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• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  IT spending grows at fastest rate in five years

  Agile IT departments are emerging with the ability to flex their budgets quickly to meet new business demands

• December 12, 2014 12 Dec'14

  Interview: Lucie Glenday, chief digital officer, Surrey County Council

  Chief digital officer Lucie Glenday was brought into Surrey County Council to change the way it thinks about digital services

• December 11, 2014 11 Dec'14

  Whitehall meets digital leaders – but ignores local government

  The UK has played host to its first D5 digital leaders summit, but local collaboration was off the agenda

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse technology head as CTO

  Home Office appoints former Credit Suisse employee Sarah Wilkinson as its new chief technology officer

• December 10, 2014 10 Dec'14

  Why MPs lost faith in the Post Office's IT investigation, but vowed to fight on

  A group of 140 MPs has removed its backing for a Post Office scheme to redress subpostmasters' grievances over alleged false accounting

• December 08, 2014 08 Dec'14

  Only 39% of banks can confirm daily liquidity status, says Swift

  Only 39% of banks can confirm payments from foreign accounts in real time, according to a survey from Swift

• 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.

• December 05, 2014 05 Dec'14

  KPMG says businesses do not take IT risks seriously enough

  UK businesses are paying out £410,000 per year for unplanned IT problems, a study from KPMG has warned

• December 04, 2014 04 Dec'14

  NHS must partner with industry to embrace technology

  Healthcare providers must share expertise from the technology industry to make serious change, says NHS foundation CEO David Dalton

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  UKtech50 2014 - The most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has announced the fifth annual UKtech50, our definitive list of the movers and shakers in UK IT

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

  Computer Weekly UKtech50: Rising Stars 2014

  Computer Weekly’s five rising stars of 2014

• December 03, 2014 03 Dec'14

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

  Sainsbury's digital and technology director Jon Rudoe talks about customer-facing technologies, in-house development and data analytics

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Innocent Drinks: Why the UK is the best place for startups

  Innocent Drinks co-founder, Richard Reed, says the UK is the best place for a startup company

• December 02, 2014 02 Dec'14

  Competition essential if retail banks are to modernise their IT

  Only genuine competition in the retail banking sector will push banks to replace legacy IT, with fines and reputational damage making little impact

• December 01, 2014 01 Dec'14

  Is a local GDS the answer to local authority transformation? Lessons from the Labour digital review

  Labour’s digital government review touches on a number of issues, but what’s the future of GDS – and could it be scaled to help local authorities?

• 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 25, 2014 25 Nov'14

  Pressure on Universal Credit’s digital service mounts as testing begins

  Risks remain for Universal Credit as DWP continues its twin-track gradual roll-out of live and digital services

• November 24, 2014 24 Nov'14

  India’s IT spending to reach $73.3bn in 2015

  Indian IT spending is forecast to reach $73.3bn in 2015, up by 9.4% from $67.1bn in 2014

• November 20, 2014 20 Nov'14

  Operator error the root cause of Microsoft Azure failure

  Operator error was the root cause of the catastrophic failure of Microsoft's Azure cloud computing platform on 19 November 2014

• November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14

  Asda opens technology centre in Leeds

  Asda opens a technology centre in its Leeds head office to provide a more streamlined service for online customers

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  Interview: 'Government is the best digital startup in London'

  Computer Weekly interviews Ministry of Justice chief digital officer Paul Shetler about transforming government public services

• November 17, 2014 17 Nov'14

  CIO interview: Anna Barsby, CIO, Halfords

  Since joining Halfords as CIO, Anna Barsby has faced significant business challenges, including a risky cloud upgrade

• November 14, 2014 14 Nov'14

  Interview: Tim Kelsey, national director for patients and information, NHS

  All divisions of the NHS must have electronic patient records by 2020 or risk losing their licence - we talk to the man in charge to find out why

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  How to deal with the next software renewal call from the big four suppliers

  IT departments are being subjected to ruthless tactics by software sales teams when they renegotiate contracts with the big four suppliers

• November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14

  Amazon not the biggest threat to high street retailers

  Competition from online-only traders does not pose the biggest threat to high street retailers, with cautious attitudes a bigger risk

• November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14

  Councils need to embed digital more, says Hampshire's digital leader

  Local public sector needs to ensure digital is embedded into planning, policy and process, says Hampshire Country Council digital leader

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Interview: Building links between marketing and IT for the greater good

  Firms that forge relations between marketing and IT departments yield benefits in growing the range of their digital products

• November 10, 2014 10 Nov'14

  Deutsche Bank gets first chief data officer

  Deutsche Bank has appointed its first chief data officer

• November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14

  Three UK saves £10m a year by integrating stores, web and call centres

  Mobile operator Three aims to give customers the same service however they interact with the company, while reducing IT capital costs

• November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14

  First ever CeBIT India to focus on cloud, social, mobile and big data

  CeBIT is making its debut in India this month in Bangalore

• October 29, 2014 29 Oct'14

  OpenCo 2014: When do startups stop being startups?

