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Europe and Middle East information technology (IT)

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services

  The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  CBRE: Cloud drives Q3 demand for colocation space in Frankfurt and London

  CBRE’s third-quarter datacentre market tracker highlights soaring demand for colocation capacity in Frankfurt and London, as cloud providers court European enterprises

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Middle East bank to launch AI for customer support

  Middle East bank Emirates NBD is piloting artificial intelligence to automate customer services

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Dutch IT ministry needed to take digital lead

  Whenever the media covers a failed Dutch government IT project, the question is always asked whether the government should have a ministry of IT

• November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16

  HCL completes integration of Volvo Group IT services

  Deal sees 2,560 Volvo Group staff transferred to HCL, bringing mainframe expertise to Indian IT services firm

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Telenor IoT strategy required core software change

  Norwegian telco is expanding its internet of things business, which packages all the components its customers require to offer IoT-based services

• 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 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

• 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 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Snowden: the IT analyst turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance

  Oliver Stone's biopic on Edward Snowden reaches the heart of the ethical crisis posed by mass surveillance for the state and ordinary citizens

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  Saving Lauri Love: activists plan their next move

  An eclectic bunch of activists, charity workers and reformed hackers spent a rainy Sunday afternoon plotting their next move in a campaign to save Lauri Love from extradition to the US on hacking charges

• 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 16, 2016 16 Oct'16

  Dubai smart city will be the talk of GITEX

  Global experts in urban planning and smart technology will discuss the important role Dubai will play in supporting the development of smart cities in the Middle East

• October 14, 2016 14 Oct'16

  Nordea bank joins rival’s mobile payment platform

  Nordea signs up to the mobile payments platform from Danske bank for its customers in Denmark and Norway

• 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 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  IT startups suffer from strict, out-of-date Dutch laws

  The Netherlands government needs to ensure that legislation enables disruptive technology to flourish

• 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 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 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 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 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

  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

• August 24, 2016 24 Aug'16

  London datacentre market enjoys pre-Brexit surge in demand for colocation space

  CBRE's pre-Brexit look at the European datacentre market sees London reap the benefits of a surge in demand for colocation space during the second quarter

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  There is life in Finland’s IT sector despite Nokia and Microsoft layoffs

  Regional development organisations in Finland describe how despite massive job cuts Nokia and Microsoft have provided the foundations for IT industry development

• August 12, 2016 12 Aug'16

  Russia competition watchdog fines Google $6.8m over Android

  As Google faces a fine of around $3bn for anti-competitive practices in Europe, Russian authorities have ordered the internet giant to pay $6.8m for abusing its dominant position with Android device makers

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Liv Fiksdahl, DNB

  CIO of Norwegian bank tells Computer Weekly how Indian outsourcing partners help her keep costs down and digitise the business

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  German digital bank Fidor acquired by French banking giant

  Fidor CEO says merger with BPCE will allow challenger to continue its international expansion

• July 28, 2016 28 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Vesa Erolainen, Pöyry

  Doubts were raised when Vesa Erolainen, CIO at Finnish engineering and consulting company Pöyry, outlined his IT transformation plan, but he ended up winning an award for it

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Date set for landmark hearing into EU-US data transfers

  Irish court hearing triggered by Austrian law student Max Schrems could have huge implications for EU-US trade and the data privacy rights of millions of EU citizens

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Benelux CIO interview: Paul Elich, CIO at KLM

  Paul Elich, CIO at Dutch airline KLM, tells Computer Weekly about building innovation into IT departments and the ongoing de-duplication of internal systems since its merger with Air France

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  French public sector’s never-ending struggle with the cloud

  The French government has more hurdles to overcome than many of its European neighbours when it comes to adopting cloud computing services

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Roland Grunéus, Intrum Justitia

  Roland Grunéus, the CIO of Swedish-founded Intrum Justitia, reveals the credit management services group’s efforts to make better use of data

• July 11, 2016 11 Jul'16

  Visa’s Dubai innovation centre to focus on digital payments

  Visa has opened a technology innovation centre in Dubai to focus on cashless payments

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Saudi Telecom Company leads nation’s transformation agenda

  Saudi Telecom Company and its technology partners support the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s drive into digital public services

• July 06, 2016 06 Jul'16

  Lufthansa IT services arm transforms to meet customer demands

  IT supplier Lufthansa Systems is changing its business model as its airline customers invest in digital technologies

• July 05, 2016 05 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Tore Burheim, University of Bergen

  IT director of Norwegian university tells Computer Weekly about digitising education and creating co-operative clusters

• July 04, 2016 04 Jul'16

  Facilities firm ISS picks IBM Watson IoT to manage client sites

  Danish outsourcing and services firm signs new deal with IBM to use Watson’s internet of things capabilities to better manage its clients’ properties

• June 29, 2016 29 Jun'16

  Brexit: Datacentre investments set to slow as economic stability concerns hit CIOs

  As the economic uncertainty around Brexit continues, CIOs may put new datacentre investments on hiatus, warns analyst

• June 28, 2016 28 Jun'16

  Finland’s prisons move to a cashless world

  Inmates in Finland’s prisons will no longer need to use cash as a pre-paid card system is rolled out

• June 27, 2016 27 Jun'16

  Banking IT community faces uncertain Brexit future

  The financial services IT community faces a period of uncertainty as finance firms reassess plans following the EU referendum result

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Technology key to supporting World Expo 2020 in Dubai

  Businesses in Dubai need to get ready for the expected boost in demand that will come with the World Expo exhibition to be held in the city in 2020

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  EU firms slow in detecting cyber attacks, study shows

  European firms take an average of 469 days to discover a compromise, compared with an average of 146 days globally, according to Mandiant

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Johnny Bröms, Swedish fast-food chain Max Burger

  The CIO of Swedish fast-food chain tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is increasing sales and supporting expansion

• June 08, 2016 08 Jun'16

  Citrix expands in Middle East with first Saudi Arabia office

  Citrix is increasing its presence in the Middle East, opening its first office in Saudi Arabia with plans to expand into Qatar and Egypt

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Big data and open-source cloud technology help Gulf Air pin down customer sentiment

  Big data engine that performs sentiment analysis on both Arabic and English textual data helps airline to understand and react rapidly to customer preferences

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

  Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data

• May 30, 2016 30 May'16

  Middle East CIO interview: V. Chandrasekar, Standard Chartered

  The CIO of Standard Chartered bank in the Middle East tells Computer Weekly about the challenge of keeping customers happy through IT