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Business applications
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May 13, 2013
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May'13
UKOUG extends reach to CIOs and business leaders
The UK Oracle User Group is set to raise its profile among C-level executives
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May 10, 2013
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May'13
Case Study: Brent Council cuts costs with mobile tech
Brent Council implements mobile technology to cut costs and involve more staff in the future running of the organisation
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May 10, 2013
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May'13
CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team
Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track
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May 09, 2013
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May'13
SAP customers could save billions through consolidation
SAP consolidation offers big savings, and HANA is expected to be a big part of the future of business IT, says HCL executive
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May 09, 2013
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May'13
TfL revamps mobile solutions on the buses
TfL has revamped its mobile solutions across the London bus network with O2 and Cognito
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May 08, 2013
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May'13
Case study: TKAB adopts mobile for Swedish railways
The winners of cloud innovation of the year in Computer Weekly’s European user awards for networking tell us how they have used the Appear IQ mobile platform to boost efficiency and its transport service
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May 08, 2013
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May'13
SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud
SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications
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May 08, 2013
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May'13
SAP introduces HANA to cloud at ‘petabyte scale’
SAP has announced an enterprise cloud service, based on its in-memory database appliance, HANA
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May 07, 2013
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May'13
Microsoft to bring back the Start button in Windows 8?
Amid lacklustre take-up of Windows 8 and a declining PC industry, Microsoft may be set to reintroduce the much-loved Start button in Windows 8
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May 07, 2013
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May'13
Salesforce.com targets communities
Salesforce.com says it wants to address communities with its software as a service (SaaS) platform
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May 02, 2013
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May'13
Public cloud: Ready for business?
Cloud computing is moving beyond small companies, start-ups and software development to the era of full-scale enterprise deployments.
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May 01, 2013
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May'13
Employees expected to bring own devices to work
Analyst firm Gartner predicts businesses will stop providing mobiles and tablets with 50% of workers expected to bring their own devices by 2017
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year
Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
Progress made on Lloyds Bank's Project Verde segregation
Lloyds Banking Group has reported good progress in its project to enable the systems for the new standalone TSB bank which will be sold off when complete
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
Gartner: Business must take control of mobile development
IT departments will need to ramp up skills in developing for the cloud, to support mobile apps that make use of back-end services
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
Splunk CEO: Unintended use cases important to machine data business
Big data technologies spawn unintended use cases. Godfrey Sullivan, CEO of machine data indexing company Splunk, estimates that over 30% of the company’s revenue comes from uses it did not foresee
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
Case study: How SAP runs Cape Town
For the past 10 years, SAP has been running the city of Cape Town, South Africa
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April 29, 2013
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Apr'13
Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn
O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers
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April 29, 2013
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Apr'13
McAfee warns of unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader
An unpatched vulnerability in every version of Adobe Reader reveals where and when a PDF document is opened, says McAfee
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April 25, 2013
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Apr'13
CIO of Eskom Sai Laher aims to deliver world class IT
The IT department at Eskom, is working on a multi-year plan to become a top five IT department in the utilities sector
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April 24, 2013
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Apr'13
Getronics helps Gatwick move IT in house
Gatwick Airport has signed a services deal with Getronics as part of a transformation, which includes moving significant IT in-house
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April 24, 2013
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Apr'13
Tata goes trackside with Mercedes F1
Mercedes AMG Petronas signs a deal with Tata Communications to provide connectivity to the famous Formula One racing team
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April 23, 2013
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Apr'13
Health minister Jeremy Hunt tells SMEs: ‘The NHS needs you’
The health secretary admits there is ‘a long way to go’ before NHS procurement is as open to SMEs as large tech providers
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April 19, 2013
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Apr'13
SAP Q1 results: UK and northern Europe show growth
SAP’s priority areas of in-memory database technology, mobile and cloud showing growth in the UK, says EMEA president, Franck Cohen
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April 19, 2013
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Apr'13
Microsoft reports strong quarterly results for all divisions
Microsoft reported profit of $6bn for the past quarter, up 17% from a year ago, despite a mixed response to Windows 8 and a decline in PC sales
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April 17, 2013
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Apr'13
Case Study: Sutton & East Surrey Water plugs leaks with Google
Sutton & East Surrey Water has implemented a job allocation system built on top of Google maps to manage its works maintenance crews
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April 17, 2013
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Apr'13
HP to embed 3D controls in PCs with Leap Motion technology
HP has signed a deal with motion-control technology company Leap Motion to embed 3D gesture technology in PCs
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April 17, 2013
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Apr'13
Electronic health record issues exist on paper
One of the lead consultants for protection of online health records claims a lot of the issues that will arise have already surfaced with paper records
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April 15, 2013
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Apr'13
SAP User Groups gain easy access to SAP Customer Connection programme
SAP user groups have effected a change to the SAP Customer Connection programme, making it simpler to register to suggest product improvements
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April 11, 2013
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Apr'13
HP chief defends public attack on Autonomy management
HP CEO Meg Whitman has defended her company’s attack on the former management of Autonomy, which it acquired in 2011 for $11.7bn
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April 10, 2013
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Apr'13
How to make the most of corporate data
IT departments focus on structured data but miss the needs of almost half their employees, says CEB managing director Andrew Horne
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April 10, 2013
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Apr'13
Cloud applications gain ground in corporate IT
Cloud applications are starting to gain mass in enterprise IT, shifting from “should we?” to “how?”
