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• March 25, 2014 25 Mar'14

  SAP signs up with Adobe to make Hana attractive to marketing

  SAP has boosted its digital marketing efforts through a reseller partnership with Adobe.

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

  Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Lincolnshire County Council outsources to Serco

  Lincolnshire County Council has agreed to outsource services including IT to Serco in five-year deal worth £70m and will next month embark on a 12-month transition from its existing supplier

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Mobile satellite firm outsources core system project

  Mobile satellite provider Inmarsat has revamped core systems through an outsourced project to consolidate applications it had gained through acquisition

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%

  The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results

• March 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Salesforce.com: a CIO's friend or foe?

  SaaS company Salesforce.com has recently celebrated its 15th birthday. We look at its strategy and the impact on corporate IT

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Interview: Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor

  Charles Phillips is at a critical point in his role at Infor. Over the past three years as CEO he has invested heavily in overhauling the company's enterprise software

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Work service providers to gain greater analytics value

  Organisations buying business process optimisation services are keen to make the most of data analytics.

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

  On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Royal Bank of Scotland maps transaction supply chain

  RBS has built an analytics neural network, capable of assessing risk across its business customers' supply chain.

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  Why HR departments need to hire IT specialists

  Technology will fundamentally change the way people work, says psychology professor

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries

  Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Hammersmith & Fulham Council updates desktops to support flexible working

  Hammersmith & Fulham council is using Colt's Workspace as a Service to support more than 2,000 virtual desktop users based on VMware’s Horizon Suite.

• March 07, 2014 07 Mar'14

  Microsoft releases Android SDK for Office 365

  Microsoft has released an open source software development kit for Android

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture

  Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved service

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Half of CIOs believe business has too many applications

  Almost half (48%) of CIOs believe their business has more applications than it needs and only 37% think most of their applications are business critical, according to a study

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  The wider implications of Oracle's Rimini licensing dispute

  Companies may need to distinguish between software development work on commercial software they do themselves and what they outsource

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  CIO interview: John Hinshaw – the man behind HP's IT turnaround plan

  As HP's executive VP for technology and operations, John Hinshaw is in charge of the operational efficiency driving a five-year transformation

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  BASF sells IT services arm to Tech Mahindra

  European chemicals giant BASF has sold its IT services business to Tech Mahindra, with 60 employees to transfer to the Indian services firm

• February 28, 2014 28 Feb'14

  CA Technologies launches MDM suite

  CA Technologies has launched a new suite of products designed to provide mobile device management to enterprises

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  UK shows biggest take-up of electronic health records in Europe

  The UK is the biggest electronic patient record market in Europe, with $2.1bn expected to be spent on the technology by the end of 2015.

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  RBS to tidy up systems mess

  Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) outlines plans to cut costs and improve customer services, slashing the number of IT systems in the process

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  NHS to procure NHSMail2 on new managed email framework

  The NHS is to buy its new NHSMail2 email service through a framework which has been tendered by the Government Procurement Service

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  CIOs 'need to think like venture capitalists' says study

  IT chiefs will need to start thinking like venture capitalists if they are going to help their organisations innovate

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Flexibility and integration drove NatWest Microsoft Dynamics migration

  NatWest Business Banking selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM when it realised it needed full CRM capability

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Post Office tenders for front office tower model

  The Post Office is tendering a tower-model IT contract to provide front-office application services for branches, the web, mobile and call centres

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  CIO interview: Cloud lacks silver lining for NGOs

  David Goodman, CIO of International Rescue Committee, needs a cloud that is open and flexible and available offline

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Case study: WPP uses DataSift to evolve its data strategy

  The WPP group has begun a partnership with text data filtering and aggregation company DataSift

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  Lufthansa pens outsourcing deal with Dell Services

  German airline Lufthansa has contracted Dell Services to provide maintenance and support for core front-end systems

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  Is second-hand software illegal?

  The action by Federation Against Software Theft to suspend one of its members confuses users over legal second-hand user licences

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics

  New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  Arcadia Group signs £50m Oracle software deal

  Arcadia Group has signed a £50m deal with Oracle to better understand the group’s growing international business

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  The challenges of implementing Camden’s digital strategy

  Camden Borough Council's digital strategy sets out how technology will support and enable the local authority grow and develop

• February 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott vaunts innovation agenda in Potsdam

  Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, derides industry failure to recognize his company’s contribution as it opens an innovation center outside Berlin, Germany.

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy

  The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO

  Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as CEO almost six months after former incumbent Steve Ballmer announced his retirement

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  HP investigators find Autonomy made 80% less profit than stated

  HP investigators say UK firm Autonomy, acquired for $11.7bn in 2011, made 80% less profit than originally stated

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  Cisco engineers – an innovative future?

