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• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  US and Canada follow UK initiative on Open Data

  The US and Canada are planning to emulate the work of the UK’s Open Data Institute (ODI), created by Tim Berners Lee

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Aerospace company turns to cloud in $4m HR IT project

  Problems finding skilled engineers has prompted BE Aerospace to sign deal with SuccessFactors for cloud HR technology.

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  HP and Diageo take different paths to cloud-based HR

  HP and Diageo took very different approaches when they deployed cloud-based human resources (HR) software from Workday

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  Legacy IT preventing councils from delivering better digital services

  Local authorities are being held back by their legacy IT systems from delivering improved and cost-effective digital services

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  High-growth companies selected for government Future Fifty programme

  The first high-growth UK companies have been chosen for the government’s Future Fifty fast-track programme.

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Spanish bank La Caixa looks to startups for innovation

  La Caixa is looking for ways to innovate in an increasingly competitive environment, and is turning to startups for new and niche technologies

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Gatwick Airport embarks on communications overhaul

  Gatwick Airport has embarked on a five-year project to replace its 60-year-old communications infrastructure with a cloud-based system

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Richard Branson's Virgin Management moves to IaaS platform

  Virgin Management, a subsidiary of Virgin Group, has migrated its IT to a cloud-based IaaS platform for BYOD capabilities and savings

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Case study: South Staffordshire College leads technology revolution in education

  South Staffordshire College is to open a digital campus, where students will be encouraged to immerse themselves in education through tech

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Infosys reports strong sales but profits fall due to cash reserved for Visa dispute

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys increased sales in its latest financial quarter, but profits fell as it put money aside to cover costs of visa dispute

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  BIS launches Smart Cities Forum to capitalise on the growing industry

  The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has launched an initiative to help the UK develop smart cities

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Engineering firm aims to automate HR system for 150,000 employees

  Power and automation company, ABB is to automate and simplify its HR processes in a project that aims to make HR technology as easy to use as Google. The project, dubbed the Google-isation of HR, will allow employees and managers to look for HR ...

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Misys expects payback in 12 months from talent management in the cloud

  Financial software company Misys has opted for a cloud based talent management system, after SAP proved wanting.

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Technology advances are main driver to new consumption models

  Advances in technology are changing the way consumers buy and use goods and services, but technical complexity is a concern

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  Tesco profits drop despite multichannel shopping

  Tesco's pre-tax profits fell 24% to £1.39bn over the first half of its financial year despite adopting multichannel shopping technology

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  eBay to harness bricks and mortar to grow online retail

  eBay is working with Argos to provide merchants that use its online platform with a local pick-up point for UK shoppers

• September 11, 2013 11 Sep'13

  Case study: Macmillan turns to social media to ease restructuring

  Publishing company Macmillan Science and Education has turned to social media to help it merge businesses in 50 countries into a single operating division

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Gartner Outsourcing Summit 2013: How digitisation is shaking up IT outsourcing

  IT outsourcing professionals face huge change to how they work due to technology trends which are shifting control of IT budgets to the business

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Case study: M2M and cycling aid Diabetes research

  The mHealth Tour will see cyclists use mobile technologies to investigate the link between exercise and blood sugar levels

• August 29, 2013 29 Aug'13

  Vodafone and O2 join 4G party

  Vodafone and O2 have ended the temporary 4G monopoly of EE with the launch of services in three UK cities.

• August 29, 2013 29 Aug'13

  Dropbox can be hacked, say security researchers

  Security researchers say they bypassed the security of cloud-based storage service Dropbox and gained access to private user files

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  Why you need to think about BPM in a different way

  Look at business process management (BPM) in the right way and it has the potential to transform businesses

• August 21, 2013 21 Aug'13

  Internet of things to power classroom education

  Businesses and academics have joined forces in an £800,000 project to extend the internet of things into the classroom

• August 15, 2013 15 Aug'13

  Security and accreditation obstacles act as G-Cloud barriers, claim SMEs

  Despite winning over 60% of G-Cloud contracts, a group of SMEs claim that security accreditation is a roadblock to winning government business

