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• April 02, 2014 02 Apr'14

  Businesses must rethink HR IT as traditional jobs disintegrate

  HR software needs a complete rethink to deliver services to an increasingly dispersed workforce, says cloud technology specialist

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

  Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK

• March 21, 2014 21 Mar'14

  Practitioners should explain health information governance to patients

  Information governance (IG) practitioners in health and social care should try to explain and make IG relevant to their patients

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  The NHS is dependent on shared data, says HSCIC

  Sharing data is crucial to supporting the future of NHS services, said Kingsley Manning, chair of the Health and Social Care Information Centre

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions

  Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditions

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  Committee report calls for “presumption of openness” with public data

  The government should have a “presumption of openness” when it comes to public data, the Commons Public Administration Select Committee (PASC) said

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  How to slash the cost of big data analytics

  Darren Robertson, digital communications officer at Action for Children, believes hunger for knowledge and insight could revolutionise charities

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  Royal Mail recruits data scientists to support £70m barcode drive

  The newly privatised Royal Mail is recruiting data scientists across the data management field, from Hadoop heads to statisticians

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  CIO interview: Richard Warner, CIO, LV

  The IT industry is swarming with buzz words, from big data and the internet of things to social collaboration and consumerisation of distribution. Yet despite the hype around them making some doubt their importance, the CIO of insurer LV, Richard ...

• January 23, 2014 23 Jan'14

  Barnardo’s uses Huddle Note for collaboration and communication

  Barnardo’s has chosen Huddle for cloud content collaboration to enable volunteers to share information securely with the charity’s staff

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

  Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  HMRC to recruit 50 digital specialists in the North East

  HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is looking to recruit more than 50 digital specialists to work at a new digital centre in the North East

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  CIO Interview: Norfolk County Council's Tom Baker on using data to improve public services

  Norfolk County Council's smart city initiative uses the power of data to concentrate on the citizen and smarter public services

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  IT spending priorities survey shows UK European data management lead

  IT professionals in UK organisations are more intent on spending on data management in 2014 than their counterparts in Germany and France

• January 14, 2014 14 Jan'14

  McLaren uses Intralinks collaboration software to protect IP

  McLaren is using Intralinks collaboration software to share critical information across the business and protect its intellectual property (IP)

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  More than 1,100 DWP workers disciplined over benefits snooping

  More than 1,100 employees at the Department for Work and Pensions have received official warnings since 2008 for prying into benefits records

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  New Year’s Honours hails open data, digital delivery

  A week after Alan Turing was granted a royal pardon, a group of contemporary British IT luminaries has been recognised in the New Year’s Honours list

• December 30, 2013 30 Dec'13

  Top 10 supplier profiles 2013

  Are you thinking of doing business with an IT technology supplier? Check out our independent profiles of the leading technology companies.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT

  Parliamentary ICT director Joan Miller talks about how Parliament should use technology and the challenges of the digital world

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Case study: London Borough of Islington’s smart working journey

  The London Borough of Islington is using technology to ensure its staff are as productive as possible travelling along a ‘smart working journey’

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• November 27, 2013 27 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Richard Williams, CIO, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, London Market

  CIOs need to have the courage to seek out innovation, says Richard Williams, CIO at insurer Mitsui Sumitomo

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Case study: Pharma firm fought through hurricane to keep marketing tool on target

  Pharmaceutical firm Bristol-Myers Squibb chose Teradata’s Aprimo to deliver global complex marketing communications

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Paolo Cinelli, CIO, Ikea

  Ikea's priority is to get closer to its customers using a multi-channel approach which combines digital and traditional methods

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  English patients want electronic access to their records

  English patients are willing to change doctors to access to Electronic Medical Records (EMR), but only 16% of them currently have access, according to Accenture

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  Consulting firm saves thousands by billing in the cloud

  Consulting and outsourcing company Xoomworks claims to be making savings of over £10,000 a year, after introducing a cloud-based system to track its consultant’s billable hours.

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Citizens willing to let businesses use their data if they are in control

  Business opportunities from big data could be lost unless consumers trust business and public sector organisations with their personal data

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  Governments need to work with tech startups to solve social problems

  Governments around the world should look to startups to solve social problems more efficiently

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Toyota e-learning upgrade aims to cut mechanics' training time by up to a year

  Car distributor Toyota Motor Europe is using e-learning to manage the training and certification of motor technicians and engineers

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Rugby Football Union uses analytics to educate and engage with users

  The RFU is introducing data analytics technologies for public use to encourage engagement with existing fans and education of the sport

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013 Interview: Matt Atkinson, CMO, Tesco

  Computer Weekly speaks to Matt Atkinson, CMO of Tesco, on how data is driving forward a successful multichannel digital operation

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Take ultimate responsibility for cloud, users warned amid Nirvanix closure

  The sudden demise of cloud provider Nirvanix must act as a wake-up call for end users in planning exit strategies when contracting cloud services

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle customers continue to invest in big data

  Airbus, Thomson Reuters and the New York Stock Exchange have all implemented Oracle's big data products to improve their businesses

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Two-thirds of CIOs have big data on agenda

  Big data has not gone beyond the planning stage for over 92% of CIOs according to research from Gartner

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  Social collaboration tools gain ground as organisations refresh IT

  Social collaboration tools are gaining some ground in enterprise IT in the face of senior management resistance

• September 02, 2013 02 Sep'13

  Callcredit invests in machine learning analytics to improve fraud detection

  Callcredit, the second largest credit reference bureau in the UK, has invested in machine learning analytics to improve its fraud detection offering.

• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Aintree NHS saves £1m a year with electronic patient records

  Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust replaces paper medical records with an electronic system to save £1m per year

• July 17, 2013 17 Jul'13

  UK datacentres vulnerable to BYOD risks, shows Ponemon study

  About 60% of UK businesses have no personal device policy in place and are putting critical data at risk once it leaves a company

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Second generation Schengen system deployed

  The European Commission has introduced an upgrade to its pan-European passport system

• July 02, 2013 02 Jul'13

  NHS IT to embrace open source

  A new report from NHS England promises open source will be at the heart of the plans to digitise the health service

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Data quality more important than fixating over big data, says Shell VP

  Johan Krebbers, vice-president of architecture at Shell, says it is more important to get data quality right than to find a ‘big data silver bullet’

• June 20, 2013 20 Jun'13

  Data linkage shows correlation in mental and physical health

  The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has used data linking analysis to find mental health service users have double the rate of hospital attendances compared with the general population

• June 19, 2013 19 Jun'13

  G8 publishes Open Data Charter

  The G8 nations have committed to open data, with a promise to produce action plans for the release of government information

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014

  NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  Royal Opera House tunes online queuing with AWS cloud

  The Royal Opera House has deployed AWS cloud to eliminate the virtual "waiting room" on its website for customers booking tickets online

• May 24, 2013 24 May'13

  Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

  Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Social media: How to navigate Europe's legal maze

  Specialist lawyers on the legal principles companies in Europe need to consider before they monitor employees' use of social media

• April 23, 2013 23 Apr'13

  Infosec 2013: Research shows value in crowd-sourced threat intelligence

  Businesses can reduce risk by sharing information on attacks targeting multiple sources, research reveals

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation

  The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  How to make the most of corporate data

  IT departments focus on structured data but miss the needs of almost half their employees, says CEB managing director Andrew Horne

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  NoSQL database firms step up attack on relational in UK and Europe

  NoSQL suppliers DataStax, CouchBase and 10Gen seek to expand on European territory, sensing a weakening of the relational model

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  Vodafone McLaren Mercedes F1 team revs collaboration with Intralinks

  Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Formula 1 team has chosen Intralinks for secure collaboration and file sharing

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Big data spells new architectures

  Corporate IT’s new vocation will be data integration. The business of big data will change radically the role of the IT department

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Virgin Media and Which? partner with the Open Data Institute

  Virgin Media and consumer watchdog Which? have become the first major private-sector collaborators of the Open Data Institute (ODI)

• March 12, 2013 12 Mar'13

  Big data understanding drives spending

  The early successes of big data initiatives and a better understanding of its business benefits will lead to greater adoption this year

• February 01, 2013 01 Feb'13

  Don’t make big data stand alone, warns Gartner

  Gartner cautions organisations against treating big data as unique and criticises business intelligence suppliers for failing to exploit mobility

• January 29, 2013 29 Jan'13

  IT departments at the ready as FATCA becomes latest banking regulation

  IT departments must be prepared for the latest regulation to hit finance firms, known as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA)

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  Enterprises bringing data back in-house for more flexibility, shows study

  European enterprises are improving their internal datacentres and storing data in-house rather than on the external cloud

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database

  Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Hunt wants paperless NHS by 2018

  The NHS plans to go paperless by 2018, health secretary Jeremy Hunt will announce

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  China tightens rules on internet usage

  China has enforced tighter controls of the internet which includes forcing individuals to fully identify themselves to service providers.

• December 17, 2012 17 Dec'12

  Bank IT should play earlier compliance role, says think tank

  Financial services organisations could streamline regulatory compliance by involving IT in the process earlier, according to think tank JWG-IT

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Computer Weekly European User Awards Criteria and Information

  Read the entry criteria and general information about entering the Computer Weekly European User Awards.

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Business Intelligence, enterprise search: marriage in prospect, still no ring

  Business intelligence and enterprise search are converging slowly but competing technology legacies are causing frustration.

• November 07, 2012 07 Nov'12

  University Hospitals Birmingham reorganises case notes with EMC Documentum

  UHB reduces paper work and organises patient data into one central location through EMC Documentum

• October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12

  Irish construction company reduces SQL Server storage with AvePoint

  Walls Construction has saved €31,000 by moving stale content from SQL Server to cheaper storage, using software from AvePoint.

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Solvency II data management confronts regulative uncertainty

  Solvency II, the EU directive to regulate insurance, gets a deadline extension to 2014 to fix data management problems.

• October 09, 2012 09 Oct'12

  Hays and Fiat welcome new enterprise search features from Google

  New expert location, “entity recognition” and translation features have impressed Hays Specialist Recruitment and Fiat in Google’s new enterprise search appliance.

• October 03, 2012 03 Oct'12

  Strata spotlights data science in media sector

  Strata in London: data science, data scientists and automation are changing the face of journalism. Opportunities abound for new IT programmer-journalists in face of data illiteracy.

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Skandia Team GBR analysed its way to victory at the Olympics

  Business analytics software helped British sailing team, Skandia Team GBR, sweep up five medals against a target of four at the London 2012 Olympics.