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Business applications
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May 11, 2017
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May'17
Addison Lee uses common customer transport tech to offer luxury couriering
Addison Lee is well known for being a business-focused private hire firm in and around London, but as competition has increased the firm has refocused its use of tech to provide courier services to customers and retailers
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May 11, 2017
11
May'17
CIO interview: Bernie Burdett, head of IT, Dogs Trust
The animal charity is revamping its IT to provide better customer service, protect itself from cyber attacks and ensure GDPR compliance
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May 09, 2017
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May'17
Blockchain gains momentum in the Middle East
Blockchain is gathering pace in the Middle East, with the United Arab Emirates leading the way
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May 09, 2017
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May'17
Brexit yet to dampen fintech recruitment in London
Fintechs are still recruiting in London as large banks start to make plans to move staff to EU countries
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May 09, 2017
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May'17
SAP marks 20 years in Ireland with digital boardroom launch
SAP has marked two decades in Ireland. CEO Bill McDermott hailed the millennial character of the country’s IT workforce, and argued for the strategic utility of SAP’s ‘digital boardroom’ concept
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May 08, 2017
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May'17
Unit4 adds machine learning to services-centric ERP system
Unit4, which majors on business applications software for professional services firms and universities, adds machine learning to its product suite, as announced at a customer event in Rotterdam
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May 05, 2017
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May'17
SAP goes after world’s largest brewing company in $600m licence dispute
Belgian brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev says it intends to defend “vigorously” against software licensing claims by SAP
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May 04, 2017
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May'17
NetSuite accelerates APAC expansion plan
Cloud-based software supplier will deliver its business applications through Oracle’s Sydney datacentre in regional push
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May 04, 2017
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May'17
Dynamics 365 joins Azure and Office 365 in Microsoft UK datacentre
Hosting Dynamics 365 with Azure and Office 365 is part of Microsoft’s big cloud upsell
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May 03, 2017
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May'17
SAP focuses on training young Arab graduates in Middle East
SAP has a raft of initiatives planned in the Middle East which includes a strategy to equip young people and entrepreneurs with the IT skills required as the region transforms.
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May 03, 2017
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May'17
Barclays Bank opens startup hub in London
Bank aims to support fintech firms in their early stages
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April 28, 2017
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Apr'17
Microsoft chief reveals Azure upsell strategy
Azure competes with AWS on price as an IaaS, but Satya Nadella sees this as a way to get CIOs to buy higher-level services
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April 27, 2017
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Apr'17
Case Study: How Swedish retailer Stayhard boosted sales online
Swedish retailer adopts cloud-based software to turn customer browsing into sales
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April 27, 2017
27
Apr'17
Case study: Specsavers furthers digital transformation with single customer view
UK retailer Specsavers has been in the process of digital transformation for several years, and has now partnered with Fujitsu to eliminate disparate systems and create a single customer view
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April 26, 2017
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Apr'17
Hadoop-centric data science proves value at Danske Bank
Nordics bank Danske Bank has been using the Hortonworks distribution of Hadoop as a plank in its data science programme, which targets fraud, fills ATMs, and aims to combat customer delinquency