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• March 31, 2014 31 Mar'14

  Case study: Haulage firm Palletline overhauls network

  Palletline, private sector winner in the Computer Weekly European User Awards for Networking, shares its winning case study

• March 24, 2014 24 Mar'14

  Grant Thornton spends £3m in move to cloud HR services

  Financial advisory firm invests in cloud talent management as it gears up to expand its operations in the UK

• March 13, 2014 13 Mar'14

  BCS reports £2m losses on commercial activities

  The Chartered Institute of IT (BCS) is 'haemorrhaging cash reserves' while its membership remains virtually static

• March 10, 2014 10 Mar'14

  Case study: BG Group turns to cloud HR to reach staff in multiple countries

  Gas exploration and production company replaces SAP HR technology with Oracle Fusion in the cloud.

• March 06, 2014 06 Mar'14

  Will Facebook’s acquisition spur the Indian startup sector?

  Facebook’s acquisition of Bangalore-based Android app development company Little Eye Labs could spur the Indian startup sector

• March 05, 2014 05 Mar'14

  Workers spend more on devices than tea

  Over a third of works have spent more than £250 on their own devices,compared to just £97 on tea or coffee per year

• March 04, 2014 04 Mar'14

  CIO interview: John Hinshaw – the man behind HP's IT turnaround plan

  As HP's executive VP for technology and operations, John Hinshaw is in charge of the operational efficiency driving a five-year transformation

• March 03, 2014 03 Mar'14

  CIO interview: Phil Jordan, global chief information officer, Telefónica

  Telefónica global CIO Phil Jordan is leading one of the most complex and challenging IT transformations in the private sector

• February 26, 2014 26 Feb'14

  CIOs 'need to think like venture capitalists' says study

  IT chiefs will need to start thinking like venture capitalists if they are going to help their organisations innovate

• February 24, 2014 24 Feb'14

  CIO interview: Cloud lacks silver lining for NGOs

  David Goodman, CIO of International Rescue Committee, needs a cloud that is open and flexible and available offline

• February 20, 2014 20 Feb'14

  CIO interview: Fashion house Paul Smith steers a hybrid path to IT excellence

  Paul Smith's head of IT has developed a Microsoft hybrid cloud strategy to increase responsiveness and operational efficiency

• February 17, 2014 17 Feb'14

  PC sales in India crash

  The final three months of 2013 saw sales of PCs slump by almost 20% compared to the same period last year

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  Interview: The systems supremo helping Sochi run smoothly

  Marta Sanfeliu, chief integration officer for Winter Olympics IT supplier Atos, helps ensure it's all smooth running for the IT at Sochi

• February 14, 2014 14 Feb'14

  BBC starts search for suppliers to replace £2bn Atos outsourcing deal

  The BBC is moving away from its single-supplier outsourcing deal to a multi-sourced 'tower' approach for its technology services

• February 13, 2014 13 Feb'14

  CIO Interview: Lance Fisher, CIO, SThree

  The IT department at global recruitment firm SThree has an emphasis on data analytics, cloud and mobile tools

• February 07, 2014 07 Feb'14

  Camden Council launches digital strategy

  The London Borough of Camden has launched a digital strategy intended to redesign the way it delivers public services in the council

• February 06, 2014 06 Feb'14

  Gartner figures show PC market in continued decline

  The PC market continued to decline in the UK according to the latest shipment figures from Gartner, although Lenovo continued to make gains

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  Gaming site bets on flexible benefits software

  Online gaming company Bwin.party is betting on specialist benefits software to help it attract and retain its top talent

• January 29, 2014 29 Jan'14

  BBC CTO John Linwood defends role in failed £100m digital project

  Former BBC CTO John Linwood defends his role in the failed £100m DMI project, citing changing business requirements as a key factor

• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Transform application development for the digital world, says Accenture

  Accenture’s Technology Vision 2014 report urges CIOs to re-engineer application development to support digital disruption

• January 24, 2014 24 Jan'14

  Cloud to drive Cisco Indian mid-market growth in 2014

  Cisco aims for growth in India by targeting the rising mid-market as 65% of India’s currently under-served mid-market firms plan to get more from their networks

• January 20, 2014 20 Jan'14

  DWP IT audit to expose strategic failings

  The Department for Work and Pensions has completed an internal audit of its IT strategy, and sources suggest it will reveal serious deficiencies

• January 17, 2014 17 Jan'14

  India’s small businesses utilising the cloud

  The versatility and ease of use of cloud applications is creating a buzz in business, especially amongst small Indian businesses

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  UK IT spending will outpace rest of Europe in 2014

  UK IT budgets will grow by 3.6% in 2014, second only to Germany

• January 15, 2014 15 Jan'14

  CIOs must combine traditional and agile IT projects

  This year represents the beginning of the third age of IT. Gartner urges CIOs to embrace new working practices to avoid being left behind

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Interactive graphic: 2014 European IT priorities and forecast

  Find out the IT priorities and forecasts of European businesses for 2014 with our exclusive reader survey results

• January 13, 2014 13 Jan'14

  Predictions 2014: How CIOs plan to spend their 2014 IT budget

  Computer Weekly asks IT experts what they believe will be the biggest areas of IT investment in 2014, and how different industries will be spending their IT budgets.

• January 09, 2014 09 Jan'14

  Fairfax bails out BlackBerry with another $250m

  The mobile manufacturer’s largest shareholder ploughs another $250m into the firm, buying up more of its debts and giving BlackBerry some extra cash to play with.

• January 08, 2014 08 Jan'14

  Indian consumers likely to use technology for health and fitness

  Indian consumers are enthusiastic about the use of smart digital technology to collect and share lifestyle information, according to global research from Accenture

• January 03, 2014 03 Jan'14

  Economic recovery drives software and services spending

  The improving economy will lead to organisations spending more on software and IT services according to analyst Forrester.

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Indian IT market is booming with the sale of tablets

  Tablet sales in India in the third quarter of 2013 increased by 9% compared to the same period 12 months ago

• January 02, 2014 02 Jan'14

  Mobile technology changing India but government must legislate

  Mobile technology is changing how Indian government and businesses operate but the regulatory environment must change if the country is to reach its potential

• December 31, 2013 31 Dec'13

  Top 10 premium content articles of 2013

  Computer Weekly presents a selection of the most popular premium content reports and articles of 2013

• December 27, 2013 27 Dec'13

  Business applications under stress, finds Freeform Dynamics survey

  Business applications are coming under increased performance pressure as organisations evolve remote working practices in step with the demands of a modern economy

• December 23, 2013 23 Dec'13

  Top 10 business applications stories of 2013

  Innovation at Ferrari, DMG Media, BAE Systems, and others; while SAP and Oracle stake strategic claims to cloud and high-speed analytics

• December 18, 2013 18 Dec'13

  BlackBerry names new enterprise chief

  John Sims joins the struggling mobile firm from SAP to lead its enterprise services division

• December 16, 2013 16 Dec'13

  Research points to big year for Indian big data in 2014

  Reports are pointing to big data as the top IT investment priority for Indian businesses in 2014 as organizations recognize the benefits

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Top 10: The top business application articles of 2013

  The so-called IT megatrends of social, cloud, analytics and mobile have influenced the types of applications organisations are deploying.

• December 13, 2013 13 Dec'13

  Avon drops SAP big bang transformation

  Cosmetics giant Avon has halted its multi-year SAP rollout due to a poor return on investment.

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Microsoft enlists elite providers to ease customer cloud moves

  Cloud OS Network aims to woo organisations seeking hassle-free hybrid cloud

• December 12, 2013 12 Dec'13

  Cloud now transforming Indian business

  Indian organizations will spend $404m on cloud services by the end of 2013, representing a 33.6% increase over 2012, according to Gartner

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Over half of Indian CIOs to increase cloud budget

  54.8% of Indian CIOs will increase their cloud computing budgets in 2014, with software as a service (SaaS) the most common

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Price confusion casts cloud over utility computing dream

  Without interoperability and clarity of pricing, true utility computing will remain a fantasy, a new report from 451 Research suggests

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Indian healthcare IT industry matures

  As healthcare IT spending in India is set to increase 7% next year CIOs must focus on the front end to ensure they get value from back-end modernization and meet the government’s goals to improve accessibility to health services

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Tech spend to increase in 2014 as executives explore big data

  Over three-quarters of chief financial officers plan to increase technology investments in 2014

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  CIO interview: Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves on constructing a new bottom line

  Balfour Beatty CIO Danny Reeves reveals the challenges of rethinking IT from the ground up after inheriting 10 datacentres

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  IT budgets to rise by 3% in 2014 as companies step up spending on mobile

  IT spending will increase by 3% in 2014, up from 1.8% last year. But shadow IT spending will add another 40% to technology budgets

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Study shows IT department losing control of technology innovation

  With innovative technology increasingly developed outside the IT department, CIOs need to start working with other departments

• November 22, 2013 22 Nov'13

  More than half of mobile applications in Indian organizations are internal

  Over half (59%) of the mobility applications are being developed by Indian businesses are for employees, but CIOs must now invest in applications aimed at customers, according to Forrester Research.

• November 21, 2013 21 Nov'13

  Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler plans his next move for the $500m software company

  Alan Trefler discusses his plans for Pegasystems, the BPM and CRM specialist that has grown into a $500m a year company

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Nordics push to become European datacentre hub

  Do growing datacentre investments in the Nordic countries by IT giants really signal the region is the best place in Europe to site servers?

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  Monitoring not enough for firms where IT and business are indistinguishable

  Monitoring IT systems is not enough for organisations in some sectors which are totally reliant on IT to run their business

• November 13, 2013 13 Nov'13

  CIO interview: John Finch, CIO, Bank of England, on the IT behind UK monetary policy

  UK monetary forecasts are underpinned by data and analytics from the Bank of England

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Call for graduates to apply for John Lewis technology scheme

  Retailer John Lewis is encouraging university-leavers to apply for positions in its graduate development scheme

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  BlackBerry reveals new UK managing director

  After the surprise departure of Rob Orr this summer, the mobile manufacturer has appointed Alexandra Zagury as Orr's successor

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  National Audit Office reports concerns over government supplier dominance

  The National Audit Office (NAO) reports the public sector spent £6.6bn on four outsourced service providers, including IT service providers

• November 12, 2013 12 Nov'13

  Mass surveillance a bad idea, says Information Commissioner Christopher Graham

  Information Commissioner Christopher Graham says issues of national security must not overshadow concerns of legitimate public interest

• November 08, 2013 08 Nov'13

  CIO Interview: Michael Ibbitson, Gatwick Airport

  Gatwick Airport is replacing in-house IT with cloud services in a multimillion-pound modernisation programme

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  IT spending up as companies invest in digital technology

  Businesses are stepping up their spending on IT as they invest in strategic digital technologies, a CIO survey by Deloitte reveals

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  Passengers navigate Gatwick airport using Google Street View

  Gatwick Airport is using Google Street view to help passengers find their way around the airport and into the duty frees

• November 04, 2013 04 Nov'13

  Crown Hosting Service to save £530m from government IT bill by 2018

  Government Digital Service to establish new Crown Hosting Service to consolidate hosting across Whitehall, saving £530m per year by 2018

• November 01, 2013 01 Nov'13

  How can IT support Indian businesses amid declining Rupee?

  The Indian rupee (INR) continues to fall and IT leaders must take a different approach to support their business in tougher times

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies need to think about user experience as HR technology takes off

  Companies are replacing 10-year old, on-premise HR systems, with cloud based alternatives, says consultant Jason Averbrook,

• October 29, 2013 29 Oct'13

  Uncertain energy policies crippling UK datacentre industry’s future

  Uncertainty on energy policies could cause potential investors in the UK’s datacentre industry to look abroad instead, experts warn

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  Aerospace company turns to cloud in $4m HR IT project

  Problems finding skilled engineers has prompted BE Aerospace to sign deal with SuccessFactors for cloud HR technology.

• October 28, 2013 28 Oct'13

  CIO Interview: Ann-Marie Rafferty, head of IT, Access, on partnership models

  Ann-Marie Rafferty, who heads up IT for the partnership between Serco and Glasgow council, discusses strategic frameworks

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Capital markets set to increase cloud investment, predicts Ovum

  Both the buy side and sell side of the capital markets are set to increase their IT spend on cloud computing services, says research firm

• October 25, 2013 25 Oct'13

  Help for Heroes picks hybrid cloud to optimise databases and website

  Help for Heroes is building a hybrid cloud to optimise performance and resilience of the charity’s websites and databases

• October 23, 2013 23 Oct'13

  Plan for the 'infinite datacentre' in advance, says Gartner

  Enterprises that plan datacentre capacity well can adjust to rapid growth in computing demand with maximum efficiency, says Gartner

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Case study: Pumps maker Hayward Tyler’s restructure sharpened ERP business focus

  When a restructure arrives half way through an ERP upgrade, it could be a threat to the IT programme. But Hayward Tyler saw it as a chance to ensure business goals were at the heart of its Epicor project.

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Browsium throws lifeline to XP users

  Browsium Ion, which provides legacy Internet Explorer emulation, now supports multiple Java releases and IE8

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Manchester’s Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust streamlines IT with private cloud

  Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is implementing a private cloud to improve IT efficiency for the organisation’s 8,800 staff members

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Big projects fueling government IT spending in India

  Indian central, state and regional government agencies will reach 393bn INR on IT in 2013 as large projects to manage the data of one and a quarter billion people take center stage

• October 21, 2013 21 Oct'13

  Indian CIOs must prepare to take advantage of cloud M&A

  CIOs must take advantage of the current trend of IT suppliers acquiring SaaS firms to transform if they are to successfully manage a move to IT as a service

• October 18, 2013 18 Oct'13

  EC: Europe should become a ‘trusted cloud region’ in the post-Prism age

  European cloud providers must turn the Prism revelations into an opportunity to build trusted cloud services, says the EC

