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Enterprise software
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March 14, 2014
14
Mar'14
Amazon Web Services reaches its 8th birthday
On March 14 2006 Amazon expanded from its retail heritage and launched its IT services business with the birth of Amazon Web Services (AWS)
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March 10, 2014
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Mar'14
Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries
Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.
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March 06, 2014
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Mar'14
Thames Water pilots smart analytics with Accenture
Thames Water is six months into an 18 month pilot with Accenture Smart Grid to pilot real time monitoring to deliver an improved service
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February 27, 2014
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Feb'14
RBS to tidy up systems mess
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) outlines plans to cut costs and improve customer services, slashing the number of IT systems in the process
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February 27, 2014
27
Feb'14
Microsoft takes aim at passwords
Microsoft says it is determined to solve the problem of ineffective authentication that relies on usernames and passwords
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February 25, 2014
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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
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February 24, 2014
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Feb'14
Case study: Virtualised storage adds value to Denmark's tunnel vision
State construction firm Femern selects DataCore system to help speed up Fehmarnbelt undersea odyssey and keep the sharks at bay
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February 21, 2014
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Feb'14
Executive interview: Microsoft targets the non-professional developers
The developer community is changing. There are far more people programming now, says Microsoft's Tim O'Brien
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February 19, 2014
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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
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February 19, 2014
19
Feb'14
NHS England puts patient database on hold
NHS England is to delay by six months the roll-out of its controversial Care.data scheme for sharing patient records through a central database
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February 18, 2014
18
Feb'14
Is second-hand software illegal?
The action by Federation Against Software Theft to suspend one of its members confuses users over legal second-hand user licences
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February 18, 2014
18
Feb'14
HP knew of Autonomy hardware sales tactics
New evidence suggests HP was aware of Autonomy’s accounting practices months before publicly condemning the company
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February 18, 2014
18
Feb'14
Cut Microsoft admin rights to mitigate 92% of threats, study shows
Removing Microsoft admin rights from employees mitigates 92% of critical vulnerabilities reported in 2013
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February 12, 2014
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Feb'14
Dynamic businesses use the network as the CEO
Yammer co-founder and CTO, Adam Pisoni, believes businesses need to reassess how they are organised
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February 11, 2014
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Feb'14
Schneider accreditation aims to boost green datacentre skills
Datacentre supplier offers free vendor-neutral courses and certification through its online Energy University
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February 11, 2014
11
Feb'14
Head of BBM becomes latest BlackBerry casualty
Andrew Bocking is leaving the ailing mobile manufacturer as BlackBerry Messenger is integrated into the enterprise business
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February 07, 2014
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Feb'14
Amazon nets lion’s share of $10bn public cloud market
AWS continues its unassailable domination of the sector, despite recent moves by Google, IBM and Microsoft
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February 07, 2014
07
Feb'14
Met Police releases ‘Total Technology’ IT strategy
The Metropolitan Police Service has released a three to four-year plan on how to transform the use of technology in the organisation
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February 05, 2014
05
Feb'14
The BBC DMI project - what went wrong?
The BBC and its former CTO have engaged in tit-for-tat allegations over its failed £100m digital media project. But who was right?
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February 04, 2014
04
Feb'14
Satya Nadella replaces Steve Ballmer as Microsoft CEO
Microsoft has named Satya Nadella as CEO almost six months after former incumbent Steve Ballmer announced his retirement
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January 31, 2014
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Jan'14
WIll open source save the datacentre industry?
IT rivals stand cheek-by-jowl to praise Facebook’s Open Compute Project, but is the love-in a Damascene conversion or just damage limitation?
