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• February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17

  Sweden uses Minecraft for urban planning

  Swedish National Land survey has put its maps on Minecraft to promote its work

• January 30, 2017 30 Jan'17

  Only 49% of marketers are pushed to reinvent customer service due to technology

  Technology is causing disruption in most markets, but only 49% of marketers believe they are pressured to develop their customer service as a result of disruptive technology

• January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17

  Lack of diversity risks creating big gaps in AI

  A panel discussion at the World Economic Forum has highlighted the need to widen the artificial intelligence developer skills pool

• January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17

  PizzaExpress UAE upgrades customer Wi-Fi and adds analytics platform

  UAE-based restaurant chain has upgraded its Wi-Fi and introduced a platform to help it understand customer behaviour

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  2017 UK IT budgets show increased CRM and business automation focus

  CRM has emerged as the number one UK IT spending priority for 2017, in terms of packaged business applications. Beyond packaged, the top three software initiatives were business process automation, data quality and governance

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  Review of 2016: Top 10 CW Benelux articles

  Here are the 10 most popular Benelux-focused Computer Weekly articles of 2016

• December 18, 2016 18 Dec'16

  Could blockchain revolutionise the Middle East?

  The Middle East could pioneer the use of blockchain, transforming the processes used by organisations in the region

• December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16

  Smart machines primed to accelerate across business

  Machine intelligence, artificial intelligence and cognitive computing are likely to become key components of business operations, says Gartner

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Collaborative Team in Office 365 paves way to AI-augmented business

  Microsoft Team offers a way for businesses to improve collaboration. It is also pushing its AI research in a way to augment humans

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Saudi Arabia turns to big data to boost business innovation

  Big data technologies will play a key role in diversifying Saudi Arabia's economy away from a huge dependence on oil revenues.

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff

  Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Momentum 16: EMC Documentum gets upgrade for upcoming owner OpenText

  EMC’s enterprise content division puts its best foot forward with upgrades in time for OpenText ownership

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Diageo opts for additional services centre in Bangalore

  Drinks maker Diageo is increasing its footprint in India with a new business services centre in the city of Bangalore.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange uses blockchain for e-voting

  Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange offers controlled access to the AGM information of listed companies through a blockchain-based service

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress

  The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress

• August 30, 2016 30 Aug'16

  Westpac bank launches Databank data protection service

  Australia's Westpac bank is offering organisations that share customer data a service that it says securely locks down personal information

• August 22, 2016 22 Aug'16

  Bangkok Hospital recognised for its use of electronic records

  Private hospital in Thailand is recognised for its effective use of IT by a global accreditation body

• August 08, 2016 08 Aug'16

  Australians vent census privacy concerns

  The Australian census has triggered a privacy debate after it emerged that the citizen data it collects will be held for years

• August 03, 2016 03 Aug'16

  Asean consumers divided on digital satisfaction

  SAP survey reveals 47% of Asean consumers are satisfied with their digital experiences, while 20% are dissatisfied

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Roland Grunéus, Intrum Justitia

  Roland Grunéus, the CIO of Swedish-founded Intrum Justitia, reveals the credit management services group’s efforts to make better use of data

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  MongoDB offers cloud overflow scaling with Atlas database as service

  MongoDB has announced its entry into cloud computing with a database as a service, dubbed Atlas, at its annual developer conference in New York City

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Australia’s NAB bank accused of “violating” customer through data sharing

  Australian bank NAB is accused of violating a customer over industry data sharing

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Gaps remain in the digital and data-driven strategies of Asean firms

  The majority of Asean business leaders acknowledge they lack a complete digital strategy, despite most believing it is important to have an agile, data-driven business

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  CIO interview: Lee Edwards, chief technology officer, The British Library

  The British Library is starting a major IT overhaul to support its work in preserving the UK’s heritage of digital and physical knowledge

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Dutch mastering the art of big data analysis

  Gathering and analysing huge amounts of data offers the promise of business efficiency and new opportunities. We look at what this all means for the once-cautious Dutch

