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Data quality management and governance

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Cabinet Office begins procurement for next stage of Gov.uk Verify

  The Cabinet Office has submitted a tender notice for a £150m three-year framework for the provision of identity assurance services

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  Sainsbury's digital and technology director Jon Rudoe talks about customer-facing technologies, in-house development and data analytics

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  While supermarkets all over the UK are facing challenging times ahead of them, Sainsbury's is taking its technology and innovation into its own hands by developing digital products for its customers.

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  UK government commits to Open Contracting Data Standard

  The UK government has committed to a data standard which claims it will transform procurement in the UK and improve transparency

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Ordnance Survey accused of stifling competition in open data row

  Geo-data firm Getmapping accuses Ordnance Survey of using £800m of government contracts to stifle competition

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Interview: Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS

  All divisions of the NHS must have electronic patient records by 2020 or risk losing their licence - we talk to the man in charge to find out why

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Deutsche Bank gets first chief data officer

  Deutsche Bank has appointed its first chief data officer

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Three UK saves £10m a year by integrating stores, web and call centres

  Mobile operator Three aims to give customers the same service however they interact with the company, while reducing IT capital costs

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Case study: Papworth Hospital’s first steps to electronic patient records

  The Cambridgeshire hospital has installed an e-referrals application as part of its journey towards electronic patient records

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Problems surface as first users attempt to use Gov.uk Verify

  Problems have surfaced as users try to use Gov.uk Verify to prove their identities

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Pioneering Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange opts for Fujitsu storage

  Deutsche Börse Cloud Exchange datacentre provider DARZ chooses Fujitsu’s Red Hat OpenStack-compatible storage nodes

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Data needs to be shared around the entire business, not just IT

  Data analytics should be shared with the company to gain unique insights, according to head of data services at Lush

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  Three in four banks struggle with stress testing

  Banks are struggling to deal with the data management of the regimes of stress testing imposed since the 2008 financial crisis

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Socitm lobbies for change to enable local digital public services

  Society of Information Technology Management highlights what is required to deliver local digital public services

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Data scientist demand evident in applications to new course

  Data scientist post-graduate course at City University London takes on three times more students than expected

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Tennis coaches get on-court data insights from SAP

  Tennis coaches can give players details on their performance during games through an SAP-based mobile app

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Disney spreads the magic through wearable technology

  The Walt Disney Company is using wearable technology to improve customer experience and engage with visitors

• October 17, 2014 17 Oct'14

  National Museum of Wales tackles digital technology

  The National Museum of Wales is digitising and using modern technology in its seven exhibition campuses

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Comic Relief’s digital challenge: talent, data and the No Make-Up Selfie

  Social media campaigns such as the No Make-Up Selfie and the Ice Bucket Challenge threaten charities such as Comic Relief with their digital reach

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Creating the next wave of social open-data products

  Open Data programme managers address the challenges of creating socially focused open-data products

• October 09, 2014 09 Oct'14

  More data loss comes from sloppy organisations than hackers, says study

  Over half of data breaches come from organisational errors and internal mismanagement rather than malicious acts by hackers

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Care.data goes ahead with CCG pilot

  NHS England’s controversial care.data programme is currently in a testing phase with four clinical commissioning groups (CCGs)

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Privacy fears change from country to country

  Retailers need to translate consumer privacy fears at a local level, says Dunnhumby CIO Yale Cosset

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Are retailers lost in a sea of technology, data and insight?

  As Oracle's OpenWorld user conference closes for another year, Computer Weekly reflects on the challenge retailers face in the age of big data

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  NHS patients in England to have online medical records by April 2015

  Jeremy Hunt has promised all NHS patients in England will have online access to their medical records by April 2015

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Interview: Wood Mackenzie CTO John Linwood on life after the BBC

  John Linwood, former chief technology officer at the BBC, talks about winning a high-profile employment tribunal and his new job at Wood Mackenzie

• 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 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company

  The Weather Company is a huge advocate for cloud-based technology, and everything it has built is cloud-enabled

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Camden Market launches social Wi-Fi system to track footfall

  Free Wi-Fi connectivity is available to shoppers in Camden Market in London, which also provides real-time data on users

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  NHS England informatics head wants more CCIOs

  NHS England director wants to see a chief clinical information officer in every NHS provider and clinical commissioning group

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Poor data quality hindering government open data programme

  Poor data quality is hindering the UK government's open data programme, intended to reform the public sector

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Land Registry automates document registration using Abbyy

  The Land Registry has been automating the way changes are made to its register which documents the ownership of land in England and Wales

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  The internet of things: Britain's next big opportunity

  Tech City's Gerard Grech talks about the IoT phenomenon and a startup competition that is intended to accelerate technologies

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Data hygiene needs to be tackled at board level – now

  Data proves information governance is a priority for senior management, but the latest research shows executives need to be more proactive

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  NHS Spine infrastructure transition successful, says HSCIC

  The infrastructure behind the critical NHS Spine platform has been replaced by The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Citizens call for electronic GP medical records

  The majority of UK citizens want an electronic record of their GP medical data to be accessible by healthcare professionals

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  House of Fraser rolls out beacon-enabled mannequins in Aberdeen

  House of Fraser is rolling out beacon-enabled mannequins that will allow the store to engage directly with shoppers or passers-by

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  Technology simplifies big data for the human brain

  Researchers have created an immersive way for the brain to digest big data

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  New College Durham improves internal processes using Advanced workflow app

  New College Durham has improved its finance system and internal business processes using Advanced Business Solutions' workflow system

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  NHS develops shared framework to reduce cost of buying clinical data systems

  NHS Shared Business Services has developed a framework to help NHS trusts reduce the time and cost of procuring clinical data systems

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Royal Free Hospital digitises legacy patient medical records

  Royal Free teaching hospital in London has digitised 750,000 legacy case notes which contain patient medical records

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 21, 2014 21 Jul'14

  Electronic document management – a paperless cure for the NHS?

  Will the NHS meet the 2018 deadline to go paperless? Or is it more likely that the NHS will just have less paper than it did in 2013?

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  MicroStrategy World 2014: Saylor announces AWS partnership and demos Usher

  MicroStrategy unveils partnership with Amazon Web Services and a beta programme for Usher password replacement technology

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Bristol City Council launches open data initiative

  Bristol has launched an open data initiative to encourage citizens to build services using local data.

• July 02, 2014 02 Jul'14

  Care.data will remain opt-out model, says NHS director Tim Kelsey

  The NHS Care.data programme will continue as an opt-out scheme despite calls for users to have to explicitly opt in to the data-sharing initiative

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Google loses US appeal over Street View data collection

  Failure of appeal leaves Google facing legal action over Street View data collection programme

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Efforts to detect terrorism hampered by mass surveillance, says former NSA technical director

  US at risk of missing terrorist threats under huge volume of surveillance data, says former NSA technical director

• June 25, 2014 25 Jun'14

  BMA votes for Care.data to be explicitly opt-in

  The British Medical Association (BMA) has voiced concerns that the Care.data programme should be explicitly opt-in

• June 24, 2014 24 Jun'14

  CIO interview: Thierry Bedos, CTO, Hotels.com

  Hotels.com packs a huge digital punch globally, but is still striving for the perfect omni-channel customer experience

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Lush cleans up on data with QlikView

  Cosmetics retailer Lush has reduced wastage and made its shops more profitable through using QlikView business intelligence software

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Tesco Clubcard founder worried about Care.data

  One of Britain’s pioneers of big data has raised his concerns about NHS England’s use of data and its Care.data programme

• June 18, 2014 18 Jun'14

  Deputy mayor of London wages war on Oracle

  Deputy mayor of London for business and enterprise, Kit Malthouse, has waged war on the database giant Oracle over its licensing fees

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  HSCIC tightens controls over patient data following data lapse

  The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) aims to guarantee stricter controls over the use of patient data within the NHS

• June 17, 2014 17 Jun'14

  Wimbledon to analyse social interactions at tennis championship

  The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club at Wimbledon will be analysing social interactions throughout tennis championship

