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• January 11, 2012 11 Jan'12

  Cloud solves IT innovation and maintenance imbalance

  CIOs can rebalance the scenario of spending 80% of their budget on maintenance and 20% on innovation if they harness cloud computing.

• January 09, 2012 09 Jan'12

  Stratfor hacking puts UK, US, Nato officials at risk

  A breach of web servers at US-based global intelligence firm Stratfor over Christmas has put hundreds of UK, US and NATO officials at risk, a cyber-security expert has revealed.

• December 29, 2011 29 Dec'11

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2011

  Sign up to Computer Weekly's research library to download the top 10 research reports from 2011.

• December 21, 2011 21 Dec'11

  Government lacks skills to deliver ICT strategy, says NAO

  The government lacks the technical skills to deliver on aspects of its ICT strategy, the National Audit Office has found.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  CIO interview: Denise McDonagh, director of Home Office IT

  Denise McDonagh has countless real-life examples of why the traditional approach to government IT is not working.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  Microsoft updates Windows Azure cloud platform

  Microsoft has released new features of its Windows Azure cloud development platform, including open source capabilities and simplified billing and management.

• December 13, 2011 13 Dec'11

  CIO interview: Marcus East on leaving Comic Relief for Apple

  As Comic Relief’s IT leader moves on to join Apple, he talks about the charity’s technology strategy and the jobs market for IT leaders.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Infosys to transform Syngenta IT in outsourcing deal

  Indian IT services firm Infosys is now the first port of call for all IT-enabled business transformations at agribusiness Syngenta.

• December 07, 2011 07 Dec'11

  CIO interview: Julian Burnett, chief technology officer, Sainsbury’s

  On plans for IT project delivery at Sainsbury’s, as well as the move to a multichannel set-up, outsourcing, innovation and skills development.

• December 02, 2011 02 Dec'11

  Spending on IT projects to drop in Europe in 2012

  European businesses and public sector organisations will significantly cut their IT project spending in 2012 following a spending surge in 2011.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Essex County Council invests £15m in IT to cut costs

  Essex County Council is pumping £15m into an IT infrastructure upgrade expected to create efficiency savings of £7m per year, says CIO David Wilde.

• November 30, 2011 30 Nov'11

  Shell enterprise MDM foundation proof of concept disturbs rulebook

  Shell has laid a foundation for enterprise master data management, choosing SAP MDM over Microsoft. The major lesson was that IT can build an enterprise MDM system to which the business will come.

• November 25, 2011 25 Nov'11

  G-Cloud goes agile for IT procurement

  The Cabinet Office has found it so difficult to find a fair way to manage suppliers through the G-Cloud programme that it has cut back its scope and plans to develop in agile-style iterations.

• November 24, 2011 24 Nov'11

  How Experian is retro-fitting its datacentre to boost efficiency

  Experian's Fairham House datacentre in Nottingham uses blade servers, virtualisation and cold aisle containment to improve energy efficiency.

• November 14, 2011 14 Nov'11

  IBM builds a city-wide cloud computing platform for Sunderland City Council

  IBM builds a cloud computing platform for Sunderland City Council. which the council hopes will reduce operational costs by £1.4m annually over the next five years.

• November 04, 2011 04 Nov'11

  Newham Borough Council slashes IT costs by £2m

  The London Borough of Newham (LBN) has cut annual IT costs by £2m through moving to a shared services model, encouraging citizens to self-serve and renegotiating contracts with its main technology partners.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  Data protection regulators will increase focus on HR systems

  Protecting the confidentiality of personal data and employee records will become a major challenge for enterprises and IT suppliers.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  HR systems integration is a costly problem

  Enterprises are wasting millions trying to integrate human resources (HR) systems that are not designed to communicate with each other, according to HR managers.

• November 03, 2011 03 Nov'11

  How achievable is the government’s move to the cloud?

  After a long period of uncertainty around the government's G-Cloud initiative, including spurious claims it had been scrapped, the strategy has been placed firmly back in the spotlight as central to the public sector IT cost-saving agenda. Computer ...

• October 14, 2011 14 Oct'11

  CIO interview: Gerry Pennell, CIO, London 2012 Olympics

  With less than 10 months to go, London 2012 CIO Gerry Pennell is fully focused on the task of delivering a project that simply cannot miss its deadline.