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April 10, 2013
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Apr'13
Mott MacDonald rolls out unified communications
Global engineering firm Mott MacDonald signs Tata Communications for a five-year unified communications deal worth over $20m
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April 10, 2013
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Apr'13
UK financial regulator FCA probes RBS IT failure
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) probes an IT failure at Royal Bank of Scotland that also affected NatWest and Ulster Bank customers
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April 09, 2013
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Apr'13
WAN optimisation: What you need to know
With networks becoming more crowded with data than ever before, WAN optimisation could be the answer for your corporate network
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April 09, 2013
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Apr'13
CEOs optimistic about IT innovation and investment, says Gartner
A survey of CEOs and senior executives from Gartner finds the business climate right for IT investment to drive business development
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April 08, 2013
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Apr'13
Huawei looks to five years of growth
As Huawei posts a year-on-year rise in profit, it promises five more years with a compound annual growth rate of 10%
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April 08, 2013
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Apr'13
HP targets Moonshot at next generation internet servers
HP CEO Meg Whitman claims Moonshot will be a breakthrough in server computing to power next generation internet applications
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April 08, 2013
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Apr'13
Businesses blow budgets on unused software
Businesses are wasting more than 10% of their software budgets on products that are never used, says IDC
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April 08, 2013
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Apr'13
Enterprises abandon Java due to security holes
Many businesses are migrating away from Java due to the level of zero-day vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment
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April 05, 2013
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Apr'13
HP chairman Ray Lane steps down following shareholder attack
Ray Lane has stepped down as chairman of the board of HP following a meeting with angry shareholders in March
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April 04, 2013
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Apr'13
Bank legacy systems will remain until CIO life expectancy increases
CIOs at banks lack the job security required to transform IT through the replacement of legacy systems that have been in place for decades
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April 04, 2013
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Apr'13
CIOs must reskill to succeed with in-memory computing, says Gartner
Analyst house Gartner urges CIOs to ensure their teams have the right skills to exploit the benefits of in-memory computing
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March 28, 2013
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Mar'13
Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending
The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast
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March 28, 2013
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Mar'13
Patients and doctors must push for a paperless NHS, says Intellect report
IT trade body Intellect says patients and doctors must undergo cultural change to realise government's ambition of a paperless NHS by 2018
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March 27, 2013
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Mar'13
Switching cloud services
If industry hype is anything to go by, everyone should be using services. But what happens when a cloud service is longer available?
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March 26, 2013
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Mar'13
Southern Water contracts TCS for transformation
Southern Water is transforming customer service and revenue management through IT services from Tata Consultancy Services
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March 25, 2013
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Mar'13
Oracle continues telecoms push with Tekelec buy
Larry Ellison’s firm continues its move into the telecoms space with its latest acquisition
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March 22, 2013
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Mar'13
Insolvency firm Griffins speeds up fraud forensics with IBM analytics
Insolvency and forensics firm Griffins is using IBM’s i2 analytics software to reduce the cost, time and complexity associated with fraud and forensic investigations for litigation
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March 22, 2013
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Mar'13
UK law enforcement requests most data from Skype
Microsoft reveals UK law enforcement is one of the main requesters of data about citizens from services such as Hotmail, Outlook and Skype
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March 21, 2013
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Mar'13
Businesses turn to analytics to motivate employees
Investors are increasingly placing businesses under scrutiny over the way they engage and manage their workforce
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March 21, 2013
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Mar'13
Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat
Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape
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March 20, 2013
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Mar'13
Cloud, big data and social media transforming HR
Business professionals that combine an understanding of HR and IT are helping to transform the way companies manage their workforce
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March 20, 2013
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Mar'13
CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer
As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability
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March 20, 2013
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Mar'13
Google searches the internet for talented employees
Google is using the internet to track down potential recruits with the skills and experience to become high-flyers
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March 20, 2013
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Mar'13
Case study: CSR boosts WAN with SilverPeak
How WAN optimisation from SilverPeak has helped the international operations of CSR, the private sector winner of Computer Weekly’s European User Awards for Networking
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March 15, 2013
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Mar'13
Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations
In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports
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March 15, 2013
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Mar'13
Cabinet Office to axe government CIO and boards in governance shake-up
The Cabinet Office is to axe the government CIO role in a governance shake-up that will put digital leaders at the heart of technology change
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March 14, 2013
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Mar'13
CIO Interview: Matthew Oakeley, global IT head of Schroders
Matthew Oakeley talks to Karl Flinders about his role as global IT head at investment management company Schroders
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March 13, 2013
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Mar'13
Software suppliers have local authorities over a barrel, says CIO
Local authorities are faced with a choice of either forking out for costly software licence upgrades or keeping staff, says Geoff Connell, CIO
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March 13, 2013
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Mar'13
John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy
John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’
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March 11, 2013
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Mar'13
Majestic Wine swaps Microsoft for Intershop in ecommerce refresh
Majestic Wine is revamping its website with an InterShop 7 ecommerce engine, which replaces a legacy Microsoft Commerce Server system.
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March 11, 2013
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Mar'13
Hilary Reynolds latest universal credit programme director to move
Universal credit programme director Hilary Reynolds has moved off after just four months, the latest senior figure to leave the programme
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March 07, 2013
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Mar'13
MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools
Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham
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March 06, 2013
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Mar'13
Cabinet Office hands government ‘public cloud first’ mandate
Whitehall is to adopt a ‘public cloud first' policy mandating departments to consider public cloud services the main channel for their IT spending
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March 05, 2013
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Mar'13
Predictive analytics adoption triples, says Accenture
Chief data officers are rising to the leadership of business analytics programmes more quickly than expected
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March 05, 2013
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Mar'13
Lack of killer apps curbs PC refresh
CIOs used to refresh PCs because they wanted to run the latest software. Now, software is not compelling enough to justify a PC upgrade
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February 28, 2013
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Feb'13
BYOD to force mobile operators into services
O2’s former European president claims mobile operators will lose enterprise contracts if they don’t focus on services
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February 25, 2013
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Feb'13
Nokia Siemens Networks unveils Liquid Applications
New technology enables data-rich applications to be run from base stations, reducing latency in mobile networks
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February 25, 2013
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Intelligent data use stokes high performance, says EIU study
Companies which believe their data use is better than their competitors are more likely to consider themselves ahead in financial performance too
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February 24, 2013
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Feb'13
Universal Credit has the hallmarks of another IT failure
Charities, housing associations and consultancies have warned that the Department for Work and Pensions’ £2.2bn Universal Credit programme has all the hallmarks of another public sector IT disaster.
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February 22, 2013
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HP's Whitman sticks with PC business as revenue crashes
HP CEO Meg Whitman reports that the ailing computer company has a lot of work ahead to rebuild its enterprise business.
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February 21, 2013
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Dell results highlight PC decline
As it prepares to reprivatise, Dell has reported an 11% decrease in revenue for Q4 2012, compared to the same period last year.