• August 14, 2013 14 Aug'13

  Case study: Car supermarket deploys cloud for agility and business expansion

  With inconsistent IT infrastructure and dated hardware hindering growth and expansion plans, Motorpoint turned to private cloud

• August 07, 2013 07 Aug'13

  MPs and Lords get online training tool

  Parliament has signed a deal with Learning Pool to provide members with online training for the workplace

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  London Innovation Lab seeks second round of FinTech startups

  The second annual FinTech Innovation Lab is calling for applications from early-stage financial technology entrepreneurs

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  CIO interview: David Byrne, Carphone Warehouse - Connected World

  Connected World Services is the Carphone Warehouse's modern take on "Tesco in a box". David Byrne heads up the IT for the business

• August 01, 2013 01 Aug'13

  HMRC hires Vodafone CIO Mark Dearnley to drive digital strategy

  HMRC has appointed Mark Dearnley, the CIO of Vodafone, as the organisation’s chief digital and information officer

• July 31, 2013 31 Jul'13

  Surface blasts $900m hole in Microsoft empire

  Microsoft’s latest 10Q filing with the SEC, has shown it took a $900m hit associated with the Surface tablet and paid an EU fine of $733m

• July 30, 2013 30 Jul'13

  Customer demand for digital shakes up banking business cases

  Customer demand for new ways of banking is forcing retail banks to look at new ways to justify IT investments

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Barclays bank trials touchscreen devices in branches

  Barclays bank is to trial touchscreen devices in branches to add to its digital credentials following its deployment of wireless

• July 16, 2013 16 Jul'13

  IT energy consumption lower than previously claimed

  Research has debunked the myth that consuming IT and media services on mobile devices is hurting the environment

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  US attempts to blocks plans for tax crackdown internet firms

  US officials are reportedly attempting to block plans for international tax rules aimed at tax avoidance by firms such as Google and Amazon

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Anne Boden, COO, Allied Irish Bank - on moving to private cloud

  AIB’s private cloud has meant a tenfold reduction in the number of Oracle databases and gives the bank internal technological ability and development flexibility to respond to a changing and demanding market

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  Consortium tests open cloud infrastructure for disaster situations

  The consortium is testing the use of open cloud infrastructure to respond to emergency and national disaster situations such as the Haiti earthquake

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  IBM buys CSL International to expand cloud virtualisation capabilities

  IBM is buying virtualisation management provider CSL International with a view to expanding its cloud offerings and management capabilities

• July 10, 2013 10 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Stuart Wright, director of IT & networks, Sega Europe

  Simplifying IT with a move to the cloud and reducing costs have been the main drivers of an IT overhaul at games publisher Sega Europe

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  CERN rolls out Oracle IT management

  CERN is using Oracle enterprise IT management software to monitor and manage its Oracle applications, middleware, databases and hardware

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  Microsoft rallies partners to build hybrid Azure

  Microsoft is set to make a major push to attract businesses to use Azure through a “cloud first” strategy.

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  CIO interview: Pete Marsden, CIO, Asos.com

  As online fashion retailer Asos.com continues to expand, its IT strategy is focused on new international locations and keeping up with web retail

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Middlesex University digitises snail mail

  Middlesex University has digitised paper mail delivery with a digital mail service provided through a managed service from Canon partner, CDS

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  Golf’s Open Championship prepares website for 10,000 page requests a second

  The organisers of Golf’s Open Championship have configured its website in anticipation of 10,000 page requests a second

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Retailers losing £12bn of sales through failing to engage with digital

  Retailers failing to engage customers through digital channels are missing out on £12bn of sales

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  UK leads calls for internet era tax laws

  The UK is calling for international tax rules to be brought up to date for the internet world to stop tax evasion by firms like Google and Amazon

• June 27, 2013 27 Jun'13

  W3C CEO Jeff Jaffe attacks proprietary cloud

  In a keynote at the Cloud World Forum in London, Jeff Jaffe, CEO of W3C, slammed the industry for not collaborating on cloud standards

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Biffa uses software-as-a-service for self-service and automation

  Waste management firm Biffa deploys IT service management software-as-a-service (SaaS) to increase user self-service and automation

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  User demands pushing SME cloud adoption

  More employees in SME businesses are using cloud-based services to carry out their jobs independently of their employers’ IT department

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Grass Roots Group extends Google roll-out with Play apps

  Grass Roots Group (GRG) is among a number of organisations expanding its Google deployment with apps from the Play marketplace

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  HR technology booming as businesses turn to the cloud

  Over the next 18 months, 60% of companies plan to roll out HR technology solutions, says analyst group Bersin by Deloitte.

