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• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  MicroStrategy World 2014: Saylor announces AWS partnership and demos Usher

  MicroStrategy unveils partnership with Amazon Web Services and a beta programme for Usher password replacement technology

• July 04, 2014 04 Jul'14

  What IT challenges would an independent Scotland face?

  If Scotland votes ‘Yes’ for independence in September, what are the costs and challenges of building new government IT systems?

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT

  Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Centrica's datacentre move to HP still not complete after three and a half years

  Centrica is yet to transfer its entire datacentre operations to HP despite signing a contract with the supplier in 2010

• June 20, 2014 20 Jun'14

  Oracle trumpets 25% cloud revenue growth in Q4

  Oracle’s fourth-quarter 2014 results show 25% growth in cloud revenues to $322m and total annual revenue of $38.3bn, up 3% year-on-year

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  HSBC makes executives responsible for application consolidation

  In the next few weeks, senior executives at HSBC globally will have KPIs to reduce the number of applications they run

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  $39bn worldwide shift to SAP cloud, HCL research reveals

  Nearly $40bn of SAP installed software will move to the cloud in the next two years, suggests research from IT services firm HCL Technologies

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Larry Ellison lifts the lid on Oracle's in-memory database

  Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has taken the wrappers off the company’s in-memory database, trumpeting its 'real-time' performance capability.

• June 09, 2014 09 Jun'14

  Smart meter IT costs set to escalate as rollout ramps up

  Cost of IT is set to skyrocket as the UK’s smart meter rollout ramps up due to suppliers buying in IT consultants

• 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

• 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

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  Sapphire 2014: SAP CEO McDermott declares war on ‘complexity’ and sets Fiori free

  Bill McDermott, SAP CEO, devoted his opening keynote at Sapphire 2014 to declaring war on business process “complexity”

• 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

• June 02, 2014 02 Jun'14

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Shortlist 2014

  See who made the shortlist for the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software 2014

• May 23, 2014 23 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

• May 23, 2014 23 May'14

  Case study: Concur fuels growth with Couchbase

  Expense management company Concur has used NoSQL database supplier Couchbase to further its growth

• May 22, 2014 22 May'14

  Case study: Startup Versarien moves to SAP cloud

  Engineering startup Versarien created an enterprise resource planning system following the acquisition of Total Carbide

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

  From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure

• May 06, 2014 06 May'14

  SAP’s innovation champion Sikka departs

  Vishal Sikka, the SAP executive most closely associated with the supplier’s innovation drive with the in-memory database Hana, has resigned

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Co-operative Bank report reveals challenge of legacy IT replacement

  A report into the £1.5bn losses at Co-operative Bank reveals numerous failures in a project to replace core banking systems

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  IT glitch causes delays at UK Border Force

  Passengers at several UK airports and ferry ports have been facing long delays at passport control due to an IT problem

• April 28, 2014 28 Apr'14

  LateRooms overcomes database bottleneck with flash storage strategy

  The hotel and accommodation booking firm refreshes its datacentre with virtualisation, consolidation and flash-based storage

• April 24, 2014 24 Apr'14

  Ecclesiastical outsources IT for the first time to get data benefits

  Insurance company Ecclesiastical embarked on its first major IT outsourcing project when it accepted that it was not getting the most out of the data it holds.

• April 17, 2014 17 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”.

• April 07, 2014 07 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

• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Ministry of Justice to invest up to £375m in court and tribunal technology reform

  The Ministry of Justice has announced a five-year programme to update and replace technology used in courts and tribunals across the UK

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%

  The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Half of CIOs believe business has too many applications

  Almost half (48%) of CIOs believe their business has more applications than it needs and only 37% think most of their applications are business critical, according to a study

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  The wider implications of Oracle's Rimini licensing dispute

  Companies may need to distinguish between software development work on commercial software they do themselves and what they outsource

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  UK shows biggest take-up of electronic health records in Europe

  The UK is the biggest electronic patient record market in Europe, with $2.1bn expected to be spent on the technology by the end of 2015.

• February 27, 2014 27 Feb'14

  RBS to tidy up systems mess

  Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) outlines plans to cut costs and improve customer services, slashing the number of IT systems in the process

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  NHS England puts patient database on hold

  NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  NHS England faces growing pressure to delay Care.data medical records plan

  NHS England is coming under increasing pressure from medical groups to reconsider roll-out of controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records

• February 18, 2014 18 Feb'14

  HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics

  New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy

  The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO

  Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as CEO almost six months after former incumbent Steve Ballmer announced his retirement

• February 04, 2014 04 Feb'14

  HP investigators find Autonomy made 80% less profit than stated

  HP investigators say UK firm Autonomy, acquired for $11.7bn in 2011, made 80% less profit than originally stated

• January 30, 2014 30 Jan'14

  UK Eurozone suppliers can no longer ignore Sepa standard

  UK suppliers to Eurozone businesses risk losing customers if they cannot take payment using the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) standard

• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

  The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"

• January 27, 2014 27 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

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Lloyds is the latest bank to experience major IT outage

  Customers of Lloyds, TSB and HBOS were unable to use their cards for a three-hour period yesterday due to a major IT glitch

• January 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  HB Fuller sticks with HR in the cloud

  Cloud based HR system gives adhesives maker the ability to manage its global workforce

• January 20, 2014 20 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

• January 16, 2014 16 Jan'14

  ERP implementations, upgrades on the up across Europe in 2014

  UK and European IT looks set to review ERP and intensify focus on BPM in 2014, finds TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT priorities survey

• January 14, 2014 14 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

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  UK bank IT systems "a long way from being robust"

  A senior Bank of England official said UK bank IT systems a very long way from being robust, while giving evidence at Westminster Committee

• December 30, 2013 30 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.

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Business applications under stress, finds Freeform Dynamics survey

  Business applications are coming under increased performance pressure as organisations evolve remote working practices in step with the demands of a modern economy

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Top 10 financial services IT stories of 2013

  2013 has been the first year for a while when businesses have talked about growth. While the finance sector remains ultra-cautious there are investments being made in technology as customers demand new ways of interacting with banks

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2013

  Innovation at Ferrari, DMG Media, BAE Systems, and others; while SAP and Oracle stake strategic claims to cloud and high-speed analytics

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  CUP deploys SAP IS-Media to underpin global reorganisation

  Cambridge University Press is reorganising globally to support its digital strategy, using SAP IS-Media

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Joan Miller director of Parliamentary ICT

  Parliamentary ICT director Joan Miller talks about how Parliament should use technology and the challenges of the digital world

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  CIO Interview, David Southern, CIO WWF UK

  UK CIO of the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), David Southern, describes a technology refresh at its Woking HQ

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  SAP system leaves Npower customer accounts in disarray

  The energy firm admits to poor customer service after issues from transferring to a new SAP system, just weeks after announcing it would cut almost 1,500 jobs and take on a new outsourcing contract to save on customer service costs

• December 10, 2013 10 Dec'13

  Australian police to deploy tech used by US spy agency

  The Australian Federal Police plans to introduce technology used by a US spy agency to collect emails and other information transmitted by computer

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  FCA investigation into RBS crash last year not complete as new IT crisis hits

  The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has yet to complete an investigation into a massive IT failure at the Royal Bank of Scotland last year

• December 05, 2013 05 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

• December 04, 2013 04 Dec'13

  How endemic is IT underinvestment in UK retail banking?

  The Royal Bank of Scotland has failed to invest properly in its IT system, but it is not alone

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  SAP user group: Innovation agenda clear but for long haul

  Philip Adams, of the UK & Ireland SAP user group, speaks to Computer Weekly about SAP’s promotion of Hana, cloud and mobile

• December 02, 2013 02 Dec'13

  Ipswich Building Society forced to change IT services supplier

  Ipswich Building Society was part of a group of companies that had to find new IT service provider following a decision by the incumbent supplier to exit the business

• November 18, 2013 18 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

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Startups use AWS re:Invent 2013 as launch pad

  Several startups chose AWS re: Invent as a platform to showcase how they utilised the cloud service provider to get off the ground.

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Cloud imperative for companies to remain agile, says AWS

  Both enterprise and startups can benefit from the cloud, enabling employees to become more innovative, says Amazon Web Services

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  MoD appoints new CIO and releases ICT strategy

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has appointed Yvonne Ferguson as CIO and released its latest Defence ICT Strategy document

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  AWS re: Invent 2013 kicks off in Las Vegas

  Amazon Web Services' annual conference opens with product announcements to the 8,000 strong crowd during the keynote

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  Demand for big data specialists to soar over the next five years

  As one-third of large UK businesses plan to implement big data analytics programmes, demand for staff is set to rise to 69,000 jobs

• November 06, 2013 06 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

• November 05, 2013 05 Nov'13

  Business-defined storage will help reconnect businesses with IT, says Forrester

  Business-defined storage and datacentres will make IT more business-centric, according to Forrester

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Co-operative Bank’s future dependent on £500m IT investment

  Co-operative Bank has set aside £500m for four stage IT transformation as it attempts to stabilise after investors contribute to a £1.5bn rescue

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Teradata goes cost neutral in the cloud

  Teradata has announced that its database, analytics platform and applications will also be available in the cloud, initially in the US

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Fulham football club address skills shortfall with cloud database

  Fulham football club’s IT team moves its database infrastructure to the cloud with a database as a service implementation

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Seven day account switching-service fuels modest increase in activity

  The seven day account switching service launched last month has led to an 11% increase in the number of consumers switching accounts in the last month compared to last year.

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Case study: Pumps maker Hayward Tyler’s restructure sharpened ERP business focus

  When a restructure arrives half way through an ERP upgrade, it could be a threat to the IT programme. But Hayward Tyler saw it as a chance to ensure business goals were at the heart of its Epicor project.

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Businesses seek out data scientists to support big data initiatives

  A large number of businesses are recruiting data scientists in a bid to build up the right skills to support board-level big data initiatives

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Home Office e-borders programme still using pilot IT system from 2004

  Home Office yet to replace sacked Raytheon with new supplier for flagship programme to help protect UK borders

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Rugby Football Union uses analytics to educate and engage with users

  The RFU is introducing data analytics technologies for public use to encourage engagement with existing fans and education of the sport

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  CIO interview: Carlos Morgado, CTO, Just Eat

  Carlos Morgado, group CTO of online takeaway service Just Eat, discusses the company's move to public cloud

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Ministry of Defence upgrades Oracle HR and payroll system

  The Service Personnel and Veterans Agency of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has upgraded its Oracle HP and payroll system

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Executive interview: The significance of GPU accelerated Java

  Sumit Gupta general manager, Tesla GPU Accelerated Computing at Nvidia discusses general purpose GPU applications

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Tesco takes a multi-channel approach to customer experience

  Tesco has been using an array of Oracle technology, including its customer experience (CX) portfolio to turn the company in a multi-channel retailer

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle launches database as a service

  Oracle continues to extend its cloud offering at OpenWorld 2013 by launching its database as a service (DaaS) offering

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle is serious about the cloud as it launches ten services

  Oracle launches 10 cloud services, as well as a cloud marketplace, to prove its commitment to the cloud

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle Open World 2013: Oracle launches in-memory database search

  Oracle has launched an in-memory version of its database which promises 100-times faster query processing.

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Incorporating big data lends competitive edge, says Intel

  Only 15% of firms are fully exploiting big data, Doug Fisher, general manager of software and services at Intel, told Oracle OpenWorld 2013

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  DECC names IT suppliers for smart meter project

  The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has announced the IT suppliers that will provide the technology to underpin smart meters

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013 European update: Oracle extends cloud

  Oracle is continuing to drive forward its cloud operations in Europe

• September 23, 2013 23 Sep'13

  Two-thirds of CIOs have big data on agenda

  Big data has not gone beyond the planning stage for over 92% of CIOs according to research from Gartner

• September 20, 2013 20 Sep'13

  Data analytics at MoD could save money and lives, says report

  Applying big data analytics at the MoD could save money and lives, says a report by the Royal United Services Institute

• September 19, 2013 19 Sep'13

  Software licences drive Oracle revenue, but hardware takes a hit

  A drop in hardware sales dragged down Oracle’s revenue in its Q1 financial results, but software revenue increased

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  BMW gears up IT resilience with private cloud infrastructure

  After testing and validating its own private cloud services, BMW's IT team is ready to use it in production

• September 18, 2013 18 Sep'13

  MPs brand NHS National Programme for IT a 'fiasco' as posthumous costs rise

  The now-axed NHS National Programme for IT (NPfIT) is still incurring significant costs following the failure of the government IT project

• September 10, 2013 10 Sep'13

  Barclays reception IT system falls over globally

  Barclays' reception administration system has been down for almost two days, with no sign of when it is set to get fixed

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  Rubber and plastics converter Miers chooses Business One on Hana

  LJA Miers, a family-run company that turns rubber and plastic into gaskets and seals, has chosen SAP’s Business One, running on the supplier’s in-memory database Hana, to re-cast its business

• August 28, 2013 28 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

• August 27, 2013 27 Aug'13

  Case study: Seadrill migrates in-house datacentre to virtual private cloud in six months

  Offshore drilling company Seadrill moved its in-house datacentre in Norway to HP's virtual private cloud infrastructure in the UK in six months

• August 05, 2013 05 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

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

  Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud