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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  Sage Summit 2015: The move to cloud technology and the death of ERP

  Accountancy software firm Sage has released new cloud-based software, highlighting the gap between the use of cloud and on-premise in the workplace and declaring a move away from traditional ERP

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  NHS Central Southern deploys Clarizen for collaboration

  The NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit has enlisted Clarizen to improve cross-group collaboration and improve efficiency

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

  The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Manchester City group joins forces with SAP to further global goals

  The City Football Group, which includes Manchester City, has teamed up with SAP to further its global development goals

• 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

  Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

  Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications

• 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

• June 16, 2015 16 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Alan Jensen, Dansk Supermarked

  Danske Supermarked is moving to an omni-channel model, and the CIO must ensure IT and business departments are on the journey together

• May 15, 2015 15 May'15

  Rentokil opens up core IT systems to business

  The IT department at Rentokil Initial has delivered coding interfaces to its back-end ERP system to enable the business to create new applications

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, vice-president of information systems at Reckitt Benckiser

  Seven months after taking charge of IT at Reckitt Benckiser, Darrell Stein is pushing ahead with a strategy to increase digital revenues

• April 09, 2015 09 Apr'15

  InfoVista buys Ipanema to boost application performance offer

  Network management supplier InfoVista buys application and network performance firm Ipanema to realise software-defined WAN ambitions

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  KPMG teams up with Microsoft to boost enterprise cloud adoption

  Advisory firm to draw on Microsoft technologies to deliver cloud-based data analytics, and business transformation services to clients

• March 18, 2015 18 Mar'15

  Satya Nadella: Every business will be a software business

  Digitisation may the buzzword business leaders are trying to grasp, but Microsoft has begun its journey to build a digitisation product portfolio

• February 16, 2015 16 Feb'15

  Infosys acquires Panaya for automation

  Infosys continues its move to non-linear business models through the acquisition of US automation software maker Panaya for $200m

• 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 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?

  Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing

• December 24, 2014 24 Dec'14

  Quiksilver expands e-commerce and sees 65% increase in revenue

  Sports brand Quiksilver has seen a 65% increase in revenue after expanding its cloud-based e-commerce platform

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  IBM named as supplier for NHS HR replacement system

  IBM has been named as the preferred supplier for the new NHS electronic staff record (ESR) project

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  CIO Interview: Dustan Steer, IT director, Ted Baker

  Dustan Steer, IT director for clothes brand Ted Baker, talks about upgrading the company's enterprise resource planning system

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Drinks maker Edrington outsources SAP enterprise resource planning operation to Atos

  Glasgow-based distiller Edrington outsources its ERP development, support and hosting to IT services firm Atos

• 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

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

  Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis

• 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 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

  Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  CIO interview: Dave Ubachs, CIO, Staples Europe

  Staples is undertaking major IT projects in Europe that will see e-commerce improvements and back-end consolidation in 16 countries

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  IFS reports 13% increase in first half software licence revenue

  IFS, the Sweden-based ERP company has reported half-year licence revenue growth of 13%

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Blender maker adds ServiceNow ITSM to business mix

  Blender maker Vitamix has rolled out its ServiceNow IT service management (ITSM) beyond the improvement of its IT operation by automating tasks across the business.

• June 27, 2014 27 Jun'14

  Roadchef exits IBM Global Services for direct supplier relationships

  Motorway services firm Roadchef ended an outsourcing deal with IBM Global Services when its IT was up for refresh and moved to SAP

• June 23, 2014 23 Jun'14

  Oracle set to boost retail business with $5bn Micros acquisition

  Oracle is expected to acquire internet-enabled point-of sale-specialist Micros

• June 12, 2014 12 Jun'14

  Can Salesforce.com re-engineer business IT?

  With 1.5 million developers and a new focus on industry solutions, is Salesforce.com a business platform?

• 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

• April 07, 2014 07 Apr'14

  CIO interview: Leandro Balbinot, global CIO, HJ Heinz

  Food giant HJ Heinz is gearing up to expand its international presence with a technology modernisation programme encompassing 23 countries

• 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 14, 2014 14 Mar'14

  Interview: Charles Phillips, CEO, Infor

  Charles Phillips is at a critical point in his role at Infor. Over the past three years as CEO he has invested heavily in overhauling the company's enterprise software

• February 25, 2014 25 Feb'14

  Flexibility and integration drove NatWest Microsoft Dynamics migration

  NatWest Business Banking selected Microsoft Dynamics CRM when it realised it needed full CRM capability

• February 19, 2014 19 Feb'14

  Essex CC sets upon IT transformation project after £16.6m deal with Fujitsu

  Essex County Council has partnered with Fujitsu as part of a £16.6m deal to transform its corporate systems estate

• 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 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 22, 2014 22 Jan'14

  CIO interview: The challenge of delivering IT in a refugee camp

  The United Nations (UN) looks after 58 million refugees. Naginder Kaur Dhanoa, CIO of the UN High Commission for Refugees speaks about the challenges

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Nokia Solutions Networks HR rejects best of breed for best of platform

  Nokia Solutions and Networks has chosen a ‘best of platform’ approach for its global HR programme in the wake of a reduction in staff from around 80,000 to 50,000, consequent to a restructure in 2011

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Where is Satyam now? Well, it’s not Satyam for a start

  Satyam, which was rescued from collapse in 2009, has plans for restoring its position as a top-tier Indian IT services provider

• November 22, 2013 22 Nov'13

  Jaguar Land Rover builds data sharing infrastructure

  Jaguar Landrover (JLR) has used a proposed data sharing standard to improve car development within its product lifecycle management (PLM) system.

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Gartner Symposium: GE Capital reassesses supplier strategy

  Financial services business GE Capital, is rethink its strategy for selecting strategic suppliers, in a bid to boost innovation within IT

• 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

  John Chen agrees to steer BlackBerry survival strategy

  CEO Thorsten Heins resigns from BlackBerry board as the ailing firm gets a $1bn cash injection from Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd

• 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.