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• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Spain’s La Liga looks to enleague data analytics with Databricks

  La Liga, the first division of the Spanish football league, has turned to Databricks’ Lakehouse Platform to analyse footballer performance and engage with fans

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Spring4Shell zero-day sprung on security teams

  Some are describing a newly disclosed Spring Java framework vulnerability as the next Log4Shell, but what is Spring4Shell, and what can we do about it?

• March 31, 2022 31 Mar'22

  Competitive pricing, network monitoring drive SD-WAN selection

  Research reveals competitive pricing and monitoring features rank highest in companies’ software-defined wide area networking SD-WAN supplier selection, while WAN optimisation and standardisation rank lowest

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Compensation goal finally in sight for 555 Post Office scandal victims

  The subpostmaster campaign group which exposed the Post Office Horizon scandal could be close to achieving the objective it was established for, with fair compensation for its members in sight

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Acquisition of UK fintech Azimo will address home-working challenges for enterprises

  UK fintech acquired by Papaya Global is looking to improve cross-border employee payments

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Lax money laundering controls lands N26 with ban from Italian central bank

  German digital bank N26 has had problems with anti-money laundering regulations in the past, and is now banned in Italy

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Hybrid work offers markedly positive improvements to culture

  Study finds effects that hybrid working is having on business culture, with nearly half of study across the globe feel diversity and inclusion has improved during the pandemic.

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  CIO interview: Spencer Clarkson, CTO, Verastar

  Digital transformation and unifying customer relationship management systems are driving the business services group forward

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  UKISUG: Big majority of SAP users beset by data problems in migrating to S/4 Hana

  In a survey prior to its Analytics Symposium, the UK & Ireland SAP User Group finds 61% of SAP customers say data management issues are slowing down process automation and impeding moves to S/4 Hana

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Why integration and automation are two sides of the same coin

  Workato’s regional leader explains why integration and automation are intertwined and how the company is addressing the Asia-Pacific market

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Overhaul of UK police tech needed to prevent abuse

  Lords inquiry finds UK police are deploying artificial intelligence and algorithmic technologies without a thorough examination of their efficacy or outcomes, and are essentially ‘making it up as they go along’

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Manufacturers reveal concerns over tech readiness for hybrid work

  Research reveals manufacturing firms must address both human and tech barriers relating to visibility of networks and the digital experience to create a sustainable and high-performing hybrid workplace

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Webex aims to reimagine hybrid work experiences

  After one of the biggest shifts of how we work in decades, collaboration technology firm adds functionality innovations to help organisations personalise the hybrid work experience for employees and customers

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  UK tech ecosystem reaches $1tn valuation

  The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic prompted massive investment in the UK’s digital companies, which are collectively valued at $1tn

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  McLaren Racing and Cisco extend partnership to drive innovation and hybrid experiences

  Networking technology and services provider broadens role as official technology partner of leading Formula 1 racing team to provide network and collaboration infrastructure to enhance speed, scale and power across technology footprint

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Wave of Log4j-linked attacks targeting VMware Horizon

  Sophos issues a new warning to organisations that have so far failed to patch their VMware Horizon servers against Log4Shell

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  HSBC chooses IBM support for its quantum leap

  UK bank moves to the next stage of its work with quantum computers through a deal with IBM

• March 29, 2022 29 Mar'22

  Virgin Media O2 teams with VMware to complete UK and EU 5G roll-out

  UK operator enlists virtual machine technology provider as it sees virtualising and modernising network essential to retaining market share across the UK and EU as it rolls out next-generation mobile services

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  IT professionals wary of government campaign to limit end-to-end encryption

  Members of the Chartered Institute of IT, the professional body for technology professionals in the UK, warn against limiting end-to-end encryption

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  NHS England deploys pilot AI tool to forecast A&E admissions

  The NHS is deploying an AI-based demand forecasting tool to accurately predict activity levels and free up staff, space and resources to tackle post-pandemic treatment backlogs

• March 28, 2022 28 Mar'22

  Most big businesses are taking up banking as a service

  API-based banking services allow corporate customers to offer financial services without the need for heavy tech development or regulatory approval

• March 25, 2022 25 Mar'22

  European Commission proposes new cyber security regulations

  New cyber and information security regulations have been proposed by the European Commission to create a minimum set of standards in both areas

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Under-investment in hybrid work threatens successful return to the office for European workers

  Research from Ricoh Europe shows staff are looking to their employers for clarity and innovation in their new hybrid workplace, but a lack of planning and investment threatens to derail the success of a widespread return to the office

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Unipart maps way ahead with Rise with SAP service

  Unipart has chosen the Rise with SAP S/4 Hana-based service as it seeks to develop further the systems integration side of its business

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  The Security Interviews: Red gets automated

  We speak to Jack Stockdale, CTO of Darktrace, about Cambridge’s strong data analytics and artificial intelligence links and the role of AI in cyber security

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CIO interview: Craig York, CTO, Milton Keynes University Hospital

  A cloud-first digital strategy is helping the NHS trust becoming an innovator in the use of healthcare systems such as document management and electronic patient records

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  Recognising APAC’s trailblazers in digital transformation

  The region’s top industry innovators were recognised for their digital transformation efforts at the Computer Weekly Innovation Awards APAC 2022

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Plugging supply chain gaps

  StratMed’s Integer platform is facilitating data exchanges between healthcare providers and their suppliers to improve transparency in India’s healthcare supply chain

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: How Telekom Malaysia scaled its RPA initiative

  Telekom Malaysia has been driving automation efforts across the company, not only to serve customers more efficiently, but also to improve a slew of back office functions

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Driving new revenue with data insights

  GLS Group beefed up its enterprise resource planning system to deliver data insights that support real-time decision making and drive new revenue

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Transforming Australia’s national assessment programme

  Education Services Australia has transformed the country’s national assessment programme through an online platform that has enabled teachers to design adaptive tests and improved student engagement

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: Tracking cargo on the road

  Through Geodis APAC’s One Road platform, supply chain companies have received fewer enquiries on cargo locations and improved on-time performance using roads as an alternative way to move cargo

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: How WLTH is disrupting traditional banking

  The fintech company built its own technology stack that delivers data analytics and other capabilities as it seeks to win market share from traditional banks

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Japan’s Mizuho partners Google to accelerate tech transformation after a year to forget

  Following a year when it hit the tech headlines for the wrong reasons, Mizuho is on a mission to modernise IT in collaboration with Google

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  Private equity house spins SSE company out of McAfee Enterprise

  The launch of Skyhigh Security completes division of McAfee Enterprise into separate businesses by Symphony Technology Group, which acquired the long-standing cyber security firm for $4bn in March 2021

• March 23, 2022 23 Mar'22

  SAP to invest S$250m in Singapore innovation lab

  New lab will double SAP’s engineering workforce in Singapore by 2025 and help to shape the company’s product development roadmap

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  NetApp Cloud Insights gets AI monitoring and ransomware detection

  Cloud Insights adds artificial intelligence-based continuous audit and monitoring of entire IT estate and generates impact assessments from performance events, plus anomaly alerting for ransomware

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Competition watchdog contacts Barclays and Lloyds banks over API failures

  Barclays and Lloyds banks have failed to meet some of the open banking rules, says competition watchdog

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Kurmi brings UC, CC provisioning automation to the cloud

  Software developer takes on-premise platform to a hosted model to deliver faster and easier access to the tools required to streamline and optimise the day-to-day administration of Unified Communication platforms

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  555 subpostmasters to get fair compensation after government U-turn

  Government finally agrees to pay 555 Post Office scandal victims fair compensation

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Edge computing implementations still in their infancy

  It’s still early days for enterprise implementations of edge computing, with one analyst likening it to the early days of cloud

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Wellness essential as hybrid work to see total redesign of the office

  Almost one-fifth of companies are asking employees to return to the office full-time, as new workspaces with quiet zones, Zoom pods and wellness areas are seen as key to retaining and attracting talent

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Siloed data holding back coordinated health responses

  Digital health experts discuss the role of data in coordinating the NHS’s pandemic response and how managing privacy and governance issues are key to further success

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Mavenir makes business communications software pivot

  Network software provider transitions from radio access network software solutions towards offering SaaS portfolio of business communications for CSPs, channels and systems integrators

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  University of Reading tracks fruit tree flowering as spring breaks, with Oracle

  University is working with Oracle for research to monitor fruit trees as they blossom into spring

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Electronic patient records key to NHS digital transformation

  Getting EPR systems rolled out across NHS organisations will help boost digital transformation efforts, and are key to fulfilling government healthcare plans

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Inside Al-Ikhsan’s business analytics journey

  The Malaysian sportswear retailer has increased its profits and market share through its investments in business intelligence and analytics over the past five years

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Verizon Business enriches mobile endpoint for Microsoft Teams

  Business solutions provider becomes one of the first operators to join forces with IT giant to enable enterprise customers to experience the full power of communications and collaboration system

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  UCL report projects 5,500 ‘open data’ jobs in Newham by 2035

  Report from University College London’s Institute for Global Prosperity says London borough is ‘uniquely placed to seize the data opportunity’

• March 16, 2022 16 Mar'22

  TCS doubles down on innovation and talent in Australia

  Indian IT service provider TCS has opened an innovation centre in Sydney and is investing in local talent to meet the digital transformation needs of Australian organisations