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• 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.

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  CIO Interview, David Southern, CIO WWF UK

  UK CIO of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), David Southern, describes a technology refresh at its Woking HQ

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  SAP system leaves Npower customer accounts in disarray

  The energy firm admits to poor customer service after issues from transferring to a new SAP system, just weeks after announcing it would cut almost 1,500 jobs and take on a new outsourcing contract to save on customer service costs

• December 11, 2013 11 Dec'13

  Southern Water adds consumption data in billing system update

  Southern Water is updating its billing system to provide more information to customers to help them reduce water consumption

• December 10, 2013 10 Dec'13

  Australian police to deploy tech used by US spy agency

  The Australian Federal Police plans to introduce technology used by a US spy agency to collect emails and other information transmitted by computer

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  More than 200,000 benefit claimants per month to move to new system

  The roll-out for Universal Credit will see 200,000 benefit claimants transferred to new IT system every month over a 14-month period to end of 2017

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Firm works with Google maps to provide fleet management software

  Greater Anglia rail company will roll out a taxi booking app in 2014 developed by fleet management software provider TDispatch and powered by Google Maps

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  FCA investigation into RBS crash last year not complete as new IT crisis hits

  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has yet to complete an investigation into a massive IT failure at the Royal Bank of Scotland last year

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Nokia Solutions Networks HR rejects best of breed for best of platform

  Nokia Solutions and Networks has chosen a ‘best of platform’ approach for its global HR programme in the wake of a reduction in staff from around 80,000 to 50,000, consequent to a restructure in 2011

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government begins selection of open standards for documents

  The government has begun the process to select open standards for documents

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Norfolk and Suffolk police outsource back-office systems

  Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies are outsourcing ERP and duty management systems to Capgemini in a seven-year deal worth £3.75m

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Microsoft changes its licensing terms

  Microsoft is offering a single Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) to simplify its volume licensing agreements. But what does it mean to SAM?

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  How endemic is IT underinvestment in UK retail banking?

  The Royal Bank of Scotland has failed to invest properly in its IT system, but it is not alone

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  Dell launches startup competition

  Dell has launched a competition offering two UK startup entrepreneurs free office space, technology solutions, mentorship and networking opportunities

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  SAP: UK, US companies hit automation barrier with predictive analytics

  Companies are hitting a wall in the use of predictive analytics, with lack of time and resource cited as their biggest problem

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  SAP user group: Innovation agenda clear but for long haul

  Philip Adams, of the UK & Ireland SAP user group, speaks to Computer Weekly about SAP’s promotion of Hana, cloud and mobile

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Where is Satyam now? Well, it’s not Satyam for a start

  Satyam, which was rescued from collapse in 2009, has plans for restoring its position as a top-tier Indian IT services provider

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Ipswich Building Society forced to change IT services supplier

  Ipswich Building Society was part of a group of companies that had to find new IT service provider following a decision by the incumbent supplier to exit the business

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Mobile business intelligence adoption slows, BARC BI survey finds

  Mobile BI adoption is slowing and much vaunted social media analytics are little deployed, according to the latest BARC BI global survey

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2014 open for entries

  Computer Weekly is running its European User Awards for a second year in 2014. Find out all the details here

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  IT budgets to rise by 3% in 2014 as companies step up spending on mobile

  IT spending will increase by 3% in 2014, up from 1.8% last year. But shadow IT spending will add another 40% to technology budgets

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  The state of agile software development in the UK

  Lately it is more surprising to hear that businesses are developing using a methodology other than agile, such is its widespread use

• November 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  SAP to announce simplification drive in January, says Hagemann Snabe

  SAP will, in January 2014, announce a new simplification initiative, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe told the UK and Ireland SAP user group conference yesterday

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  SAP user group sees closer collaboration with SAP

  The SAP UK and Ireland user group conference is seeing an improved SAP relationship, says user group chairman Philip Adams

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  150 subpostmasters file claims over 'faulty' Horizon accounting system

  About 150 subpostmasters have filed claims to the investigation into the allegedly faulty Post Office accounting system used by thousands of subpostmaters

• November 22, 2013 22 Nov'13

  Is this the future for local government IT?

  Pioneering councils are moving to the public cloud and aiming to deliver 'government as a platform' through componentised IT services

• November 22, 2013 22 Nov'13

  Jaguar Land Rover builds data sharing infrastructure

  Jaguar Landrover (JLR) has used a proposed data sharing standard to improve car development within its product lifecycle management (PLM) system.

