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• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Hitachi Data Systems ploughs ahead with social innovation plans

  Hitachi Innovation Forum expects 16,000 delegates to share user cases on how technology is making society safer

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  Finance IT group wants to push forward banks' cloud discussion

  The Banking Industry Architecture Network (Bian) calls on industry to decide on the core banking systems to move to cloud platforms and share

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• 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

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Starbucks uses cloud to manage innovation and disruptive technologies

  Starbucks coffee chain innovates IT strategies to hone its competitive edge using cloud services, says IT director Robert Teagle

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Ben Hine, technology director, UKTV

  UKTV director Ben Hine says every piece of the company's technology has been replaced over the last four years

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Vtesse bought by Interoute in major fibre expansion

  Acquisition adds 7,000km of fibre infrastructure to Interoute’s European network

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

  Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs

  Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative

• September 25, 2014 25 Sep'14

  Oracle releases OpenStack Support for Oracle Linux and Oracle VM

  Oracle has made its Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux distribution generally available to support customers

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

  SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Customer loyalty biggest challenge for banks

  Banks have cited customer loyalty as their main concern, according to a survey by financial services firm Temenos

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

  Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Salesforce issues advice on avoiding Dyreza attack

  Salesforce has issued a set of guidelines on tightening security after a number of its customers were targeted by the Dyreza email virus

• 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 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  How Sony Music used Google cloud for One Direction’s 1D-Day event

  Sony Music and its digital agency AIS London adopted Google Cloud Platform services to handle One Direction's day event

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Ocado’s technology under fire, causing share price to fall

  Ocado’s IT has come under fire in a financial analyst's report that claims the market has over-valued the retailer's automation technology

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Why digitisation transforms supplier relationships

  As the economy moves forward, CEOs are looking for the next wave of innovation to fuel growth. But are IT service providers ready?

• July 30, 2014 30 Jul'14

  Lack of coding skills may lead to skills shortage in Europe

  European Commission urges people to learn coding, warning that a lack of coding skills could see Europe facing skills shortage by 2020

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  AWS feels the pressure of cloud competition

  AWS became the gold standard of public cloud. But are price wars, hybrid cloud and increased competition denting its growth?

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

  Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project

• July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14

  Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

  Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue

  IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  IBM partners with Apple to deliver enterprise services for iOS

  IBM has given Apple a major boost in the enterprise, through a partnership that will see it provide services and software for iOS

• July 15, 2014 15 Jul'14

  Diageo puts ServiceNow fizz in IT service desk

  Diageo has gone live with an implementation of ServiceNow to automate IT services as part of a global transformation

• July 10, 2014 10 Jul'14

  Google Ventures expands with $100m to fund ‘most disruptive’ startups in Europe

  Google is launching an expanded venture fund for Europe, with £58m to support and invest in next-gen European startups

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Google I/O: Extending Google's enterprise reach

  At its annual developer conference last month, Google extended its enterprise portfolio boosting its security, storage and MDM products

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Huddle eases collaborative critical path for engineering firm WSP

  Engineering consultancy WSP chooses Huddle to allow its engineers and architects to share project data securely and collaborate, regardless of location

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Netflix releases its AWS monitoring tool Security Monkey into the wild

  Netflix has made Security Monkey, the AWS tracker tool it built for itself, freely available to other Amazon cloud users

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Blender maker adds ServiceNow ITSM to business mix

  Blender maker Vitamix has rolled out its ServiceNow IT service management (ITSM) beyond the improvement of its IT operation by automating tasks across the business.

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Case study: How eBay uses its own OpenStack private cloud

  eBay runs one of its most crucial workloads – its website – on an OpenStack private cloud platform developed by itself

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Interview: John Swainson, president of Dell Software

  Dell Software president John Swainson's aims to make Dell Software a $5bn business

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  IFDS integrates UK and India service centres

  International Financial Data Services has implemented software to balance workloads across UK and Indian delivery centres

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?

  With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  Home Secretary Theresa May unveils datacentre in Maidenhead

  Home Secretary Theresa May has opened a multi-million-pound extended datacentre, owned by UK cloud firm iomart

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Cloud impact can be as big as the advent of computing itself: EIU report

  Cloud is not just a replacement for older computing platforms, but a change as revolutionary as the advent of computing itself, says EIU report

• 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 05, 2014 05 Jun'14

  CIOs should 'leave innovation to marketing'

  CIOs should focus on managing the technical infrastructure and leave innovation to other parts of the business – conclusion of a major study.

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

  The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CIO, Jardine Lloyd Thompson

  Running a programme to transform the business is the wrong way to go about change, according to Ian Cohen, CIO at insurance broker JLT

• 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 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Salesforce.com opens UK datacentre to support data sovereignty

  Cloud CRM company Salesforce.com has announced its first UK datacentre, which is also its first in Europe

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

  From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure

• 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 02, 2014 02 May'14

  Addressing security and privacy on the industrial internet

  The smart grid and smart meters are part of the wider industrial internet, which will offer insight into people’s life at home. What are the security implications?