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July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20
ICO launches guidance on AI and data protection

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has published guidance aimed at rendering the application of machine learning to data compliant with data protection principles
July 31, 2020 31 Jul'20
IFS CEO Darren Roos: Customer investment in cloud and digital has held up during Covid

Business applications supplier’s chief executive tells Computer Weekly that business has been surprisingly good during the coronavirus crisis
July 28, 2020 28 Jul'20
Why supply chain visibility is key to APAC retailers

Having complete visibility over the supply chain will enable retailers to tide over the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic and transform their businesses
July 17, 2020 17 Jul'20
How Australia is leading the charge in the Covid-19 fight

Researchers at the University of Queensland worked with IBM to develop a dashboard with machine-learning capabilities to analyse data for a global study on Covid-19 patients in intensive care

July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20
NUS develops e-skin system in neuromorphic computing breakthrough

The National University of Singapore has developed an electronic skin system that could give robots and prosthetic devices a sense of touch
July 13, 2020 13 Jul'20
Majority of NHS trusts used analytics to track patient infection status during Covid-19 pandemic

Qlik research shows 84% of NHS trusts used data analytics to support patient care during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, and suggests they could use that expertise to improve public health in the round
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
Pavilion adds object storage to NVMe Hyperparallel Flash Array

Pavilion responds to customer demand for object storage to support AI/ML, big data analytics workloads with multi-controller NMVe flash storage architecture
July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20
Swisscom taps Hitachi to improve network-based customer service

Pentaho product helps business customer service reps of Switzerland’s largest telecommunications company and leading IT services provider provide better, faster service through centralised hub
July 03, 2020 03 Jul'20
Is digital art coming of age under Covid?

Israeli startup Niio is advancing a digital art platform comparable with Spotify. Is the digital medium for high art coming of age in these Covid times?
July 01, 2020 01 Jul'20
How Propre eases its database management woes

Japanese supplier of global real estate data switched to Oracle’s autonomous database to reduce database management costs as it expands its global footprint

June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20
Political parties harvest personal data to create profiles on voters, most of it wrong

The UK’s three main political parties are collecting personal data on voters, but much of it is wrong and its use may fall foul of data protection laws
June 19, 2020 19 Jun'20
Eurostar to roll out facial recognition for ‘passport-free’ travel to Europe

Facial recognition will make passports on the Eurotunnel an option rather than a necessity, but privacy campaigners have questioned whether gathering biometric data on passengers is necessary
June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20
NTT Data and LeapThought eye Singapore’s construction sector

Japan’s NTT Data and New Zealand’s LeapThought have come together to support the digitalisation efforts of Singapore’s construction industry
June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20
Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience

Christian Klein used his first Sapphire keynote as CEO of SAP to underline the supplier’s support for supply chain resiliency and automation against Covid-19 pandemic and climate change backcloths
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
How Informa Markets cohered customer data as it absorbed UBM merger

Trade show organiser Informa Markets turned to Collibra software as it sought to improve data quality while making marketing communications more targeted and precise
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
Data insights will define post-coronavirus city planning

Who would have imagined that in 2020, the majority of people would work remotely and buy online? Cities are going to have to change how they are set up
June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20
How Tableau is riding on its Salesforce synergy

Tableau has bolstered its presence in Asia-Pacific following its acquisition by Salesforce and is combining its analytics capabilities with Einstein Analytics to deliver AI-powered insights
June 10, 2020 10 Jun'20
Dowden: AI and data science conversion path open and diverse

DCMS says 2,500 places on university artificial intelligence and data science conversion courses – 1,000 targeted to produce more diversity in tech – are now open for application
June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20
AS Roma to develop video tracking with Acronis AI expertise

Italian football club will get variable-price ticketing using artificial intelligence expertise to develop systems. It has also deployed Acronis cloud backup
June 05, 2020 05 Jun'20
Businesses develop apps quickly to manage disruption of Covid-19

Healthcare companies, insurers, government agencies and big tech companies have used technology from Pegasystems to develop apps to manage the disruption caused by coronavirus
June 02, 2020 02 Jun'20
Hull supercomputer helps fight Covid-19

University’s Viper supercomputer team join forces with Sheffield-based HPC specialist in global distributed computing project focused on the coronavirus
June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20
Employees must be consulted on technologies monitoring the return to work

Experts say the workforce must be ‘in the room’ and given a meaningful say about technologies introduced to monitor their return to work following the Covid-19 pandemic
June 01, 2020 01 Jun'20
HSBC platform uses AI to analyse trading data thousands of times faster

HSBC is offering its US share trading customers artificial intelligence-powered insights into public information about listed companies
May 28, 2020 28 May'20
How AI can improve food safety

Fujitsu has developed a computer vision model that recognises hand washing gestures to ease the enforcement of stricter food handling rules in Japan
May 18, 2020 18 May'20
NHS Scotland begins contact-tracing tech pilot

Three Scottish health boards are trialling coronavirus contact-tracing software which will be rolled out across the country at the end of this month
May 12, 2020 12 May'20
MPs take part in first live test of remote voting during Covid-19 debate

MPs will use phones and computers to vote from their homes in a House of Commons debate today in the biggest change in parliamentary procedure for 150 years
May 06, 2020 06 May'20
Pure Storage FlashBlade OS v3.0 brings protected snapshots

Pure also adds remote replication and aims at storage use cases for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence workloads in its all-flash NAS and object nodes
May 05, 2020 05 May'20
Pizza Hut optimises pizza delivery platform during lockdown with data analytics

Pizza Hut Digital Ventures has been improving the company’s e-commerce performance before and during the coronavirus crisis
May 04, 2020 04 May'20
SAP S/4 Hana projects seem set to repeat security missteps

Management consultancy Turnkey’s managing director, Richard Hunt, cautions SAP customers not to repeat errors of the past by making security an expensive afterthought
April 30, 2020 30 Apr'20
Can maths plot a path for policy-makers through the UK coronavirus lockdown?

Initial findings from a new study suggests that working from home could enable the UK to manage the coronavirus infection rate
April 23, 2020 23 Apr'20
Nasdaq gives customers real-time data through cloud platform

US stock exchange uses public cloud and APIs to provide investment companies with real-time data on trading activity
April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20
Microsoft aims to build Planetary Computer system for sustainability

Microsoft’s Planetary Computer platform will combine global datasets to help organisations manage biodiversity and reduce climate change
April 14, 2020 14 Apr'20
SAP preliminary Q1 2020 results: Covid-19 takes a bite as in-person events cancelled

The coronavirus public health crisis has hit SAP’s first quarter, according to its preliminary financial results statement
March 31, 2020 31 Mar'20
Gartner: Top-performing companies understand CX

Those businesses that measure customer experience, either through surveys, real-time analytics or the use of artificial intelligence, are more profitable
March 26, 2020 26 Mar'20
Coronavirus: How data visualisation could build resilience against future pandemics

Qlik.org has been working as part of a collaborative private sector effort to better analyse epidemic information. This could help build resilience against Covid-19, and similar viruses
March 24, 2020 24 Mar'20
Coronavirus: Mobilising data science

Policy-makers are calling on the global data science community to develop data models that can can help them better understand the Covid-19 transmission rate
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
Microsoft and Google join forces on Covid-19 dataset

Data scientists and researchers are being encouraged to use data mining, artificial intelligence and machine learning to gain insights into the coronavirus pandemic
March 17, 2020 17 Mar'20
How Malaysia’s Affin Hwang is harnessing data analytics

The Malaysian financial institution has been tapping data analytics to better profile its customers, increase sales leads and identify new customer segments
March 13, 2020 13 Mar'20
China ahead of Australia and Japan in data maturity

Chinese firms are ahead of their peers in the Asia-Pacific region in tapping the potential of data, study finds
March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20
MI5 slammed by watchdog for failing to delete intercepted phone and internet data

The Investigatory Powers Commissioner (IPCO) has criticised MI5 for failing to report serious errors in the way it handles intercepted phone and internet data
March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20
IT Priorities 2020: UK business applications investment in AI gathers steam

Artificial intelligence intensifies as an investment area for UK IT buyers, while cloud delivery is coming to ERP as well as other applications
February 27, 2020 27 Feb'20
WikiLeaks founder Assange is well enough to participate in extradition proceedings, says judge

