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IT outsourcing

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  IR35 tribunal rules HMRC wrong to pursue ex-DWP IT contractor for £240,000 in unpaid employment tax

  HMRC has vowed to appeal against the outcome of an IR35 tribunal that ruled it should not be pursuing an ex-DWP and Accenture IT contractor for more than £240,000 in unpaid tax as his engagements classify him as self-employed

• November 04, 2019 04 Nov'19

  NHS Digital hit with £4.3m IR35-related tax bill after using HMRC CEST tool to assess contractors

  The digital arm of the NHS used HMRC's much-maligned online tool to assess contractors, only for the tax agency to call into question its IR35 determinations and hit it with a tax bill totalling £4.3m

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  NordVPN enlists ethical hackers, launches bug bounty programme

  Breached consumer VPN supplier details steps it is taking to shore up its cyber security posture after an unknown actor gained access to one of its servers

• October 24, 2019 24 Oct'19

  £4,000 bug bounty could have saved BA from record ICO fine

  British Airways and others could have saved themselves millions of pounds’ worth of fines by having ethical hackers check their systems for simple vulnerabilities

• October 23, 2019 23 Oct'19

  Nordic industrial giants continue to choose Indian suppliers for digital transformation

  HCL signs new deals with Volvo Cars and Equinor as India-based IT services suppliers continue to grow in the Nordic region

• October 22, 2019 22 Oct'19

  NordVPN blames datacentre provider for server breach

  VPN provider insists no user data was compromised in a March 2018 server breach, and says its datacentre provider failed to inform it of the issue

• October 21, 2019 21 Oct'19

  European companies hold back outsourcing amid recession fears

  Total outsourcing in Europe plummeted in the third quarter this year, compared with the previous three months

• October 17, 2019 17 Oct'19

  IR35 private sector preparation: What the banks’ take on the reforms means for IT contractors

  With six months until IR35 tax avoidance reforms are extended to the private sector, a number of financial services firms are thinning out their contractor workforce – is that the way to ensure compliance?

• October 10, 2019 10 Oct'19

  How AWS is cracking the public sector cloud market

  The public sector cloud business takes time and resources to build, but the rewards can be meaningful, as the founder of Amazon Web Service’s public sector division has found

• October 03, 2019 03 Oct'19

  New threat group behind Airbus cyber attacks, claim researchers

  Context Information Security’s threat intel and response teams says it has evidence that the recent supply chain attacks on Airbus are the work of a newly identified group called Avivore

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  HMRC extends contract with Capgemini but embeds flexibility

  Department’s technology sourcing programme seeks to access the services of more tech providers, including SMEs and startups

• October 01, 2019 01 Oct'19

  IR35 reforms will prompt Barclays to re-engage contractors on PAYE terms, 'leaked email' suggests

  Barclays is understood to have notified line managers via email on 30 September 2019 of its plans to phase out use of limited company contractors, ahead of the IR35 private sector reforms coming into force in April 2020

• September 27, 2019 27 Sep'19

  GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?

  Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Drive for Nordic datacentre transformation

  Nordic enterprises looking to spread abroad are outsourcing datacentre IT in cutting-edge ways to gain international advantage

• September 19, 2019 19 Sep'19

  Nordic IT outsourcing: why India is leading the pack

  A rising tide lifts all ships when it comes to outsourcing in Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark, but some ships have risen faster than others

• September 17, 2019 17 Sep'19

  Travelex launches fintech platform for B2B customers

  Travelex has launched a digital platform that enables businesses to use its services via application programming interfaces

• September 13, 2019 13 Sep'19

  Industry opposition to no-deal Brexit hardens, says TechUK

  A survey of TechUK members has found that 71% believe a no-deal Brexit at the end of October will negatively affect them in spite of their preparations

• September 03, 2019 03 Sep'19

  Allied Irish Banks selects cloud platform for digital transformation

  Bank is streamlining its operations through a cloud platform from nCino

• August 28, 2019 28 Aug'19

  HMRC under fire over 'scaremongering' IR35 clampdown letters targeting GSK IT contractors

  GSK contractors that have received “scaremongering” letters from HMRC, urging them to review their engagements with the company from an IR35 perspective, are being urged not to panic, as the missives have no legal basis, claim experts

• August 20, 2019 20 Aug'19

  Buyers think SD-WAN is too expensive and complicated

  Building and maintaining an SD-WAN is perceived as a complicated endeavour, and the industry’s messages are not getting through, says a new report

• August 12, 2019 12 Aug'19

  Hundreds of Post Office branches hit by new Horizon problem

  Subpostmasters suffering slow running and frozen terminals while Post Office searches for a fix to issues apparently caused by a software update

• August 02, 2019 02 Aug'19

  Birmingham City Council ends 13-year IT contract with Capita

  Local authority to bring IT services in-house, saying “the time is right to transfer the services back to the council”

• July 24, 2019 24 Jul'19

  French and German companies have contrasting fortunes in India

  France is racing ahead of Germany when it comes to making the most of service companies in India

• July 18, 2019 18 Jul'19

  Welsh council aims to cut back-office processing costs by 95% through automation

  A council in South Wales is expecting to reduce the cost of human resources business processes by up to 95% through robotic process automation

