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Database software

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  San Francisco data analytics early-stage firms point to third-wave BI

  California start-up and early-stage data analytics companies are positing technologies that point beyond second-generation business intelligence, such as Qlik and Tableau

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  CIO interview: Mogens Kristensen, Sydbank

  Danish bank’s IT head explains the advantages of sharing some IT systems with other banks

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Oracle Q3 2016: cloud revenue grows, US currency strength takes toll

  SaaS and PaaS combined contributed $583m in third quarter, up 57% in US dollar terms, while IaaS was down 2% in dollars to $152m

• March 03, 2016 03 Mar'16

  World’s biggest banks complete joint blockchain trials

  Forty major global banks have jointly run tests of the use of blockchain in wholesale banking

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  Dutch water wants to move beyond dipping its toes into big data pool

  Dutch water company Brabant Water wants to use data to improve the service it provides to customers, as well as identify problems on its distribution network

• February 22, 2016 22 Feb'16

  IBM open sources Blockchain to help developers build ledgers

  IBM has released over 40 thousand lines of Blockchain code to help developers build ledgers for the distributed technology that underpins Bitcoin

• February 12, 2016 12 Feb'16

  CIO interview: Ismo Platan, SSAB

  Retiring CIO of Swedish steel company tells Computer Weekly about the progress made in merging two Nordic steel firms and looks at the biggest hurdles that lie ahead

• February 02, 2016 02 Feb'16

  Oracle fleshes out UK cloud strategy with Slough expansion

  Oracle launches UK-based platform as a service (PaaS) – but can it deliver value for money compared with Azure and AWS?

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  SAP doubles cloud revenues to €2.3bn in 2015 financial year

  SAP saw its cloud revenues nearly double to €2.3bn and 11% of its overall revenue of €20.8bn for the 2015 financial year

• January 22, 2016 22 Jan'16

  Trinity Mirror Group taps into cloud, agile and microservices to boost web user experience

  National and regional newspaper publishing group is using AWS and SOASTA's performance monitoring tools to improve the user experience for its online readers

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  SAP executives see internet of things as flesh on digital skeleton

  SAP’s senior management are putting the internet of things at the heart of the enterprise software supplier’s digital transformation offer

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  Irish Tax Institute accelerates tax database search with MarkLogic

  The Irish Tax Institute has opted for MarkLogic for its TaxFind database service, with a system that pools a range of data types

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Oracle to recruit 1,400 cloud sales professionals with Europe-wide recruitment campaign

  Software giant hopes to capitalise on growing momentum around cloud with sales-focused hires

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  Forrester predicts boom time for software

  Cloud, Saas and business analytics set to drive up demand for software