A judge dismissed claims that Julian Assange’s vulnerable psychological state would prevent him from taking part in his extradition hearing to face espionage and computer misuse charges in the US
February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20
Refinitiv uses Google Cloud to revolutionise delivery of huge datasets

Financial data giant is expanding delivery of its services in the cloud, removing the need for customers to use hard disks and trucks to transport large datasets onsite
February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20
Dutch tech firm transforms real-life football through video game concept

Tech company that helped the Belgian football team in the last World Cup is changing the way footballers are scouted and teams are trained
February 14, 2020 14 Feb'20
Smart use of data takes Dutch railways further

De Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways), ensures, among other things, that 1.2 million train passengers arrive at their destination every day. Through a subsidiary, it’s using data to improve both the customer experience and internal processes
February 05, 2020 05 Feb'20
ASEAN’s tech talent crunch pushing up IT wages

Higher IT salaries were seen across the board in the region, with more than half taking home a bigger pay check last year
February 04, 2020 04 Feb'20
MI5 faces court ruling over unlawful surveillance warrants

Privacy groups Liberty and Privacy International ask the Investigatory Powers Tribunal to order MI5 to disclose full details of ‘unlawful’ conduct, after classified documents reveal the spy agency failed to comply with surveillance laws
January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20
Avast cans data harvesting subsidiary after outcry

Avast will close its Jumpshot big data unit following repeated allegations of inappropriate handling of customer data
January 24, 2020 24 Jan'20
SAP User Group launches Business One Academy

UK and Ireland SAP User Group sets up academy to provide training on SAP Business One, which is only available via resellers and in which there is a dearth of education for small businesses
January 23, 2020 23 Jan'20
Data Literacy Project research finds UK workers putting off data work

Research from Qlik and Accenture finds a big majority of UK workers lack the data literacy skills and confidence to capture business value from data
January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20
Russia’s VTB and Rostelecom focus on big data

Russian financial services and telecoms enterprises to create a platform that will allow them and other organisations to utilise big data technology
January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20
LGBTQ+ social app Grindr accused of breaching GDPR

Norwegian Consumer Council files complaints about LGBTQ+ social networking app, alleging it is in breach of the General Data Protection Regulation
January 08, 2020 08 Jan'20
Deliveroo exceeds tech recruitment target in Edinburgh

Food delivery firm has increased the number of technology staff it wants in its Edinburgh hub
January 02, 2020 02 Jan'20
Inside Qlik’s data management playbook

Qlik CEO Mike Capone talks up the company’s transition into a data management company, its traction in APAC and what it is doing to put data analytics into the hands of more workers
December 30, 2019 30 Dec'19
Top 10 information management stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2019
December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19
Top 10 business applications stories of 2019

The steady incursion of artificial intelligence into enterprise software was a major theme behind Computer Weekly’s in-depth stories in this area in 2019
December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19
EU court opinion finds EU-US data transfers lawful but raises questions over Privacy Shield

The Advocate General of the European Court says standard contractual clauses are lawful, but raises questions over the impact of US surveillance on the legality of Privacy Shield
December 19, 2019 19 Dec'19
Top 10 storage stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 storage stories for 2019, with the latest trends in enterprise storage arrays, hyper-converged, object storage, scale-out NAS, and more
December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19
Facebook: Legality of EU-US data sharing to be decided by Court of Justice

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice will give an opinion on the legality of EU-US data transfers that could have major implications for big tech companies and US government mass surveillance practices
December 12, 2019 12 Dec'19
Why Lendlease is embracing digital twin technology

Australia-based property developer Lendlease is using digital twins and other technologies to break the bulwark of rising costs and declining productivity in the construction sector
November 28, 2019 28 Nov'19
CIO interview: Ross Fullerton, CIO, London Ambulance Service

Brought in after a major IT disaster in 2017, the CIO is now introducing technologies to speed up emergency response times and get key patient data back to doctors before arrival at A&E
November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19
General Election 2019: The Lib Dems’ technology policies and digital plans

