company is moving the company’s mission-critical workloads, including ERP systems on to the cloud
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June 17, 2014
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Jun'14
Kemp Little lawyers offer tips for public cloud journey
Cloud CIOs need to have a “sense check” while planning their public cloud strategies, say technology lawyers
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June 16, 2014
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Jun'14
Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans
Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans
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June 12, 2014
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Jun'14
Blackberry promises re-focus on enterprise
Until the release of the Blackberry Z10 the company’s main focus had been providing enterprise security
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation
In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
$39bn worldwide shift to SAP cloud, HCL research reveals
Nearly $40bn of SAP installed software will move to the cloud in the next two years, suggests research from IT services firm HCL Technologies
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
CIO Interview: Betfair's Michael Bischoff on making IT ready for Fifa World Cup
Michael Bischoff, the CIO of bookmaker Betfair, talks about the challenges in readying the IT for Fifa World Cup betting
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?
With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?
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June 12, 2014
12
Jun'14
80% of UK CIOs cite significant gap between business needs and IT delivery
80% of IT decision-makers in the UK feel there is a significant gap between business needs and IT delivery – the highest in Europe
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Adoption of cloud-based communications grows
Improving economic conditions and exposure to technology is driving the uptake of cloud-based communications applications
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform
Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform
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June 11, 2014
11
Jun'14
Larry Ellison lifts the lid on Oracle's in-memory database
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has taken the wrappers off the company’s in-memory database, trumpeting its 'real-time' performance capability.
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June 11, 2014
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Jun'14
EE drives mobile phone deals with CRM software implementation
Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere claims a 400% increase in phone deals after rolling out customer relationship management software
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
How the FBI is using technology to put customers first
Businesses and public sector organisations are under pressure to use technology to put the needs of customers first
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June 10, 2014
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Jun'14
HP launches new products for software-defined datacentres
HP has launched networking, HPC, storage and converged infrastructure products
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June 10, 2014
10
Jun'14
Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software
Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off
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June 09, 2014
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Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead
Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart
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June 06, 2014
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Jun'14
Microsoft could be the biggest SaaS player, says FBR analyst
Microsoft could be the biggest SaaS player in the world in two years, says FBR analyst, backing CEO’s vision for Office 365
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June 06, 2014
06
Jun'14
CIO interview: Sheridan Hindle co-operates to replicate IT benefits
Few IT heads can say that, among their responsibilities, they manage a top-level domain. But Midcounties' Sheridan Hindle can
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June 05, 2014
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Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services
UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
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June 05, 2014
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Jun'14
MPs accuse MPA of disguising Universal Credit in a “veil of secrecy”
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has accused the Major Projects Authority (MPA) of disguising the troubled Universal Credit programme in a “veil of secrecy” by not providing a rating on its current status
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June 05, 2014
05
Jun'14
Decision-makers rely on intuition over analytics
Business leaders are more likely to trust their intuition than rely on business intelligence dashboards
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June 04, 2014
04
Jun'14
Sapphire 2014: Plattner restates radical, in-memory computing future
SAP's Hasso Plattner restates his case that enterprise applications face a radical future, based on in-memory computing
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June 04, 2014
04
Jun'14
VMware CTO hits back at AWS tool to manage virtual machines
VMware CTO Chris Wolf warns users against being fooled by tools disguised as hybrid cloud management as AWS launches administration portal
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June 03, 2014
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Jun'14
Sapphire 2014: SAP CEO McDermott declares war on ‘complexity’ and sets Fiori free
Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, devoted his opening keynote at Sapphire 2014 to declaring war on business process “complexity”
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June 03, 2014
03
Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS
The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
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June 02, 2014
02
Jun'14
Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Shortlist 2014
See who made the shortlist for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software 2014