  More than 100 UK digital companies opened their London offices to the public for a day to show how they work

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group confirms 9,000 job cuts and digital investment

  Lloyds Banking Group has confirmed it will cut 9000 jobs and close around 150 branches to focus more on its digital strategy

• October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14

  Standards will enhance the maturity of IT, says Shell's Karel van Zeeland

  Shell's Karel van Zeeland is founding member and lead architect of IT4IT Consortium and campaigns for open standards for integrating IT

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  Tablets now workplace standard, says Dell

  At least 90% of IT decision makers in most countries claim tablets are a standard part of their company’s IT strategy

• October 24, 2014 24 Oct'14

  HR technology used to save lives following natural disasters

  Plan International is using SAP's HR technology to deploy specialists relief workers within hours of a major emergency

• October 23, 2014 23 Oct'14

  Companies will move core HR technologies to the cloud by 2020

  Businesses will abandon on-premise HR IT systems in favour of cloud technology by 2020, says SuccessFactors chief

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Government needs to make technology exciting for women

  The government must make technology roles more exciting to attract females into the industry, says HMRC's Mark Dearnley

• October 21, 2014 21 Oct'14

  Why Shell, BP and PwC teamed up to launch platform-neutral IT4IT Forum

  Lack of IT integration and workload interoperability is pushing enterprises such as Royal Dutch Shell to collaborate with IT providers to develop standards

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  McAfee Next Generation firewall addresses siloed security risks

  McAfee claims its Next Generation Firewall product will help CIOs mitigate the risks associated with siloed security products

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  Enterprise IT should be more user-centric, says Box CEO Aaron Levie

  The CEO of cloud-based file sharing and content management service Box calls on enterprises to rethink IT delivery model

• October 15, 2014 15 Oct'14

  CIOs fear poor cloud investment is making businesses uncompetitive

  CIOs and CFOs fear their enterprises are missing revenue opportunities due to poor cloud strategies

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Indian government IT spend to hit $7.2bn in 2015

  The Indian government will spend $7.2bn on IT in 2015, with IT and BPO services the biggest area of investment, says Gartner

• October 13, 2014 13 Oct'14

  Embedded SIMs key to unlocking internet of things

  GSMA’s eUICC Embedded SIM Specification will help M2M communications and the IoT become mainstream, say analysts

• October 10, 2014 10 Oct'14

  Symantec splits storage and security

  Symantec is splitting its storage and security business, following just days after HP announced its split

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  Tim Berners-Lee: Data sharing needs accountability

  The question of how much data an individual should share was a key theme of Tim Berners-Lee's keynote at IP Expo

• October 08, 2014 08 Oct'14

  The challenges facing HP as it splits in two

  HP is splitting its business in two - but it is a reaction to the changing way that businesses and consumers buy IT

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  L’Oreal aligns technology with the business to work faster

  L’Oreal’s digital technology is working with the business and marketing departments to become innovative and agile

• October 07, 2014 07 Oct'14

  Engineering company rolls out talent management software across 17 countries

  Meggitt is deploying cloud-based HR technology as it seeks to integrate 60 diverse business units into a multinational operation

• October 06, 2014 06 Oct'14

  Lloyds Banking Group to cut thousands of jobs

  Lloyds Banking Group set to cut thousands of jobs for digitisation strategy that will see manual tasks become automated

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Yes Bank adopts SunTec software suite

  Indian private bank Yes Bank is using software from SunTec for revenue management and business assurance

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Union Budget of India will boost hardware, software and services spend

  IT will play a key role in addressing issues like poverty alleviation and job creation, following the recent budget

• October 03, 2014 03 Oct'14

  Translation issues between IT and HR causing poor IT employment choices

  Poor IT employments are being made due to poor communication between IT and HR, according to HR supplier Hudson.

