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• 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

• December 30, 2015 30 Dec'15

  Top 10 information management stories of 2015

  The maturing of big data technologies such as Hadoop, Spark and NoSQL databases has been the standout theme of 2015, along with machine learning and predictive analytics

• December 18, 2015 18 Dec'15

  Exasol and Birst join in-memory database to ‘networked’ BI to aid mutual expansion

  German in-memory database company Exasol and California-based BI cloud supplier Birst join forces

• December 17, 2015 17 Dec'15

  Oracle Q2 2015-16 results: Strong US dollar affects revenue growth

  Oracle’s Q2 results for the 2016 fiscal year indicate 26% growth in cloud revenue to $649m, 7% of its total revenue

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Ageas moves into Philippines cloud platform for insurers

  Insurance firm adopts cloud-only business application suite to support south-east Asian expansion

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Mobile advertising network Billy Mobile bets the farm on Hadoop

  Barcelona-based mobile advertising network Billy Mobile has opted to bet its business on the Hadoop stack with Hortonworks

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

  Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Case study: Airbus sets out challenges of changing IT supplier

  Aircraft manufacturer sets out what it learned from switching IT provider after 12 years of working together

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  Three tips to help reduce Oracle licensing costs

  London councils are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds a year with Oracle. Controlling these costs is the first step in taming Oracle licensing

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  Departing DVLA technology chief says 'job done', moves back to centre

  DVLA's former chief technology officer returns to Cabinet Office after executing 'exemplar' GDS programme

• November 12, 2015 12 Nov'15

  Informatica launches big data management platform

  Informatica has launched a “big data management” suite that it says adds data quality, governance and security to its data integration offer

• November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15

  Inforum 2015 Europe: Infor targets majority cloud revenue

  Infor is aiming at half its licence revenue coming from cloud installations in 2016, according to president Stephan Scholl

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

  The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  Digital transformations will spur software quality measurement

  Ever more customer-touching systems will force organisations to ensure their underlying software is robust enough to prevent IT problems becoming public and causing brand damage

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Oracle’s Ellison says push security down stack to win cyber battle

  At Oracle OpenWorld 2015, Larry Ellison called for next-generation security, pushed down the stack to the hardware level and always on

• October 26, 2015 26 Oct'15

  Oracle OpenWorld 2015: Larry Ellison vaunts Oracle’s cloud services over rivals

  Larry Ellison promoted his company’s cloud services and berated rivals in his opening keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2015

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  Silicon Valley companies fill out big data technologies as they mature

  Companies based in Silicon Valley discuss the issues created by big data technologies as they mature

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  MySQL 5.7 aims at deeper convergence with Oracle tech and NoSQL

  MySQL 5.7 has been released with next-generation hardware in mind, offering greater interoperability with Oracle and NoSQL database technologies

• October 20, 2015 20 Oct'15

  SAP Q3 2015 results: On-premise and cloud grow in parallel, says Cohen

  SAP’s third-quarter 2015 results show overall cloud revenue growth of 116% year on year, and SAP European president Cohen says parallel on-premise growth is strong

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Quarter of Europeans are active mobile banking users

  The use of mobile banking services is increasing in Europe despite security fears

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  BT Openreach division expands services deal with Infosys to improve support for engineers

  BT Openreach is using a software platform from Infosys that draws data from several sources to improve support for its engineers and customers

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

  Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Martin Thell, Scandic Hotels

  The CIO of major Nordic hotel chain Scandic Hotels wants to learn more about customers through technology, without being overbearing

• October 15, 2015 15 Oct'15

  Why blockchain heralds a rethink of the entire banking industry

  Blockchain, the distributed ledger technology behind bitcoin, is both a threat and an opportunity for financial services – and the banks are taking it very seriously

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  Enterprise software contracts stifle digital business initiatives

  Two software licensing groups have joined forces to put pressure on the European Commission to investigate leading software companies

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  RBS to pilot product based on blockchain technology in 2016

  Royal Bank of Scotland is among the early adopters of distributed ledger technology that could shake up the banking industry

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  AWS to lower skills and cost barriers for database migrations using cloud

  Cloud giant seeks to make it easier for firms of all sizes to adopt business intelligence tools and take advantage of database migrations

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Buying IT before the end of 2015 could help businesses offset tax

  Upgrading servers or refreshing desktops before the end of the year could make sense for businesses

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

  Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Keeping up with Cassandra, the NoSQL database

  What does Call of Duty, the Hive smart thermostats, Social Weather and the William Hill bookie app all have in common? They are all powered by the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  Spark user survey suggests growth beyond Hadoop

  Spark seems to be growing beyond Hadoop, as standalone instances outnumber Spark on Yarn on HDFS

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  IT problems put Enfield patients at risk, claims MP Joan Ryan

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust invests in patient management systems after Enfield Town MP Joan Ryan claims waiting times put patients at risk

• September 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Microsoft Azure partners with DataStax

  Microsoft Azure and Cassandra company DataStax announces a partnership that will see the DataStax Enterprise package available on the Azure cloud platform

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  AWS datacentre service trouble hits Netflix users

  North Virginia datacentre hit by service trouble, blighting delivery of more than 30 of the cloud giant's products

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Health chief 'should be held to account' for whistleblow errors

  Former nurse and clincial commissioner Bernie Rochford claims unfair dismissal after blowing the whistle on IT problems which put patient care at risk

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Nurse 'scared' to return to work after blowing whistle on IT problems

  A former nurse felt unable to return to work after raising concerns about the accuracy of records on a patient database at a London NHS trust

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  NHS trust failed to recognise IT whistleblowing

  Managers at Southwark CCG did not realise that serious concerns raised by a former nurse of its IT systems should be treated as whistleblowing

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

  Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  European Broadcasting Union simplifies MySQL with Severalnines

  Clustered and high-availability MySQL is not easy to manage without a skilled database administrator – but the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) found a tool to help

• September 10, 2015 10 Sep'15

  Cloudian boosts object storage HyperStore compliance features

  Distributed object storage software maker Cloudian upgrades HyperStore with added granularity of data protection features that can help meet compliance requirements

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  SAP embraces Spark on Hadoop with Vora

  SAP announces Vora software to “deeply embrace” Hadoop as it evolves with Apache Spark

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Why business should bet on open source

  Online bookie William Hill has deployed a stack of open-source tools to present time-sensitive web content

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

  Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Microsoft grows cloud business

  Microsoft's Azure and cloud business experienced triple-digit growth in its fourth quarter of 2015, according to CEO Satya Nadella

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Mainframe fails to save IBM from 13th declining quarter

  IBM's second-quarter revenue was down 13% year-on-year to $20.8bn, but IBM said the decline is only 1%, adjusting for the sale of its x86 server business and the impact of the strong dollar

• July 20, 2015 20 Jul'15

  Comparethemarket uses Cloudera to gain single view of customer data

  Price comparison site Comparethemarket has turned to Cloudera’s Hadoop distribution to get a better view of customer data from different channels. Doug Cutting, the father of Hadoop, explains

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

  The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Automated predictive analytics on the rise, says SAP’s UK chief technologist

  Mark Darbyshire, SAP UK and Ireland’s chief technologist, reflects on the supplier’s updated predictive analytics software and service pack 10 for Hana

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Google eyes Tesco’s customer analytics arm Dunnhumby

  Google is reported to have joined the scramble to buy Dunnhumby, the customer analytics unit behind Tesco’s Clubcard

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  The diagram that scares the next generation of banking IT professionals

  The next generation of IT professionals in the banking sector will face the same legacy headache as their predecessors

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  US state of Maine turns to BPM to cut admin costs

  The US state of Maine is automating a range of government processes in a bid to cut administration costs by more than 10%

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Microsoft’s Wright: Focus on services to build data cultures

  Corporate IT must evolve towards service provision to make organisations more data-driven and agile, Microsoft’s Jacky Wright will tell the Data Governance 2015 conference

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  KPMG audit 'failed to address' patient data problems, claims former nurse

  A whistleblower who raised concerns about a health service database said an audit by an independent body did not address her worries

• May 12, 2015 12 May'15

  Former nurse’s career blighted after blowing whistle on IT problems

  Southwark's continuing care database included names of patients who had been dead for several years, a tribunal is told

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: Hasso Plattner hails “applications explosion” on Hana

  At Sapphire 2015, Hasso Plattner said that Hana has now become a platform on which “an explosion of applications” is taking place

• May 08, 2015 08 May'15

  HDS executives share the secrets of a successful acquisition

  HDS executives reveal how to undergo a successful acquisition, during HDS Connect 2015

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: SAP reveals internet of things cloud Hana service

  SAP unveils cloud version of Hana in-memory database for customers' internet of things (IoT) operations, dubbed the SAP Hana Cloud Platform

• May 05, 2015 05 May'15

  Sapphire 2015: McDermott declares SAP natively digital

  SAP CEO Bill McDermott declares the company “digital” at Sapphire 2015 and made “empathy” the watchword of his keynote

• April 29, 2015 29 Apr'15

  Bravissimo calls on Nutanix support for move to virtual servers

  High street lingerie retailer opts for Nutanix's converged infrastructure platform to support its server consolidation work

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  SAP users plan in majority for Hana and hybrid

  SAP customers have a lot of work to do make the most of their SAP environments before they can move to Hana-based systems

• April 21, 2015 21 Apr'15

  BT sets out ambition to become enterprise's cloud integrator of choice

  BT outlines its 'Cloud of Clouds' vision to allow users to access cloud apps and services, regardless of where their systems are hosted

• April 20, 2015 20 Apr'15

  Teradata Universe: QueryGrid expanded while Yodel signs for delivery

  Teradata has increased the span of its QueryGrid technology at its 2015 Universe event in Amsterdam

• April 15, 2015 15 Apr'15

  Open Data Platform marks 60 days' progress at Hadoop Summit Europe 2015

  The Open Data Platform (ODP) initiative marks growing co-operation between IBM, Hortonworks and Pivotal at the Hadoop Summit Europe 2015

• April 08, 2015 08 Apr'15

  Sweden’s Transticket changes from MySQL to MariaDB to support growth

  Swedish ticketing website Transticket has moved from MySQL to MariaDB to support business growth

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Fitness First slashes datacentre hosting costs with Nutanix

  Fitness First has migrated its traditional datacentre installation to converged infrastructure based on Nutanix hardware hosted at Telecity

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Major software companies bamboozle local authorities with audits

  Software companies are resorting to audits and complex licensing in a bid to make more money from existing public sector customers

• March 26, 2015 26 Mar'15

  Ovum urges service providers to get serious about cloud security

  Analyst Ovum's report into enterprise cloud adoption warns service providers to stop treating customers' security as an afterthought

• March 25, 2015 25 Mar'15

  EMC launches “data lake” appliance

  EMC launches appliance to help customers build “data lakes”, melding tech from Information Infrastructure, Pivotal and VMware

• March 23, 2015 23 Mar'15

  Law enforcement and security agencies face big data challenge

  Law enforcement and security agencies face the same big data challenge as business, according to Unisys

• March 19, 2015 19 Mar'15

  Holland & Barrett outsources data handling to ITC Infotech

  IT services firm ITC Infotech manages customer data for health food business to help it glean business value from the information

• March 17, 2015 17 Mar'15

  IBM adds Twitter data to Watson Analytics and Bluemix

  IBM is extending its partnership with Twitter to include the social media site’s data in its Watson Analytics service, delivered in the cloud

• March 13, 2015 13 Mar'15

  Cloudera CEO Reilly: ODP is 'affront to the Apache Software Foundation'

  The Open Data Platform initiative is “an affront to the Apache Software Foundation”, says Cloudera CEO Tom Reilly

• February 27, 2015 27 Feb'15

  Hortonworks president Cunitz: 141% customer renewal rate bodes well

  Hortonworks president Herb Cunitz says his company’s recently declared 2014 results are cause for celebration

• February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15

  Ordnance Survey announces open data innovation project

  Ordnance Survey marked International Open Data Day by announcing plans to launch an open data digital map

• February 17, 2015 17 Feb'15

  Yahoo chooses Splunk’s Hunk to do Hadoop analytics

  Yahoo is using Splunk’s Hunk tool to do analytics on Hadoop and NoSQL data stores

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  MarkLogic introduces bi-temporality with eye to regulated industries

  NoSQL database supplier MarkLogic adds feature which allows organisations to look at data as it has been at different points in time

• February 09, 2015 09 Feb'15

  Computer Weekly European User Awards 2015 open for entries

  Find out how to enter Computer Weekly’s third annual European User Awards

• February 05, 2015 05 Feb'15

  Teradata reports tepid growth alongside big data investments

  Data warehousing company Teradata has reported revenue of $2.732bn for 2014, an increase of 1% on 2013

• February 04, 2015 04 Feb'15

  Heinz puts SAP HANA in the cloud to boost global efficiency

  Food producer Heinz deploys SAP HANA on Virtustream’s xStream platform-as-a-service (PaaS) infrastructure to boost efficiency

• February 03, 2015 03 Feb'15

  SAP unveils S/4Hana as 'biggest launch in 23 years'

  SAP launches what CEO Bill McDermott calls “our biggest launch in 23 years, if not in the entire history of the company”, SAP S/4Hana

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

  Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

  SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe

• January 15, 2015 15 Jan'15

  Public sector must make big data relevant

  Big data is set to revolutionise public services but projects should focus on those that the public will understand

• January 14, 2015 14 Jan'15

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust embarks on clinical portal project

  Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust selects HP Enterprise Services to supply a clinical portal from Orion Health, with single sign-on from Imprivata

• January 13, 2015 13 Jan'15

  SAP’s 2014 preliminary cloud revenue grows by 45% to €1.1bn

  SAP’s preliminary 2014 financial results indicate total revenue of €17.58bn, of which €1.1bn was cloud subscriptions and support

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  CERN gets real-time data with Software AG’s Terracotta BigMemory

  CERN is using Software AG’s in-memory data management software BigMemory to support system availability for the Large Hadron Collider

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

  In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Care.data faces more delays over concerns about patients

  The NHS’s Care.data scheme may face more delays due to concerns over lack of publicity and clarity of the proposed programme

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Interview: SAP ramps up pressure on customers to move to Hana

  Philip Adams, chairman of the UK and Ireland SAP User Group, says SAP is increasing pressure on customers to move to Hana

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Case study: JustGiving develops Facebook-like graph on HDInsight

  Online fundraising site JustGiving has created a Facebook-like media graph database to understand how people donate

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine

  AWS launches an open-source relational database engine called Aurora at its re:Invent 2014 cloud conference

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  How to deal with the next software renewal call from the big four suppliers

  IT departments are being subjected to ruthless tactics by software sales teams when they renegotiate contracts with the big four suppliers

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  What to expect from AWS re:Invent 2014

  Amazon is all set to unveil new services and features at its AWS re:Invent 2014

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Qantas puts Oracle ERP in the cloud with Tata Consultancy Services

  Airline Qantas signs IT outsourcing services firm TCS to upgrade its Oracle ERP platform and move it into the cloud

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Police forces use private cloud to access Holmes database

  Police forces across the UK will access the Holmes major investigation system via a private cloud service