• May 20, 2016 20 May'16

  Cabinet Office failed to manage risks around migration to shared service centres, says NAO

  The government’s delayed programme to migrate back-office functions to two shared service centres is not achieving value for money, lacks an integrated business case and has failed to track additional costs incurred, says the NAO

• May 13, 2016 13 May'16

  European IT buyers prioritise BI and data management over ERP and CRM

  Data warehousing and business intelligence top dogs in the UK, finds 2016 TechTarget IT spending priorities survey

• May 12, 2016 12 May'16

  ICO probes Google DeepMind patient data-sharing deal with NHS Hospital Trust

  Data protection watchdog the information commissioner's office (ICO) investigates the NHS data-sharing deal with Google DeepMind, after a complaint from the public

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Consumers would buy banking and insurance from Google, Amazon or Facebook

  Consumers in Europe increasingly consider companies such as Facebook and Google as potential financial services providers

• May 03, 2016 03 May'16

  EMC World 2016: Tucci and Dell vaunt datacentre modernisation

  EMC World 2016 kicks off in Las Vegas, with the supplier vaunting datacentre modernisation, based on software-defined storage, cloud, flash and scale out architecture

• April 25, 2016 25 Apr'16

  Middle East CIOs face numerous data challenges as the regional market matures

  Enterprise IT experts reveal to Computer Weekly the issues local technology leaders face when trying to use, back up and protect their valuable data

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  British Library's 'digital wallpaper' brings Shakespeare to the smartphone

  The British Library is enabling people to download digital facsimiles of first edition Shakespeare plays to their devices using ‘digital wallpaper’

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  France takes the lead in the global open data race

  The appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) has already seen the nation create five different types of economic and social value

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  How BI can improve healthcare in Asean

  The Asean region is developing fast and lifestyles are changing, but healthcare services are not keeping pace and the sector will be stretched

• April 04, 2016 04 Apr'16

  EY invests heavily in Singapore IT expertise

  New centres of excellence will offer business transformation strategy, cyber security, analytics and manufacturing capabilities across the Asia-Pacific region

• March 22, 2016 22 Mar'16

  How Orange France engaged influencers to launch its IoT service

  Orange France engaged influencer marketing specialist Traackr to successfully launch its Homelive internet of things (IoT) service

• March 04, 2016 04 Mar'16

  UK insurance industry prioritises big data in 2016

  The UK insurance industry is making a priority of big data to make more personalised customer offers in 2016, research from Teradata reveals

• February 26, 2016 26 Feb'16

  Artfinder deploys Neo4j graph database to personalise recommendations

  Can a machine understand art? Not yet and maybe never, so the Artfinder art website took a different approach, using a Neo4j graph database instead

• February 23, 2016 23 Feb'16

  Outsourcer MSXI puts Microsoft cloud in driving seat

  Business process outsourcer MSXI has replaced Salesforce with a Microsoft business applications stack to support its car dealership business

• February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16

  Corporate Australia explores new ways to nurture data-based innovation

  Australian enterprises are investing in creating the right environment for innovation around data

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Crunch time for Australian CIOs as analytics platforms drive strategy in 2016

  CIOs in Australia and elsewhere will be expected to deploy technologies that promise to help them get more from the information they own

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Irish Tax Institute accelerates tax database search with MarkLogic

  The Irish Tax Institute has opted for MarkLogic for its TaxFind database service, with a system that pools a range of data types

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  NHS Scotland lets clinicians discover patterns in data with Tableau

  The NHS in Scotland is using data visualisation from Tableau to level up health outcomes across the country

• January 08, 2016 08 Jan'16

  Wildscreen conservation charity uses colocation to preserve endangered species media library

  Wildlife charity explains how Virtus Data Centres is helping it spread the word online about the importance of conservation

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 information management stories of 2015

  The maturing of big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases has been the standout theme of 2015, along with machine learning and predictive analytics

• December 23, 2015 23 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Henry Cohen, CIO, Telegraph Media Group

  The newspaper publisher is developing an agile mindset in response to the growth of digital over printed publications