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  Companies must rethink data sharing, says GE CEO Jeff Immelt

  GE CEO, Jeff Immelt (pictured), explains to customers the benefits of sharing machine data in an industrial internet

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Worldwide government IT spending to remain flat in 2013, says Gartner

  Government organisations worldwide will spend 0.1% less on IT this year, but cloud computing, mobile technologies and IT modernisation remain top IT priorities

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  Barclays feeds off innovation and enthusiasm from tech startups

  Barclays is working closely with startups to boost innovation in its IT strategy.

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  Why should CIOs look at startup technology companies?

  There is a blossoming environment for B2B tech startups with products that could bring benefits to corporate IT departments

• June 17, 2013 17 Jun'13

  IT departments to shrink dramatically within five years as cloud takes over

  IT professionals will need to rethink their careers as corporate IT departments undergo a radical restructuring over the next five years

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Serco outsources IT infrastructure and transformation

  Business service provider Serco contracts SunGard for its UK IT infrastructure that will help Serco increase its cloud services

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  The government must create a smart cities framework for UK adoption, says EE

  The UK government needs to implement a framework with a better understanding of future cities technologies, said EE.

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  UK cloud users more positive about security than non-users, study shows

  UK SMEs see security, privacy and reliability benefits in cloud-based services, a study from comScore shows

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  IT sourcing complexity makes supplier management a priority

  IT supplier management capabilities becoming business critical as correlation between IT and business performance strengthens

• June 12, 2013 12 Jun'13

  Olympic Games accelerates smart city technologies, says Ovum

  Major international events – such as the Commonwealth Games and the Olympics – cement the host city’s future technology profiles, says Ovum

• May 30, 2013 30 May'13

  iPads in the boardroom at mining firm Kazakhmys

  The mining company has saved time and money in preparing for board meetings by using iPads and Diligent software

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Is Google mature enough for the enterprise?

  The enterprise business is core to Google’s future. Its approach to collaboration has potential benefits. But are IT directors ready to give it a go?

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Citrix adds mobile functionality to push into smartphones and tablets

  Virtualisation firm Citrix hopes extra functionality and its own application store will encourage more customers to adopt its mobile solutions

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Departments handed manual for digital services redesign

  Government releases a manual for CTOs redesigning Whitehall digital services, as contracts with system integrators begin to expire from 2014

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Microsoft and Janet deal brings cloud to millions of academics

  Microsoft and the UK’s research and education network deal gives academic institutions access to Office 365 and millions of students fast and secure access to Windows Azure cloud

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Adobe moves to cloud-based subscription model

  Adobe has announced that it is to introduce a cloud-based subscription model for popular applications, including Photoshop

• May 04, 2013 04 May'13

  Cabinet Office confirms public cloud first policy

  Cabinet Office confirms the cloud will be mandated as first choice for all new IT purchases in government to push more departments into using commodity cloud services

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Fujitsu lock-in makes DECC only Whitehall department incapable of cloud

  The Department of Environment and Climate Change (DECC) cannot adopt cloud computing due to lock-in with system integrator Fujitsu

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  University network adopts Huddle for cloud collaboration

  The Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) is harnessing cloud-based collaboration technology to share information about applicants between member organisations

• April 24, 2013 24 Apr'13

  Getronics helps Gatwick move IT in house

  Gatwick Airport has signed a services deal with Getronics as part of a transformation, which includes moving significant IT in-house

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Interview: Brad Anderson, Microsoft corporate vice-president of Windows Server and System Center

  Brad Anderson, head of Windows Server and System Center at Microsoft, talks about the future of the server and management platform

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  2014 could see return of double-digit IT services growth

  Indian IT services supplier Infosys believes 2014 could see the return of double-digit growth following a 5.8% increase over the last 12 months

