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• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Infosys partners IPsoft as automation trend shakes offshore model

  Indian IT services giant Infosys is using IPsoft’s technology to automate its IT and business process services

• April 22, 2013 22 Apr'13

  Government reveals ecommerce scheme for SMEs

  The department for business, innovation and skills admits a programme to help SMEs take advantage of digital will launch later this year

• April 15, 2013 15 Apr'13

  Case study: London's Olympic network from BT

  After receiving an honourable mention in the European user awards for networking, Computer Weekly looks at the challenge of rolling out the network for the London Olympic Games in 2012

• April 10, 2013 10 Apr'13

  How to make the most of corporate data

  IT departments focus on structured data but miss the needs of almost half their employees, says CEB managing director Andrew Horne

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CEOs optimistic about IT innovation and investment, says Gartner

  A survey of CEOs and senior executives from Gartner finds the business climate right for IT investment to drive business development

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  Why CIOs need to become tax literate

  Digital technologies can have significant ramifications for corporate taxation. IT teams need to be aware of the issues, says PwC

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Patients and doctors must push for a paperless NHS, says Intellect report

  IT trade body Intellect says patients and doctors must undergo cultural change to realise government's ambition of a paperless NHS by 2018

• March 26, 2013 26 Mar'13

  Can executive coaching improve your standing in the boardroom?

  The CIO is under threat. Tech savvy business managers are spending more on IT than on the IT department. How can a CIO stay relevant?

• March 25, 2013 25 Mar'13

  UK banks are storing up additional costs for the future

  Financial services IT departments are creating higher costs in the long run by implementing short-term fixes to meet regulations

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

  As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  AstraZeneca appoints new CIO David Smoley

  Pharmaceuticals giant AstraZeneca has appointment David Smoley as chief information officer

• March 07, 2013 07 Mar'13

  Barclays streamlines phone banking with voice biometrics

  Barclays wealth investment management has been using voice biometrics from Nuance to streamline authentication when clients call

• March 05, 2013 05 Mar'13

  Computers cannot replace human ingenuity, say business bosses

  Fears that machines will encroach on human skills in the workforce are greatly exaggerated, a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit claims

• February 28, 2013 28 Feb'13

  BYOD to force mobile operators into services

  O2’s former European president claims mobile operators will lose enterprise contracts if they don’t focus on services

• February 22, 2013 22 Feb'13

  Businesses not embracing remote working

  Whilst employers claim to be keen on flexible working, employees still have their doubts around company policy

• February 21, 2013 21 Feb'13

  CIO interview: Carol Fawcett CIO of Dell software

  Fawcett deployed a 23 country BYOD strategy while at software firm, Quest, which was acquired by Dell. She is now hoping to take her experience to Dell.

• February 15, 2013 15 Feb'13

  IT budgets to grow in 2013 as economy bumps along

  UK IT departments are planning to spend more on IT in 2013 despite the downturn, a worldwide survey of IT managers has revealed

• February 14, 2013 14 Feb'13

  Southwest One outsourcing achieves 10% of target savings

  Somerset council's Southwest One outsourcing venture achieved just 10% of the savings initially targeted half way through the programme

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  SDN adoption plans still stalling in Europe

  TechTarget and Computer Weekly surveys find that less than 10% of organisations looking to implement software defined networking (SDN)

• January 31, 2013 31 Jan'13

  EasyJet lifts off with Azure seat bookings

  The Azure cloud has allowed Easyjet to enable web site and mobile users to check seat availability

• January 28, 2013 28 Jan'13

  CIO interview: Yann L’Huillier, Tradition

  Yann L’Huillier describes the three-pronged strategy he adopted after joining over-the-counter trading firm Tradition in April 2010

• January 22, 2013 22 Jan'13

  Businesses wasting billions storing unnecessary data

  CIOs are urged to rethink their backup strategies following warnings that companies are wasting billions on unnecessary storage

