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Enterprise software

• Consumer identity management is the core of real CRM

  IAM + CRM is much more than simply IAM for external users, says Ivan Niccolai  Continue Reading

• Privacy Shield gets green light – for now

  Privacy Shield faces inevitable legal challenges, so organisations should prepare by considering legal and practical alternatives  Continue Reading

• Brexit offers chance for UK to become a ‘data haven’

  Could the UK become a a safe place for both cloud and big data after it leaves the EU?  Continue Reading

• What CIOs should know about Brexit

  CIOs should start talking with other executives and their teams and begin planning now for potential changes  Continue Reading

• Mindful collaboration: Who shares wins

  IT leaders seem to struggle to make collaboration technology projects work. Research by the Leading Edge Forum offers some possible answers  Continue Reading

• Was that it? Business as usual for fintechs after Brexit vote

  Following the Brexit vote, Fintech Times editor Bird Lovegod describes how financial services IT startups are getting on with business as usual  Continue Reading

• A one-size-fits-all blockchain just won’t do

  With manifold use cases and specific requirements for blockchains, businesses will have to choose the right variety rather than deploy a single ‘interoperable’ blockchain  Continue Reading

• Brexit and technology: How network effects will damage UK IT industry

  Although largely ignored in the Brexit debate, network effects will damage the UK's high-tech industry if Britain leaves Europe  Continue Reading

• Managing open-source security: a legal perspective

  Open-source software is being used more widely than ever – but do IT leaders understand the legal risks?  Continue Reading

• Blockchain and the CIO: a new model for IT

  The most important emerging technology for the enterprise – and therefore the CIO – is not big data, the social web, artificial intelligence, robotics or the cloud – it’s blockchain  Continue Reading

• Graph databases: What are the benefits for CIOs?

  With enterprise interest in graph databases on the rise, Clive Longbottom explains why some businesses are favouring them over relational setups  Continue Reading

• The European Cloud Initiative: A silver lining for data sharing?

  The European Commission has published proposals for a new cloud initiative – part of a package of measures designed to enhance the EU’s position in the global, data-driven economy  Continue Reading

• The consumerisation of machine intelligence

  Machine intelligence is improving fast – as demonstrated by Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo success – and IT leaders need to plan for its effect on enterprise IT  Continue Reading

• How to transition to a cloud-based analytics environment

  Accenture Digital consultants say businesses can be more agile by way of cloud-based analytics  Continue Reading

• Wearable technology creates opportunities for retailers

  Wearable technology allows taxis to offer commuters a ride when it is raining, and restaurants' to tailor their dishes to customers' weight-loss plans.  Continue Reading

• Turn consumer technology into practical business innovation

  Many organisations are missing out on the opportunities for innovating presented by everyday consumer technology  Continue Reading

• Demystifying service delivery automation

  What is service delivery automation and what can it do for your organisation?  Continue Reading

• Life on the edge: The benefits of using micro datacentres

  Enterprises are demanding faster access to applications and ever more processing power. Could edge datacentres fill the gap?  Continue Reading

• How insight-driven enterprises use data to strategic advantage

  Accenture managing directors Nick Millman and Ray Eitel-Porter distil steps for enterprises to turn data into business insight from the firm’s consultancy  Continue Reading

• Robots will transform, not replace, human work

  Claims that robots will steal our jobs are commonplace – but humans will find themselves working side by side with robots, rather than being replaced by them  Continue Reading

• When a slowdown in IT budgets is a good thing

  IT budgets will grow at their slowest rate for four years in 2016, yet companies are spending more on digital technology  Continue Reading

• Digital platform more than taxi service: Uber as app economy paradigm?

  Uber’s significance may lie more in its being a data-rich platform that taps into unused human economic resources than in its role as a passenger pickup service  Continue Reading

• Why it pays to get messy with big data

  Big data does not have to be perfect to give useful insights. The ability to make messy data usable quickly could become business critical  Continue Reading

• A plan for managing public-sector IT costs

  The 2015 spending review is set to put further pressure on the public sector. Are there easy cuts public-sector CIOs can make?  Continue Reading

• Democratise internet of things data analytics with virtualisation

  Accenture Labs authors contend that data virtualisation can unlock business value from the IoT  Continue Reading

• Why the IT dinosaurs should be planning for extinction

  The planned merger of two dinosaurs of the hardware world, Dell and EMC, offers a useful insight into how to manage corporate extinction  Continue Reading

• Pixar president on why building a 'fail fast' culture is hard

  The duality of failure, IBM's bet on cognitive computing, and the difference between a data officer and an analytics officer: The Data Mill reports.  Continue Reading

• Reinventing outsourcing through agile principles

  Organisations are starting to use agile principles to reinvent the outsourcing selection process, with some excellent results  Continue Reading

• Consumer Rights Act will boost trust in digital content

  New law presents a huge opportunity for the growth in sales of online movies, music downloads, e-books, apps and software  Continue Reading

• Life’s a breach: How to handle the press after a hacking attack

  Emily Dent, specialist in crisis PR, offers some advice to organisations that unexpectedly find themselves in the headlines  Continue Reading

• Driving digital productivity in the UK

  There is a need for British businesses to improve their adoption of digital technologies  Continue Reading

• Sale, spin-off or stay put? What should EMC do next?

