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IT outsourcing

• January 12, 2021 12 Jan'21

  IR35 private sector reforms: Research highlights lack of preparedness ahead of April 2021 start date

  As the private sector start date for the IR35 reforms looms large, research suggests some companies are still dragging their feet with their preparations

• December 23, 2020 23 Dec'20

  Wipro acquires IT units at German wholesalers

  German wholesaler Metro has sold IT units to Indian IT services company Wipro, as part of a long-term agreement

• December 18, 2020 18 Dec'20

  Three options for managing outsourcing relationships

  At some point, IT leaders need to take a hard look at existing outsourcing contracts to understand how well they reflect current business practices

• December 17, 2020 17 Dec'20

  Danske Bank fights money laundering with AI

  Danske Bank is using artificial intelligence to help it prevent a repeat of the huge money laundering scandal that hit one of its operations in Estonia

• December 15, 2020 15 Dec'20

  Air purifier manufacturer creates IoT service in the cloud

  Sweden’s Blueair introduces new functionality for customers through a cloud-based internet of things platform

• December 10, 2020 10 Dec'20

  After critical year, Vodafone trains security sights on CNI market

  Vodafone’s security head Steve Knibbs explains how he plans to bring the lessons of a transformative few years in cyber security to bear on new markets

• December 09, 2020 09 Dec'20

  There’s no going back to pre-pandemic security approaches

  The cyber security world will probably never return to its pre-pandemic state, and different approaches to security will come to the fore in 2021

• December 01, 2020 01 Dec'20

  Wayra partners with UK government for Latin American scaleup project

  Two scaleups from three Latin American countries – Argentina, Chile and Uruguay – will be selected by a project that will help the growing firms expand overseas into the UK market

• November 23, 2020 23 Nov'20

  Finnish finance giant pilots fingerprint payments

  OP Financial introduces biometric security technology to enable higher-value payments to be made safely using contactless cards

• November 17, 2020 17 Nov'20

  Botched software update to blame for Post Office Horizon crash

  Post Office says planned firmware update caused the problem that left branches unable to do business for 90 minutes

• November 16, 2020 16 Nov'20

  Post Office explanation of IT system outage so vague it is ‘pointless’

  Post Office criticised over vagueness of its explanation of the cause of a UK-wide IT failure that saw subpostmasters unable to do business

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  Financial Stability Board says it’s time to talk about IT outsourcing risks

  International organisation that monitors the finance sector asks for the industry to discuss the risks that IT outsourcing brings to the sector

• November 12, 2020 12 Nov'20

  TCS acquires Prudential Financial tech operation unit for free

  Hot on the heels of its €1 acquisition of Deutsche Bank’s Postbank Systems IT unit, TCS has taken on 1,500 people from the insurance giant’s Ireland-based IT unit

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Lack of openness on Horizon errors remains as Fujitsu refuses to explain latest outage

  Subpostmasters are being kept in the dark about errors in the branch computer system they use, despite the Post Office and Fujitsu being slammed in court over their lack of openness

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Border technologies largely fail to respect human rights

  AI-powered border technologies used to ‘manage’ migration frequently make the process more arbitrary, discriminatory and unjust, says human rights group

• November 10, 2020 10 Nov'20

  Deutsche Bank to sell retail banking IT unit to TCS for €1

  Deutsche Bank has agreed to sell its retail banking IT operation to one of its main IT suppliers for a token €1

• November 04, 2020 04 Nov'20

  Contractors claim IR35 reforms pose ‘bigger threat’ to their livelihoods than Covid-19 or Brexit

  Latest poll by contractor tax consultancy Qdos suggests freelancers are less concerned about the threat the coronavirus and Brexit pose to their businesses than the havoc the IR35 private sector reforms might cause

• October 29, 2020 29 Oct'20

  Victims contest technology firms’ attempt to dismiss cobalt mining deaths case

  Technology companies say they cannot be held responsible for the deaths of children mining for the cobalt used in their products

• October 27, 2020 27 Oct'20

  Sopra Steria hit by new version of Ryuk ransomware

  IT services company Sopra Steria says it has contained the ransomware virus, but systems will take a few weeks to be fully operational

• October 23, 2020 23 Oct'20

  Deutsche Bank in talks over sale of IT unit to TCS

  German bank is said to be in negotiations to sell its retail banking IT operation to Indian IT giant

• 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 20, 2020 20 Oct'20

  Police given access to self-isolation data

  NHS Test and Trace self-isolation data will be made available to police after new guidance changes data-sharing rules

• October 19, 2020 19 Oct'20

  Scottish Borders extends CGI outsourcing contract until 2040

  CGI will continue to provide the Scottish council’s end-to-end managed IT services until 2040, making it one of the longest extensions in the company’s history

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  HMRC signs five-year £169m contract with Fujitsu for VME platform

  Supplier will host 13 HMRC applications on its virtual managed environment platform, following its role as an incumbent provider to the department under two different contracts

• October 13, 2020 13 Oct'20

  Can chameleon Big Blue change its colours?

