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• July 26, 2013 26 Jul'13

  Newport Council predicts £500,000 five-year savings from ‘Save time, go online’ scheme

  Newport City Council sees cost savings and customer service improvements with its online services programme

• July 25, 2013 25 Jul'13

  Banks speeding recruitment to get best talent

  Some banks are taking advantage of the slow recruitment processes of competitors to get the best IT professionals in the market.

• July 19, 2013 19 Jul'13

  Remote access a priority for latest Oracle patch update

  The vulnerabilities that allow for remote unauthenticated access should be a priority for administrators applying the latest Oracle Critical Patch Update

• July 09, 2013 09 Jul'13

  CERN rolls out Oracle IT management

  CERN is using Oracle enterprise IT management software to monitor and manage its Oracle applications, middleware, databases and hardware

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved

  Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Time is running out to make business systems Sepa compliant

  Only 2.5% of direct debit payments and 45% of credit transfers are compliant with the Sepa standard required by February, says Experian

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

  Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Buyer beware: Millions lost from rip-off software licences

  Software buyers are vulnerable to exploitation due to the demise of traditional user groups combined with aggressive sales targets

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Ocado delivers with in-house software development

  Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  HMRC gets £200m in digital services investment

  HMRC's digital services to receive £200m of government investment, in a move expected to save £51m year on administrative costs

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Proprietary software a trap, says Hadoop founder Doug Cutting

  Hadoop founder Doug Cutting believes enterprises have woken to the benefits of open source software, but says Europe is behind with adoption

• June 26, 2013 26 Jun'13

  Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software: Winners

  The winners of the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Enterprise Software have been announced. See who made the top spots

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Oracle offers enterprise software on Azure and Hyper-V

  Microsoft and Oracle form an alliance to enable Oracle software to run on Hyper-V and Windows Azure infrastructure

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  TechEd Europe 2013: Microsoft releases preview version of Windows Server 2012 R2

  Microsoft has released the preview software for Windows Server 2012 R2, System Center 2012 R2 and SQL Server 2014 at TechEd Europe 2013

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Teradata executives discuss big data, in-memory computing and data science

  Stephen Brobst and Martin Willcox offer insight into Teradata’s world view as big data gains momentum

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Reiss sees online sales increase after implementing Capture+ address finder

  Reiss chose Capture+ for its online check-out address finder and saw an increase in sales and delivery rates following its implementation

• June 25, 2013 25 Jun'13

  Silicon Valley ‘forgets the rest of the world exists'

  San Francisco entrepreneur claims Silicon Valley forgets it is building products for the whole world, not just tech geeks in the Bay Area

• June 24, 2013 24 Jun'13

  Barclays changes terms and conditions to harness big data

  Barclays Bank is to use customer data to innovate around customer services and provide insights to business customers

• June 21, 2013 21 Jun'13

  Oracle’s 2013 revenue flat, operating profitability up

  Oracle’s end of fiscal year 2013 revenues of $37bn were flat compared with 2012, but the supplier indicated a record operating margin of 47%

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Daimler moving IT in-house

  Daimler is planning to make savings of €150m a year by bringing IT services in-house and expanding its IT operations in India and Turkey

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  IBM and 10Gen collaborate on database standard for enterprise mobile

  IBM and 10Gen are to work together on a database development standard for mobile enterprise applications

• June 07, 2013 07 Jun'13

  Ceva Logistics builds solid relationship offshore

  Ceva Logistics made a quick decision to outsource IT to India in 2008 and had its first offshore IT staff up and running in weeks

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Dell bets on Oracle alliance and converged infrastructure

  Dell has expanded its strategic alliance with Oracle for a new x86 infrastructure product and launched converged infrastructure products.

• June 05, 2013 05 Jun'13

  Irish Life migrates mainframe workload onto Windows

  Insurer Irish Life has migrated 97% of its mainframe workload onto a Windows server environment to save costs and support expansion

• June 04, 2013 04 Jun'13

  Warner Brothers tracks films to screens with FileMaker

  Every country in Europe has a George Clooney. Warner Brothers needs to know who the local dubbing actors are in each of 52 territories

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  SAP leaders bang the drum for Hana as a platform

  SAP executives are positioning the supplier’s in-memory database as a pivotal technology, not just an end in itself

• May 23, 2013 23 May'13

  Interview: Government CTO Liam Maxwell

  Government CTO Liam Maxwell has driven Whitehall’s IT agenda for years, previously as deputy government CIO and director of ICT futures

• May 17, 2013 17 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Plattner, Sikka hail HANA growth beyond SAP

  In-memory database platform HANA is growing beyond SAP, with 431 startups building on it, Hasso Plattner and Vishal Sikka said at Sapphire 2013

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  IBM to support Thames Water's big data strategy

  Thames Water has earmarked investments in big data analytics as part of its next five-year investment programme, with IBM contracted to support it.

