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Enterprise software

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  GE pushes ahead into the software market

  GE’s stated policy is to become a top 10 software company by 2020. The company set out its action plan at the start of its Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health

• November 08, 2016 08 Nov'16

  Will computer vision help France take a lead in AI?

  There are signs that France could become a centre for artificial intelligence research and development

• November 07, 2016 07 Nov'16

  Oracle consummates acquisition of NetSuite, eyes $1bn cloud revenue

  $9.3bn acquisition is in line with Oracle’s avowed move to cloud as a delivery mode for its business applications

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Pure-play cyber security has real value, says incoming McAfee head

  Intel Security has outlined its strategy to protect the new digital economy as it gears up for innovation as a new independent pure-play security firm under the McAfee banner

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff

  Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Insurers face same legacy system battle as retail banks

  The biggest barrier to insurance companies adopting digital technology is their heavy reliance on legacy IT systems

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Open source no longer scares the enterprise

  Open source breaks the rules on corporate procurement, but developers never play by the rules and now open source has sneaked in through the back door

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  Botched IT migration cost Vodafone customers thousands

  Ofcom imposes multimillion-pound fine on mobile operator after an investigation uncovered multiple failings arising from a problematic IT systems migration

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Australian IT spending to be near A$85bn in 2017

  Australian CIOs must plan digital platforms that can connect to customer and business networks – or risk losing customers

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  AI set to replace traditional IT administrators

  Demand for higher levels of availability will lead to increased use of automation. Over time, many IT roles will be taken over by intelligent algorithms

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload

  Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Virgin Atlantic finds community benefit with Salesforce

  Airline’s business-to-business and cargo divisions have found Salesforce CRM to offer a “family feel” beyond the software

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Insurers are joining fintech party

  Insurers are held back from digital transformation by legacy systems, but insurance-focused IT startups offer them hope

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  UAE telco launches mobile wallet

  Etisalat signs deal with technology company to offer its customers a mobile wallet service, as fintech expands in the Middle East

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  SAP Q3 2016 results: cloud revenue reaches 14% of total

  SAP’s third quarter 2016 financial results show 28% growth in cloud revenue, and the addition of 400 customers for its flagship S/4 Hana product

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Diageo opts for additional services centre in Bangalore

  Drinks maker Diageo is increasing its footprint in India with a new business services centre in the city of Bangalore.

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  VMware VSAN 6.5 supports containers and physical servers via iSCSI

  VMware Virtual SAN now supports containers with persistent storage and allows physical server storage access to its shared pool of capacity via the iSCSI SAN protocol

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange uses blockchain for e-voting

  Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange offers controlled access to the AGM information of listed companies through a blockchain-based service

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  Case study: Denmark’s Bang & Olufsen takes control of sales data

  Denmark based audio-visual equipment maker uses cloud-based channel management software to give it the sales insight it needs to make better decisions

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  How Linux has influenced modern IT

  On 25 August 1991, Linus Torvalds released the Linux kernel. We look at how the open source operating system has evolved in the last quarter of a century

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  Facebook at Work comes out of beta and launches as Workplace

  Facebook launches its Workplace application for use in a professional environment after a year of beta

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  Dunkin’ data – how one firm is going donuts for data analytics

  The director of consumer technology and mobile for Dunkin’ Donuts explains how the retailer uses Splunk to manage customer satisfaction through data

• October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16

  Benioff follows Will.i.am on stage to promote Stem education as way out

  Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff endorses Will.i.am’s education drive for black youth and Bono’s anti-AIDS charity, (Red)

• October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16

  Swedish bank uses Amelia the robot for customer services

  SEB is using AI software from IPsoft for customer service after a successful internal project

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  Government invests £220m in tech projects to help "future-proof" post-Brexit economy

  Chancellor Philip Hammond highlights the role high-tech industries have to play in safe-guarding the post-Brexit economy

• October 03, 2016 03 Oct'16

  Dutch government uses Microsoft Dynamics to improve recruitment

  Government recruitment and career management of senior civil servants in the Netherlands has been improved through a Microsoft Dynamics implementation

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  How IoT can revolutionise running railways

  Mobile computing, mobile sensor networks and deep learning are behind French rail operator SNCF’s efficiency drive

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  NGOs challenge UK and US mass surveillance in human rights court

  Privacy International, Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union are among 10 human rights groups backing a landmark challenge to mass surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N

  Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon

• September 28, 2016 28 Sep'16

  Mastercard woos software developers with API platform

  Credit card company Mastercard is investing heavily in digital payments and wants to engage with developers and startups

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Emirates Islamic bank and the Muslim finance revolution

  The CIO at Dubai-based bank Emirates Islamic tells Computer Weekly how IT is supporting the company through industry change

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud

  Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Ministry of Justice IT systems are ‘fragile and precarious’, say MPs

  Public Accounts Committee calls on ministry to urgently improve its “inefficient” IT systems to avoid delays to service transformation

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Pizza Hut Hong Kong rips up traditional CRM rule book

  IT director of parent company Jardine Restaurant Group has transformed the way Pizza Hut interacts with customers in Hong Kong and plans the same in Myanmar and Vietnam

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Hypergrid adds metered usage and networks to hyper-converged kit

  Hyper-converged appliance maker will allow customers to pay for what they use in hardware that will now add networking

• September 22, 2016 22 Sep'16

  Which? calls for user compensation over Windows 10 upgrade issues

  Consumer rights champion’s research shows 12% of Windows 10 users have downgraded to an older version of the software because of troublesome updates

• September 21, 2016 21 Sep'16

  Ellison slams AWS at Oracle Open World 2016

  Oracle CTO Larry Ellison criticises Amazon Web Services as a cloud database environment at Oracle Open World 2016, fleshing out earlier critique

• September 19, 2016 19 Sep'16

  Italian bottle maker deploys 88TB of Syneto hyper-converged storage

  Serioplast gets reliable disaster recovery as it replaces NetApp plus remote physical servers with Syneto hyper-converged infrastructure at factories across Europe, Africa and Asia

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Royal Wolverhampton NHS merges IT systems

  The NHS trust has merged its community patient administration system with its central system used by the acute service

• September 16, 2016 16 Sep'16

  Alleged hacker Lauri Love can be extradited to the US, court rules

  Westminster Magistrates’ Court has ruled that alleged hacker, Lauri Love, can be extradited to the US, where he could face a 99-year prison sentence

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Manchester City builds digital fan wall on Hana Cloud Platform

  Football club has unveiled an interactive fan wall, built on SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform, to engage fans better

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress

  The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  Banks and fintech firms respect each other, says HSBC boss

  The relationship between banks and fintech companies has sweetened over the past five years with mutual respect evident, says HSBC boss

• September 13, 2016 13 Sep'16

  DNB and Nordea to merge IT operations for Baltic super bank

  Two of the Nordic region’s banks will use joint operations, including IT, to help them grow in the Baltic area

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Insurance brokers count cost of lost business as SSP SaaS platform outage enters second week

  SSP confirms to Computer Weekly it has no clear idea when all brokers will be able to continue doing business via its SaaS platform, two weeks on from Solihull datacentre power outage

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions

  IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  Barclays uses blockchain for trade finance transactions

  Barclays Bank has successfully tested the use of blockchain technology to complete a large trade finance agreement, which promises huge efficiencies