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IT project management

• May 26, 2017 26 May'17

  Swedish government agencies join IT spending benchmarking service

  Government agencies in Sweden are using a tool by Apptio to help them gain a better understanding of IT costs

• May 23, 2017 23 May'17

  Audit Scotland shares lessons learned from failed IT projects

  In a ‘lessons learned’ report, Scottish auditor sets out five principles that should be considered when managing government IT programmes

• May 16, 2017 16 May'17

  Customer experience transformation at Macquarie bank brings legacy system retirement as a bonus

  Australia’s Macquarie bank builds a data layer on top of legacy IT systems to transform customer experience

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Highly skilled professionals at risk of being replaced by computers

  Highly skilled jobs will be replaced by artificial intelligence by 2022, says Gartner

• May 09, 2017 09 May'17

  Large UK businesses increasingly want CEOs to have IT background

  More large businesses in the UK want a CEO that has a good understanding of IT

• May 05, 2017 05 May'17

  Ex-government privacy advisor calls for 'fundamental review' of Gov.uk Verify identity scheme

  Former Cabinet Office privacy group co-chair says the Verify identity assurance programme needs 'honest and fundamental reset'

• May 04, 2017 04 May'17

  Agile development an 'IT fad' that risks iterative failure

  Agile promises continuous improvement through an iterative process, but without proper checks, project failure is commonplace

• May 04, 2017 04 May'17

  Metropolitan Police to hit massive IT overspend

  The Metropolitan Police Service is set to massively overspend on IT as it attempts to improve digital policing

• April 27, 2017 27 Apr'17

  Case study: Specsavers furthers digital transformation with single customer view

  UK retailer Specsavers has been in the process of digital transformation for several years, and has now partnered with Fujitsu to eliminate disparate systems and create a single customer view

• April 20, 2017 20 Apr'17

  How to ensure tech staff gain ‘essential soft skills’

  Nottingham Trent University’s infrastructure services manager explains how she has made sure her technology team have the essential soft skills they need to support users

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  How Dutch university quickly connected thousands of students to new learning management system

  Dutch university TU Delft is replacing its legacy learning management system after 17 years

• April 19, 2017 19 Apr'17

  How Oracle tackles licensing discrepancies

  The recent publication of court filings from a licence dispute case shows a catalogue of 'damaging' techniques the supplier used following an audit

• April 12, 2017 12 Apr'17

  Chatbots, Fitbits and AI: IT suppliers identify the top trends in HR technology

  Businesses are using Fitbits, artificial intelligence and chatbots to improve working life as competition increases to recruit talented ‘millennials’

• April 06, 2017 06 Apr'17

  IR35 reforms: Stakeholders warn of risk to public sector IT projects as contractors walk

  With the IR35 reforms coming into force today, 6 April, contracting stakeholders warn of the widespread threat the changes pose to the delivery of public sector IT projects

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Middle East enterprises urged to embrace governance, risk and compliance

  The enforcement of corporate governance issues is still variable throughout the Middle East and making a strong business case for investment in GRC can be a challenge.

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut gets sweet on cloud

  Chocolate maker Barry Callebaut is increasingly using cloud-based apps to improve productivity and reduce costs

• April 05, 2017 05 Apr'17

  How to apply DevOps practices to legacy IT

  The one constant in legacy systems is that they can’t just be switched off. We find out how Ticketmaster has adapted its legacy IT to DevOps

• March 30, 2017 30 Mar'17

  HMRC contractors leave over inside IR35 ruling

  HMRC has begun classifying its public sector contractors as "inside IR35", prompting fears of a digital "brain drain" at the organisation

• March 29, 2017 29 Mar'17

  Russian Airline at home in the cloud

  S7 Airlines in Russia looks set to move more of its IT to the cloud after successful infrastructure-as-a-service project

• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Serco uses HR technology to cut recruitment bill

  International outsourced services supplier Serco is investing in HR recruitment technology to help it hire 15,000 to 20,000 people a year

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  IR35 research: 85% of contractors will quit public sector if tax status changed

  Research by tax advisers QDos Contractor suggests few public sector off-payroll workers would be willing to stick around if made to pay the same tax as salaried staff

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

  Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Vodafone brings offshore contact centre work to UK

  Mobile operator Vodafone is creating 2,100 jobs in the UK by reducing the amount of call centre work done offshore

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Danish shipping company uses blockchain in IBM partnership

  Maersk and IBM test out the application of blockchain technology to track and manage the paper trail of shipping containers around the world

• March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17

  Centrica eliminates more than 20 IT systems after replacing SAP with cloud HR technology

  Energy and services company claims major savings in IT costs after moving its HR services to the cloud

• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  Country as a service becoming reality in Estonia

  Programme to help foreigners set up businesses in Estonia through virtual residency is gathering pace

• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  ZF Group opens doors to Hyderabad tech centre

  German car parts manufacturer ZF Group opens a technology centre in India to focus on software lead innovation

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  Virtual reality simulation helps KLM engineers escape in an emergency

  Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what to do if a maintenance hangar catches fire

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  Deutsche Bank creates group-wide CIO role

  New chief will drive technology transformation across the bank

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

  The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office

  Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology

  The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions

• February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17

  UAE bank builds predictive marketing models

  Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

  Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Case study: Australia’s Salmat to go cloud-only after getting a taste for the technology

  Australian marketing company Salmat plans to move everything it can into the cloud following a highly successful initial SaaS implementation

• February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  Middle East and North Africa public cloud spend to hit $2bn by 2020

  Middle East-based organisations are turning to public cloud services, with software as a service driving a major year-on-year spending increase

• February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17

  London Fire Brigade system crashes cause delays reacting to emergencies

  Control room system crashes have been causing delays in London Fire Brigade response times

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Human-centric technologies will dominate next three years

  Accenture says businesses will develop technology and services to match human behaviour in the next few years

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  Blockchain can cut investment bank infrastructure costs by 30%

  Investment banks can make huge cuts to their IT infrastructure costs through blockchain, according to analysis

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  HSBC appoints technology advisers to keep pace with IT changes

  Bank hopes to gain knowledge about technologies such as artificial intelligence and biometric security through its new technology advisory board

• January 16, 2017 16 Jan'17

  Australian government technology suffers failure after failure

  Former government IT leader says Australia’s IT is so bad that if the government were a private sector organisation, it would fail

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Dubai-based Aramex optimises branch office connectivity

  How global logistics firm streamlined its branch office operations in the Middle East

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Customer-first approach will make 2017 a challenge for Dutch CIOs

  CIOs in the Netherlands could see their strategies lead to thousands of jobs being cut as businesses automate

• December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16

  CIO interview: MoD’s DII replacement will feed government as a platform

  Mike Stone, who will soon be leaving his position of CIO at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), explains how the MoD’s DII replacement will feed into government as a platform

• December 22, 2016 22 Dec'16

  Auticon: the IT consultancy that employs only autistic IT professionals

  IT consultancy Auticon explains why and how it employs only autistic consultants and why diversity is beneficial for businesses

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  How Shazam handles its data reserves

  Chris Kammermann, senior infrastructure engineer at Shazam, explains how adopting the Splunk platform has helped the firm deal with legacy systems and data analysis

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Metro Bank moves IT infrastructure to cloud

  Metro Bank moves its IT infrastructure to a private Rackspace cloud platform, which will allow it to keep up with the latest technologies and reduce costs

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  How InterContinental Hotels connects with real-time marketing

  InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands