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• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  African health charity integrates digital tools with Cognizant

  IT services supplier is working with African health charity to integrate digital tools through a five-month project

• June 28, 2022 28 Jun'22

  Executive interview: Chris Conradi, chief digital officer, FSN Capital

  Chris Conradi is taking his learnings at Google into the private equity industry at Norway’s FSN Capital

• June 13, 2022 13 Jun'22

  Health data strategy to exorcise ghosts of GPDPR

  Government publishes a revised data in health strategy, with an emphasis firmly on preserving the integrity and privacy of patients’ confidential information

• June 02, 2022 02 Jun'22

  Indian stock exchange taps data analytics

  The National Stock Exchange of India is tapping data analytics to speed up and improve regulatory decision making

• May 11, 2022 11 May'22

  Pure to offer on-prem object storage as Snowflake data source

  Pure Storage partnership with Snowflake will see the cloud data warehousing platform make use of on-prem FlashBlade fast file and object storage as a source for analytics data

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  ODI sets up institution to promote public data sharing

  The Open Data Institute has set up an institution to support the Open Referral UK data standard geared to promote more sharing of public sector data

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Driving new revenue with data insights

  GLS Group beefed up its enterprise resource planning system to deliver data insights that support real-time decision making and drive new revenue

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Competition watchdog contacts Barclays and Lloyds banks over API failures

  Barclays and Lloyds banks have failed to meet some of the open banking rules, says competition watchdog

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Inside Al-Ikhsan’s business analytics journey

  The Malaysian sportswear retailer has increased its profits and market share through its investments in business intelligence and analytics over the past five years

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  Estonian anti-money laundering software pilot reaps benefits

  Estonian startup and local banks have successfully piloted a data-sharing platform that prevents money laundering

• March 11, 2022 11 Mar'22

  Police EncroChat cryptophone hacking implant did not work properly and frequently failed

  Surveillance operation against EncroChat encrypted phone network had repeated technical failures

• March 02, 2022 02 Mar'22

  Ban predictive policing systems in EU AI Act, says civil society

  A coalition of civil society groups has called on European lawmakers to use the upcoming Artificial Intelligence Act as an opportunity to ban predictive policing systems

• February 25, 2022 25 Feb'22

  University of Amsterdam teams up with MIT to use analytics for a better world

  Dutch and US universities join forces with tech company to help non-government organisations and the United Nations to harness data analytics to achieve sustainable development goals

• February 20, 2022 20 Feb'22

  BreastScreen Victoria to use third-party support for Oracle database

  Australia’s BreastScreen Victoria has inked a support contract with Rimini Street to free up IT capacity and funds for strategic initiatives

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  How Carrefour is lowering its Oracle footprint

  Migrating core business applications requires a multi-pronged approach, so what remains on-prem, and where does SaaS fit?

• February 08, 2022 08 Feb'22

  Porn sites will be legally required to verify users’ ages

  Porn sites could be legally obliged to verify that their users are 18 or over under proposed online safety rules, in UK government’s second attempt to prevent children from accessing pornography online

• January 06, 2022 06 Jan'22

  How far has Saudi Arabia come with open data?

  While clearly on the right path, Saudi Arabia still has a lot to do before it reaps the full benefits of open data

• December 20, 2021 20 Dec'21

  Finnish government launches digital economy transformation projects

  The Finnish government launches two transformation projects as part of the country’s mission to pioneer a digital economy

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  How Maxim’s Group is using Oracle Cloud

  The Hong Kong-based F&B operator is using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to run its VMware workloads and datawarehouse to improve resilience and productivity

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Societe Generale accelerates data and artificial intelligence strategy

  French investment banking giant increases its focus on data and artificial intelligence as digital transformation matures

• November 19, 2021 19 Nov'21

  Inside Informatica’s cloud journey

  Informatica’s chief product officer talks up the company’s journey back to the public market and where Asia-Pacific fits in its growth strategy

• November 15, 2021 15 Nov'21

  Government bodies refuse FOI requests on basis of misleading database search times, says academic

  The Information Commissioner’s Office tells tribunal it would need to bring in external experts to search data using an Excel spreadsheet

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  Interview: Identifying talent at Nasa using data science

  David Meza, senior data scientist at Nasa, explains how the space agency is using data analytics and graph database technology to find, recruit and train the skilled people it needs

• October 06, 2021 06 Oct'21

  Netherlands’ Team Liquid revolutionises e-sports with data analytics

  Data analysis is often used by enterprises, but the discipline is also gaining ground in other areas in the Netherlands, such as e-sports

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Database growth needs greater team collaboration

  Organisations are storing more data, which will increase the workload of administrators managing database servers

• August 27, 2021 27 Aug'21

  Are proposed data protection changes a threat to UK citizens’ privacy?

  Though changes are as-yet undefined pending an upcoming consultation, concerns are already being expressed over the government’s plan to liberalise data protection laws in the service of innovation and growth

• August 16, 2021 16 Aug'21

  How swarm learning is tearing down data silos

  Swarm learning makes it possible to perform machine learning on distributed data sources while conforming to data confidentiality requirements

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  How to get API deployments right

  Application programming interfaces are not the panacea for digital transformation and could even lead to escalating costs for problems that are better addressed through integration

• August 10, 2021 10 Aug'21

  Researchers uncover database with 126 million unsecured records

  Business-to-business marketing firm OneMoreLead was storing tens of millions of records in an unsecured database, exposing at least 63 million people to fraud, identify theft and phishing campaigns

• July 06, 2021 06 Jul'21

  Gulf hospitals flock to digital health to manage lifestyle diseases

  The Middle East is accelerating its take-up of digital healthcare technologies following lessons learned in the Covid-19 pandemic

• June 23, 2021 23 Jun'21

  DataStax eyes growth in APAC

  DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps

• June 16, 2021 16 Jun'21

  Databricks taps groundswell in lakehouse adoption

  Databricks has been expanding its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region amid growing interest among traditional enterprises and digital native companies in the data lakehouse architecture

• June 07, 2021 07 Jun'21

  Campaigners plan legal action over NHS data sharing

  Privacy coalition aims to force NHS Digital to push back its plans to scrape medical information on millions of patients into a central database

• June 04, 2021 04 Jun'21

  BCS: Lack of communication over NHS GPDPR ‘astonishing’

  The Chartered Institute for IT has warned that millions of people are not being properly informed of NHS Digital plans to harvest their data

• May 27, 2021 27 May'21

  Loss of 150,000 police records made worse by management failures

  The loss of 150,000 records from a number of national policing systems was caused by a human coding error, but made worse by process and management failures

• May 10, 2021 10 May'21

  Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices

  Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams is starting to impact public cloud managed service costs

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  Informatica streamlines APAC operations amid growing cloud business

  Informatica has consolidated its operations in four key Asia-Pacific markets in a move that will enable it to better meet the demand for cloud-based data management software

• April 16, 2021 16 Apr'21

  Teradata eyes cloud opportunity in APAC

  The data warehouse software supplier has been positioning itself to capture the region’s cloud opportunities through not only R&D, but also efforts to support enterprises in their cloud journey

• March 10, 2021 10 Mar'21

  Government’s refusal of freedom of information request about Post Office scandal ‘deeply concerning’

  MP condemns department’s ‘bizarre’ rejection of freedom of information request linked to Post Office IT scandal

• March 04, 2021 04 Mar'21

  Veritas looks beyond NetBackup for growth in ASEAN

  Veritas has seen increased demand for its availability tools as it looks to address backup and recovery requirements from cloud, database and VMware workloads

• February 23, 2021 23 Feb'21

  How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics

  Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed

• February 18, 2021 18 Feb'21

  City of Helsinki adopts MyData principles to improve digital services

  Principles on the use of personal data for the benefit of society will guide Finnish capital’s ambitious digital plans

• February 12, 2021 12 Feb'21

  UK border surveillance regime highly privatised, says Privacy International

  Research from Privacy International raises concerns about the deep involvement of technology companies in the development and deployment of various technologies throughout the UK’s border regime, along with the lack of scrutiny they receive

• January 29, 2021 29 Jan'21

  Hunting and anti-hunting groups locked in tit-for-tat row over data gathering

  The leaking of internal documents has prompted a row between pro- and anti-hunting groups about the legality of the other’s data collection practices

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems

  Home Office claims data wiped from national police systems only relates to people who have never been convicted of a crime or had further police action taken against them following an arrest

• January 15, 2021 15 Jan'21

  Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports

  Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way

• January 14, 2021 14 Jan'21

  Banks and telcos lead big data analytics spending in APAC

  Banks and telcos contributed nearly one-third of spending on big data analytics in the region, while the government and healthcare sectors will register the highest growth rates, new research finds

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Why databases are key to Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales

  With each order split into multiple database transactions, ensuring the scalability and elasticity of database systems was key to the success of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  Privacy advocates call for European probe into Palantir

  Dutch group SOMI is trying to raise awareness of Palantir’s data privacy practices and how it works with European government agencies

• November 05, 2020 05 Nov'20

  BBVA creates market information infrastructure on AWS cloud

  Spanish bank BBVA is using Amazon Web Services to give its traders better access to market data following a project which also involved data provider Bloomberg