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Software licensing

• August 05, 2020 05 Aug'20

  Inside Juniper’s radical IT transformation

  Western Australia’s aged care provider Juniper embarked on an aggressive strategy to completely transform its IT operations in just two years

• 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

• August 03, 2020 03 Aug'20

  Private equity leads Nordic IT sector consolidation

  Private equity firms and industrial giants are triggering mergers and acquisitions in the Nordic tech sector as investment slows amid the Covid-19 pandemic

• 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

• July 10, 2020 10 Jul'20

  Executive interview: Toyota’s Melody Ayeli on the significant role of ITAM

  Melody Ayeli recently took on the post of chair of the newly formed ITAM Forum. She believes ITAM is crucial for successful IT operations

• July 08, 2020 08 Jul'20

  Google commits to protecting open source projects

  Initiative to trademark projects aims to stop public cloud providers from offering their own managed service version of open source code

• June 30, 2020 30 Jun'20

  Economic slowdown will force CIOs to redress SaaS pricing

  Business will need to work more efficiently and spend less, which means CIOs will need to forge new value-based partnerships with IT suppliers

• 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

• April 24, 2020 24 Apr'20

  Coronavirus: Dutch Covid-19 tracking app stirs national debate

  Privacy concerns raised over mobile app to help track and control the spread of coronavirus in the Netherlands

• April 08, 2020 08 Apr'20

  The growing stature of open source in APAC

  From being users of open source software to contributing their own codes to the community, enterprises in Asia-Pacific are becoming active participants in the open source ecosystem

• March 23, 2020 23 Mar'20

  Singapore government to open source contact-tracing protocol

  Singapore’s Government Technology Agency is contributing the source codes of the BlueTrace protocol that powers its contact-tracing app

• March 18, 2020 18 Mar'20

  Swedish municipalities test AI to drive efficiencies and cost savings

  Research in Sweden measures the benefits of using artificial intelligence in local government operations

• February 23, 2020 23 Feb'20

  Australian government inks sourcing deal with Rimini Street

  The whole-of-government agreement will provide Australian government agencies with easier and cheaper access to third-party software support

• February 19, 2020 19 Feb'20

  Questions raised over Office 365 shared content policy

  Buried 300 words into Microsoft’s standard service level agreement is a clause that affects intellectual property and privacy

• January 29, 2020 29 Jan'20

  Oracle customers complain of cloud coercion

  In December, Oracle won its day in court – but a poll reveals a sales tactic based on audit threats combined with heavy cloud discounts

• January 16, 2020 16 Jan'20

  Lloyds Banking Group to create digital workplace with Microsoft

  Bank is transforming how its staff work as part of a multibillion-pound digital transformation

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Government distances itself from Post Office decisions in Horizon IT litigation

  Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy says it did not make decisions in the Post Office’s recent court battle

• January 15, 2020 15 Jan'20

  Royal Bank of Canada gives Mencap a ‘leg-up’ in automating processes

  UK charity gets help from Canadian bank in a collaboration aimed at creating a robotic workforce

• January 07, 2020 07 Jan'20

  With friends like AWS, who needs an open source business?

  AWS executive’s remarks over the company’s exploitation of open source has put a question mark over the viability of open source businesses

• December 18, 2019 18 Dec'19

  European Court of Justice rules that under-licensing is IP theft

  Ruling from the European Court of Justice says that French mobile operator, Free Mobile, infringed the copyright of software company IT development

• December 17, 2019 17 Dec'19

  AWS hits back at open source theft allegations

  New York Times accuses the public cloud provider of taking open source products and integrating them into its own managed services

• November 15, 2019 15 Nov'19

  Businesses move key applications off public cloud to save costs

  A new study has shown that while many enterprises are able to keep public cloud costs under control, spending can quickly escalate

• October 07, 2019 07 Oct'19

  Public cloud computing is early on its journey to core of the bank

  Banks are no longer reluctant to use the cloud as the technology pierces the outer layer of the banking sector and begins its journey to the core

• October 02, 2019 02 Oct'19

  John Lewis Partnership sells its automation to business

  The John Lewis Partnership will expand its use of automation technology as its early projects bear fruit

• September 23, 2019 23 Sep'19

  Why CIOs should take extra precautions when buying IT support

  With the continued squeeze on IT budgets, CIOs are always seeking ways to reduce their outgoings. Maintenance is one area where substantial savings can be made, but opting for third-party support requires careful assessment

