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Information technology in the Nordics

• January 19, 2016 19 Jan'16

  Migration recommendations could hike the cost of Indian IT services

  Government recommendations to tighten up the rules around overseas workers in the UK could increase IT costs for businesses

• January 18, 2016 18 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Kim Lindgren, Tieto

  Tieto's CIO is taking the Finnish IT services company through a “cloudification” transformation, starting with Google Apps and with cognitive computing on his horizon

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Kari Saarikoski, Finnair

  Finnair is on a digital transformation journey and the airline’s CIO is changing the IT department as it progresses

• January 15, 2016 15 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Michael Moesgaard, Dong Energy

  Dong Energy’s IT head talks about the challenges of working for an energy company going through a business transformation

• January 14, 2016 14 Jan'16

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent celebrate honeymoon

  Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent officially complete their merger and celebrate their first day of combined operations

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Visibility key to stopping cyber adversaries, says security veteran

  Companies are beginning to accept that they will be compromised, so the demand is growing to know just how often and how deep, says ForeScout CEO Michael DeCesare

• January 13, 2016 13 Jan'16

  Firms can monitor employees’ online chats, EU court rules

  Human rights court says it is not unreasonable for employers to want to verify that staff are completing their professional tasks during working hours

• January 12, 2016 12 Jan'16

  St Claraspital deploys virtual desktops to boost staff efficiency

  St Claraspital took home the prize for best desktop virtualisation project at the 2015 Best of VMworld Europe User Awards – and this is why...

• January 11, 2016 11 Jan'16

  Taking a closer look at the Milton Keynes smart city project

  The "MK: Smart" project took home the Best of Show prize at the recent VMworld Europe show in Barcelona – and this is why...

• January 11, 2016 11 Jan'16

  Top priorities for Nordic CIOs in 2016

  What are the main priorities for CIOs in the Nordic region this year? Computer Weekly asks some of the region’s experts

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  European police smash ATM malware gang

  Cyber criminals caused substantial losses across Europe by using Tyupkin malware to access ATM cash cassettes

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  Mixed prospects for IT spending in Europe

  Europe’s economies have varying expectations for IT spending over the next couple of years as the global market sees moderate growth

• January 07, 2016 07 Jan'16

  French intelligence ‘could have prevented Paris attacks'

  A former US intelligence director turned whistleblower tells MPs and peers that bulk collection of internet and phone data is putting lives at risk

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  CIO interview: Mats Hultin, Saab Group

  Saab Group's CIO talks to Computer Weekly about the huge challenge of integrating 40 separate IT organisations into one

• January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16

  Audi drivers go online with European MVNO agreement

  Audi drivers will be able to buy in-car connectivity through an MVNO agreement spanning 13 European countries

• January 05, 2016 05 Jan'16

  Seven standout Nordic enterprise startups on the rise

  The Nordic region is a hotbed for IT startups and, while it is better known for consumer-targeted creations such as Angry Birds, there are more and more startups targeting businesses

• January 04, 2016 04 Jan'16

  Nokia takes control of Alcatel-Lucent

  Nokia takes control of 80% of outstanding Alcatel-Lucent shares and prepares to wrap up multi-billion euro deal

• December 22, 2015 22 Dec'15

  Top 10 Nordic CIO interviews of 2015

  A review of the top Nordic CIO interviews from Computer Weekly

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Europe’s digital skills gap set to narrow over next five years

  Forecast for 2020 suggests the shortage of skilled IT workers will not be as great as previously expected

• December 16, 2015 16 Dec'15

  Deal on EU data protection is close

  A deal to standardise data protection rules across the EU could be imminent after compromises were made

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Mobile roaming revenues to drop by a quarter in Europe

  Juniper Research looks ahead to 2017 to predict the likely effect of when mobile roaming charges across the EU member states are phased out

• December 15, 2015 15 Dec'15

  Norway’s TeliaSonera demonstrates 1Gbps 4.5G network

  Norwegian operator TeliaSonera demonstrates the fastest download speeds yet obtained over a commercial mobile network

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Rockwool invests €2m in global HR project

  Manufacturer interviewed other companies about their HR systems before choosing a system to harmonise its processes across 38 countries

• December 14, 2015 14 Dec'15

  Hundreds of European banks apply for .bank domain

  Over 500 European banks have applied for the .bank domain name, as part of their defences against cyber crime

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  UK hosts international cyber attack response test

  The UK has hosted an exercise to test how investigators and prosecutors across Europe and the US would work together in the event of a complex international cyber criminal incident

• December 11, 2015 11 Dec'15

  Eight startups selected for Cyber London security accelerator programme

  Cyber London has selected startups from the UK, Finland, Hungary, Israel, Brazil and South Africa for its second cyber security accelerator programme

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  HPE goes live with Europe-wide cloud service catalogue

  HPE’s Cloud 28+ service catalogue is open for business and hopes to encourage wider take-up of off-premises services across the continent

• December 10, 2015 10 Dec'15

  European Commission proposes rules for digital content and online sales

  The EC has published proposals aimed at promoting access to digital content and online sales across the European Union and include an overhaul of copyright laws

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Volvo finance department expands system support beyond Sweden

  Volvo Group Treasury has extended an outsourcing agreement with Virtusa to give it the same support response times worldwide

• December 09, 2015 09 Dec'15

  Nordic startups take on the enterprise mobile app market

  Nordic startups are targeting the mobile market with software to help customers create apps as demand from businesses in their home region and beyond grows

• December 08, 2015 08 Dec'15

  New EU data protection laws to force global business strategy rethink

  More than two-thirds of global firms expect new EU data protection laws to dramatically increase costs of doing business in Europe

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Low-cost Nordics expect datacentre growth

  The Nordics offers advantages as a datacentre location, with each of its five countries offering something different

• December 07, 2015 07 Dec'15

  Sweden considers writing off IT student loans to attract more women

  Sweden is considering writing off student loans for women who study IT in an attempt to improve the gender balance in the sector to support digitisation

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Mikael Pommert, Modern Times Group

  Modern Times Group's CIO tells Computer Weekly about the challenges and benefits of moving an established business to the cloud

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  India’s HCL opens Estonian operation to support Nordic customers

  HCL Technologies opens an Estonian delivery centre which will support customers across Europe, including those in the Nordic region

• December 04, 2015 04 Dec'15

  Europe's CIOs must raise their game in testing software quality

  CIOs across Europe have more work to do to ensure the structural quality of software is sound as IT becomes more important to organisations across different sectors

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Swedish health company Elekta recoups costs of HR project in a year

  Medical company Elekta transforms its human resources (HR) processes by replacing legacy technology with cloud systems serving 3,800 staff in 24 countries

• December 03, 2015 03 Dec'15

  Workday ringfences support in Europe after Safe Harbour ruled unsafe

  US cloud HR and financial services provider reponds to Safe Harbour failure by ringfencing European data

• December 01, 2015 01 Dec'15

  CIO interview: Jesper Riis, DSV

  IT plays a business-critical role at Danish logistics and transportation company DSV. CIO Jesper Riis tells Computer Weekly about his current challenges

• November 27, 2015 27 Nov'15

  European colocation market growth buoyed by M&A and Safe Harbour, says CBRE

  Latest European datacentre market research from CBRE looks at effect of mergers and acquisitions and Safe Harbour on colocation adoption

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Turkka Keskinen, UPM

  Finnish paper and forest products firm’s CIO tells Computer Weekly about the journey towards cloud-only IT

• November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15

  Slush 2015 breaks records as Finland's startup scene flourishes

  Finland's Slush startup event is one of the biggest in the world and this year was its biggest ever

• November 20, 2015 20 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Lone Bundgaard, Coloplast

  IT development head at Danish medical products and services company plays core role in major change to how the company engages with its customers

• November 18, 2015 18 Nov'15

  CGI tempts Nordic customers with Finnish cyber security centre

  IT supplier CGI has opened a Nordic cyber security centre to help it serve organisations in the region with the same service levels it provides US clients

• November 16, 2015 16 Nov'15

  Nordic enterprises to enjoy cheaper datacentre costs

  A reduced electricity tax rate for datacentres in Norway will give local enterprises a competitive option close to home

• November 13, 2015 13 Nov'15

  Framework agreement boosts public-sector digitisation in Sweden

  Swedish public sector procurement organisation creates a framework to make it easier for organisations to offer digital services

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Tech Nordic Advocates will help Nordic and Baltic startups reach the next level

  A UK network that supports the IT startup community is attempting to emulate its activities in the Nordic and Baltic regions

• November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15

  Atos embarks on datacentre refurbishment project push with ICTroom in Europe

  Atos has formed an alliance with ICTroom to help speed up the time it takes for enterprises to complete datacentre consolidation and refurbishment projects

• November 10, 2015 10 Nov'15

  Suppliers lay the groundwork for IoT in Czech Republic

  ICT suppliers are putting in place the technology infrastructure that will enable towns and cities in the Czech Republic to harness the internet of things