• July 15, 2019 15 Jul'19

  US judge dismisses challenge over Department of Defense mega-cloud contract

  The US Department of Defense looks set to award a $10bn cloud contract after a legal challenge to the procurement process failed

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  Draft finance bill dims hopes of private sector reprieve on April 2020 roll-out of IR35 reforms

  Publication of the draft IR35 private sector reform legislation dims hopes the government might announce a delay to rolling out the changes in April 2020

• July 11, 2019 11 Jul'19

  University of Bristol upgrades to Nimble as it takes IT off-site

  Higher education institution gets trouble-free hybrid flash performance from Nimble and stores 600TB of data at two colocation sites to which it is transitioning from on-campus

• July 02, 2019 02 Jul'19

  Sweden’s Protective Security Act targets cyber risks

  IT suppliers must comply with tighter cyber security requirements, but are being offered help from government agencies

• July 01, 2019 01 Jul'19

  NTT picks London for newly formed global business

  NTT says unifying its various units under one umbrella and basing it in London will help it take full advantage of both its clients’ demands for joined up digital services, and the capital’s booming tech economy

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  TietoEVRY merger headlines wider consolidation in Nordic IT industry

  The merger of Tieto and Evry is only part of the widespread consolidation that is hitting the region’s tech sector

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Wider threat campaign behind Wipro breach

  A sophisticated, far-ranging threat campaign was behind the breach at Indian IT services firm Wipro in April, which was not an isolated incident, RiskIQ report reveals

• June 25, 2019 25 Jun'19

  Three Finnish banks, one core IT platform

  Can a shared core IT platform enable three Finnish banks to become more efficient yet maintain individual competitiveness?

• June 24, 2019 24 Jun'19

  Release date clarification sought for revamped CEST tool as private sector IR35 reforms near

  HMRC is under growing pressure to say when its revamped IR35 online tax status tool will be released, as stakeholders air grievances over current issues with the answers it produces

• June 20, 2019 20 Jun'19

  HCL delivers digital services to Cricket Australia

  Cricket governing body chooses Indian IT supplier to expand the boundaries of its customer engagement platforms

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  Finland’s Tieto and Norway’s Evry merge to fend off competition from Indian suppliers

  Two of the Nordic region's biggest IT suppliers merge as competition in their home region increases

• June 17, 2019 17 Jun'19

  HMRC urged to delay April 2020 extension of IR35 rules to private sector by 'at least' 12 months

  An analysis of the responses HMRC has reportedly received to its consultation on extending the IR35 tax avoidance reforms to the private sector suggests the tax agency is coming under pressure to put its plans on hold for at least 12 months

• June 14, 2019 14 Jun'19

  IT outsourcing is increasing, but not as we know it

  IT outsourcing is growing in the UK, as organisations spend more as part of their digital transformations

• June 05, 2019 05 Jun'19

  Finland’s Tieto reorganises to grab growth opportunities

  Tieto is cutting costs as part of its growth plan that will see hundreds of job cuts in Finland and Sweden

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud start machine learning and fashion-focused sustainability push

  Stella McCartney and Google Cloud are embarking on a joint pilot project that will draw on the tech giant's machine learning and cloud-based data processing portfolio to help clean up the fashion industry's supply chains

• May 14, 2019 14 May'19

  Public sector outsourcing spend plummets

  Private sector outsourcing dominated spending in the UK during the first quarter of 2019

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Red Hat CEO weighs in on hybrid cloud play

  Jim Whitehurst claims Red Hat’s ability to support an entire technology stack is valuable to enterprises that want a common platform on-premise and in the cloud

• May 07, 2019 07 May'19

  Technical error on Capita system puts Barnet council staff out of pocket

  A system error that led to Barnet council staff being incorrectly paid is the latest complaint about a back-office outsourcing contract with Capita

• April 26, 2019 26 Apr'19

  Dutch road management organisation encourages startups to innovate

  Dutch highway management agency RWS is sharing data with the private sector to stimulate innovation

• April 04, 2019 04 Apr'19

  National Savings and Investments makes £300m extension to Atos deal

  UK government-owned savings bank adds three years to IT services contract with French supplier

• March 15, 2019 15 Mar'19

  Subpostmasters achieve ‘stunning victory’ against Post Office in Horizon case

  Judge rules that Post Office showed “oppressive behaviour” in response to claimants accused of accounting errors they blamed on Horizon IT system

• March 06, 2019 06 Mar'19

  Keep pace with device management with DaaS

  Adoption of device-as-a-service offerings is expected to improve as more enterprises migrate to Windows 10 over the next two years

• March 01, 2019 01 Mar'19

  IBM deal to drive Nordea’s IT-led transformation

  Nordea is expanding its relationship with IBM through a deal that will give it access to the skills and resources required to keep pace with the digital revolution in banking

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  NHS software deal tops public sector spending on new IT contracts in 2018

  Department of Health’s Windows 10 contract was the biggest public sector deal signed last year

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Government revises outsourcing guidelines to balance risk with suppliers

  The government has published its latest guidelines on public sector outsourcing

• February 19, 2019 19 Feb'19

  Bank of England to migrate from core system with a one-off big bang

  The Bank of England will migrate from its current core settlement system with a 'big-bang' migration before the end of 2025