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• 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

• 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

  Oracle goes after AWS and Hana with cloud add-ons

  Oracle has extended its cloud platform with a set of features it hopes will entice existing customers to migrate to the cloud

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Controversial NHS England Care.data project set to restart

  Trials to upload patient records to a central database for research and analysis are ready to proceed

• 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

  EMC: Rise of third platform could spell end for businesses unwilling to adapt

  EMC World 2015 saw the storage giant warn about the business risks of ignoring new technologies and ways of working in the digital age

• 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

  UK Oracle User Group votes in Linda Barker as president

  The UK Oracle User Group votes in former ERP director at engineering firm Atkins, Linda Barker, as its new president

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: Hasso Plattner hails “applications explosion” on Hana

  At Sapphire 2015, Hasso Plattner said that Hana has now become a platform on which “an explosion of applications” is taking place

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  SAP users plan in majority for Hana and hybrid

  SAP customers have a lot of work to do make the most of their SAP environments before they can move to Hana-based systems

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Open Data Platform marks 60 days' progress at Hadoop Summit Europe 2015

  The Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative marks growing co-operation between IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal at the Hadoop Summit Europe 2015

• 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 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 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Google squares up for new AWS cloud battle with Nearline beta launch

  Google unveils AWS Glacier challenger, which promises business users unlimited storage and fast data retrieval times

• March 05, 2015 05 Mar'15

  Tinder cuts app crashes with Rackspace cloud database

  Tinder matchmaking app turns to managed cloud provider for IT and database support

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  To partition or not to partition Oracle

  Oracle licence contracts are unclear on soft partitioning so CIOs need to get to the licence negotiation table to extract the best deal

• February 20, 2015 20 Feb'15

  NHS data service SUS to be more flexible after transition from BT

  The Secondary Use Service NHS database will offer “a more agile system that can respond better to NHS needs”, according to the HSCIC

• February 19, 2015 19 Feb'15

  Open Data Institute receives $4.1m funding from Omidyar Network

  Open Data Institute gets new funding for growth as it publishes second annual report

• 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 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Former Capital One data analysts charged with mining customer data

  US financial services regulator SEC charges two former employees of financial services firm Capital One with insider trading

• 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 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  IBM looks to Bitcoin blockchains for internet of things platform

  IBM sets out proof of concept for its ADEPT platform, using Bitcoin’s blockchain back-end to distribute the internet of things

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

  Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

  SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?

  Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing

• January 08, 2015 08 Jan'15

  CES 2015: Car companies showcase automotive digitisation

  Autonomous automotive technology has stolen the limelight from the usual fodder of gadgets at CES in Las Vegas

• 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 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

  In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing

• 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

• December 23, 2014 23 Dec'14

  Monsoon Accessorize provides multi-channel promotions via e-receipts

  Monsoon Accessorize is using data from both in store and online to provide personalised customer offers on emailed receipts

• December 18, 2014 18 Dec'14

  NHS watchdog raises 27 questions over Care.data before roll-out can proceed

  An independent watchdog has raised 27 questions about the troubled NHS England Care.data project, saying they must be answered for it to proceed

• 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

  Interview: Jane Moran, global CIO, Unilever – the most influential person in UK IT 2014

  The first woman to top Computer Weekly's UKtech50 list, Jane Moran is innovating while balancing the tech demands of a global giant

• 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

  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 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine

  AWS launches an open-source relational database engine called Aurora at its re:Invent 2014 cloud conference

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Deutsche Bank gets first chief data officer

  Deutsche Bank has appointed its first chief data officer

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Police forces use private cloud to access Holmes database

  Police forces across the UK will access the Holmes major investigation system via a private cloud service

• 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

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  Users warned over 'aggressive' Oracle software licensing tactics

  Oracle has been slammed by a new report for its lack of transparency and aggressive sales practices

• 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 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 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 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• 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 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

  Does your big data project need a data concierge?

  Big data needs better questions; local data concierges might be the next information governance trend; and the downside of data: The Data Mill reports.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Insurance industry ups BPO spending to access IT expertise

  BPO spending in the insurance sector will be worth about $3.5bn in 2015, after years of double-digit outlay increases

• September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14

  London innovation centre launches to tackle data challenges

  An innovation and collaboration centre has been launched to develop ideas relating to data and the UK economy

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Peterborough City Council launches cloud-enabled technology strategy

  Peterborough City Council is launching a cloud-enabled technology strategy to improve how it connects with citizens

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Oracle clocks $475m in cloud services for 2014-15 first quarter

  Oracle's Q1 2014-15 revenues were up 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn and non-GAAP was up 2% at $2.8bn

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  How the HSCIC rebuilt NHS Spine

  The Health and Social Care Information Centre has successfully upgraded the infrastructure behind the NHS Spine platform

• 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 27, 2014 27 Aug'14

  Microsoft slashes Azure SQL database-as-a-service prices by half

  Microsoft will reduce the prices of its Azure SQL Database – a relational database as a service – from November onwards

• 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

  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 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  NHS open-source Spine 2 platform to go live next week

  A new iteration of the NHS platform that connects clinicians, patients and national applications is due to be completed this coming weekend

• 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 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• 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 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• 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 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue

  IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

  SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and Hana

• 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 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation

  Data science company Dunnhumby has launched a project to globalise its back-office business processes using Oracle Fusion cloud

• 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

• 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

  Benefits of accessing data outweigh privacy risks for chronically ill

  Over half of UK patients with chronic health conditions want access to their medical records and believe the benefits outweigh privacy risks

• 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