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Information management

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Self-service BI, data integration top information management issues

  Self-service business intelligence and data integration top information management challenges for IT and finance professionals

• February 02, 2015 02 Feb'15

  Former Capital One data analysts charged with mining customer data

  US financial services regulator SEC charges two former employees of financial services firm Capital One with insider trading

• January 28, 2015 28 Jan'15

  Wellcome Trust builds 1,728-core grid for DNA analysis

  The Wellcome Trust Centre has deployed a high-performance computing cluster based on Fujitsu servers

• January 22, 2015 22 Jan'15

  Case study: Antwerp port boosts profits with activity-based management software

  How the Antwerp Port Authority has improved its business processes with SAS software

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  Case study: Hedge fund AHL Man Group uses MongoDB to feed quants with data

  Hedge fund AHL Man Group replaces disparate relational databases with a single data platform built on NoSQL database MongoDB

• January 21, 2015 21 Jan'15

  UK leads in global ranking of social open data sharing

  The UK has been named the number one country to use open data for social and economic benefit

• January 20, 2015 20 Jan'15

  SAP’s Cohen on 2014 results: Europe strong north and south

  SAP’s Emea president Franck Cohen optimistic about the supplier’s growth prospects in southern and northern Europe

• January 09, 2015 09 Jan'15

  User groups defend licensing, but should Oracle rethink remuneration?

  Two Oracle user groups have defended Oracle's licensing policy following open letter by Campaign for Clear Licensing

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

  In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing

• January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15

  Case study: UniCredit uses Fico to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

  Italian bank UniCredit is using Fico software to apply prescriptive analytics to risk management

• December 19, 2014 19 Dec'14

  CIO interview: Mark Maddocks, Cambridge University Press

  Technology has prompted unprecedented innovation and transformation in the media sector – Cambridge University Press is no exception

• December 17, 2014 17 Dec'14

  Cabinet Office begins procurement for next stage of Gov.uk Verify

  The Cabinet Office has submitted a tender notice for a £150m three-year framework for the provision of identity assurance services

• December 15, 2014 15 Dec'14

  Lloyd’s Register Foundation grants £10m to Alan Turing Institute

  The Lloyd’s Register Foundation has announced £10m in funding over five years to support research by the Alan Turing Institute

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Care.data faces more delays over concerns about patients

  The NHS’s Care.data scheme may face more delays due to concerns over lack of publicity and clarity of the proposed programme

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  M&S turns to predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked over Christmas

  Marks & Spencer is using predictive analytics to keep shelves stocked with mince pies and turkeys over Christmas.

• November 27, 2014 27 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Jon Rudoe, digital and technology director, Sainsbury’s

  While supermarkets all over the UK are facing challenging times ahead of them, Sainsbury's is taking its technology and innovation into its own hands by developing digital products for its customers.

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  Goldman Sachs invests in analytics startup

  Investment bank Goldman Sachs has invested in a financial analytics startup as part of a $15m funding round

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO success is all about winning friends and influencing people

  If Gartner’s predictions are true, CIO working practices have to change to keep IT relevant

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Johnson & Johnson turns to AWS for hybrid cloud and borderless datacentre

  Johnson & Johnson adopted Amazon Web Services to develop its hybrid IT strategy, its CTO told the AWS re:Invent 2014 conference

• November 13, 2014 13 Nov'14

  AWS launches Aurora cloud-based relational database engine

  AWS launches an open-source relational database engine called Aurora at its re:Invent 2014 cloud conference

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  NHS more trusted with personal data than private sector

  Private sector could learn from the NHS when it comes to inspiring trust over personal data, Deloitte survey finds

• November 07, 2014 07 Nov'14

  Police forces use private cloud to access Holmes database

  Police forces across the UK will access the Holmes major investigation system via a private cloud service

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  ITN deploys wireless transmission technology for breaking news

  ITN introduces camera-mounted wireless transmission technology from BT to track breaking news stories around London

• November 06, 2014 06 Nov'14

  Southampton university fuels research with IBM Watson analytics

  The University of Southampton has begun a far-reaching initiative to redefine the future of research powered by IBM Watson analytics

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Government open standards - the curious case of Microsoft and the minister

  What role, if any, did science minister David Willetts take in helping Microsoft try to overturn government IT policy?