  Will network engineers be given more chances to innovate post-economic crash? We ask those at Cisco Live 2014

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  UK Eurozone suppliers can no longer ignore Sepa standard

  UK suppliers to Eurozone businesses risk losing customers if they cannot take payment using the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) standard

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Government announces preferred open standards for documents

  The government has announced a set of open standards which it hopes will be used for documents across government

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Gaming site bets on flexible benefits software

  Online gaming company Bwin.party is betting on specialist benefits software to help it attract and retain its top talent

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Case study: Scottish Fire and Rescue advances national BI strategy with QlikView

  The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is using QlikView business intelligence software to bring together its data streams for external reporting and operational intelligence

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust deploys iOS devices

  South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust has deployed 300 iOS mobile devices onto its network to improve patient care processes

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

  The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  IT departments need to address complexity, says ZK Research founder

  The founder of ZK Research says if IT departments fail to address their complexity then they are set to fall behind the times when it comes to technology

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  Lloyds excuse for IT glitch not plausible, says bank IT expert

  Lloyds Banking Group’s statement that a server problem caused a three hour service disruption for customers is not plausible but problems with failover systems could be at fault

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  DECC IT overhaul follows government digital standards

  The Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) is accustomed to large outsourcing contracts, yet it is the first department within government to move away from a single supplier approach, to a new multi-sourcing model across all its core ...

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Teradata launches analytics product as SAP BW replacement

  Teradata has released an analytics product for SAP ERP, as a full-blown alternative to SAP BW

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Lloyds is the latest bank to experience major IT outage

  Customers of Lloyds, TSB and HBOS were unable to use their cards for a three-hour period yesterday due to a major IT glitch

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Target cyber attack not isolated, warns FBI

  The FBI has warned US retailers to prepare for further cyber attacks after linking Target cyber attack to 20 others

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Barnardo’s uses Huddle Note for collaboration and communication

  Barnardo’s has chosen Huddle for cloud content collaboration to enable volunteers to share information securely with the charity’s staff

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

  Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  CIO interview: The challenge of delivering IT in a refugee camp

  The United Nations (UN) looks after 58 million refugees. Naginder Kaur Dhanoa, CIO of the UN High Commission for Refugees speaks about the challenges

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  Capita to provide support applications for North Yorkshire Police

  North Yorkshire Police has selected Capita to deploy self-service HR and duty management applications to improve responsiveness

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Fleet control system boosts Warburtons’ productivity

  Warburtons has integrated Navman wireless GPS to its vehicle tracking system Paragon to allow better planning of distribution routes

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Suppliers call for improvements to G-Cloud framework

  A group of 15 suppliers have submitted an open letter to the Government Digital Service outlining possible improvements to the next iteration of G-Cloud

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  UK leads Europe in SAP Hana adoption as it hits €664m globally

  SAP's full-year results show cloud revenue of €1.2bn and overall revenue of €16.8bn. Its Hana in-memory database registered €664m

• January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  Allianz deploys Rumba to provide secure mainframe administration

  Insurer Allianz UK has deployed Rumba terminal emulator software from MicroFocus to provide a mainframe-based policy admin system

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  HMRC to recruit 50 digital specialists in the North East

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is looking to recruit more than 50 digital specialists to work at a new digital centre in the North East

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  CIO Interview: Norfolk County Council's Tom Baker on using data to improve public services

  Norfolk County Council's smart city initiative uses the power of data to concentrate on the citizen and smarter public services

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  ERP implementations, upgrades on the up across Europe in 2014

  UK and European IT looks set to review ERP and intensify focus on BPM in 2014, finds TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT priorities survey

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  HCL and CSC partner to modernise applications

  Indian IT services firm HCL and US competitor CSC are working together to win business in the application modernisation and cloud migration segments of the application outsourcing sector

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Ericsson CEO named as possible Ballmer successor

  Hans Vestburg is being considered for the top job at Microsoft, according to people close to the matter

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  Microsoft extends XP security updates by 15 months

  Microsoft has caved in to user concerns over XP end of support and will now extend security updates by another 15 months

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  IT decision-makers accept SaaS as the future of software

  Software as a service is set to become mainstream in 2014 as organisations replace on-premise systems with cloud applications.

