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• March 24, 2017 24 Mar'17

  Case study: How the Department for Education deployed flexible IT

  The Department of Education has upgraded its ageing datacentre to the Azure cloud and Office 365, and rolled out Microsoft Surface devices

• March 19, 2017 19 Mar'17

  SAP to invest $200m in United Arab Emirates

  European software maker plans investment to get near customers in the Middle East

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  Microsoft delivers enterprise chat through Office 365 and Teams

  Teams is Microsoft’s latest step to put Office 365 at the heart of collaboration, cementing Office as the business workspace

• March 15, 2017 15 Mar'17

  National Theatre moves to Office 365

  The National Theatre is increasingly using cloud technology, with the implementation of cloud-based productivity tools its latest move

• March 10, 2017 10 Mar'17

  Outsourcing gives Scottish charity’s IT team time to think ahead

  Carr Gomm outsources IT support to allow internal IT team to think beyond keeping the lights on

• March 09, 2017 09 Mar'17

  Open Rights Group calls for control of spies’ use of zero-days

  Wikileaks’ publication of documents detailing CIA hacking tools has prompted calls for government to control spy agencies’ use of vulnerabilities in widely used hardware and software

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

  Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM

• February 24, 2017 24 Feb'17

  Number of people hit by professional financial cyber attack grows after lull

  Kaspersky Labs reports that the number of people hit by financial cyber attack grew in 2016 after falling in the previous two years

• February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17

  Microsoft issues critical patches but not for zero days

  After missing the monthly security update for 14 February, Microsoft has issued some patches but not for zero-day vulnerabilities despite the availability of exploit code

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

  Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

• January 27, 2017 27 Jan'17

  Cloud gives financial boost to Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel

  Cloud computing is making significant contributions to driving the revenues for companies in the technology sector, according to quarterly results posted by Alphabet, Microsoft and Intel

• January 25, 2017 25 Jan'17

  HoloLens tested for bridge inspections

  Cambridge University is investigating how augmented reality could help improve safety and lower the cost of inspecting large structures, such as bridges

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

  Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Schroders staff to complete daily tasks on mobile devices

  The asset management company wants to make it easier for its staff to complete everyday tasks by linking mobile devices to enterprise systems

• January 11, 2017 11 Jan'17

  Building society uses SharePoint in the cloud for intranet

  The Family Building Society moves intranet to SharePoint in its first major cloud project

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  Top 10 CW Middle East stories of 2016

  Read the most popular articles about enterprise IT in the Middle East

• December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16

  Top 10 CW Nordics stories of 2016

  Read the top 10 Nordic enterprise IT stories from Computer Weekly

• December 19, 2016 19 Dec'16

  Review of 2016: Top 10 CW Benelux articles

  Here are the 10 most popular Benelux-focused Computer Weekly articles of 2016

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  European cloud adoption grows thanks to Microsoft Office 365 push

  Google broke the mould with a cloud-based office productivity suite, but it now appears to be losing ground to Microsoft

• December 12, 2016 12 Dec'16

  Citrix: How the great survivor challenges the tech giants

  In spite of Microsoft and VMware encroaching on its core product areas, Citrix is a company which seems to have “staying power”

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: What will IT decision makers be focusing on?

  Each year, Computer Weekly asks CIOs and senior IT decision makers what they will be investing in during the 12 months ahead

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 Asean enterprise IT stories of 2016

  The 10 most popular Asean articles of 2016

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Case study: How the RAC is digitising roadside assistance

  The RAC, an organisation steeped in tradition, is on a modernisation drive. We look at how Microsoft Azure is helping it digitise older cars

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  UK almost bottom of OECD pile for ICT investment

  The UK ranks low in terms of how much it invests in the ICT infrastructure as a proportion of GDP

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  CIO interview: Marc Touitou, the World Health Organization

  Marc Touitou joined the World Health Organization as CIO at the time of the Ebola outbreak in Africa. He promptly set about being a catalyst for change

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health

• November 12, 2016 12 Nov'16

  Gulf Cooperation Council’s local companies eye regional shared services

  Enterprises indigenous to the Gulf region are taking their first step into business and IT shared services through internal developments

• November 04, 2016 04 Nov'16

  Collaborative Team in Office 365 paves way to AI-augmented business

  Microsoft Team offers a way for businesses to improve collaboration. It is also pushing its AI research in a way to augment humans

• October 24, 2016 24 Oct'16

  Microsoft hikes UK enterprise software and cloud prices as pound tumbles

  The software giant's policy of harmonising prices across Europe means charges go up from 1 January 2017

• October 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  CIO interview: Mia Forsäng, Swedish municipality Vara

  Despite moving on to pastures new, the former CIO at Swedish municipality Vara tells Computer Weekly how she used her people skills to transform the IT department

• September 20, 2016 20 Sep'16

  Blenheim Palace IT addresses monitoring challenge with services deal

  IT team at major UK historical venue supports diverse business through “eyes and ears” services agreement

• September 08, 2016 08 Sep'16

  Bank IT spending to hit $241bn across four major global regions

  IT spending across four major economic regions will increase by around 4% in 2016, but Europe is the least certain

• September 07, 2016 07 Sep'16

  MoD becomes first tenant in Microsoft's UK Azure datacentre

  Microsoft’s UK Azure cloud is now fully operational, offering Azure cloud services and Office 365

• August 23, 2016 23 Aug'16

  Microsoft and Lenovo deepen strategic ties

  Microsoft announces another cross-licensing deal that will see its software pre-installed on millions of Android devices

• August 04, 2016 04 Aug'16

  How Action for Children improved IT service delivery

  Children's charity Action for Children has rolled out Citrix remote access on tablets and is using ITIL to drive IT efficiencies

• August 02, 2016 02 Aug'16

  Windows 10 Anniversary Update ramps up Defender security

  Microsoft has added a full biometrics-powered password manager to support website authentication

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  Windows Mobile shrinks as Microsoft prioritises productivity and platforms

  Microsoft prepares to axe 2,850 jobs as it culls smartphone business and majors on productivity and platforms

• July 21, 2016 21 Jul'16

  IT outsourcing falls steeply in second quarter but IT as a service sees strong growth

  Sales of IT as a service growth in Europe helped offset a huge fall in the total value of traditional IT and business process outsourcing contracts

• July 20, 2016 20 Jul'16

  Microsoft reports strong quarter driven by cloud

  Microsoft reports quarterly profits of $3.12bn, largely driven by the success of its focus on cloud services

• July 18, 2016 18 Jul'16

  Oracle targets cloud sales at Asia Pacific’s mid-sized firms

  Software giant aims to hire 1,000 professionals to drive mid-market growth in Apac region

• July 12, 2016 12 Jul'16

  Singapore bank moves closer to the cloud with Office 365 adoption

  DBS says Microsoft productivity tools will help its staff become more responsive to customer needs

• June 16, 2016 16 Jun'16

  Microsoft and LinkedIn: Nadella spends like he means it

  To pay $26.2bn for a social network that has failed to grow its income may be poor judgement – but Microsoft’s plans are far-reaching

• June 15, 2016 15 Jun'16

  Gulf Air tinkers with Oracle suite and explores hybrid cloud models

  Bahraini airline Gulf Air is looking to make productivity gains across its enterprise resource planning system

• June 06, 2016 06 Jun'16

  How emails sent to and from Parliament are monitored

  Government officials deny that emails sent by MPs are open to surveillance by GCHQ and NSA - we examine the evidence

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  Microsoft sells 1,500 mobile patents to Xiaomi in licensing deal

  Sale of mobile patent portfolio comes alongside software licensing agreement and may herald Xiaomi’s expansion into Europe and the US, say analysts

• May 25, 2016 25 May'16

  Microsoft confirms job cuts at Nokia smartphone business

  Big job losses in Finland as Nadella has a rethink on Windows phones

• May 23, 2016 23 May'16

  Middle East CIOs put ambitious IT projects on hold as cheap oil hurts business

  A lack of business confidence leads some organisations in the Middle East to delay or abandon ambitious IT projects that may not show an immediate return

• May 06, 2016 06 May'16

  Microsoft unveils SharePoint integration – but is it enough?

  SharePoint harks back to a pre-cloud era and Microsoft is desperate to modernise it with cloud integration – but can it compete with pure cloud rivals, Box and Dropbox?

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  M&S credits Office 365 with rise in staff collaboration and communication

  Marks and Spencer shares details of how moving to Microsoft’s cloud-based productivity suite has ushered in an era of ”smarter working” in its retails stores and corporate HQ

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  Microsoft’s Q3 hit by cloud investments, income falls to $3.8bn

  Competing with AWS and expanding into new regions leaves a hole in the finances

• April 19, 2016 19 Apr'16

  PC market pauses while enterprises prepare for Windows 10

  Windows 10 is set to drive sales of high-end PCs, but businesses are not ready yet, says analyst house Gartner

• April 13, 2016 13 Apr'16

  Windows PowerShell tied to more than a third of cyber attacks

  Security firm Carbon Black confirms widespread abuse of Windows PowerShell by attackers flying under the radar in line with the trend of exploiting operating systems

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Premium ultramobiles set to drive PC sales

  The PC market remains weak, but premium products are selling in both the consumer and professional markets

• March 31, 2016 31 Mar'16

  Microsoft sets out to woo iOS, Android and Linux developers

  Build is not just for Windows developers – Microsoft is keen to attract iOS, Android and Linux coders too

• March 17, 2016 17 Mar'16

  CIO interview: Mogens Kristensen, Sydbank

  Danish bank’s IT head explains the advantages of sharing some IT systems with other banks

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Oracle Q3 2016: cloud revenue grows, US currency strength takes toll

  SaaS and PaaS combined contributed $583m in third quarter, up 57% in US dollar terms, while IaaS was down 2% in dollars to $152m

• March 10, 2016 10 Mar'16

  Management overhead frustrates organisations' digital ambitions, says Capita study

  Many UK business are in no position to roll out Windows 10 and are concerned about supporting diverse IT estates with their existing infrastructure

• February 01, 2016 01 Feb'16

  Microsoft Office 365 is beating Google Apps in enterprise adoption – Gartner research

  Gartner’s take on the use of cloud email tools within the enterprise shows that Microsoft Office 365 is leading the way

• January 29, 2016 29 Jan'16

  Microsoft profits fall but cloud success sends share price up

  Strong fourth-quarter performance of Microsoft’s cloud services indicates that CEO Satya Nadella’s transformation plan is working

• January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16

  Device shipments to grow 1.9% in 2016, but user spend will fall

  Analysts at Gartner forecast what lies ahead for the PC and mobile device markets in 2016

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  PCs will redefine the workspace

  The PC market has been in decline since 2012, thanks in part to the popularity of tablets – but, with Windows 10, the PC is set for a comeback

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  PC sales decline but Europe benefits from Windows 10 release

  Windows 10 help PC sales in Europe, but tablets and the strong US dollar make a negative impact

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  The Office Group responds to flexible working boom with Microsoft cloud deployment

  Flexible workspace provider rolls out Office 365 after business growth caused email storage capacity crunch

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  Upgrade to Internet Explorer 11 to reduce risk

  Failure to update to the latest version of Internet Explorer by 12 January 2016 could put users at risk, Microsoft warns

• January 04, 2016 04 Jan'16

  Software asset management at risk from SQL Server blind spot

  Lack of adequate software asset management tools is leaving IT departments in the dark over Microsoft licensing, says the Campaign for Clear Licensing

• December 29, 2015 29 Dec'15

  Top 10 mobile and BYOD stories of 2015

  For mobile device management, 2015 was the year enterprise IT fully embraced the trend for bring your own device (BYOD) programmes

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  Action for Children uses Mendix to power efficiency drive

  Children's charity uses visual programming environment from Mendix to create bespoke administration applications

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  Microsoft security tools remove risky Dell certificates

  Microsoft has updated its security tools to remove vulnerable certificates intalled on some Dell computers from the certificate root store, as well as the affected binaries that might reinstall the vulnerable certificate

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Paul Haley, CIO, City University London

  Higher education faces budget cuts and growing IT requirements, but a £200m overhaul at City University London is bearing fruit

• November 25, 2015 25 Nov'15

  Revenues decline across HP Inc and Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Hewlett Packard Enterprise is betting on cloud and a relationship with Microsoft and HP Inc

• November 23, 2015 23 Nov'15

  Windows 10 starts shift to platform-independent computing

  Gartner expects Windows 10 will become mainstream faster than any previous version. But deploying Microsoft's OS will coincide with a shift in IT

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  Microsoft CEO gets personal with IT security

  Microsoft’s CEO says it is his mission to discover why large security breaches happen, and outlines his plan to secure data in a world where the attack vectors can happen at any moment

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Ministry of Defence CIO explains defence as a platform