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Glenn Murphy, London & Capital

  Asset-management firm London & Capital shifts its focus to systems that add business value, says CIO Glenn Murphy

• November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14

  Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

  IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy

• October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14

  Ipswich hospital improves healthcare service with Esri data visualisation

  Health pilots location-based technology that delivers data visualisation

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Problems surface as first users attempt to use Gov.uk Verify

  Problems have surfaced as users try to use Gov.uk Verify to prove their identities

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  Firms at serious risk of data loss through file sharing, study shows

  Businesses are at serious risk of data loss and compliance violations due to risky file-sharing practices, a study has shown

• October 30, 2014 30 Oct'14

  UK lags behind US and Australia in DevOps adoption

  The UK is significantly behind other markets in terms of DevOps adoption

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Met Office supercomputer to increase weather forecast accuracy

  Met Office buys £97m Cray supercomputer to help predict disruptive weather events with a far greater degree of accuracy

• October 27, 2014 27 Oct'14

  Met Police trials analytics to fight gang crime

  The Metropolitan Police is experimenting with analytics software to help predict which criminals are likely to re-offend

• October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14

  Disney spreads the magic through wearable technology

  The Walt Disney Company is using wearable technology to improve customer experience and engage with visitors

• October 16, 2014 16 Oct'14

  Comic Relief’s digital challenge: talent, data and the No Make-Up Selfie

  Social media campaigns such as the No Make-Up Selfie and the Ice Bucket Challenge threaten charities such as Comic Relief with their digital reach

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Fear and loathing could hold back UK internet of things, says KPMG report

  More than two-thirds of UK consumers fear growing number of interconnected devices make it too easy for things to go wrong

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  SAP teams up with Birst to offer cloud analytics on Hana

  SAP is working with cloud BI supplier Birst to provide “instant analytics in the cloud” on the Hana in-memory database platform

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: Are retailers lost in a sea of technology, data and insight?

  Delegates at Oracle’s OpenWorld 2014 user conference went away with their heads spinning from the blast of product announcements, the supplier’s re-iterated commitment to the cloud and a few entertaining memories of CTO Larry Ellison and his ...

• October 02, 2014 02 Oct'14

  DDN launches scale-out NAS GS7K GPFS product bundle

  DataDirect Networks launches the GS7K, a pre-configured GPFS scale-out NAS/parallel file system storage product

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  SAP acquires Concur to build cloud-based expense management

  SAP has agreed to acquire online travel and expense management SaaS provider Concur Technologies for $8bn

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Muji takes on cloud platform to increase sales

  Retailer Muji is using a cloud-based platform from IT services firm Infosys to help it understand customers and target sales

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Stephen Hale, head of digital, Department of Health

  “I want to make digital less of a novelty,” says the Department of Health’s head of digital Stephen Hale

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Clarks shoes steps into digital

  Shoe manufacturer Clarks is replacing its legacy e-commerce sites with a global cloud-based system next month

• September 12, 2014 12 Sep'14

  Retailers need to adopt ‘fail fast’ attitude to technology

  Retailers experimenting with digital technologies must take a “fail fast” approach so they can deliver new innovations quickly

• September 11, 2014 11 Sep'14

  Boots to roll out real-time stock visibility in coming weeks

  Health and beauty retailer, Alliance Boots, is about to roll out real-time stock visibility to its stores and customers using SAP Hana

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Accenture: 48% of UK survey respondents fail to find big data talent

  An Accenture survey has found that nearly half of UK respondents are struggling to find enough skilled data management professional

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  EY seeks tech startups to address challenges of right to be forgotten

  Professional services firm Ernst & Young is looking for startups to find technology solutions to the ‘right to be forgotten’ regulation

• September 04, 2014 04 Sep'14

  Ordnance Survey to release open data on green spaces

  The Ordnance Survey is to release information and statistics on green space in England and Wales as open data

• September 03, 2014 03 Sep'14

  Morgan Motor Company swaps Sage for integrated IFS

  Morgan Motor Company is replacing its Sage 500 accounting system with IFS Applications

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Bayern Munich teams up with SAP to hit sporting and commercial goals

  FC Bayern Munich and SAP today cemented a sports analytics and enterprise software partnership at the club’s Allianz Arena