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• 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).

• December 13, 2006 13 Dec'06

  Sun updates Java Standard Edition

  Sun Microsystems has launched version six of its Java Standard Edition platform, which supports the integration of Java technology with other programming languages

• October 07, 2005 07 Oct'05

  Service approach will bring benefits to applications development says Gartner

  Service-oriented development of applications (SODA) is the best way to approach globally distributed application development and maintenance, according to a new report by Gartner.

• February 23, 2004 23 Feb'04

  Somerfield speeds up product development with online system

  Supermarket chain Somerfield will this week go live with the first stage of an initiative to computerise its new product...