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Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  HSBC puts humanoid in New York branch

  HSBC has put its first humanoid member of staff into a branch role in New York City

• June 22, 2018 22 Jun'18

  IBM early findings on disastrous TSB core banking system migration released

  Report released by Treasury Committee criticises lack of rigour in preparation for core banking system migration, but TSB says report’s content is out of date

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Oracle full-year results show 6% growth, but cloud revenue opaque?

  Oracle’s full-year results for 2017-18 reveal total revenue of $39.8bn, up 6%, but reporting of cloud with on-premise revenue under “bring your own licence” policy has raised qualm over cloud weakness obfuscation

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  London wants to show it’s open for business in Tech Week 2018

  London Tech Week 2018 kicks off with attracting young people into tech a key theme

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  What SAP C/4 Hana means for the APAC enterprises

  The cloud-based CRM suite could find takers, but it may not be enticing enough for Salesforce.com CRM customers that also run SAP’s ERP software to make the switch

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Sapphire 2018: SAP will take over CRM market, says McDermott

  SAP’s chief executive Bill McDermott tells 2018 Sapphire conference the supplier will storm the CRM market with its C/4 Hana business applications suite

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Policy Exchange report calls for GDS to be moved to DCMS

  Think-tank wants Government Digital Service to create a “single digital government account” for citizens, and says bringing the organisation into the Department for Digital, Media, Culture and Sport will improve focus on “all aspects of digital ...

• May 24, 2018 24 May'18

  How AWS keeps its rivals at bay

  A relentless focus on building for customers and inking partnerships with enterprise software bigwigs while lowering prices has given AWS a leg-up over rivals in the ANZ market

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  NatWest fintech investments bear fruit as SME loans platform goes live

  Online lending platform enables small businesses to apply for loans of up to £150,000 in 10 minutes

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Nordic CIO interview: Helena Skarle, Handicare

  Swedish CIO believes more women might get the top IT jobs if organisations look beyond IT skills

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  TSB offers interest rate sweetener as IT issues continue at the bank

  TSB is offering customers higher interest rate to go towards making up for the problems its core banking system migration caused customers

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  IFS 18 Atlanta: CEO Roos asserts customer focus with upgraded ERP suite

  IFS uses 2018 world conference in Atlanta to launch upgrade of its enterprise resource planning suite, shepherded by new CEO Darren Roos

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  Gartner predicts AI will add $1.2tn to companies’ earnings in 2018

  Gartner has forecast that artificial intelligence will create $1.2 trillion in economic value in 2018, up 70% on 2017

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  SAP Q1 2018: Cloud revenue breaks €1bn, 400 more S/4 customers

  SAP’s overall first-quarter revenue was flat, but cloud revenue and profitability were up, while its S/4 Hana customer base stands at 8,300

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Russian energy giant makes digital tech adoption a priority

  Russian oil and gas giant Gazprom Neft is exploring the use of the latest digital technologies across its entire business

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Australia needs to plug innovation gap

  Being at the crossroads of technological change, Australia should decide if it wants to be a producer of cutting-edge applications or be contented with just being a user of technology

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Why Lufthansa went back to the drawing board with its HR IT project

  Aviation group says it is confident of landing a company-wide IT project following a sometimes turbulent journey

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  How to rightsize your digital strategy

  Don’t wait for a light-bulb moment. Small ideas are best, but businesses must also assess whether their IT is a speed bump, slowing down innovation

• April 03, 2018 03 Apr'18

  Oracle expands availability of cloud services from UK datacentre region

  Database giant claims expansion of UK datacentre region shows its commitment to customers

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  Shared services project is about user needs, not tech, says strategy director

  If you’re hoping for the government’s shared services strategy to “break revolutionary ground” in terms of tech, you’ll be disappointed. It’s about serving user needs – not tech – says its strategy director Andy Helliwell

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Case study: Stationery firm gets things moving with FTTP broadband voucher

  Nuco, a Midlands-based supplier of paper and stationery products, has improved its business agility and is moving its IT into the cloud thanks to the government’s full-fibre broadband connection voucher scheme

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  Oracle Q3 2017-18 results see cloud revenue grow to $1.6bn

  Oracle’s third-quarter results for fiscal year 2018 show an increase of almost 7% of overall revenue to $9.8bn, of which 18% was cloud

• March 20, 2018 20 Mar'18

  SAP at the core of S Group’s €100m IT renewal

  Finnish retailer S Group is putting SAP at the core of its IT transformation, which will be complete by 2021

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Watch out for digital legacy in manufacturing

  Digital twins are the next innovation in manufacturing, but will the file formats and hardware be around for as long as the assets being modelled?

