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• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Uber and Ola ordered to hand over more data to drivers

  A Dutch court has rejected Uber and Ola’s claims that drivers collectively taking action to access their data amounts to an abuse of their individual data access rights, laying the ground for drivers to form their own union-controlled data trust

• March 16, 2021 16 Mar'21

  Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience

  Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech

• March 11, 2021 11 Mar'21

  Oracle Q3, 2020-21: Revenue growth of 3% backdrop to Ellison attack on SAP

  Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches competitive attack on SAP as Oracle’s third-quarter results show revenue growth of 3%

• February 04, 2021 04 Feb'21

  Microsoft launches Viva as employee experience platform born out of Teams

  Microsoft has launched an “employee experience platform”, based on Microsoft Teams, said to aid the integration of the working environment

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365

  The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

  Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  What businesses can learn from GovTech’s digital strategy

  Modernising its infrastructure and putting digital at its core has given Singapore’s Government Technology Agency the agility it needs to respond to the Covid-19 pandemic

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  SAP Q3 2020 results: revenue down 4%, cloud silver lining hailed

  SAP’s third quarter 2020 results stated a 4% year-on-year reduction in revenue, with an 11% increase in cloud revenue lightening the gloom

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  Financial services staff want work-from-home policies to continue after Covid

  About half of workers in the finance sector want their employers to retain remote working policies brought in during the pandemic

• October 21, 2020 21 Oct'20

  UK sees surge in IT outsourcing contracts

  Transformation projects drive IaaS growth, but SaaS declines. Some sectors are renegotiating and restructuring contracts to reduce costs

• October 14, 2020 14 Oct'20

  NHS England issues integrated cloud ERP procurement advice call

  NHS England is calling on software suppliers for advice concerning the feasibility of moving and integrating its ERP systems in cloud infrastructure

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growing in the house of Oracle

  NetSuite CEO Evan Goldberg briefs analysts and press on the eve of the supplier’s annual, this year virtual, conference

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  How Certis is digitising security operations

  Certis has developed more than 50 applications in a year to help employees do their jobs better and has set up an AI centre to tap the potential of robotics and video analytics in security

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• July 27, 2020 27 Jul'20

  SAP Q2 2020 results: SAP partially divests Qualtrics as positive results posted against Covid crisis

  SAP has announced a positive set of second-quarter 2020 results, hot on the heels of a declaration that it will spin out online survey business unit Qualtrics by way of an initial public offering in the US

• July 23, 2020 23 Jul'20

  APAC firms in early stages of digital transformation

  More than three-quarters of APAC firms struggle to revise their financial plans amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with many still lacking agile systems and processes, a new study finds

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• June 17, 2020 17 Jun'20

  Oracle full-year results: 1% revenue decline as Covid-19 bites

  Oracle sees 1% decline in full year-on-year 2019-20 revenue, and a 6% drop in its fourth quarter, but takes comfort from OCI Zoom win in pandemic crisis

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  Sapphire 2020: Christian Klein steps back from products to push ‘intelligent enterprise’ resilience

  Christian Klein used his first Sapphire keynote as CEO of SAP to underline the supplier’s support for supply chain resiliency and automation against Covid-19 pandemic and climate change backcloths

• May 12, 2020 12 May'20

  Australia’s Kmart gears up for mainframe migration

  Retailer is lifting and shifting some old Cobol code to AWS while rebuilding others into microservices in its mainframe migration move

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  Klein takes sole command of SAP as Q1 results show Covid impact

  As Christian Klein becomes sole chief executive officer, SAP announces total revenue of €6.521bn for the first quarter, up 7% on Q1 2019

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Coronavirus: NHSX calls on tech sector to support Covid-19 effort

  Technology sector asked to develop new ways to help the NHS manage virus outbreak and support people who are most at risk

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Push for digitisation in Malaysia amid coronavirus crisis

  Event cancellations and travel bans are spurring more companies to embrace digital tools to support remote and flexible working arrangements

• March 06, 2020 06 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: AI, cloud to dominate IT spending in India

  Indian organisations are expected to spend more on artificial intelligence and cloud this year in a bid gain an edge over rivals through key technology investments

• March 04, 2020 04 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: UK business applications investment in AI gathers steam

  Artificial intelligence intensifies as an investment area for UK IT buyers, while cloud delivery is coming to ERP as well as other applications

• March 02, 2020 02 Mar'20

  Volvo Group motors beyond annual performance review with Cornerstone

  Volvo Group has broken with its traditional annual performance review process in order to stoke entrepreneurialism, says Bahar Rasouli, director of global people performance

• February 09, 2020 09 Feb'20

  Australian government to roll out SAP S/4 Hana

  Australia’s finance department earmarks S/4 Hana as its ERP system to provide common financial and HR services across government

• January 30, 2020 30 Jan'20

  Microsoft earnings get a lift from Windows 7 extended security

  Azure powers Microsoft’s Q2 2020 earnings, but the company is not only seeing a boost from Windows 365, but also extended Windows 7 support

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  AI is transforming the Nordic workplace – and it won’t stop there

  Nordic startups are applying artificial intelligence to address workplace challenges, with HR and operations managers across the world watching

• January 20, 2020 20 Jan'20

  Spanish bank applies AI to staff training

  CaixaBank uses artificial intelligence to help its staff find and access the most relevant training resources

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  Lloyds Banking Group to create digital workplace with Microsoft

  Bank is transforming how its staff work as part of a multibillion-pound digital transformation

• December 27, 2019 27 Dec'19

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2019

  The steady incursion of artificial intelligence into enterprise software was a major theme behind Computer Weekly’s in-depth stories in this area in 2019

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  How ServiceNow is empowering Asia’s mobile workforce

  ServiceNow’s newly minted managing director in Asia talks up the company’s sweet spots and traction in the region, and what it’s doing to abstract away workflow complexities for mobile workers

• November 20, 2019 20 Nov'19

  Finland’s ministry of transport floats tech-enabled four-day week

  Government department says four-day working week is made possible by technologies such as artificial intelligence

• November 06, 2019 06 Nov'19

  Machine learning will have bigger impact than cloud

  Workday’s vice-chairman explains how machine learning can help employees become more effective, and hints at the company’s moves beyond finance and HR software

• October 28, 2019 28 Oct'19

  Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling: enterprise customers won’t pay extra for AI

  Mike Ettling, chief executive, Unit4, spoke to Computer Weekly at the Unleash HR conference in Paris about ERP trends, and how he is positioning the firm he started running this year

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Dubai’s Precision Group takes manufacturing into the cloud

  Head of IT at mould and packaging company talks about leading its digital transformation programme

• September 25, 2019 25 Sep'19

  Executive interview: Speed is cloud apps benefit, says Oracle’s Miranda

  In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World 2019, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s approach to cloud applications, digital assistants and machine learning

• September 12, 2019 12 Sep'19

  Oracle Q1, 2019-2020: revenue flat, cloud progress vaunted

  Oracle’s first quarter 2019-2020 results show revenue growth to be flat, but executives claim cloud headway and vaunt progress on autonomous database uptake. Co-CEO Mark Hurd takes leave of absence on health grounds

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  APAC is epicentre of the experience economy

  The experience economy is emerging in the Asia-Pacific region, but to succeed, enterprises will need to understand both operational and experience data

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  UK CIOs bottom of digital workflow league

  Leading CIOs shift from tech to leadership focus, but a new survey from ServiceNow has found that UK CIOs have not increased workflow budget

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  Welsh council aims to cut back-office processing costs by 95% through automation

  A council in South Wales is expecting to reduce the cost of human resources business processes by up to 95% through robotic process automation

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Looming private sector IR35 reforms prompts calls for gig economy-focused tax system overhaul

  The growth of the gig-based economy has exposed weaknesses in the UK tax system – exacerbated by the IR35 reforms – that mean an overhaul is needed, panel claims

• June 04, 2019 04 Jun'19

  Why HR and procurement need to collaborate

  A lack of insight into the external skills they use means organisations are missing out on smart human capital management

• May 30, 2019 30 May'19

  How Unilever found itself selling enterprise software

  Ken Charman has a track record in running IT firms. In 2018, he was coaxed out of retirement to spearhead Unilever’s spin-out software business

• April 24, 2019 24 Apr'19

  SAP Q1 2019 results: 400 more S/4 Hana sign-ups, €1.5bn in cloud

  SAP’s first-quarter 2019 financial results indicate cloud revenue at 26% of total, and 400 new customers for S/4 Hana. Senior executive losses, restructure and Qualtrix acquisition cost bite into profit

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Should you buy SaaS ERP or best-of-breed enterprise software?

  The major ERP providers are pushing their customers to their cloud offerings. It makes sense, but there are plenty of SaaS alternatives

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Del Monte Foods enlists Accenture to help guide move to AWS cloud

  US-based food producer has moved hundreds of servers and business applications to the AWS public cloud as part of a push to modernise its IT estate and boost its overall business agility

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Middle East countries accelerate quantum computing research

  Gulf countries must invest in quantum computing research to ensure they continue to to remain digital pioneers

• March 20, 2019 20 Mar'19

  How D+1 keeps payroll woes at bay

  The Singapore-based F&B business behind the Yolé frozen yogurt chain has consolidated its payroll data into a single database powered by Unit4’s HR management system