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January 21, 2008 21 Jan'08
Don’t worry dear it’s only a master data management system

Online insurance company esure has implemented software from Initiative Systems to get better control of customer records.
January 17, 2008 17 Jan'08
Oracle and BEA enterprise portal customers face ‘rocky ride’

Oracle and BEA enterprise portal customers "can expect a rocky ride" following the Oracle acquisition of BEA announced this week.
January 16, 2008 16 Jan'08
Sun buys MySQL for £500m

Sun has acquired the open source database MySQL for £500m, in a bid to establish a foothold in the database market and offer users open source database tools to compliment its growing family of open source products.
January 14, 2008 14 Jan'08
Great Ormond Street adopts database cleansing platform to boost fundraising

Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity has selected the DataFlux platform to improve its fundraising.

January 10, 2008 10 Jan'08
Hellmann Worldwide Logistics replaces legacy with Oracle

Hellmann Worldwide Logistics has chosen Oracle as its global IT systems provider to replace the company's existing legacy systems to cut maintenance costs.
January 08, 2008 08 Jan'08
Microsoft makes £607m bid to buy Fast search firm

Microsoft has put in a £607m bid to buy Norwegian search company Fast to offer users of its software a search tool for unstructured data.
January 07, 2008 07 Jan'08
Bill Gates hails 'second digital age'

In his keynote speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft chairman, Bill Gates, predicted that the digital world was now focusing on connecting people. Calling this the second digital age, Gates said this new digital world would...
December 07, 2007 07 Dec'07
Oracle to acquire Moniforce

Oracle has announced the acquisition of Moniforce, a web application performance management provider.
December 05, 2007 05 Dec'07
Firms fail to unlock value of unstructured data

European firms are failing to unlock the value of unstructured content in their organisations.
December 05, 2007 05 Dec'07
Oracle user satisfaction dips

The UK Oracle User Group's annual survey of 600 users shows lower levels of satisfaction in Oracle Support compared with 2006.

November 30, 2007 30 Nov'07
Financial firms struggling to make ERP count

Financial analysts are struggling to extract meaningful data from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, despite firms ploughing millions of pounds into their use.
November 28, 2007 28 Nov'07
Virgin Media improves data mining to boost sales

Virgin Media has chosen data mining technology from KXEN to help it boost sales across its millions of customers.
November 26, 2007 26 Nov'07
Senior SAP managers resign amid copyright row

Several SAP senior managers at a firm at the centre of an alleged software copyrighting scandal against Oracle have resigned.
November 21, 2007 21 Nov'07
Alcoa adopts Oracle consolidated global database

Aluminium supplier Alcoa has upgraded its multi-terabyte data warehouse to Oracle Database 10g and Oracle Real Application Clusters to improve efficiency.
November 19, 2007 19 Nov'07
Hot skills: cut costs and coding time with Database for Objects

Db4o (Database for Objects) is an open source object database for Java and .net developers. It is claimed to be the only database that is native to both Java and .net.
November 16, 2007 16 Nov'07
BEA reports strong third quarter after failed Oracle takeover

BEA has emerged from a failed takeover bid by Oracle to report a 59% increase in net profits for the third quarter.
November 16, 2007 16 Nov'07
South Gloucestershire wins funding for children’s data management

South Gloucestershire Council has won funding from the Department of Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to allow its children's data management systems to work with ContactPoint.
November 12, 2007 12 Nov'07
Principal Global Investors consolidates data on Cadis

Principal Global Investors is improving its handling of multiple data sources with the Cadis data management platform.
November 09, 2007 09 Nov'07
Datacentre built on Harrods’ roof

Harrods is migrating its SAP enterprise resource planning system from Osterly in west London to a datacentre on the roof of its flagship store in Knightsbridge.
November 08, 2007 08 Nov'07
London Stock Exchange suffers trading downtime

The London Stock Exchange has blamed a technical issue with its Infolect data dissemination feed for the system failure that prevented some firms from trading yesterday afternoon (7 November).
October 26, 2007 26 Oct'07
Volvo consolidates worldwide IT to save £38.5m

Volvo AB's IT division has begun an IT standardisation programme that will consolidate the auto manufacturer's 14 worldwide datacentres into three in the next two years, saving an estimated £38.5m.
October 26, 2007 26 Oct'07
Oracle to acquire Interlace Systems

Oracle is acquiring Interlace Systems, a provider of strategic operational planning software, which will extend Oracle's Enterprise Performance Management System.
October 25, 2007 25 Oct'07
Oracle 11g now optimised for Windows

Oracle Database 11g is now available on the Windows platform.
October 24, 2007 24 Oct'07
Business agility and virtualisation will be key measure of datacentre excellence

