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Service-oriented architecture (SOA)

• November 10, 2023 10 Nov'23

  Orange Business shifts towards digital, aims to transform SD-WAN with VMware

  Business services division of leading connectivity provider unveils strategy to offer end-to-end stack of digital solutions through B2B portfolio and strikes partnership with cloud computing company for software-defined wide-area network offer

• August 24, 2023 24 Aug'23

  NHS SBS to launch £1.5bn digital workplace solutions framework

  NHS Shared Business Services is planning on a second iteration of its digital workplace solutions framework before the current one expires in August 2024

• June 21, 2023 21 Jun'23

  Software spending grows fastest as finance firms spend $652bn on tech in 2023

  Banks and investment firms are increasing their spending on IT despite gloomy economic outlook, but priorities have changed

• April 25, 2023 25 Apr'23

  Lloyds Bank joins industry IT standards group

  UK banking giant Lloyds Banking Group has joined an industry group which promotes global IT standards

• December 05, 2022 05 Dec'22

  How HashiCorp is driving cloud provisioning and management

  HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet talks up how the company is supporting cloud provisioning in a hybrid environment and its investments in Asia-Pacific to capitalise on the region’s growth potential

• November 03, 2022 03 Nov'22

  Russia risks shortage of PCs and software

  Russian consumers and businesses could face a shortage of IT equipment including PCs and software

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Gartner: Public sector must target disjointed IT strategy

  The pandemic showed how quickly public sector IT can deliver technology to support essential services – now it is time to fix scalability

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

  Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Citrix joins Tibco in Vista enterprise IT portfolio

  Vista, the investment firm backing enterprise software business, has acquired Citrix to flesh out its hybrid work portfolio

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  Top 10 software development stories of 2021

  Business recovery is leading to more emphasis on software projects. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories for 2021

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  IT Priorities 2022: Software development

  As organisations rebuild after the Covid-19 pandemic, strategic software projects will help them become more effective

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  How Axa drives digitisation forward

  Digital transformation is not a one-shot project – it’s a continuous and evolving process that requires a mindset change in IT management

• September 15, 2021 15 Sep'21

  Volkswagen supports Arm-based software-defined car standard

  Car manufacturer's software business supports industry initiative to develop a standard platform and open-source reference implementation

• June 29, 2021 29 Jun'21

  MWC 2021: Totogi aims to ‘do for telcos what Salesforce did for CRM’

  Public cloud telco software launches charging engine to achieve what it says is the world’s best performance benchmark of one million transactions per second with usage-based pricing with free tier option for CSPs

• May 19, 2021 19 May'21

  Edging closer to composable business

  Covid-19 forced organisations to try radical new things. Building apps from pre-built functions is one that Mulesoft believes has longevity

• March 25, 2021 25 Mar'21

  Interview: Paul Douglas, Scottish Water

  Building an enterprise architecture involves balancing near- and mid-term goals with longer-term business objective, cost and technical challenges, says Paul Douglas, lead enterprise architect at Scottish Water

• February 15, 2021 15 Feb'21

  ENIAC anniversary: What 75 years of computer technology have delivered

  The ENIAC was a computer built for the US Army to calculate missile trajectories during the Second World War, but it was finally delivered in February 1946

• December 24, 2020 24 Dec'20

  Top 10 software development stories of 2020

  Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 software development stories of 2020

• December 02, 2020 02 Dec'20

  CIO interview: John Davison, First Central Group

  For the last nine years, John Davison has provided an IT strategy to drive business operations. Automation is the next phase of that strategy

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

  Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing

• November 11, 2020 11 Nov'20

  Tim Berners-Lee startup releases decentralisation tech to enterprises

  Roll-out of Inrupt’s decentralised privacy technology to four large organisations is helping the startup to develop explicit use cases, which it hopes will prove the tech and lead to faster adoption

• September 30, 2020 30 Sep'20

  Ericsson deploys 3DExperience to boost product design as Elisa inks 5G core tech deal

  Leading Swedish comms tech provider Ericsson begins deployment of 3D design engineering software platform for specific functional areas, taking a stepwise approach to its product lifecycle management transformation, just as Finnish telecoms operator...

