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• March 26, 2017 26 Mar'17

  HPE, Tata Communications to build world’s largest IoT network

  The Lora-based network will benefit around 400 million people in India who can expect improvements in water quality and public safety

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

  International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Cisco unveils new Spark collaboration platform in APAC

  Spark will be the future platform for integrating all of Cisco’s collaboration technologies, according to a Cisco regional executive

• March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17

  Robot tax not feasible for Australia

  Data61 CEO Adrian Turner says Australia needs to reskill workers rather than implement a robot tax

• March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17

  Middle East fintech sector to accelerate this year with UAE leading the way

  The financial technology industry could be at the start of a period of rapid growth in the Middle East

• March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17

  SAP to invest $200m in United Arab Emirates

  European software maker plans investment to get near customers in the Middle East

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  HMRC urged to delay digital tax plan for businesses

  Lords committee echoes previous criticism by MPs over timetable for Making Tax Digital programme and calls for further trials

• March 16, 2017 16 Mar'17

  Oracle Q3 2016-17 results: cloud revenue up, overall growth 2%

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2017 show 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 13% of the total. Executives are bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  Nordic airline averts business disaster with application performance monitoring

  Following an emergency decision to move to Amazon Web Services, Iceland’s Wow Air has wholeheartedly bought into the cloud

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  National Theatre moves to Office 365

  The National Theatre is increasingly using cloud technology, with the implementation of cloud-based productivity tools its latest move

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  Derbyshire NHS Trust takes simple BI approach to secure patient safety

  Derbyshire NHS Foundation Trust opts for a simple, clinician and business-led approach to business intelligence to secure patient safety, using MicroStrategy

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Simon McCalla, Nominet

  Nominet, the registry for more than 10 million of the UK’s internet domains, is expanding into the internet of things and internet security services

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

  Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

  Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world

• March 12, 2017 12 Mar'17

  Open source adoption in APAC no longer just about cost-cutting

  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst calls for enterprises to tap open source technologies to build new capabilities and solve business problems