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IT efficiency and sustainability

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Retail banking regulations hit UK with the potential of a ‘Big Bang’ moment

  The UK retail banking sector is at the beginning of a journey towards to a more competitive future as new regulation hits them

• January 11, 2018 11 Jan'18

  Sample datasets key to successful AI at NHS

  IT providers will need access to datasets from NHS Digital to create artificial intelligence algorithms, but they should be held accountable for the systems they develop, says report

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  UAE tech growth prompts firms to review internal IT security

  As IT becomes more prominent in the UAE economy, more and more internal connections between people and systems are created, all of which need to be secured

• January 10, 2018 10 Jan'18

  Marks and Spencer eyes £30m annual cost savings from digital-first retail push

  High-street retailer has fleshed out plans to put digital at the heart of its business to boost operational efficiency in response to changing consumer demands

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Changes for digital government in Theresa May's reshuffle

  Matt Hancock takes over as DCMS secretary of state, while Caroline Nokes says goodbye to her role as the minister responsible for digital at Cabinet Office

• January 09, 2018 09 Jan'18

  Cyber attacks in 2017 drive Nordic security efforts

  The volume of cyber attacks last year has increased boardroom focus on security in the Nordic region

• January 08, 2018 08 Jan'18

  Telco outsources digital transformation to Infosys

  Belgium's biggest telco will cut legacy systems as part of a digital transformation project

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  Case study: Doing digital the Stockport way

  Stockport Council’s digital programme is working to transform services for both citizens and staff, saving chunks of money and driving efficiency at the same time

• January 05, 2018 05 Jan'18

  London attracted record tech investment in 2017

  London-based tech firms received record levels of venture capital funding last year

• January 03, 2018 03 Jan'18

  Top IT priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2018

  Nordic CIOs tell Computer Weekly about their intentions for the year ahead

• December 22, 2017 22 Dec'17

  Air New Zealand to trial digital translation technology

  Airline becomes one of the first companies to try out a business case for Google's real-time translation technology

• December 20, 2017 20 Dec'17

  Sweden’s Stena Line sets sail for digital transformation

  Ferry operator’s CTO tells Computer Weekly how the company can differentiate itself by using digital tools to make its processes more efficient

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 enterprise IT in the Nordics stories in 2017

  The Nordic region might be best known in IT circles for its startup communities – but it has much more to offer

• December 11, 2017 11 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Christine Walters, director of informatics, St Helens & Knowsley NHS Trust

  St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’s director of informatics, Christine Walters, talks about running a health informatics service, the importance of understanding how people on the front line work and managing expectations

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  Critical border IT systems won’t be ready before Brexit, says PAC report

  Of the 85 IT systems at the UK border, 30 will need to be replaced or changed due to Brexit, but critical new or updated border IT systems won’t ready by the time the UK leaves the EU, PAC report finds

• December 08, 2017 08 Dec'17

  Santander UK recruits digital banking expert from Barclays

  Santander UK has poached Michael Harte from Barclays to drive digital transformation

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Carlos Abarca, TSB

  Carlos Abarca is guiding TSB through its migration from systems hosted by a competitor to a digitally focused in-house core banking platform.

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital

• December 05, 2017 05 Dec'17

  US utility provider PG&E on ditching the datacentre and going cloud-first

  US-based utility provider Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) discusses how getting out of the datacentre business and into the cloud is helping meet its regulatory, affordability and innovation targets

• November 28, 2017 28 Nov'17

  Fintech is increasing operational risk to banks

  European Banking Association report reveals fear of greater operational risk because of increased take-up of fintech in financial services sector

• November 26, 2017 26 Nov'17

  UK only average in terms of digital public services

  UK government has the innovation skills to become a digital public services leader, but needs to improve the ID and authentication that sits underneath it to reach this goal

• November 22, 2017 22 Nov'17

  CIO interview: David Southern, director of ICT, WWF UK

  In his 17 years in the IT department at the WWF, David Southern has seen many changes – and the advent of cloud computing is one of the biggest

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  Nordic CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia

  Swedish construction company Svevia is transforming digitally, driven by chief information officer Emil Dahlin

• November 16, 2017 16 Nov'17

  Private Swiss bank Julius Baer to save $1m a year with cloud HR

  Julius Baer banks on higher returns after replacing on-premise systems with cloud HR services

• November 09, 2017 09 Nov'17

  Bangalore offers the best ecosystem for digital transformation, says Economist report

  Bangalore ranked as the number one location for businesses looking to access the right ecosystem to support digital transformation

• October 27, 2017 27 Oct'17

  Nordea lays off 6,000, citing digital transformation as the driver

  Nordea is cutting staff as a result of its ongoing digital transformation, which means it needs less people

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  Scottish Water extends ServiceNow following HR success

  Having pioneered optimising the joiners and leavers process, the IT service management team at Scottish Water can now show other areas of the business the benefits of ServiceNow

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Millions being lost due to downtime in industrial systems

  Industrial companies are losing $260,000 per hour due to unplanned downtime, but predicting failure using digital twins can help overcome the problem

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Post Office computer system legal case reaches important procedural juncture

  Sub-postmasters group action against the Post Office reaches an important milestone

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Norway’s Trondheim embraces the cloud with Google G Suite

  Municipality is reaping the benefits of moving productivity software to the cloud

• October 18, 2017 18 Oct'17

  Cloud service spending almost matches traditional IT outsourcing

  Traditional outsourcing spending has plummeted in the latest three-month period, but spending on cloud-based IT services is going some way to filling the void

• October 16, 2017 16 Oct'17

  How technology is transforming healthcare delivery in Gulf region

  IT will transform the healthcare sector in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the coming years

• October 12, 2017 12 Oct'17

  UK bank Standard Chartered opens IT service centre in Bangalore

  Bank is expanding its operation in India, which provides business services to its operations globally

• October 10, 2017 10 Oct'17

  Abu Dhabi transport department uses drones to improve traffic flows

  Data collected by live video stream from drones is analysed at control centre to help alleviate traffic jams and other issues

• October 03, 2017 03 Oct'17

  CIOs moving to revenue-generating roles

  Gartner survey shows changing role for CIOs to cover revenue generation and deriving value from data, and spending less time on traditional IT delivery

• October 02, 2017 02 Oct'17

  Hard Brexit would see UK tech exports fall by £1.7bn

  UK manufacturers including those in the technology sector will lose billions of pounds of export revenue if the government completes a hard Brexit

• September 27, 2017 27 Sep'17

  UK-EU talks have failed to raise confidence of IT leaders

  IT decision-makers are no more confident about how Brexit will affect them despite this year’s general election and talks between the EU and the UK

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Amazon launches Middle East region

  Amazon opens its latest delivery hub in Bahrain to serve customers in the Middle East

• September 22, 2017 22 Sep'17

  Uber fails to get licence to operate in London renewed

  Transport for London has rejected Uber's application for its licence renewal, citing a lack of corporate responsibility as the reason

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  Blockchain tests delivering results and IBM seen as leader

  Businesses that have invested in trials of blockchain technology will repeat their investments

• September 07, 2017 07 Sep'17

  Thousands of Deutsche Bank employees will be replaced by robots

  The CEO of Deutsche Bank said a "big number of staff will eventually be replaced by robots” as it looks towards artificial intelligence technology

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  HCL expands global network with Swedish delivery centre

  HCL has opened another delivery centre in the Nordic region, this time in Gothenburg, Sweden

• August 30, 2017 30 Aug'17

  Challenger bank Fidor reaches 200,000 customers

  Fintech trailblazer Fidor now has more than 200,000 people using its banking services, but its CEO believes the fintech environment is getting tougher

• August 29, 2017 29 Aug'17

  Saudi Telecom Company creates cloud computing giant

  The IT joint venture in Saudi Arabia will drive the digitisation of government services

• August 23, 2017 23 Aug'17

  UAE telco Du pushes SaaS adoption in Middle East

  The Middle East looks set to see strong growth in software as a service and IT departments need to take a different approach

• August 17, 2017 17 Aug'17

  Barclays ring-fencing project means downtime for customers

  Many Barclays services will be unavailable this weekend as part of the bank's project to separate retail and investment operations

• August 16, 2017 16 Aug'17

  A decade of IT change since banking meltdown

  With 10 years passing since Northern Rock had to be bailed out by the government, we look at how banking IT has changed since the financial crisis

• August 11, 2017 11 Aug'17

  HSBC uses IBM to automate the processing of 100 million document pages

  In another instance of banks adopting automation to lower costs and drive productivity, HSBC uses IBM analytics technology to cut down on its paper trail

• August 10, 2017 10 Aug'17

  CIO interview: Daniel Gebler, chief technology officer, Picnic

  The Netherlands has the highest supermarket density in the world, yet a technology company has been able to gain market share from the established order