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Collaboration software and productivity software

• June 13, 2019 13 Jun'19

  How IT helps the National Theatre to stage productions

  It may seem like it’s all last-minute, but theatre production is a process and IT can make day-to-day operations go smoothly

• May 31, 2019 31 May'19

  The FA signs Google Cloud to support cloud-based push to make football more inclusive

  The Football Association is on a mission to up female participation in the sport and make it more accessible to a larger number of fans, and it is teaming up with Google Cloud to achieve its goals

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Casual collaboration comms pose security risk, survey shows

  UK employees have a worryingly casual attitude to workplace communications, underling the need for employers to take steps to counter related cyber attack vulnerabilities

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  Post Office to appeal judgment from first Horizon trial

  The Post Office will appeal against some of the judgments from the first trial concerning the Horizon computer system used by subpostmasters

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  How Australia’s Curtin University is transforming the digital classroom

  The Perth-based institution has been using collaborative learning spaces to better engage students and bring its classes to the world

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Middle East countries accelerate quantum computing research

  Gulf countries must invest in quantum computing research to ensure they continue to to remain digital pioneers

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  Despite failings, exec appetite for secure collaboration growing

  Top business decision makers are more reckless than ever with company data, but the appetite for secure collaboration tools is growing, survey reveals

• February 25, 2019 25 Feb'19

  Australia, Singapore say hello to 5G

  Singtel and its Australian subsidiary Optus have made one of the first 5G video calls in the Asia-Pacific region

• February 20, 2019 20 Feb'19

  How the immersive VR film Tree was created

  New Reality Company worked across games development and video effects to bring about a virtual reality immersive experience

• February 13, 2019 13 Feb'19

  NHS must use email by default, says health secretary Matt Hancock

  Secretary of state for health and social care criticises NHS staff who insist on only sending letters to patients, and says modern, secure communications will save lives

• January 28, 2019 28 Jan'19

  Brexit won’t curb IT spending

  Analyst Gartner expects organisations to carry on buying more IT to support digitisation initiatives

• December 18, 2018 18 Dec'18

  Defra unveils green government tech vision

  Printing reams of paper and travelling to meetings are among the areas targeted in the new, green ICT makeover

• December 12, 2018 12 Dec'18

  High-flying clouds: AWS bucks traditional business growth trends with help from the enterprise

  The Amazon Web Services (AWS) public cloud juggernaut continues to go from strength to strength from quarter to quarter, but what is fuelling its non-traditional revenue growth trends?

• November 28, 2018 28 Nov'18

  CIO interview: Stephen Docherty on NHS data sharing

  The Cambridge Analytica scandal raised awareness about privacy. Stephen Docherty, CIO of South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, explains why

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  High Court trial over Horizon computer system completes witness cross-examinations

  The High Court trial in which subpostmasters are suing the Post Office has reached an important stage

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Robots deliver savings for Dutch postal service PostNL

  Dutch delivery company PostNL is reaping huge efficiency savings by using robotic technology to automate time-consuming administrative tasks

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Software suites will dominate the business applications market

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd contends that having a common user interface and the ability to support data flows across a business are key capabilities that will spur the dominance of software suites over time

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Geospatial Commission pumps £5m into unlocking value of location data

  Commission wants to unlock the value of location data held by its partners through the use of emerging technologies

• October 08, 2018 08 Oct'18

  Google Safety Center goes live in the UK

  Google says its commitment to transparency is as strong as ever as its new Safety Center goes live in the UK to help keep businesses and consumers safe online

• October 04, 2018 04 Oct'18

  Digital Catapult launches Ethics Framework for AI and machine learning

  Innovation centre hopes to foster responsible and ethical development of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Best supply chain firms are masters of data and automation

  Europe’s best supply chains are making the most out of e-commerce, customer insights and robotic process automation, according to Gartner

• August 30, 2018 30 Aug'18

  Voice set to project into workplace, predicts Gartner report

  AI-powered voice recognition is set to become part of the office environment within two years, according to Gartner

• August 28, 2018 28 Aug'18

  Amnesty International creates human rights digital archive

  Digital preservation platform from Preservica will protect digital records of significant historical importance to Amnesty and its supporters

• August 21, 2018 21 Aug'18

  CIO interview: Celia Pronto, chief customer and digital officer, Casual Dining Group

  Casual Dining Group’s chief customer and digital officer, Celia Pronto, is overhauling technology, consolidating IT and improving collaboration across its 300 restaurants

• August 17, 2018 17 Aug'18

  Office 365 outage: Sign-in issues blight users across Europe and the US

  Microsoft claims to have resolved a “subscription activation” issue that left Office 365 users unable to access its services yesterday

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Australian enterprises warming up to DevOps

  The burgeoning DevOps culture in Australia has attracted new market players and led major banks and telcos to embrace the movement to get development and operations teams working in unison

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  The National Archives deploys Egress to support FoI requests

  Egress Secure Workspace is being used by the Advisory Council for The National Archives, who require a collaboration environment to assess FoI requests

• July 26, 2018 26 Jul'18

  Fix culture to make digital a success

  Businesses with well-honed processes will often find it hard to adapt to new, digital transformation initiatives, according to Gartner report

• July 24, 2018 24 Jul'18

  Ramp up security to mitigate Office 365 attacks

  Public clouds tend to be more secure, but Office 365 has become a major target for attacks, which means internal IT security needs tightening

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Cloud sales stoke Microsoft’s strong growth

  Microsoft says cloud-based Office products made a huge contribution to sales growth

• July 18, 2018 18 Jul'18

  Walmart and Microsoft partner to boost digital in retail

  US retail giant Walmart has signed a five-year partnership with Microsoft, with the aim of speeding up its digital transformation

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Microsoft warns if an email is being sent out of office hours

  When Blackberry introduced mobile email, it made everyone permanently connected to work. Now, Microsoft wants to curb this

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  Oracle’s deal with Chile should go global

  UK Oracle users may eventually see the ripple effect of a court ruling in a country almost 7,500 miles away

• June 26, 2018 26 Jun'18

  Liberty Global picks Cisco to transform customer service ops

  Virgin Media parent enlists Cisco in a bid to transform its customer service experience across Europe

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Apple rejects claim of iPhone brute force hack

  Apple has rejected claims by a security researcher that he was able to bypass the iPhone defences against brute force passcode hacks

• June 21, 2018 21 Jun'18

  HR projects are leading company moves to digital tech, say business leaders

  Business leaders say their human resource IT programmes are leading the way to the wider deployment of digital and cloud technology across their organisations

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Chief data officers go to summer school

  Authors of the “Chief data officer’s playbook”, Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, are running a summer school, supported by data governance software supplier Collibra

• May 31, 2018 31 May'18

  Retail sector flagged as slow to adopt cloud technologies in Bitglass research

  The fourth annual Bitglass cloud adoption survey reveals enterprise appetite for off-premise technologies is continuing to rise, but some industries are moving more slowly than others

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Save the Children International uses Microsoft Azure to bolster cross-border charity work

  Graham Kent, director of IT shared services at Save the Children International, talks about using Microsoft Azure to boost cross-border collaboration between the charity’s member organisations and present a more united front to the world

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  Case study: British Airways’ global B2B sales gathered under Salesforce cloud

  British Airways has gathered its international business-to-business sales under Salesforce Sales Cloud to bust silos

• May 11, 2018 11 May'18

  ServiceNow: Enterprises must rethink workplace communication as Generation Z enter workforce

  Enterprises may find their tried and tested methods of communication fail to live up to expectations of digitally-savvy Generation Z members, warns ServiceNow

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Citrix touts digital workspace app in services play

  Software supplier Citrix’s cloud-based workspace app is part of its efforts to deliver integrated services that support the modern workplace

• May 01, 2018 01 May'18

  Facebook bolsters enterprise integration with Workplace tool

  Facebook wants to embed its platform in the enterprise, and hopes to achieve this through integration with third-party services

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Police forces use Motorola mobile apps to digitise frontline ops

  The States of Jersey Police force plans to phase out inefficient paper-based activities with mobile applications, while other forces around the UK report improvements to their overall processes

• March 27, 2018 27 Mar'18

  Capgemini turns to tech startup to identify ‘most engaged’ teams

  Technology and consulting services firm Capgemini is using technology from a startup company to poll its employees’ views and provide feedback from managers every week. It is discovering what it takes to create “engaged teams”

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments

• February 20, 2018 20 Feb'18

  NHS Digital plots Office 365 and NHSmail integration to boost collaboration in healthcare

  NHS Digital outlines delivery timeline for integrating NHSmail with Microsoft Office 365, as it strives to improve collaboration between health and social care stakeholders

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• January 29, 2018 29 Jan'18

  UK gas supplier outsources to the cloud with HCL

  Cadent is modernising its IT operations through a five-year outsourcing deal with Indian IT services supplier

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

  The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis