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Business applications
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
The future of Autonomy – one year on
Recent moves to subsume Autonomy into HP have lent increasing irony to the name. Nearly a year after the £7.1bn acquisition, we examine Autonomy's future
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
Halliburton CIO Ken Braud on strategy and innovation
CIO Ken Braud talked to delegates at the Orange Business Live customer event in Rome, and it was clear he has plenty on his plate.
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
Banks break with in-house software in move to commercial systems
Increased regulation, reduced profits and customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with off-the-shelf alternatives
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June 19, 2012
19
Jun'12
Oracle reports strong profit growth
Oracle reported an 8% increase in profits on a 1% increase in sales for the fourth quarter of its 2012 financial year
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June 18, 2012
18
Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers
Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
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June 13, 2012
13
Jun'12
The cloud will move supercomputers into the mainstream
Cloud computing will move supercomputers out of the research labs into mainstream business, says Amazon
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June 13, 2012
13
Jun'12
BAE assesses off-the-shelf application lifecycle management
BAE Maritime Systems is assessing new tools from Serena Software to support mission-critical software development
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June 13, 2012
13
Jun'12
South Lanarkshire moves to IBM XIV disk storage platform
South Lanarkshire council has invested in an IBM XIV disk storage platform as part of its move to virtualisation.
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June 13, 2012
13
Jun'12
O’Neill consolidates IT applications to grow profits
Retail chain O’Neill Europe has undergone a major IT consolidation to cut costs and use information more efficiently in a difficult trading market
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June 06, 2012
06
Jun'12
HP eyes EMC’s storage market
HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system, which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour – three times faster than EMC’s recently launched Data Domain 990
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May 31, 2012
31
May'12
William Grant & Sons opens datacentre for ERP consolidation
Distiller William Grant & Sons opens a UK datacentre to consolidate its global ERP operation
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May 30, 2012
30
May'12
Inadequate financial reporting holds firms back
Businesses admit difficulties in controlling data quality when reporting financial results as finance executives complain of stress as a result
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May 23, 2012
23
May'12
Amey uses SAP HR system to manage 11,000 people
Developed by SAP specialist Epi-use, SAP HR is being used to power a human resources shared service at construction firm Amey
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May 21, 2012
21
May'12
Global software piracy increasing rapidly, study shows
Global software piracy is increasing rapidly in the absence of any effective deterrence, a survey has revealed.
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April 27, 2012
27
Apr'12
Amazon results demonstrate commitment to cloud
Amazon's AWS cloud business made $500m in sales in the first quarter of 2012, comprising 3.79% of Amazon's Q1 business
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April 25, 2012
25
Apr'12
SAP reports double-digit growth
SAP has continued where it left off last year with an 11% increase in sales in the first three months of 2012.
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April 19, 2012
19
Apr'12
Supercomputers will reach 'exascale' speeds within decade
Supercomputers will be powerful enough to simulate the human brain within seven years, says founder of Top500 list.
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April 18, 2012
18
Apr'12
Government unaware how much it pays for e-mail services
Government departments do not know how much they are spending on e-mail services, according to research by Computer Weekly.
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April 04, 2012
04
Apr'12
Microsoft improves virtual desktops but drops inventory software
Microsoft is expanding its desktop virtualisation product family with software that retains user preferences as they switch between devices
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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
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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%.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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)
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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".
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.