  With reports suggesting some major changes may be afoot at EMC, Clive Longbottom looks at the reasons why  Continue Reading

• Can emulating social media make business applications more productive?

  Can social technologies be turned to account for business applications, and can they boost economic productivity?  Continue Reading

• When DevOps isn't enough, try NoOps

  Letting developers loose to create, test and deploy new code without operations might streamline processes, but it's not without its risks  Continue Reading

• Blending humans and technology in the workforce

  We are close to the time when intelligent technology will collaborate with humans to make the workforce more productive  Continue Reading

• Who is responsible for digital leadership in the boardroom?

  Digital technology affects every aspect of modern business - so which executive should lead digital strategy in the boardroom?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Proceed with caution using IP-based collaboration tools

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Select collaboration tools carefully to keep data secure

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Think twice about unlimited collaboration

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• The top 10 myths about agile development

  Examining some of the most common misconceptions in the growing field of agile software development  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: No company is an island

  How can businesses of all sizes ensure that employees are able to collaborate effectively without the risk of compromise to the company IT network or systems?  Continue Reading

• Apply data governance to maximise data insights

  How IT can apply data governance to help the business trust analytics insights and gain the most value from big data  Continue Reading

• Fix outdated working practices to solve productivity puzzle

  The Economist says the French could take Friday off and still produce more than Britons in a week. Can smarter use of technology fix this?  Continue Reading

• Microsoft SharePoint: Why are we still hearing so much about adoption issues?

  The SharePoint business system is too important to be left to IT; the whole business need to embrace it so it's more than just shelfware  Continue Reading

• HP: Where next for the troubled Silicon Valley giant?

  Numerous management changes and acquisitions have created confusion about HP's strategy, but is it too late to bounce back?  Continue Reading

• Making sense of the internet of things

  Welcome to Thingalytics, the use of real-time analytics and algorithms to guide you through the maze of fast big data  Continue Reading

• Investment banks recruit for rise of big data analytics

  Investment banks have been slower to embrace big data analytics than many consumer retailers, technology businesses, even retail banking  Continue Reading

• Does IBM have what it needs to succeed in the cloud era?

  With its history in hardware, has IBM done enough from a tech development and acquisition perspective to achieve long-term success in the cloud?  Continue Reading

• Get closer to your customers by doing the co-creation tango

  For years, IT has been in a formal dance with its customers, but in the disruptive world of co-creation, it now needs to learn to tango  Continue Reading

• The customer-centric cloud model for HR IT

  IT and HR departments are working increasingly closely with cloud suppliers to develop and improve cloud-based HR systems  Continue Reading

• Patent trolls must not be allowed to encroach on Europe

  So-called patent trolls may soon come under attack in the US as part of government-backed efforts against abusive intellectual property litigation  Continue Reading

• Why you need smarter case management

  Business users will see myriad benefits from an emerging wave of case management applications  Continue Reading

• Big data to unlock value from the industrial internet of things

  The industrial internet of things (IIoT) is changing the way we live and work, and extracting maximum value requires a big data approach  Continue Reading

• What is government as a platform and how do we achieve it?

  There are lots of discussion going on at the moment about digital “platforms”, and the impact they might have on UK public services  Continue Reading

• A blueprint for taking back control of email as a communication channel 

  A global blueprint for combating fraudulent email and taking back control of email as a communication channel  Continue Reading

• US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying

  Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: SME security on a shoestring budget

  How can SMEs afford security that is good enough?  Continue Reading

• Balancing agility and efficiency: Open architecture and platforms in government

  Increased flexibility in delivery models must be balanced with the architectural discipline to re-use, share, and consume common components  Continue Reading

• Time for DevOps to get out of the weeds

  Software and service providers face a battle to deliver new products, features and capabilities faster than ever  Continue Reading

• Exploring new business models for digital public service delivery

  Many public sector organisations appear overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of the changes in public service delivery that they face  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Patch Shellshock vulnerability without delay

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Isaca guide on tackling Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess the true scope of their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Businesses cannot afford to be complacent about Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Shellshock – check, patch, monitor

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Lessons from Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug and patch vulnerable systems?  Continue Reading

• Security Think Tank: Guidelines for dealing with Shellshock

  What steps should businesses take to assess the true scope of their vulnerability to the Shellshock Bash bug?  Continue Reading

• Big data put to work in digital transformation strategies

  Accenture’s Mike Sutcliff and Narendra Mulani argue that the fuel energising the digital transformation of business is big data  Continue Reading

• The business benefits of the third platform

  Ron Tolido explains the benefits of the Open Group Open Platform 3.0  Continue Reading

• Government must be a platform entrepreneur to deliver 'digital 2.0'

  The government needs to start with a clear policy and architecture for digital 2.0  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: ‘Fear of Google’ and the ethics of digital business

  Could the big digital players be using their dominance by exerting unfair competition?  Continue Reading

• Balancing user desires with business needs

  With users increasingly taking IT decisions into their own hands, businesses need to try harder to keep up  Continue Reading

• Purchasers get social, marketers play catch-up?

