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Integration software and middleware

• August 06, 2020 06 Aug'20

  Samsung and Microsoft extend Windows and Office 365 integration

  Samsung fleshes out OneDrive, Outlook and OneNote integration. Microsoft offers Link to Windows, to extend phones to Windows 10 PCs

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• June 24, 2020 24 Jun'20

  HPE aims to address non-cloud apps in hybrid IT

  Some applications are simply not a good fit for the public cloud. So while organisation may go cloud-native, they still need to support on-premise IT

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  ITAM Forum aims to raise the bar on tech management

  Knowing what is deployed is the first step in any transformation exercise, and a strong IT asset management practice lowers risk

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  IBM targets legacy modernisation with hybrid multicloud

  Every few years, the foundations of IT architecture are shaken up, but few businesses can easily rip out old systems to stay aligned to the latest trend

• June 11, 2020 11 Jun'20

  How Informa Markets cohered customer data as it absorbed UBM merger

  Trade show organiser Informa Markets turned to Collibra software as it sought to improve data quality while making marketing communications more targeted and precise

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  CIO interview: Simon Moorhead of the Rail Delivery Group discusses integration

  Train services across the UK are fragmented, with data and systems in silos, which makes it hard to provide a seamless experience for rail users

• June 09, 2020 09 Jun'20

  How Malaysia’s Gain Secure stood tall amid Covid-19

  Walter Wong, executive director of Gain Secure and former Microsoft employee, talks up how his business is coping during Malaysia’s lockdown

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Why GovTech is building its own robotics stack

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency has developed a robotics technology stack that will power robots using capabilities from commercial suppliers and the open source community

• June 04, 2020 04 Jun'20

  Why this is the right time for IT

  The coronavirus has put the spotlight on IT capabilities, and people are now willing to embrace technology-driven change to working practices

• May 19, 2020 19 May'20

  GitLab makes foray into Southeast Asia

  GitLab expands in Southeast Asia with a Singapore presence to shore up its growing footprint across the Asia-Pacific region

• April 28, 2020 28 Apr'20

  Worcestershire County Council turns to low code in coronavirus response effort

  The county council of Worcestershire is using the OutSystems low-code platform to develop five apps to support internal staff and external volunteers during the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic

• April 21, 2020 21 Apr'20

  IBM results reveal hybrid emphasis and virtual garages

  The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is leading to businesses rethinking their strategy, with IBM leaning on virtual teams to support hybrid computing projects

• April 16, 2020 16 Apr'20

  St Albans council integrates systems in effort to streamline processes

  The council of St Albans has implemented a unified digital platform to streamline how citizens interact with its services, as well as its own decision-making processes

• April 15, 2020 15 Apr'20

  GitLab expands into Australia as DevOps tooling market heats up

  DevOps platform supplier GitLab expands Down Under with a bigger workforce to meet the needs of local firms that are looking to speed up software development

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  IT Priorities 2020: Digitisation drives IT modernisation growth

  IT decision-makers realise that old applications restrict agility. As organisations digitise processes, application modernisation is key

• March 10, 2020 10 Mar'20

  Police IT system failure creates significant backlogs

  Independent review of IT system failure that left Greater Manchester Police working with pen and paper finds combination of technical shortcomings, operational procedures and staff training responsible for massive backlogs

• February 07, 2020 07 Feb'20

  Disguise uses data management firm Boomi to gain visibility of estate

  Integration has given entertainment company Disguise visibility of its entire digital estate while also connecting its various pools of siloed data

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Case study: How Trainline keeps customers satisfied

  The Trainline is encouraging customers to discover cheaper rail fares for the same journey with its AI-enabled SplitSave option

• November 25, 2019 25 Nov'19

  How ServiceNow is empowering Asia’s mobile workforce

  ServiceNow’s newly minted managing director in Asia talks up the company’s sweet spots and traction in the region, and what it’s doing to abstract away workflow complexities for mobile workers

• October 30, 2019 30 Oct'19

  L'Oréal builds Talend-based data lake in Microsoft Azure to accelerate product R&D

  Cosmetics giant L'Oréal reveals details of how it is combining Microsoft cloud technologies with Talend's data integration tools to speed up product development within its organisation

• October 29, 2019 29 Oct'19

  How Aussie Broadband is improving service levels with automation

  Australian telco Aussie Broadband has improved customer service though automation, even with a lean team and a growing subscriber base

• October 14, 2019 14 Oct'19

  Why API-first software development leads to shiny API people

  There is a fundamental difference between using application programming interfaces for integration and having an API strategy for reuse. We look at how APIs can make digital initiatives shine

• October 11, 2019 11 Oct'19

  How code reuse drives business change at the DWP

  Department for Work and Pensions is using application programming interfaces to promote reuse of granular microservices across the organisation

• October 09, 2019 09 Oct'19

  Inside Singapore Airlines’ cloud and DevOps journey

  A team of engineers at Singapore’s flagship carrier shed light on how they are overcoming challenges in embracing cloud computing and DevOps

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  John Lewis Partnership sells its automation to business

  The John Lewis Partnership will expand its use of automation technology as its early projects bear fruit

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  Australia gets ready for open banking

  Traditional banks and fintech firms alike will need to bite the bullet in the crucial startup period if Australia’s open banking regime is to succeed

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  CIO interview: Michael Ibbitson, executive VP for technology and infrastructure, Dubai Airports

  Former CIO at Gatwick Airport took flight to the Middle East three years ago, and is using data to transform the technology and infrastructure at Dubai Airports

• September 30, 2019 30 Sep'19

  The bots turning businesses into digital transformers

  As companies increasingly turn to robotic process automation to accelerate digital transformation, Computer Weekly takes a look at how the market is evolving

• September 20, 2019 20 Sep'19

  Cross-government collaboration is key to overcoming legacy IT issues

  Senior civil servants highlight some of the challenges with legacy IT systems and what can be done to overcome them

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Lack of executive leadership lowers digital project success rate

  A new survey has found that IT may be working on projects that do not deliver tangible business benefits

• July 10, 2019 10 Jul'19

  CDO interview: Julia Aymonier, École Hôtelière de Lausanne

  As organisations transform digitally, the roles of those leading these IT projects are changing too, says Julia Aymonier, CDO at Switzerland-based hospitality school École Hôtelière de Lausanne

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Confusing cocktail of document licensing in SAP’s Hana strategy

  SAP wants its customers to migrate from ECC to Hana and its cloud offering and is also putting forward a new, “ambiguous” document licensing scheme

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  How AirAsia streamlined its customer service

  Integrating multiple customer touch points with Salesforce has enabled Asia’s leading low-cost carrier to shorten waiting time and improve customer service

• June 19, 2019 19 Jun'19

  How Carsales cuts through the noise in incident response

  The Australian firm is using PagerDuty to sieve through a sea of alerts from various alerting systems that notify operations staff of customer and IT issues

• June 06, 2019 06 Jun'19

  Keeping Java relevant in the age of cloud and agile

  Java Community Process chair Heather VanCura talks up efforts to keep Java up to speed with the needs of developers in the era of cloud and agile software development

• May 15, 2019 15 May'19

  Optus shows off real-time call translation smarts

  The Australian telco has bigger plans to make its network more open to enable developers to build and integrate new services into phone calls

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Should you buy SaaS ERP or best-of-breed enterprise software?

  The major ERP providers are pushing their customers to their cloud offerings. It makes sense, but there are plenty of SaaS alternatives

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Middle East countries accelerate quantum computing research

  Gulf countries must invest in quantum computing research to ensure they continue to to remain digital pioneers

• March 21, 2019 21 Mar'19

  Australian firms grapple with business-IT gap

  The growing chasm between business and IT has hit Australia more than other countries, according to a study on the state of digital transformation initiatives

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Integration challenges lead to digital deceleration

  With precious little increase in their budgets and large numbers of applications to connect, IT decision-makers admit they are struggling

• February 18, 2019 18 Feb'19

  Dell Boomi taps APAC cloud market

  The supplier of cloud-based integration services has expanded into Southeast Asia following its debut in Australia about two years ago

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Google petitions Supreme Court to reconsider Android Java ruling

  Google’s legal chief claims Oracle’s copyright ruling on Java software interfaces will damage software development

• January 23, 2019 23 Jan'19

  IT leaders must address integration to support business ecosystem

  New survey finds that for most businesses, digitisation initiatives are hampered by legacy IT and integration issues

• January 02, 2019 02 Jan'19

  How e-signatures fix broken digitisation

  A big barrier to the end-to-end digitisation of business processes is that certain steps require paper – but DocuSign plans to fix this

• December 11, 2018 11 Dec'18

  Tibco’s Orchestra acquisition will mean ‘faster IT integration’

