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• 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.

• May 23, 2005 23 May'05

  Nationwide looks to virtual servers as the key to applications consolidation plans

  Nationwide Building Society has consolidated 230 SQL Server databases running on commodity PC servers onto three Xeon servers and...

• May 18, 2005 18 May'05

  SAP joins battle with Oracle for SMEs

  SAP is expanding its mid-market sales channel to target SMEs for its business software, a strategy already adopted by arch-rival...

• May 17, 2005 17 May'05

  Spyware costs plague SMBs

  Never mind the security dangers, spyware is costing SMBs plenty in time and productivity.

• May 04, 2005 04 May'05

  IT 'still out of synch with business strategy'

  Getting IT strategy in tune with that of the general business has long been a goal of IT directors

• April 13, 2005 13 Apr'05

  Hard disc security nightmares

  The German media has reported that a Brandenburg police hard drive containing highly sensitive operational and personal...

• April 04, 2005 04 Apr'05

  Users wait to learn new HP chief's strategy

  Hewlett-Packard has appointed NCR chief executive Mark Hurd as its new CEO and president.

• March 21, 2005 21 Mar'05

  Microsoft previews Longhorn web technology

  Microsoft has released a preview of Indigo, the technology at the heart of its web services strategy for Windows Longhorn.

• March 14, 2005 14 Mar'05

  Microsoft updates its ERP strategy

  Microsoft has revamped Project Green, its strategy to combine its Great Plains, Axapta and Navision enterprise resource planning...

• March 09, 2005 09 Mar'05

  Microsoft updates malware detector

  Microsoft has updated its free tool for removing malicious software from servers and operating systems.

• March 09, 2005 09 Mar'05

  What has happened to Europe’s software firms?

  The state of the European software industry will be the subject of a forthcoming event organised by IT industry charity forum the...

• March 04, 2005 04 Mar'05

  BT turns to Venus to proactively prevent virus attacks

  BT has launched a new e-mail security tool to identify viruses carried by e-mail that slip through existing anti-virus systems.

• February 28, 2005 28 Feb'05

  Microsoft details SQL Server 2005 family and pricing

  Microsoft has released details of its next generation SQL Server 2005 database, which will be available in four versions this...

• February 03, 2005 03 Feb'05

  Investment company's communication systems gets a security boost

  Cabot Square Capital is protecting its critical communications architecture from downtime with SteelEye’s LifeKeeper for...

• February 03, 2005 03 Feb'05

  Oracle releases critical security patch

  Oracle has released a critical security patch that is designed to fix more than 20 security flaws across a range of its database,...

• January 31, 2005 31 Jan'05

  Back patent proposals, urges BCS

  IT staff supporting proposed European legislation on software patents are being urged by the BCS to campaign via IT trade...

• January 11, 2005 11 Jan'05

  Forrester: Time to evaluate your e-commerce strategy

  Europe’s growing e-commerce trade and increased competition for customers in North America is causing firms to re-evaluate their...

• January 05, 2005 05 Jan'05

  Network managers hit by web traffic overload

  Research by internet infrastructure solutions provider Zeus Technology has revealed dramatic increases in traffic are overloading...

• December 22, 2004 22 Dec'04

  EMC to buy Smarts for £135m

  EMC is buying privately held System Management ARTS, known as Smarts, in a £135m deal that will boost EMC's software portfolio...

• December 21, 2004 21 Dec'04

  Next-generation adware and spyware protection

  CyberGuard, a provider of security solutions, has begun shipping a new form of protection against an increasingly common internet...

• December 17, 2004 17 Dec'04

  Microsoft buys antispyware company

  Microsoft has purchased Giant Company Software, which makes software to detect malicious software programs known as "spyware".

• December 16, 2004 16 Dec'04

  ISC launches programme for security best practice

  Value added reseller, ISC, has launched what it cliams is the first all-in-one programme to enable small to medium-sized...

• December 13, 2004 13 Dec'04

  Cisco fills out convergence range

  Cisco has fleshed out its next generation network strategy with the introduction of an eight-slot version of its CRS-1 high-end...

• December 09, 2004 09 Dec'04

  Oracle plans database development tool

  Oracle is working on a tool to provide a complete lifecycle for building, managing, and updating database applications, a company...

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Wick Hill launches WLan security solution

  Value-added distributor Wick Hill has launched a security solution from Check Point that it says will pave the way for the rapid...

• December 07, 2004 07 Dec'04

  Oracle OpenWorld focuses on data integration

  Data integration will be one of the major themes at Oracle's OpenWorld conference this week.

• December 03, 2004 03 Dec'04

  Object database goes open source

  Startup company db4objects is releasing its object database, db4o, under an open-source format, with the product now available...

• December 01, 2004 01 Dec'04

  Disability compliance via Vasco

  With the Disability Discrimination Act coming into force last month, Wick Hill has announced a Vasco security authentication...

• November 24, 2004 24 Nov'04

  IBM introduces Workplace Resource Center

  IBM has unveiled, under its Workplace platform strategy, an online developer resource centre that will give corporate and...

• November 19, 2004 19 Nov'04

  Oracle to deliver quarterly security patches

  From 18 January, Oracle will provide security patches for all of its products on a quarterly basis, a schedule it believes is...

• November 16, 2004 16 Nov'04

  Liquid Machines makes document rights splash

  Liquid Machines has announced Email Control 6.0, an e-mail policy and security messaging software package for enterprise...

• November 08, 2004 08 Nov'04

  Salesforce.com pushes for integration

  Hosted CRM service provider Salesforce.com took another step forward last week in its strategy to build an online ecosystem of...

• November 05, 2004 05 Nov'04

  Offshoring company looks to make programmers obsolete

  One of India's biggest offshoring players has launched software that converts legacy applications to modern programming...