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February 20, 2013
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Feb'13
VMware updates Horizon with workplace bundle
VMware has updated its Horizon View and VMware Horizon Mirage tools and introduced Horizon Workspace to support secure VDI and mobile access
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February 19, 2013
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Feb'13
Rethink enterprise architectures to embody cloud and on-premise integration
Accenture's latest Technology Vision 2013 report recommends CIOs plan to integrate cloud and on-premise systems
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February 18, 2013
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Feb'13
TCS establishes UK centre as part of Home Office contract
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has opened a delivery centre in Liverpool to ensure it complies with government rules on security
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February 18, 2013
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Feb'13
BAE Systems and Vodafone join forces for mobile security
The aerospace and defence company BAE Systems will work with Vodafone to offer security products for mobiles and tablets
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February 14, 2013
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Feb'13
Southwest One outsourcing achieves 10% of target savings
Somerset council's Southwest One outsourcing venture achieved just 10% of the savings initially targeted half way through the programme
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February 14, 2013
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Feb'13
Google battles BT in patent row
Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement
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February 14, 2013
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Feb'13
CIOs should scrutinise Oracle's Fusion strategy
A Forrester report paints a bleak picture for Oracle's Fusion Applications business, suggesting price hikes could be on the horizon
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February 13, 2013
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Feb'13
Cloud apps, big data priorities for significant slew of UK IT managers
Cloud-based finance and HR applications are spending priorities for a significant minority of UK IT professionals in 2013
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February 12, 2013
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Feb'13
Beware of Oracle's Fusion Application plans
Businesses are avoiding Oracle’s Fusion strategy according to research from Forrester. CIOs should be wary of the supplier's long-term plans.
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February 11, 2013
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Feb'13
HMRC alerts businesses to impending real-time PAYE changes
HMRC is notifying businesses about impending real-time information (RTI) changes to the PAYE payroll system
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February 11, 2013
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Feb'13
UK accountancy watchdog FRC investigates Autonomy
Financial Reporting Council (FRC) in the UK is latest organisation to examine Autonomy accounts, which is accused of inflating its value
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February 11, 2013
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Feb'13
Australia to quiz tech giants on pricing
The Australian parliament has summoned Microsoft, Apple and Adobe to appear before a committee investigating pricing
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February 10, 2013
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Feb'13
Government seeks evidence for 'information economy' strategy
The government is urging SMEs to submit evidence ahead of the publication of its Information Economy Strategy in May
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February 07, 2013
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Feb'13
Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland
Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London
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February 07, 2013
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Feb'13
SAP price rise fails to win User Group disapproval
SAP raises standard support prices for new contracts from 18% to 19% on July 15. SAP UK & Ireland User Group signals reluctant acceptance
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February 07, 2013
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Feb'13
Government school building project harnesses cloud collaboration
The Education Funding Agency (EFA) is using cloud-based collaboration to underpin the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP)
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February 05, 2013
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Feb'13
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia
Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data
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February 05, 2013
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Feb'13
Dell goes private helped by $2bn loan from Microsoft
Michael Dell has succeeded in raising $24bn to buy back the company he founded in 1984, thanks in part to a $2bn loan from Microsoft
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February 04, 2013
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Feb'13
Reed jobs site chooses SAP Business ByDesign
Reed.co.uk recruitment agency has chosen cloud-based SAP Business ByDesign as part of an overhaul of its business applications strategy
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January 31, 2013
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Jan'13
SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana
SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system
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January 30, 2013
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Jan'13
First tech start-ups chosen for financial services innovation lab
Seven financial technology companies have been selected to take part in a mentoring programme in London
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January 28, 2013
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Jan'13
Lessons from going global with Google
The decision by global HR firm Randstad to migrate to Google from on-premise email should raise questions for CIOs considering the cloud
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January 28, 2013
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Jan'13
Finance firm applications built on C and C++ more at risk
Study of business applications reveals choice of programming language in the financial services sector is leading to security and continuity risks
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January 28, 2013
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Jan'13
CIO interview: Yann L’Huillier, Tradition
Yann L’Huillier describes the three-pronged strategy he adopted after joining over-the-counter trading firm Tradition in April 2010
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January 25, 2013
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Jan'13
Ferrari swerves SAP, adopts Infor LN to meet Chinese demand
Italian sports car maker Ferrari has turned to Infor ERP technology to respond to Chinese and Middle Eastern customer demand
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January 25, 2013
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Jan'13
Interview with GE's head of software, William Ruh
GE makes large industrial machines, like jet engines and locomotive control systems. William Ruh aims to pioneer industrial computing
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January 25, 2013
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Jan'13
Microsoft profits and shares dip despite record revenues from Windows 8
Microsoft’s share price slips after it reports a drop in profits, despite record revenues boosted by Windows 8 operating system (OS) sales