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• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  TfL appoints 12 companies for IT systems framework

  Capita, CSC, Atos and CGI are among the firms on TfL’s IT systems framework contract, which is worth between £80m and £95m

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  How easyJet uses digital to drive competitive advantage

  The CIO and head of digital at easyJet tell Computer Weekly price is not the only way to gain competitive advantage in the airline industry

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  Corporate boardroom technology scales down to non-profit sector

  Housing association Viridian uses the same technology as large corporations to ensure the board receives all the information it needs, securely and cost-effectively

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Another senior GDS leader bites the dust

  Deputy chief technology officer Magnus Falk is the latest senior leader to leave GDS after chief Mike Bracken announced his departure

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Travelex rewrites its digital strategy

  Travelex’s digital transformation is based on short-term wins, long-term goals and disruption, according to its chief digital officer, Sean Cornwell

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  E-commerce steams ahead in the UK with more online orders than the rest of the EU

  Figures from the Office of National Statistics reveal 79% of people in the UK ordered online in 2014

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Tesco decides to keep Dunnhumby after strategic review of business

  Supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped plans to sell analytics arm Dunnhumby after restructuring and analysing its assets

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Better IT system integration could cut avoidable GP appointments

  Common IT systems that talk to each other and better communication between general practitioners and hospitals are key to reducing unnecessary appointments, a report has found

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Buying IT before the end of 2015 could help businesses offset tax

  Upgrading servers or refreshing desktops before the end of the year could make sense for businesses

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Workday seeks growth, not profit, as it expands in Europe

  Cloud services company Workday is setting its sights on growth as it expands from cloud HR, to finance, learning and analytics

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  European IT budgets expected to fall in 2016, research reveals

  IT professionals in Europe anticipate their IT budgets decreasing by almost $700, according to a survey by Spiceworks

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  NHS underinvests in data capabilities, says Public Health England chief knowledge officer

  The NHS needs to invest in capacity and capability to use data in making healthcare decisions, says Public Health England (PHE) chief knowledge officer John Newton

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  HP Cloud 28+ enters beta and introduces self-certification scheme for providers

  Hewlett-Packard (HP) gears up to launch its Cloud 28+ service catalogue in December 2015, talking up the opportunities it presents for European providers

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Women in “a position of power” in IT industry, says BBC panel

  Women looking to make the move to the IT industry have the upper hand, according to a panel discussion at the BBC

• September 30, 2015 30 Sep'15

  Legal documents reveal HP's failings over Autonomy

  The board of Hewlett-Packard (HP) knew about Autonomy’s failings – yet voted the $11.1bn acquisition through regardless, internal memos have revealed

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  IBM hails apprenticeship degrees as step towards injecting talent into businesses

  Large firms such as IBM, John Lewis and Lloyds Banking Group gathered to discuss the benefits of young IT talent gaining degrees on the job

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Monique Shivanandan, Aviva

  Aviva’s CIO, Monique Shivanandan, talks agile working, digital disruption and changing the culture of a complex 300-year-old company

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  UKtech50 2015 - help us find the most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly's annual search for the 50 most influential people in UK IT is underway - let us know who you would like to nominate for this year's list

• September 28, 2015 28 Sep'15

  IT problems put Enfield patients at risk, claims MP Joan Ryan

  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust invests in patient management systems after Enfield Town MP Joan Ryan claims waiting times put patients at risk

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  Government Digital Service readies for change as its chief Mike Bracken prepares to leave

  GDS is setting up executive training for senior civil servants and looking to work closely with departments to continue the digital transformation of Whitehall

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Antti Koskelin at Finland’s Kone

  Antti Koskelin joined Kone with the immediate task of finishing off a major IT infrastructure project that had already started, but has looked forward ever since

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  IT industry calls for the government to fill Stem skills gap

  The government has invested in Stem initiatives but the IT industry still thinks it could be doing more to fill the skills gap

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Data-sharing agreement between EU and US called into question by European law makers

  The future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement has been thrown into doubt after EU law maker claims it may not adequately protect user data

• September 23, 2015 23 Sep'15

  Government IT spending to be hit hardest by rising US dollar strength, warns Gartner

  Gartner predicts IT spending declines across all industries and vertical markets during 2015

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  IT industry seeks permanent staff as vacancies grow

  KPMG finds demand for IT workers has grown since 2014, leaving more open vacancies for positions

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Department store retailer House of Fraser appoints CIO

  British department store brand House of Fraser announces appointment of Julian Burnett as chief information officer

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Oxford University takes SaaS-led approach to IT department consolidation

