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June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14
Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform

Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform
June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14
EE drives mobile phone deals with CRM software implementation

Mobile phone operator Everything Everywhere claims a 400% increase in phone deals after rolling out customer relationship management software
June 10, 2014 10 Jun'14
Engineering firm fined for using unlicensed Autodesk software

Project Options has been fined £16,000 by the Business Software Alliance, following an online tip-off
June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14
Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart

June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14
UK airports lead move to cloud services

UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.
June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14
High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?
May 30, 2014 30 May'14
IT supplier insolvencies fall for first time as economy recovers

Technology companies have reached a turning point as insolvencies fall for the first time in 2014
May 29, 2014 29 May'14
BSkyB retunes IT to ready-for-anything datacentre quad

British broadcaster BSkyB has based its IT on four core datacentres that are resilient, interconnected, energy-efficient and cloud-ready
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT
May 28, 2014 28 May'14
NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use

May 23, 2014 23 May'14
Business Objects use increases among SAP users, but Hana uptake low

More UK and Ireland SAP customers are using Business Objects now than even two years ago, but only 15% are using Hana
May 22, 2014 22 May'14
Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty

Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe
May 19, 2014 19 May'14
SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure
May 16, 2014 16 May'14
Why did GPs turn their back on Choose and Book?

NHS England has scrapped its £356m outpatient booking system, Choose and Book, which was largely ignored by doctors
May 15, 2014 15 May'14
Justifying the business case to update Oracle eBusiness Suite

To justify the upgrade cost needed to move to Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12, IT departments need consider how the implementation can deliver value.
May 02, 2014 02 May'14
Addressing security and privacy on the industrial internet

The smart grid and smart meters are part of the wider industrial internet, which will offer insight into people’s life at home. What are the security implications?
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
Co-operative Bank report reveals challenge of legacy IT replacement

A report into the £1.5bn losses at Co-operative Bank reveals numerous failures in a project to replace core banking systems
May 01, 2014 01 May'14
GDS working to secure Google Apps for government

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is in talks with CESG, the IT security arm of GCHQ, to get approval for using Google Apps within government.
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
Software developers suffer as IT companies endure rising insolvencies

Increase in the number of IT insolvencies expected as the economy improves
April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14
SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation
April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14
Fiat and Chrysler to integrate separate IT systems

Car manufacturing group Fiat and Chrysler have contracted IBM to integrate their separate IT infrastructures into a single global operation, following the companies coming together after Chrysler applied for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14
Q&A: SAP's Mike Ettling discusses SuccessFactors cloud HR strategy

Computer Weekly talks to Mike Ettling, global head of cloud and on-premise HR at SAP, about the company’s strategy for its SuccessFactors cloud HR technology
April 11, 2014 11 Apr'14
Co-op Bank plans to 'fix the fundamentals' and invest in IT

The Co-operative Bank intends to invest in IT systems following a troubled year
April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14
CIO interview: Leandro Balbinot, global CIO, HJ Heinz

Food giant HJ Heinz is gearing up to expand its international presence with a technology modernisation programme encompassing 23 countries
April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14
Pharmaceuticals company turns to cloud HR technology

Astra Zeneca CIO Dave Smoley turns lessons learned from an earlier cloud HR implementation to use at the pharmaceuticals giant
March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14
Ministry of Justice to invest up to £375m in court and tribunal technology reform

The Ministry of Justice has announced a five-year programme to update and replace technology used in courts and tribunals across the UK
March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14
Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK
March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14
Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%

The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs
March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14
Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results
March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14
Interview: Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor

Charles Phillips is at a critical point in his role at Infor. Over the past three years as CEO he has invested heavily in overhauling the company's enterprise software
March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14
Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday

On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14
Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries

Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.
March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14
Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture

Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved service
February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14
RBS to tidy up systems mess

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) outlines plans to cut costs and improve customer services, slashing the number of IT systems in the process
February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14
Flexibility and integration drove NatWest Microsoft Dynamics migration

NatWest Business Banking selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM when it realised it needed full CRM capability
February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14
Is second-hand software illegal?

The action by Federation Against Software Theft to suspend one of its members confuses users over legal second-hand user licences
February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14
HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics

New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company
February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14
Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy

The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation
February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14
Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO

Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as CEO almost six months after former incumbent Steve Ballmer announced his retirement
January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14
Case study: Scottish Fire and Rescue advances national BI strategy with QlikView

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is using QlikView business intelligence software to bring together its data streams for external reporting and operational intelligence
January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14
BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"
January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14
Teradata launches analytics product as SAP BW replacement

Teradata has released an analytics product for SAP ERP, as a full-blown alternative to SAP BW
January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14
HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce
January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14
CIO interview: The challenge of delivering IT in a refugee camp

The United Nations (UN) looks after 58 million refugees. Naginder Kaur Dhanoa, CIO of the UN High Commission for Refugees speaks about the challenges
January 21, 2014 21 Jan'14
Allianz deploys Rumba to provide secure mainframe administration

Insurer Allianz UK has deployed Rumba terminal emulator software from MicroFocus to provide a mainframe-based policy admin system
January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14
HCL and CSC partner to modernise applications

Indian IT services firm HCL and US competitor CSC are working together to win business in the application modernisation and cloud migration segments of the application outsourcing sector
January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14
Microsoft extends XP security updates by 15 months

Microsoft has caved in to user concerns over XP end of support and will now extend security updates by another 15 months
January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14
The IT risks facing Universal Credit

Despite Iain Duncan Smith's robust defence of his flagship welfare reform policy, Universal Credit, evidence to the contrary continues to mount
January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14
Post Office seeks contractors for network and back-office work

The Post Office is looking for IT services firms to provide back-office IT applications and networking technologies in contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds
January 07, 2014 07 Jan'14
Computer Weekly founding editor, Chris Hipwell, dies after short illness

Chris Hipwell, the founding editor of Computer Weekly, the world’s first IT magazine, has died after a short illness