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Insurance industry slow to implement big data analytics

  Most insurance companies do not have big data strategies despite the industry's reliance on access to accurate data

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  NHS England rethinks Care.data roll-out

  NHS England has abandoned its plan to fully roll out the controversial Care.data patient records sharing scheme by Autumn 2014

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

  The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation

• April 23, 2014 23 Apr'14

  Up to 500 GP practices to pilot Care.data from the autumn

  Between 100 and 500 GP practices will trial the collection of patient data as part of the delayed Care.data project

• April 22, 2014 22 Apr'14

  Ordnance Survey and BT sign £23m data deal

  Ordnance Survey has begun a new five-year agreement with BT Openreach to supply a range of data products and services

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Liverpool John Moores University launches big data healthcare initiative

  The Liverpool Big Data Collaboration for Health project aims to link health records between NHS trusts to exploit big data analytics

• 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 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Without Care.data “we won’t have a health service for much longer,” says NHS

  Without the care.data programme, the health service will not have a future, said Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS England.

• March 17, 2014 17 Mar'14

  SAS opens analytics R&D centre in Glasgow, trained on combatting fraud

  SAS has opened a research and development (R&D) centre in Glasgow, focused on combatting fraud and financial crimes

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  NHS England admits failure to explain benefits of care.data

  NHS England has admitted to a gathering of MPs that it has failed to explain the benefits of care.data to patients

• February 21, 2014 21 Feb'14

  Government releases first wave of multi-million pound open data fund

  The government has announced a £1.5m grant to be invested in organisations championing the open data initiative

• February 03, 2014 03 Feb'14

  Case study: Transport for London modernises website with HTML5

  Transport for London has re-engineered its website to move with the times. TfL's head of online, Phil Young, explains the design principles

• 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 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Big data salary increases present cost pressure for Indian CIOs

  As pressure mounts on CIOs to drive business growth through customer acquisition big data skills, which come at a premium, will put pressure on budgets.

• January 10, 2014 10 Jan'14

  UK businesses are moving data away from the US after NSA scandal

  A quarter of UK businesses are moving their data out of the States following the NSA and Prism scandal

• 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 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  CUP deploys SAP IS-Media to underpin global reorganisation

  Cambridge University Press is reorganising globally to support its digital strategy, using SAP IS-Media

• 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: Gates Foundation uses Radian6 to monitor social media

  The charity set up by the Microsoft founder adopts the Salesforce solution to monitor and react to social media

• November 15, 2013 15 Nov'13

  Where is big data management in the Indian CIO's thinking?

  Indian businesses plan to implement big data initiatives next year as analytics becomes a strategy for 71.3%, according to research

• 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

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Case study: Yellow Pages digitises records for the web

  Canada's Yellow Pages is investing in a digitisation programme to compete with online information providers, such as Google, Facebook and Yell

• 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 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 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Skandia chooses Pitney Bowes for event-driven customer communications

  Skandia Bank is seeking to advance its digital strategy using customer communication software from Pitney Bowes

• September 16, 2013 16 Sep'13

  British Army’s manpower planning saves £770m through SAS BI

  The British Army's headquarters is using SAS to analyse and more efficiently allocate manpower and resources

• 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.

• August 13, 2013 13 Aug'13

  Deloitte data survey spells out need for clarity to win public trust

  Survey of attitudes to how organisations collect and analyse personal data reveals a 10% drop in people fully aware of what is being done

• July 29, 2013 29 Jul'13

  Smart meters: Good for consumers but infrastructure unresolved

  Energy and Climate Change Select Committee report highlights infrastructure risks and spiralling costs in UK smart meter roll-out

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  Nottingham targets troubled families with data analysis

  Nottingham County Council cuts the time to identify troubled families, from two weeks to two hours, with a data matching tool

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Teradata executives discuss big data, in-memory computing and data science

  Stephen Brobst and Martin Willcox offer insight into Teradata’s world view as big data gains momentum

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  BGL insurance firm uses WebFocus to enhance customer relationships

  Insurance firm BGL Group is using Information Builders’ WebFocus product to improve customer relationships