  Social media theorist Erik Qualman once suggested that news, products and services are now pushed to us by friends and colleagues  Continue Reading

• Watermelon SLAs – making sense of green and red alerts

  Often IT SLAs don’t reflect the real service and service experience of users. They also aren’t focused enough on the business results  Continue Reading

• Define a software delivery strategy for business innovation – four key steps

  As software takes a central role in modern business models, application delivery capability has become the key enabler of disruption  Continue Reading

• The IT supplier empathy gap

  How well do IT suppliers really understand your needs?  Continue Reading

• Tools for CIOs leading M&A projects

  IT mergers and acquisitions are reaching a peak and are becoming more complex. This poses a distinct set of challenges for CIOs  Continue Reading

• The new dawn of brand: You are only as good as your software

  We can make computers exciting, and we can capture our unique cultural personalities, writes Alan Trefler  Continue Reading

• Open source in the NHS: With choice comes responsibility

  What do NHS Trusts need to think about when using open-source technologies?  Continue Reading

• Watch out: Oracle plants $23,000 licensing booby trap in 12c upgrade

  Oracle will charge $23,000 per processor if you inadvertently switch on the in-memory database option  Continue Reading

• Why businesses need brilliant social media

  Social media is tturning out to be arguably the biggest disruptive challenge business has to face  Continue Reading

• Where is the long-term political vision for digital public services?

  As digital starts to appear in manifesto discussions, this is our chance to demand a higher quality of vision from our political leaders  Continue Reading

• Social media and why businesses need to embrace it

  Why are businesses using email for everything? Jack Vile gives the younger generation's perspective  Continue Reading

• Software integration is removing system blindfolds

  Since the introduction of auto-complete forms, there has been a steady progression in the way business data and information is handled  Continue Reading

• Navigating the digital torrent

  CIOs need to look at their own performance, ways of working, skills and experience to ensure they are equipped to deal with the digital torrent  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Why small steps in big data count

  Don’t get bogged down and fearful that big data means big steps – get started and learn as you go  Continue Reading

• Getting the best out of the old and the new in government IT

  There is a tension at the heart of public sector IT that, unless resolved, threatens to cause serious government IT failures in the next five years  Continue Reading

• Is cloud the answer to the legacy IT problem?

  How do you meet escalating demands and keep up with change in technology, when you don't have the funds for a large-scale replacement?  Continue Reading

• Buyer beware: second-hand user licences mired in uncertainty

  Despite a recent European Court of Justice ruling on the sale of used software, second user licensing remains a contentious subject  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: The CIO is dead. Long live the CIO

  There is a new breed of CIOs who are defining what it means to be a digital leader  Continue Reading

• The digital CIO: Regaining the technology high ground – one blog post at a time

  IT leaders should use blogging and social media to raise their profile and build influence in their organisations  Continue Reading

• Is enterprise IT falling behind as business strategy turns outside-in?

  Successful firms need to harness the skills, capabilities and passions of the external marketplace by becoming more 'outside-in'  Continue Reading

• Is Windows-everywhere a serious option for the modern business?

  Let’s get real says Dale Vile, Research Director & CEO, of analyst group Freeform Dynamics.  Continue Reading

• Two years after 'unacceptable' - the state of government IT today

  Two years ago, G-Cloud founder Chris Chant called government IT 'unacceptable'. Now outside Whitehall, what does he think has changed?  Continue Reading

• Mobility management is coming of age

  2014’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona brought together the mobile telephony infrastructure industry, multiple handset vendors and large numbers of mobile app tools and platforms  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Enterprise Networks – Where do IT pros see challenges?

  The challenges placed on IT grow more demanding each day  Continue Reading

• Don’t create a mobile enterprise app for the sake of it

  Enterprise mobility applications need a clear objective, advises Accenture’s Nisha Sharma  Continue Reading

• Cloud business intelligence market will be worth $4bn by 2017

  Cloud business intelligence (BI) is still a small part of the market but growing at an impressive rate, contends analyst Tom Pringle  Continue Reading

• Searching for the signal of open standards amid the growing noise of agile

  For all its undeniable strengths, the use of agile in government is in danger of becoming a fetish  Continue Reading

• Universal Credit: Don’t blame the IT

  It is easy to blame the IT when things go wrong, but when people are asked to do impossible things, it is not surprising if they do not deliver  Continue Reading

• Living with Google Glass – not quite useful enough to overcome the dork-factor

  Businesses will use Google Glass first, says Simon Dring after spending a few days living with the technology.  Continue Reading