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Financial applications

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Xerox aligns business and IT in streamlining applications

  Xerox's IT division has been working with the business to standardise its HR management on a global basis

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Lloyds creates online appointment booking in attempt to save branches

  Lloyds Bank has introduced a system which allows customers to book in-branch appointments online

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Customer loyalty biggest challenge for banks

  Banks have cited customer loyalty as their main concern, according to a survey by financial services firm Temenos

• September 17, 2014 17 Sep'14

  KPMG: IoT, 3D printing and healthcare IT to have most impact

  Internet of things (IoT), 3D printing and biotech or healthcare IT are among the IT trends that will change the way people work and live

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  TfL contactless payments go live

  TfL’s contactless card payment scheme goes live today, enabling customers to pay for London transport on contactless bank cards

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Claims against Post Office IT system approach completion

  Investigation into sub-postmaster claims against the Post Office over problems with its Horizon accounting system coming to an end

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Fresh questions raised over Post Office IT system's role in fraud cases

  A leaked report has revealed more details about the role of the Horizon accounting system in sub-postmaster fraud cases

• September 05, 2014 05 Sep'14

  Barclays bank launches biometric authentication

  Barclays bank plans to launch biometric readers that read users' finger veins to authenticate customers

• August 21, 2014 21 Aug'14

  Load balancing supports Kent County Council's VDI project

  Kent County Council picks Kemp Technologies load balancers to support a deployment of VMware Horizon View and Workspace across its estate

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 06, 2014 06 Aug'14

  George Osborne launches fintech innovation programme

  Chancellor George Osborne launches a programme designed to put the UK at the forefront of financial technology (fintech) innovation

• August 04, 2014 04 Aug'14

  Contactless payments continue to rise

  Contactless transactions have increased by 189% since May 2013, according to Visa Europe.

• June 16, 2014 16 Jun'14

  Travel group Expedia aims to predict your holiday plans

  Travel group Expedia is developing technology that will predict the needs of its customers before they call about their travel plans

• June 11, 2014 11 Jun'14

  Tesco Bank launches current account on off-the-shelf platform

  Tesco has launched a current account four years after implementing its core banking platform

• June 03, 2014 03 Jun'14

  High availability strategy key to saving costs, says Sungard AS

  The cost of IT downtime is extremely high for businesses – but must all systems and applications be highly available all the time?

• May 19, 2014 19 May'14

  SAP certifies core business apps to run on Microsoft Azure

  From June, users of SAP Business Suite software, Business All-In-One solution, SAP Mobile Platform, SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise and Hana platform will be able to run them on Azure

• May 15, 2014 15 May'14

  Justifying the business case to update Oracle eBusiness Suite

  To justify the upgrade cost needed to move to Oracle eBusiness Suite Release 12, IT departments need consider how the implementation can deliver value.

• May 01, 2014 01 May'14

  Co-operative Bank report reveals challenge of legacy IT replacement

  A report into the £1.5bn losses at Co-operative Bank reveals numerous failures in a project to replace core banking systems

• April 30, 2014 30 Apr'14

  SDL turns to cloud HR to join up businesses in 40 countries

  The technology is central to the company’s strategy to integrate formerly autonomous businesses in 38 countries into a single operation

• April 16, 2014 16 Apr'14

  Q&A: SAP's Mike Ettling discusses SuccessFactors cloud HR strategy

  Computer Weekly talks to Mike Ettling, global head of cloud and on-premise HR at SAP, about the company’s strategy for its SuccessFactors cloud HR technology

• April 08, 2014 08 Apr'14

  Workday sees opportunity for cloud financial management in Europe

  Workday plans to push cloud finance and accounting services to enterprise in Europe, but observers say its background in HR technology may prove an obstacle

• April 03, 2014 03 Apr'14

  Competition from FinTech startups keeps big suppliers on their toes

  Big suppliers in the financial technology space are becoming more agile because of the competition from startup technology companies

• March 20, 2014 20 Mar'14

  Application support and maintenance costs increase 29%

  The cost of supporting and maintaining applications is increasing every year for Global 2000 companies in the US and UK, according to a study of 300 CIOs

• March 19, 2014 19 Mar'14

  Oracle finally sees revenue growth from hardware business

  Oracle has finally seen a boost from its server business, with hardware sales up 8% in its latest financial results

• 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

• 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

• 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"

• January 21, 2014 21 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

• January 14, 2014 14 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

• 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

• December 13, 2013 13 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.

• 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

• November 25, 2013 25 Nov'13

  150 subpostmasters file claims over 'faulty' Horizon accounting system

  About 150 subpostmasters have filed claims to the investigation into the allegedly faulty Post Office accounting system used by thousands of subpostmaters

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Co-operative Bank’s future dependent on £500m IT investment

  Co-operative Bank has set aside £500m for four stage IT transformation as it attempts to stabilise after investors contribute to a £1.5bn rescue

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports

• October 30, 2013 30 Oct'13

  Former Lord Justice of Appeal Hooper joins Post Office Horizon investigation

  The Post Office's Horizon accounting IT inquiry appoints former Lord Justice of Appeal Anthony Hooper to chair mediation stage

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  End in sight for sub-postmaster claims against Post Office's Horizon accounting system

  Sub-postmasters' claims of errors made by the Horizon accounting system could be completed in three months

• October 24, 2013 24 Oct'13

  European Central Bank warns against last-minute Sepa migrations

  The European Central Bank warns firms that have left migration to the Single European Payments Area (Sepa) they could face problems

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Ministry of Defence upgrades Oracle HR and payroll system

  The Service Personnel and Veterans Agency of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has upgraded its Oracle HP and payroll system

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  UK trading sector faces challenges as US regulator prepare rules

  UK trading firms will have to makes their trading software more resilient to ensure they comply with the imminent regulations being put together by the US SEC

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Lloyds website continuity hit as TSB launches

  Lloyds Banking Group websites, including the new standalone TSB, have been hit by problems on TSB launch day

• September 05, 2013 05 Sep'13

  Direct debit failures costly to businesses

  Businesses risk losing money and customers due to mistakes made when setting up direct debit and credit payments

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

  Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud

• July 15, 2013 15 Jul'13

  Lower uptake of cloud, ICT limiting medium-sized enterprises' productivity: CEBR

  Medium-sized enterprises in the UK lagging behind large businesses in terms of productivity, because of lower adoption of ICT and cloud

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Post Office Horizon system investigation reveals concerns

  Investigation into the allegedly faulty accounting system used by sub-postmasters has revealed serious concerns

• June 18, 2013 18 Jun'13

  Investigation into Post Office accounting system to drill down on strongest cases

  The investigation into the Post Office’s allegedly faulty accounting system will focus on a select few of the 47 claims

• June 11, 2013 11 Jun'13

  Lloyds customer complaints plummet after automating manual processes

  Lloyds is claiming dramatic improvements in the quality of its customer service after automating manual banking processes

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion

  Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  CIO Interview: Graeme Hackland, CIO, Lotus F1 Team

  Graeme Hackland, CIO of Lotus F1, has worked for the race car team for 16 years. He has seen major changes in IT both on and off the track

• May 02, 2013 02 May'13

  Report into Post Office Horizon system expected in July

  The findings of an independent investigation into the Post Office's Horizon accounting system are expected to be published in July