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  For data analytics leaders in Asia Pacific, success comes from willingness to fail

  Adopting data analytics technologies is something business and IT professionals in the APAC region will have to master if IDC predictions are right

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Farrer & Co IT director Neil Davison

  The law firm that served Charles Dickens has a much more modern approach to its technology strategy

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Scottish Government gets electronic voting system for local elections

  The contract to design the electronic vote counting system for the 2017 local elections in Scotland has been awarded to CGI

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  National roll-out of Universal Credit digital service to begin in May 2016

  The Universal Credit digital service will be rolled out to five job centres a month from May 2016, says the Department for Work and Pensions

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Change is in the air as Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service applies analytics to everything

  Australia's Royal Flying Doctor Service unearths additional benefits of data analytics following its decision to use Splunk software to analyse operational logs

• November 17, 2015 17 Nov'15

  Irish hospital to offer patient access to records by November 2016

  Galway Clinic plans a big-bang launch of its Meditech electronic medical record system, which includes a patient portal and mobile app

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Accenture builds data scientist base in Australian city Perth

  The data strategy of Australian energy giant Woodside has encouraged the IT industry to invest in the development of data science skills

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Turning data into action still tricky for Australia's data scientists

  Australian businesses need to change their attitudes towards data scientists if they are to unshackle the benefits of data

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  South Manchester NHS signs up to take Allscripts EPR

  University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust has become the latest trust in the region to choose an electronic patient record system from Allscripts

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Singapore and UK researchers investigate privacy in big data era

  Academic organisations in Singapore and the UK collaborate on the privacy questions raised by big data and the cloud

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Keeping up with Cassandra, the NoSQL database

  What does Call of Duty, the Hive smart thermostats, Social Weather and the William Hill bookie app all have in common? They are all powered by the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

  The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  IT problems put Enfield patients at risk, claims MP Joan Ryan

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust invests in patient management systems after Enfield Town MP Joan Ryan claims waiting times put patients at risk

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Report highlights benefits and challenges of data use in Australia and New Zealand

  NetApp identifies the benefits organisations in Australia and New Zealand can glean from data and highlights the challenges they face in doing so

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  Open-data incubator for Europe Odine hands out €650,000 to seven startups

  Odine – an open-data incubator involving the Open Data Institute – has awarded €650,000 to seven European businesses

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Patients to access full GP medical records online by 2016

  Health secretary Jeremy Hunt has promised full online access to medical records, a review of data security standards and a new opt-out model for Care.data

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  NHS England to publish interoperability handbook

  Guidance will enable information sharing about patients across different care settings, says head of enterprise architecture Inderjit Singh

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  William Hill kicks off football season with blast from the past

  A mathematical programming concept that dates back a decade before the world’s first electronic computer is proving itself in the era of web-scale computing

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Transport Systems Catapult launches transport, mapping datasets site

  The Transport Systems Catapult launches a website that shares data from 200 transport information sources to accelerate innovation

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Mobile operators must adapt data plans to address video boom

  Over 52 million terabytes of data traffic will transit worldwide mobile networks this year alone, up by more than 50% on 2014, according to statistics from Gartner

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Microsoft expands Cortana to power cloud-based predictive analytics

  At its worldwide partner conference, Microsoft showed that Cortana is more than a talking search engine with the introduction of cloud-based data analytics

• July 10, 2015 10 Jul'15

  Open Data Institute hails “network thinking” among winners in 2015 awards

  The Open Data Institute sees evidence of “network thinking” in the startups and open data programmes it lauded in its 2015 awards

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Box Office premieres as Microsoft extends cloud integration

  Microsoft has hedged its bets in the Office 365 online compatibility stakes, with Box now joining Dropbox as a native file store

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Ocado joins research programme to develop humanoid robot helper

  Online grocer joins a consortium of universities in a research project to create an autonomous humanoid robot

• May 21, 2015 21 May'15

  CIO interview: Mark Bramwell, IT director, Said Business School

  Mark Bramwell is drafting a strategy for IT investment at Oxford University’s Said Business School