• April 20, 2011 20 Apr'11

  Infosec 2011: Policy is only way to deal with social media, say security professionals

  The best and only way organisations can deal with the use of social media is through robust policies and user aware campaigns

• April 08, 2011 08 Apr'11

  CIOs must think about ACT, says IT advisor

  CIOs should abandon the concept of Information Technology and start thinking about Applied Competitive Technology.

• March 08, 2011 08 Mar'11

  Exclusive: Free software guru Richard Stallman on government IT and why he hates the cloud

  The founding father of the free software movement tells Computer Weekly why government just doesn't "get it"

• March 04, 2011 04 Mar'11

  South Wales police plod on with secret ASBO database

  South Wales Police is developing a covert national database that will record and store reports of anti-social behaviour, Computer Weekly has learned

• March 03, 2011 03 Mar'11

  Too little, too late says Commons report on scientific advice

  Government must ensure that requirements for security clearance do not deter academics from providing scientific advice to government on cyber attacks, says...

• January 28, 2011 28 Jan'11

  Analysis: can Sage break the mould with its SaaS for SMEs?

  Sage finally looks set to develop its web strategy, having launched SageOne, a software-as-a-service application for small businesses. But is the move too little and too late for a company seen by many as stuck in its ways?

• December 15, 2010 15 Dec'10

  £500m framework agreement centralises local government software purchasing

  The government is setting up a framework agreement worth £500m on behalf of local government, in one of the first examples of software for local councils being bought centrally.

• November 29, 2010 29 Nov'10

  Q&A: SAP co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe on SAP strategy

  Jim Hagemann Snabe was appointed co-chief executive at enterprise software maker SAP in February. Computer Weekly quizzed him at the recent UK SAP user group conference

• November 22, 2010 22 Nov'10

  Analysis: UK companies fail to plug biggest data leaks – the insider threat

  Most companies know they have information that is vital to their survival and that could damage the company if it fell into the wrong hands, but insider data theft is rife in the UK, a survey has revealed.

• October 25, 2010 25 Oct'10

  Deloitte reveals top 50 fastest growing IT firms

  Consultancy Deloitte has released its latest annual ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in the UK. The Technology Fast 50, as it is...

• October 20, 2010 20 Oct'10

  SAP prepares for cloud service

  SAP has unveiled its strategy for cloud computing, virtualisation and real-time analytics.

• October 01, 2010 01 Oct'10

  DoH seeks patient self-monitoring IT to aid NHS savings

  Technology that enables patients to monitor their own conditions could help the NHS meet part of its £20bn cost-savings programme, said the Department of Health's CIO.

• September 30, 2010 30 Sep'10

  $1m worth of bugs in average app, study finds

  The average software application has more than $1m of trouble buried inside it, and government apps are the worst, says a software quality analyst.

• September 24, 2010 24 Sep'10

  Oracle targets chip makers and specialised software producers

  Oracle is not done with acquisitions, and will look to makers of computer chips and industry-specific software next, says chief executive Larry Ellision.

• September 22, 2010 22 Sep'10

  Microsoft lock-in stalls Bristol council's open source strategy

  Bristol City Council has been forced to ditch a major tranche of its open systems strategy because it is locked in to using Microsoft software and standards.

• September 13, 2010 13 Sep'10

  Data modeling tools: How do you evaluate and select the right tool

  While buying data modeling tools, it is very important to evaluate niche offerings and select the right tool based on various factors—a how-to.

• August 31, 2010 31 Aug'10

  Data modeling solution evaluation criteria for your organization

  A check list to select a data modeling solution which can efficiently access, represent and modify existing data.

• August 23, 2010 23 Aug'10

  Oracle unveils virtualisation strategy for enterprise apps

  Oracle has unveiled its desktop to server virtualisation strategy which it has positioned as a more rounded suite compared with the market leading VMWare.

• July 30, 2010 30 Jul'10

  Millions download suspicious Android wallpaper

  Up to 4.6 million users of the Android smartphone operating system have downloaded a suspicious wallpaper app that collects and transmits user data to a site in China

• July 27, 2010 27 Jul'10

  Bayer signs five-year deal for global SAP system

  Pharmaceuticals company Bayer has signed a five-year global enterprise agreement with SAP to support the company's IT strategy to standardise globally on...