With the UK gearing up for its third General Election in four years, Computer Weekly outlines the Liberal Democrat Party’s main technology policies and digital plans, as laid out in its manifesto
November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19
Dreamforce 2019: Benioff puts data centre stage as protestors disrupt speech

Salesforce founder and co-CEO outlines data integration and data visualisation product vision underpinned by MuleSoft and garnished with Tableau
November 17, 2019 17 Nov'19
Australian bourse to overhaul technology infrastructure

The Australian Securities Exchange is embracing digital ledger technology, microservices and DevOps to modernise its core systems
November 11, 2019 11 Nov'19
How SAP is supporting ASEAN’s digital economy

A regional SAP executive outlines what it takes for Southeast Asia’s workforce to tap the opportunities offered by the region’s booming digital economy
November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19
General Election affects National Data Strategy

A series of workshops, including the public’s involvement to guide the plan’s vision, have been postponed
October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19
Kinetica opens Melbourne office, bullish on data analytics

Analytics startup is bullish about the Australian market as more organisations leverage GPU-based platforms to support real-time analytics
October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19
Australia, Singapore emerge tops in data readiness index

Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific region in harnessing data to achieve key business outcomes
October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19
Many companies fail to empower employee data-driven decision-making

In a data-driven business, staff need access to the right data at the right time to help them do their jobs, but there appears to be a data gap
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
September 09, 2019 09 Sep'19
Terror watchlist faces reform after court rules it violates rights of people entering US

A secret US terrorist database containing information on more than 1.2 million people – who face repeated interrogations, detentions and electronic searches – violates constitutional rights, a US judge said last week
September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19
Executive interview: How Figleaves uncovers a data Eden

Online lingerie business that started out at the height of the dot com boom is now focused on using advanced analytics to reveal new data insights
September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19
Lack of executive leadership lowers digital project success rate

A new survey has found that IT may be working on projects that do not deliver tangible business benefits
August 23, 2019 23 Aug'19
Travel company Clarity bakes ThoughtSpot into analytics tool

Travel management company Clarity has turned to ThoughtSpot to create an analytics tool for clients as well as for internal use
August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19
Liberty Steel forges future growth with Infor

Steelmaker is using cloud-delivered software from Infor to stoke its growth, replacing SAP systems provided by its former parent, Tata Steel Europe
August 01, 2019 01 Aug'19
London Stock Exchange agrees to acquire Refinitiv for £22bn

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to a multi-billion pound takeover of data giant Refinitiv
July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19
Chief data officers urged to master product management

Webscale businesses are data-driven. Data drives new application areas and fuels product development – and businesses will need a similar strategy, says analyst
July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19
London Stock Exchange eyes £22bn acquisition of Refinitiv to expand data capabilities

The London Stock Exchange is looking at a huge tech acquisition to provide customers access to a wealth of data services built using the latest technologies
July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19
Organisations turn to AI in race against cyber attackers

Businesses are racing to automate their defences as hackers and nation states launch increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks
July 09, 2019 09 Jul'19
How ASEAN firms are turning data into critical assets

From enabling consumers to track their energy consumption to improving business operations, businesses in ASEAN are starting to put their data to good use
July 08, 2019 08 Jul'19
TfL launches wireless device tracking to gather Tube data

Transport for London aims to use passenger movement data to make using the London Underground a more pleasant experience
June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19
Moscow’s 2019 Startup Village rewards innovation

Moved to a bigger site, Moscow’s annual Startup Village continues to expand, with interest from large corporates growing
June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19
Big companies face extinction unless they use IT better

Better use of IT could add £100bn to the British economy, says a CBI report into UK big business
June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19
UK government pushes data-driven agenda

A smart data report has been published with consultations under way, while an open call for evidence has been launched to help shape the national data plan
June 18, 2019 18 Jun'19
Tableau sticking to data mission under Salesforce

Tableau President and CEO Adam Selipsky told the company’s European user conference in Berlin that Salesforce acquisition will not affect its mission of “seeing and understanding data”
June 10, 2019 10 Jun'19
Salesforce buys Tableau to add self-service analytics to CRM

Salesforce is set to buy business intelligence data visualisation pioneer Tableau as it seeks to amplify its customer analytics capability