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Patient care put at risk by IT problems at London NHS trust

  IT problems and poor information governance put patients at risk at a London NHS trust, according to evidence disclosed at an employment tribunal

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 11, 2015 11 May'15

  Wearable technology to transform laggards in insurance industry

  Wearable and other smart technologies set to transform the insurance industry in the next three to five years

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Bloomberg launches single page site as part of digital transformation

  Bloomberg has saved users loading time by creating a single page infrastructure based website to deliver a more targeted experience

• May 07, 2015 07 May'15

  Mike Lynch names Vatican and Kraft as Autonomy case goes public

  Former Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch has responded to HP’s formal litigation against him and former CFO Sushovan Hussain, highlighting major user contracts

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  Why self-service and automation will power mass adoption of BI

  Tibco’s analytics head, Brian Gentile, believes business intelligence needs to adapt for mass-market adoption

• April 22, 2015 22 Apr'15

  HSBC website mistake guides customers to porn

  HSBC’s Hong Kong website accidentally featured an out-of-date link that directed people to a porn site

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• April 16, 2015 16 Apr'15

  IBM to share security intelligence on X-Force Exchange platform

  IBM says it will make its library of security intelligence data available to all on a new platform called X-Force Exchange

• April 13, 2015 13 Apr'15

  Insufficient infrastructure hinders big data in Nordic countries

  A survey from SAS Institute claims most large companies in the Nordic countries need big data analytics - but implementation can be tricky

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Sweden’s Transticket changes from MySQL to MariaDB to support growth

  Swedish ticketing website Transticket has moved from MySQL to MariaDB to support business growth

• March 31, 2015 31 Mar'15

  HP files for $5.1bn damages while Mike Lynch counters

  Mike Lynch has counter-sued HP following the computer maker’s London court appearance yesterday

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought

• March 20, 2015 20 Mar'15

  Royal Free hospital trust digitises patient records using OpenText

  The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust has digitised patient records as a stage in its modernisation programme

• February 11, 2015 11 Feb'15

  SAP Hybris launches a 'contextualised' marketing platform

  SAP introduces marketing system that brings customer data into one place for “contextual marketing”

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  The more IT changes, the more technology issues remain the same

  In the early 2000s Nigel Beighton was CTO at Lastminute.com. Yet, 15 years on, he says the technology issues he faced then have changed little

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  MarkLogic introduces bi-temporality with eye to regulated industries

  NoSQL database supplier MarkLogic adds feature which allows organisations to look at data as it has been at different points in time

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  DataStax acquires open source graph database company Aurelius

  NoSQL company DataStax has acquired the Titan graph database distributor Aurelius

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  IT leaders want to hire chief data officers this year

  A study shows 61% of CIOs at large organisations want to recruit a chief data officer (CDO) in the next year with data volumes hindering progress

• January 29, 2015 29 Jan'15

  Companies House proves £9m data governance value of just one letter

  A tiny data governance error destroyed Taylor & Sons after Companies House recorded the insolvency of its near namesake Taylor & Son

• January 19, 2015 19 Jan'15

  SFO drops HP-Autonomy fraud investigation

  The Serious Fraud Office is dropping its investigation into the sale of Autonomy to HP, but the US will continue its investigation

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Kingston Hospital NHS Trust moves off BT with picture archive system

  Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has begun redeploying its picture archiving system on a new architecture as it migrates off BT

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  CERN gets real-time data with Software AG’s Terracotta BigMemory

  CERN is using Software AG’s in-memory data management software BigMemory to support system availability for the Large Hadron Collider

• January 05, 2015 05 Jan'15

  Bank of England could use Twitter and Facebook to support its decisions

  The Bank of England is looking into the use of social media to help it make decisions based on more timely economic information

• January 02, 2015 02 Jan'15

  2015 New Year Honours list lauds digital transformation programmes

  The 2015 New Year Honours list features a slew of accolades for people involved in digital transformation programmes

• December 31, 2014 31 Dec'14

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2014

  It’s been a busy year for retail as the industry proves it is leading the way in the adoption of technology innovations