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Software licensing

• September 08, 2021 08 Sep'21

  Estonian government opens its digital heart to tech testers

  Tech startups are being invited to build and test their products and services on the Estonian government’s IT estate for free, in return for use of the software developed

• August 18, 2021 18 Aug'21

  Thames Valley Police drops ERP system after spending £14m

  Thames Valley Police exits tri-force programme to develop new enterprise resource planning software for the police

• August 13, 2021 13 Aug'21

  GoStudent: Europe’s newest edtech unicorn

  Europe’s biggest ed-tech unicorn reaches unicorn status and tests sector traditions

• August 11, 2021 11 Aug'21

  Global fintech investments reach new heights

  The global financial technology industry is emerging from the pandemic-triggered slowdown with record levels of investment to fuel further growth

• July 23, 2021 23 Jul'21

  TfL under fire for relying on Uber facial-verification data in licensing decisions

  TfL is facing numerous legal appeals from Uber drivers as a result of its decisions to revoke their private licences on the basis of mistaken information from Uber’s systems

• July 15, 2021 15 Jul'21

  Fintech sector continues to attract investment as Revolut hits $33bn valuation

  Revolut has become the most valuable financial technology firm in the UK after its latest round of investment, with plans for a ‘superapp’

• July 05, 2021 05 Jul'21

  Klarna’s alumni thrive with new ventures after witnessing path to success

  Former Klarna employees are using their experiences with the fintech giant to create the next wave of Swedish tech startups

• May 10, 2021 10 May'21

  Server-side licensing leads to hike in public cloud prices

  Changes made over the last year or so to protect open source revenue streams is starting to impact public cloud managed service costs

• May 05, 2021 05 May'21

  Why ITAM can aid IT-fuelled business recovery

  As a sense of normality returns, we look at why IT asset management is the stealth tool for clearing a path towards greater digitisation

• April 22, 2021 22 Apr'21

  Grafana Labs switches open source licensing to stem strip-mining tactics

  Public cloud providers have been accused of strip-mining open source products, offering them as managed services, cutting a valuable revenue

• April 19, 2021 19 Apr'21

  UK fintech investment hits new heights as government announces increased support

  The UK fintech sector saw high levels of investment in the first quarter of this year, with increased support from the government

• April 08, 2021 08 Apr'21

  Microsoft accused of stifling secondhand software market

  In 2012, UsedSoft won a case for second user software, which has enabled the market to grow across Europe. But it is now under threat

• April 06, 2021 06 Apr'21

  US court issues Google API with Java ruling

  US Supreme Court rules that specifying an API function call to enable third-party developers to access functionality should not be copyrighted

• March 05, 2021 05 Mar'21

  Clarification needed on IT ‘super-deduction’ allowance

  Chancellor announces that companies investing in qualifying new plant and machinery assets will be able to claim a ‘super-deduction’ allowance

• February 03, 2021 03 Feb'21

  CIO interview: Deryck Mitchelson, director of digital, NHS Scotland

  We speak to NHS Scotland’s head of digital about the IT to help ease the pressure on the health service, which has intensified during the Covid-19 pandemic

• January 27, 2021 27 Jan'21

  How Nottinghamshire County Council saved loads of money on SAP

  The council was paying £100,000 a year just to keep ECC patches up to date and needed to find savings to support frontline services

• December 16, 2020 16 Dec'20

  Lancashire police integrate body-worn video into digital policing app

  Body-worn video integration will transform Lancashire police’s time-consuming and manual procedures into an efficient digital workflow, but claims that BMV will increase transparency and accountability are not backed by the evidence

• November 26, 2020 26 Nov'20

  Robots taking jobs, but creating careers

  Robotic process automation developers tell Computer Weekly about the job they never expected to be doing

• November 24, 2020 24 Nov'20

  Three options for next year’s IT strategy

  CIOs are under pressure to reduce costs, but they also need to modernise applications and help their businesses return to profitability

• November 19, 2020 19 Nov'20

  Cut jobs or cut software spending?

  With little or no growth in IT budgets, IT chiefs will be tasked with cutting costs in 2021. Improving IT asset management can help to avoid job cuts

• October 06, 2020 06 Oct'20

  Coronavirus raises the software audit stakes

  IT asset managers say they are receiving more requests from software publishers to check for licence discrepancies

• September 29, 2020 29 Sep'20

  Over two million Brits using open banking

  Data shows more than two million people in the UK are now taking control of their financial data through open banking

• September 25, 2020 25 Sep'20

  Tips on breaking free from long-term IT contracts

  Far-reaching, multi-year contracts are less popular these days, but IT departments often find the renewal date is still years away

• September 22, 2020 22 Sep'20

  Green Cargo extends Rimini contract to keep legacy SAP backend running

  Mainframe and SAP to provide systems of record, with real-time data for new digitisation initiatives, built on multi-cloud, RPA and low-code platforms

• September 09, 2020 09 Sep'20

  Hyundai-Kia expands Rimini Oracle contract to regional offices

  Car manufacturer expands its existing third-party support contract. Savings will help fund autonomous and electric car development

• September 04, 2020 04 Sep'20

  HotelBeds uses API management platform to reduce cost

  HotelBeds has switched from its legacy suppler to a licensed service in an effort to reduce API management costs after traffic doubles

• 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