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Enterprise software

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Microsoft results show hybrid benefit to Azure growth

  The software company continues to push the benefits of on-premise Windows Server infrastructure alongside Azure PaaS

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Nordic banks target SME customers with fintech services

  Traditional Nordic banks are slimming down workforces as they turn increasingly to technology-based service delivery, and some are linking up with small fintech companies to deliver online products.

• October 25, 2018 25 Oct'18

  Becrypt security platform helps ease cloud adoption

  Becrypt’s secure operating system is driving a new service aimed at helping organisations reduce cost and increase agility in using cloud-based services and online applications

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Oracle bullish on growth in ASEAN

  Enterprise technology juggernaut Oracle claims traction in cloud applications and growing interest in its cloud-based autonomous database service in Southeast Asia

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Autonomous taxi trials underway in Dubai

  Dubai’s transport authority has started road testing the region’s first autonomous taxi, designed in partnership with Dubai Silicon Oasis and DG World

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  CTO interview: Proving new technology at Bloomberg

  We speak to Shawn Edwards, global chief technology officer at Bloomberg, about identifying and nurturing great ideas

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  Oracle Open World 2018: CEO Mark Hurd says SAP ERP customers will defect

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd opined at Open World that SAP ECC6 customers will defect, in some measure, to Oracle in preference to S/4 Hana

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  HP ties up with Singapore university on Industry 4.0

  The personal computing and printer giant has opened a research facility at Nanyang Technological University to advance digital manufacturing technologies

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Interview: Steve Grobman, McAfee CTO shares his views on some burning security questions

  Cyber security technology innovator and veteran Steve Grobman shares his views on adversarial artificial intelligence, post-quantum cryptography and security for next-gen tech

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Igneous enhances unstructured data management product

  Specialist Igneous allows customers to backup and archive, search, manage, move and handle large sets of unstructured files that mainstream NAS can find difficult to handle

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  CIOs and the cloud: The future of European enterprise software

  European organisations are moving to the cloud rapidly, but trepidation remains in concerning certain aspects, such as security

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  Software suites will dominate the business applications market

  Oracle co-CEO Mark Hurd contends that having a common user interface and the ability to support data flows across a business are key capabilities that will spur the dominance of software suites over time

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  OpenWorld18: Ellison declares seek and destroy mission for database

  At OpenWorld 2018 in San Francisco, Oracle founder and CTO Larry Ellison led on the putative resilience of the supplier’s “autonomous” database to cyber security threats

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Government to invest an extra £215m in UK innovation centres

  The extra funding will be given to the Catapult network of innovation centres, focusing on digital, medicines discovery, future cities and transport systems

• October 22, 2018 22 Oct'18

  Cab firm to map 250,000 miles of London roads for CAVs

  Cab operator Addison Lee has teamed up with CAV software specialist Oxbotica to start preparing the streets of London for self-driving cars

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Zeppelin uses Splunk for pre-emptive maintenance

  German construction equipment rental firm Zeppelin has been using Splunk to predict when its machinery will need maintenance before it breaks down

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Russians using less cash after accelerated use of electronic payments

  Russians are increasingly using electronic payments rather than cash, a recent study by Sberbank has found

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Why CIOs need to find ways to manage the old and the new

  In IT, nothing is ever reinvented and nothing ever really goes away. We investigate how IT departments can remain agile while managing legacy assets

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  McAfee combining threat intel with AI

  Simulations show that threat intelligence and artificial intelligence is a powerful combination, according to McAfee’s technology head

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Postal delivery robots trialled in Norway

  The Norwegian postal service is testing out the value and viability of robots delivering mail to homes and businesses

• October 19, 2018 19 Oct'18

  Chinese insurance giant extends cloud service to other sectors

  Ping An is opening up its cloud service to more sectors, including real estate and automotive, in its efforts to become a technology company

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Amazon to open Manchester R&D centre and create 1,000 skilled jobs

  Online retail giant will open a new office in Manchester and expand others to house 1,000 new skilled research and development employees in the UK

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  SAP Q3 2018: Cloud revenue up 39%

  SAP’s Q3 2018 results show cloud revenue now at 22% of total and indicate momentum. S/4 Hana customers number 9,500

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Dubai Health Authority unveils virtual health app for GP consultations

  Health authority adopts new technology as part of the Dubai Future Accelerators initiative

