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• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Manchester City builds digital fan wall on Hana Cloud Platform

  Football club has unveiled an interactive fan wall, built on SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform, to engage fans better

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress

  The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress

• September 05, 2016 05 Sep'16

  Silverstone Circuit pilots smart transport service at 2016 British MotoGP

  Silverstone Circuit tests InterDigital’s oneTransport traffic flow management service at the 2016 British Grand Prix MotoGP

• August 31, 2016 31 Aug'16

  Welcome Break uses SAP Jam to spread collaboration

  Motorway services company is using SAP SuccessFactors HR technology to manage its people across franchises that include Starbucks and KFC

• August 22, 2016 22 Aug'16

  Bangkok Hospital recognised for its use of electronic records

  Private hospital in Thailand is recognised for its effective use of IT by a global accreditation body

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  UK data scientist roles grow by 32% in first half of 2016

  There has been a big rise in the number of data scientist positions in the UK and Europe in the first half of 2016

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  Case study: Improving food safety and traceability

  We look at how Transparency-One is using a Neo4j graph database to deliver traceability across the global food supply chain

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules

  Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  German digital bank Fidor acquired by French banking giant

  Fidor CEO says merger with BPCE will allow challenger to continue its international expansion

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Tel Aviv Stock Exchange centralises functions with ERP

  The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has installed first ever ERP system. CIO Eldad Hershtig explains his strategic choices and implementation path

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Roland Grunéus, Intrum Justitia

  Roland Grunéus, the CIO of Swedish-founded Intrum Justitia, reveals the credit management services group’s efforts to make better use of data

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Pure Storage drips out more of its all-flash analytics FlashBlade

  Pure lets more customers use its flash-based analytics platform FlashBlade, before the product aimed at high-throughput unstructured data is made generally available later in 2016

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Johnny Bröms, Swedish fast-food chain Max Burger

  The CIO of Swedish fast-food chain tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is increasing sales and supporting expansion

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Big data and open-source cloud technology help Gulf Air pin down customer sentiment

  Big data engine that performs sentiment analysis on both Arabic and English textual data helps airline to understand and react rapidly to customer preferences

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

  Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data

• May 30, 2016 30 May'16

  Middle East CIO interview: V. Chandrasekar, Standard Chartered

  The CIO of Standard Chartered bank in the Middle East tells Computer Weekly about the challenge of keeping customers happy through IT

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Petteri Naulapää, Stockmann

  CIO of Finnish-listed international retailer tells Computer Weekly about the department store’s journey towards omnichannel

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  ING Turkey uses digital technology to improve services and grow customer base

  Turkish bank uses business process management technology to offer financial services through 1,500 grocery stores, technology outlets and post offices

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  Foxy Leicester City FC won Premiership with data analytics

  Leicester City Football Club was the surprise winner of this season’s English Premier League, thanks, in part, to data analytics

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Gulf Air creates private cloud to support open-source big data engine

  Airline is using a private cloud and open-source software to enable it to analyse social media and understand what consumers think about it

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  GE launches Predix-power application for the industrial internet

  GE’s digital division is now a fully fledged software business with the introduction of an asset performance management system

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  France takes the lead in the global open data race

  The appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) has already seen the nation create five different types of economic and social value

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  UK economy faces digital divide, CBI warns

  A report from the Confederation of British Industry and tech giant IBM paints a bleak picture of UK businesses' adoption (or not) of digital technologies

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  GCHQ told analysts to assume surveillance 'bulk data' is legal

  Documents obtained by charity Privacy International reveal insights into GCHQ’s collection of sensitive bulk data, as lawyers question the impact of surveillance on legal privilege, fair trials and protection of whistleblowers

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Centrica deploys large scale Hortonworks cluster to boost business

  Utility company Centrica is looking at how to grow the business by harvesting data lakes

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  The Israeli companies disrupting mobile technology

  Israel's high-tech startups are developing innovative technology that will bring new capabilities to consumers and mobile phone operators

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Predictive maintenance brings efficiency to Trenitalia

  New management system will help railway company reduce costs by applying predictive maintenance and data analytics to essential parts

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  The Christie speeds up SPC charts to improve clinical processes

  Cancer specialist NHS trust implements statistical process control chart creation tool in data visualisation software Tableau to improve processes and save money

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Outsourcer MSXI puts Microsoft cloud in driving seat

  Business process outsourcer MSXI has replaced Salesforce with a Microsoft business applications stack to support its car dealership business

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Dutch water wants to move beyond dipping its toes into big data pool

  Dutch water company Brabant Water wants to use data to improve the service it provides to customers, as well as identify problems on its distribution network

• February 16, 2016 16 Feb'16

  Mobile apps could put an end to ‘hated’ staff appraisals

  Josh Bersin, founder of Bersin by Deloitte, reveals the top HR technology trends for 2016

• February 11, 2016 11 Feb'16

  CDOs lack organisational design experience, says Gartner

  Research firm identifies immaturity in the organisational design of the set-ups led by the new breed of chief data officer and offers a menu of four design options

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Crunch time for Australian CIOs as analytics platforms drive strategy in 2016

  CIOs in Australia and elsewhere will be expected to deploy technologies that promise to help them get more from the information they own

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Janne Aalto, Finnish telco DNA

  When Finnish telco DNA wanted to transform its business, it made startup consultant Janne Aalto its CIO to lead the move to lean and agile

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group

  The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs

  London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Russian big data in early stages

  The use of big data technologies in Russia is still embryonic and the economic slowdown is stalling developments

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Change is in the air as Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service applies analytics to everything

  Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service unearths additional benefits of data analytics following its decision to use Splunk software to analyse operational logs

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Workday ringfences support in Europe after Safe Harbour ruled unsafe

  US cloud HR and financial services provider reponds to Safe Harbour failure by ringfencing European data

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  SAP UK&I User Group Conference 2015: Newcastle University puts ERP on Hana

  Newcastle University has put enterprise resource planning and data warehouse data on SAP’s Hana platform in a proof of concept project

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Suppliers lay the groundwork for IoT in Czech Republic

  ICT suppliers are putting in place the technology infrastructure that will enable towns and cities in the Czech Republic to harness the internet of things

• November 09, 2015 09 Nov'15

  Amsterdam Arena aims to set digital example to others

  The Amsterdam Arena is a digital powerhouse which, according to its CIO, wants to set an example for the city to follow

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Met Office's new supercomputer to deliver £2bn of socio-economic benefits

  The Met Office aims to realise a range of socio-economic benefits to UK industries thanks to improved forecasting with its new Cray supercomputer

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Tech will turn HR into a ‘productivity department’

  HR technologies are moving away from managing staff in favour of helping them become more productive

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  British American Tobacco saves £1.4m after automating candidate selection

  British American Tobacco uses custom profiling software to cut the number of applications managers have to screen by half, as part of a major re-organisation of its recruitment processes

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Yakult uses data analytics to boost growth in the Netherlands by 20%

  Probiotics maker Yakult is using analytics and data visualisation tools to boost its sales in the Netherlands

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  UK retailers could use data analytics more to cash in on Black Friday

  Research by data visualisation supplier Tableau suggests British retailers could do better with analytics as Black Friday looms