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Business process management (BPM)
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February 27, 2024
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Feb'24
How TeamViewer is charting its growth beyond remote connectivity
TeamViewer CEO Oliver Steil outlines the company’s efforts to build on its remote connectivity and control capabilities to support emerging use cases such as smart factories
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December 27, 2023
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Dec'23
Top 10 business applications stories of 2023
Generative AI has become unavoidable for business applications suppliers. C-level executives offer insights here, while the fundamentals of user enterprise software strategy remain visible beneath the AI froth
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November 22, 2023
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Nov'23
Boomi doubles down on AI and automation
Boomi executives talk up the company’s artificial intelligence and automation capabilities and its growing traction in ANZ during a recent event in Sydney
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November 17, 2023
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Nov'23
Oracle NetSuite CEO Goldberg: AI a sleeping giant coming to life
Speaking with Computer Weekly at SuiteWorld, Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, discussed how artificial intelligence has emerged from obscurity to be of business moment
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November 16, 2023
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Nov'23
SAP sustainability study reveals UK businesses lack funding
An annual sustainability study by SAP reveals UK businesses are on the right track, but still face barriers in the long run
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October 30, 2023
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Oct'23
Devon County digitises with Unit4 ERP
Unit4 and Embridge Consulting have paired up to help Devon County Council digitise its organisation, data and services
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October 23, 2023
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Oct'23
CTO interview: Pegasystems’ Don Schuerman on using AI to set business goals
Generative AI is on the cusp of allowing companies to automate business processes to meet business goals
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October 18, 2023
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Oct'23
SuiteWorld 23: Oracle NetSuite pushes business efficiency by way of AI
Oracle NetSuite’s Evan Goldberg posited AI old and new as means for organisations to do more with fewer resources, speaking at the company’s annual global SuiteWorld conference in Las Vegas
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October 16, 2023
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Oct'23
Oracle’s Steve Miranda: Customers nearing inflection point with Fusion
In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed how its customers are moving from project-driven to business-driven approaches, and how GenAI is for real
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October 04, 2023
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Oct'23
UK emphasises EU split by kicking digital trade scheme into long grass
Former Gaia-X CEO talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about UK inertia on cross-border data tech
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September 20, 2023
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Sep'23
Oracle CloudWorld 2023: Ellison heralds dawn of generative AI era
Oracle’s founder and chief technology officer, Larry Ellison, lends his heft to the generative AI vogue
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September 13, 2023
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Sep'23
How DocuSign is extending its capabilities beyond e-signatures
DocuSign is harnessing large language models to help individuals make sense of agreements and employing AI-based biometrics to verify the identity of signers, as part of its broader efforts to expand its capabilities beyond electronic signatures
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July 28, 2023
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Jul'23
ServiceNow Q2 2023: 23% year-on-year growth with GenAI to fore
ServiceNow has announced second-quarter 2023 revenue of $2.15bn, up 23% on the same quarter in 2022. The digital workflows automation supplier stressed GenAI developments and partnerships
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June 20, 2023
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Jun'23
ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’
Bill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change
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June 16, 2023
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Jun'23
Citi US Personal Banking turns to AI to ‘delight’ customers with personalised services
Citigroup’s US Personal Banking business has created a repository of customer data and is rolling out a decision engine to provide customers with personalised services
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May 17, 2023
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May'23
Knowledge 2023: Ready for the exponential enterprise, says McDermott
ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott called for IT and ‘the business’ to finally come together in what he called the ‘exponential enterprise’ at the supplier’s Knowledge 2023 conference in Las Vegas
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May 12, 2023
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May'23
IT Priorities 2023: Business automation intensifies as data governance returns
Business automation and a renewed focus on data governance to get more value from data have attracted more interest for UK enterprise software investment, says the TechTarget IT Priorities 2023 survey
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May 05, 2023
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May'23
Employee perception may be key to success of UAE’s big data initiative
Study shows the impact employee perception can have on big data projects in the United Arab Emirates
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April 05, 2023
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Apr'23
The Folio Society turns over new leaf with NetSuite
Well known for its illustrated, hardback editions of books, The Folio Society has brought its finance systems up to date, in part to aid international growth, with Oracle NetSuite
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February 21, 2023
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Feb'23
UK finance firms short of data skills
Financial services companies in the UK lack the data skills they will need to succeed in an increasingly digital world
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January 27, 2023
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Jan'23
SAP 2022: 11% revenue growth, 2.5% staff targeted by restructure
SAP has announced full-year 2022 revenue of nearly €31bn, up 11% year on year. In 2023, it will explore a sell-off of Qualtrics stake and do a restructure, with an impact on 2.5% of staff
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January 10, 2023
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Jan'23
Belfast Harbour sails out with Oracle cloud applications
Belfast Harbour spies a more efficient and flexible future on the horizon as it sets sail with Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP
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January 04, 2023
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Jan'23
St Helens Council plumps for Unit4 ERP to forward automation plans
St Helens Borough Council has replaced an in-house system with Unit4 and Proactis enterprise applications technologies to advance its digital transformation plans
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December 30, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 information management stories of 2022
Data for good is a theme of the information management stories of 2022 selected here. From tracking space junk, through medical kits for Ukraine, to professionalising data science to benefit society
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December 30, 2022
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Dec'22
Top 10 Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcasts of 2022
