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• 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

  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 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 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 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 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

• 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 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 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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?

• 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

• 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 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

• 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 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 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

• 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

• 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

  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