  Tibco’s strategic acquisition of Paris-based Orchestra networks will ‘benefit customers of both companies’

• November 27, 2018 27 Nov'18

  High Court trial over Horizon computer system completes witness cross-examinations

  The High Court trial in which subpostmasters are suing the Post Office has reached an important stage

• October 10, 2018 10 Oct'18

  Singapore extends reach of digital ID system with cloud

  GovTech is using AWS to host a developer platform that enables government agencies and businesses to develop services that build on the upcoming National Digital Identity system

• October 02, 2018 02 Oct'18

  Singapore government makes bold cloud move

  Most government IT systems will be migrated to commercial cloud services within five years, while a private government cloud will host more sensitive workloads

• September 28, 2018 28 Sep'18

  Data analytics cuts queues and flight delays at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport

  Aeroporti di Roma’s CIO, Emiliano Sorrenti, describes how the city’s main airport is using data analytics technology to reduce delays and queue times, securing it an industry award for customer service

• September 27, 2018 27 Sep'18

  Agile IT held back by legacy tech and legacy budgeting

  CIOs admit their organisations cannot keep pace with digital transformation initiatives, with capex budgeting and legacy IT part of the problem

• September 25, 2018 25 Sep'18

  Dreamforce 18: Salesforce vaunts Apple partnership and 'Customer 360'

  As Dreamforce 2018 gets underway in San Francisco, Salesforce trumpets a partnership with Apple, a customer 360 service, and an upgrade to its MuleSoft “Anypoint” platform

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Fashion retailer Desigual boosts sales opportunities with data-sharing technology

  Spanish fashion group Desigual reports 2% fewer lost sales after investing in technology to share stock, sales and pricing data between stores, websites and franchise partners

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  Tibco plugs streaming data gap in Spotfire

  New streaming data analytics capability in Tibco Spotfire X is expected to be well-received by enterprises in competitive markets across Asia-Pacific

• September 04, 2018 04 Sep'18

  Tibco to tackle blockchain challenges

  Integration and analytics software supplier Tibco has formed a new lab to tackle the challenges of implementing blockchain and other emerging technologies

• August 01, 2018 01 Aug'18

  Apple breaks Q3 records, while losing market share to Huawei

  Apple has posted a record-breaking quarter, but its smartphones are not selling as fast. Huawei is now the second largest smartphone maker

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Cloud sales stoke Microsoft’s strong growth

  Microsoft says cloud-based Office products made a huge contribution to sales growth

• 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

• June 06, 2018 06 Jun'18

  Financial Conduct Authority raises questions over TSB's IT regression testing

  The FCA will look at whether TSB carried out sufficient regression and user acceptance testing before migrating to a new IT platform

• 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

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Cloud-based integration platforms underpin digital strategy

  The application integration market is dominated by IBM and Oracle, but AWS and Salesforce are changing the game with integration platforms as a service

• May 25, 2018 25 May'18

  Two chiefs, two approaches to digital transformation

  While the definition of digital transformation is debatable, IT business leaders agree it's all about the data

• 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 22, 2018 22 May'18

  Thailand’s Ascend Money finds agility with OpenShift

  Besides implementing Red Hat’s OpenShift application platform, Ascend Money adopted an open source governance model to keep IT teams aligned with business goals

• May 15, 2018 15 May'18

  Oracle claims positive traction for autonomous database in ASEAN

  Oracle’s newly minted autonomous database could leave database administrators unemployed, but that has not stopped a Thai payment services provider from jumping onto the bandwagon

• May 08, 2018 08 May'18

  Red Hat teams up with Microsoft in hybrid cloud, container push

  Building on a strategic alliance first announced in 2015, the two software companies are working together on Red Hat OpenShift on Azure to reduce the complexity of managing containers in a hybrid cloud environment

• 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 01, 2018 01 May'18

  Facebook bolsters enterprise integration with Workplace tool

  Facebook wants to embed its platform in the enterprise, and hopes to achieve this through integration with third-party services

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

  The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises

• April 11, 2018 11 Apr'18

  IT transformation seen as essential for digital business projects

  Businesses that have modernised their IT are in a far better position to make the most of digital transformation initiatives

• March 13, 2018 13 Mar'18

  Watch out for digital legacy in manufacturing

  Digital twins are the next innovation in manufacturing, but will the file formats and hardware be around for as long as the assets being modelled?

