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• November 29, 2018 29 Nov'18

  Interview: Sam Lowe, chief technology officer, Streetbees

  Streetbees’ first IT chief brings artificial intelligence expertise to help the tech startup deliver a hive of data for its customers

• November 21, 2018 21 Nov'18

  Interview: Comms sector ripe for disruption as climate change takes hold

  Humanity has just 12 years left to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5⁰C and prevent climate meltdown. Paul Dickinson from the Carbon Disclosure Project discusses how CIOs can help take steps to avert disaster by changing their attitude to ...

• November 20, 2018 20 Nov'18

  Digital Realty grows Australia footprint with two new datacentres

  The datacentre service provider has opened its latest facility in Australia and has acquired land for a sixth one in a market teeming with demand from massive-scale cloud suppliers

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Top IT predictions in APAC in 2019

  Edge computing, data management and microservices will play a bigger role in the Asia-Pacific region in 2019 as enterprises reshape their technology architectures to become ‘digitally determined’ organisations

• November 14, 2018 14 Nov'18

  Challenger bank ready to get its banking licence back

  CivilisedBank is reapplying for a banking licence after giving it up to focus on its technology

• November 12, 2018 12 Nov'18

  HMRC resolves technical issue with tax-free childcare portal

  The department’s tax-free childcare website has again suffered technical issues, affecting 22,000 payments, but the problems were resolved last week, according to HMRC

• November 09, 2018 09 Nov'18

  High court Post Office trial puts subpostmasters’ contract under microscope

  Case against Post Office in relation to allegedly faulty computer system begins in High Court

• November 08, 2018 08 Nov'18

  Singapore’s SunMoon uses blockchain to trace apples

  Fruit and vegetable distributor has implemented a blockchain platform that enables consumers and suppliers to trace the origin of Fuji apples – with other fruits to follow

• November 07, 2018 07 Nov'18

  DXC makes digital transformation push in Asia

  IT services firm uses automation and AI to trim its portfolio and size as it helps customers on their digital transformation journey

• November 05, 2018 05 Nov'18

  Robots deliver savings for Dutch postal service PostNL

  Dutch delivery company PostNL is reaping huge efficiency savings by using robotic technology to automate time-consuming administrative tasks

• October 29, 2018 29 Oct'18

  Inside PropertyGuru’s DevOps journey

  The online property search firm is at ease with microservices, containers and serverless computing, even as it grapples with legacy applications that were developed earlier on in its history

• October 28, 2018 28 Oct'18

  Australia earns mixed record in IT agility

  Despite being fervent adopters of cloud, Australian enterprises are slower than those in the US and UK in deploying business-critical applications

• October 26, 2018 26 Oct'18

  DNS attacks cost finance firms millions of pounds a year

  Average cost of recovering from a single DNS attack is $924,390 for a large financial services company, survey shows

• October 24, 2018 24 Oct'18

  11 of 12 border IT systems at risk of not being ready by Brexit, says NAO report

  All but one of the critical IT systems needed at the UK border are at risk of not being ready by 29 March 2019, which will have implications if there is a no-deal Brexit

• October 23, 2018 23 Oct'18

  CIOs and the cloud: The future of European enterprise software

  European organisations are moving to the cloud rapidly, but trepidation remains in concerning certain aspects, such as security

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Robots in the workplace supported by 81% of business chiefs

  Robotic process automation continues to be taken up by more organisations – but despite proven benefits, those that already use it are struggling to scale it up

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  No let-up in digital banking glitches as TSB and HSBC customers are hit on payday

  Online and mobile app banking outages continue to increase in regularity as TSB and HSBC customers report problems

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  CIO interview: Fraser Ingram, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Bank

  Fraser Ingram joined the Clydesdale and Yorkshire banking group as CIO just at the right time – as it was embarking on its digital journey

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Best supply chain firms are masters of data and automation

  Europe’s best supply chains are making the most out of e-commerce, customer insights and robotic process automation, according to Gartner

• September 17, 2018 17 Sep'18

  Government stays firm on target of 25 million Gov.uk Verify users by 2020

  Cabinet Office has confirmed it is sticking to its target of having 25 million Verify users by 2020, despite government projects watchdog calling for project to be scrapped

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  UK security vetting IT system failing, says NAO

  The National Audit Office is critical of the government’s project to centralise its security vetting process, as the IT system has been plagued by failures from the start and has led to serious delays

• August 24, 2018 24 Aug'18

  Dubai Health Authority launches artificial intelligence strategy

  Healthcare organisation is rolling out next-generation technology in its health facilities to improve patient care

• August 20, 2018 20 Aug'18

  Swedish government and industry address IT skills shortage

  Sweden faces major challenges in resourcing its growing IT sector with the right talent

• August 15, 2018 15 Aug'18

  Australian enterprises warming up to DevOps

  The burgeoning DevOps culture in Australia has attracted new market players and led major banks and telcos to embrace the movement to get development and operations teams working in unison

• August 09, 2018 09 Aug'18

  Photobox gets snappy with mass-data migration to AWS cloud

  Photobox Group’s CTO, Richard Orme, has revealed details of how a mass-data migration to the Amazon Web Services cloud has set the firm on the path to embrace artificial intelligence

• July 23, 2018 23 Jul'18

  Commerzbank creates Hadoop-based platform for business-critical insights

  German bank creates an entire new department to build and support a platform to provide business-critical insights

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Matt Hancock to promise £487m for NHS tech

  In his first speech as health secretary, Matt Hancock will continue to fly the flag for digital

• July 16, 2018 16 Jul'18

  Rio Tinto transports iron ore with autonomous train

  The 280km journey in Western Australia was made under Rio Tinto’s autonomous train programme aimed at improving the productivity and safety of workers

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  Australian startups team up to keep wind turbines humming

  Using acoustic sensors and nanosatellite connectivity, two Australian startups hope to identify potential turbine problems before they occur to secure the country’s wind energy

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  IT service provider HCL acquires sector expertise as part of European strategy

  Indian IT services firm boosts its European car industry credentials though multi-million Euro investment

• July 01, 2018 01 Jul'18

  Australian government grappling with digital transformation woes

  Digital transformation in Australia’s public sector has been beset by soaring rhetoric and vague aspirations by government, a new report reveals

• June 28, 2018 28 Jun'18

  Two further regions join care record exemplar programme

  Yorkshire and Humber and Thames Valley have been chosen by NHS England to join the three other care record exemplars, each receiving up to £7.5m to speed up delivery of integrated health and care

• June 27, 2018 27 Jun'18

  Technology key to keeping staff happy

  Giving employees access to the latest technologies will improve their satisfaction and increase productivity, survey shows

• June 14, 2018 14 Jun'18

  Bank of England to set minimum service requirements after TSB and Visa outages

  The Bank of England is planning new rules for the minimum service levels that financial service providers must offer, even during IT outages

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  DWP finally publishes Universal Credit business case

  Published eight years after the programme began, the business case states that Universal Credit will generate £8bn a year in “economic value” once it is in a “steady state”

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  IT spending reaches 10-year high as CIOs struggle with digital technology strategy

  IT leaders have seen their budgets and headcounts rise for the first time in 10 years, but face challenges implementing their digital strategies

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  UK tech firms increase exports by more than 20%

  The country’s tech sector continues to blossom and has significantly increased the export of both services and goods in recent years

• June 05, 2018 05 Jun'18

  HMRC on track for August roll-out of customs IT system

  The government will have a “fully functioning” customs declaration service by January 2019, HMRC CEO Jon Thompson told MPs

• May 29, 2018 29 May'18

  Firms step up spending on digital tech, but struggle with strategy

  Businesses and the public sector are stepping up their spending on digital technology, but many business leaders are struggling to keep pace with what it means for their business

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Hammond pledges funding to help SMEs adopt digital tech

  Chancellor promises to boost smaller companies with funding for digital technologies, and plans to launch a review of the UK’s productivity gap

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Singapore to adopt European e-invoicing standard

  The city-state is the first country outside Europe to embrace the Peppol e-invoicing standard to speed up business transactions and lower operating costs for SMEs

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  BT to shut London HQ and cut 13,000 jobs

  Another round of cuts comes as BT struggles to reposition itself for sustainable long-term growth

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  UK railways to save billions of pounds through digital signalling

  Network Rail hails digital transformation plans as “a turning point in the history of our railways”

• May 09, 2018 09 May'18

  How enterprises can cope with digital disruption

  Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst says enterprises can take a leaf from DevOps and build modularity into their technology infrastructure to prepare for the forces of digital disruption

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Met Police to get integrated policing system from Northgate

  Five-year contract covers integrated IT system to be used across the Metropolitan force, two years after it went out to tender

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  Malaysia’s Supahands finds agility with the cloud

  Regional workforce crowdsourcing startup relies on the cloud to keep its infrastructure agile enough to scale up and down, according to customer demand

• April 25, 2018 25 Apr'18

  TSB IT meltdown has the makings of an epic

  TSB’s very public IT problems will send shivers down the spine of IT teams at large banks that are yet to migrate to new core banking systems

• April 24, 2018 24 Apr'18

  Nurses want to use IT, but are held back by barriers

  A majority of nurses welcome digital technology, but costs, poor connectivity and a lack of interoperability act as barriers, and lead community nurses to use paper instead

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  UK and Indian governments agree tech partnership

  Agreement aims to identify organisations in the two countries that can work together and open up opportunities for tech entrepreneurs

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  European IT services spending down as businesses focus on GDPR compliance

  European organisations are reducing their spending on IT services and are redirecting resources towards becoming compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation