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• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Startup profile: Clear Returns

  Clear Returns is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution that provides online retailers with real-time information on their products and customers

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Steve Ballmer launches Microsoft 2.0

  Steve Ballmer plans to reinvent Microsoft with a big push to develop hardware from phones to set top boxes, as it attempts to remain relevant

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  OpenCorporates makes company data public

  Company data is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  IT directors attack dire software licensing schemes

  Software companies are making it difficult for IT departments to buy legitimate software

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  Head of Universal Credit denies IT problems

  Howard Shiplee tells the work and pensions select committee all is well, denying reports of the failing IT system behind Universal Credit

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Microsoft rallies partners to build hybrid Azure

  Microsoft is set to make a major push to attract businesses to use Azure through a “cloud first” strategy.

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Post Office Horizon system investigation reveals concerns

  Investigation into the allegedly faulty accounting system used by sub-postmasters has revealed serious concerns

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved

  Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Ashridge Business School revamps network with HP

  Ashridge Business School, in Berkhamsted, rolls out HP FlexCampus to encourage its students to bring their own devices

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Time is running out to make business systems Sepa compliant

  Only 2.5% of direct debit payments and 45% of credit transfers are compliant with the Sepa standard required by February, says Experian

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Dutch retailer picks IBM cloud for merchandising

  Netherlands online retailer Wehkamp chooses IBM’s cloud-based merchandise analytics tool to manage price cuts and clearance

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

  Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Pete Marsden, CIO, Asos.com

  As online fashion retailer Asos.com continues to expand, its IT strategy is focused on new international locations and keeping up with web retail

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Buyer beware: Millions lost from rip-off software licences

  Software buyers are vulnerable to exploitation due to the demise of traditional user groups combined with aggressive sales targets

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Ocado delivers with in-house software development

  Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  NHS IT to embrace open source

  A new report from NHS England promises open source will be at the heart of the plans to digitise the health service

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Gartner forecasts a return to IT investment as economy improves

  Global IT spending is set to reach $3.7tn by 2014 as the economy improves, according to the Gartner Worldwide IT Spending Forecast

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  HMRC gets £200m in digital services investment

  HMRC's digital services to receive £200m of government investment, in a move expected to save £51m year on administrative costs

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Datacentres must be tuned to the application in the mobile-cloud era: Cisco

  Cloud, big data and mobile applications are challenging the traditional datacentre infrastructure, says Cisco

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  SMEs should eye government legacy for future business, says Bracken

  SMEs should look to the government’s IT legacy infrastructure for future business, according to Mike Bracken, head of the Government Digital Service

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Proprietary software a trap, says Hadoop founder Doug Cutting

  Hadoop founder Doug Cutting believes enterprises have woken to the benefits of open source software, but says Europe is behind with adoption

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Storage firm Guardtime relies on maths for transparent data security

  Estonian storage company Guardtime claims its security technology makes data more transparent, but will it be embraced by Europe?

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software have been announced. See who made the top spots

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Oracle offers enterprise software on Azure and Hyper-V

  Microsoft and Oracle form an alliance to enable Oracle software to run on Hyper-V and Windows Azure infrastructure

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Teradata executives discuss big data, in-memory computing and data science

  Stephen Brobst and Martin Willcox offer insight into Teradata’s world view as big data gains momentum

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Silicon Valley ‘forgets the rest of the world exists'

  San Francisco entrepreneur claims Silicon Valley forgets it is building products for the whole world, not just tech geeks in the Bay Area

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Europe's public sector could save €1bn a year

  The European Union’s public sector could save €1.1bn (£930m) a year by following new open standard guidelines to avoid ICT vendor lock-in.

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Scality CEO: Why would any start-up go to Europe?

  The French CEO of the object storage specialist vents his frustration at the difficulty of breaking into Europe for US start-ups

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Barclays changes terms and conditions to harness big data

  Barclays Bank is to use customer data to innovate around customer services and provide insights to business customers

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Camden Council goes BYOD with Accellion

  Camden adopts a bring your own device (BYOD) strategy to save money, improve security and bring their IT systems into the modern era

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Moving business apps to the cloud can yield power savings, shows study

  Moving business apps, including email and CRM, from local IT systems to the cloud could cut energy consumption by up to 87%

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Big data confusion leads corporate IT to put the brakes on BI spending

  Big data hyperbole has caused corporate IT to tighten the purse strings on business intelligence (BI)

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  HR technology booming as businesses turn to the cloud

  Over the next 18 months, 60% of companies plan to roll out HR technology solutions, says analyst group Bersin by Deloitte.

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Companies must rethink data sharing, says GE CEO Jeff Immelt

  GE CEO, Jeff Immelt (pictured), explains to customers the benefits of sharing machine data in an industrial internet

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  GE creates partnership to build industrial internet

  GE has partnered with Accenture, Amazon and Pivotal to develop a big data-based services business for its products

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Investigation into Post Office accounting system to drill down on strongest cases

  The investigation into the Post Office’s allegedly faulty accounting system will focus on a select few of the 47 claims

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  Lancashire NHS Trust deploys Yellowfin mobile BI to enhance care

  NHS Trust is using a mobile business intelligence system from Yellowfin to improve clinician performance and patient healthcare

• June 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Microsoft puts Office Mobile on iPhone

  iPhone users can now use Microsoft’s Office Mobile product which is available as a free download from the AppStore

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  HP gets serious about Google Apps

  HP has taken a step to boost the credibility of Google Enterprise in business by offering a package for SMEs

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Cisco turns to rules engine in drive to tackle emerging markets

  Cisco is turning to business rules software to help it respond in a more agile way to new market opportunities, changing regulations, and business practices.

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  IT sourcing complexity makes supplier management a priority

  IT supplier management capabilities becoming business critical as correlation between IT and business performance strengthens

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Lloyds customer complaints plummet after automating manual processes

  Lloyds is claiming dramatic improvements in the quality of its customer service after automating manual banking processes

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Daimler moving IT in-house

  Daimler is planning to make savings of €150m a year by bringing IT services in-house and expanding its IT operations in India and Turkey

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  Telefonica Digital forms security group Eleven Paths

  The business division of mobile operator Telefonica launches Eleven Paths, an independent company working on security issues in the workplace

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  UK police start to tear up Dickensian transactional processes

  British police forces are putting “Dickensian”, paper-based transactions with members of the public online

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  IBM and 10Gen collaborate on database standard for enterprise mobile

  IBM and 10Gen are to work together on a database development standard for mobile enterprise applications

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Ceva Logistics builds solid relationship offshore

  Ceva Logistics made a quick decision to outsource IT to India in 2008 and had its first offshore IT staff up and running in weeks

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  SAP buys e-commerce company Hybris to move into CRM market

  SAP is moving into the CRM market with its purchase of Hybris, a Swiss customer relationship management (CRM) supplier

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion

  Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure

  Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Centrica migrates desktops from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7

  Utilities giant Centrica migrates 26,500 staff from Microsoft Windows XP to Windows 7, completing the desktop transformation by the end of 2013

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Warner Brothers tracks films to screens with FileMaker

  Every country in Europe has a George Clooney. Warner Brothers needs to know who the local dubbing actors are in each of 52 territories

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Austrian Airlines’ off-the-shelf PPM creates efficiencies

  Austrian Airlines moved to packaged Project Portfolio Management (PPM) software when its highly-bespoke system could no longer cope

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  G-Cloud moves to GDS

  The G-Cloud has become part of the remit of the Government Digital Service (GDS)

• June 03, 2013 03 Jun'13

  Care home operator manages Apple estate with Absolute

  Software firm offers the right MDM solutions for LNT Group to manage a fleet of iPhones without needing individual iTunes accounts.