• May 16, 2013 16 May'13

  CSC returns to profitability

  Beleaguered software firm CSC has returned to profitability in its full year results, posting operating profits of $900m (£600m) compared with losses of $1.36bn for the previous year 2011-12.

• May 15, 2013 15 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: Business Suite on HANA goes to general availability

  Jim Hagemann Snabe, co-CEO of SAP, has announced the general availability of HANA on its Business Suite ERP software at Sapphire 2013 in Orlando

• May 14, 2013 14 May'13

  Sapphire 2013: SAP declares for cloud expansion, on back of Hana

  SAP has announced a widening of the cloud delivery of its enterprise technologies

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Sainsbury’s outsources banking following £248m deal with Lloyds

  Sainsbury's Bank is embarking on a project to move its customers off the systems of Lloyds Banking Group

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  SAP introduces HANA to cloud at ‘petabyte scale’

  SAP has announced an enterprise cloud service, based on its in-memory database appliance, HANA

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  Investors sue HP for $1bn over Autonomy deal

  HP investors have launched a class action lawsuit over the company’s botched acquisition of UK software firm Autonomy for $11.7bn in 2011

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Progress made on Lloyds Bank's Project Verde segregation

  Lloyds Banking Group has reported good progress in its project to enable the systems for the new standalone TSB bank which will be sold off when complete

• April 11, 2013 11 Apr'13

  Cambridge University Hospitals signs £137m deal with HP

  Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) has signed a £137m deal with HP for its eHospital Program

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  How to make the most of corporate data

  IT departments focus on structured data but miss the needs of almost half their employees, says CEB managing director Andrew Horne

• April 05, 2013 05 Apr'13

  British Library archives the web

  The British Library is to archive 4.8 million UK websites and one billion web pages, following statutory changes to copyright legislation

• April 04, 2013 04 Apr'13

  Bank legacy systems will remain until CIO life expectancy increases

  CIOs at banks lack the job security required to transform IT through the replacement of legacy systems that have been in place for decades

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Patients and doctors must push for a paperless NHS, says Intellect report

  IT trade body Intellect says patients and doctors must undergo cultural change to realise government's ambition of a paperless NHS by 2018

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Government must address digital divide, says NAO

  Despite the public appetite for greater digital public services, government must start putting its plans into action to address the ‘digital divide’, according to a National Audit Office report.

• March 27, 2013 27 Mar'13

  NoSQL database firms step up attack on relational in UK and Europe

  NoSQL suppliers DataStax, CouchBase and 10Gen seek to expand on European territory, sensing a weakening of the relational model

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Southern Water contracts TCS for transformation

  Southern Water is transforming customer service and revenue management through IT services from Tata Consultancy Services

• March 14, 2013 14 Mar'13

  IDA services put on ice for Universal Credit delivery

  The DWP's Universal Credit programme is unlikely to use identity assurance services

• March 13, 2013 13 Mar'13

  Software suppliers have local authorities over a barrel, says CIO

  Local authorities are faced with a choice of either forking out for costly software licence upgrades or keeping staff, says Geoff Connell, CIO

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Hardware fault causes more RBS service outages

  RBS and NatWest customers experienced disruptions to online and telephone banking services after hardware fault.

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  MP adamant Universal Credit IT suppliers told to down tools

  Universal Credit IT contractors have been told to down tools, says Stephen Timms, Labour MP for East Ham

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

  "Universal credit contractors told to down tools," claim MPs

• February 20, 2013 20 Feb'13

  Accenture consortium bags EC Visa system deal

  Accenture is leading a consortium of suppliers to maintain the IT system integrating national border controls across Europe

• February 19, 2013 19 Feb'13

  Are universities ready for influx of overseas students?

  If Indian students take up David Cameron’s open invitation to study in the UK, universities will need to ensure their visa processing systems are adequate

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Pitchford to head-up Universal Credit programme

  David Pitchford, executive director of Major Projects Authority heads up the Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Southwest One outsourcing achieves 10% of target savings

  Somerset council's Southwest One outsourcing venture achieved just 10% of the savings initially targeted half way through the programme

• February 12, 2013 12 Feb'13

  Beware of Oracle's Fusion Application plans

  Businesses are avoiding Oracle’s Fusion strategy according to research from Forrester. CIOs should be wary of the supplier's long-term plans.

• February 06, 2013 06 Feb'13

  NHS databases must be improved, urges report

  NHS information systems must be improved to prevent malpractice, a report has urged

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  SAP certifies Dell datacentre systems to run Hana

  SAP has certified Dell datacentre products – including servers, storage and networking systems – for running Hana as a pre-integrated system

• January 24, 2013 24 Jan'13

  Chris Chant calls for government IT heads to step down

  Outspoken former government IT reformer Chris Chant has called for the resignation of the Cabinet Office's Stephen Kelly and Bill Crothers

• January 23, 2013 23 Jan'13

  European bank IT investment lags US and Asia-Pacific equivalents

  Banks in Asia-Pacific and North America will increase their IT spending significantly more than those in Europe

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Defra plans £80m agile CAP system

  The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is planning a single integrated £80m Common Agricultural Policy system

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  G-Cloud powers Huddle’s public sector sales growth

  Cloud collaboration firm Huddle saw its public sector sales double to 30% of all revenues this year due to uptake generated through the CloudStore

• January 18, 2013 18 Jan'13

  European bank IT transformations optimistic or unrealistic

  IT transformation projects at European banks exceed budgets because early success stories lead to additional scope

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Betting site YouWin speeds response times with MongoDB database

  Bookmaker WinUnited has deployed a MongoDB open source non-relational database from 10gen to help it better update betting odds in real time

• January 16, 2013 16 Jan'13

  Oracle adds on-premise IaaS to its private cloud portfolio

  Oracle IaaS allows customers to use cloud features such as capacity on demand within the security and control of its in-house datacentre

• January 14, 2013 14 Jan'13

  G-Cloud procurement launches latest tendering process

  Government has launched the next iteration of the G-Cloud procurement process, with the framework expected to go live at the end of March

• January 14, 2013 14 Jan'13

  Post Office announces amnesty for Horizon evidence

  The Post Office is calling for evidence from people who have used the Horizon IT system which some have blamed for accounting discrepancies

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Are software audits good for your health?

  The Business Software Alliance's claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers is a wake-up call to CIOs

• January 07, 2013 07 Jan'13

  Parliamentary commission calls for electrified banking ring fence

  A parliamentary report on plans to separate retail and investment banking calls for legislation to prevent breaches of the ring fence

• January 03, 2013 03 Jan'13

  Government targets £600m savings through shared services

  The government aims to save £600m per year through its Next Generation Shared Services Strategic Plan

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  IT problems cause Lloyds ATM outage, again

  Lloyds customers were unable to withdraw money from cash machines and complete debit card transactions on New Year’s eve, as the banking group was once again beset with IT problems.

• December 31, 2012 31 Dec'12

  Top 10 retail IT stories of 2012

  Retailers have had another rocky year with more high street closures piling up, while online spend continued to enjoy double digit growth. As consumer spending remained stagnant, companies looked to their digital channels to bolster sales.

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Hospitals to implement child protection database to log children who visit A&E

  The Department of Health is introducing a £9m child protection information system to log children who visit A&E in hospitals

• December 17, 2012 17 Dec'12

  Bank IT should play earlier compliance role, says think tank

  Financial services organisations could streamline regulatory compliance by involving IT in the process earlier, according to think tank JWG-IT

• December 14, 2012 14 Dec'12

  There is more to IT than BYOD

  CIOs should stop worrying about BYOD according to analyst Gartner. Instead they should focus on technology transformation.