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  Sourcing strategies must change to reflect Generation Y

  Sourcing departments in businesses must take into account Generation Y to ensure that outsourcing continues to deliver value, says Gartner

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  Microsoft starts to push on MDM, cloud and BYOD

  With Microsoft’s enterprise IT dominance under threat, the firm is pushing its products for mobile device management and cloud computing

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Why CIOs need to become tax literate

  Digital technologies can have significant ramifications for corporate taxation. IT teams need to be aware of the issues, says PwC

• April 08, 2013 08 Apr'13

  HP targets Moonshot at next generation internet servers

  HP CEO Meg Whitman claims Moonshot will be a breakthrough in server computing to power next generation internet applications

• April 03, 2013 03 Apr'13

  Will the iPad ever be a true corporate device or will Microsoft usurp it?

  The iPad is used in enterprises today but will it ever be a true corporate device or just one that IT departments create workarounds to support?

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Six security issues to tackle before encrypting cloud data

  Concern about security and privacy is likely to drive adoption of cloud encryption, but there are six security issues businesses should tackle

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Google mines data to identify the best managers

  What makes a good manager? Google has turned to data analytics technology to find out

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Businesses turn to analytics to motivate employees

  Investors are increasingly placing businesses under scrutiny over the way they engage and manage their workforce

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  Cloud, big data and social media transforming HR

  Business professionals that combine an understanding of HR and IT are helping to transform the way companies manage their workforce

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  Sega uses Huddle to enable transatlantic collaboration

  Games maker Sega is using cloud-based collaboration software from Huddle to enable staff in its digital business to work together on projects

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  John Lewis drops virtual mirror project as part of ‘fail fast at innovation' strategy

  John Lewis has canned its virtual mirror project as part of the company’s approach to ‘failing fast at innovation’

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  Warwickshire Council adopts Gmail

  Warwickshire County Council is to complete a full Gmail roll-out across its 4,500 users next month, in a move that will deliver £250,000 in savings

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data

  Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things.

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Are CIOs losing relevance or will they just change their spots?

  The CIO is an evolving role and changes in technology and budgets, mean it is shifting more towards governance

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  Local government IT departments must plan for digital skills shortage

  IT managers in local government face a shortage in digital skills as workers demand the ability to use consumer IT in the workplace, says Socitm

• February 27, 2013 27 Feb'13

  Microsoft releases Office 365 updates

  Microsoft has released an update for its cloud-based Office 365 packages aimed at businesses

• February 26, 2013 26 Feb'13

  Red Cross chooses Microsoft Office 365 for cloud-based communication

  The Red Cross is using Microsoft Office 365 to support over one million staff and volunteers at its operations worldwide

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Grant Thornton uses Huddle for business support programme

  Grant Thornton is using Huddle to share information and content as part of the £200m government-backed GrowthAccelerator

• February 13, 2013 13 Feb'13

  Case study: ICEF Germany improves financial fortunes with Salesforce cloud apps

  The International College of Economics and Finance has brought IT efficiencies and doubled its revenues by using Salesforce and Financialforce for CRM tasks

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Government school building project harnesses cloud collaboration

  The Education Funding Agency (EFA) is using cloud-based collaboration to underpin the Priority School Building Programme (PSBP)

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  European government moves to private clouds

  Over half of local and central governments across Europe are using or plan to use private clouds hosted by third parties

• February 05, 2013 05 Feb'13

  Businesses invest in technology to position for economic recovery

  Organisations invest in technology and services to ensure they are ready when the economy improves and demand increases

• February 04, 2013 04 Feb'13

  Brits stash £24bn of digital assets in the cloud

  Brits are storing about £24bn of photos, music and videos in the cloud, as well as sensitive data such as passwords, study shows

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  Retailers eye e-commerce investment amid imminent store closures

  Research shows retailers are prioritising investment in e-commerce platforms above in-store IT systems

• January 30, 2013 30 Jan'13

  Amazon sales soar in 2012

  Amazon sales rose 27% to $61bn (£39bn) in its 2012 results and 22% in its 2012 fourth quarter revenues to $21.27bn, compared with 2011