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• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Comic Relief’s digital challenge: talent, data and the No Make-Up Selfie

  Social media campaigns such as the No Make-Up Selfie and the Ice Bucket Challenge threaten charities such as Comic Relief with their digital reach

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Fear and loathing could hold back UK internet of things, says KPMG report

  More than two-thirds of UK consumers fear growing number of interconnected devices make it too easy for things to go wrong

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  SAP teams up with Birst to offer cloud analytics on Hana

  SAP is working with cloud BI supplier Birst to provide “instant analytics in the cloud” on the Hana in-memory database platform

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Muji takes on cloud platform to increase sales

  Retailer Muji is using a cloud-based platform from IT services firm Infosys to help it understand customers and target sales

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Retailers need to adopt ‘fail fast’ attitude to technology

  Retailers experimenting with digital technologies must take a “fail fast” approach so they can deliver new innovations quickly

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Accenture: 48% of UK survey respondents fail to find big data talent

  An Accenture survey has found that nearly half of UK respondents are struggling to find enough skilled data management professional

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Bayern Munich teams up with SAP to hit sporting and commercial goals

  FC Bayern Munich and SAP today cemented a sports analytics and enterprise software partnership at the club’s Allianz Arena

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  CIO interview: Dave Ubachs, CIO, Staples Europe

  Staples is undertaking major IT projects in Europe that will see e-commerce improvements and back-end consolidation in 16 countries

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  SAP helps Germany lift the World Cup

  Germany-based software company SAP played its part in the national football team's victory over Argentina in the World Cup final in Brazil

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  ISPs take legal action against GCHQ over mass network infrastructure surveillance

  Six global internet service providers (ISPs) have filed a legal complaint calling for a halt to GCHQ’s use of network infrastructure for surveillance

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Wimbledon to analyse social interactions at tennis championship

  The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon will be analysing social interactions throughout tennis championship

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

  Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans

• June 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  UK airports lead move to cloud services

  UK airports are at the vanguard of using cloud to develop innovative services, says Gatwick CIO.

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  Sapphire 2014: Plattner restates radical, in-memory computing future

  SAP's Hasso Plattner restates his case that enterprise applications face a radical future, based on in-memory computing

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Business Objects use increases among SAP users, but Hana uptake low

  More UK and Ireland SAP customers are using Business Objects now than even two years ago, but only 15% are using Hana

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  IT headcount lags behind growth in digital strategies

  There is a huge gap in technology staffing for e-commerce operations, according to a new report from analyst Forrester

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Justifying the business case to update Oracle eBusiness Suite

  To justify the upgrade cost needed to move to Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12, IT departments need consider how the implementation can deliver value.

• May 07, 2014 07 May'14

  UK helping US military build intelligence software for drone targeting

  The UK has been helping the US military build software to share intelligence for weapons such as drones for the past 14 years

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  City University London launches data science and cyber security courses

  City University London will this year begin its first post-graduate courses in data science and cybersecurity.

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  Oracle updates Solaris, but is its server strategy sound?

  Oracle has released a beta versdion of Solaris 11.2. But does Solaris and the Sparc server platform have a future?

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  Gartner: CIOs spend more on BI as business growth returns

  The return to business growth is driving IT spending among UK and Irish CIOs, according to Gartner's 2014 CIO Agenda survey

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has his Trustworthy Computing moment

  In 2002, Microsoft chief Bill Gates sent out the Trustworthy Computing memo to staff. Microsoft’s new CEO, Satya Nadella, had his Trustworthy Computing moment this week.

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  Are retailers using data analytics to their advantage?

  Computer Weekly looks at the challenges the retail sector faces in taking advantage of data analysis

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Analysis: Care.data – where next?

  Following the public debate surrounding the NHS Care.data plan, it was unsurprising the topic dominated the UK’s largest health IT event

• March 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Red Bull ramps up network for 2014 F1 championship

  An extended relationship with AT&T will support RedBull Infiniti Racing on and off the track as it prepares its 2014 championship bid

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  British Gas uses SAS analytics to reach customers

  British Gas, one of the UK’s energy suppliers, is to use SAS analytics to improve marketing efficiency

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture

  Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved service

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  HP Autonomy unveils healthcare analytics system for textual data

  HP has unveiled a new healthcare analytics product to enable medical staff to interrogate text and data in relational databases

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Case study: Scottish Fire and Rescue advances national BI strategy with QlikView

  The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is using QlikView business intelligence software to bring together its data streams for external reporting and operational intelligence

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Teradata launches analytics product as SAP BW replacement

  Teradata has released an analytics product for SAP ERP, as a full-blown alternative to SAP BW

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data

  The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Case study: London Borough of Islington’s smart working journey

  The London Borough of Islington is using technology to ensure its staff are as productive as possible travelling along a ‘smart working journey’

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Nokia Solutions Networks HR rejects best of breed for best of platform

  Nokia Solutions and Networks has chosen a ‘best of platform’ approach for its global HR programme in the wake of a reduction in staff from around 80,000 to 50,000, consequent to a restructure in 2011

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Tech spend to increase in 2014 as executives explore big data

  Over three-quarters of chief financial officers plan to increase technology investments in 2014

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Mobile business intelligence adoption slows, BARC BI survey finds

  Mobile BI adoption is slowing and much vaunted social media analytics are little deployed, according to the latest BARC BI global survey

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  IT budgets to rise by 3% in 2014 as companies step up spending on mobile

  IT spending will increase by 3% in 2014, up from 1.8% last year. But shadow IT spending will add another 40% to technology budgets

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Case study: McGraw-Hill Education mobilises with Salesforce

  The educational resources provider utilises Salesforce to develop a mobile app and get its sales reps selling more on campus

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Paolo Cinelli, CIO, Ikea

  Ikea's priority is to get closer to its customers using a multi-channel approach which combines digital and traditional methods

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  IT spending up as companies invest in digital technology

  Businesses are stepping up their spending on IT as they invest in strategic digital technologies, a CIO survey by Deloitte reveals

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports