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Database software
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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.
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October 08, 2012
08
Oct'12
How French Connection automated stock replenishment to cut costs
Fashion retailer French Connection cut costs by deploying a stock replenishment automation system
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October 05, 2012
05
Oct'12
Payment errors could undermine Sepa advantages
European firms might lose billions of Euros through payment errors when the Single European Payments Area comes into force in 2014
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September 19, 2012
19
Sep'12
Government spends £638m on universal credit IT, says minister Mark Hoban
Government has spent £638m on universal credit IT, with £441m going on design and development, employment minister Mark Hoban reveals
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September 17, 2012
17
Sep'12
E.ON outsources applications to Capgemini
Utility giant E.ON has outsourced application services to Capgemini as part of a five-year restructure of its IT services in a deal worth about €50m
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September 17, 2012
17
Sep'12
DWP hits back at criticism over Universal Credit IT systems
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has hit back at calls to delay its flagship Universal Credit scheme because of IT concerns
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September 11, 2012
11
Sep'12
Allianz signs deal for customer database technology
Insurance company Allianz has signed a deal for a database system it expects will create millions in sales by creating a single customer view (SCV)
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August 20, 2012
20
Aug'12
More than 1,000 school application details leaked on the internet
Personal information about more than 1,000 children has been published on the UK Independent Schools Guide website after an alleged cyber attack
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August 09, 2012
09
Aug'12
NHS sees £100m reduction in exposure to CSC contracts
The Department for Health’s financial exposure to its contracts with troubled supplier CSC have decreased by £100m in just three months.
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July 31, 2012
31
Jul'12
Interview: Denise McDonagh, government G-cloud director
Denise McDonagh talks about the challenges of the G-cloud programme and how the government is reducing dependence on large outsourcers.
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June 21, 2012
21
Jun'12
Banks break with in-house software in move to commercial systems
Increased regulation, reduced profits and customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with off-the-shelf alternatives
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June 19, 2012
19
Jun'12
Oracle reports strong profit growth
Oracle reported an 8% increase in profits on a 1% increase in sales for the fourth quarter of its 2012 financial year
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June 18, 2012
18
Jun'12
Asian scientists call for government action on supercomputers
Scientists in India, China, Japan, Korea and India have called on their governments to collaborate on supercomputer technology
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June 06, 2012
06
Jun'12
HP eyes EMC’s storage market
HP has released a StoreOnce data deduplication back-up system, which it claims can ingest data at 100TB per hour – three times faster than EMC’s recently launched Data Domain 990
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June 01, 2012
01
Jun'12
Microsoft softens July licence blow
Microsoft has lowered the price hike planned for July, but businesses still face paying up to 25% more for their software.
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May 31, 2012
31
May'12
William Grant & Sons opens datacentre for ERP consolidation
Distiller William Grant & Sons opens a UK datacentre to consolidate its global ERP operation
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May 23, 2012
23
May'12
Overrun in big IT projects leads to one in three failures
One-third of big IT projects are likely to get derailed after they have been running for two years, according to research.
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May 10, 2012
10
May'12
Troubled RPA systems to be replaced by 2015
The Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is to roll out a new payments system for the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) by 2015
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May 03, 2012
03
May'12
European copyright ruling good for IT innovation, say lawyers
The top European court's ruling on copyright is good news for innovation, say lawyers
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May 01, 2012
01
May'12
Open Data Center Alliance focuses on big data collaboration
The Open Data Center Alliance, a group of 12 major IT users, is collaborating with industry on big data architectures
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April 27, 2012
27
Apr'12
Amazon results demonstrate commitment to cloud
Amazon's AWS cloud business made $500m in sales in the first quarter of 2012, comprising 3.79% of Amazon's Q1 business
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April 25, 2012
25
Apr'12
SAP reports double-digit growth
SAP has continued where it left off last year with an 11% increase in sales in the first three months of 2012.
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April 20, 2012
20
Apr'12
BBC wants to build a cultural API
With over 80 years of cultural information in its archive, the BBC is looking at making programme metadata available
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April 19, 2012
19
Apr'12
IT staff lack understanding to succeed with big data
IT professionals lack the skills to truly understand the big data opportunity for business and government
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March 19, 2012
19
Mar'12
Case Study: US Xpress deploys hybrid big data with Informatica
US Xpress is using a suite of data tools and integration products from Informatica to boost its fleet management
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February 10, 2012
10
Feb'12
Government takes on proprietary software lobby in open standards battle
The government wants to push through open standards against vested interests keen to maintain the dominance of proprietary systems.
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January 30, 2012
30
Jan'12
Oracle and SAP worst for government ERP cost differences
Oracle and SAP have been singled out as having the most inconsistent prices for ERP systems across government departments.
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January 17, 2012
17
Jan'12
Oracle integrates data management with Sun servers
Oracle is tackling the challenge of data management by providing pre-integrated systems based on Sun hardware.
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January 11, 2012
11
Jan'12
European river managers delve into new knowledge management system
The UK’s Environment Agency has procured a semantic wiki based knowledge management (KM) system to aid river restoration across Europe.
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January 06, 2012
06
Jan'12
Why CIOs must get a handle on their data woes
Businesses are only making use of 5% of the data they collect, according to Forrester Research.
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December 08, 2011
08
Dec'11
UKtech50: Meet Mike Lynch, the most influential person in UK IT
Mike Lynch, voted as the most influential person in UK IT, doesn’t like to think about challenges, but about opportunities.
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December 05, 2011
05
Dec'11
'Big data' technologies emerge to battle large, complex data sets
‘Big data’ technologies that allow the storage, management and analysis of big data are on stream: NoSQL, Hadoop, MapReduce. Mark Whitehorn explains the reasons for their emergence and how they work.
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December 05, 2011
05
Dec'11
SAP buys SaaS firm SuccessFactors in $3.4bn deal
Enterprise software company SAP announces a $3.4bn deal to acquire software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider SuccessFactors.
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November 14, 2011
14
Nov'11
CIO Interview: IT should drive company innovation, says SAP's Oliver Bussmann
Driving innovation has become one of the key roles of the chief information officer, says Oliver Bussmann, CIO at business software maker SAP.
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October 27, 2011
27
Oct'11
Analysis: What is the secret sauce in SAP's success?
The last major upgrade to SAP's core enterprise resource planning (ERP) product was released in 2005, so how is the company achieving record growth? Warwick Ashford reports
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October 26, 2011
26
Oct'11
John McCarthy, father of Artificial Intelligence and creator of LISP language, dies aged 84
The artificial intelligence (AI) community is mourning the death of John McCarthy, the US scientist who invented the LISP computer language at the heart of this field of study.
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August 15, 2011
15
Aug'11
Government must change the way it stores citizens' personal data, calls the EHRC
The government must bring in changes to better protect personal information, calls the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
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August 02, 2011
02
Aug'11
Tesco signs eight-year deal to use Microsoft products and services
Tesco has signed a software licensing and services deal with Microsoft aimed at helping improve the retail giant's global productivity and international growth.
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July 18, 2011
18
Jul'11
Government shelves Co-ordinated Online Record of Electors database to save £11m
The government has shelved plans to create a database of electoral information, in a move estimated to save £11m.
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June 22, 2011
22
Jun'11
European Commission gives green light to CSC acquisition of beleaguered iSoft
The European Commission (EC) has approved CSC's acquisition of healthcare software maker iSoft.
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June 22, 2011
22
Jun'11
Police National Database launched containing details of 15 million UK citizens
A national database to allow police forces to share locally held information across the country has been launched by the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA).
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April 21, 2011
21
Apr'11
National Archives scoops Queen’s Award for Enterprise
The National Archives has been awarded the Queen's Award for Enterprise - the first public sector body to receive the gong in more than ten years.
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April 13, 2011
13
Apr'11
Microsoft launches UK mapping service to rival Google Streetview
Starting in London, Microsoft has begun taking photographs of the UK for its street-level mapping service, Streetside.
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April 08, 2011
08
Apr'11
Facebook has launched a project to ‘open source’ its datacentre
In the spirit of open source software, Facebook says it wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry in its
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March 09, 2011
09
Mar'11
IT fails to curb anti-social behaviour
Information technology failures are a key reason why efforts to stamp out anti-social behaviour have failed for at least a decade....
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January 21, 2011
21
Jan'11
Organ donors preferences recorded inaccurately
The preferences of 444,031 organ donors were recorded wrongly on the Organ Donation Register (ODR) because of a software problem.
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January 05, 2011
05
Jan'11
BCS CEO David Clarke talks about the future of the IT industry
David Clarke, CEO of the chartered institute of computing the BCS, talks to Computer Weekly about being awarded an MBE, the future of the IT profession and tackling a membership revolt against his leadership last year.
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August 30, 2007
30
Aug'07
Critical flaw found in Oracle developer tool
A popular tool used by Oracle developers contains a critical flaw that could be used by an attacker to compromise a system.
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March 26, 2007
26
Mar'07
What are some of the biggest challenges with unstructured data?
By far, the volume of data has to be the biggest challenge...
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October 16, 2006
16
Oct'06
Oracle fixes 101 flaws
Attackers could exploit 45 of the 101 flaws remotely without a username or password. Meanwhile, the new CPU offers more detail on the number of flaws patched and their severity.