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February 27, 2017
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Feb'17
Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff
Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM
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February 27, 2017
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Feb'17
Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office
Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team
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February 27, 2017
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Feb'17
Citizen Love: the story of an ordinary family's fight with the US government
Finnish documentary makers Raimo Uunila and Lauri Danska tell the behind-the-scenes story of activist Lauri Love’s battle with the US government – and the impact of the case on his family
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February 22, 2017
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Feb'17
Corporate IT Forum aims to fill gap in discipline of SRM
Forum to fill supplier relationship management gap opened up by growing centrality of IT to business, and transitions to cloud
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February 17, 2017
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Feb'17
High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case
Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
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February 16, 2017
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Feb'17
Oracle executives claim more comprehensive reach for cloud business
At a recent customer conference in London, US-based Oracle executives gave accounts of the supplier’s cloud business as becoming at once more enterprise and more mid-market
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February 15, 2017
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Feb'17
UAE bank builds predictive marketing models
Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software
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February 13, 2017
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Feb'17
Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures
Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies
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February 09, 2017
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Feb'17
SAP connects S/4 Hana in the cloud with ‘intelligent’ ERP
SAP has announced an intensification of S/4 Hana cloud delivery, together with an infusion of its enterprise resource planning with artificial intelligence
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February 09, 2017
09
Feb'17
Case study: Australia’s Salmat to go cloud-only after getting a taste for the technology
Australian marketing company Salmat plans to move everything it can into the cloud following a highly successful initial SaaS implementation
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February 06, 2017
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Feb'17
APAC businesses turn to DevOps to improve app quality, security
Security validation and metrics are some of the key trends in DevOps this year, according to CA Technologies
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January 31, 2017
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Jan'17
SAP aims to clarify S/4 Hana, cloud apps roadmaps for customers
The SAP board has launched an initiative to publish and clarify roadmaps, especially in respect of S/4 Hana and its cloud applications, and one product of this is a new technology choice tool
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January 29, 2017
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Jan'17
Artificial intelligence will increase productivity by sharpening human mind
The combination of AI and humans will triple productivity if businesses get the balance right for different roles
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January 27, 2017
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Jan'17
Post Office facing group litigation over Horizon computer system after watershed decision
The group action against the Post Office that alleges sub-postmasters have been wrongly punished for accounting errors gets a green light from the High Court of Justice
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January 23, 2017
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Jan'17
Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector
Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending
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January 19, 2017
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Jan'17
Southampton FC signs up to cloud-based e-commerce
The cloud-based system by Advanced supports fan engagement and is able to handle peaks in traffic on Southampton FC’s website
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January 17, 2017
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Jan'17
Aldo uses Salesforce to drive ‘customer delight’
Luxury retailer is using Salesforce to drive engagement, a seamless experience and customer loyalty
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January 13, 2017
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Jan'17
Davos: Technology poses new risks to jobs, economies and society
Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by technology to jobs, political stability and cyber security at the World Economic Forum in Davos
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January 11, 2017
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Jan'17
McKinsey finds hard work to do in Big Data Revisited report
The McKinsey Global Institute has revisited its path-breaking 2011 big data report, finding a new salience for machine learning, and most companies under-capitalising their data
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January 04, 2017
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Jan'17
Pernod Ricard toasts better demand forecasting with Infor
Drinks company Pernod Ricard, known for its Absolut, Malibu and Jameson tipples, has improved demand forecast accuracy with Infor software
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January 04, 2017
04
Jan'17
Customer-first approach will make 2017 a challenge for Dutch CIOs
CIOs in the Netherlands could see their strategies lead to thousands of jobs being cut as businesses automate
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December 21, 2016
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Dec'16
How Shazam handles its data reserves
Chris Kammermann, senior infrastructure engineer at Shazam, explains how adopting the Splunk platform has helped the firm deal with legacy systems and data analysis
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December 16, 2016
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Dec'16
Amadeus turns to NoSQL to answer complex travel questions
Travel software and services company Amadeus has employed a NoSQL database technology to help travellers find answers to complex travel queries
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December 14, 2016
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Dec'16
Swedish Cider company upgrades to cloud ERP to keep up with growth
Apple-based product manufacturer moves to an industry-specific ERP system in the cloud
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December 05, 2016
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Dec'16
Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016
Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016
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November 30, 2016
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BP to go all-in on public cloud to cut datacentre upkeep costs
Oil giant BP uses first day of AWS Re:Invent to outline how it is cushioning itself against falling oil prices by using cloud to cut costs
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November 29, 2016
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Group litigation against Post Office in Horizon system dispute prepares for next stage
Postmasters’ legal case against the Post Office claims that computer system is to blame for losses, not false accounting or theft
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November 25, 2016
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Boots SAP centre of expertise helps take back control
Walgreens Boots Alliance has built an SAP centre of expertise to take back control of the strategic direction of its IT organisation from its previously outsourced structure
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November 24, 2016
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Nov'16
How InterContinental Hotels connects with real-time marketing
InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands
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November 24, 2016
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Nov'16
CIO Interview: Jim Fowler, GE
Imagine if your boss was a CEO pioneering a digital revolution in a company over 120 years old, connecting industrial machines to the internet
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November 23, 2016
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Nov'16
Budget busters: Three ways for CIOs to fund digital initiatives
The business wants IT to innovate, but CIOs find their budgets are frozen. Who you gonna call?
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November 22, 2016
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Nov'16
Alleged hacker Lauri Love’s ‘life will be destroyed’ under Trump regime
Supporters fear for activist Lauri Love if his extradition to face hacking charges to the US goes ahead
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November 21, 2016
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Nov'16
Foot Locker to roll out ‘best fit’ recruitment software after productivity hike
Sports retailer to adopt online software to identify best job candidates after its use led to double-digit rise in team performance in US stores
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November 17, 2016
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Nov'16
Dutch bank ING to spend millions ‘disrupting’ its own business
Dutch bank ING used digital technology to reinvent itself following the financial crash, and is about to reinvent itself again, says its global CTO, Brendan Donovan
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November 16, 2016
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Nov'16
UK almost bottom of OECD pile for ICT investment
The UK ranks low in terms of how much it invests in the ICT infrastructure as a proportion of GDP
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November 15, 2016
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Nov'16
Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges
Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health
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November 07, 2016
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Nov'16
Oracle consummates acquisition of NetSuite, eyes $1bn cloud revenue
$9.3bn acquisition is in line with Oracle’s avowed move to cloud as a delivery mode for its business applications
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November 02, 2016
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Nov'16
Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff
Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees
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October 25, 2016
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Oct'16
Virgin Atlantic finds community benefit with Salesforce
Airline’s business-to-business and cargo divisions have found Salesforce CRM to offer a “family feel” beyond the software
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October 21, 2016
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Oct'16
SAP Q3 2016 results: cloud revenue reaches 14% of total
SAP’s third quarter 2016 financial results show 28% growth in cloud revenue, and the addition of 400 customers for its flagship S/4 Hana product
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October 11, 2016
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Oct'16
Facebook at Work comes out of beta and launches as Workplace
Facebook launches its Workplace application for use in a professional environment after a year of beta
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October 07, 2016
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Oct'16
Dunkin’ data – how one firm is going donuts for data analytics
The director of consumer technology and mobile for Dunkin’ Donuts explains how the retailer uses Splunk to manage customer satisfaction through data
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October 06, 2016
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Oct'16
Benioff follows Will.i.am on stage to promote Stem education as way out
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff endorses Will.i.am’s education drive for black youth and Bono’s anti-AIDS charity, (Red)
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October 03, 2016
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Oct'16
Dutch government uses Microsoft Dynamics to improve recruitment
Government recruitment and career management of senior civil servants in the Netherlands has been improved through a Microsoft Dynamics implementation
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September 26, 2016
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Sep'16
Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud
Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud
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September 21, 2016
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Sep'16
Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016
Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique
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September 16, 2016
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Sep'16
Alleged hacker Lauri Love can be extradited to the US, court rules
Westminster Magistrates’ Court has ruled that alleged hacker, Lauri Love, can be extradited to the US, where he could face a 99-year prison sentence
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September 15, 2016
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Sep'16
Manchester City builds digital fan wall on Hana Cloud Platform
Football club has unveiled an interactive fan wall, built on SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform, to engage fans better
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September 14, 2016
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Sep'16
Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress
The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress
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September 08, 2016
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Sep'16
Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions
IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain