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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 20, 2015 20 Nov'15
Group litigation against Post Office being prepared in Horizon dispute

Subpostmasters who believe they have been wrongly punished for misaccounting or theft due to flawed computer system prepare group legal action against Post Office
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
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 26, 2015 26 Oct'15
Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals

Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
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
October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15
Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists
October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15
CIO interview: Martin Thell, Scandic Hotels

The CIO of major Nordic hotel chain Scandic Hotels wants to learn more about customers through technology, without being overbearing
October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15
Silicon Valley startups pitch to solve next-generation business IT problems

We visit Silicon Valley to meet some of the emerging tech companies focusing on enterprise IT

October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15
Apprenticeships could stop potential employees falling through the net, says Bellrock

The chief technology officer of facilities management company Bellrock explains why apprenticeships should be used to stop potential IT workers moving to other industries
October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15
Tesco decides to keep Dunnhumby after strategic review of business

Supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped plans to sell analytics arm Dunnhumby after restructuring and analysing its assets
October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15
Singapore and UK researchers investigate privacy in big data era

Academic organisations in Singapore and the UK collaborate on the privacy questions raised by big data and the cloud
October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15
Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics
September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15
Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed
September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15
Nationwide Building Society deploys artificial intelligence to reduce back-end complexity

Nationwide Building Society is using artificial intelligence to help it reduce the complexity of its back-end systems as it introduces more digital products
September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15
Case study: French delivery company Chronopost looks to NoSQL for big data challenge

French delivery company Chronopost is using open-source NoSQL systems to improve services and customer retention
September 03, 2015 03 Sep'15
Al Rayan Bank finds business agility in cloud applications

Al Rayan Bank believes its investment in cloud applications gives it an edge in business agility
August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15
Alan Turing Institute gets down to work

The Alan Turing Institute, named after the Second World War Bletchley Park cryptanalyst, is getting down to work with the announcement of its first new director and a raft of partnerships
July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15
Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns
July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15
Comparethemarket uses Cloudera to gain single view of customer data

Price comparison site Comparethemarket has turned to Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to get a better view of customer data from different channels. Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop, explains
July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15
Manchester City group joins forces with SAP to further global goals

The City Football Group, which includes Manchester City, has teamed up with SAP to further its global development goals
June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView
June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15
Waitrose uses ServiceNow for business continuity planning

Luxury retail brand Waitrose deploys ServiceNow to cope with business continuity across its supply chain
June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15
Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Veritas plans to revive backup fortunes with big data analytics

Symantec spin-out Veritas plans major backup product releases that leverage metadata to make backups more efficient and unlock valuable information via big data capabilities
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Google eyes Tesco’s customer analytics arm Dunnhumby

Google is reported to have joined the scramble to buy Dunnhumby, the customer analytics unit behind Tesco’s Clubcard
June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15
Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications
June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15
Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service
June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15
CIO interview: Alan Jensen, Dansk Supermarked

Danske Supermarked is moving to an omni-channel model, and the CIO must ensure IT and business departments are on the journey together
May 11, 2015 11 May'15
Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years
May 05, 2015 05 May'15
Sapphire 2015: McDermott declares SAP natively digital

SAP CEO Bill McDermott declares the company “digital” at Sapphire 2015 and made “empathy” the watchword of his keynote
April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15
Why self-service and automation will power mass adoption of BI

Tibco’s analytics head, Brian Gentile, believes business intelligence needs to adapt for mass-market adoption
April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15
InfoVista buys Ipanema to boost application performance offer

Network management supplier InfoVista buys application and network performance firm Ipanema to realise software-defined WAN ambitions
April 02, 2015 02 Apr'15
Foods manufacturer ConAgra expects to save $5m a year with data analytics

Food manufacturer ConAgra Foods is using data analytics technology to improve how it makes decisions about hiring and deploying its workforce
March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15
Sky Italia looks to the cloud for better customer experience

Sky Italia “remakes” its customer acquisition, customer service and change order management processes using cloud
March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15
KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption

Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients
March 24, 2015 24 Mar'15
Swarovski opts for cloud HR to move function to strategic level

Swarovski’s move to cloud HR system demonstrates its desire to move HR from an operational function to a strategic level
March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15
Holland & Barrett outsources data handling to ITC Infotech

IT services firm ITC Infotech manages customer data for health food business to help it glean business value from the information
March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15
Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio
March 11, 2015 11 Mar'15
Microsoft Azure brings success for McDonald's Sweden

McDonald's Sweden's Microsoft Azure system is named best-in-class across the fast food organisation's global operation
March 09, 2015 09 Mar'15
Prepare for two modes of business intelligence, says Gartner

IT needs to open up business intelligence to the broader business to support its consumerisation
March 04, 2015 04 Mar'15
CIO interview: Connected cars set CIO agenda at Volvo

IT has always tried to align with the business, but for Klas Bendrik, group CIO at Volvo Cars, it seems business has aligned with IT
February 24, 2015 24 Feb'15
London’s Air Ambulance swaps A-Z maps for mobile apps

London’s Air Ambulance has halved emergency dispatch times through an incident information and routing app from Mubaloo
February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15
National Grid uses IBM to add predictive maintenance capabilities

National Grid is using cloud-based analytics powered by IBM SoftLayer to provide preventative maintenance
February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15
Self-service BI, data integration top information management issues

Self-service business intelligence and data integration top information management challenges for IT and finance professionals
January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15
Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB
January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15
SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe
January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15
Case study: UniCredit uses Fico to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

Italian bank UniCredit is using Fico software to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management
November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14
Amazon not the biggest threat to high street retailers

Competition from online-only traders does not pose the biggest threat to high street retailers, with cautious attitudes a bigger risk