  IBM is renowned for reinventing itself. It now plans to spin out its Global Technology Services business, a division that was once its crown jewels

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  TCS results signal enterprise readiness to spend on IT after Covid-19 pause

  TCS’s financial results signal that enterprises are ready to invest in IT to help them recover from the coronavirus-related business slowdown

• October 09, 2020 09 Oct'20

  Major tech companies respond to lawsuit over mining deaths

  Multinational technology companies accused of knowingly benefiting from human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of Congo have responded to a lawsuit seeking to hold them accountable for the deaths of Congolese children in their cobalt supply ...

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  CISOs struggle to keep up with MITRE ATT&CK framework

  Despite its proven benefits for security, the MITRE ATT&CK framework is proving difficult for many, according to a joint study from McAfee and UC Berkeley

• October 01, 2020 01 Oct'20

  Trust in government technology is key to adoption

  Panellists at GovTech Summit 2020 speak about the need to build trust in government digital services, as the pandemic has created room for increased use of technology in the public sector

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  Tips on breaking free from long-term IT contracts

  Far-reaching, multi-year contracts are less popular these days, but IT departments often find the renewal date is still years away

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  GDS reviewing Cloud First policy post-Schrems II

  Review seeks to determine the future of government engagement with cloud hosting services as they relate to cross-border data flows

• September 21, 2020 21 Sep'20

  Big questions to be answered over TikTok and WeChat reprieve

  TikTok and WeChat seem to have received a stay of execution, but big questions and contradictions remain

• September 14, 2020 14 Sep'20

  Fintech Pledge launched to strengthen UK’s financial technology sector

  The Fintech Pledge initiative is designed to foster closer collaboration between banks and fintechs so that the UK can continue building a globally competitive fintech ecosystem

• September 10, 2020 10 Sep'20

  Edinburgh council to create smart city operations centre

  Edinburgh council extends an outsourcing agreement with CGI as it steps up its smart city programme

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  London councils to share technology procurement platform

  A new technology procurement platform will help all 33 local councils in London diversify their IT supplier portfolios

• September 03, 2020 03 Sep'20

  Insurers accept they were slow to adopt digital

  Insurance companies know they must prioritise digital investment and are planning in-house development to help make up lost ground

• September 02, 2020 02 Sep'20

  App integration means emergency services can identify caller location in three words

  Capita integrates What3words app into its emergency services control centre platform to help respondents identify the exact location of people who need help

• August 25, 2020 25 Aug'20

  Council to connect hundreds of its sites through wide area network

  Local authorities invest in networking and contact centre technology through IT outsourcing contracts

• August 17, 2020 17 Aug'20

  The Security Interviews: How Crest is remaking the future of consultancy

  Crest president Ian Glover taught himself cyber security while working on government computing systems in the 1970s and 1980s. Now he is on a decade-spanning mission to change security consultancy models

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  NHS SBS spies £75m savings on IT purchases through new procurement framework

  NHS organisations and public sector bodies will be encouraged to use £500m procurement framework to acquire IT software and hardware in a more cost-effective way

• August 12, 2020 12 Aug'20

  Police use of facial recognition found ‘unlawful’ in court

  In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeal has ruled that South Wales Police’s facial recognition deployments breached human rights and data protection laws

• August 11, 2020 11 Aug'20

  Looming threat of Covid-19 and IR35 reform conspire to keep contractor confidence dampened

  Quarterly data on how confident freelancers feel about their job and earning prospects highlights the negative impact Covid-19 and the government's looming tax reforms are having on the sector

• August 07, 2020 07 Aug'20

  India’s software industry calls for cuts to red tape

  Software industry lobby group iSpirt has called on the Indian government to ease the administrative burden of complying with rules related to taxes and trade

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  If you hire foreign IT staff, ‘you’re fired’, Trump tells bosses in government-owned entities

  Donald Trump has fired a pre-election warning to government organisations that give IT jobs to workers from overseas

• 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 30, 2020 30 Jul'20

  Accenture selected for key role in Bank of England core settlement system replacement

  Accenture will be technology delivery partner in project to replace the core system used to settle payments between banks

• July 29, 2020 29 Jul'20

  Schrems steps up pressure on Irish data protection commissioner on Facebook’s data sharing with US

  Austrian lawyer is considering ‘other’ options if the Irish data protection commissioner does not make a decision by October on his seven-year-old complaint against Facebook

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  Venture firm Public launches fourth GovTech accelerator

  The GovStart 2020 accelerator programme is looking for innovators working on transport, health and workforce-related technology to help get more startups working on the delivery of public services

• July 24, 2020 24 Jul'20

  A question of trust: University and supplier on the hook for data breach

  Data on students at the University of York was stolen in a ransomware attack on a supplier two months ago, and the response of both parties raises serious questions

• July 22, 2020 22 Jul'20

  Lloyds bank buys into cloud-native payments

  Lloyds Banking Group continues its digital journey by investing in and investigating a cloud-based payments service