• November 06, 2015 06 Nov'15

  Coop Norway inks infrastructure deal with Wipro

  Norway's Coop becomes the latest Nordic firm to outsource IT to an Indian company after the retailer penned a deal with Wipro

• November 04, 2015 04 Nov'15

  Young companies lead digital readiness in Finland

  Startup businesses are leading the way in Finland when it comes to having the right customer-facing technologies in place

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  Startup support network Tech London Advocates expands into Nordics

  Startup support network Tech London Advocates is launching a sister organisation covering the Nordic and Baltic countries

• November 02, 2015 02 Nov'15

  CIO interview: Torben Høeg Bonde, Vestas

  The CIO at Danish wind turbine company Vestas is playing a key role in turning the company into a software supplier

• October 29, 2015 29 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Mette Jæpelt, Egmont Group

  Egmont CIO Mette Jæpelt is a supplier and colleague to the company's business groups, which makes her current role different from any other in her 35-year career

• October 28, 2015 28 Oct'15

  Volvo Group sells Swedish external IT to Indian supplier HCL Technologies

  Vehicle manufacturer Volvo Group is selling some of its IT operation in Sweden to Indian supplier HCL

• October 23, 2015 23 Oct'15

  Hydro66 opens world’s first 100% hydroelectric datacentre in Sweden

  Hydro66 claims its facility’s location and source of power should help enterprises cut their co-location costs

• October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Frans Westerlund, Fiskars

  Fiskars CIO Frans Westerlund tells Computer Weekly about the challenges faced by IT when a business instigates a major strategic transformation

• October 21, 2015 21 Oct'15

  EU net neutrality laws a threat to UK Open Internet Code, says BSG

  The Broadband Stakeholder Group’s Richard Hooper says that the EU’s Connected Continent Regulation could damage the UK’s Open Internet Code

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  EU data protection regulators set 31 January 2016 deadline for replacing Safe Harbour

  Article 29 Working Party gives EU and US authorities until the end of January to establish an alternative data-sharing agreement

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Norwegian mobile payments provider strikes deal with SpareBank 1

  Norwegian banking group has agreed a deal that will see it take over the systems and customers of payments service provider mCash in Norway

• October 19, 2015 19 Oct'15

  Opera chooses Workday over Oracle as it moves HR to cloud

  Browser company Opera opts for slick internal IT as it competes with Apple and Google for skilled technologists

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Olivier Smith, head of IT at Sweden's Hi3G Access

  The IT department at Swedish telco Hi3G is on a mission to a utopian planet, with Olivier Smith at the controls

• October 16, 2015 16 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Martin Thell, Scandic Hotels

  The CIO of major Nordic hotel chain Scandic Hotels wants to learn more about customers through technology, without being overbearing

• October 14, 2015 14 Oct'15

  Lexalytics sentiment analysis learns Nordic languages

  Lexalytics has added language support for Danish, Norwegian and Swedish to its sentiment analysis software

• October 09, 2015 09 Oct'15

  Finnair selects IBM for cloud transformation

  Finnish airline outsources IT transformation to IBM as it moves to introduce digital services to customers

• October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15

  Estonian government IT initiative increases virtual population

  Estonia is leading the way when it comes to providing easy and secure access to government services for citizens and foreigners alike

• October 07, 2015 07 Oct'15

  Interview: Nils Knutsson, senior advisor public sector, Tieto

  Tieto executive Nils Knutsson is an expert in Swedish public sector IT. In this interview he tells Computer Weekly about the IT challenges and opportunities for Sweden's public sector

• October 06, 2015 06 Oct'15

  Hundreds of Evry staff in the Nordics to move to IBM in billion-dollar IT outsourcing deal

  Around 600 Evry staff in the Nordics are to move to IBM in $1bn IT outsourcing deal that sees the firm hand over its IT infrastructure for the next 10 years

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Swedish big data project predicts train delays before they happen

  Train company Stockholmståg is using big data to predict delays before they happen and enable them to minimise the impact on the transport infrastructure

• October 05, 2015 05 Oct'15

  Best of VMworld Europe User Awards 2015: Shortlist announced

  Find out who made the shortlist for this year's Best of VMworld Europe User Awards, which is set to take place on Tuesday 13 October at VMworld, Barcelona

• October 02, 2015 02 Oct'15

  Collaboration needed to drive IT in Finland’s local government

  Finland's local government organisations need to improve their IT operations if they are to cut costs and become more efficient. Formailsed roles and collaboration with other authorities would help.