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  MoJ to go all-in on public cloud as infrastructure modernisation push gathers pace

  The Ministry of Justice claims modernising, retiring and migrating its legacy IT systems to the public cloud will help it accrue long-term savings of around 60% on hosting costs

• October 18, 2018 18 Oct'18

  Best of VMworld Europe 2018 Awards nominations now open until 26 October

  Read the criteria for the Best of VMworld Europe User Awards and find out how to submit your nomination

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Contactless payments surpass Chip and PIN in UK shops

  Contactless card payments now account for more spending in UK stores than Chip and PIN

• October 17, 2018 17 Oct'18

  Microsoft signs pledge to assist people with dyslexia

  Tech giant Microsoft has signed the Made by Diversity pledge to help more people with dyslexia use technology as part of their education

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  E-shelter secures planning permission for mega-datacentre campus in Dagenham

  Colocation provider E-shelter has its plans approved to build a 60MW datacentre campus in Dagenham, East London

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Carrefour kicks off blockchain food traceability drive

  Using blockchain to capture data, shoppers will be able to use their smartphones to see exactly where a product on the supermarket shelf came from

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  There is more to fintech than meets the eye

  Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies, aged 65

  Computer programmer who helped propel Microsoft to become one of the world’s largest businesses will be remembered for his generosity

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Zero-trust security model gaining traction

  The zero-trust model of security is finally gaining traction as security professionals tap into new tools and executive buy-in to support this approach in an effort to improve security posture and practices

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  Hortonworks CTO weighs in on Cloudera merger

  Besides marrying technologies from Hortonworks and Cloudera, the two companies could also come up with new product components after their merger is sealed

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Microsoft staff allegedly pen open letter urging firm to drop bid for US government cloud deal

  Letter calls on software giant to bow out of the race for a controversial, 10-year cloud contract with the US Department of Defense

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?

  Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Good data governance is good business

  Organisations are failing to understand the importance of getting their data relationship with customers right and seeing the business opportunities that it enables, an industry analyst warns

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Big expectations, huge presence: Gitex 2018 opens

  Artificial intelligence, blockchain, 5G, robotics, and virtual and augmented reality are all in the spotlight at Gitex Technology Week 2018 in Dubai

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Atos and Google open London-based digital innovation centre to boost enterprise adoption of AI

  Atos and Google follow up the news of their global joint push to increase enterprise use of artificial intelligence and cloud technologies by opening London-based innovation centre

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  ASOS launches voice shopping on Google Assistant

  Online fashion brand introduces voice shopping service to help customers navigate its thousands of products more easily

• October 12, 2018 12 Oct'18

  AI is no silver bullet for cyber security

  A security expert has called for businesses to manage the risks of adopting new technologies and improve their cyber hygiene, rather than see artificial intelligence as a panacea for their security woes

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  AirAsia on becoming a data-first business by taking flight in Google Cloud

  AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes on how Google cloud is underpinning its efforts to become a digital-first business where collaboration is king

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Highways England demonstrates connected cars in Kent

  Connected cars are being demonstrated on roads in Kent as part of a project to improve safety and improve traffic flows

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Robots in the workplace supported by 81% of business chiefs

  Robotic process automation continues to be taken up by more organisations – but despite proven benefits, those that already use it are struggling to scale it up

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  MEPs urge Facebook to roll out election fraud prevention measures

  Facebook is coming under pressure from European lawmakers to do more to prevent its user data from being misappropriated during elections

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Dropping commercial open source lowers PaaS costs at Fidelity

  Investment company Fidelity has created an on-premise PaaS for its in-house developer teams using the open source Cloud Foundry platform

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Volkswagen truck group’s journey to a subscription-based business model

  VW’s truck business adopted a startup mentality to open a subscription-based business aimed at owners of truck fleets

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  SAP Customer Experience Live 2018: SAP steps up C/4 Hana efforts

  SAP has used its Customer Experience Live conference in Barcelona to flesh out its C/4 Hana offer

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Businesses must get ready for a multi-cloud strategy

  The debate about what is the right enterprise IT architecture has moved beyond private, public and hybrid clouds to the need to run multiple clouds

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Singapore extends reach of digital ID system with cloud

  GovTech is using AWS to host a developer platform that enables government agencies and businesses to develop services that build on the upcoming National Digital Identity system