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• October 18, 2019 18 Oct'19

  Talent shortage impedes UK business data analytics efforts

  Research from data blending and preparation supplier Alteryx finds UK businesses struggling to make the most of their data due to a shortage of data analytics expertise

• October 16, 2019 16 Oct'19

  Zopa continues in its mission to apply a Netflix user experience to banking

  Zopa has made a credit scoring tool available as it continues to expand the portfolio of products it offers beyond loans.

• October 15, 2019 15 Oct'19

  CIO interview: Hugo Mathias, CIO, Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

  For all the talk of a ‘paperless NHS’, replacing legacy systems and eliminating paper records is a challenge – but one that Hugo Mathias is tackling through real-time information and cultural change

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  PLC flash: A solid state candidate for analytics and archives?

  We thought flash would end at QLC, but storage media makers are working on penta-level cell, which could push capacity to double figures, but at a further performance cost

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  How Qlik is driving the data revolution in Australia

  Australian firms are using data management software from Qlik to speed up data analysis while grappling with how to make data more accessible under a new consumer data-sharing regime

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  Citrix looks to grow APAC footprint with the intelligent workspace

  Citrix is looking to expand its footprint in Asia-Pacific – particularly in Japan, where firms are starting to warm up to flexible work arrangements

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  Bristol, CNRS and Oracle join forces against tropical disease

  Scientists from the University of Bristol and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Grenoble have identified a candidate synthetic vaccine against tropical disease Chikungunya, using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?

  Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Executive interview: Speed is cloud apps benefit, says Oracle’s Miranda

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World 2019, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s approach to cloud applications, digital assistants and machine learning

• September 24, 2019 24 Sep'19

  How Malaysia is nurturing data analytics talent

  The Southeast Asian nation has spearheaded several programmes to build up its data analytics talent pool in efforts to improve efficiency and productivity of Malaysians

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  Basic data and skills needed to fix UK social care

  Foundations need to be in place to save the social care system from collapse, and NHSX needs to step up to the task, according to a Doteveryone report

• September 18, 2019 18 Sep'19

  Facebook automatically generates pages for Islamic State and Al-Qaeda

  Facebook algorithms have auto-generated hundreds of Facebook pages for the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sharia, according to a whistleblower

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise

  Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  US lawmakers demand internal Facebook, Google, Apple and Amazon documents in antitrust probe

  US lawmakers have given big tech companies a deadline to disclose a wide range of documents as the House Judiciary Committee’s bipartisan investigation into competition gathers pace

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Brexit disrupts FCA exploration into data use in wholesale banking

  The extra work for banks due to Brexit preparations has caused a delay to FCA work on the use of data in the wholesale banking sector