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Inside NatWest Ventures

  NatWest Ventures is helping NatWest bank to remain relevant to its SME businesses customer community through digital innovation

• September 10, 2019 10 Sep'19

  Why it makes sense to use a third party to keep the IT lights on

  Keeping operational systems running is a full-time job, but as systems get older, they end up being out of support

• September 04, 2019 04 Sep'19

  Nationwide Building Society harnesses low-code platform

  Software development platform makes it quicker to build apps

• September 02, 2019 02 Sep'19

  Dutch virtual reality can help reduce teacher shortage worldwide

  Dutch lecturer uses virtual reality to improve teaching and developments are being watched by the Teachers Task Force of Unesco

• September 02, 2019 02 Sep'19

  APAC enterprises warm to S/4 Hana

  SAP customers in Asia-Pacific are assessing migration options in the run-up to 2025, when the German software giant will stop supporting older ERP applications

• August 22, 2019 22 Aug'19

  How IT departments can upskill in the new economy

  There is a skills crisis. Traditionally, IT has outsourced to fill the skills gap, but in the gig economy, there are new approaches to sourcing technical skills

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  European fintech investment continues to grow as global investment falls

  European countries are continuing to see significant growth in financial technology investment as total global investment decreases

• August 15, 2019 15 Aug'19

  Dutch province pioneers no-code platform

  Software development platform removes the need for expert programmers when adding functionality to applications

• August 09, 2019 09 Aug'19

  Huawei mobile IoT OS ready to plug Android gap

  Huawei is positioning its microkernel-based, distributed HarmonyOS mobile operating system as a true competitor to both Android and iOS

• July 30, 2019 30 Jul'19

  Six Nordic banks form alliance to offer KYC as a service

  Nordic Know Your Customer joint venture will create a common Nordic platform based on advanced data management technologies

• July 17, 2019 17 Jul'19

  Deutsche Bank’s public contraction is a major landmark for fintech

  German bank is cutting costs overall but is investing more in the latest digital technology as fintechs chip away at banking business

• July 16, 2019 16 Jul'19

  UN resolution ignores special rapporteur’s call for halt to spyware sales

  UN’s Human Rights Council adopts resolution to explore the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on human rights, but the text ignores a damning report by the council’s own expert on freedom of expression

• June 26, 2019 26 Jun'19

  Confusing cocktail of document licensing in SAP’s Hana strategy

  SAP wants its customers to migrate from ECC to Hana and its cloud offering and is also putting forward a new, “ambiguous” document licensing scheme

• May 28, 2019 28 May'19

  SAP extends Hana’s reach beyond enterprise applications

  The benefits of Hana Cloud Services are clear to Asia-Pacific customers, although actual adoption will boil down to cost

• April 23, 2019 23 Apr'19

  Stockholm prospers as tech hub as perceptions of entrepreneurs changes

  Stockholm has thrived as a tech startup hub after out-of-date attitudes to entrepreneurs changed

• April 10, 2019 10 Apr'19

  Google slams public cloud rivals over 'mistreatment' of open source community

  Google Cloud has committed to forging closer ties with the open source community, while hitting out at its competitors for not doing enough to support it

• April 03, 2019 03 Apr'19

  Why you need to link licensing tools to HR

  IT can be pretty good at setting up a PC for a new joiner, but what happens when someone leaves? How do you delete their cloud access?

• April 02, 2019 02 Apr'19

  Welsh government buys Microsoft Office 365 for teachers and pupils

  The Welsh government will provide Microsoft Office 365 ProPlus across 1,521 maintained schools in Wales

• April 01, 2019 01 Apr'19

  Consumers still important as Dutch satnav pioneer maps B2B future

  TomTom is focusing on the business-to-business sector, but its consumer base is an important part of its 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

• March 12, 2019 12 Mar'19

  The web turns 30: from proposal to pervasion

  The web is celebrating its 30th anniversary, but can it remain true to its founder’s vision?

• February 21, 2019 21 Feb'19

  Redis Labs swaps out open source to protect against public clouds

  While Redis remain open source, higher value modules are now covered by a commercial agreement which limits commercialisation of Redis-based products

• February 06, 2019 06 Feb'19

  Coders and developers: The new heroes of the network?

  Cisco is moving towards a software-based future. We chatted to Susie Wee, founder and leader of Cisco developer and innovation programme, DevNet, to find out how she is helping to enable this change

• January 29, 2019 29 Jan'19

  Australian government turns to Rimini Street for software support

  A slew of Australian government agencies have switched out SAP and Oracle maintenance contracts for third-party support services

• January 25, 2019 25 Jan'19

  Google petitions Supreme Court to reconsider Android Java ruling

  Google’s legal chief claims Oracle’s copyright ruling on Java software interfaces will damage software development

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change

  They probably didn't see that coming... MongoDB's switch to server-side licensing may have backfired, as AWS launches an API-compatible version

• January 11, 2019 11 Jan'19

  Microsoft takes community approach to artificial intelligence in Sweden

  Microsoft is making increasing use of artificial intelligence in Sweden as it shares experiences with the development community

• January 01, 2019 01 Jan'19

  SAP user group’s Cooper: Indirect licensing progress welcome but slow

  SAP UK&I User Group chair Paul Cooper on the state of play between SAP and users: sanguine about end of ECC6; S/4 adoption growth steady, indirect licensing still an issue; and C/4 remains unknown

• December 20, 2018 20 Dec'18

  Microsoft raises cloud prices for Australian enterprise customers

  Despite the price hike, Microsoft claims its Azure service remains competitively priced, with opportunities for additional savings

• December 06, 2018 06 Dec'18

  Asean firms dive into microservices for competitive edge

  While microservices has become a buzzword linked with digital transformation, it is no magic bullet for development woes

• November 30, 2018 30 Nov'18

  How to manage software auditor independence

  A recent report has shown that the Big Four audit firms often work for the major software providers to conduct software licence audits

• November 26, 2018 26 Nov'18

  Questions raised over Big Four auditors' licence independence

  The very firms responsible for statutory audits are also being hired by software providers to conduct software licence audits, leading to questions raised in the industry about conflicts of interest

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Microsoft forces price hike on budget-constrained councils

  The October 2018 price hike for Microsoft Office 2019 will badly affect local governments, leading Socitm to urge Microsoft to reconsider

• November 19, 2018 19 Nov'18

  Office 365 users locked out by authentication failure

  Multifactor authentication aims to protect users’ security, but many woke up this morning to find they could no longer access Microsoft 365

• October 16, 2018 16 Oct'18

  There is more to fintech than meets the eye

  Financial technology goes way beyond the flashy apps facing consumers and into the depths of the back office

• October 15, 2018 15 Oct'18

  Should you pay or should you go for free open source software?

  Open source software is free, but many businesses are happy to pay for support. This model tends not to scale well, however, making wider deployment expensive. We weigh up the options

• October 11, 2018 11 Oct'18

  Dropping commercial open source lowers PaaS costs at Fidelity

  Investment company Fidelity has created an on-premise PaaS for its in-house developer teams using the open source Cloud Foundry platform

• October 01, 2018 01 Oct'18

  Keeping Commvault on its toes in ASEAN

  Backup and data protection software supplier is going after mid-sized companies and renewing its focus on partners to make deeper inroads in Southeast Asia

• September 24, 2018 24 Sep'18

  Fair trade software on the agenda but Dutch businesses not ready to buy it

  There is already free trade chocolate and coffee on supermarket shelves, but two Dutch tech entrepreneurs are trying to add free trade software to the mix

• September 21, 2018 21 Sep'18

  Foreshadow mitigation obscures licensing impact

  Performance of virtual machines could be severely affected by the workaround for Intel’s latest processor flaw. To compensate, more processors will be needed

• September 20, 2018 20 Sep'18

  Growing reliance on cloud will need tighter IT management

  By 2022, over $1.3tn will be spent on cloud computing and related services globally, and IT leaders will need to figure out how to manage it all

• September 13, 2018 13 Sep'18

  Tech Nation startup programme demonstrates richness of UK fintech

  A Tech Nation programme to support the UK's financial technology startups demonstrates the increasingly diverse range of business-to-business products and services available through the country's fintech community

• September 10, 2018 10 Sep'18

  Software maintenance contracts lack scrutiny

  Paying a fifth of the original software contract value every year for support, big fixes and updates does not seem like good value for money

• September 06, 2018 06 Sep'18

  Arriva ITSM implementation delivers beyond expectations

  Transport company replaces several tools with a single cloud-based ITSM platform

• September 05, 2018 05 Sep'18

  The fintech startups to watch in the UK

  Tech Nation’s choice of fintech companies to back reflects the changes expected to hit financial services IT

