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• January 27, 2023 27 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

• January 10, 2023 10 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

• January 04, 2023 04 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

• December 30, 2022 30 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

• December 30, 2022 30 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

• November 15, 2022 15 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

• October 24, 2022 24 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

• September 12, 2022 12 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

• September 12, 2022 12 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

• August 30, 2022 30 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

• August 11, 2022 11 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

• August 04, 2022 04 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

• July 29, 2022 29 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

• July 26, 2022 26 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

• July 18, 2022 18 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

• July 12, 2022 12 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

• July 05, 2022 05 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

• June 28, 2022 28 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

• June 28, 2022 28 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

• May 13, 2022 13 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

• May 11, 2022 11 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

• May 09, 2022 09 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

• April 13, 2022 13 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

• March 30, 2022 30 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

• March 24, 2022 24 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

• March 24, 2022 24 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

• March 22, 2022 22 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

• March 09, 2022 09 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

• February 25, 2022 25 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

• February 22, 2022 22 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

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  The Citrix deal and what it means for Tibco

  The investment firm behind Tibco has been on a spending spree, bolstering its product portfolio and offering new ways to access and connect to data

• January 24, 2022 24 Jan'22

  Heathrow Airport takes to the cloud with Oracle Fusion Applications

  Airport has implemented a full spread of Oracle Cloud Applications, including ERP and HCM, as it looks to recover from the pandemic

• January 14, 2022 14 Jan'22

  Twinings selects Rise with SAP to simplify its business brew

  Tea company Twinings Ovaltine has chosen SAP’s Rise subscription service to simplify its relationship with the supplier and focus on future growth

• January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22

  How far has Saudi Arabia come with open data?

  While clearly on the right path, Saudi Arabia still has a lot to do before it reaps the full benefits of open data

• December 29, 2021 29 Dec'21

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2021

  2021 saw enterprise software suppliers and users envisaging a nimbler future, beyond the Covid pandemic, with more loosely coupled ERP systems, more flexible business processes, and a renewed digital-first focus on customers

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Finnish government launches digital economy transformation projects

  The Finnish government launches two transformation projects as part of the country’s mission to pioneer a digital economy

• December 07, 2021 07 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: ERP gets back on the horse

  Automation and going cloud-first have gained significant interest for enterprise software and data management investment in the UK, according to the annual TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities 2022 survey

• December 05, 2021 05 Dec'21

  Australia’s NSW to build A$40m digital twin

  The spatial digital twin brings together government data sources to provide insights for urban planners and residents to support decision-making and see into the future

• November 29, 2021 29 Nov'21

  NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growth companies nimble for post-Covid normality

  Evan Goldberg, executive vice president of Oracle NetSuite, reflects on the post-Covid-19 pandemic economy through the prism of the Oracle-owned SaaS company

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Societe Generale accelerates data and artificial intelligence strategy

  French investment banking giant increases its focus on data and artificial intelligence as digital transformation matures

• October 24, 2021 24 Oct'21

  The future of data analytics

  The rise of no-code and event-driven architectures are among the developments that will shape the future of data analytics, according to Tibco’s regional chief technology officer

• October 04, 2021 04 Oct'21

  How GYG Singapore moved to paperless contracts

  The Singapore franchisee of Mexican cuisine specialist Guzman y Gomez has turned to electronic agreements and digital signatures to ease the administrative burden on its HR team

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  Dreamforce 2021: Benioff declares Salesforce as net zero and Slack ubiquitous across stack

  Marc Benioff, CEO and chair of Salesforce, declares his company net zero in a keynote at Dreamforce 2021 in San Francisco, alongside update on Slack integrations

• September 13, 2021 13 Sep'21

  RPA adoption still in its infancy in Asia-Pacific

  While there have been successful deployments of robotic process automation in mature markets, adoption of the technology is largely in its infancy across Asia-Pacific, says a regional Blue Prism executive

• August 24, 2021 24 Aug'21

  Inchcape picks Rise with SAP on Google Cloud to motor on digital

  Auto sector company Inchcape has chosen SAP’s Rise service on Google Cloud to drive forward its digital transformation programme

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  How to get API deployments right

  Application programming interfaces are not the panacea for digital transformation and could even lead to escalating costs for problems that are better addressed through integration

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Fred IT replaces paper prescriptions with QR codes

  Fred IT’s eRX Script Exchange is now used by 21,000 doctors and 95% of Australian pharmacies, delivering more than 11 million digital prescriptions by July 2021

• July 28, 2021 28 Jul'21

  BEIS replaces Excel-based grant system with data management portal

  The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy is replacing an Excel-based system for grant applications with a data management system built by Aiimi

• July 27, 2021 27 Jul'21

  Digital manufacturing industry gets £53m government funding boost

  Money will be used to create five digital manufacturing research centres, a digital supply chain innovation hub and to fund 37 industry projects

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  SAS steps up free data skills programme for job seekers

  SAS has expanded its free data skills for jobseekers’ programme, aiming it at people who have been adversely affected by the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic