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Software development tools

• June 29, 2023 29 Jun'23

  Brits are using healthcare apps without proper checks

  As mobile health app acceptance increases, people are taking risks by using them without any advice from their medical professionals, finds survey

• 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

• June 20, 2023 20 Jun'23

  EDF deploys Dynatrace to fuel site reliability engineering drive

  The energy company has adopted the observability platform to support in-house software development

• June 19, 2023 19 Jun'23

  How Fastly thinks differently about CDNs and the edge

  Fastly is counting on its developer chops and different approaches towards security and other areas to compete with its rivals

• June 15, 2023 15 Jun'23

  Enterprise software price hikes risk derailing digital transformation

  Buying software and cloud services for strategic initiatives is all very well as long as the price is stable. But costs are escalating, which is impacting value

• June 12, 2023 12 Jun'23

  Ada Lovelace Institute warns against Covid app reuse

  There are a number of lessons policy-makers should take away from the use of apps developed as part of the Covid-19 response

• June 05, 2023 05 Jun'23

  UK has time limit on ensuring cryptocurrency regulatory leadership, says Parliamentary report

  Parliamentary report makes 53 recommendations to the government's plans to regulate cryptocurrency

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  Australian government IT spending to grow 8.4% in 2023

  The Australian government will increasingly look to digital investments, particularly automation, to drive efficiency opportunities and improve service delivery, according to Gartner

• May 24, 2023 24 May'23

  JPMorgan’s UK digital retail bank adds more than a million customers in a year

  The app-based bank launched in the UK by US giant JPMorgan has added one million customers in the past 12 months

• May 22, 2023 22 May'23

  Post Office scandal – cover-up a ‘dark chapter’ in government, corporate and legal history

  Third phase of public inquiry into Horizon IT scandal reveals extent of Post Office and Fujitsu cover-up of software problems that went on to write ‘as dark a chapter in our governmental, corporate and legal history as can be imagined’

• May 18, 2023 18 May'23

  Defra's tech review reveals legacy IT issues across government

  The Public Accoubts Committee recently found that Defra has been unable to measure inefficiencies due to running legacy IT

• May 17, 2023 17 May'23

  How Rolls-Royce uses citizen developers

  The engineering company is using Microsoft Power Apps to democratise digitisation

• May 16, 2023 16 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How Mondelez is driving innovation

  The company behind Oreo biscuits is tapping low-code and no-code development, drones and blockchain, among other emerging technologies, to drive innovation and improve efficiency

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  CW Innovation Awards: How open source mapping is bringing clean water to Andhra Pradesh

  The state government of Andhra Pradesh has digitised information on water supply pipelines and implemented a geographical information system to help deliver clean drinking water to rural communities

• May 15, 2023 15 May'23

  Post Office executive told to report false bill of health on controversial software

  A 2010 Post Office internal review of the Horizon software was designed to ignore the system’s problems to reassure stakeholders amid questioning of its reliability

• May 10, 2023 10 May'23

  Defra’s legacy IT unsupported and ill-equipped for digital services

  A Public Accounts Committee report has found many applications are based on legacy IT and paper-basd systems, holding back digitisation

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  IT Priorities 2023: Software development

  Organisations are investing in technology-led business initiatives to tackle the economic slowdown

• May 02, 2023 02 May'23

  SAP eyes SMEs in Southeast Asia

  SAP debuts the Grow with SAP programme in Southeast Asia to drive adoption of S/4 Hana Cloud among small and medium-sized enterprises

• 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

• April 20, 2023 20 Apr'23

  Banks don’t want to develop fintech in-house

  Banks are increasingly partnering with fintechs to gain access to their platforms, with few interested in developing such capabilities in-house

• April 13, 2023 13 Apr'23

  How Agoda is shaping up to be a technology powerhouse

  Agoda’s CTO Idan Zalzberg explains why the online travel agency with a massive technology footprint prefers to run things in-house and not rely too much on public cloud services

• April 12, 2023 12 Apr'23

  Deutsche Bank to close Russian software operations

  German bank has been winding down its Russia-based software development operations and is close to shutting them down

• April 11, 2023 11 Apr'23

  Controversial Fujitsu contract with Post Office extended after technical challenges moving to cloud

  The Post Office has extended a contract with Fujitsu after being unable to resolve technical issues related to migrating its IT to the cloud

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  OSC&R supply chain security framework goes live on Github

  The OSC&R framework for understanding and evaluating threats to supply chain security has made its debut on Github to allow anybody to contribute to the framework

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  How millions of consumers and businesses are using open banking

  SMEs and consumers are increasingly turning to open banking services to help them manage their businesses and lives

• March 30, 2023 30 Mar'23

  UK government study reveals 50,000 people employed in AI sector

  Government publishes baseline analysis of UK artificial intelligence sector as it pins hopes on future growth

• March 29, 2023 29 Mar'23

  UK’s open banking industry at a crossroads

  The UK open banking sector is at a crossroads and suppliers need more certainty about its direction, says report

• March 28, 2023 28 Mar'23

  How ChatGPT will become a programmer’s best friend

  ChatGPT has shown it can produce code. It can also identify bugs and even figure out what a code snippet is trying to do

• March 21, 2023 21 Mar'23

  UK signs digital trade deal with Ukraine

  The UK and Ukraine have agreed a trade deal that will reduce the cost of IT imports from the war-torn country

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  How William Hill’s IT copes with big sporting events

  The Grand National is one of those events that pushes online betting sites beyond their limits. Understanding where there are bottlenecks is key

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  NCSC warns over AI language models but rejects cyber alarmism

  The UK's NCSC has issued advice for those using the technology underpinning AI tools such as ChatGPT, but says some of the security doomsday scenarios being proposed right now are not necessarily realistic

• March 14, 2023 14 Mar'23

  Central bank digital currency use set to soar over next seven years

  The use of central bank-backed digital currencies is set to explode over the next seven years as governments drive adoption to increase financial inclusion

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  How to get mainframe modernisation right

  Around a third of mainframe modernisation efforts fail, but that doesn’t need to be the case if organisations can harness the best of mainframe and distributed architectures, according to Rocket Software

• March 06, 2023 06 Mar'23

  Government announces Science and Technology framework

  The government has announced the first major work completed by its recently launched Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

• March 03, 2023 03 Mar'23

  Shawbrook Bank uses Pegasystems for low-code business process rewrite

  SME lending and savings bank Shawbrook Bank is using a low-code platform from Pegasystems to rewrite outdated business processes

• February 28, 2023 28 Feb'23

  Government announces national fintech hub

  The UK Treasury has announced a centre for fintech innovation, two years after a major report recommended one

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  Oracle goes on hunt for Java non-compliance

  Non-Oracle organisations warned to check if they comply with Java SE licensing after Oracle introduces radical changes

• February 23, 2023 23 Feb'23

  Santander SME platform harnesses Salesforce

  Bank platform that helps UK small and medium-sized enterprises expand export opportunities is built on cloud technology from Salesforce

• February 21, 2023 21 Feb'23

  Seven million people in UK used open banking services in 2022

  More than seven million people used services that harnessed open banking last year, with 1.2 million of these first-time users

• February 15, 2023 15 Feb'23

  UK saw fintech investment collapse in 2022, but is still a world leader

  Fintech investment in the UK sees steep drop, but the country was still a top destination for capital

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  OSC&R framework to stop supply chain attacks in the wild

  The backers of a new MITRE ATT&CK style framework called OSC&R hope to help organisations get to grips with threats to their software supply chains

• February 14, 2023 14 Feb'23

  Executive interview: Putting a value on open source

  Spotify’s open source tech lead discusses why open source is failing those whose free time is dedicated to maintaining code

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  Is business ready for ChatGPT?

  Generative AI models like ChatGPT promise to revolutionise the way people gather data and make informed decisions

• February 08, 2023 08 Feb'23

  India launches homegrown BharOS

  The homegrown Android-based mobile operating system could reduce India’s reliance on foreign software, but uncertainties around market adoption and software updates remain

• January 31, 2023 31 Jan'23

  GitHub warns Desktop, Atom users after code-signing certificates pinched

  Threat actors stole encrypted code-signing certificates for GitHub’s Desktop and Atom applications in December 2022, prompting warnings for users

• January 30, 2023 30 Jan'23

  Former Fujitsu staff under police investigation to face Post Office IT scandal inquiry

  Two former Fujitsu IT professionals being investigated for potential perjury will face Post Office Horizon public inquiry in May

• January 25, 2023 25 Jan'23

  State of DevOps: Success happens through platform engineering

  The annual State of DevOps report has focused on a phenomenon known as platform engineering

• January 23, 2023 23 Jan'23

  Trellix automates patching for 62,000 vulnerable open source projects

  Since revealing startling statistics about the prevalence of a 15-year-old Python vulnerability, Trellix says it has helped fix almost 62,000 vulnerable projects in the past four months

• January 15, 2023 15 Jan'23

  Thai enterprises spend more on software amid growing digitalisation

  The majority of software spending in Thailand during the first half of 2022 went into applications followed by infrastructure software and development tools, according to IDC

• January 10, 2023 10 Jan'23

  How to find winning artificial intelligence use cases

  Choosing use cases for artificial intelligence requires organisations to take a hard look at business value, risk, data and other capabilities required to realise the technology’s full potential