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Information management
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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
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October 31, 2013
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Oct'13
Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says
Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports
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October 31, 2013
31
Oct'13
Government calls for more data scientists in the UK
The government is calling on industry and academia to help produce more data scientists in the UK
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October 29, 2013
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Oct'13
Emulex ExpressLane and CrossLink boost HBAs for flash and Hadoop
Storage card maker Emulex has added QoS prioritisation for flash storage and leveraged RDMA via Fibre Channel to increase server performance in clustered operations such as Hadoop
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October 22, 2013
22
Oct'13
BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle
The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT
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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.
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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
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October 08, 2013
08
Oct'13
Rugby Football Union uses analytics to educate and engage with users
The RFU is introducing data analytics technologies for public use to encourage engagement with existing fans and education of the sport
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October 01, 2013
01
Oct'13
UK trading sector faces challenges as US regulator prepare rules
UK trading firms will have to makes their trading software more resilient to ensure they comply with the imminent regulations being put together by the US SEC
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September 25, 2013
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Sep'13
Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle customers continue to invest in big data
Airbus, Thomson Reuters and the New York Stock Exchange have all implemented Oracle's big data products to improve their businesses
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September 24, 2013
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Sep'13
C-level executives cry out for data scientists
Board level executives are putting pressure on their IT organisations to find data scientists, according to Teradata research
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September 16, 2013
16
Sep'13
British Army’s manpower planning saves £770m through SAS BI
The British Army's headquarters is using SAS to analyse and more efficiently allocate manpower and resources
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September 13, 2013
13
Sep'13
Businesses hit digital roadblock due to paper processes
A survey of business and IT leaders has found that paper-based processes are creating inefficiencies
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September 12, 2013
12
Sep'13
Quantum upgrades big data storage to StorNext 5
Quantum’s StorNext big data tiered architecture operating software gets a boost to five billion files and a claimed 10x performance jump via multi-threaded CPU ops
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September 09, 2013
09
Sep'13
Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas
British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home
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September 04, 2013
04
Sep'13
Diageo to change how it manages APIs to support digital strategy
Diageo is contemplating introducing a lightweight middleware layer to better manage the APIs that govern the software services it uses
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August 28, 2013
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Aug'13
eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store
Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users
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August 16, 2013
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Aug'13
Online retailing means the industrialisation of analytics
Figleaves founder and eCommera chief scientist Michael Ross argues that online retailing requires a new type of action-oriented business intelligence
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August 12, 2013
12
Aug'13
Case study: How Premier Inn uses mobile analytics
Premier Inn's mobile app has been downloaded more than two million times and 77% of room bookings are made via the app
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August 02, 2013
02
Aug'13
Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan
Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud
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July 26, 2013
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Jul'13
Aintree NHS saves £1m a year with electronic patient records
Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust replaces paper medical records with an electronic system to save £1m per year
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July 12, 2013
12
Jul'13
Indian banks harness big data analysis amid competition
The increasing penetration of broadband and growth in smartphone usage in India are driving the development of IT-based services for bank consumers.
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July 11, 2013
11
Jul'13
OpenCorporates makes company data public
Company data is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain
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July 08, 2013
08
Jul'13
Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved
Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed
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July 05, 2013
05
Jul'13
Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely
Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally
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July 03, 2013
03
Jul'13
Ocado delivers with in-house software development
Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons
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July 02, 2013
02
Jul'13
NHS IT to embrace open source
A new report from NHS England promises open source will be at the heart of the plans to digitise the health service
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June 28, 2013
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Jun'13
CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado
Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business
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June 28, 2013
28
Jun'13
Datacentres must be tuned to the application in the mobile-cloud era: Cisco
Cloud, big data and mobile applications are challenging the traditional datacentre infrastructure, says Cisco
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June 26, 2013
26
Jun'13
Data quality more important than fixating over big data, says Shell VP
Johan Krebbers, vice-president of architecture at Shell, says it is more important to get data quality right than to find a ‘big data silver bullet’
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June 17, 2013
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Jun'13
Startup profile: Growth Intelligence
Growth Intelligence is a technology startup offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product to B2B corporations wanting to search for sales leads.
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June 13, 2013
13
Jun'13
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics
Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study
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June 11, 2013
11
Jun'13
Lloyds customer complaints plummet after automating manual processes
Lloyds is claiming dramatic improvements in the quality of its customer service after automating manual banking processes
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June 07, 2013
07
Jun'13
NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014
NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces
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June 07, 2013
07
Jun'13
ICO fines Glasgow City Council for loss of unencrypted laptops
Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 for losing two laptops which held personal details of more than 20,000 people
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June 06, 2013
06
Jun'13
SAP buys e-commerce company Hybris to move into CRM market
SAP is moving into the CRM market with its purchase of Hybris, a Swiss customer relationship management (CRM) supplier
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June 06, 2013
06
Jun'13
Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion
Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data
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May 29, 2013
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May'13
ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management
ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics
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May 24, 2013
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May'13
Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform
Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event
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May 23, 2013
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May'13
UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes
University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB
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May 22, 2013
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May'13
McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge
The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers
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May 22, 2013
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May'13
Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m
Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature
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May 21, 2013
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May'13
Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology
CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst
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May 10, 2013
10
May'13
Lean analytics to change business decision making
Attending to the “one metric that really matters” is one principle of a “lean analytics” approach
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May 08, 2013
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May'13
SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud
SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications
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May 01, 2013
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May'13
British Army data quality programme tackles ‘whole army’ concept
The British Army’s data quality programme faces a challenge with moves to unify regular and territorial soldiers into one force
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April 30, 2013
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Apr'13
Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year
Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs
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April 30, 2013
30
Apr'13
Big data security: getting a grip on multiple data sources
Big data analyses multiple data points, but how do you ensure that ecosystem is secure? In this podcast, Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, outlines the key steps in achieving big data security
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April 29, 2013
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Apr'13
Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn
O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers
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April 25, 2013
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Apr'13
Spam SMS messages drop following ICO penalty
The number of spam SMS messages has significantly reduced since government regulator ICO issued £440,000 fines last year