• January 17, 2013 17 Jan'13

  Government CIO Andy Nelson tipped for DWP CIO

  Government chief information officer Andy Nelson has been tipped as the next CIO at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• January 09, 2013 09 Jan'13

  IT contractors seek to fill skills gap left by public sector cuts

  IT contractors are increasingly confident about job opportunities in the public sector due to reductions in the civil service's head count, finds research

• January 08, 2013 08 Jan'13

  Misuse of social media could wreak havoc, warns World Economic Forum

  The rapid spread of false information through social media poses a growing threat to business and society, the World Economic Forum has warned

• January 02, 2013 02 Jan'13

  What does 2013 hold for financial services IT?

  While regulation will force banks to invest in IT, customer demand is imposing other pressures, such as mobile banking platforms

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  Top 10 CIO interviews of 2012

  The top IT leaders in the UK talked to Computer Weekly throughout 2012 to share their opinions and experiences

• December 28, 2012 28 Dec'12

  US Department of Justice is investigating allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy

  HP has revealed that the US Department of Justice has been investigating fraud allegation at Autonomy since last month.

• December 12, 2012 12 Dec'12

  Retailers are being let down by poor ERP

  UK retailers could lose an estimated £147 million of revenue this Christmas due to missed sales opportunities through out-of-stock products according to Vanson Bourne

• November 23, 2012 23 Nov'12

  CIO interview: Tom Baker, head of ICT, Sunderland City Council

  Tom Baker, head of ICT at Sunderland City Council, has an office in the council’s datacentre, which provides commercial hosting, VDI and a cloud service

• November 22, 2012 22 Nov'12

  UKtech50 2012 - The most influential people in UK IT

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

• November 08, 2012 08 Nov'12

  IT suppliers cost UK businesses one billion man-hours a year

  Almost 40% of IT workers lose a day or more a week fixing IT problems and struggling to get support from IT suppliers, according to research

• October 29, 2012 29 Oct'12

  Big data could transform staff management

  Data analytics has the potential to help businesses make dramatic returns by managing their workforce more effectively

• October 26, 2012 26 Oct'12

  Cloud HR pivotal to Direct Line share offering

  Cloud HR proved pivotal to insurance group Direct Line separating from the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) before it launched on the stock market

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Windows 8 OS is available now – but is it the right choice for your business?

  Windows 8 combines a desktop operating system (OS) with tablet-touch functionality, which will bring benefits to some organisations - but not all

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  HR needs to understand business to avoid IT failures

  The failure of human resources departments to understand how a business works is a common reason why HR IT projects fail

• October 25, 2012 25 Oct'12

  Government expected to unveil eight IDA suppliers for online services

  The government is to announce suppliers – including PayPal, BT and the Post Office – to provide identity assurance (IDA) for online public services

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  CIO interview: David Cooper, chief information officer, British Gas

  British Gas CIO David Cooper's multimillion-pound IT transformation is one of the highest-profile jobs in UK IT

• October 16, 2012 16 Oct'12

  Telefonica Digital saves 40% with cloud HR platform

  Telefonica Digital is investing in a cloud-based HR system to manage its 6,500 worldwide workforce, saving 40% on the cost of non-cloud HR

• October 11, 2012 11 Oct'12

  Solvency II data management confronts regulative uncertainty

  Solvency II, the EU directive to regulate insurance, gets a deadline extension to 2014 to fix data management problems.

• October 10, 2012 10 Oct'12

  Shell plans to save 100s of millions with 'semantic' search

  Royal Dutch Shell aims to cut training time for engineers with technology to identify and deliver information from databases, blogs and social media

• October 01, 2012 01 Oct'12

  O2 to expand BYOD scheme

  Mobile phone group O2 is to introduce its bring-your-own-device scheme to operations in Europe and South America, following successful UK roll-out

• September 28, 2012 28 Sep'12

  BT and Yahoo block UK2 IP addresses

  Customers of ISP UK2 have received no emails from Yahoo/BT Internet accounts for over a week after their IP addresses were blocked

• September 26, 2012 26 Sep'12

  Skandia Team GBR analysed its way to victory at the Olympics

  Business analytics software helped British sailing team, Skandia Team GBR, sweep up five medals against a target of four at the London 2012 Olympics.

