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• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  SAP Q1 2017 results: cloud revenue €906m, 5,800 customers for S/4

  SAP has announced €5.29bn in first quarter 2017 revenue, of which €906m was for cloud subscription and support, 17% of the total. Supplier adds 400 S/4 Hana customer in quarter

• April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17

  City University London launches undergraduate data science course after postgraduate success

  Following the success of its postgraduate data science course, London university launches undergraduate programme

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

  Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  SAP board member talks Middle East investment

  In an interview with Computer Weekly, SAP’s chief financial officer, Luka Mucic, talks up the significance of the UAE and wider Middle East region in terms of IT transformation

• April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17

  Criminal Courts Review Commission appoints forensic accountants for Post Office IT system cases

  Investigation into claims of miscarriages of justice in relation to a Post Office accounting system has appointed a forensic accountant firm

• April 21, 2017 21 Apr'17

  ASEAN enterprises facing mobility roadblocks

  An IDC survey commissioned by Red Hat reveals organisations in the ASEAN region lack mobile-specific skills and tend to approach mobility projects in an ad-hoc manner

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  Camden open data platform aims to blaze a trail across London

  Camden council’s open data platform aims to enlist other London boroughs in a drive to be “world class”. The borough is home to leading lights of UK tech, including Google UK and BT Openreach

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  Dunkin' Donuts and Here Technologies join AWS cloud customer roll call

  Companies have separately declared AWS to be their preferred infrastructure partner, as the cloud giant continues to make significant in-roads into the enterprise

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  How tech teams can reduce LGBT+ university dropout

  The number of students in the LGBT community who consider dropping out of university is higher than the average, but IT teams can make some small changes which will make a big difference to this figure

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  IBM sales and profits down, but future focus areas see growth

  IBM experiences another fall in sales, but it continues to sell more in areas that will make up its future business

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  How Dutch university quickly connected thousands of students to new learning management system

  Dutch university TU Delft is replacing its legacy learning management system after 17 years

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  FDM uses gamification to make graduate recruitment process more inclusive

  IT services firm uses Yellow Hook Reef game to make its graduate recruitment process more inclusive and enjoyable for candidates

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  First MariaDB user conference hails renaissance of relational model

  At its inaugural user conference in New York, MariaDB corporation leaders Michael Howard and Monty Widenius say the open source relational database model finds its moment beyond NoSQL phase

• April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17

  SAP S/4 Hana gains traction in APAC

  While SAP now counts companies such as China’s Ameco Beijing as clients, it is also going all out to address hitches that stand in the way of wider adoption of its S/4 Hana software

• April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17

  Chatbots, Fitbits and AI: IT suppliers identify the top trends in HR technology

  Businesses are using Fitbits, artificial intelligence and chatbots to improve working life as competition increases to recruit talented ‘millennials’