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March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18
Capgemini arm bags European Commission data infrastructure project

The European Commission has extended the contract of prime contractor Capgemini on its open data project
March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18
Wi-Fi provider uses big data analytics to drive customer experience

The self-styled “Uber of Wi-Fi”, iPass is using Databricks’ Unified Analytics Platform and machine learning to monitor its worldwide network and help its customers get the best experience
March 01, 2018 01 Mar'18
Security fears delay roll-out of national e-voting system in Finland

Project enters problem-solving phase to identify advanced, effective and best practice solutions to develop a secure internet-based voting system
February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18
Government must rewrite illegal sections of Snoopers’ Charter, court told

A court has been asked to give ministers until July 2018 to rewrite powers to require phone and internet companies to retain data on the population. The government acknowledges parts of surveillance regime are unlawful

February 26, 2018 26 Feb'18
Estonia wants to introduce special visa for digital nomads

Baltic state’s next digital development could be a visa targeted at people who work online and are location independent
February 14, 2018 14 Feb'18
Blockchain to give global LGBT community a louder economic voice

Blockchain will underpin a global platform that aims to give the LGBT community a more powerful economic voice
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 22, 2018 22 Jan'18
2018 UK software budgets double for AI and blockchain

Artificial intelligence and blockchain initiatives are earmarked for a doubling of investment, finds the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey for 2018
January 12, 2018 12 Jan'18
Call for statutory regulation of police number plate cameras amid concerns over accuracy

The UK’s automatic number plate recognition database – one the largest non-military data-gathering systems – records up to 1.2 million false readings of number plates every day. It should be subject to statutory regulation, says an independent ...
January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18
Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

December 15, 2017 15 Dec'17
Oracle Q2 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.5bn

Oracle’s second-quarter 2017-18 results show an increase in cloud revenue of 44%, and overall growth of 4% to $9.6bn. Executives are bullish against competition, buoyed by artificial intelligence makeover of database
November 29, 2017 29 Nov'17
Councils continue to spend on Oracle despite budget constraints

Local authorities face a challenges balancing their meagre budgets with services they can afford to provide, but spending on Oracle seems to be increasing
November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17
DataRobot to boost AI in Singapore with new APAC headquarters

Boston-based supplier of artificial intelligence tools DataRobot is investing around $11m in a regional office and research outfit in Singapore
October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17
How Eurosport is using real-time data to create a second-screen experience

Broadcaster Eurosport talks about some of the digital technology advances improving the viewing experience for cycling enthusiasts
October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17
How technology is transforming healthcare delivery in Gulf region

IT will transform the healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the coming years
October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17
OpenWorld 2017: Ellison declares autonomous database 'revolutionary'

Oracle’s Larry Ellison claims revolutionary cast for autonomous 18c database at the supplier’s 2017 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco
September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17
Oracle announces simplified pricing model for cloud computing

Ahead of Oracle’s OpenWorld 2017 event, Larry Ellison announces simplification of cloud pricing, attached to increased automation in database and middleware
September 19, 2017 19 Sep'17
Veritas takes stock of data management play

Software supplier Veritas says it has delivered on its promises but there is still work to do in realising its data management vision
September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17
Oracle 2017-18 Q1 results: Cloud revenue jumps by 51%

Oracle’s first quarter 2017-18 results show jump in cloud revenue of 51%, boosted by NetSuite acquisition. Executives continue to be bullish on cloud growth, and the AI makeover of core database is flagged
July 26, 2017 26 Jul'17
Relational databases relatively poor at running digital transformation projects

Digital projects aren’t living up to expectations, with many only delivering incremental improvements to the status quo, survey reveals
July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17
Experian admits mobile and online issues after system upgrade

Some customers of credit referencing company are having problems accessing a service they pay for following an IT upgrade and large customer migration to a new system
July 10, 2017 10 Jul'17
Dutch database design drives practical innovation

IT often seems a mostly US industry, but other nations contribute a lot too, says Dutch database design scientist Martin Kersten, who has received the Association for Computing Machinery’s Fellow Award
July 07, 2017 07 Jul'17
Second phase of Dubai Health Authority’s electronic records implementation to start in August 2017

Unified electronic medical record (EMR) system to be rolled to more medical facilities across Dubai
July 05, 2017 05 Jul'17
Experian upgrade causes glitches in service

Credit scoring company recently upgraded its systems and introduced a new mobile app that caused temporary issues for some customers
June 22, 2017 22 Jun'17
Oracle 2016-17 results: cloud revenue up 60%, overall growth 2%

Oracle’s full-year and fourth quarter results for fiscal year 2016-17 indicate 2% growth in overall revenue, with cloud representing 12% of total. Executives are once again bullish on cloud ERP growth prospects
June 14, 2017 14 Jun'17
Lufthansa Systems ‘crowdfunds’ BI to mine flight data

Open source business intelligence tool enables airline to gain new insights from a decade’s worth of ticket sales
June 13, 2017 13 Jun'17
University of Edinburgh and Huawei collaborate on joint data lab

University is setting up a research and development lab dedicated to distributed data management and processing, with help from Chinese company
May 17, 2017 17 May'17
Smart Dubai works with United Nations on smart cities index

Dubai is becoming a world leader in smart city developments and international organisations want to tap its experience
May 16, 2017 16 May'17
Customer experience transformation at Macquarie bank brings legacy system retirement as a bonus

Australia’s Macquarie bank builds a data layer on top of legacy IT systems to transform customer experience
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
New York Philharmonic puts Toscanini archive online for worldwide audience

The New York Philharmonic is digitally archiving millions of documents and making them available online
May 11, 2017 11 May'17
Microsoft shifts to intelligence in cloud and on the edge

Microsoft’s annual developer event in Seattle opened with a focus on AI, IoT edge computing and a new globally distributed database
May 10, 2017 10 May'17
EnterpriseDB Postgres powers TfL tunnel monitoring

EDB, based on the open source Postgres database, is powering a new monitoring application at Transport for London
April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
UK trade department in New York to promote fintech firms

Group of financial technology firms taken to New York to show off their knowledge of regulatory compliance software
April 25, 2017 25 Apr'17
City University London launches undergraduate data science course after postgraduate success

Following the success of its postgraduate data science course, London university launches undergraduate programme
April 24, 2017 24 Apr'17
One in eight people have suffered a healthcare data breach

A quarter of victims had their NI number compromised and 18% saw their biometric identifiers compromised, but most people trust healthcare providers with their data
April 18, 2017 18 Apr'17
First MariaDB user conference hails renaissance of relational model

At its inaugural user conference in New York, MariaDB corporation leaders Michael Howard and Monty Widenius say the open source relational database model finds its moment beyond NoSQL phase
March 01, 2017 01 Mar'17
Dubai Health Authority electronic medical records to launch this year

Dubai citizens and health organisations will soon benefit from electronic medical records
February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17
Visa opens London technology centre

Visa opens a space in London where it can test out technologies alongside customers and suppliers
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
February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17
High Court rules for SAP, against Diageo in indirect licensing case

Judge rejects Diageo’s submission that SAP PI is a “gatekeeper” licence for gaining access to the SAP suite of applications and database
January 24, 2017 24 Jan'17
SAP 2016 results: cloud revenue almost €3bn, 5,400 S/4 customers

SAP declares full-year 2016 revenue of €22bn, of which nearly €3bn was cloud – almost 14%
January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17
Oracle trumpets cloud applications progress at start of 2017

Oracle reports a new wave of customer take-up of its cloud offerings and announces new datacentres and increased IaaS availability of its Database Cloud Service
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 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 08, 2016 08 Nov'16
CIO interview: David Cooper, interim CIO at Centrica

Interim CIO at utility company Centrica tells Computer Weekly how his job is more than just keeping the lights on
November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16
Newcastle United implements software to understand Toon Army better

Football club’s marketing teams are using data analysis software to give them a better picture of what supporters like off the field
November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16
Insurers face same legacy system battle as retail banks

The biggest barrier to insurance companies adopting digital technology is their heavy reliance on legacy IT systems
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 21, 2016 21 Sep'16
Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique
September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16
OpenWorld 2016: Ellison stakes claim for infrastructure as a service