• September 20, 2012 20 Sep'12

  Interview: Catherine Doran, CIO, Royal Mail

  A year into the job, Royal Mail CIO Catherine Doran talks about transformation, business change, and recruiting 100 new IT staff

• September 19, 2012 19 Sep'12

  Activision uses Salesforce to serve gaming community

  The Call of Duty designers use the Service Cloud and Chatter Communities to solve customer queries

• September 14, 2012 14 Sep'12

  CIO interview: Andy Haywood, Co-operative Business Group

  The new group CIO at the Co-operative Group talks about his plans for technology across the organisation’s businesses

• September 12, 2012 12 Sep'12

  Tesco signs £65m datacentre deal to drive online expansion

  Tesco expects to cut several millions each year from its IT bill following a 15-year £65m datacentre deal with Sentrum

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Is the consumerisation of IT beneficial to anyone?

  Employees' personal devices are being used in business every day, and that is posing new challenges for IT departments

• September 11, 2012 11 Sep'12

  Cabinet Office blacklists Fujitsu from government IT contract tenders

  The Cabinet Office has banned Fujitsu and another IT supplier from tendering for public sector IT contracts as they constitute too high a risk

• September 10, 2012 10 Sep'12

  Circuit breakers could mitigate risk in automated trading

  Merchant banks that automate trading could use circuit-breaking technology to reduce problems caused by stock market volatility

• September 10, 2012 10 Sep'12

  Indian IT services firm Infosys buys management consultancy Lodestone

  Indian IT services provider Infosys has grown its business consultancy with the acquisition of Swiss-based management consultancy Lodestone

• September 05, 2012 05 Sep'12

  Digital technologies to spark major shake-up of IT suppliers, says report

  CIOs have been urged to rethink their partnerships with strategic suppliers as the industry goes through its most disruptive period since the dot com crash

• September 03, 2012 03 Sep'12

  PwC examines Phoenix IT's financial irregularities

  The cloud and networking firm suspends a manager as it prepares to reduce its net assets by £14m

• August 31, 2012 31 Aug'12

  Leading PC suppliers announce Windows 8 devices

  HP, Dell, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo and Sony have announced products, from laptops to smartphones, which will run Microsoft’s new operating system.

• August 24, 2012 24 Aug'12

  BI users slammed by IT as banshees and telepaths

  Survey discovers IT professionals exasperated and world weary when confronted by BI users uncommunicative and exigent.

• August 14, 2012 14 Aug'12

  Macmillan runs roadshows to address resistance to service management

  Cancer charity Macmillan used a series of roadshows to overcome user resistance when it upgraded its IT service management (ITSM)

• July 30, 2012 30 Jul'12

  Vodafone appoints new CEO of Cable & Wireless Worldwide

  Following the acquisition of C&WW, Vodafone has transferred its head of global enterprise to run the new venture

• July 27, 2012 27 Jul'12

  CW500: The technology behind the BBC's Olympics coverage

  BBC CTO John Linwood told Computer Weekly’s CW500 Club about the “terrifying” challenge of providing live coverage of all events at the Olympics

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Lack of IT investment could prolong recession

  Research suggests the UK economy could continue to suffer economically as businesses fail to invest in technology and innovation

• July 19, 2012 19 Jul'12

  Co-op uses Lloyds managed service in branch acquisition

  The Co-operative bank will switch to Lloyds TSB's IT platform when it buys the 632 Lloyds TSB and Cheltenham and Gloucester branches

• July 17, 2012 17 Jul'12

  IT consultancy rises in construction and transportation sectors

  Finance and the public sector remain IT consultancies' biggest clients but the construction and transportation sectors are increasing their use

• July 16, 2012 16 Jul'12

  Home Office creates private police ICT company

  The Home Office has created a private firm to manage police IT after the the National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA) was abolished

• July 13, 2012 13 Jul'12

  What next for government open data?

  Campaigners are worried that plans for further data releases and their promised £16bn stimulus to the economy are being derailed

• July 11, 2012 11 Jul'12

  Deloitte: customer data analytics insight can breed new moral hazards

  Deloitte data survey indicates UK organisations should tread warily when doing analytics on customer data. But opportunities abound for those who educate their customers well and are transparent.

• July 09, 2012 09 Jul'12

  Businesses rein in spending on hardware and software

  Businesses are reining in spending on hardware and software amid continued uncertainty in the global economy, according to analyst Gartner

• July 05, 2012 05 Jul'12

  CW500: Agile techniques for software development

  Using agile development methodologies can speed software development and reduce the likelihood of errors, IT leaders heard at the CW500 Club

• June 28, 2012 28 Jun'12

  Vodafone grabs T-Mobile US boss Philipp Humm to run Europe

  Just 24 hours after leaving his role as CEO of T-Mobile USA, Philipp Humm is named head of Central and Northern Europe for Vodafone

• June 27, 2012 27 Jun'12

  RBS set to sue supplier CA Technologies for software failure

  Reports claim RBS is gearing up for legal action against US software supplier CA Technologies over the technical fault that crashed accounts

• June 26, 2012 26 Jun'12

  Whitehall must measure progress of IT strategy, says IfG

  Whitehall must measure the progress of its IT strategy more effectively to achieve its transformation agenda, says the Institute for Government (IfG)

• June 14, 2012 14 Jun'12

  Beware what you ask of big data – you might just get the answer

  One of the perils inherent in big data projects is not knowing what to do with the results

• June 12, 2012 12 Jun'12

  Big business at risk from byzantine privacy laws

  Privacy laws introduced in Asia, China and Latin America are creating new headaches for multinational companies

• May 30, 2012 30 May'12

  IT is overrated and underdelivers

  Research from Forrester shows that IT and the business still face major cultural differences.

• May 25, 2012 25 May'12

  Kelsey steps down as transparency czar

  Tim Kelsey, the Cabinet Office’s transparency czar, has stepped down to become national director for patients and information at the NHS Commissioning Board Authority

• May 25, 2012 25 May'12

  Why utility is the new ROI for IT projects

  Businesses should measure utility, not return on investment, to choose the best IT projects for their money, says advisory group

• May 22, 2012 22 May'12

  CIOs need to 'relinquish their control of technology'

  CIOs will need to take a hands-off approach to IT as the speed of digital technology gathers pace, says Ovum analyst

• May 09, 2012 09 May'12

  IT managers in ‘true denial’ of BYOD

  Juniper Network’s trusted mobility index shows 65% of UK IT managers don’t think employees are using unsupported devices

• May 03, 2012 03 May'12

  What is the top priority for IT execs in 2012, and why?

  Why, given a choice of 14 IT concerns, including cloud computing, did application performance management (APM) come out on top?

• April 30, 2012 30 Apr'12

  CIO interview: David Bulman, chief information officer, Virgin Atlantic

  Six months after joining Virgin Atlantic as CIO, David Bulman is leading a transformation at the airline with mobile technology at its heart.

• April 25, 2012 25 Apr'12

  IT spending outlook of India Inc to be cautiously optimistic - E&Y

  Explore India Inc’s top five IT spending priorities of 2012-13. Also view the slideshow of key data points of this Ernst & Young-CIO Klub survey.

• April 17, 2012 17 Apr'12

  Master data governance tools needed to seal MDM, data governance gap

  Master data management and information governance are intertwined as business disciplines in theory but disconnected in practice. New master data governance tools are emerging to seal the gap.