Business agility and virtualisation will become the primary measures of datacentre excellence by 2012, says analyst Gartner.
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
International Securities Exchange improves market data system

The International Securities Exchange has launched the ISE Depth of Market Feed to improve trading efficiency.
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Image database is latest technology added to border control platform

Immigration minister Liam Byrne last week unveiled a £50,000 image-based database system that associates fingerprints, a visa and a unique passport number with an individual. The system is the latest plank in the government's £400m e-Borders border ...
October 15, 2007 15 Oct'07
Enterprises reject ripping out data warehouses

Clear majority of enterprises favour incremental augmentation over rip and replace solutions for data warehouse platforms
October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07
Copan adds data deduplication to Maid

Copan is claiming that with new support for FalconStor's data deduplication in its virtual tape library, it can support up to 6Pbytes in 10 cubic feet of space.
October 14, 2007 14 Oct'07
Oracle patch update to contain 51 flaw fixes

Oracle's Critical Patch Update will address 51 fixes, addressing critical holes in Oracle database 10g, Application Server, E-Business Suite and PeopleSoft Enterprise software.
October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07
Net-A-Porter expands MySQL use

Online fashion retailer, Net-A-Porter has expanded its use of the open source database, MySQL, to improve searching on its website.
October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07
Data disk pioneers get Nobel award

This year's Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Albert Fert and Peter Grünberg for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance in the retrieval of data from hard disks.
October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07
Midlands Co-op automates processes with EDI

The Midlands Co-operative Society has improved the speed and accuracy of processing orders, delivery notes and invoices by implementing a managed electronic data interchange (EDI) service.
October 01, 2007 01 Oct'07
Large firms clamour for data deduplication

Users at Storage Decisions from large companies say they need to reduce backup data that's out of control, but have had trouble finding products that fit their requirements.
September 28, 2007 28 Sep'07
Oracle, Dell and EMC join forces to ease firms’ data warehouse deployments

Oracle has joined forces with Dell and EMC to help customers more easily acquire and implement data warehouse systems.
September 26, 2007 26 Sep'07
Firms targeted by green datacentre initiative

The Business Performance Management (BPM) Forum has launched the Lean & Green initiative to promote green datacentres among CIOs.
September 21, 2007 21 Sep'07
Oracle enhances business process analysis

Oracle has announced the general availability of its enhanced Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite, featuring closed-loop support to improve collaboration between business analysts and IT.
September 21, 2007 21 Sep'07
Esure saves time managing websites using Oracle system

Online insurance firm Esure is spending 20% less time managing its external websites by deploying Oracle Enterprise Content Management.
September 20, 2007 20 Sep'07
Cardiff University improves efficiency with database system

Cardiff University's Department of Pathology has installed a database system that has enabled them to easily store, extract and analyse complicated data.
September 19, 2007 19 Sep'07
Oracle updates Microsoft database migration tool

Oracle has released the latest version of its free workbench tool to aid users wanting to migrate Microsoft databases to its own Oracle Database 11g.
September 16, 2007 16 Sep'07
Fisheries nets a handy data-capture tool

Digital pens are enabling fishery protection officers across the North East of England to fill in catch monitoring forms on the quayside or at sea and file the information directly to a central database.
September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07
Norfolk police gains flexible info management with unified data warehouse

Norfolk Constabulary has gone to Fujitsu Services for the deployment of an Operational Data Warehouse (ODW) to deliver more flexible data management and cost savings.
September 12, 2007 12 Sep'07
Comtec Enterprises backs up datacentre with hydrogen fuel cell

Comtec Enterprises has backed up its datacentre power supply with a hydrogen fuel cell to save on space, eradicate downtime and reduce its carbon footprint.
September 11, 2007 11 Sep'07
Police to reopen 4000 cold cases with DNA database

The UK government is to spend a further £350,000 to review 4,000 "cold case" sex crimes using advanced DNA analysis techniques.
September 10, 2007 10 Sep'07
Datacentre inefficiency a major problem at enterprises

Datacentre inefficiency is still a major problem in many enterprises, despite the availability of standard technologies to ease problems.
September 03, 2007 03 Sep'07
Structuring data for business advantage

Data management is an opportunity, not a burden
August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07
Improvement Service in Scotland tenders personal licence database

The Improvement Service in Scotland has put out to tender a new National Personal License Database, which will cover the sale of alcohol.
August 30, 2007 30 Aug'07
Critical flaw found in Oracle developer tool

A popular tool used by Oracle developers contains a critical flaw that could be used by an attacker to compromise a system.
August 22, 2007 22 Aug'07
Essex police streamlines data requests with ABM

Essex Police has deployed new software from ABM to more efficiently manage its requests for data to aid investigations.
August 21, 2007 21 Aug'07
Leeds & Bradford pathology service gets central data back up

