News

Database software

• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  Country as a service becoming reality in Estonia

  Programme to help foreigners set up businesses in Estonia through virtual residency is gathering pace

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

  Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM

• February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

  Number of people hit by professional financial cyber attack grows after lull

  Kaspersky Labs reports that the number of people hit by financial cyber attack grew in 2016 after falling in the previous two years

• February 21, 2017 21 Feb'17

  Oracle fleshes out APAC cloud strategy

  Enterprise IT giant Oracle is looking to better serve APAC customers with data sovereignty requirements

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  Gartner predicts BI market will jump 7.3% to $18.3bn in 2017

  So-called “modern BI and analytics platforms” outpace traditional business intelligence, but rate will slow down

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  Diablo targets flash in DIMM slots at in-memory apps

  Apps such as Apache Spark need memory. Diablo has changed tack to provide flash as memory in DIMM slots that acts as cache behind regular DRAM so apps don’t have to hit disk storage

• February 14, 2017 14 Feb'17

  Oracle expands cloud offerings in Australia

  Tech giant Oracle will deliver platform and infrastructure services through its Sydney datacentre

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

  Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

• January 31, 2017 31 Jan'17

  SAP aims to clarify S/4 Hana, cloud apps roadmaps for customers

  The SAP board has launched an initiative to publish and clarify roadmaps, especially in respect of S/4 Hana and its cloud applications, and one product of this is a new technology choice tool

• January 30, 2017 30 Jan'17

  Report blames human and legacy system failure for Yorkshire hospital problems

  Old technology and human error combined to cause major IT outage at Yorkshire NHS trust, review finds

• 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 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

  Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Schroders staff to complete daily tasks on mobile devices

  The asset management company wants to make it easier for its staff to complete everyday tasks by linking mobile devices to enterprise systems

• 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 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  2017 UK IT budgets show increased CRM and business automation focus

  CRM has emerged as the number one UK IT spending priority for 2017, in terms of packaged business applications. Beyond packaged, the top three software initiatives were business process automation, data quality and governance