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• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Tibco’s Orchestra acquisition will mean ‘faster IT integration’

  Tibco’s strategic acquisition of Paris-based Orchestra networks will ‘benefit customers of both companies’

• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Interview: Sam Lowe, chief technology officer, Streetbees

  Streetbees’ first IT chief brings artificial intelligence expertise to help the tech startup deliver a hive of data for its customers

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  CDO interview: Aidan Millar, DNB

  Norwegian bank hires chief data officer to lead its data-driven transformation

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Standard Life and Aberdeen Asset Management turn to Workday to complete merger

  Standard Life Aberdeen, created in August 2017 when two of Scotland’s largest financial services companies merged, is transferring 3,000 former Standard Life staff to Aberdeen Asset Management’s Workday HR system as it integrates the two businesses

• November 15, 2018 15 Nov'18

  The Gym Group flexes its muscles with data analytics

  No-frills fitness company The Gym Group is using analytics technology to find insights from its financial, HR and membership data, as it limbers up for rapid expansion in the UK

• November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

  Agfa’s move to cloud HR paves the way for healthcare IT spin-off

  Agfa-Gevaert is moving HR systems from 40 countries into the cloud as the company prepares to turn its health IT operations into a standalone business

• November 01, 2018 01 Nov'18

  SAP’s Atzberger vaunts front to back office capability

  Alex Atzberger, president, SAP Customer Experience, recently went through the company’s customer-focused software strategy with Computer Weekly

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Triumph Motorcycles kick-starts changes with high-tech HR

  The Leicestershire-based motorcycle company is deploying IT systems to give customers and its own staff a ‘premium brand experience’

• October 31, 2018 31 Oct'18

  Inside Schneider Electric’s Batam smart factory

  The French energy management and automation firm has nearly halved material wastage by applying smart manufacturing technologies at its Indonesia plant

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  IBM refreshes StorWize with NVMe flash and NVMe-over-fabrics

  Big Blue boosts midrange arrays with NVMe and NVMf capability and launches Spectrum Discover, a Data Lake metadata-focused data analysis tool, plus a new tape drive, the TS1160

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Philips looks to artificial intelligence to train its workforce

  Healthcare company is looking to AI, chatbots and learning playlists to help staff learn new skills more quickly as it adapts changing business priorities

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Firms will use AI to automate HR processes within two years

  Companies are gearing up to automate HR processes with artificial intelligence and machine learning, while at the same time battling with outdated IT systems

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Igneous enhances unstructured data management product

  Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Zeppelin uses Splunk for pre-emptive maintenance

  German construction equipment rental firm Zeppelin has been using Splunk to predict when its machinery will need maintenance before it breaks down

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Internet of things challenges in storage and data

  The internet of things (IoT) brings challenges, with a host of new edge devices and data. We look at edge and core processing, compliance and information lifecycle management in IoT