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• May 16, 2022 16 May'22

  Gartner Data & Analytics Summit: Unleash innovation on emergence from pandemic

  Analysts at the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in London urged D&A leaders to unleash innovation as their organisations emerge from the shadow of the pandemic

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Government levelling up bill promotes open data-based digital planning

  The Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill announced in the Queen’s Speech includes proposals for digital planning powers to be given to local government in England and Wales, based on open data

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Organisational silos hampering integration efforts in Asia

  Many organisations in Asia still approach integration in silos, choosing to build hard coded integrations that tend to be brittle and more prone to failure

• May 12, 2022 12 May'22

  Fashion tech investment grew 66% during pandemic

  As the pandemic caused an increase in online shopping, fashion businesses began investing in technology to help them match customer demand

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Sapphire 2022: Klein majors on sustainability and supply chain resilience

  At SAP’s first in-person Sapphire customer conference in three years, CEO Christian Klein and his top team revisited the themes of sustainability and supply chain resilience, which were prominent in 2020 and 2021

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  IBM lived up to its neutrality promise to Red Hat

  Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier claims IBM has lived up to its commitment to maintain the neutrality of Red Hat three years on

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  SAP ‘optimistic’ about S/4 Hana in APAC

  A top SAP executive is confident that more of its customers in Asia-Pacific will adopt S/4 Hana this year, as the company shores up integration of its ERP software with other business applications

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  CCRC to contact 88 more former subpostmasters with potentially wrongful convictions

  The Criminal Cases Review Commission is to contact 88 more potentially wrongfully convicted Post Office workers

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  NetApp’s cloud-era storage competitors in ‘world of hurt’

  NetApp is busily reinventing itself as a cloud services provider, with its competition years behind, according to its public cloud vice-president

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  Post Office scandal inquiry chair brings forward urgent compensation hearings

  The chair of the Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry has brought forward hearings about compensation as victims warn that at this rate “people will die” before they get anything

• May 10, 2022 10 May'22

  How one Australian firm is creating smarter menus

  Me&u’s smart menus are intelligent enough to recommend food items based on customer preferences, and even help to reduce food waste and alleviate bartender workloads during peak periods

• May 09, 2022 09 May'22

  Post Office scandal victims in Scotland to tell their stories, raising questions of law

  Inquiry into Post Office scandal moves to Scotland, with differences in English and Scottish law raising further serious questions about subpostmaster prosecutions

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  How Rimini Street is growing its footprint in ASEAN

  Rimini Street is expanding its reach in ASEAN as more companies, such as Malaysian carmaker Proton, look for cheaper software maintenance options

• May 05, 2022 05 May'22

  How PB Traffic is preventing traffic light theft

  New Zealand’s PB Traffic has deployed an IoT-based tracking system to gain oversight of its portable traffic light systems and prevent theft

• May 04, 2022 04 May'22

  Inside UnaBiz’s bid for Sigfox

  Singapore-based UnaBiz has made a successful bid for the French low-power wide area network technology supplier, in a deal that will advance its vision of a unified IoT world

• May 03, 2022 03 May'22

  Post Office scandal CEO could be stripped of CBE

  Honours Forfeiture Committee to review Paula Vennells’ CBE in the light of Post Office scandal

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Oracle teams with Verizon as it expands global network of industry innovation labs

  New facility outside Chicago will explore how 5G can create and test use cases to solve industry challenges, from carbon reduction to worker safety and sustainable building

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Slack and Salesforce go public with first major integrations since acquisition

  Slack and Salesforce have announced a set of developer products and integrations that Slack cofounder Cal Henderson says marks the first big public step to realising the value of the 2020 acquisition

• April 28, 2022 28 Apr'22

  Scotland’s tech sector recovers pre-pandemic verve

  According to ScotlandIS research, the Scottish technology sector has recovered pre-pandemic levels of growth, and cyber security emerged as the hottest growth area from the industry body’s annual report

• April 27, 2022 27 Apr'22

  Police question former Fujitsu worker again in Post Office scandal perjury investigation

  Police have interviewed a former Fujitsu employee for the third time in the investigation into potential perjury during trials of wrongfully convicted subpostmasters

• April 22, 2022 22 Apr'22

  SAP Q1 2022: Revenue up 11%, Ukraine war impact projected to be €300m

  SAP has announced first-quarter revenue of more than €7.1bn, and the Ukraine war is projected to have a €300m impact for 2022

• April 22, 2022 22 Apr'22

  Asda adopts Workday as part of digital transformation

  As Asda undergoes a digital transformation as part of its separation from Walmart, the supermarket has adopted Workday to manage its 140,000 employees

• April 21, 2022 21 Apr'22

  More Scottish subpostmaster conviction reviews expected as part of Post Office scandal

  The Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission expects more subpostmasters with potential wrongful convictions to come forward

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Nationwide Building Society streamlines payment dispute process through software

  Building society has speeded up the resolution of customer disputes over Visa payments by using Pegasystems software

• April 20, 2022 20 Apr'22

  Financial Ombudsman Service chooses TCS as digital transformation partner

  Tata Consultancy Services will build and implement key systems as part the Financial Ombudsman Service’s digital transformation

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  ODI data literacy report laments technical skills inflation in government data strategy

  An Open Data Institute report on data literacy and UK government data strategy sees a lack of clarity in definition, fragmentation of responsibility, and a disconnect between government and citizens

• April 19, 2022 19 Apr'22

  Softbank and UnaBiz team up on internet of robotic things

  Japan’s Softbank Robotics and Singapore-based UnaBiz are bringing IoT and robotics technology together to improve facilities management, among other applications

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Multi-ERP systems are on the menu for SAP implementations

  Organisations using SAP may build future ERP systems from composable building blocks from multiple software providers

• April 14, 2022 14 Apr'22

  Government agrees bulk surveillance powers fail to protect journalists and sources

  Campaign group Liberty to launch legal appeal that will call for journalists to receive stronger legal protections from state surveillance

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  Oracle vaunts ME as employee experience platform geared to post-crisis workforce realities

  Oracle has launched an employee experience platform, dubbed ME, said to be designed for post-Covid, individualistic pandemic workforce trends

• April 13, 2022 13 Apr'22

  More ANZ organisations warm to DevSecOps

  About four in 10 organisations in Australia and New Zealand are undertaking the transition to development, security and operations, while a further 36% plan to do so in 2022, study finds

• April 06, 2022 06 Apr'22

  APAC organisations to spend more on AI

  The higher investments in AI will be led by the region’s banking industry which is harnessing AI systems to mitigate risks and detect fraud

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  TechUK calls on government to seize post-Brexit data opportunities

  Ahead of the government’s reply to its late 2021 consultation about proposed post-Brexit reforms to the data protection regime, TechUK has published a paper declaring six data governance principles

• April 01, 2022 01 Apr'22

  How X2M Connect is spreading the IoT word

  Australian IoT technology provider X2M Connect has been making headway in key Asian markets, where sustainability and air and water quality are gaining more attention

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  EU Act ‘must empower those affected by AI systems to take action’

  Ada Lovelace Institute publishes recommendations on how European institutions can improve the Artificial Intelligence Act by establishing a ‘comprehensive remedies framework’ around those affected by the deployment of AI systems

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Spain’s La Liga looks to enleague data analytics with Databricks

  La Liga, the first division of the Spanish football league, has turned to Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform to analyse footballer performance and engage with fans

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Compensation goal finally in sight for 555 Post Office scandal victims

  The subpostmaster campaign group which exposed the Post Office Horizon scandal could be close to achieving the objective it was established for, with fair compensation for its members in sight

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  UKISUG: Big majority of SAP users beset by data problems in migrating to S/4 Hana

  In a survey prior to its Analytics Symposium, the UK & Ireland SAP User Group finds 61% of SAP customers say data management issues are slowing down process automation and impeding moves to S/4 Hana

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Why integration and automation are two sides of the same coin

  Workato’s regional leader explains why integration and automation are intertwined and how the company is addressing the Asia-Pacific market

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  IT professionals wary of government campaign to limit end-to-end encryption

  Members of the Chartered Institute of IT, the professional body for technology professionals in the UK, warn against limiting end-to-end encryption

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  NHS England deploys pilot AI tool to forecast A&E admissions

  The NHS is deploying an AI-based demand forecasting tool to accurately predict activity levels and free up staff, space and resources to tackle post-pandemic treatment backlogs

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  European Commission proposes new cyber security regulations

  New cyber and information security regulations have been proposed by the European Commission to create a minimum set of standards in both areas

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Unipart maps way ahead with Rise with SAP service

  Unipart has chosen the Rise with SAP S/4 Hana-based service as it seeks to develop further the systems integration side of its business

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2022

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Plugging supply chain gaps

  StratMed’s Integer platform is facilitating data exchanges between healthcare providers and their suppliers to improve transparency in India’s healthcare supply chain

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: How Telekom Malaysia scaled its RPA initiative

  Telekom Malaysia has been driving automation efforts across the company, not only to serve customers more efficiently, but also to improve a slew of back office functions

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Transforming Australia’s national assessment programme

  Education Services Australia has transformed the country’s national assessment programme through an online platform that has enabled teachers to design adaptive tests and improved student engagement

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Tracking cargo on the road

  Through Geodis APAC’s One Road platform, supply chain companies have received fewer enquiries on cargo locations and improved on-time performance using roads as an alternative way to move cargo

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: How WLTH is disrupting traditional banking

  The fintech company built its own technology stack that delivers data analytics and other capabilities as it seeks to win market share from traditional banks

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  SAP to invest S$250m in Singapore innovation lab

  New lab will double SAP’s engineering workforce in Singapore by 2025 and help to shape the company’s product development roadmap