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• April 04, 2012 04 Apr'12

  Atos completes first live software rehearsal for London 2012 Olympics

  Atos has completed the first live rehearsal of IT, communications, media, sports and security systems for the London 2012 Olympics

• March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12

  Danone uses SAP to reduce carbon footprint

  Heath food maker Danone has used SAP to reduce its carbon footprint by 22%.

• March 27, 2012 27 Mar'12

  Retail and insurance lead two-speed IT spending

  More IT-based businesses are starting with greater investment in IT after the slowdown, but with lopsided demand as businesses increase spending at different rates

• March 26, 2012 26 Mar'12

  BSA fines Coverteam UK £6,000 for unlicensed Microsoft and Adobe software

  The BSA has fined power conversion company Converteam UK £6,000 for using unlicensed copies of Microsoft and Adobe software

• March 23, 2012 23 Mar'12

  Information management: lessons from the public sector

  Freeform Dynamics identifies the lessons organisations can learn from the public sector's approach to information management

• March 19, 2012 19 Mar'12

  Case Study: US Xpress deploys hybrid big data with Informatica

  US Xpress is using a suite of data tools and integration products from Informatica to boost its fleet management

• March 14, 2012 14 Mar'12

  Gartner: Rethink organisation structure to boost business

  Businesses must radically rethink how they organise staff and collaborate if they want to make big improvements, according to analyst Gartner

• March 13, 2012 13 Mar'12

  Enterprise software procurement done right can save companies millions

  Software procurement is frequently poorly conducted, argues consultant Andy Hayler. Intelligent software evaluation processes and savvy contract management can pay huge dividends, he says.

• March 07, 2012 07 Mar'12

  Government’s shared services strategy failing, says NAO

  The government’s £1.4bn shared services centres have failed to achieve value for money, according to a report from the National Audit Office (NAO)

• March 06, 2012 06 Mar'12

  SAP boosts ByDesign ecosystem to support small business customisation

  SAP is rolling out a partner programme for its ByDesign cloud-based product, to simplify implementation in SMEs

• March 06, 2012 06 Mar'12

  CW500: Getting to grips with big data

  Experts from Standard Life, Deloitte and Intelligent Business Strategies share some useful tips for CIOs on understanding big data

• February 23, 2012 23 Feb'12

  Predictive analytics used to cut costs in oil sector

  Predictive analytics is being used in the oil and gas industry to better manage asset maintenance on capital equipment. And a more enterprisewide adoption of the technology is predicted.

• February 20, 2012 20 Feb'12

  CIO priorities 2012: Ali Jaffri, ICT manager, Gallions Housing

  Ali Jaffri, ICT manager at Gallions Housing, talks about the challenges of 2012.

• February 19, 2012 19 Feb'12

  Government launches CloudStore and names G-Cloud suppliers

  The government has launched its CloudStore, a catalogue of 1,700 cloud-based, pre-approved IT services now available for the public sector to buy.

• February 13, 2012 13 Feb'12

  IT professionals prioritise Windows 7 upgrade, but cloud takes a back seat

  Windows 7 upgrade will drive virtualisation but businesses are slow to take up cloud computing

• February 10, 2012 10 Feb'12

  Government takes on proprietary software lobby in open standards battle

  The government wants to push through open standards against vested interests keen to maintain the dominance of proprietary systems.

• January 30, 2012 30 Jan'12

  Oracle and SAP worst for government ERP cost differences

  Oracle and SAP have been singled out as having the most inconsistent prices for ERP systems across government departments.

• January 25, 2012 25 Jan'12

  UK IT budgets under pressure in 2012

  UK IT budgets will remain flat in 2012, a worldwide survey of more than 2,500 IT professionals has revealed.

• January 17, 2012 17 Jan'12

  Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers

  Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.

• January 04, 2012 04 Jan'12

  Shell moves SAP maintenance to Accenture

  Oil giant Shell has transferred the management of its HR and payroll applications to Accenture as part of a multi-year SAP managed service.

• December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11

  RIM rebuffs Amazon and Microsoft approaches

  Amazon considered buying troubled smartphone maker, Research in Motion, according to a report on Reuters.

• December 15, 2011 15 Dec'11

  How HP played a key role in RAF air crew support in Libya

  The Ministry of Defence has praised HP over its Advanced Mission Planning Aid system, most recently used to support air crew in Libya.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Businesses take risks with faulty software

  Unearthing software faults once software goes live is storing up problems for businesses.

• December 08, 2011 08 Dec'11

  Adobe to release out-of-cycle patch for latest vulnerability

  Adobe has issued a security advisory about a newly discovered and still unpatched vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat which is being used in "limited, targeted attacks in the wild".

• December 05, 2011 05 Dec'11

  SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal

  Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.

• November 17, 2011 17 Nov'11

  Tesco trials in-store and online augmented reality technology

  Tesco is trialling augmented reality (AR) technology in-store and online to change how customers interact with products.

