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Database management
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June 24, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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June 17, 2014
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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
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June 17, 2014
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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
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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
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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
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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
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May 30, 2014
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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.
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May 28, 2014
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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
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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
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May 23, 2014
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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
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May 23, 2014
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May'14
Case study: Concur fuels growth with Couchbase
Expense management company Concur has used NoSQL database supplier Couchbase to further its growth
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May 20, 2014
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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
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May 15, 2014
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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May 01, 2014
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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
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April 23, 2014
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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
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April 22, 2014
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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
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April 17, 2014
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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”.
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April 15, 2014
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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
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April 14, 2014
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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
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April 10, 2014
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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
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April 08, 2014
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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
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April 08, 2014
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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
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April 07, 2014
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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
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March 24, 2014
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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
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March 21, 2014
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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
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March 20, 2014
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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
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March 20, 2014
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Mar'14
Big data will help patients with multiple medical conditions
Big data could be the key to understanding patients with multiple medical conditions
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March 19, 2014
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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.
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March 18, 2014
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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
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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
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February 26, 2014
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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
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February 26, 2014
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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
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February 21, 2014
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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
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February 12, 2014
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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.
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February 10, 2014
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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
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January 27, 2014
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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
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January 23, 2014
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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 ...
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January 21, 2014
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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
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January 20, 2014
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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
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January 16, 2014
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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
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January 14, 2014
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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
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January 14, 2014
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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)
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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
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December 30, 2013
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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.
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December 17, 2013
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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
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December 05, 2013
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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
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November 27, 2013
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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
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November 26, 2013
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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
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November 18, 2013
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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
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November 18, 2013
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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
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November 13, 2013
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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
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November 06, 2013
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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
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October 25, 2013
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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
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October 16, 2013
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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
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September 26, 2013
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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
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September 25, 2013
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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
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September 20, 2013
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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
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September 02, 2013
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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.
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August 28, 2013
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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
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August 20, 2013
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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
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August 05, 2013
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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
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July 24, 2013
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Jul'13
DataStax helps enterprises offload Oracle
DataStax Enterprise is offering large enterprises a way to offload Oracle workloads onto the Cassandra NoSQL database
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July 08, 2013
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Jul'13
Second generation Schengen system deployed
The European Commission has introduced an upgrade to its pan-European passport system
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July 05, 2013
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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
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June 28, 2013
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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
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June 26, 2013
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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’
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June 25, 2013
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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
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June 24, 2013
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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
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June 21, 2013
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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%
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June 20, 2013
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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
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June 14, 2013
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Jun'13
Cameron to launch Information Economy Strategy
David Cameron has announced the launch of the government’s Information Economy Strategy
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June 13, 2013
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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
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June 10, 2013
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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
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June 07, 2013
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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
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June 07, 2013
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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
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June 07, 2013
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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
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June 06, 2013
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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
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June 04, 2013
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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
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May 29, 2013
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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
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May 24, 2013
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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
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May 17, 2013
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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
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May 16, 2013
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May'13
‘Government must be militant about interoperability standards,’ says Maude
Government must be militant about interoperability standards, says Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude
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May 15, 2013
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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
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May 14, 2013
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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
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May 08, 2013
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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
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April 19, 2013
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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
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April 18, 2013
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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
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April 12, 2013
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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
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April 10, 2013
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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
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March 22, 2013
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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
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March 21, 2013
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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
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March 13, 2013
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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
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March 12, 2013
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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
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March 08, 2013
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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
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February 19, 2013
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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