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• January 28, 2014 28 Jan'14

  BBC failed to get "sufficient grip” over failed DMI project, says NAO

  The National Audit Office has slammed the BBC over its failed Digital Media Initiative (DMI), project saying the broadcaster was “too optimistic” and the BBC executive “did not have sufficient grip of the programme"

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Firm works with Google maps to provide fleet management software

  Greater Anglia rail company will roll out a taxi booking app in 2014 developed by fleet management software provider TDispatch and powered by Google Maps

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  Government Digital Service no longer involved with Universal Credit IT development

  The Government Digital Service ends direct involvement in the development of the “enhanced IT” for the Universal Credit sheme

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• October 17, 2013 17 Oct'13

  Computer science graduates struggle to find work despite IT skills shortage

  Despite an IT skills gap, the UK’s recent computer science graduates are the largest group of unemployed graduates

• October 09, 2013 09 Oct'13

  Tesco.com uses agile development offshore to roll out internationally

  Tesco used agile methodology, co-ordinating a team of 100 offshore developers, to roll out the Tesco.com website internationally

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas

  British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home

• September 03, 2013 03 Sep'13

  How the sale of Nokia’s mobile phone business will affect Microsoft

  Microsoft forges ahead with Steve Ballmer's vision to focus on hardware, software and services, with the $7.2bn acquisition of Nokia

• July 04, 2013 04 Jul'13

  Why agile development failed for Universal Credit

  The DWP has ceased all agile development on the Universal Credit programme. Was agile not up to the job? Or was DWP not up to agile?

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Bet365's move to HTML5 is more than a gamble

  Online gaming site Bet365 has starting using HTML5 to build a rich user experience on its website

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  Universal Credit not at odds with agile, says former chief

  Former programme director of Universal Credit, Malcolm Whitehouse, has denied the mega-project is at odds with agile development

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations

  In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports

• February 18, 2013 18 Feb'13

  Pitchford to head-up Universal Credit programme

  David Pitchford, executive director of Major Projects Authority heads up the Universal Credit at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

• February 07, 2013 07 Feb'13

  Interview: Phil Smith, CEO of Cisco UK & Ireland

  Cisco's UK CEO talks about innovation, wireless vs wired and software defined networking at the company’s annual Cisco Live event in London

• 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

• November 13, 2012 13 Nov'12

  DWP CIO Philip Langsdale oversees Universal Credit overhaul

  The Department for Work and Pensions CIO Philip Langsdale oversees an overhaul of the DWP’s flagship Universal Credit programme

• November 12, 2012 12 Nov'12

  Software issues risk delaying Universal Credit by one year, according to reports

  The IT underpinning the government’s flagship £2.2bn Universal Credit programme is again being called into question

• November 06, 2012 06 Nov'12

  Gartner Symposium: RBS emulates Amazon with private cloud

  Royal Bank of Scotland has developed a private cloud to support its application development process, using Amazon best practices

• August 22, 2012 22 Aug'12

  Rigorous software testing gets Curiosity off to a good start

  NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) has used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover

• August 16, 2012 16 Aug'12

  Gartner: Prepare for hybrid cloud pain

  Hybrid clouds are set for a big fall as businesses feel the pain of implementation

• July 24, 2012 24 Jul'12

  Nationwide hits major milestone in £1bn IT transformation

  Nationwide has reached a major milestone in its five-year technology transformation project with the roll-out of a mortgage system to its branches

• June 21, 2012 21 Jun'12

  Banks break with in-house software in move to commercial systems

  Increased regulation, reduced profits and customer demands are driving banks to replace home-grown software with off-the-shelf alternatives

• June 20, 2012 20 Jun'12

  Q&A: Why do we need exascale computers ?

  Europe, the US, Japan and China are racing to develop the next generation of supercomputer – exascale machines - capable of a million trillion calculations a second.

• June 13, 2012 13 Jun'12

  BAE assesses off-the-shelf application lifecycle management

  BAE Maritime Systems is assessing new tools from Serena Software to support mission-critical software development

• May 29, 2012 29 May'12

  CIO interview: Lukas Oberhuber, CTO, Simply Business

  Lukas Oberhuber is CTO at Simply Business, where he is making IT at the insurance company more agile to meet business demands

• March 27, 2012 27 Mar'12

  Retail and insurance lead two-speed IT spending

  More IT-based businesses are starting with greater investment in IT after the slowdown, but with lopsided demand as businesses increase spending at different rates

• January 30, 2012 30 Jan'12

  Oracle and SAP worst for government ERP cost differences

  Oracle and SAP have been singled out as having the most inconsistent prices for ERP systems across government departments.

• January 05, 2012 05 Jan'12

  IBM buys Green Hat for cloud-based agile testing

  IBM is acquiring cloud-based software testing company Green Hat to bolster its Rational product family.

• December 12, 2011 12 Dec'11

  Businesses take risks with faulty software

  Unearthing software faults once software goes live is storing up problems for businesses.

• November 10, 2011 10 Nov'11

  Welcome to the new-look ComputerWeekly.com

  Computer Weekly has launched its brand new website - the most important online development in the brand’s 45-year history.

• May 13, 2011 13 May'11

  Government website pilot points to future public sector software development

  Alpha.gov.uk is a pilot for a website that could put all UK government digital services and websites on one URL

• February 09, 2011 09 Feb'11

  IT managers find Internet Explorer 9 fails to render websites and web applications

  With the development of Internet Explorer 9.0 near completion, ComputerWeekly.com has learned that thousands of sites and applications are incompatible with the new browser and its immediate predecessor.

• February 01, 2011 01 Feb'11

  Aston Martin uses Siemens NX software

  Iconic British sports car maker Aston Martin said it would standardise its global vehicle development on Siemens NX software for integrated computer-aided design, manufacturing and engineering analysis (CAD/CAM/CAE).

• February 10, 2010 10 Feb'10

  Colocation vs. segmentation for test and development environments

  Most organisations need a test and development environment, but what's the most cost-effective way to create and operate this facility? Our experts debate two options: colocation and segmentation.

• January 05, 2010 05 Jan'10

  Tips for improving software development

  Forrester Research is urging IT departments to rethink the way they develop applications to help businesses through the recession.

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• October 29, 2009 29 Oct'09

  Adopting agile development methodology is a stretch, but the exercise pays off

  Organizations including British Airways have learned that agile software development methodologies really do speed up software projects, at the expense of some pain as you stretch out to achieve agility.

• June 02, 2009 02 Jun'09

  Red Hat tackles Java complexity with JBoss Choice

  Red Hat has unveiled its Java strategy and a platform called JBoss Choice, which it says tackles application complexity by providing a single environment for deploying different programming models for Java.

• June 03, 2008 03 Jun'08

  IBM breaks down the corporate walls with collaboration tools

  IBM has announced 20 software development and distribution products that help companies collaborate with partners, suppliers, customers and their employees.

• March 03, 2008 03 Mar'08

  IDeA deploys streamlined search platform to aid staff working on behalf of councils

  The government's Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has integrated Exalead's online search functionality into its agency-wide IT platform to streamline staff search functions.

• January 28, 2008 28 Jan'08

  Experian to cut 200 IT jobs

  UK business information group Experian is to cut at least 200 IT jobs to save £40m a year through outsourcing its product development programme to India.

• January 15, 2008 15 Jan'08

  Application development just a weak link without metrics

  Collect the right metrics at the right time, and the speed of software development will improve its chances at keeping up with the business.

• November 13, 2007 13 Nov'07

  Cisco works with Oracle on Data Centre 3.0

  Cisco will collaborate with Oracle in the development and validation of Reliable Datagram Sockets, an acceleration protocol to further scale Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) 11g using InfiniBand.

• November 08, 2007 08 Nov'07

  Deutsche Bank outsources to HCL Technologies

  Deutsche Bank has cut its IT costs by 30% and doubled the performance of its IT department over the past five years by using outsourcing and partnering relationships to free up staff for development.

• November 02, 2007 02 Nov'07

  Regional development agency puts Citrix thin clients in student homes

  Edensor Technology College, a specialist secondary school based in Stoke-on-Trent, has cut its hardware and support costs by installing thin client terminals at students' homes. The initiative was funded using part of a £350,000 grant from Regional ...

• October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07

  Credit Suisse improves application development

  Credit Suisse has adopted a platform to manage its application development more efficiently.

• October 23, 2007 23 Oct'07

  RSA 2007: long-term data storage presents legal risks

  Companies could place themselves at risk of legal liabiliy if they take advantage of developments in data storage to store every piece of data in their organisations, Art Coviello, executive vice-president of EMC and president of RSA, has said in a ...

• October 12, 2007 12 Oct'07

  Oracle plans to buy BEA Systems

  Oracle is planning to buy middleware provider BEA in order to accelerate the development of its own middleware products.

• October 10, 2007 10 Oct'07

  Google and IBM join forces to support parallel web apps coding in colleges

  Google and IBM have announced an initiative to promote new software development methods that will help students and researchers to more easily produce internet-scale applications.

• October 02, 2007 02 Oct'07

  Nokia Siemens Networks offloads German development facilities to IBM

  Nokia Siemens Networks is offloading German research and development facilities to IBM to cut costs.