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• 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

  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

• June 06, 2014 06 Jun'14

  Fusion-io Atomic Series PCIe cards double server flash capacity

  Server-side flash pioneer Fusion-io has launched a new range of PCIe server flash cards, the Atomic Series, which double their capacity by using the latest-generation NAND flash chips

• June 04, 2014 04 Jun'14

  Sapphire 2014: Plattner restates radical, in-memory computing future

  SAP's Hasso Plattner restates his case that enterprise applications face a radical future, based on in-memory computing

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  Met Office swaps Oracle for PostgreSQL

  UK weather service the Met Office has started swapping Oracle for Postgre SQL in a strategy to deploy more open source technology

• May 30, 2014 30 May'14

  Microsoft and Salesforce bind SQL deal and Office 365 integration

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella demonstrated the company’s new found openness with a strategic alliance with Salesforce.com.

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  Case study: Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust deploys e-observation technology

  Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is deploying mobile observation technologies to monitor patient health

• May 28, 2014 28 May'14

  NHS shared services aims to end paper invoicing

  NHS Shared Business Services hopes to eradicate paper invoicing by implementing an e-invoicing system that will be free for suppliers to use

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Business Objects use increases among SAP users, but Hana uptake low

  More UK and Ireland SAP customers are using Business Objects now than even two years ago, but only 15% are using Hana

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Case study: Concur fuels growth with Couchbase

  Expense management company Concur has used NoSQL database supplier Couchbase to further its growth

• May 20, 2014 20 May'14

  MPs slam 10 years of poor progress on joined-up IT in justice system

  Despite more than 10 years of efforts to join up IT in criminal justice, it is still not possible to share or transfer information electronically, say MPs

• 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 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Justifying the business case to update Oracle eBusiness Suite

  To justify the upgrade cost needed to move to Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12, IT departments need consider how the implementation can deliver value.

• May 13, 2014 13 May'14

  New NHS e-Referral Service to use agile and open technologies

  The new National Health Service outpatient appointment booking system will use agile and open technologies, the NHS has said.

• May 02, 2014 02 May'14

  City University London launches data science and cyber security courses

  City University London will this year begin its first post-graduate courses in data science and cybersecurity.

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  FT takes data warehousing to the cloud and cuts costs by 80%

  How the Financial Times beat its data warehousing woes with AWS Redshift and saved costs

• 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 17, 2014 17 Apr'14

  SAP declares 8% revenue growth in EMEA

  SAP has declared 8% revenue growth in the EMEA region for the first quarter of 2014, “despite uncertainties in the CIS due to the Crimea crisis”.

• April 15, 2014 15 Apr'14

  EU data privacy authorities approve Microsoft Azure, Office 365 cloud services

  The European Union's data privacy authorities have given approval to Microsoft's cloud services including Windows Azure and Office 365

• April 14, 2014 14 Apr'14

  Most cloud services pose security and compliance risks to European businesses

  About 99% of cloud services used in Europe either don’t have enterprise-grade security or store data outside Europe’s jurisdictional boundaries

• April 10, 2014 10 Apr'14

  Online loyalty programmes help wholesalers fill data void

  Wholesale retailers are using online loyalty programmes to gain insight into customers who purchase in-store

• 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

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  Teradata Database 15 adds JSON, addresses internet of things

  Teradata has added JSON to its data warehouse. Teradata Database 15 is said to fill out the logical data warehouse, much vaunted in the industry in recent years

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Analysis: Care.data – where next?

  Following the public debate surrounding the NHS Care.data plan, it was unsurprising the topic dominated the UK’s largest health IT event

• 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 18, 2014 18 Mar'14

  Oracle pushes Exadata servers aggressively against IBM PureSystems

  IDC’s latest market share data for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), has shown that Oracle is beginning to grow its server business

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  NHS England facing further criticism over use of patient medical data

  NHS England is facing further criticism over its use of patient data, following reports that hospital records were made public

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  Tesco expected to launch digital services “imminently”

  Tesco is expanding its multichannel portfolio by launching a digital wallet soon, with several other digital services also set to launch

• 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 12, 2014 12 Feb'14

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott vaunts innovation agenda in Potsdam

  Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, derides industry failure to recognize his company’s contribution as it opens an innovation center outside Berlin, Germany.