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  London trusts adopt BT electronic health records

  BT and CSE Healthcare roll out RiO electronic patient record system to 62 community and mental health trusts in London and south England

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  Argos uses GIS to support multichannel strategy

  Argos deploys a location analytics tool to support multichannel strategy to wind down some leases and focus on online and click and collect

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  SAP leaders bang the drum for Hana as a platform

  SAP executives are positioning the supplier’s in-memory database as a pivotal technology, not just an end in itself

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Is Google mature enough for the enterprise?

  The enterprise business is core to Google’s future. Its approach to collaboration has potential benefits. But are IT directors ready to give it a go?

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Small businesses increase IT budgets

  Renegotiations and renewals inevitably bring better terms but businesses could be missing out by sticking with the suppliers they know

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management

  ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  CERN uses ITIL to rethink facilities management

  CERN, the particle physics laboratory, is using IT service management to support operations outside the IT function

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Headphone technology to boost fibre connections

  New research claims the same technological theory used to create noise-cancelling headphones could boost connections running over fibre

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  SAP’s Sikka takes innovation lead as SuccessFactors founder departs

  SAP has announced a leadership reshuffle in line with its agenda of in-memory database Hana, cloud and mobile. Sikka steps up, SuccessFactors’ Dalgaard steps down

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

  Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  How Adobe Creative Cloud will impact budgets

  Adobe is replacing its traditional Creative Suite perpetual licensing model with a cloud-based subscription model. Is it cost-effective?

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Network virtualisation threatens telecom suppliers

  Chris Koopmans from Citrix believes network virtualisation offers more opportunities for companies such as Cisco and Juniper

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Where does Microsoft fit in the future of VDI and remote applications?

  Users say they prefer Citrix over Microsoft for desktop virtualisation, but will Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8 change that?

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge

  The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Facebook most popular social media tool in the enterprise

  Facebook dominates, but businesses will begin rolling out enterprise social media tools in the next 12 months

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m

  Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Microsoft and Janet deal brings cloud to millions of academics

  Microsoft and the UK’s research and education network deal gives academic institutions access to Office 365 and millions of students fast and secure access to Windows Azure cloud

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Mahindra Satyam draws a line under turmoil

  Mahindra Satyam has drawn a line under the turmoil caused when a former Satyam director admitted to misreporting the company’s results

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Plattner, Sikka hail HANA growth beyond SAP

  In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, Hasso Plattner and Vishal Sikka said at Sapphire 2013

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  BlackBerry Live 2013: ING Direct pilots BB10 devices and BES10 for management

  Online bank ING Direct is undergoing a pilot with BlackBerry’s BB10 operating system, involving 300 Z10 and Q10 smartphones

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Business Suite on HANA goes to general availability

  Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, has announced the general availability of HANA on its Business Suite ERP software at Sapphire 2013 in Orlando

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Department for Transport rolls out IP telephony

  The central government department chooses Azzurri for the new system, signing a five-year contract worth £1m

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Digital technology firms could benefit from record Technology Strategy Board budget

  The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has £440m available to support innovative companies, including digital technology businesses

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: SAP declares for cloud expansion, on back of Hana

  SAP has announced a widening of the cloud delivery of its enterprise technologies

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Mobile development teams not up to the job, say CIOs

  Development teams are struggling to keep pace as business applications go mobile

• May 13, 2013 13 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

• May 10, 2013 10 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

• May 10, 2013 10 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

• May 09, 2013 09 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

• May 09, 2013 09 May'13

  TfL revamps mobile solutions on the buses

  TfL has revamped its mobile solutions across the London bus network with O2 and Cognito

• May 08, 2013 08 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

• May 08, 2013 08 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

• May 08, 2013 08 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

• May 07, 2013 07 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

• May 07, 2013 07 May'13

  Salesforce.com targets communities

  Salesforce.com says it wants to address communities with its software as a service (SaaS) platform

• May 02, 2013 02 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.

• May 01, 2013 01 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

• April 30, 2013 30 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

• April 30, 2013 30 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

• April 30, 2013 30 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

• April 30, 2013 30 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

• April 30, 2013 30 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

• April 29, 2013 29 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

• April 29, 2013 29 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