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Integration software and middleware

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  ServiceNow’s Bill McDermott: a ‘work in progress’

  Bill McDermott, president and CEO of ServiceNow, speaks to Computer Weekly about his vision for the company and the technology industry, which he believes to be in the throes of exponential change

• May 30, 2023 30 May'23

  How Pendula is driving customer communications

  The Australian startup’s conversational messaging platform lets businesses draw on internal and external data to cross-sell and upsell their offerings while improving customer retention

• May 29, 2023 29 May'23

  Qlik CEO: We will remain agnostic

  Mike Capone assures customers that Qlik will remain agnostic following its acquisition of Talend and that its data analytics and integration tools will continue to work with rival platforms

• May 28, 2023 28 May'23

  Australia’s Disability Trust picks Boomi integration platform

  The non-profit organisation is using Boomi’s integration platform to integrate a mix of legacy and new systems to deliver real-time data updates and improve payroll processing, among other goals

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government

  The Public Accoubts Committee recently found that Defra has been unable to measure inefficiencies due to running legacy IT

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group

  UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards

• April 03, 2023 03 Apr'23

  CIO interview: Carter Busse, CIO, Workato

  Workato CIO Carter Busse talks up the company’s approach towards automation and its efforts to drive the technology across its business

• March 01, 2023 01 Mar'23

  APAC is proving to be ‘substantial growth engine’ for Rimini Street

  Rimini Street CEO Seth Ravin outlines growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific and discusses the company’s move up the support value chain

• February 17, 2023 17 Feb'23

  Singapore’s IHiS taps Google Cloud for API management

  Integrated Health Information Systems is using Google’s Apigee API management platform to provide access to data and applications across Singapore’s public healthcare system

• January 12, 2023 12 Jan'23

  How Indian banks can drive automation in corporate banking

  Banks should prioritise their processes for automation based on the level of human intervention, understand their processes thoroughly and put employees at the centre of their automation efforts

• January 11, 2023 11 Jan'23

  NHS data platform costing £480m to supersede Covid-19 data store underway

  NHS England has invited suppliers to tender for a data platform that will supersede the Covid-19 data store controversial for the involvement of data analytics firm Palantir

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases

  Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential

• January 05, 2023 05 Jan'23

  Executive interview: Rajesh Naidu, Expedia

  We speak to Expedia’s head of IT architecture about what a modern, scalable architecture for the cloud should look like

• December 20, 2022 20 Dec'22

  Top 10 software development stories of 2022

  We look at how software development has adapted to the changing economic climate over the past 12 months

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

  HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

• November 21, 2022 21 Nov'22

  EDF UK deploys Riverbed’s Alluvio Aternity to tackle IT issues

  Monitoring software links into ServiceNow and PowerShell scripts are being used to automate remediation

• November 18, 2022 18 Nov'22

  Pioneer behind IT systems design dies

  Peter Hermon’s career spanned IT and management, including deploying LEO computers in industry and the integration of IT systems when BA was formed

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  A modern approach to enterprise software development

  Overworked IT departments need a better way to deliver digitally enabled products and services at the speed the business requires

• November 15, 2022 15 Nov'22

  Inside Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

  Adopting a platform approach with products that can scale across the board and building a strong engineering bench are some of the key aspects in Singapore’s public sector IT strategy

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Russia risks shortage of PCs and software

  Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software

• November 02, 2022 02 Nov'22

  How Prostate Cancer UK built its own message bus

  The cancer charity received funding ring-fenced for modernising its data management – the funds were spent on a solutions architect and an ETL process

• October 11, 2022 11 Oct'22

  With Java 19, Oracle boosts developer productivity with an eye on the future

  Major features in Java 19 will make it easier for Java developers to build applications that interface with non-Java code, among other capabilities in the 10th edition of the platform’s six-month release cadence

• September 06, 2022 06 Sep'22

  How the Australian Red Cross coped with a donation surge

  The Australian Red Cross adopted Boomi’s integration platform to manage the surge in donations in response to the floods in New South Wales and Queensland earlier this year

• August 11, 2022 11 Aug'22

  Crown Commercial Service opens door to Salesforce

  The Crown Commercial Service has agreed a Memorandum of Understanding with Salesforce to facilitate public sector access to the supplier’s products and services, including Tableau, Slack and Mulesoft

• June 17, 2022 17 Jun'22

  MoD sets out strategy to develop military AI with private sector

  The UK Ministry of Defence has outlined its intention to work closely with the private sector to develop and deploy a range of artificial intelligence-powered technologies, committing to ‘lawful and ethical AI use’

• May 31, 2022 31 May'22

  How Police Scotland deployed mobile comms for integrated services

  Technology is core to Police Scotland’s 10-year plan to transform policing, and since 2019 it has worked with Motorola to roll out mobile comms

• May 13, 2022 13 May'22

  Organisational silos hampering integration efforts in Asia

  Many organisations in Asia still approach integration in silos, choosing to build hard coded integrations that tend to be brittle and more prone to failure

• May 06, 2022 06 May'22

  How Rimini Street is growing its footprint in ASEAN

  Rimini Street is expanding its reach in ASEAN as more companies, such as Malaysian carmaker Proton, look for cheaper software maintenance options

• March 30, 2022 30 Mar'22

  Why integration and automation are two sides of the same coin

  Workato’s regional leader explains why integration and automation are intertwined and how the company is addressing the Asia-Pacific market

• March 24, 2022 24 Mar'22

  CW Innovation Awards: How WLTH is disrupting traditional banking

  The fintech company built its own technology stack that delivers data analytics and other capabilities as it seeks to win market share from traditional banks

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Electronic patient records key to NHS digital transformation

  Getting EPR systems rolled out across NHS organisations will help boost digital transformation efforts, and are key to fulfilling government healthcare plans

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Gartner: Public sector must target disjointed IT strategy

  The pandemic showed how quickly public sector IT can deliver technology to support essential services – now it is time to fix scalability

• February 16, 2022 16 Feb'22

  DWP data sharing pilot aims for single source of the truth

  A pilot to share labour data across government departments aims to develop a safe framework for collaboration and to improve policy-making

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  The Citrix deal and what it means for Tibco

  The investment firm behind Tibco has been on a spending spree, bolstering its product portfolio and offering new ways to access and connect to data

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

  Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Citrix joins Tibco in Vista enterprise IT portfolio

  Vista, the investment firm backing enterprise software business, has acquired Citrix to flesh out its hybrid work portfolio

• January 25, 2022 25 Jan'22

  Retailers mired by manual data integration

  Retail relies on third-party data sources to drive business decisions and competitive pricing, but many struggle to pull in this data

• January 11, 2022 11 Jan'22

  Companies propose scanning content pre-encryption to fight CSAM

  Firms working on the UK government’s Safety Tech Challenge have suggested that scanning content before encryption will help prevent the spread of child sexual abuse material – but privacy concerns remain

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 software development stories of 2021

  Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: IT a focus for business recovery

  The pandemic has accelerated IT initiatives – we look at what impact this will have on the CIO agenda for 2022

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Software development

  As organisations rebuild after the Covid-19 pandemic, strategic software projects will help them become more effective

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  How Axa drives digitisation forward

  Digital transformation is not a one-shot project – it’s a continuous and evolving process that requires a mindset change in IT management

• October 07, 2021 07 Oct'21

  How data drives Air Canada’s cargo business

  Data-driven insights and artificial intelligence are helping Air Canada to find a new business path as it expands its cargo business following the pandemic

• September 29, 2021 29 Sep'21

  Blue Prism deal adds RPA to Tibco software product range

  Robotic process automation provides another piece of the jigsaw in Tibco’s drive to be a data company

• September 22, 2021 22 Sep'21

  Legacy, unautomated IT was root cause of human error in pensions underpayment

  Caseworkers at Department for Work and Pensions had to use systems dating back to 1988 and manually move data to different systems, leading to human error

• September 14, 2021 14 Sep'21

  Renault set to test out Google supply chain digital twin

  Digital twin simulation of supply chain draws in disparate data sources to deliver efficiencies and prevent disruptions

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  How to get API deployments right

  Application programming interfaces are not the panacea for digital transformation and could even lead to escalating costs for problems that are better addressed through integration

• August 04, 2021 04 Aug'21

  Fred IT replaces paper prescriptions with QR codes

  Fred IT’s eRX Script Exchange is now used by 21,000 doctors and 95% of Australian pharmacies, delivering more than 11 million digital prescriptions by July 2021

• July 20, 2021 20 Jul'21

  Volvo: Our friends in software

  We speak to Volvo’s head of software platform about the company’s strategy to build a software-defined car

• July 08, 2021 08 Jul'21

  How GSK Consumer Healthcare builds out its platform business

  GSK Consumer Healthcare’s products are sold through retailers and chemist shops, and it is now connecting directly with consumers through APIs