• July 08, 2010 08 Jul'10

  UK business needs multi-channel software strategy, says SAP

  SAP's strategy of focusing on multiple types of delivery supports the needs of UK business, says Tim Noble, managing director of SAP UK & Ireland.

• June 28, 2010 28 Jun'10

  Cabinet Office seeks opinions on transparency and open data

  The Cabinet Office says it wants the public to have a say on which data sets it releases, as part of its new "commitment to transparency".

• June 11, 2010 11 Jun'10

  Elsevier buys semantic search firm

  Elsevier, Computer Weekly's parent company, has bought assets from US-based semantic technology and knowledge discovery software firm Collexis Holdings for an undisclosed sum.

• April 14, 2010 14 Apr'10

  Three steps to successful CRM

  To make a success of customer relationship management (CRM) systems CIOs need a clear strategy which builds on the corporate strategy and maps onto future...

• April 08, 2010 08 Apr'10

  Putting ERP in the cloud

  Companies such as Salesforce.com have made it possible to put customer relationship management (CRM) systems in the cloud, but

• March 15, 2010 15 Mar'10

  Pfizer adopts MS OneNote for web collaboration

  Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has built its Enterprise 2.0 strategy to roll out web collaboration tools internally on the Microsoft OneNote tool that ships...

• February 17, 2010 17 Feb'10

  Video: Salesforce.com runs beta of Chatter collaboration

  A select few businesses have been trialling the beta of Salesforce.com's Chatter application, which links enterprise collaboration with cloud computing and social networking.

• January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10

  Tories to invite public opinion in online consultation

  The Conservative Party is planning to offer a prize of £1m to a software developer who can create a web platform to engage the public in the policy-making...

• December 03, 2009 03 Dec'09

  Indian companies are top importers of IT workers

  Seven out of the top ten importers of IT workers to the UK in 2008 are Indian companies according to data obtained by the Association of Professional Staffing Companies (Apsco) under the Freedom of Information Act.

• November 25, 2009 25 Nov'09

  Technology at the heart of London Stock Exchange strategy

  Technology featured high on the agenda as the London Stock Exchange outlined...

• July 02, 2009 02 Jul'09

  Oracle Fusion 11g will 'simplify enterprise computing', says president

  Oracle's latest Fusion Middleware 11g is a key part of Oracle's strategy to help organisation solve complex integration problems, says Oracle president Charles Phillips.

• January 27, 2009 27 Jan'09

  IT departments will be extinct in two years

  The IT department will not disappear by 2013 after all, but actually two years earlier because of the recession, says the head of software...

• January 15, 2009 15 Jan'09

  Government plans personal data sharing scheme

  The government is planning to allow Whitehall and the wider public sector to more easily share personal data across organisations.

• November 05, 2008 05 Nov'08

  M&S profits fall but IT investment will continue

  Marks and Spencer reported a fall in profits yesterday, but said investment in IT would continue.

• October 02, 2008 02 Oct'08

  Santander’s Partenon to pay-off amid consolidation

  Banco Santander has put IT at the heart of its acquisition strategy and is in a strong position as the turmoil in financial services serves up bargain acquisitions.

• July 21, 2008 21 Jul'08

  BBC appoints new iPlayer boss

  The BBC has appointed Erik Huggers as its new director of Future Media and Technology division, which includes the iPlayer.

• May 16, 2008 16 May'08

  NHS IT scheme now four years behind schedule

  Plans for the NHS's national IT scheme are feasible - but the main software is running four years behind, and may not be fully rolled out until 2015, according to a report published today by the National Audit Office.

• February 13, 2008 13 Feb'08

  How Plus Markets is using sophisticated IT to compete with the London Stock Exchange

  Plus Markets has placed IT at the heart of its strategy to compete with the London Stock Exchange's main market for buyers and sellers of shares.

• January 23, 2008 23 Jan'08

  Cisco Networkers 2008: next-gen network strategy unveiled

  Cisco plans to embed software to deliver advanced voice and video functions within its network hardware to meet a growing demand for next-generation network technology

• January 16, 2008 16 Jan'08

  Oracle to acquire BEA Systems

  Oracle announced it is to acquire BEA Systems for £4.3bn, to bolster its service oriented architecture strategy.

• January 07, 2008 07 Jan'08

  Government ignored key advice on 'avoidable contact', says Socitm

  The government is ignoring important advice regarding its national indicator on cutting "avoidable contact", according to the Society of Information Technology Management (Socitm).

• November 19, 2007 19 Nov'07

  100Gbps over copper is possible, study shows

  Engineers at Penn State university are trying to run 100Gbps data rates over Cat 7 copper cables. If successful, this would allow copper cables to handle data rates reserved for fibre-optic links.

• November 13, 2007 13 Nov'07

  Technology brings longer hours but corporate lawyers like it

  In-house corporate lawyers say technology brings information overload and longer working hours, but more job satisfaction.

• October 05, 2007 05 Oct'07

  Tradelect platform pays dividends

  The London Stock Exchange provides a lesson in how to generate growth and drive innovation on the back of a business-focused technology strategy

• September 13, 2007 13 Sep'07

  Nortel targets virtualisation

  Nortel plans to push deeper into the datacentre market next year with a new product strategy that stresses virtualisation and reliability.

• August 24, 2007 24 Aug'07

  TJX sales and share price rise despite data loss

  TJX, the US retailer responsible for the biggest loss of customer data so far, saw customers and investors shrug off the potential damage as sales and share price hit record levels.

• August 10, 2007 10 Aug'07

  Rolls-Royce standardises SAP for production gains

  Rolls-Royce has completed the homogenisation of SAP systems as part of its strategy to standardise its systems and increase manufacturing capacity through flexibility.

• August 07, 2007 07 Aug'07

  Oracle defends acquisition strategy

  At a meeting earlier today, Oracle president, Charles Phillips, defended his the company's acquisition strategy, saying Oracle was now providing global suport and internationalisation for the products it bought.

• July 25, 2007 25 Jul'07

  SaaS: Tricks and traps of uploading data in bulk

  The dark side of SaaS is losing control over your data. Learn how to stay in control while uploading data in bulk in this new report from Info-Tech Research.

• July 16, 2007 16 Jul'07

  Coreix opens carbon-offset data centre

  Coreix says it is operating the UK's first carbon-neutral data centre, after signing a 20-year agreement with the World Land Trust.

• June 18, 2007 18 Jun'07

  Volkswagen gives IT staff bigger say in ERP system

  Volkswagen aims to boost car production worldwide by embarking on an IT strategy that will give its IT staff a greater say in how itsenterprise resource planning systems should be run and used by the business.

• May 31, 2007 31 May'07

  SAP appoints CTO

  SAP has appointed Vishal Sikka as chief technology officer (CTO), to lead technology and architecture strategy across the firm’s product portfolio.

• May 24, 2007 24 May'07

  Data retrieval strategies: Retrieving email and database archives overview

  This overview focuses on the considerations involved in email and database archives with an emphasis on retention and search to meet legal discovery requirements.

• April 23, 2007 23 Apr'07

  Prince's Trust challenges the IT crowd

  The Prince's Trust Technology Leadership Group has launched two fundraising challenges aimed at people working in IT. Money raised from the challenges, in Namibia and Borneo, will provide help to some of the UK's most disadvantaged young people.

• April 02, 2007 02 Apr'07

  No cash for intelligence system

  A key police intelligence sharing system is likely to be scrapped because of budgetary constraints, the head of the agency in charge of police IT strategy has warned.

• December 12, 2006 12 Dec'06

  SAP targets smaller users with hosted ERP service

  SAP is to extend its service oriented architecture strategy during 2007, with a suite of ERP products designed for small and medium sized companies.

• November 21, 2006 21 Nov'06

  Free data analysis from Attune Systems

  Enterprise-class file virtualisation solutions provider Attune Systems is offering a free infrastructure and data usage assessment to qualified potential customers.

• November 21, 2006 21 Nov'06

  GPs want opt-in on patient records

  More than half of GPs in England would be unlikely to upload clinical data onto a national clinical record unless the patient specifically consented to it, according to the latest Medix survey of GPs.

• November 17, 2006 17 Nov'06

  Spread the word on Fusion, Oracle users urged

  The UK Oracle User Group has backed Oracle’s plans to link together its ERP applications under the ­Fusion middleware strategy, but admitted it should have done more to raise awareness about the scheme.

• August 10, 2006 10 Aug'06

  IBM to acquire FileNet for £880m

  IBM is acquiring content management company FileNet for $1.6bn (£880m) to enhance its information-on-demand product strategy.

• July 18, 2006 18 Jul'06

  Charity saves £2.5m with e-procurement

  Britain’s biggest charity, Cancer Research UK, has saved more than £2.5m in a year by adopting an e-procurement strategy using online auctions.

• June 13, 2006 13 Jun'06

  Microsoft tackles the data overload with search tools

  Microsoft has unveiled its enterprise search strategy to UK IT directors, bringing together desktop, intranet and web searching.

• June 01, 2006 01 Jun'06

  Microsoft forges on with virtualisation strategy

  Microsoft is fast tracking virtualisation, making improvements to its hypervisor-based and System Centre Virtual Machine Manager systems as well as acquiring a company that specialises in application virtualisation solutions.

• May 26, 2006 26 May'06

  Toys R Us moves to new web strategy despite Amazon opposition

  Toys R Us is moving ahead with a new online sales strategy despite Amazon.com trying to scupper its plans.

• April 10, 2006 10 Apr'06

  Nortel plans product cull

  Nortel Networks is planning to pull out of a number of networking markets in a strategy it hopes will see its to return to profitability.

• March 08, 2006 08 Mar'06

  Decreased cost the main driver for IT virtualisation

  The ability to reduce costs is the main factor companies consider when implementing a virtualisation strategy, according to a report by IT virtualisation specialist C&C Technology Consulting.

• March 02, 2006 02 Mar'06

  IT professionals still have much to learn about virtualisation

  A survey by virtualisation specialist C&C Technology Consulting has found that just over a third of companies have only an average knowledge of virtualisation and that just under half are actually using the technology to their advantage.

• February 07, 2006 07 Feb'06

  Bush proposes £38bn IT budget

  The US administration has proposed a $64.3bn (£38bn) IT budget for next year, with the slight increase on this year mainly going to homeland security.

• February 03, 2006 03 Feb'06

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• January 16, 2006 16 Jan'06

  Oracle to buy 360Commerce to expand retail offering

  Oracle is acquiring 360Commerce as part of its ongoing strategy to broaden its retail software portfolio through acquisition.

• January 13, 2006 13 Jan'06

  Storage giant buys infrastructure firm

  EMC Corporation has acquired Internosis, a North American-based IT services firm that specialises in IT strategy

• November 07, 2005 07 Nov'05

  Fusion strategy 'will not mean complete change'

  Oracle has begun fleshing out its roadmap for Fusion, its strategy and architecture for integrating its enterprise software and database portfolio.

• October 31, 2005 31 Oct'05

  Oracle users focus on middleware strategy

  Oracle's Project Fusion middleware strategy will be a major focus at the UK Oracle User Group Conference in Birmingham this week.

• October 17, 2005 17 Oct'05

  Citrix reveals software virtualisation strategy

  Citrix revealed its virtualisation strategy at the iForum user conference in Las Vegas in mid-October, with the announcement of Project Constellation.

• October 17, 2005 17 Oct'05

  Ease of data use key to Saga analytics roll-out

  Over-50s group Saga has begun using predictive analytics software to develop a cross-campaign strategy for its direct marketing campaigns.

• September 26, 2005 26 Sep'05

  Oracle chief pledges support for users after buying spree

  Larry Ellison used the giant Oracle OpenWorld user show in San Francisco last week to lay out his company's strategy to integrate all the products it has acquired during a 12 month buying spree.

• September 26, 2005 26 Sep'05

  Oracle sets out Project Fusion strategy to bring enterprise applications together

  New architecture and 'hot pluggable' middleware unveiled at Oracle OpenWorld

• September 13, 2005 13 Sep'05

  Adobe adds workflow features to e-forms management software

  Adobe has fleshed out its electronic forms strategy with the latest version of its Livecycle server platform, adding support for workflow management.

• September 05, 2005 05 Sep'05

  IBM to acquire DWL to improve data integration

  IBM is to acquire DWL to improve its Information on Demand data services strategy.

• June 17, 2005 17 Jun'05

  Information strategy slashes storage costs at GM

  Car giant General Motors reduced its worldwide information storage costs by 20% during 2004 by using EMC software, systems and services.