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  UK IT spending will outpace rest of Europe in 2014

  UK IT budgets will grow by 3.6% in 2014, second only to Germany

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  The IT risks facing Universal Credit

  Despite Iain Duncan Smith's robust defence of his flagship welfare reform policy, Universal Credit, evidence to the contrary continues to mount

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  IT spending priorities survey shows UK European data management lead

  IT professionals in UK organisations are more intent on spending on data management in 2014 than their counterparts in Germany and France

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Post Office seeks contractors for network and back-office work

  The Post Office is looking for IT services firms to provide back-office IT applications and networking technologies in contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  Capita wins congestion charge deal

  Capita has won back the contract to run Transport for London’s (TFL) congestion charge system and will take over from IBM in November next year

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  MoD suffers major IT setbacks in army recruitment project

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) faces millions of pounds of added costs following IT failures in its recruitment programme

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  SAP full year preliminary results indicate 4% increase in revenue to €16.8bn

  SAP's preliminary financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended 31 December 2013 show total annual revenue up 4% to €16.81bn, and Q3 sales of €5.1bn

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  First steps on the Cabinet Office technology transformation journey

  Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude has led the drive to change how technology is used across government, yet within his department IT is poor

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  UK bank IT systems "a long way from being robust"

  A senior Bank of England official said UK bank IT systems a very long way from being robust, while giving evidence at Westminster Committee

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  “Digital government” on track to save £500m

  The government has announced it is on track to save £500m of taxpayer’s money by improving IT efficiency and tackling IT waste

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  TCS hires IT entrepreneurs before they become startups

  Could IT service providers help IT entrepreneurs turn their ideas into reality before they even get to startup phase by recruiting the people with the ideas?

• January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14

  Computer Weekly founding editor, Chris Hipwell, dies after short illness

  Chris Hipwell, the founding editor of Computer Weekly, the world’s first IT magazine, has died after a short illness

• January 06, 2014 06 Jan'14

  Universal Credit IT suppliers to be left out of new digital system development

  HP, Accenture, IBM and BT will have 'significantly less' involvement in the digital system developed for full roll-out of the benefits scheme

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Economic recovery drives software and services spending

  The improving economy will lead to organisations spending more on software and IT services according to analyst Forrester.

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  HP to make 5,000 more job cuts

  In its 10K filing with the SEC (US Securities and Exchange Commission) HP revealed that it needs to eliminate an additional 15% of its workforce.

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Business applications under stress, finds Freeform Dynamics survey

  Business applications are coming under increased performance pressure as organisations evolve remote working practices in step with the demands of a modern economy

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2013

  2013 has been the first year for a while when businesses have talked about growth. While the finance sector remains ultra-cautious there are investments being made in technology as customers demand new ways of interacting with banks

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2013

  Innovation at Ferrari, DMG Media, BAE Systems, and others; while SAP and Oracle stake strategic claims to cloud and high-speed analytics

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  OFT asks to observe government selection of open standards for documents

  The Office of Fair Trading asked the government if it could observe the sensitive process of selecting open standards for document formats

• December 20, 2013 20 Dec'13

  Met Police IT strategy expected 9 months late

  A new Metropolitan Police IT strategy is to be released in January nine months later than recommended by a critical report into the force’s IT

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  European IT market will begin slow recovery next year

  The IT market in Europe will continue to lag other regions next year, but a progressive recovery will start, according to Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC)

• December 19, 2013 19 Dec'13

  Huddle sees 132% increase in UK public sector contracts

  Adoption of cloud services in the public sector is continuing to increase, according to Huddle’s financial results

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  Evelina London Children's Hospital uses real-time video to aid heart treatment

  The London hospital saves time, money and stress through Polycom’s video-conferencing solution within their theatres

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data

  The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Credit Suisse is latest finance firm to launch app store

  Credit Suisse is set to launch an online technology marketplace focused on providing apps to investment banking and hedge fund sectors

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  Peugeot deploys 10,000 BlackBerry Z10s

  Car maker Peugeot is deploying 10,000 BlackBerry Z10 smartphones across its Spanish and French operations

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  CUP deploys SAP IS-Media to underpin global reorganisation

  Cambridge University Press is reorganising globally to support its digital strategy, using SAP IS-Media

• December 16, 2013 16 Dec'13

  Nvidia delivers GPU grid to power Citrix virtual workstations

  Nvidia has released vGPU grid technology for Citrix XenDeskop and Xenserver to support remote, hardware accelerated graphics processing.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Top 10: The top business application articles of 2013

  The so-called IT megatrends of social, cloud, analytics and mobile have influenced the types of applications organisations are deploying.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Foreign Office agile crisis response IT system goes live

  The Foreign Office’s new crisis response IT system, Crisis Hub, is now live.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Red Hat cloud ITSM deal part of wider migration to cloud

  Open-source software supplier Red Hat is using a cloud-based service management package in a move that supports the firm’s migration of its IT operation to the cloud

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT

  Parliamentary ICT director Joan Miller talks about how Parliament should use technology and the challenges of the digital world

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Avon drops SAP big bang transformation

  Cosmetics giant Avon has halted its multi-year SAP rollout due to a poor return on investment.