  The University of Oxford has merged several IT departments to provide staff and students with centralised support

• September 21, 2015 21 Sep'15

  Health chief 'should be held to account' for whistleblow errors

  Former nurse and clincial commissioner Bernie Rochford claims unfair dismissal after blowing the whistle on IT problems which put patient care at risk

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Mads Madsbjerg Hansen, FLSmidth

  When Mads Madsbjerg Hansen joined Danish engineering giant FLSmidth he wanted get to know the company and its people, adjust the IT strategy where needed and change the IT organisation to fit that adjusted strategy

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  American Airlines forced to ground flights over IT issues

  US airline confirms "connectivity issue" that prompted it to halt flights from several airports yesterday has now been resolved

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Sainsbury’s hackathon showcases digital lab to improve customer services

  Sainsbury’s digital lab hackathon brings together the IT team and staff from the wider organisation to generate ideas to improve customer services

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Care.data chief Tim Kelsey to leave NHS England

  NHS England’s digital chief will leave the organisation in December to take up a new role with Telstra Health in Australia

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Oracle expands to 45 megawatt cloud business in SaaS and PaaS push

  Oracle expands its datacentre footprint as it pushes forward with its software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) businesses

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Nurse 'scared' to return to work after blowing whistle on IT problems

  A former nurse felt unable to return to work after raising concerns about the accuracy of records on a patient database at a London NHS trust

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  UK firms cope better with cyber attacks than continental enterprises, research shows

  Trend Micro research suggests UK firms are at greater risk of cyber attack than their counterparts in continental Europe – but are better at dealing with them

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  HP cuts jobs in bid to grow strategic services

  HP's Enterprise Services division is set for major cutbacks as the company attempts to reduce operating costs prior to the split in November 2015

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  Cambridge University Hospitals loses CEO and CFO amidst Monitor investigation

  Cambridge NHS CEO and chief finance officer quit the trust, while Monitor investigates its finances and £200m eHospital programme

• September 16, 2015 16 Sep'15

  NHS trust failed to recognise IT whistleblowing

  Managers at Southwark CCG did not realise that serious concerns raised by a former nurse of its IT systems should be treated as whistleblowing

• September 15, 2015 15 Sep'15

  NHS trust denies bullying and intimidation of IT whistleblower

  Managers were already aware of whistleblower's concerns about the accuracy of NHS Southwark's data, tribunal hears

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  UK citizens fear data breaches are going undetected

  The rise in high-profile security breaches has led to an increasingly worried UK public, calling for 24-hour monitoring of sensitive information

• September 14, 2015 14 Sep'15

  Haircare firm GHD rehomes hybrid cloud infrastructure in new Rackspace datacentre

  Haircare product maker shifts hybrid website infrastructure to Rackspace's Crawley datacentre in preparation for Christmas rush

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Drastic cuts coming to Samsung workforce

  Samsung is to downsize its workforce by 10% in the next few months as part of a renewed cost-cutting drive as the electronics firm continues to struggle, according to reports

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Chef secures $40m spending round as enterprise DevOps adoption soars

  Automation software supplier Chef dismisses buyout talk after sharing details of latest funding round

• September 08, 2015 08 Sep'15

  The Data School: Former Facebook employee launches training programme for future data analysts

  After working at Facebook as a data analyst, Andy Kriebel explains why he moved to the UK and launched a training programme for data scientists

• September 07, 2015 07 Sep'15

  CIO interview: Anna Berggren, ManpowerGroup Nordics

  ManpowerGroup Nordic CIO Anna Berggren talks about the importance of IT to the recruitment firm and the different approaches she takes to managing it

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust implements inventory management using Ingenica Solutions

  Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust is using an inventory management system to streamline its purchasing and management of clinical products.

• September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15

  Islington and Camden Councils set out shared IT services plans

  London councils want to tackle the government's austerity measures through adopting shared IT services model by April 2016

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  IT firm aims to close skills gap with technology training academy

  Microsoft-endorsed firm Azzure IT has launched an IT skills academy to teach development, customer support and consultancy in a bid to close the skills gap

• September 01, 2015 01 Sep'15

  Companies would look outside UK for technology talent

  The time it takes to hire technology talent is damaging businesses, who say they will employ workers from outside the UK to get the best

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Elisabeth Stjernstoft, Apoteket

  When the Swedish government introduced competition to the pharmaceuticals sector in 2009, the former monopoly faced a major IT transformation

• August 20, 2015 20 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Emil Dahlin, Svevia

  Svevia CIO Emil Dahlin transformed the IT of a former Swedish government organisation as it became an independent company

• August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15

  UK government signs new MoU with Oracle

  Memorandum of understanding builds on 2012 deal which promised to save the government £75m

• August 16, 2015 16 Aug'15

  Mobile phone users at risk as hackers bug and track victims

  An investigation by Australian TV show 60 Minutes demonstrates how hackers based thousands of miles away in Germany were able to record the calls of an Australian senator and track his movements

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Met Police seeks MSPs as digital forensic investigations move closer to the frontline

  Metropolitan Police Force wants to make it easier for frontline staff to embark on forensic investigations involving digital devices with the help of MSPs

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Connecting Cheshire funds masterclasses for women entrepreneurs

  #Eveolution scheme to support women-led SMEs in Cheshire with broadband support and advice on going digital

• August 13, 2015 13 Aug'15

  Interview: Government digital chief Mike Bracken – why I quit

  Mike Bracken, the outgoing director of the Government Digital Service, talks exclusively to Computer Weekly about his departure from Whitehall

• August 12, 2015 12 Aug'15

  Mike Bracken: I turned down an increase in GDS budget

  Outgoing government digital chief says he rejected the chance of extra funding and that his platform strategy is still on the table

• August 11, 2015 11 Aug'15

  Hootsuite moves social media management toolkit to IBM Softlayer cloud

  Social media management dashboard maker shifts App Directory to IBM cloud

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Business process automation fills people gap in Australia and New Zealand

  Business process automation technology is more about helping businesses in Australia and New Zealand overcome staff shortages, than about cutting costs.

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  HMRC to transfer 250 Capgemini staff in-house ready for Aspire contract end

  HMRC’s Aspire outsourcing contract will be replaced by slowly bringing staff in-house to give the department more control over IT

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  City of Liverpool College joins Jisc shared-services datacentre in Slough

  Further education college set to use facility to help support roll-out of shared-services portfolio to other colleges

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Consultancies hit amid rise in IT company insolvencies

  Rising insolvencies among IT companies contrasts with a fall in the rate of company failures in the wider economy

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  BT Group's first-quarter results buoyed by superfast broadband and mobile demand

  BT Group's first-quarter results highlight successes in superfast broadband and mobile divisions, but analyst warns of challenging times to come

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Executive interview: Lenovo targets key tech provider position

  Lenovo has set its sights on becoming the number one technology provider for corporates and consumers. We speak to the company’s UK general manager David McQuarrie

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IT departments aren't getting sidelined by cloud, suggests research

  Research from Harvard Business Review suggests IT departments are maintaining a firm grip on enterprise cloud deployments

• July 27, 2015 27 Jul'15

  World Trade Organisation strikes $1.3tn deal to wipe out IT trade tariffs

  World Trade Organisation's planned update to the 1996 Information Technology Agreement could see prices fall across a wide range of technology products

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Notion Capital unveils $120m investment fund for European cloud startups

  Venture capital firm hopes to increase fund size to $150m by the time it reaches final close later this year

• July 23, 2015 23 Jul'15

  Software project will save Ford tens of millions a year in car repair bills

  Car maker Ford is rolling out sophisticated warranty software to 12,000 dealers worldwide in a project that is expected to bring rapid financial returns

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Microsoft pushes portability of experience with latest Visual Studio

  Microsoft has been focused on making its own applications portable – now it wants Windows developers writing cross-platform.

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  Puppet Labs hails importance of IT managers in winning over DevOps sceptics in the enterprise

  Automation supplier's fourth annual DevOps research report highlights the important role IT managers play in ensuring enterprise-wide adoption

• July 16, 2015 16 Jul'15

  UK tech sector called to contribute to EC Digital Single Market consultations

  Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) says UK must feed back to the European Commission (EC) to inform the delivery of its Digital Single Market vision

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  US datacentre company Digital Realty buys rival Telx to build out co-location business

  Digital Realty doubles its size with the acquisition of rival datacentre systems supplier Telx, as consolidation in the market gathers pace

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  AWS to build wind farm in North Carolina to power its cloud datacentres

  AWS follows up earlier renewable energy pledge by setting out plans to build 208MW wind farm

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mattias Forsberg, Systembolaget

  Systembolaget CIO Mattias Forsberg says IT and business need to have a relationship of co-operation and expects every successful IT project to include some pain

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  UK to invest £45m in digital research and skills

  Millions of pounds will be invested in building research centres to fuel the UK’s digital economy research and skills

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Public sector organisations not consulting consumers about digital services

  Although most public sector organisations agree consulting with the public is essential for digital services development, only a fraction are doing so

• July 13, 2015 13 Jul'15

  Cut IT team by a third, says VMware cloud chief

  VMware's cloud chief, Bill Fathers, urges CIOs to rebuild their IT department and infrastructure for the cloud

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  AWS adds Chef to cloud Marketplace to drive up DevOps adoption

  Chef sets sights on winning over more AWS users with its DevOps-friendly automation tools

• July 09, 2015 09 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Lars Ruben Hansen, Rema 1000 Denmark and Reitan Distribution

  The CIO of supermarket chain Rema 1000 Denmark and wholesale company Reitan Distribution wants his staff to love coming to work

• July 08, 2015 08 Jul'15

  Rolls-Royce signs up to supercomputing on-demand from HPC Midlands

  Rolls-Royce is the first company to sign up to a supercomputing brokerage scheme, giving it access to £60m worth of high-performance computing

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• July 02, 2015 02 Jul'15

  BBC to cut 1,000 jobs and merge tech teams due to low licence fees

  The BBC will cut jobs and merge its technology teams in an effort to save funds after a drop in licence fees as fewer people watch live TV

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Microsoft in the dark after Parliamentary email disrupted for three days

  After a week of investigations, Microsoft has been unable to provide an explanation for failure of the Microsoft 365 cloud-based email service used by Parliament

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Windows Server 2003 end of support: Five options to choose from

  Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 ends in July. Should you upgrade to a newer version of the operating system or choose an alternative?

• June 26, 2015 26 Jun'15

  Google builds energy-efficient datacentre in US coal power plant

  Internet giant Google has said it intends to use a decommissioned coal power plant's infrastructure to deliver renewable energy to its next US datacentre

• June 25, 2015 25 Jun'15

  Virgin Active CIO calls for wearables market to adopt open standards

  Health club provider's IT chief claims boosting the interoperability of devices will increase their overall usefulness to consumers

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Box ties up with IBM to boost enterprise credibility and global reach

  IBM and Box have forged a global partnership to integrate their existing products and services, and develop new ones for secure collaboration

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  IT professionals give Windows 10 Start button the thumbs up

  A survey of European and North American IT professionals has found that the return of the Start button is the most enticing feature in Microsoft's latest operating system

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Adobe patches Flash Player vulnerability CVE-2015-3113

  Security updates for Adobe Flash Player for Windows, Macintosh and Linux address vulnerability CVE-2015-3113 that allows attackers to control the system

• June 24, 2015 24 Jun'15

  Innovate Finance dubs UK a fintech diversity hub

  Innovate Finance says financial technology is one of the easiest places to find diversity in business, and the UK has it in abundance

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Oracle goes after AWS and Hana with cloud add-ons

  Oracle has extended its cloud platform with a set of features it hopes will entice existing customers to migrate to the cloud

• June 23, 2015 23 Jun'15

  Pharmaceutical companies use BPM to cut cost of clinical trial drugs

  Pharmaceutical companies have developed an IT system to secure the supply of medicines they need for clinical studies, saving hundreds of thousands on their drugs bill in the process

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Californian state officials reveal driverless car crash numbers for first time

  The Californian Department for Motor Vehicles bows to pressure from The Associated Press to reveal details of self-driving car crashes

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Enterprise adoption of hybrid devices tipped to soar post-Windows 7

  Enterprise IT departments should consider hybrid devices in their post-Windows 7 migration plans, claims Gartner

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  Legacy systems holding back 90% of businesses

  Most businesses are being held back from making digital advances by their reliance on legacy applications

• June 19, 2015 19 Jun'15

  CIO interview: Rovio Entertainment's Kalle Alppi believes IT staff should be embedded in business

  The CIO at the company behind Angry Birds talks about running global IT with only five permanent staff

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  Oracle sets sights on cloud cash cow in shift from perpetual licensing

  Oracle reports Q4 operating income of $4bn on revenues of $10.7bn as it turns from software licensing towards 'stunningly profitable' cloud business

• June 17, 2015 17 Jun'15

  Royal Bank of Scotland goes back to 1970s values with big data

  RBS, once the world's largest bank, is using analytics technology to go back to the era of personal customer service

• June 11, 2015 11 Jun'15

  Only 3% of civil servants think the government gets good value from the tech industry

  A survey by industry body TechUK has found only a small percentage of civil servants feel the government currently gets good value out of the tech industry

• June 09, 2015 09 Jun'15

  Boots cuts 700 jobs in bid to restructure and improve tech

  Cosmetics firm Boots has announced it will be cutting 700 non-store roles in an attempt to invest in technology and simplify back-office operations