• April 17, 2012 17 Apr'12

  Accenture, Detica: Big data to drive business, trigger privacy concerns

  Consulting firms Accenture and Detica see the big data wave as rich in new business opportunities, but rank with data privacy concerns.

• April 17, 2012 17 Apr'12

  Government launches £40m cloud investment fund

  The government has launched an Enterprise Capital Fund to lend over £40m to UK cloud computing and software-as-a-service companies

• April 17, 2012 17 Apr'12

  Gartner: CIOs not cut out for the board

  CEOs view CIOs as itinerant technology specialists rather than leadership material, research from Gartner shows.

• April 13, 2012 13 Apr'12

  Financial companies leading race to digitisation

  Financial companies are embracing digitisation faster than other sectors of the economy, says Booz&Co.

• April 13, 2012 13 Apr'12

  UK technology firms shunning emerging markets

  UK technology firms are shunning the expanding BRIC countries in favour of expanding in Western Europe, says Grant Thornton.

• April 05, 2012 05 Apr'12

  Mobile BI gains momentum in UK corporate IT

  Mobile BI is on the rise in UK corporate organisations, according to a Corporate IT Forum survey. Cloud BI, big data, social media and predictive analytics have all weakened.

• April 05, 2012 05 Apr'12

  Data governance evangelism at heart of Premier Farnell's global strategy

  Data governance lies at the heart of Premier Farnell's globalisation strategy. And the electronics distributor's head of global planning and governance says senior management education comes first.

• April 02, 2012 02 Apr'12

  How the public sector can make shared services work

  The prize for public sector savings through shared services arrangements is huge. We examine what makes such projects work.

• March 30, 2012 30 Mar'12

  Biggest upgrade to PAYE system to go live in April

  The biggest upgrade to the UK's PAYE system since the 1950s goes live within two weeks.

• March 29, 2012 29 Mar'12

  Case Study: The Guide Dogs' BPM modernisation

  The Guide Dogs has undergone a major modernisation and restructuring business process management (BPM) programme.

• March 28, 2012 28 Mar'12

  Forrester: Balancing custom and packaged apps

  George Lawrie, vice-president and principal analyst of Forrester Research, advises on when to deploy custom applications

• March 23, 2012 23 Mar'12

  Information management: lessons from the public sector

  Freeform Dynamics identifies the lessons organisations can learn from the public sector's approach to information management

• March 23, 2012 23 Mar'12

  Case Study: NATS delivers Office 2010, Visio and MS Project on virtual desktops

  National Air Traffic Services (NATS) is rolling out virtual desktops as part of a wider change management programme.

• March 21, 2012 21 Mar'12

  Will the Budget turn Britain into the "technology hub of Europe"?

  We ask the IT industry if there is weight behind chancellor George Osborne’s budget ambition to turn the UK into “the tech hub of Europe” or if it was just political rhetoric

• March 21, 2012 21 Mar'12

  Budget 2012: the highlights for the IT industry

  Chancellor George Osborne has laid out his ambitions to make Britain “the technology hub of Europe”.  

• March 20, 2012 20 Mar'12

  Birkbeck College consolidates servers to cut PUE rating to 1.3

  Birkbeck College has consolidated four equipment rooms into one £700,000 datacentre with a PUE rating of just 1.3

• March 20, 2012 20 Mar'12

  CIO interview: Rob Pringle, global IT director, Gazprom

  Rob Pringle, director of global IT at Gazprom Marketing and Trading, reveals the secret of rolling out IT quickly

• March 19, 2012 19 Mar'12

  SMEs need disaster recovery guidance

  Despite the perception that few of the more advanced techniques and solutions are suited to SMEs, disaster recovery and business continuity solutions are not only for large organisations

• March 15, 2012 15 Mar'12

  Gartner IAM summit: Identity and access management in flux but progressing

  Identity and access management (IAM) remains in a state of flux as architectures and standards evolve. But does that mean no progress in managing identity?