• August 14, 2020 14 Aug'20

  Executive interview: Sri Shivananda, chief technology officer, PayPal

  Computer Weekly talks to PayPal’s tech head about the payment provider’s SOA, security, open source and the lockdown

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Tata Communications unveils new secure digital experience

  Global digital ecosystem enabler Tata aims to allow businesses to adapt to the realities of enterprise transformation, workforce mobility and consumer experience in the new digital-first environment

• August 04, 2020 04 Aug'20

  Nordic enterprises look for SAP price reductions as they navigate Covid-19

  Businesses in the Nordics are using SAP Cloud Platform to address Covid-19 challenges and are also seeking price reductions

• July 15, 2020 15 Jul'20

  HSBC chooses AWS for public cloud business operations

  HSBC will use a cloud platform from Amazon Web Services across its business operations to accelerate its public cloud use

• June 23, 2020 23 Jun'20

  ITAM Forum aims to raise the bar on tech management

  Knowing what is deployed is the first step in any transformation exercise, and a strong IT asset management practice lowers risk

• June 16, 2020 16 Jun'20

  IBM targets legacy modernisation with hybrid multicloud

  Every few years, the foundations of IT architecture are shaken up, but few businesses can easily rip out old systems to stay aligned to the latest trend

• May 29, 2020 29 May'20

  UK fintech investment reaches record high

  Huge increases in UK fintech investment over the past three years has seen the sector explode, but most of the activity is still concentrated in London

• January 22, 2020 22 Jan'20

  Big Blue finds green shoots in Red Hat mix

  IBM’s latest quarterly filing shows early signs that enterprises are buying into its OpenShift and RHEL-powered cloud strategy

• March 29, 2019 29 Mar'19

  Middle East countries accelerate quantum computing research

  Gulf countries must invest in quantum computing research to ensure they continue to to remain digital pioneers

• February 27, 2019 27 Feb'19

  Integration challenges lead to digital deceleration

  With precious little increase in their budgets and large numbers of applications to connect, IT decision-makers admit they are struggling

• September 11, 2018 11 Sep'18

  Fashion retailer Desigual boosts sales opportunities with data-sharing technology

  Spanish fashion group Desigual reports 2% fewer lost sales after investing in technology to share stock, sales and pricing data between stores, websites and franchise partners

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Cloud sales stoke Microsoft’s strong growth

  Microsoft says cloud-based Office products made a huge contribution to sales growth

• June 04, 2018 04 Jun'18

  Cloud-based integration platforms underpin digital strategy

  The application integration market is dominated by IBM and Oracle, but AWS and Salesforce are changing the game with integration platforms as a service

• May 25, 2018 25 May'18

  Two chiefs, two approaches to digital transformation

  While the definition of digital transformation is debatable, IT business leaders agree it's all about the data

• May 18, 2018 18 May'18

  Executive interview: Abby Kearns, Cloud Foundry Foundation

  Computer Weekly speaks to Abby Kearns, executive director of the Cloud Foundry Foundation about how open source is a key ingredient of digital transformation

• April 17, 2018 17 Apr'18

  Nginx debuts in Australia amid growing demand for microservices

  The supplier of an open-source application platform is counting on the growing usage of microservices in the perennial search for agility and responsiveness among enterprises

• January 25, 2018 25 Jan'18

  Robots are needed to manage the automation robots

  The next decade will see robots transform from invisible forces obeying our commands to lifelike objects interacting with humans on a daily basis

• January 18, 2018 18 Jan'18

  Demand for cloud services drives increase in IT outsourcing

  Cloud services spending in Europe, the Middle East and Africa offset a drop in traditional IT outsourcing in 2017

• January 16, 2018 16 Jan'18

  Financial savings just the beginning for CIOs who understand code quality

  Businesses need to understand the quality of the code in their applications if they are to avoid unnecessary costs and glitches

• December 19, 2017 19 Dec'17

  Top 10 enterprise IT in the Nordics stories in 2017

  The Nordic region might be best known in IT circles for its startup communities – but it has much more to offer

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  CIO interview: Carlos Abarca, TSB

  Carlos Abarca is guiding TSB through its migration from systems hosted by a competitor to a digitally focused in-house core banking platform.

• December 06, 2017 06 Dec'17

  Mayor of London opens Bangalore office to strengthen links with Indian businesses

  City of London’s office in India’s tech hub aims to promote Indian investment and IT jobs in UK capital

• November 21, 2017 21 Nov'17

  SAP indirect access: Prepare for the impact on third-party applications

  SAP is acting in an anti-competitive manner and could be in breach of the US Sherman Act, according to a Duke University School of Law professor

• May 24, 2017 24 May'17

  SAP aligns with Saudi Arabia’s IT transformation agenda

  Global software giant SAP sees an opportunity for its wide portfolio in Saudi Arabia as the Middle Eastern country transforms

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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