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IT supplier relationship management

• July 23, 2018 23 Jul'18

  Government spend with SMEs down in 2016/17

  Government figures show direct and indirect spend on small to medium-sized enterprises by government departments in the 2016/17 financial year have fallen

• 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

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise

  Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub propels the company that is loved and hated for Windows to the very heart of open source. Can it be trusted?

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Microsoft takes over GitHub as it expands its open source plan

  Microsoft is a major contributor to open source. It has now acquired the largest open source repository

• May 23, 2018 23 May'18

  Compliance in the cloud: Avoiding the cloud compliance trap

  When you hand over data to a cloud provider, you don’t hand over responsibility for legal and regulatory compliance. Beware of falling into a cloud compliance trap

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  IT professionals distrust their main suppliers, survey shows

  IT providers are restricting the ability of businesses to innovate, with many IT pros feeling that suppliers deliver poor value, especially on upgrades, a Cogeco Peer 1 survey reveals

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  GlaxoSmithKline R&D creates data platform using Hadoop for the internal sharing of scientific data

  GlaxoSmithKline is making better use of the data it has about the development and trials of medicines through a Hadoop-based platform

• May 17, 2018 17 May'18

  UK tech sector growing 2.6 times faster than overall economy

  The latest Tech Nation report on the UK’s IT sector reveals strong growth and positivity, but fears around Brexit in London’s tech engine

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  TSB refused help from Lloyds as IT meltdown began

  TSB turned down an offer of help from Lloyds Banking Group as the migration of customers accounts to its new banking system went wrong

• May 14, 2018 14 May'18

  HSBC blockchain trial proves trade finance utility model

  HSBC and ING used blockchain to successfully complete a real-world trade financing transaction as part of a pilot

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Government must support SMEs, says Oliver Dowden

  The minister for implementation, Oliver Dowden, provides further details on the GovTech competition and talks about GDS’s role as an “innovation incubator”, losing data policy to DCMS and the importance of SMEs

• May 10, 2018 10 May'18

  Barclays to set up biggest office outside UK in India

  Bank is expanding its presence in India with plans for an office for 8,000 staff in Pune

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Nordic CIO interview: Helena Skarle, Handicare

  Swedish CIO believes more women might get the top IT jobs if organisations look beyond IT skills

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Nadella opens Build 2018 with cross-platform push

  Microsoft’s developer conference has kicked off with a renewed focus on making Microsoft products and services work well with other offerings

• May 02, 2018 02 May'18

  Fresh blow for Facebook as court refuses stay in Max Schrems legal action

  Facebook has lost a legal attempt to delay the Irish High Court from seeking answers from the European Court of Justice over the legality of EU-US data transfers

• April 30, 2018 30 Apr'18

  TSB IT disaster moves into a second week

  TSB's IT problems have moved into a second week, as the bank fights to get its services and reputation back on track

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  British banks target Israeli security technology

  British banks are turning to Israel’s high-tech sector to protect against cyber attacks

• April 23, 2018 23 Apr'18

  Executive interview: Werner Knoblich, Red Hat

  Red Hat is 25 years old. We speak to its European chief about how open source, containers and hybrid cloud computing represent the foundation for IT

• April 19, 2018 19 Apr'18

  UK and Indian governments agree tech partnership

  Agreement aims to identify organisations in the two countries that can work together and open up opportunities for tech entrepreneurs

• April 18, 2018 18 Apr'18

  European IT services spending down as businesses focus on GDPR compliance

  European organisations are reducing their spending on IT services and are redirecting resources towards becoming compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Norway’s tax administration combats economic crime through IT

  Authority has updated its IT system to step up the fight against tax evasion

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  Policy yet to catch up with innovation in digital health sector, says report

  Barriers such as poor procurement practices and lack of consensus about “what good looks like” can hinder NHS innovation, but there are still opportunities for digital health startups

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  European CIOs have budget balancing act ahead of them

  There is some consensus among European CIOs on budget rises across the continent, but less so on what to invest in

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  HSBC adopts fintech to fight money laundering

  HSBC is using technology from a fintech startup to help it monitor transactions for potential money laundering

• April 09, 2018 09 Apr'18

  US tax cuts and dollar’s decline propel datacentre spending

  Gartner’s latest spending forecast shows the strongest growth in IT spending, which it expects to total $3.7tn in 2018, up 6.2% from 2017

• April 06, 2018 06 Apr'18

  Why Lufthansa went back to the drawing board with its HR IT project

  Aviation group says it is confident of landing a company-wide IT project following a sometimes turbulent journey

• April 05, 2018 05 Apr'18

  Deutsche Bank system replacement already paying back

  Deutsche bank is replacing a complex IT infrastructure that helps its traders operate and automates regulatory compliance processes

• March 23, 2018 23 Mar'18

  Telefonica cuts HR running costs by 40% as it replaces hundreds of ageing IT systems

  Multinational telecoms group Telefonica is on the verge of completing a project to replace 175 incompatible HR IT systems with a cloud service covering more than 40 countries

• March 22, 2018 22 Mar'18

  Fintechs weigh up their partnership options

  Fintechs need to consider what type of companies they should work with to make the most of open banking regulations

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  AB InBev settles out of court in $600m SAP licensing dispute

  SEC filing reveals that brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev has come to an agreement with SAP over the ERP provider's under-licensing claim

• March 16, 2018 16 Mar'18

  IT contractors not a risk despite Snowden leaks, GCHQ tells court

  The government argues in the Investigatory Powers Tribunal that contractors with systems administration rights to computers holding GCHQ’s most sensitive intelligence pose no more of a security risk than the agency’s employees

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Government ‘unlawfully delegated’ bulk data powers to GCHQ, court hears

  Privacy International urges Britain’s most secret court, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, to rule that the government illegally collected surveillance data from internet and phone companies until at least September 2017

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Finnish government backs tech-city development in Oulu

  Finland's government wants the city of Oulu to become a world leading destination for IT startups

• March 07, 2018 07 Mar'18

  Banks more confident than other sectors in face of digital disruption

  Banks have accepted the changes brought about by digital disruption and are confident that new technologies will be core to their business success, according to a survey by Fujitsu

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing

  A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Hershey’s outsources SAP roll-out to Accenture

  US chocolate maker has signed up Accenture to support its SAP Hana S/4 implementation