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Microsoft readies Windows 10 Technical Preview

  Microsoft is today releasing a preview of Windows 10, the next version of the Windows desktop operating system

• October 01, 2014 01 Oct'14

  Oracle OpenWorld 2014: US fashion retailer Tilly’s aligns IT with marketing

  US retailer Tilly’s has aligned its e-commerce and marketing teams to focus on customer experience

• September 30, 2014 30 Sep'14

  Canonical moves to HR as a service

  We got to the point where we could not scale says Steve George, vice-president of operations

• September 26, 2014 26 Sep'14

  CIOs miss out on funding for digital innovation, claims research

  IT budgets are rising but less than 10% is allocated to supporting innovation, a survey of 900 CIOs finds

• September 24, 2014 24 Sep'14

  Virgin cuts travel costs by 20% after rolling out unified communications

  Employees saving 15 minutes a day as Virgin Media turns to social media, web conferencing and video

• September 23, 2014 23 Sep'14

  Non-IT committees influencing IT spend

  CIOs are being influenced by a diverse group of executives when making buying decisions, says research

• September 19, 2014 19 Sep'14

  How the HSCIC rebuilt NHS Spine

  The Health and Social Care Information Centre has successfully upgraded the infrastructure behind the NHS Spine platform

• September 18, 2014 18 Sep'14

  Interview: Wood Mackenzie CTO John Linwood on life after the BBC

  John Linwood, former chief technology officer at the BBC, talks about winning a high-profile employment tribunal and his new job at Wood Mackenzie

• September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14

  Austrian researchers tackle cloud integration security challenge

  Software developers will find it increasingly difficult to maintain software quality in cloud-based projects because of their inherent complexity

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Jeanne Harris: Successful business analytics combines data and intuition

  Accenture's executive research fellow explains how successful business analytics needs a crucible of skills

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  Five signs that VMware is becoming a developer platform company again

  With its Docker and OpenStack love, and DevOps and mobile initiatives, is VMware under pressure to bring back developer platform capabilities?

• September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Intel's Kim Stevenson on creating insight and value

  When Computer Weekly met Intel CIO Kim Stevenson last year, she extolled the benefits of business intelligence – now it is taking BI to a new level

• September 10, 2014 10 Sep'14

  Research reveals the inner psychology of IT professionals

  IT professionals are creative, flexible and strategic but can find it difficult to fit in with corporate culture, says psychology research

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  North Face optimises rewards programme through Tibco Engage

  Outdoor apparel retailer North Face has used a new SaaS product from Tibco to develop customer rewards programme

• September 09, 2014 09 Sep'14

  CIO interview: Bryson Koehler, CIO of The Weather Company

  The Weather Company is a huge advocate for cloud-based technology, and everything it has built is cloud-enabled

• September 08, 2014 08 Sep'14

  BP spends £2m developing apps to train business leaders

  BP is scrapping online courses in favour of apps and portals that can deliver bite-sized information and training when it's needed

• September 01, 2014 01 Sep'14

  Rolls-Royce CIO joins HMRC as non-executive director

  Rolls-Royce CIO Simon Ricketts has been appointed non-executive director of Her Majesty’s Revenue & Customs

• August 28, 2014 28 Aug'14

  Government appoints former Credit Suisse CIO as deputy CTO

  The government has appointed former Credit Suisse CIO Magnus Falk as its new deputy chief technology officer (CTO)

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  How to evolve desktop IT beyond Windows 7

  CIOs need to evolve their desktop strategy after Windows 7, but migrating totally to the next Windows version may not be the best option

• August 26, 2014 26 Aug'14

  Data hygiene needs to be tackled at board level – now

  Data proves information governance is a priority for senior management, but the latest research shows executives need to be more proactive

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Digital vouchers firm picks DevOps automation to speed apps deployment

  Digital vouchers provider Eagle Eye is deploying DevOps to manage the cloud infrastructure that supports its product network

• August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14

  Stuck between a rock and a hard place: How to renegotiate software contracts

  As a ruling against support provider Rimini Street demonstrates, suppliers can and will exploit any doubt in a software contract

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  Five pitfalls to avoid when doing DevOps

  As the DevOps movement gains traction in the enterprise space, here are five pitfalls CIOs need to avoid to make it work for the business

• August 19, 2014 19 Aug'14

  FT turns to cloud to manage advertising bookings

  Business newspaper replaces 20-year-old ad-booking system with a cloud-based service

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  Ex-RBS CIO takes up Deutsche Bank role

  Former CIO of Royal Bank of Scotland’s (RBS) Markets division announced as global head of IT infrastructure at Deutsche Bank

• August 18, 2014 18 Aug'14

  CIO Interview: Hugh Fahy, CIO, Net-A-Porter

  “I like to emphasis the ‘I’ bit in CIO,” says Hugh Fahy, chief information officer of the Net-A-Porter Group

• August 15, 2014 15 Aug'14

  How CIOs can put their organisations at the forefront of innovation

  CIOs have a critical role in helping their organisations exploit innovative ideas developed by non-technical specialists.

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Tackling the IT skills gap: University degree or apprenticeship?

  While the GCE A-Level results show that more people than ever will be going to university, the IT industry is failing to attract enough new talent

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  Forrester: Top 10 facts about private cloud

  Cloud is an essential component of every enterprise technology management strategy but designing a robust cloud strategy isn't easy

• August 14, 2014 14 Aug'14

  UK recession benefits IT industry

  A fifth of IT staff believe the UK recession has had a positive impact on the IT industry, according to Randstad Technologies

• August 12, 2014 12 Aug'14

  60% of GDS staff contracts to expire within 12 months of general election

  Almost 60% of employees at the Government Digital Service (GDS) could be gone within 12 months of next year’s general election

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  Why John Linwood is not to blame for BBC’s failed technology project

  Former BBC CTO has won his case for unfair dismissal over the failed £100m DMI project, but what lessons can be learned?

• August 08, 2014 08 Aug'14

  European Medicines Agency signs €4.5m Serco contract for IT support

  The European Medicines Agency EMA has signed a €4.5m contract with Serco for an outsourced IT helpdesk

• July 29, 2014 29 Jul'14

  Atos revenue slips but UK growth up 3.7%

  Revenue of Atos dipped 1.9% in the first half of 2014 because of slowdown in IT orders in Europe, but UK growth was up

• July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14

  Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

  Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project

• July 17, 2014 17 Jul'14

  Law gives 'arbitary' protection against surveillance, tribunal told

  Your choice of mobile phone service can determine whether the government can legally spy on you, tribunal told

• July 14, 2014 14 Jul'14

  FSB calls for major reforms to UK broadband market

  Federation of Small Businesses calls for more ambitious government broadband targets, saying slow progress is hampering growth

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  UK leads in mobile adoption

  UK businesses are getting a return on their mobile investments as they invest in technologies to underpin their digital strategies

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  Software asset management can drive down licensing costs

  With suppliers pulling the audit card, IT needs to get licence key in order. But strong software asset management (SAM) offers more than just licence compliance

• July 09, 2014 09 Jul'14

  CIO India interview: VVR Babu, ITC Group

  ITC Group might be over 100 years old but it is at the forefront of enterprise IT in India. CIO VVR Babu tells searchcio.in about his role at a company where he has worked for 35 years.

• July 08, 2014 08 Jul'14

  Dunnhumby heads to Oracle cloud for back-office standardisation

  Data science company Dunnhumby has launched a project to globalise its back-office business processes using Oracle Fusion cloud

• July 03, 2014 03 Jul'14

  Wearable technology creates new privacy issues for employers

  Wearable technology is creating new privacy headaches for employers, a leading law firm has warned.

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  CIO Interview: Simon Hill, Caravan Club

  What do the corporate giants Shell, BP and Guinness Brewing Worldwide have in common with the Caravan Club? Simon Hill has worked in the IT departments of all four

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Just Eat opens Bristol centre to boost native app development

  Just Eat is setting up a development centre in Bristol to build native mobile apps and support its back-end e-commerce systems

• July 01, 2014 01 Jul'14

  Gartner: Now is a good time to buy IT

  Pricing pressure has led to buyers getting a better deal from IT suppliers, according to Gartner analysts

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Internet of Things already stretching networks to capacity

  A new study reveals the scale of the challenges facing network managers as the Internet of Things becomes a reality

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Business conditions looking brighter for IT suppliers as insolvencies fall

  Business and domestic software development still struggling, according to insolvency index

• June 30, 2014 30 Jun'14

  Efforts to detect terrorism hampered by mass surveillance, says former NSA technical director

  US at risk of missing terrorist threats under huge volume of surveillance data, says former NSA technical director