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IT supplier relationship management

• July 19, 2018 19 Jul'18

  Heathrow flights grounded by IT failure

  Aircraft unable to take off at airport following failure of an IT system at one of BA's suppliers, that even led to the temporary closure of the control tower

• July 17, 2018 17 Jul'18

  UKFast creates subsidiary to support AWS and Azure

  Hosting company UKFast offers its own private and public cloud services alongside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure support

• July 13, 2018 13 Jul'18

  Windows 7 migration powers PC uptick

  PC sales in the enterprise have increased as businesses roll out Windows 10 before Microsoft ends support for Windows 7

• July 12, 2018 12 Jul'18

  Broadcom acquires enterprise business with CA Technologies deal

  Broadcom buys into the enterprise software infrastructure arena, announcing $19bn acquisition of CA Technologies

• July 10, 2018 10 Jul'18

  Analysts question Australia government’s IBM deal

  Industry analysts and experts have called the wisdom of the A$1bn IBM IT deal into question, with one claiming that the federal government should have used a range of suppliers instead

• July 09, 2018 09 Jul'18

  Dutch government IT projects run €1bn over budget

  Dutch government IT projects are costing much more money and taking far longer than expected

• July 05, 2018 05 Jul'18

  UK labour market could be harmed by private sector roll-out of IR35 reforms, consultancy warns

  As the government continues to consult on extending the IR35 reforms to the private sector, research suggests contractors will not take kindly to the move

• July 03, 2018 03 Jul'18

  UK financial services firms up tech investments to fuel new services

  Driven by the need to offer new services, as well as meet industry regulations, UK financial services firms are increasing spending on IT

• July 02, 2018 02 Jul'18

  Case study: Logistics firm GWC moves from paper to digital HR in three months

  Qatar-based logistics firm Gulf Warehousing Company introduced smart appraisals for employees, cut the time it takes to recruit, and gave staff and managers access to accurate HR data by replacing paper systems with human resources software

• June 25, 2018 25 Jun'18

  Nordic and Baltic states agree on joint approach to AI

  The governments of the Nordic and Baltic region want to work closer together to further increase the status of artificial intelligence in business and society

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  CIO interview: Mike Young, Centrica

  We speak to the CIO whose CEO recently met with the head of Microsoft to talk about strategy

• June 20, 2018 20 Jun'18

  Nine out of 10 enterprises will use robotic process automation by 2020

  Robotic process automation take-up expected to reach 92% of European enterprises within two years, finds ISG survey

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Tips on reducing IT expenditure

  There is constant pressure for IT to reduce cost and do more with less. Computer Weekly explores how this is being achieved in practice

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  IT teams should rework supplier contracts to free up budgets

  There is no money for IT to help the business to innovate digitally, so CIOs should look at how their IT teams can maximise value from existing contracts, survey shows

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  Dutch region Zeeland to get datacentre without diesel backup

  One of the world’s most sustainable datacentres is to be built in the southwest region of the Netherlands, and is said to be the first datacentre to use battery backup rather than a diesel generator