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• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  Hitachi to launch six innovation solutions in next six months

  Hitachi shares plans of its six systems set for announcement over the next six months

• November 02, 2014 02 Nov'14

  Technology is changing society's values, says Hitachi

  Social, mobile, analytics and cloud technologies are causing a shift in society says Hitachi’s executive officer

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  Home Office to waste £1bn on immigration system IT

  Immigration system IT failures will cost tax payers £1bn and are causing a continued backlog of cases

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Met Police trials analytics to fight gang crime

  The Metropolitan Police is experimenting with analytics software to help predict which criminals are likely to re-offend

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  CIO interview: David Johnstone of Martin Currie Investment Management

  The head of solutions management at the asset management firm discusses IT projects and the changing role of IT leaders

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Hitachi Data Systems ploughs ahead with social innovation plans

  Hitachi Innovation Forum expects 16,000 delegates to share user cases on how technology is making society safer

• October 26, 2014 26 Oct'14

  How big data, mobile and cloud are fighting Ebola in Sierra Leone

  IBM applies data analytics, mobile technology and cloud computing to help fight the Ebola outbreak in West Africa

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Arrays cost councils four times more than software-defined storage

  Nexenta finds UK councils spend around £1,200 per terabyte on storage arrays – four times more than on storage software

• October 22, 2014 22 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Ernest Gmünder, Touring Club Suisse

  Ernest Gmünder is turning his expertise as a CIO into a consultancy business, offering advice to businesses that want to get more from their IT

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Data scientist demand evident in applications to new course

  Data scientist post-graduate course at City University London takes on three times more students than expected

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Tennis coaches get on-court data insights from SAP

  Tennis coaches can give players details on their performance during games through an SAP-based mobile app

• October 14, 2014 14 Oct'14

  SAP and IBM collaborate to deliver Hana on IBM cloud

  SAP has extended its long-standing partnership with IBM by running SAP Hana Enterprise Cloud on IBM's cloud platform

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  CIO interview: Andy Wolfe, CIO, Shop Direct

  Technology occupies centre stage at Shop Direct as the retail giant pursues its goal of becoming a "world-class digital retailer"

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  PernixData adds RAM pools to FVP flash caching software

  Flash caching software maker PernixData adds the ability to create cache pools from server RAM

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  Public shared service cuts costs and improves operations

  Kent's Fire and Rescue and police force's shared command and control system saves costs and improves operations

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Oracle clocks $475m in cloud services for 2014-15 first quarter

  Oracle's Q1 2014-15 revenues were up 3% to $8.6bn, but GAAP net profit was flat at $2.2bn and non-GAAP was up 2% at $2.8bn

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  Larry Ellison leaves Oracle CEO job to Hurd, Catz

  Oracle’s Larry Elllison has resigned as chief executive after 35 years at the helm of the company he co-founded in 1977

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Big data security analytics still immature, say security experts

  The big data security analytics concept and the tools are still immature, according to a panel of security experts

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  NHS England informatics head wants more CCIOs

  NHS England director wants to see a chief clinical information officer in every NHS provider and clinical commissioning group

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

  Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications

• August 29, 2014 29 Aug'14

  Tesco to reduce IT spend in a bid to cut costs

  Supermarket giant Tesco has announced that it will be cutting costs from its IT budget to save money

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Can IT change the course of history? The story of Graham Tottle, the IT guy trapped in Iraq

  Rarely does an IT worker affect history, but in 1990 Graham Tottle was in Saddam Hussein’s HQ at the start of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait

• August 22, 2014 22 Aug'14

  Banks are not contemplating core system replacement

  European banks are maintaining rather than replacing core banking IT, in spite of recent, high profile failures in such systems

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Office Depot uses Teradata Active EDW to perform real-time data analytics

  Office Depot is using data warehousing technology from Teradata to do real-time data analytics

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Universal Credit uptake slows to lowest since infancy

  The rollout of the Department of Work and Pension’s (DWP) troubled Universal Credit system has slowed to its lowest uptake since its infancy

• August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14

  Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

  The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Government breaks grip of IT oligopoly

  Figures for public sector software and IT services investments reveal a dwindling share for IT giants, but can the oligopoly be removed?

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  Reducing costs no longer top IT priority at UK banks

  UK banks no longer consider reducing costs as their top priority as they focus IT developments on raising customer service levels

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  HP sues former Autonomy CFO

  HP is suing Autonomy's former chief financial officer, Sushovan Hussain, for his part in the 2011 acquisition of the UK software company

• August 05, 2014 05 Aug'14

  NHS develops shared framework to reduce cost of buying clinical data systems

  NHS Shared Business Services has developed a framework to help NHS trusts reduce the time and cost of procuring clinical data systems

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Royal Free Hospital digitises legacy patient medical records

  Royal Free teaching hospital in London has digitised 750,000 legacy case notes which contain patient medical records

• July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14

  Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

  A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed

• July 22, 2014 22 Jul'14

  NAO reveals Home Office spent £347m on failed ICW programme

  The Home Office spent £347m closing its Immigration Case Work programme, which was supposed to replace legacy databases

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Microsoft makes severe job cuts - 18,000 to go

  Microsoft is cutting 18,000 jobs next year with Nokia bearing the brunt of the company’s strategy

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  SAP Q2 2014: steady growth for cloud and Hana

  SAP’s second quarter 2014 results indicate steady growth for its cloud business and Hana

• July 16, 2014 16 Jul'14

  Vocalink system drives rise in current account switching

  The seven-day current account switching regime introduced last year has driven a 16% rise in the number of people doing so in the first half of this year

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  Bank branches being used more despite online services surge

  Customers' use of bank branches is increasing in parallel with the surging take-up of online banking services, according to research

• 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