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  US railway integrates applications in drive to use train network more efficiently

  US rail transport company Norfolk Southern Railway has begun an ambitious project to integrate 400 software applications it uses to control and monitor its rolling stock, trains and freight containers

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  Government organisations will eliminate CIO or digital chief, says Gartner

  Nearly two-thirds of government organisations will get rid of the CIO or chief digital officer role to eliminate overlap, says Gartner

• October 16, 2013 16 Oct'13

  GSMA chairman quits

  Franco Bernabè has resigned his post as chairman of the GSMA following his departure from Telecom Italia

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  Italian university reduces costs by 23% with cloud platform

  Italy’s first open university, Marconi University, has launched an IT project to host its e-learning services on a cloud platform

• October 14, 2013 14 Oct'13

  India’s CIOs and CMOs fail to communicate

  Chief information officers (CIOs) and chief marketing officers (CMOs) are failing to collaborate adequately and putting marketing strategies at risk, according to research by Accenture

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Businesses seek out data scientists to support big data initiatives

  A large number of businesses are recruiting data scientists in a bid to build up the right skills to support board-level big data initiatives

• October 11, 2013 11 Oct'13

  Toyota e-learning upgrade aims to cut mechanics' training time by up to a year

  Car distributor Toyota Motor Europe is using e-learning to manage the training and certification of motor technicians and engineers

• October 10, 2013 10 Oct'13

  Case study: Bensons for Beds owner opts for third-party datacentre and managed services

  Owner of Bensons for Beds and Harveys furniture stores outsources IT infrastructure and adopts third-party datacentre

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Engineering firm aims to automate HR system for 150,000 employees

  Power and automation company, ABB is to automate and simplify its HR processes in a project that aims to make HR technology as easy to use as Google. The project, dubbed the Google-isation of HR, will allow employees and managers to look for HR ...

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  IBM bolsters cloud portfolio by integrating SoftLayer assets

  IBM has started shifting its cloud services on to SoftLayer’s infrastructure and has launched new SaaS products based on SoftLayer’s technology

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Misys expects payback in 12 months from talent management in the cloud

  Financial software company Misys has opted for a cloud based talent management system, after SAP proved wanting.

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  IBM interns join ShopDirect to combine gamification and Twitter analysis

  Undergraduate ShopDirect interns spent the summer with IBM on a project using gamification and Twitter to engage with customers

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Technology will make businesses more 'human'

  Technology will make organisations less hierarchical, more decentralised and more democratic – in other words, more human

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  Building government IT in Northern Ireland

  Paul Wickens is CEO of Enterprise Shared Services in Northern Ireland's Civil Service, which is applying private sector IT to the government.

• October 04, 2013 04 Oct'13

  CIO interview: Carlos Morgado, CTO, Just Eat

  Carlos Morgado, group CTO of online takeaway service Just Eat, discusses the company's move to public cloud

• October 02, 2013 02 Oct'13

  IT failure hits NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

  IT system failure leads to hundreds of postponed NHS appointments and staff unable to access clinical and admin systems

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud by 2017, says Gartner

  About half of large enterprises will have adopted a hybrid cloud computing model in the next four years, according to Gartner

• October 01, 2013 01 Oct'13

  Companies more comfortable with ‘choose your own device’

  The buzzword may be BYOD, but while businesses want to offer choice, they are looking for comfort too

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Charity uses cloud HR system to keep track of staff working in danger zones

  It took a disaster in Haiti to demonstrate to charity World Vision why it needed better HR systems

• September 30, 2013 30 Sep'13

  Europe fails to invest in downtimes

  Enterasys CEO Chris Crowell says economic downturns are the best times to invest, but with more activity in the US than Europe

• September 27, 2013 27 Sep'13

  Mainframe dead? IT still sees it as robust, long-term solution, shows study

  Despite suggestions of its extinction, 93% of global IT execs say mainframe remains a robust, long-term solution in their enterprise IT strategy

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  British startups don’t get the ‘respect’ of Silicon Valley

  The CEO of Tarmin claims his British startup needed a US base to be taken seriously by prospective customers

• September 26, 2013 26 Sep'13

  Take ultimate responsibility for cloud, users warned amid Nirvanix closure

  The sudden demise of cloud provider Nirvanix must act as a wake-up call for end users in planning exit strategies when contracting cloud services

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Industry bodies launch security certification to boost confidence in cloud

  BSI and Cloud Security Alliance together launch Star certification to assess security of cloud providers

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Businesses need to have constant digital conversations with the CIO, says PwC

  Companies which have strong digital conversations across their business are more likely to be successful in sales, innovation and growth