• October 01, 2015 01 Oct'15

  CIO interview: Mikko Vastela, LähiTapiola

  Mikko Vastela, the CIO of newly formed Nordic insurance company LähiTapiola, tells Computer Weekly about the importance of informing employees and stakeholders what IT is doing

• 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

  Accenture spends €25m on European centre in Dublin

  Accenture will open a European technology hub in Dublin that will recruit 200 people and focus on modern technologies

• September 29, 2015 29 Sep'15

  US diplomats warn of economic dangers of scrapping Safe Harbour Agreement

  European Court of Justice confirms judgement on the future of the US Safe Harbour Agreement will be made public on 6 October

• September 25, 2015 25 Sep'15

  Zalando opens Helsinki tech hub

  Fashion retailer will benefit from the mobile expertise found in Finland's capital, as it focuses on mobile apps

• 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 24, 2015 24 Sep'15

  Nordea Bank signs Temenos and Accenture for core banking transformation

  Nordea Bank AB has chosen the core banking system it wants to build its digital future on, signing Temenos and Accenture as technology partners

• September 18, 2015 18 Sep'15

  Technology drives patient power in Norway

  A health authority in Norway is using technology to help patients understand their conditions and make better decisions

• 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

  Public-private co-operation in the Nordics tackles growing cyber crime threat

  Nordic governments and businesses are putting cyber security at the centre of their planning as threats increase

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  European Commission consults on the future of telecoms and broadband

  Twin European Commission (EC) consultations on the future of broadband and a review of the current telecoms framework will run until December 2015

• September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15

  The growing importance of the Nordic CIO

  IT is becoming more important to businesses, in part due to the digital revolution, and the women and men who lead IT are now increasingly coveted

• September 09, 2015 09 Sep'15

  Danske Bank brings MobilePay to Norway

  Banks in the Nordic region are fighting it out in the mobile payments space as they woo a digital-savvy population

• 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

• August 28, 2015 28 Aug'15

  Could Sweden do away with bank branches?

  Technology developments are pushing Sweden towards a cashless society with little need for bank branches

• August 26, 2015 26 Aug'15

  Strong US dollar hits European server shipments as CIOs protect IT budgets

  Gartner server shipment figures highlight the impact of a strong US dollar on European IT buying habits as the global economy braces for another period of uncertainty

• 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 25, 2015 25 Aug'15

  Norwegian mountain houses Europe's biggest datacentre

  Lefdal Mine Datacenter sets out plans to build an underground facility spanning six floors in a Norwegian mountain

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Amazon Web Services opens up machine learning service to European developers

  Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) claims running service out of Dublin datacentre will reduce latency for European developers using predictive services

• August 24, 2015 24 Aug'15

  Norwegian IT firm Evry to slash up to 550 jobs

  Company aims to save NOK400-500m a year to help it achieve goal of being the "Nordic champion in IT services", says CEO

• 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

  Finnish insurer LähiTapiola reveals outsourcing secrets behind €180m deal

  Outsourcing played a critical role in the merger of two Finnish insurers and will transform the IT at the newly created organisation

• August 18, 2015 18 Aug'15

  CIO interview: Kjell Rune Tveita, If Skadeförsäkringar

  Kjell Rune Tveita's first job as CIO at Nordic insurance giant If Skadeförsäkringar was to integrate three companies across three countries

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  The IT supporting Finland’s Angry Birds 2

  The sequel to online game Angry Birds has been developed to withstand huge usage volumes, supported by scalable, cloud-based technology

• August 06, 2015 06 Aug'15

  Nordic technology steers the connected ship

  Technology is transforming the Nordic shipping industry through developments in high-speed internet, data-led decision-making, 3D printing and automation

• August 04, 2015 04 Aug'15

  How Iceland will create a new breed of CIO

  Icelandic academics discuss the future of IT and the role of education in the small Nordic nation

• August 03, 2015 03 Aug'15

  Audi, BMW and Daimler to buy Nokia Here maps for €2.8bn

  Consortium of German carmakers strikes multibillion euro deal to buy Nokia’s Here digital mapping and location services unit

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  IaaS mega-framework tender raises hopes of Europe-wide G-cloud launch

  Géant publishes contract notice seeking providers for IaaS frameworks, which will serve 50 million across Europe

• July 24, 2015 24 Jul'15

  Brussels clears Nokia's Alcatel-Lucent acquisition

  The European Commission has approved Nokia’s planned purchase of Alcatel-Lucent under the EU Merger Regulations