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August 28, 2020
28
Aug'20
How Citi is democratising access to data
Global financial institution Citi puts people at the centre of its data analytics initiatives and collaborates with users to drive adoption and success
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August 27, 2020
27
Aug'20
Tour de France 2020 fans to get virtual experience delivered by NTT
This year’s Tour de France was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IT services company NTT has teamed up with event organiser ASO to offer a virtual experience to fans who cannot be at the roadside
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August 26, 2020
26
Aug'20
Salesforce Q2 2020: Benioff says crisis will speed growth
Salesforce announces 29% year-on-year revenue growth for the second quarter, and grieves for Dreamforce 2020
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August 25, 2020
25
Aug'20
Intel’s DAOS tops the IO500 speed challenge for HPC storage
Following on from Lustre, Intel’s DAOS is an object storage-based system with that is designed specifically for use with Optane for metadata and SSD for bulk storage in HPC environments
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August 19, 2020
19
Aug'20
How Dell is leveraging data to reopen its offices
Dell Technologies has created a real-time dashboard to make sense of data about the Covid-19 coronavirus and safely guide its employees’ return to the workplace
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August 19, 2020
19
Aug'20
Vodafone builds smart enterprise on SAP S/4 Hana
Holger Grewe, group head of corporate transformation, and Ignacio Garcia, CIO corporate systems, at Vodafone, convey how SAP S/4 Hana has been purposely implemented as part of an ongoing smart enterprise transformation
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August 06, 2020
06
Aug'20
Spurring digitalisation in Singapore’s tourism sector
The Singapore Tourism Board has developed a digital pass and an analytics service, among other initiatives, to digitalise the city-state’s embattled tourism industry
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August 05, 2020
05
Aug'20
Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation
Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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