Leeds & Bradford Hospitals' Pathology Service has centralised its data back up with EVault's InfoStage to cope with a massive increase in the amount of data it holds. It also hopes to cut the costs associated with data management.
August 10, 2007 10 Aug'07
Sales Funnel boost from new Reach Force CRM

ReachForce, a worldwide provider of OnDemand Data Services, has launched a new application for CRM designed to deliver insight into an organisation's sales funnel.
August 03, 2007 03 Aug'07
UK police DNA database the biggest in the world, according to report

The UK police holds more than four million DNA records, according to the annual report of the National DNA Database, published last month. This makes it the world's biggest DNA database by far.
July 26, 2007 26 Jul'07
Arnotts streamlines stock with £4.7m Oracle roll-out

Irish retailer Arnotts is spending £4.7m on an implementation of Oracle's Retail application suite to streamline its procurement and reduce the stock it needs to hold in store.
July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07
HSBC: datacentre management ‘not easy to achieve’

HSBC will install software from Aperture Technologies to manage capacity planning for its datacentre operations worldwide.
July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07
Regus selects windfarm data centre

Regus, the managed offices company, has reduced the carbon footprint of its datacentres using Smartbunker's zero-carbon data-hosting services.
July 23, 2007 23 Jul'07
11g to give BI benefits says Gartner

Increased performance, enhanced manageability and stronger security of 11g will drive higher-than-normal early adoption says Gartner.
July 22, 2007 22 Jul'07
Fish4 hooks £2m saving by moving database in-house

Recruitment site Fish4.co.uk has saved £2m in less than 12 months by moving its hosted database in-house.
July 22, 2007 22 Jul'07
BT begins enterprise resource planning standardisation plan

BT is undertaking a global enterprise resource planning project to provide a standard way for classifying data across its finance management reporting division.
July 19, 2007 19 Jul'07
John Lewis takes long view for datacentre efficiencies

The IT department of the John Lewis Partnership has told other parts of the business to forecast their IT needs a year in advance to help control spiralling demands for datacentre capacity.
July 19, 2007 19 Jul'07
BT chooses Optim to manage data

BT has implemented Optim software from data management company Princeton Softech to cope with spiralling data volumes generated by thousands of daily support calls.
July 17, 2007 17 Jul'07
Durham council uses Ordnance Survey to optimise transport services

Durham County Council is using transport data from Ordnance Survey to boost the efficiency of a range of transport services.
July 11, 2007 11 Jul'07
Oracle launches Database 11g

Oracle has launched Oracle Database 11g, the next version of its main database platform.
July 06, 2007 06 Jul'07
Business Objects completes Inxight acquisition

Business Objects has closed the acquisition of privately-held Inxight Software, a provider of software solutions for unstructured information discovery, including text analytics, federated search, and data visualisation.
July 05, 2007 05 Jul'07
BASF improves database performance through standardisation

BASF has consolidated and harmonised its Oracle databases to cut costs and improve operations at its European businesses.
July 02, 2007 02 Jul'07
SAP admits inappropriate downloading of Oracle files

SAP today admitted its US subsidiary TomorrowNow downloaded Oracle fixes and support documents inappropriately, but denied it ever had access to Oracle’s material.
June 28, 2007 28 Jun'07
Optimise your data delivery system

Whether your database is Oracle, SQL Server , DB2, MySQL, or Ingres, you want it to perform as well as it can.
June 19, 2007 19 Jun'07
Database market now worth £8bn

The worldwide relational database management systems (RDBMS) market totalled £8bn in 2006, a 14.2% increase on 2005, said analyst Gartner.
June 15, 2007 15 Jun'07
Mainstream virtualisation requires new IT processes

Companies that use virtualised datacentres must employ strategies and tools to manage them if they are to deliver savings, said a Forrester Research analyst last week.
June 14, 2007 14 Jun'07
MySQL goes up a Gumtree

The Gumtree.com community website is standardising on the open source MySQL Enterprise database platform to support its rapid growth and scalability requirements.
June 08, 2007 08 Jun'07
Council cuts pest control costs and improves service with Oracle CRM

Electronic customer management replaces paper-based system
June 05, 2007 05 Jun'07
Police issue £600m tender for database

The National Policing Improvement Authority has issued a tender worth up to £600m for a database system to house the Police National Database (PND).
May 25, 2007 25 May'07
Virtual models point way to datacentre efficiencies

Datacentre provider Liebert is using 3D imaging software to help its clients, which include several large financial institutions, improve the efficiency of their datacentres
May 23, 2007 23 May'07
Canon improves supply chain accuracy through ERP

Canon’s consumer division in Europe has improved the accuracy of supply chain planning by 20% after it extended its Oracle ERP system.
May 16, 2007 16 May'07
Virgin Media replaces Oracle with Netezza

Virgin Media has dumped an Oracle system to analyse customer data, and will instead use a Netezza data warehouse platform.
May 11, 2007 11 May'07
Fabric Warehouse retailer selects EDI

Fabric Warehouse, the specialist fabric retailer with 40 stores nationwide, has selected a new electronic data interchange (EDI) system to improve its operations.
May 09, 2007 09 May'07
Kraft taps Epos data to plot demand

Kraft Foods has struck deals with 10 retailers to receive daily data feeds from their electronic point of sale systems to enable it to plan product quantities more accurately.
May 03, 2007 03 May'07
SAS chooses Tibco service bus

Scandinavian airline SAS is using Tibco's enterprise service bus software to help share and re-use new applications, data and services with legacy applications.
May 02, 2007 02 May'07
Oracle expands content management offering

Oracle has launched Oracle Universal Content Management 10g Release 3 to expand its enterprise content management offering (ECM).
May 01, 2007 01 May'07
Ofgem upgrade to improve data access

Ofgem, the regulator for the gas and electricity markets, has selected Parity to construct a new document management system and website to improve its operations.
April 30, 2007 30 Apr'07
Lindy revives floppy with external USB drive

Lindy Electronics has launched an external USB floppy disc drive to help users access data on discs using their floppy-less laptops and desktops.
April 30, 2007 30 Apr'07
MySQL and IBM integrate databases

MySQL and IBM have announced a joint technology and reseller agreement to bring support for the MySQL open source database to the IBM System i business computing platform.
April 03, 2007 03 Apr'07
Cambridge University astronomers mine skies with grid and intelligent database

An astronomy organisation linked to Cambridge University has deployed one of the industry’s most powerful analytical databases, alongside utility or grid computing, to accelerate the processing and classification of extremely large volumes of ...
March 26, 2007 26 Mar'07
What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?

By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge...
March 26, 2007 26 Mar'07
Your shout: data sharing and hospital phones

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March 23, 2007 23 Mar'07
Oracle sues SAP over 'stolen' software

Oracle is continuing its war against SAP by suing it for alleged software copyright theft.
March 21, 2007 21 Mar'07
Oracle posts buoyant results

Oracle has posted a 35% increase in third quarter net profits to £542m.
March 19, 2007 19 Mar'07
Informatica hooks up on-demand data

Informatica has launched an on-demand service that integrates software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications with internal databases.
March 15, 2007 15 Mar'07
Oracle drives rise of open source embedded database

Hot skills: Supplier builds on functionality of Berkeley DB
March 14, 2007 14 Mar'07
Release 3 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g ships

Oracle has announced the general availability of release 3 of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g.
March 03, 2007 03 Mar'07
Sybase pays dividends as City's database of choice

Hot skills: ASE has small but lucrative share of the market
March 02, 2007 02 Mar'07
CMS powers energy provider online

npower will deploy an Oracle content management system (CMS) to offer customers online billing, meter reading alerts and news about their latest deals.
March 01, 2007 01 Mar'07
Firms' data warehousing plans hit by data volume

Increases in data volumes are having a negative impact on enterprises’ data warehouse programmes, according to a survey from PMP Research.
February 27, 2007 27 Feb'07
Backup vendors refresh open source products

BakBone and Zmanda announce updates to their products this week meant to take advantage of growth in the number of enterprises using open source applications.
February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07
Staffordshire postpones SAP Duet implementation

Insufficient datacentre power has brought one of the first implementations of SAP Duet to a standstill.
February 26, 2007 26 Feb'07
How Oracle skills can be the base for a good career

Oracle is a relational database management system that runs on more than 80 platforms. The Oracle database is Oracle's flagship product: the current version, Oracle10g, was introduced in 2005.
February 23, 2007 23 Feb'07
IBM platform convergence is a step closer with DB2 9

Hot skills: Original relational database evolves for integration
February 12, 2007 12 Feb'07
PostgreSQL opens way for bespoke database function

Hot skills Open source approach encourages customisation
February 07, 2007 07 Feb'07
Unisys and Oracle join forces to aid enterprise modernisation

Unisys has joined forces with Oracle in a global alliance to aid enterprise modernisation.
February 01, 2007 01 Feb'07
Oracle ships flagship ERP system

Oracle has announced general availability of the Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.
January 31, 2007 31 Jan'07
APCC's results are a mixed bag

Datacentre technology provider American Power Conversion Corporation (APCC) has reported mixed results for its third quarter ended 24 September 2006.
January 26, 2007 26 Jan'07
Sizeable user base makes MySQL useful skill to have

Open source database has 44% share of the market