• August 22, 2018 22 Aug'18

  How Imperial Brands is taking control of its software licences

  Central control gives the tobacco company the data required to manage software licences and ensure it pays only for the assets it needs

• July 31, 2018 31 Jul'18

  Utilita Energy supplier uses cloud to rapidly scale IT service desk

  Energy provider Utilita Energy puts its IT service management in the cloud to support its rapid growth

• July 20, 2018 20 Jul'18

  Brussels aims to become an insurtech hub

  Belgian capital is calling on startups as it eyes up the huge opportunities in the insurance technology sector

• 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

• July 11, 2018 11 Jul'18

  Oracle’s deal with Chile should go global

  UK Oracle users may eventually see the ripple effect of a court ruling in a country almost 7,500 miles away

• July 06, 2018 06 Jul'18

  Investment flows into Nordic startups from all directions

  The Nordic tech startup scene is attracting funding from a variety of sources, with private equity firms, banks and traditional IT companies all keen to put money in

• June 13, 2018 13 Jun'18

  Tips on reducing IT expenditure

  There is constant pressure for IT to reduce cost and do more with less. Computer Weekly explores how this is being achieved in practice

• June 12, 2018 12 Jun'18

  IT teams should rework supplier contracts to free up budgets

  There is no money for IT to help the business to innovate digitally, so CIOs should look at how their IT teams can maximise value from existing contracts, survey shows

• June 11, 2018 11 Jun'18

  APAC remains a hotbed for software piracy

  The Asia-Pacific region is still seeing the highest use of unlicensed software installations globally, making enterprises more susceptible to cyber attacks from malware

• June 08, 2018 08 Jun'18

  Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale

  Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres

• June 07, 2018 07 Jun'18

  European CIOs establish committee to drive IT value in business

  Technology Business Council creates a European arm to help CIOs get the best value and efficiency from their IT assets

• May 22, 2018 22 May'18

  IT professionals distrust their main suppliers, survey shows

  IT providers are restricting the ability of businesses to innovate, with many IT pros feeling that suppliers deliver poor value, especially on upgrades, a Cogeco Peer 1 survey reveals

• April 26, 2018 26 Apr'18

  ServiceNow buys into SaaS licensing to drive digitisation

  The cloud-based service management company has extended its reach in IT asset management to help businesses optimise cloud subscriptions

• April 10, 2018 10 Apr'18

  SAP bids to modernise indirect licensing with new pricing model

  SAP has announced a new pricing model for indirect licensing scenarios that has been welcomed by user groups, who are still pressing for reassurance that they won’t pay more

• March 21, 2018 21 Mar'18

  AB InBev settles out of court in $600m SAP licensing dispute

  SEC filing reveals that brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev has come to an agreement with SAP over the ERP provider's under-licensing claim

• March 19, 2018 19 Mar'18

  Big 10 open source companies give users a licence reprieve

  With the roll-out of GNU GPL 3.0 open source licensing, the industry is expecting discrepancies, and hopes an open discussion will help to debug it

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  How to improve SAP ROI with smart licensing

  A recent study suggested most SAP projects have a 50% chance of failure. The risk of having incorrect SAP licensing could be far higher

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Hershey’s outsources SAP roll-out to Accenture

  US chocolate maker has signed up Accenture to support its SAP Hana S/4 implementation

• March 05, 2018 05 Mar'18

  Yorkshire Building Society implements cloud banking platform

  Yorkshire Building Society is using a cloud-based banking platform built on Salesforce.com to automate manual tasks

• February 12, 2018 12 Feb'18

  French technology startups are forging ahead – but how?

  France has sprung to the forefront of the international tech startup scene. How has this happened, and what's next for French tech firms?

• 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 23, 2018 23 Jan'18

  Modern methodology gives Sweden’s 100-year-old SKF a digital push

  Long-established engineering company takes a leaf out of the startup guide to software development

• 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

  Nordic states innovate to attract global tech players

  The Nordic region is already a hotbed for tech startups and has the ingredients to attract more investment from the established tech giants

• 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

  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 29, 2017 29 Nov'17

  Councils continue to spend on Oracle despite budget constraints

  Local authorities face a challenges balancing their meagre budgets with services they can afford to provide, but spending on Oracle seems to be increasing

• 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

• November 15, 2017 15 Nov'17

  Critical IT problems cost UK organisations £200,000 a month

  UK companies are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds a month because of IT problems, but are relatively good at preventing the same issues recurring