• December 11, 2012 11 Dec'12

  Housing group GreenSquare cuts costs with GIS tool

  Housing group GreenSquare has improved efficiency and cut costs by using a geographical information system (GIS)

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  HMRC admits RTI budget overrun

  HMRC has run over budget with its Real Time Information (RTI) system, the PAYE system crucial to the roll-out of Universal Credit next year

• December 05, 2012 05 Dec'12

  Unilever prepares for global HANA roll-out

  Consumer goods giant Unilever is looking at how it can optimise its global operations using SAP’s HANA in-memory database

• December 04, 2012 04 Dec'12

  VocaLink uses Precise to keep Oracle and Java optimal

  Payment processor VocaLink is using Precise application performance management tools to make faster payments run smoothly

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  HMRC slammed for 'undue complacency' on RTI systems

  Report labels HMRC “unduly complacent” about the roll-out of the Real Time Information (RTI) system crucial to the Universal Credit programme

• December 03, 2012 03 Dec'12

  Open Data Institute receives first £750,000 investment

  The Open Data Institute (ODI), which opens this week, has received its first investment of $750,000

• November 30, 2012 30 Nov'12

  The Ministry of Defence signs software deal with IBM

  The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a deal with IBM to provide greater insight into the management of its £22.5bn property portfolio.

• November 29, 2012 29 Nov'12

  British Film Institute to launch version of the iPlayer

  The British Film Institute (BFI) is to launch its own version of the BBC's iPlayer in digitisation plans to give millions access to its film archive

• November 15, 2012 15 Nov'12

  Cyber security will change ideas of the nation state, says Stonesoft

  The lack of cyber security is a major threat to the civilised world and will change how people see the nation state, says security firm Stonesoft

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  Interview: Accenture's in-memory data guru, Alexander Zeier

  Alexander Zeier, co-designer of SAP's HANA appliance, speaks to Computer Weekly about the evolution of in-memory analytics

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  NHS reiterates commitment to digitise patient records by 2015

  The Department of Health has reiterated its commitment to get all patient records online by 2015

• November 14, 2012 14 Nov'12

  SAP builds on cloud strategy with Financials OnDemand

  SAP has introduced its first cloud-based financial application for the enterprise, based on the company's Hana in-memory database system

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  Pensions watchdog signs G-Cloud deal

  The government’s Pensions Ombudsman has signed a deal for a case management system via the G-Cloud.

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  Capgemini reduces consultancy charges

  Capgemini has lowered pricing in its consulting and local professional services businesses, according to its latest quarter results.

• November 07, 2012 07 Nov'12

  University Hospitals Birmingham reorganises case notes with EMC Documentum

  UHB reduces paper work and organises patient data into one central location through EMC Documentum

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  Government confirms digitisation plans in Digital Strategy

  The government has confirmed its plans to save billions of pounds per year by digitising transactions in the publication of its Digital Strategy

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  EDF blames system upgrade for customer complaint failures

  EDF blames a system upgrade for failing to handle customer complaints to standard, but says it will resolve the issue by the end of the year

• November 05, 2012 05 Nov'12

  Government could save £1.8bn digitising transactions

  Government Digital Service hopes to save £1.8bn per year moving to online services, according to draft Digital Strategy seen by Computer Weekly.

• November 02, 2012 02 Nov'12

  RBS pays customers extra £50m for IT failure

  The IT failure that struck Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in June will cost more than expected as customers are paid an extra £50m compensation

• October 31, 2012 31 Oct'12

  Government dips toe in water for single ERP

  The government is to test the feasibility of moving to a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform across Whitehall

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  Teradata brings big data into the SQL family

  Teradata addresses the issue of combining unstructured, semi-structured and traditional row-and-column data warehousing in a single architecture.

• October 30, 2012 30 Oct'12

  UK datacentres are not ready for big data impact shows study

  UK datacentres are not prepared for the changes that big data will bring, a study of 125 senior IT decision makers revealed

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Big data could transform staff management

  Data analytics has the potential to help businesses make dramatic returns by managing their workforce more effectively

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Businesses invest in learning management systems to reskill staff 

  Businesses are stepping up their investment in sophisticated IT systems to manage the training and development of their workforce

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Windows 8 OS is available now – but is it the right choice for your business?

  Windows 8 combines a desktop operating system (OS) with tablet-touch functionality, which will bring benefits to some organisations - but not all

• October 22, 2012 22 Oct'12

  Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority upgrades storage for database

  Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority upgrades its storage infrastructure for web-based data-management system Philis