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Norway’s Statkraft outsources IT infrastructure management

  Energy company awards India’s HCL five-year IT deal in order to free up resources to focus on core business

• March 06, 2018 06 Mar'18

  Security remains an afterthought in DevOps

  Enterprises in Asia are lapping up DevOps but less than one-third have baked security processes into their developments

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

  The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  Financial savings just the beginning for CIOs who understand code quality

  Businesses need to understand the quality of the code in their applications if they are to avoid unnecessary costs and glitches

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Nordic states innovate to attract global tech players

  The Nordic region is already a hotbed for tech startups and has the ingredients to attract more investment from the established tech giants

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 enterprise IT in the Nordics stories in 2017

  The Nordic region might be best known in IT circles for its startup communities – but it has much more to offer

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Australia’s Kogan.com breaks IT silos

  E-commerce company used to run separate systems across different business functions, but has implemented an SAP system to streamline operations

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Carlos Abarca, TSB

  Carlos Abarca is guiding TSB through its migration from systems hosted by a competitor to a digitally focused in-house core banking platform.

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital

• November 15, 2017 15 Nov'17

  Critical IT problems cost UK organisations £200,000 a month

  UK companies are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds a month because of IT problems, but are relatively good at preventing the same issues recurring

• November 14, 2017 14 Nov'17

  CIO interview: Gavin Scruby, SmartDebit

  The CIO of SmartDebit speaks to Computer Weekly about the challenges of balancing innovation with regulatory compliance

• November 13, 2017 13 Nov'17

  IT in 2018 underpinned by bots, automation and software-defined

  The need for speed in IT will drive many to deploy software-defined infrastructure and adopt continuous deployment practices next year

• October 27, 2017 27 Oct'17

  Microsoft propels Dynamics and Azure growth in Q1 2018 earnings

  The company reports revenue increase in cloud, Azure and Dynamics, with LinkedIn integration starting to show why Microsoft paid $23bn for the professional network

• October 24, 2017 24 Oct'17

  Scottish Water extends ServiceNow following HR success

  Having pioneered optimising the joiners and leavers process, the IT service management team at Scottish Water can now show other areas of the business the benefits of ServiceNow

• October 19, 2017 19 Oct'17

  Millions being lost due to downtime in industrial systems

  Industrial companies are losing $260,000 per hour due to unplanned downtime, but predicting failure using digital twins can help overcome the problem

• October 13, 2017 13 Oct'17

  WEF gets to grips with risks posed by transformative technologies

  World Economic Forum is bringing technology, insurance and government sectors together to better understand the risks posed by technology failures

• October 04, 2017 04 Oct'17

  Global IT spending to hit $3.7tn next year, says Gartner

  IT spending is taking on a different shape as organisations embark on, and accelerate, digital transformation projects

• September 25, 2017 25 Sep'17

  Red Hat opens innovation lab in Singapore

  Besides getting a taste of Red Hat’s open culture, APAC organisations can develop applications to solve business problems through a residency programme at the new lab

• September 20, 2017 20 Sep'17

  BMW opens its second tech startup programme in the UK

  BMW has launched its latest programme to support tech startups in the UK

• September 15, 2017 15 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: How to change the face of legacy

  If change is the only constant, the IT industry is the 21st century engine of change, relentlessly grinding out more features at a faster rate

• September 14, 2017 14 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: How vSphere operators will become container managers

  VMware is fleshing out its strategy to become the Swiss Army knife for hybrid computing. We investigate how vSphere will evolve

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  VMworld 2017: VMware updates software legacy

  VMware is beginning to recognise there is life beyond the hypervisor as it announces VMware HCX, which will provide interoperability between private and public cloud

• September 12, 2017 12 Sep'17

  Riak NoSQL snapped up by Bet365

  Betting firm Bet365 aims to give away enterprise version of Riak NoSQL to the open source community and continue the development of the product

• September 08, 2017 08 Sep'17

  Half of UK fintech firms confident in growth but have doubts over skills

  UK fintech companies are confident that revenues will double over the next year, but have concerns over talent and customer take up of services

• September 06, 2017 06 Sep'17

  Developers won't ask bosses for help

  Software developers are turning to YouTube to find out how to solve technical problems, rather than asking for help from colleagues

• September 01, 2017 01 Sep'17

  European investors back cloud, IoT and big data for insurance sector

  Investors are putting their money behind suppliers of technology to the European insurance sector