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler plans his next move for the $500m software company

  Alan Trefler discusses his plans for Pegasystems, the BPM and CRM specialist that has grown into a $500m a year company

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Case study: McGraw-Hill Education mobilises with Salesforce

  The educational resources provider utilises Salesforce to develop a mobile app and get its sales reps selling more on campus

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Huddle: The UK cloud software firm that grows by over 100% a year

  Cloud collaboration software supplier Huddle is on the verge of expanding into Australia

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Salesforce offers dedicated infrastructure with HP

  Salesforce.com has announced a partnership with HP that will offer its services on dedicated infrastructure within its multi-tenant platform

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Executive interview: BMC CEO discusses self-provisioning IT

  BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp believes the only way IT can support business is by enabling self service IT

• November 19, 2013 19 Nov'13

  Barclays extends mobile money platform for easier payments

  Barclay’s Bank has released the latest update to Pingit with functionality that enables businesses to pay people using only their mobile phone numbers

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Salesforce promises $5bn revenue for 2014

  Cloud company Salesforce.com claims it will reach revenues of $5bn for the full fiscal year, despite third quarter results showing a sequential drop

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Case Study: Gates Foundation uses Radian6 to monitor social media

  The charity set up by the Microsoft founder adopts the Salesforce solution to monitor and react to social media

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Case study: Pharma firm fought through hurricane to keep marketing tool on target

  Pharmaceutical firm Bristol-Myers Squibb chose Teradata’s Aprimo to deliver global complex marketing communications

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Startups use AWS re:Invent 2013 as launch pad

  Several startups chose AWS re: Invent as a platform to showcase how they utilised the cloud service provider to get off the ground.

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Fife Council saves £20m through flexible mobile working solution

  Fife Council has implemented a mobile flexible working programme that allows employees to use mobile devices to simplify business processes

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  MoD appoints new CIO and releases ICT strategy

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Yvonne Ferguson as CIO and released its latest Defence ICT Strategy document

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Gartner: CIOs need to address procurement to buy IT from startups

  Companies must reassess IT procurement to enable them do business with smaller firms, if they wish to ride the innovation curve.

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Poundland chooses Microsoft Office 365 as it overhauls IT infrastructure

  Poundland is implementing Microsoft Office 365 to enable staff to collaborate and communicate more efficiently.

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Consulting firm saves thousands by billing in the cloud

  Consulting and outsourcing company Xoomworks claims to be making savings of over £10,000 a year, after introducing a cloud-based system to track its consultant’s billable hours.

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Gartner Symposium: GE Capital rethinks strategic supplier policy

  Financial services business GE Capital, is rethinking its strategy for selecting suppliers, in a bid to boost innovation within IT

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  CIOs put jobs on the line by outsourcing software testing and development

  Some 31% of CIOs are putting their jobs at risk by outsourcing software testing and development because a quarter of projects fail to deliver their objectives.

• November 11, 2013 11 Nov'13

  Midcounties Co-op increases return on service desk investment

  The Midcounties Co-operative has increased the uses for its IT service management software since initially buying a system back in 2004

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  CIO Interview: Michael Ibbitson, Gatwick Airport

  Gatwick Airport is replacing in-house IT with cloud services in a multimillion-pound modernisation programme

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Demand for big data specialists to soar over the next five years

  As one-third of large UK businesses plan to implement big data analytics programmes, demand for staff is set to rise to 69,000 jobs

• November 07, 2013 07 Nov'13

  RBS Markets deploys IBM Rational for virtual testing

  Royal Bank of Scotland is investigating how it could extend a virtual test environment to support future development projects

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  IT spending up as companies invest in digital technology

  Businesses are stepping up their spending on IT as they invest in strategic digital technologies, a CIO survey by Deloitte reveals

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Passengers navigate Gatwick airport using Google Street View

  Gatwick Airport is using Google Street view to help passengers find their way around the airport and into the duty frees

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Canonical backs Cloud Foundry for OpenStack PaaS

  Ubuntu Linux creator Canonical has thrown its weight behind Pivotal's Cloud Foundry platform as a service offering for OpenStack

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Amazon CTO urges businesses to open up to ideas

  At the FT Innovate conference in London, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels argued that companies should be more open to ideas

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Angela Morrison, chief information officer, Direct Line

  Migrating IT away from former parent company Royal Bank of Scotland is the main priority for Angela Morrison, CIO at Direct Line Insurance

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  BlackBerry prepares for software-only future

  John Chen, the man who turned Sybase around, is now at the helm of ailing mobile device company BlackBerry. Can he do it again?