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing

  A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Hershey’s outsources SAP roll-out to Accenture

  US chocolate maker has signed up Accenture to support its SAP Hana S/4 implementation

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Yorkshire Building Society implements cloud banking platform

  Yorkshire Building Society is using a cloud-based banking platform built on Salesforce.com to automate manual tasks

• February 28, 2018 28 Feb'18

  AI must develop for the greater good and cut government admin

  A group of experts explored the issues of UK policy and funding in artificial intelligence at a recent seminar in London. We report on the discussion

• February 22, 2018 22 Feb'18

  Hana and S/4 users more sophisticated but beset by licensing doubts

  Research sponsored by SAP consultancy Centiq finds SAP customers maturing their use of SAP Hana and S/4 Hana, but hindered by licensing concerns and dearth of skills

• February 13, 2018 13 Feb'18

  London joins Citibank IT innovation network

  Citibank has made London home to its latest IT innovation hub, which will focus on applying data science and high performance computing to the business

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  Oracle pushes automation beyond database to cloud services

  At Cloud World New York, Oracle announced the extension of its machine learning efforts to services in its cloud platform

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Google Q4 results show businesses are buying into its public cloud

  The Google Cloud Platform is earning the search engine giant $1bn per quarter. Expect more cloud investment this year

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  CIO interview: Aaron Powell, CDO, NHS Blood and Transplant

  NHS Blood and Transplant chief digital officer Aaron Powell explains why pushing a digital transformation agenda has a real impact on people’s lives

• February 02, 2018 02 Feb'18

  Faster data is a safer bet for risk exposure

  Betting platform service supplier FSB Technology (UK) has used GridGain’s in-memory database to support its existing PostgreSQL transactional system

• January 30, 2018 30 Jan'18

  SAP 2017 results: Cloud revenue nears €3.8bn, 7,900 S/4 Hana customers

  SAP has declared full year 2017 revenue of €23.5bn, of which nearly €2.8bn was cloud, alongside acquisition of Callidus, a cloud-based “lead to money” service

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

  The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis

• January 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Modern methodology gives Sweden’s 100-year-old SKF a digital push

  Long-established engineering company takes a leaf out of the startup guide to software development

• January 22, 2018 22 Jan'18

  2018 UK software budgets double for AI and blockchain

  Artificial intelligence and blockchain initiatives are earmarked for a doubling of investment, finds the Computer Weekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey for 2018

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Australia’s Citic Pacific Mining uses IoT to track vehicles

  Perth-based iron-ore mining giant has implemented an analytics and internet of things system from SAP to track its assets and shore up operational efficiency

• January 17, 2018 17 Jan'18

  Tech vital to helping solve crime, says policing minister

  Policing minister Nick Hurd calls on police forces across the UK to seize the opportunities brought by digital technologies

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  Financial savings just the beginning for CIOs who understand code quality

  Businesses need to understand the quality of the code in their applications if they are to avoid unnecessary costs and glitches

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  IT Priorities 2018: ANZ ups ante on cloud services and software

  Organisations in Australia and New Zealand are bullish on IT spending, particularly in cloud infrastructure services, cloud applications and all-flash storage arrays

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 enterprise IT in the Nordics stories in 2017

  The Nordic region might be best known in IT circles for its startup communities – but it has much more to offer

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Australia’s Kogan.com breaks IT silos

  E-commerce company used to run separate systems across different business functions, but has implemented an SAP system to streamline operations

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital

• October 11, 2017 11 Oct'17

  Teva Pharmaceuticals turns to cloud HR as it weathers difficult trading conditions

  One of Israel’s largest manufacturing companies has invested more than $10m in cloud HR. The technology is helping Teva Pharmaceuticals turn its fortunes around.

• October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17

  OpenWorld 2017: Ellison declares autonomous database 'revolutionary'

  Oracle’s Larry Ellison claims revolutionary cast for autonomous 18c database at the supplier’s 2017 OpenWorld conference in San Francisco

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  Oracle announces simplified pricing model for cloud computing

  Ahead of Oracle’s OpenWorld 2017 event, Larry Ellison announces simplification of cloud pricing, attached to increased automation in database and middleware