• November 15, 2011 15 Nov'11

  TfL seeks BI worth £750,000

  Transport for London (TfL) is setting up a framework agreement for a business intelligence tool worth up to £750,000 million to help reduce its number of head office locations.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann

  Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer, says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  SAP on track to achieve 2011 greenhouse gas emissions target

  Enterprise software maker SAP decreased greenhouse gas emissions by 2% per employee in the quarter ended 30 September, compared with the same period in 2010, according to the company's quarterly sustainability report.

• October 27, 2011 27 Oct'11

  Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?

  The last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? Warwick Ashford reports

• October 26, 2011 26 Oct'11

  How Unilever took control of its software

  Unilever has automated the processes it uses to manage its software globally through a service which has saved millions of pounds, reduced the complexity of its software portfolio and improved security.

• October 10, 2011 10 Oct'11

  Google previews new Dart web programming language

  Google has introduced a new programming language, Dart , for building web applications.

• October 07, 2011 07 Oct'11

  Bristol Council gets open source go-ahead after CESG discussions

  Bristol City Council has been cleared to build an IT infrastructure using open source software after a visit from CESG, the cyber security arm of the UK intelligence services.

• October 07, 2011 07 Oct'11

  85 sub-postmasters seek legal support in claims against Post Office computer system

  Over 80 sub-postmasters are interested in taking legal action against the Post Office in relation to an allegedly faulty computer system.

• October 06, 2011 06 Oct'11

  UBS systems detected $2bn rogue trader fraud, admits CEO Sergio Ermotti

  UBS interim CEO Sergio Ermotti has admitted systems in the banks IT infrastructure detected the unauthorised trading of the rogue trader who cost UBS over $2bn, but nothing was done about the warning signals.

• October 06, 2011 06 Oct'11

  Technology industry figures pay tribute to Apple co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs

  Apple's co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs has died, aged 56. Jobs battled with pancreatic cancer, and had liver transplant surgery in 2009. He stepped down as Apple CEO in August 2011 after his second bout of medical leave since the start of the ...

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  HP completes £7.1bn Autonomy acquisition

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) has completed its acquisition of software company Autonomy for £7.1bn. HP said the acquisition positioned it as a leader in the large and growing enterprise information management space.

• October 04, 2011 04 Oct'11

  Universal Credit deadline forced DWP to use “unproven” agile development

  Tight deadlines left the Department for Work and Pensions with little choice but to use "unproven" agile methods to develop its £2bn Universal Credit (UC) system, said the Cabinet Office Major Projects Authority (MPA) in a confidential report ...

• September 28, 2011 28 Sep'11

  Microsoft starts roll-out of Mango update for Windows Phone 7

  Microsoft has started rolling out the next major version of its Windows Phone 7 operating system, codenamed Mango.

• September 27, 2011 27 Sep'11

  Bristol Council's open source plan thwarted by security clearance problems

  Bristol City Council's open source push has suffered another series of set-backs that point a finger of blame at CESG, the cyber security arm of GCHQ.

• September 27, 2011 27 Sep'11

  Cognizant acquires Zaffera

  Outsourcing company Cognizant has acquired Zaffera, an SAP retail consulting and software development firm, for an undisclosed sum.

• September 26, 2011 26 Sep'11

  Boots launches mobile site to expand multichannel offering

  Retailer Boots has launched a mobile version of its website to expand its multichannel portfolio.

• September 22, 2011 22 Sep'11

  Government pulls plug on ailing £11bn NHS IT programme

  The troubled £11bn NHS National Programme for IT is to be axed, the government is expected to announce later today.

• September 22, 2011 22 Sep'11

  Researchers claim to have broken SSL/TLS encryption

  Two security researchers claim to have found a way of breaking the SSL/TLS encryption that is widely used to guarantee the reliability and privacy of data exchanged between web browsers and servers.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  Adobe releases Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 for video and enterprise apps

  Adobe's Flash Player 11 and AIR 3 software support HD video quality across devices, such as Apple's iPhone and iPad. Other features include captive runtime for independent application updates, video content protection and 64-bit support on Linux, ...

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  HP webOS lay-offs could affect European employees

  Hewlett-Packard could lay off European employees as part of the company's decision to discontinue its webOS hardware division, including the Touchpad tablet range.

• September 21, 2011 21 Sep'11

  RightMove renders property maps with Google

  RightMove is the UK's biggest user of Google Maps and one of the largest users of the mapping software in the world.

• September 19, 2011 19 Sep'11

  New Look increases sales by 45% after mobile site launch

  Fashion retailer New Look has increased sales by 45% three months after the launch of its mobile commerce site.

• September 14, 2011 14 Sep'11

  IT development underpinning Universal Credits comes under fire from MPs and experts

  The delivery of Universal Credits is coming under fire as observers are casting an increasingly critical eye on the IT systems underpinning the politically sensitive project.

• September 13, 2011 13 Sep'11

  Sabre develops apps marketplace for travel industry

  Sabre, the global distribution system for reserving hotels, airlines, cruise ships, rail tickets and car hire, has taken the concept of the app store and applied in to its own travel market.