• February 10, 2014 10 Feb'14

  CIO interview: The Met's Richard Thwaite on its Total Technology IT strategy

  Metropolitan Police CIO Richard Thwaite on getting the business and IT suitably aligned as the force embarks on a four-year IT strategy

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Teradata launches analytics product as SAP BW replacement

  Teradata has released an analytics product for SAP ERP, as a full-blown alternative to SAP BW

• 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 21, 2014 21 Jan'14

  UK leads Europe in SAP Hana adoption as it hits €664m globally

  SAP's full-year results show cloud revenue of €1.2bn and overall revenue of €16.8bn. Its Hana in-memory database registered €664m

• 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 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  UCAS troubleshoots network with Splunk

  UCAS – the organisation responsible for managing university and college applications – is using Splunk to monitor its IT infrastructure

• 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 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

  NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data

  The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView

• 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 26, 2013 26 Nov'13

  SAP to announce simplification drive in January, says Hagemann Snabe

  SAP will, in January 2014, announce a new simplification initiative, co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe told the UK and Ireland SAP user group conference yesterday

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Salesforce promises $5bn revenue for 2014

  Cloud company Salesforce.com claims it will reach revenues of $5bn for the full fiscal year, despite third quarter results showing a sequential drop

• November 18, 2013 18 Nov'13

  Angry Birds firm handles massive growth with Riak NoSQL database

  Finland-based Rovio Entertainment deploys Basho Riak open source distributed database on Amazon cloud to deal with massive data growth from hundreds of millions of users

• 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 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 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games IT on track

  IT services firm Atos says implementation of IT systems to support the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow next year is on track

• 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 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 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 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store

  Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users

• August 20, 2013 20 Aug'13

  Atos powers sports information system

  Atos is to develop what it claims is the world's first results and common data platform for sports

• August 05, 2013 05 Aug'13

  Case study: Comparethemarket.com migrates from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB

  ComparetheMarket.com is migrating from Microsoft SQL Server to MongoDB as its business grows, slashing cycle time of idea to production

• July 24, 2013 24 Jul'13

  DataStax helps enterprises offload Oracle

  DataStax Enterprise is offering large enterprises a way to offload Oracle workloads onto the Cassandra NoSQL database

• 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 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

  Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally

• 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 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 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

  Barclays changes terms and conditions to harness big data

  Barclays Bank is to use customer data to innovate around customer services and provide insights to business customers

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  Oracle’s 2013 revenue flat, operating profitability up

  Oracle’s end of fiscal year 2013 revenues of $37bn were flat compared with 2012, but the supplier indicated a record operating margin of 47%

• 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 14, 2013 14 Jun'13

  Cameron to launch Information Economy Strategy

  David Cameron has announced the launch of the government’s Information Economy Strategy

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• June 10, 2013 10 Jun'13

  UK police start to tear up Dickensian transactional processes

  British police forces are putting “Dickensian”, paper-based transactions with members of the public online

• 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

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  IBM and 10Gen collaborate on database standard for enterprise mobile

  IBM and 10Gen are to work together on a database development standard for mobile enterprise applications

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  ICO fines Glasgow City Council for loss of unencrypted laptops

  Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 for losing two laptops which held personal details of more than 20,000 people

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion

  Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Warner Brothers tracks films to screens with FileMaker

  Every country in Europe has a George Clooney. Warner Brothers needs to know who the local dubbing actors are in each of 52 territories

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  SAP leaders bang the drum for Hana as a platform

  SAP executives are positioning the supplier’s in-memory database as a pivotal technology, not just an end in itself

• 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 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Plattner, Sikka hail HANA growth beyond SAP

  In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, Hasso Plattner and Vishal Sikka said at Sapphire 2013

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  ‘Government must be militant about interoperability standards,’ says Maude

  Government must be militant about interoperability standards, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Survey finds doctors making greater use of IT, but cost benefits in doubt

  More doctors in England use healthcare IT and over three-quarters report improvements in effectiveness, according to research from Accenture

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: SAP declares for cloud expansion, on back of Hana

  SAP has announced a widening of the cloud delivery of its enterprise technologies

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• April 19, 2013 19 Apr'13

  SAP Q1 results: UK and northern Europe show growth

  SAP’s priority areas of in-memory database technology, mobile and cloud showing growth in the UK, says EMEA president, Franck Cohen

• April 18, 2013 18 Apr'13

  Mobile devices could transform patient care

  The director of the health informatics unit at the Royal College of Physicians reveals a greater need for using mobile

• April 12, 2013 12 Apr'13

  Wildcat big data silos add splash of ungovernability to enterprise IT

  Wildcat big data projects are threatening to add a layer of ungovernability to enterprise IT, says MDM godfather Aaron Zornes

• 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 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Insolvency firm Griffins speeds up fraud forensics with IBM analytics

  Insolvency and forensics firm Griffins is using IBM’s i2 analytics software to reduce the cost, time and complexity associated with fraud and forensic investigations for litigation

• March 21, 2013 21 Mar'13

  Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat

  Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape

• 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 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

• March 08, 2013 08 Mar'13

  Poor management information undermines government cuts

  Departments are routinely ‘gaming’ the Treasury by withholding spending information, a Public Accounts Committee report has said

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  Are universities ready for influx of overseas students?

  If Indian students take up David Cameron’s open invitation to study in the UK, universities will need to ensure their visa processing systems are adequate