In his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2016, Oracle chairman and CTO cites AWS, Workday and Microsoft as main competitors for cloud revenue in enterprise IT
September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16
Royal Wolverhampton NHS merges IT systems

The NHS trust has merged its community patient administration system with its central system used by the acute service
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 10, 2016 10 Aug'16
MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules

Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data
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
July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16
SAP Q2 2016: cloud revenue edges forward, 3,700 S/4 Hana customers

Second-quarter results show 3% growth in cloud revenue to reach 14% of the €5.2bn revenue total, as operating profit jumps 10%
July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16
New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard
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 17, 2016 17 Jun'16
Oracle sets its sights on AWS as it ramps up cloud strategy

The company's full-year results show a focus on IaaS and PaaS, with investment in more efficient datacentres and co-location
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 03, 2016 03 Jun'16
HPE demands $3bn from Oracle over dropped Itanium database support

The long-running dispute finally enters the courts, but whose fault is it really that organisations are buying fewer high-end HPE servers? Moreover, why are two big players beating each other up over a fast-disappearing market?
June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16
Thailand province successfully trials flood simulation system

A province of Thailand is using an IT system from NEC to help it predict floods
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 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
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 21, 2016 21 Apr'16
GCHQ told analysts to assume surveillance 'bulk data' is legal

Documents obtained by charity Privacy International reveal insights into GCHQ’s collection of sensitive bulk data, as lawyers question the impact of surveillance on legal privilege, fair trials and protection of whistleblowers
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 21, 2016 21 Mar'16
Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time
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 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
February 09, 2016 09 Feb'16
Executive interview: Oracle's cloud chief on why suites win

As Oracle ramps up its new cloud offering, we speak to Shawn Price, senior vice-president for cloud, about the company’s plans
February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16
Oracle fleshes out UK cloud strategy with Slough expansion

Oracle launches UK-based platform as a service (PaaS) – but can it deliver value for money compared with Azure and AWS?
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 19, 2016 19 Jan'16
SAP executives see internet of things as flesh on digital skeleton

SAP’s senior management are putting the internet of things at the heart of the enterprise software supplier’s digital transformation offer
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 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 11, 2015 11 Dec'15
Airline global distribution system Amadeus offers cloud scalability

Amadeus, the airline flight ticketing system, has used Google Compute Platform to scale its service to support internet flight searches
December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15
Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs

London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing
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 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 29, 2015 29 Oct'15
Fitness club goes digital to recruit new staff quickly

Equinox turns to digital technology from SmartRecruiters to speed up hiring employees
October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15
Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals

Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015
October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15
MySQL 5.7 aims at deeper convergence with Oracle tech and NoSQL

MySQL 5.7 has been released with next-generation hardware in mind, offering greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies
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 15, 2015 15 Oct'15
Why blockchain heralds a rethink of the entire banking industry

Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin, is both a threat and an opportunity for financial services – and the banks are taking it very seriously
October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15
RBS to pilot product based on blockchain technology in 2016

Royal Bank of Scotland is among the early adopters of distributed ledger technology that could shake up the banking industry
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 28, 2015 28 Sep'15
Spark user survey suggests growth beyond Hadoop

Spark seems to be growing beyond Hadoop, as standalone instances outnumber Spark on Yarn on HDFS
September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15
What next for NHS Care.data plan after its leader Tim Kelsey quit?

Tim Kelsey, the driving force behind the Care.data project to set up an NHS patient records database, has quit - but what does his departure mean for the troubled programme?
September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15
Health chief 'should be held to account' for whistleblow errors

Former nurse and clincial commissioner Bernie Rochford claims unfair dismissal after blowing the whistle on IT problems which put patient care at risk
September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15
Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push

Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses
September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15
Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub stokes local business with CRM

Coventry and Warwickshire Growth Hub has turned to Microsoft Dynamics CRM technology to report and organise work more effectively
September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15
European Broadcasting Union simplifies MySQL with Severalnines

Clustered and high-availability MySQL is not easy to manage without a skilled database administrator – but the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) found a tool to help
September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15
Tipping point for big data and advanced analytics in Australia

Data from analyst firm IDC shows that big data and advanced analytics in Australia could be about to accelerate.