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Business applications
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April 19, 2013
19
Apr'13
Microsoft reports strong quarterly results for all divisions
Microsoft reported profit of $6bn for the past quarter, up 17% from a year ago, despite a mixed response to Windows 8 and a decline in PC sales
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April 10, 2013
10
Apr'13
Mott MacDonald rolls out unified communications
Global engineering firm Mott MacDonald signs Tata Communications for a five-year unified communications deal worth over $20m
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April 10, 2013
10
Apr'13
UK financial regulator FCA probes RBS IT failure
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) probes an IT failure at Royal Bank of Scotland that also affected NatWest and Ulster Bank customers
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March 28, 2013
28
Mar'13
Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending
The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast
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March 26, 2013
26
Mar'13
Southern Water contracts TCS for transformation
Southern Water is transforming customer service and revenue management through IT services from Tata Consultancy Services
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March 21, 2013
21
Mar'13
Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat
Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape
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March 20, 2013
20
Mar'13
CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer
As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability
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March 15, 2013
15
Mar'13
Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations
In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports
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March 14, 2013
14
Mar'13
CIO Interview: Matthew Oakeley, global IT head of Schroders
Matthew Oakeley talks to Karl Flinders about his role as global IT head at investment management company Schroders
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March 13, 2013
13
Mar'13
John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy
John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’
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March 11, 2013
11
Mar'13
Majestic Wine swaps Microsoft for Intershop in ecommerce refresh
Majestic Wine is revamping its website with an InterShop 7 ecommerce engine, which replaces a legacy Microsoft Commerce Server system.
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March 11, 2013
11
Mar'13
Hilary Reynolds latest universal credit programme director to move
Universal credit programme director Hilary Reynolds has moved off after just four months, the latest senior figure to leave the programme
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March 07, 2013
07
Mar'13
MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools
Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham
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February 25, 2013
25
Feb'13
Nokia Siemens Networks unveils Liquid Applications
New technology enables data-rich applications to be run from base stations, reducing latency in mobile networks
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February 24, 2013
24
Feb'13
Universal Credit has the hallmarks of another IT failure
Charities, housing associations and consultancies have warned that the Department for Work and Pensions’ £2.2bn Universal Credit programme has all the hallmarks of another public sector IT disaster.
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February 14, 2013
14
Feb'13
Google battles BT in patent row
Google has launched legal action against BT, accusing the British firm of four counts of patent infringement
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February 11, 2013
11
Feb'13
HMRC alerts businesses to impending real-time PAYE changes
HMRC is notifying businesses about impending real-time information (RTI) changes to the PAYE payroll system
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February 07, 2013
07
Feb'13
Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland
Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London
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February 05, 2013
05
Feb'13
Interview: John Harris, vice-president of global enterprise architecture, Aimia
Aimia, the organisation behind retail loyalty programme Nectar, is overhauling its IT to make the most of customer data
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February 04, 2013
04
Feb'13
Reed jobs site chooses SAP Business ByDesign
Reed.co.uk recruitment agency has chosen cloud-based SAP Business ByDesign as part of an overhaul of its business applications strategy
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January 25, 2013
25
Jan'13
Ferrari swerves SAP, adopts Infor LN to meet Chinese demand
Italian sports car maker Ferrari has turned to Infor ERP technology to respond to Chinese and Middle Eastern customer demand
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January 23, 2013
23
Jan'13
European bank IT investment lags US and Asia-Pacific equivalents
Banks in Asia-Pacific and North America will increase their IT spending significantly more than those in Europe
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January 22, 2013
22
Jan'13
Defra plans £80m agile CAP system
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning a single integrated £80m Common Agricultural Policy system
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January 21, 2013
21
Jan'13
UK citizens unwilling to embrace big data
The public sector could improve services by imitating the private sector’s use of big data, but citizens are overwhelmingly against the idea
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January 17, 2013
17
Jan'13
Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database
Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time
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January 16, 2013
16
Jan'13
Post Office wants to get to bottom of IT system allegations
A system that set out to modernise the Post Office in 1996 is under the spotlight after claims that Horizon accounting system is error prone
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January 14, 2013
14
Jan'13
Post Office announces amnesty for Horizon evidence
The Post Office is calling for evidence from people who have used the Horizon IT system which some have blamed for accounting discrepancies
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January 11, 2013
11
Jan'13
SAP puts Business Suite on HANA, joins transactional to analytical
SAP has announced that its Business Suite software now runs on the HANA in-memory database
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January 08, 2013
08
Jan'13
Are software audits good for your health?
The Business Software Alliance's claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers is a wake-up call to CIOs
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January 08, 2013
08
Jan'13
VoIP awareness up but user numbers remain low
A report from Ofcom claims four in five consumers know what voice over internet protocol (VoIP) is, but just 29% use the technology
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January 07, 2013
07
Jan'13
Barclays' Linux programme not a snub to suppliers
Barclays says it is not snubbing any supplier by developing a private cloud infrastructure and using Linux to cut software development costs by 90%.
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January 02, 2013
02
Jan'13
Post Office admits that Horizon system needs more investigation
Campaigners have forced the Post Office to look again at a computer system blamed for sub-postmasters being wrongly accused of false accounting
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January 02, 2013
02
Jan'13
Home Retail Group cuts call costs with SMS automation
Home Retail Group, whose brands include Argos, Homebase and Habitat has cut telephony costs by rolling out an automated text messaging service across its three call centres.
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December 28, 2012
28
Dec'12
Top 10 business software articles of 2012
The main thrust in enterprise software this year has been the introduction of a new Windows OS, programming model and user interface.
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December 27, 2012
27
Dec'12
Top 10 financial services IT stories in 2012
The industry that you expect to hit the IT headlines on a regular basis has not let us down in the last 12 months, despite continued tough market conditions.
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December 18, 2012
18
Dec'12
Mott MacDonald rolls out Microsoft software globally
Engineering firm Mott MacDonald is rolling out Microsoft products globally over the next year as it moves towards a Microsoft-centric business strategy
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December 14, 2012
14
Dec'12
Mazars outsources access management
Global accountancy firm Mazars has outsourced the management of access to Oracle and Sharepoint applications for 6000 global staff
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December 07, 2012
07
Dec'12
Citrix buys corporate MDM tool company Zenprise
Citrix has bought mobile device management (MDM) company Zenprise for an undisclosed sum to boost its corporate mobile tools portfolio
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December 06, 2012
06
Dec'12
Emulex buys Endace for $130m
Networking company Emulex hopes to boost its performance management skills by acquiring Endace
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December 05, 2012
05
Dec'12
Unilever prepares for global HANA roll-out
Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database
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November 29, 2012
29
Nov'12
British Film Institute to launch version of the iPlayer
The British Film Institute (BFI) is to launch its own version of the BBC's iPlayer in digitisation plans to give millions access to its film archive
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November 28, 2012
28
Nov'12
Apple sacks head of maps
Apple has sacked Richard Williamson, the executive in charge of Apple Maps, after months of embarrassment over application’s performance
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November 27, 2012
27
Nov'12
Poor design hampers gamification in the enterprise, says Gartner
By 2014, 80% of current gamified applications will fail to meet business objectives, primarily because of poor design, according to Gartner
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November 26, 2012
26
Nov'12
Competing firms jockey for position in mobile payments gold rush
While mobile payments is still in its infancy, the promise of the rewards is substantial and competition for market dominance is gathering pace
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November 20, 2012
20
Nov'12
HP writes down Autonomy by $8.8bn
HP blames Autonomy for misleading the firm before acquisition and refers former management to the Serious Fraud Office
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November 19, 2012
19
Nov'12
Emirates takes Windows 8 HP ElitePad 900 to the sky
Airline Emirates is rolling out in-flight Windows 8 tablets to enable cabin crew to access core IT
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November 16, 2012
16
Nov'12
WiFox claims 700% boost in Wi-Fi performance
New software created by researchers at North Carolina State University claims to boost performance of Wi-Fi by up to 700%
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November 16, 2012
16
Nov'12
London Stock Exchange technology sales up
The growth of the London Stock Exchange’s MillenniumIT software has outstripped the wider business, with a 19% increase in sales of its trading software
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November 13, 2012
13
Nov'12
Hillarys Blinds rolls out custom sales app using SAP Afaria
Blinds and curtains supplier Hillarys Blinds has developed an Android app for sales agents that synchronises with its back-end SAP ERP system
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November 09, 2012
09
Nov'12
German retailer Otto invests in neural software to net future sales
German retail giant Otto improves demand forecasting with neural network technology from Blue Yonder, a predictive analytics start-up