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January 29, 2014
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Jan'14
BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project
Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
Microsoft joins Open Compute Project
Redmond giant makes server specs public in bid to influence future datacentre design
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January 29, 2014
29
Jan'14
Case study: Scottish Fire and Rescue advances national BI strategy with QlikView
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service is using QlikView business intelligence software to bring together its data streams for external reporting and operational intelligence
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January 28, 2014
28
Jan'14
BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO
The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"
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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
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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
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January 22, 2014
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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
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January 21, 2014
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Jan'14
Allianz deploys Rumba to provide secure mainframe administration
Insurer Allianz UK has deployed Rumba terminal emulator software from MicroFocus to provide a mainframe-based policy admin system
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January 20, 2014
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Jan'14
IBM to open London datacentre as part of $1.2bn global cloud push
New facility first in UK to be based on IBM SoftLayer cloud architecture
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January 16, 2014
16
Jan'14
HCL and CSC partner to modernise applications
Indian IT services firm HCL and US competitor CSC are working together to win business in the application modernisation and cloud migration segments of the application outsourcing sector
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January 16, 2014
16
Jan'14
Microsoft extends XP security updates by 15 months
Microsoft has caved in to user concerns over XP end of support and will now extend security updates by another 15 months
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January 15, 2014
15
Jan'14
The IT risks facing Universal Credit
Despite Iain Duncan Smith's robust defence of his flagship welfare reform policy, Universal Credit, evidence to the contrary continues to mount
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January 14, 2014
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Jan'14
Post Office seeks contractors for network and back-office work
The Post Office is looking for IT services firms to provide back-office IT applications and networking technologies in contracts worth hundreds of millions of pounds
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January 07, 2014
07
Jan'14
Computer Weekly founding editor, Chris Hipwell, dies after short illness
Chris Hipwell, the founding editor of Computer Weekly, the world’s first IT magazine, has died after a short illness
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January 06, 2014
06
Jan'14
Accenture: get ready for the smart tech revolution
Consumers are gravitating towards wearable devices like smart watches to complement their digital lifestyle, a new study from Accenture has found
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January 06, 2014
06
Jan'14
Universal Credit IT suppliers to be left out of new digital system development
HP, Accenture, IBM and BT will have 'significantly less' involvement in the digital system developed for full roll-out of the benefits scheme
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January 06, 2014
06
Jan'14
Is cloud computing almost too good to be true for banks?
The cloud’s most obvious benefits will enable banks to keep up with technology changes while reducing costs
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December 31, 2013
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Dec'13
CW500 Club in 2013
Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers about the topical challenges they face
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December 20, 2013
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Dec'13
UK citizen wins legal round against Facebook over Prism leaks
A British citizen has applied for a judgement against Facebook in a case that will test the right of tech firms to give UK personal data to the NSA.
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December 17, 2013
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Dec'13
NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data
The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView
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December 16, 2013
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Dec'13
Nvidia delivers GPU grid to power Citrix virtual workstations
Nvidia has released vGPU grid technology for Citrix XenDeskop and Xenserver to support remote, hardware accelerated graphics processing.
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December 13, 2013
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Dec'13
Avon drops SAP big bang transformation
Cosmetics giant Avon has halted its multi-year SAP rollout due to a poor return on investment.
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December 09, 2013
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Dec'13
DWP writes off £40m on Universal Credit but insists the IT is working
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is scrapping £40.1m of IT work on Universal Credit, and a further £91m will be written off over five years
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December 06, 2013
06
Dec'13
Firm works with Google maps to provide fleet management software
Greater Anglia rail company will roll out a taxi booking app in 2014 developed by fleet management software provider TDispatch and powered by Google Maps
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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
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December 05, 2013
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Dec'13
Government Digital Service no longer involved with Universal Credit IT development
The Government Digital Service ends direct involvement in the development of the “enhanced IT” for the Universal Credit sheme
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December 05, 2013
05
Dec'13
700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline
The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline
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December 05, 2013
05
Dec'13
UK citizen sues Microsoft over Prism private data leak to NSA
A court action brought in the UK will test Microsoft's legal right to disclose private data on UK citizens to US intelligence services
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December 04, 2013
04
Dec'13
Microsoft changes its licensing terms
Microsoft is offering a single Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA) to simplify its volume licensing agreements. But what does it mean to SAM?