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February 19, 2016 19 Feb'16
Vision Direct rewrites enterprise applications using Mendix cloud-based platform

Eyecare company has used the Mendix application platform as a service to create new apps to support the business
January 20, 2016 20 Jan'16
Mars court filings reveal extent of Oracle licence probe

Court documents have revealed just how far Oracle will go to extract cash from some of its larger customers
January 06, 2016 06 Jan'16
Forrester predicts boom time for software

Cloud, Saas and business analytics set to drive up demand for software
January 04, 2016 04 Jan'16
Software asset management at risk from SQL Server blind spot

Lack of adequate software asset management tools is leaving IT departments in the dark over Microsoft licensing, says the Campaign for Clear Licensing

November 26, 2015 26 Nov'15
How to offset Oracle costs when preparing a move to the cloud

Savvy IT departments can mix and match support contracts as they negotiate with Oracle on a Fusion upgrade
November 24, 2015 24 Nov'15
G-Cloud suppliers hit out at government IT pricing deal with Huddle

Whitehall procurement chiefs respond to claims preferential pricing deal with Huddle goes against G-Cloud ethos
November 11, 2015 11 Nov'15
How to avoid being chained to an enterprise software licence

CIOs will need to ringfence spending with their existing enterprise IT suppliers to liberate capital for other business initiatives
November 05, 2015 05 Nov'15
Free software gains ground in the Italian public administration

Italy's Ministry of Defence is pioneering the use of open-source office productivity tools with the migration of 150,000 PCs to LibreOffice
October 22, 2015 22 Oct'15
New Zealand beauty firm moves business onto Netsuite

New Zealand based beauty product supplier The Beauty Collective talks to Computer Weekly about its transformation to business software in the cloud
October 13, 2015 13 Oct'15
Enterprise software contracts stifle digital business initiatives

Two software licensing groups have joined forces to put pressure on the European Commission to investigate leading software companies

October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15
Take part in the Computer Weekly Technology Industry Survey 2016

Share your views in Computer Weekly’s annual Technology Industry Survey, which provides an insight into the trends, challenges and aspirations of today’s IT professionals
October 08, 2015 08 Oct'15
Taunton and Somerset NHS goes live with open-source electronic patient records

Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust the first to go live with the openMAXIMS open-source electronic patient record system (EPR) in a landmark deal
September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15
Financial services watchdog wastes money on Oracle licences

The Financial Conduct Authority admits it has fallen victim to the complex nature of software licensing that dogs companies in the sector it serves
September 11, 2015 11 Sep'15
Case study: French delivery company Chronopost looks to NoSQL for big data challenge

French delivery company Chronopost is using open-source NoSQL systems to improve services and customer retention
September 02, 2015 02 Sep'15
Top technology companies develop royalty-free media formats

Amazon, Cisco, Google, Intel, Microsoft, Mozilla and Netflix have joined forces to develop fast, interoperable and royalty-free online media formats
August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15
Business process automation fills people gap in Australia and New Zealand

Business process automation technology is more about helping businesses in Australia and New Zealand overcome staff shortages, than about cutting costs.
July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15
Interview: CCS director Sarah Hurrell on improving government technology purchasing

The government's procurement agency has plenty of critics, but its technology lead insists that IT and digital purchasing is improving fast
July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15
IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments
July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15
CIOs need to reboot supplier relationships

IT leaders need to rethink the balance of spending between maintaining traditional suppliers and introducing innovative new providers
July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15
Software audits cut government IT bill by £85m in 2014/15

Annual accounts for the government purchasing agency show at least £220m in technology related savings
July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15
Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn
June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15
Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView
June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15
Oracle sets sights on cloud cash cow in shift from perpetual licensing

Oracle reports Q4 operating income of $4bn on revenues of $10.7bn as it turns from software licensing towards 'stunningly profitable' cloud business
May 19, 2015 19 May'15
Canonical offers SaaS pricing for on-site VMs and storage

Open source supplier Canonical has introduced software as a service pricing for on-premise storage in a move that could change the way traditional software is licensed
May 13, 2015 13 May'15
Standard Chartered moves 90,000 staff to Jive

Standard Chartered bank is using software from Jive to support collaboration between 90,000 employees in 70 countries
May 06, 2015 06 May'15
EMC courts developers with open-source storage software push

Storage giant wants to make it easier for developers to get hold of its software and accelerate app development times
April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15
Gartner: Enterprises opt for open-source and cloud middleware alternatives

Gartner has reported a bigger focus on subscription-based licensing and open-source platforms in the middleware market
April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15
Payments firm Monitise puts application programming interfaces in cloud to provide services

Monitise puts its application programming interfaces (APIs) in the cloud for banks and payment firms to use its technology in their services
March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15
Major software companies bamboozle local authorities with audits

Software companies are resorting to audits and complex licensing in a bid to make more money from existing public sector customers
February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15
To partition or not to partition Oracle

Oracle licence contracts are unclear on soft partitioning so CIOs need to get to the licence negotiation table to extract the best deal
February 23, 2015 23 Feb'15
Ordnance Survey announces open data innovation project

Ordnance Survey marked International Open Data Day by announcing plans to launch an open data digital map
January 27, 2015 27 Jan'15
Your digital projects are doomed to failure, warns Cisco

At Cisco Live! In Milan, Cisco set out the challenges of going digital, with many projects doomed to fail unless businesses embrace ‘Fast IT’
January 07, 2015 07 Jan'15
Oracle will lose out unless it changes its software licensing

In an open letter, Campaign for Clear Licensing highlights the risk to Oracle’s future earnings due to aggressive licensing
November 19, 2014 19 Nov'14
Case study: North Wales Fire and Rescue Service secures email for public sector collaboration

The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service (NWFRS) has secured its information exchange with Egress Switch encryption
November 12, 2014 12 Nov'14
How to deal with the next software renewal call from the big four suppliers

IT departments are being subjected to ruthless tactics by software sales teams when they renegotiate contracts with the big four suppliers
November 11, 2014 11 Nov'14
Qantas puts Oracle ERP in the cloud with Tata Consultancy Services

Airline Qantas signs IT outsourcing services firm TCS to upgrade its Oracle ERP platform and move it into the cloud
November 05, 2014 05 Nov'14
Government open standards - the curious case of Microsoft and the minister

What role, if any, did science minister David Willetts take in helping Microsoft try to overturn government IT policy?
November 04, 2014 04 Nov'14
Airbus interview: research, innovation and the future of aviation

IT plays a substantial role in creating the aircraft of the future, with research and innovation at the core of the Airbus business strategy
November 03, 2014 03 Nov'14
Users warned over 'aggressive' Oracle software licensing tactics

Oracle has been slammed by a new report for its lack of transparency and aggressive sales practices
October 31, 2014 31 Oct'14
Microsoft threatened MPs over open-standards policy, claims advisor

Microsoft told MPs it would cut investment if they supported plans for open standards, says former Cameron advisor
October 28, 2014 28 Oct'14
Government replaces Becta education IT procurement framework

Government seeks up to 20 suppliers to form a £300m procurement framework for ICT services to public-sector education organisations
October 20, 2014 20 Oct'14
SAP grows cloud revenue by 45%

SAP’s revenue from cloud services has grown 45% year-on-year
September 29, 2014 29 Sep'14
Case study: Deutsche Post DHL develops software contract templates to reduce costs

Deutsche Post DHL has created contract templates to manage software costs. Computer Weekly speaks to the people leading the initiative
September 16, 2014 16 Sep'14
Microsoft pitches new Dynamics CRM 2015 as ‘one cloud for all’

Microsoft is making its Dynamics CRM 2015 available next quarter along with updates to its Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online services
September 15, 2014 15 Sep'14
Why AWS is being held back in the public sector

Public sector is a fast growing area of the Amazon Web Services cloud business. Yet it is often not seen as a first choice in government
August 20, 2014 20 Aug'14
Stuck between a rock and a hard place: How to renegotiate software contracts

As a ruling against support provider Rimini Street demonstrates, suppliers can and will exploit any doubt in a software contract
August 13, 2014 13 Aug'14
Home Office pours £3.8m into shared service for biometric cards

The Home Office has awarded a £3.8m contract to Thales for a service to support the production of Biometric Residence Permit cards
July 28, 2014 28 Jul'14
Oracle in-memory option creates licensing pain and audit risk

A former Oracle employee has highlighted a major issue in the way the new Oracle Database 12c Release 12.1.0.2 is licensed
July 25, 2014 25 Jul'14
Bank of America: When software relationships turn sour

Tibco has filed a lawsuit alleging the Merrill Lynch division of Bank of America illegally used $300m of its software for a major IT project
July 24, 2014 24 Jul'14
Citrix SaaS revenue rises 12% while overall revenue grows 7% YoY

Citrix has reported a 7% revenue increase in its second quarter of fiscal year 2014 . But it reported double-digit revenue growth in SaaS