The team began with a sombre episode about Ukraine and went on to tackle the more familiar topics of diversity, datacentre sustainability and data. New for 22: Cliff Saran’s interviews with IT thought leaders
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November 15, 2022
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Nov'22
SAP Build launched at TechEd to appeal to business user developers
SAP is launching a low-code platform, SAP Build, aimed squarely at line of business users, at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas. Build is part of the supplier’s Business Technology Platform
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October 24, 2022
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Oct'22
Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: The growing divide between the haves and have-nots
The most successful companies carefully manage how data is taken in and processed – and they use tools to ensure they squeeze the most they can out of every bit of information
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September 12, 2022
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Sep'22
SAP users ramp up ESG efforts
The UK & Ireland SAP User Group is developing a special interest group to help their members hit their ESG goals more effectively
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September 12, 2022
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Sep'22
Lloyd’s of London is digitally transforming through the front door
Centuries-old financial services organisation is transforming its complex IT infrastructure through digital data
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August 30, 2022
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Aug'22
Growing importance of the data strategist in South Holland
Much has been written about the work of data scientists, but the lesser-known role of data strategist is just as essential – as is being demonstrated in the Netherlands
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August 11, 2022
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Aug'22
Crown Commercial Service opens door to Salesforce
The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft
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August 04, 2022
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Aug'22
Bayern Munich sides with Adobe to enhance global fan experience
Bayern Munich is using Adobe’s Experience Cloud and allied software to better connect with its fans in Germany and worldwide
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July 29, 2022
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Jul'22
How TCS is supporting Australia’s electricity market settlement
Tata Consultancy Services worked with the Australian Energy Market Operator to build a new system that speeds up electricity market settlement
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July 26, 2022
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Jul'22
Lambeth maps future with cloud applications
With its funding dramatically cut, Lambeth Council has turned to cloud delivery of its business applications to have a simpler technology stack and be nimbler in delivering services to its 330,000 population
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July 18, 2022
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Jul'22
Putting automation into motion will put the wheels on UK economic growth
Automation technologies and artificial intelligence will change the workplace for the better, giving people time to focus on high-value creative work
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July 12, 2022
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Jul'22
First cohort of data science professionals certified by AfDSP
The Alliance for Data Science Professionals has certified its first cohort, with the imprimatur of the UK’s national statistician, Ian Diamond
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July 05, 2022
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Jul'22
Netherlands’ AMdEX seeks to democratise the internet
Last year, five Dutch organisations launched an initiative to set up the Amsterdam Data Exchange to simplify data sharing and help democratise the internet
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June 28, 2022
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Jun'22
African health charity integrates digital tools with Cognizant
IT services supplier is working with African health charity to integrate digital tools through a five-month project
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June 28, 2022
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Jun'22
Executive interview: Chris Conradi, chief digital officer, FSN Capital
Chris Conradi is taking his learnings at Google into the private equity industry at Norway’s FSN Capital
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May 13, 2022
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May'22
Organisational silos hampering integration efforts in Asia
Many organisations in Asia still approach integration in silos, choosing to build hard coded integrations that tend to be brittle and more prone to failure
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May 11, 2022
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May'22
Sapphire 2022: Klein majors on sustainability and supply chain resilience
At SAP’s first in-person Sapphire customer conference in three years, CEO Christian Klein and his top team revisited the themes of sustainability and supply chain resilience, which were prominent in 2020 and 2021
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May 09, 2022
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May'22
India’s IT services market grew at record pace in 2021
Growing investments in cloud, artificial intelligence and cyber security have been a boon to India’s IT and business services market
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April 13, 2022
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Apr'22
Oracle vaunts ME as employee experience platform geared to post-crisis workforce realities
Oracle has launched an employee experience platform, dubbed ME, said to be designed for post-Covid, individualistic pandemic workforce trends
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March 30, 2022
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Mar'22
ODI sets up institution to promote public data sharing
The Open Data Institute has set up an institution to support the Open Referral UK data standard geared to promote more sharing of public sector data
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March 24, 2022
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Mar'22
Unipart maps way ahead with Rise with SAP service
Unipart has chosen the Rise with SAP S/4 Hana-based service as it seeks to develop further the systems integration side of its business
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March 24, 2022
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Mar'22
CW Innovation Awards: Tracking cargo on the road
Through Geodis APAC’s One Road platform, supply chain companies have received fewer enquiries on cargo locations and improved on-time performance using roads as an alternative way to move cargo
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March 22, 2022
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Mar'22
Competition watchdog contacts Barclays and Lloyds banks over API failures
Barclays and Lloyds banks have failed to meet some of the open banking rules, says competition watchdog
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March 09, 2022
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Mar'22
How Kofax is tapping the groundswell in automation
Kofax is counting on its pedigree in optical character recognition and other capabilities to tap the growing market for automation technologies
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February 25, 2022
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Feb'22
University of Amsterdam teams up with MIT to use analytics for a better world
Dutch and US universities join forces with tech company to help non-government organisations and the United Nations to harness data analytics to achieve sustainable development goals
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February 22, 2022
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Feb'22
Software AG executives trumpet progress on Helix growth plan
Software AG’s executive team has confirmed progress on a cloud-oriented growth strategy named Helix, launched in 2019 and bolstered by 2021 investment by US technology firm Silver Lake