  Mike Stone took to the stage at the Microsoft Future Decoded event to explain the Ministry of Defence’s plan for defence as a platform

• October 30, 2015 30 Oct'15

  Google set to merge ChromeOS with Android

  Google's experiment to establish its second operating system – ChromeOS – is expected to merge into a future Android release

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  Azure Active Directory creates an earnings virtuous circle for Microsoft

  Microsoft is set to grow its cloud business to $20bn thanks to the growth of platform as a service and, in particular, Azure Active Directory

• October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15

  Enterprise software contracts stifle digital business initiatives

  Two software licensing groups have joined forces to put pressure on the European Commission to investigate leading software companies

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  PCs still the right choice for business, despite decline in sales, says Gartner

  Android or iOS devices with keyboards are unlikely to replace Windows-based laptops and hybrids, according to analyst firm Gartner

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

  Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Microsoft launches Surface Book, its first own-brand laptop

  Software giant Microsoft announces a range of new Windows 10 devices, including smartphones, a tablet – and Surface Book, the company's first laptop device

• 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 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

• September 22, 2015 22 Sep'15

  Is Microsoft Office 2016 reliable enough for business?

  A day after a major Skype outage, Microsoft unveils Office 2016, which, ironically, offers tight integration with Skype

• September 17, 2015 17 Sep'15

  Mobile networks hit by rise in Windows and PC malware, report shows

  Latest fixed and mobile network malware analysis from Alcatel-Lucent reveals growing threat posed by Windows PCs and laptops

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Sixth-generation Intel core processor offers PC makers a lifeline

  Computer Weekly looks at whether the next generation of Intel desktop and mobile processors can help the ailing PC industry

• September 04, 2015 04 Sep'15

  Get ready for Internet Explorer crunch time

  IT departments are being urged to get their heads down to tackle a major shift in browser support, affecting web-based enterprise software

• August 19, 2015 19 Aug'15

  Microsoft issues emergency security patch for IE browser flaw

  Microsoft warns that a remote execution zero-day memory handling vulnerabilty in Internet Explorer versions 7 to 11 can enable attackers to take control of computers

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Android for Windows Mobile tools leaked on web

  A set of Microsoft tools to enable Android developers to port their apps to Windows Mobile has been posted online

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  Natural Resources Wales uses Microsoft and mobile to unify departments

  Natural Resources Wales won the Best Mobile Computing Project Award at this year's CW European User Awards. Find out why

• August 14, 2015 14 Aug'15

  Cega Air Ambulance uses Microsoft Dynamics for patient treatment

  Air ambulance and repatriation service Cega has adopted Microsoft Dynamics CRM to improve data searches and speed up the bidding process

• August 05, 2015 05 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Police Mutual CIO on IT-powered business strategies

  David Loughenbury joined Police Mutual in 2011 as CIO to lead a change agenda and provide a single view of its members

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  Windows 10: your desktop upgrade strategy

  Microsoft says Windows 10 allows companies to bring the latest innovation to their existing PC fleet, but how good is the latest version of the operating system really?

• July 30, 2015 30 Jul'15

  NHS Central Southern deploys Clarizen for collaboration

  The NHS Central Southern Commissioning Support Unit has enlisted Clarizen to improve cross-group collaboration and improve efficiency

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  CIO interview: Mark Dixon, Standard Life

  Insurance company Standard Life is looking at new digital projects as work needed to meet regulatory changes is completed

• July 22, 2015 22 Jul'15

  Microsoft grows cloud business

  Microsoft's Azure and cloud business experienced triple-digit growth in its fourth quarter of 2015, according to CEO Satya Nadella

• 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 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  GE to move 300,000 employees to Microsoft Office 365

  Microsoft announces one of its biggest Office 365 deals to date, after securing a contract to provide 300,000 GE staff with online productivity tools

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Microsoft issues emergency fix for Windows flaw

  Microsoft has issued an out-of-band patch for a security flaw in all supported versions of Windows that could allow attackers to take complete control of the affected system

• July 15, 2015 15 Jul'15

  Microsoft expands Cortana to power cloud-based predictive analytics

  At its worldwide partner conference, Microsoft showed that Cortana is more than a talking search engine with the introduction of cloud-based data analytics

• July 14, 2015 14 Jul'15

  Anyone still running Windows Server 2003 is now at risk

  Businesses still running Windows server 2003 are vulnerable to attack from hackers looking to exploit security holes