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• 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

• Turn consumer technology into practical business innovation

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

• Driving digital productivity in the UK

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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• US technology companies facing growing UK pressure over internet spying

  Tension is growing between the UK and US over Prism spying  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

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

• Not in Kansas any more

  PA Consulting's Alastair McAulay looks at the commercial potential of smart watches, Google Glass and the latest smartphones  Continue Reading

• UKGovCamp 2014 - discussions on delivering digital government

  UKGovCamp is an event with growing importance to the public sector digital scene - this year's event took place last week in London  Continue Reading

• How to create a Local Government Digital Service

  Why we need to create a 'Local Government Digital Service' to oversee the standardisation and improvement of all things digital in councils  Continue Reading

• Cloud supplier lock-in – our experience

  Always ask before entering into any agreement, “How do I get my data out in the future if I need or want to?"  Continue Reading

• User acceptance testing needs real training, not just a short course

  In spite of its importance, user acceptance testing (UAT) is often chaotic, problematic and ineffective  Continue Reading

• Breaking the medieval software market in local government

  The financial challenges facing local government have never been greater and we need innovation and new ways of delivering public services  Continue Reading

• Mind the digital gap - a strategy for accessibility

  There still exists a digital gap and it is vital to understand the ways in which digital exclusion might be remedied in the future  Continue Reading

• Moving on from a culture of collaboration by email

  The time has come to think seriously about enterprise social networking (ESN) and consider its role within wider enterprise collaboration strategy.  Continue Reading

• Hacking open data on development aid

  Using open data to analyse information about international aid shows the benefits - and the limitations - of the ICT for development field  Continue Reading

• UK courts show the way on piracy

  The UK courts are taking the right approach to online piracy, says John Moffat, senior attorney at Avidity IP  Continue Reading

• Top tips for avoiding fraud on the internet

  The Serious Organised Crime Agency estimates that online fraud costs internet users £3.5bn per year. Follow these 12 tips on how it can be avoided.  Continue Reading

• A touch of SaaS: Feeling the benefits for mobility

  As internet connections get faster and devices get smaller and more portable, we have seen a sea-change in the definition of a “mobile” workforce.  Continue Reading

• Is time running out for internet domains?

  The world’s political leaders are taking an unusually intent interest in the technical system of Internet domains’ naming and numbering (the DNS).  Continue Reading

• Let the taxman pay your software development costs

  On the back of government consultation, tax relief for companies involved in development activity is set to become even more generous and software development companies should ensure that they are taking advantage of this valuable relief, writes ...  Continue Reading

• Security zone: Extending compliance to the cloud

  Most security and compliance mandates were simply not designed with cloud environments in mind – an unfortunate state of affairs as a huge amount of our data is about to go "cloudwards".  Continue Reading

• Software engineering, but not as we know it

  With the further developments of the Chartered Information Technology Professional status, or CITP, BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, encourages us to reconsider our understanding of our profession, writes Jon G Hall.  Continue Reading

• Review: WikiLeaks - Inside Julian Assange's war on secrecy

  The one enduring thing Wikileaks has taught us is that the internet works, if you know what you are doing.  Continue Reading

• Don’t let techno-babble cloud your judgement

  Robert Morgan believes businesses must fully understand what cloud computing actually is and what it means to them as 2011 inevitable brings with it a new wave of cloud hype in the outsourcing sector.  Continue Reading

• Youngsters driving the cloud to tipping point, says Rangaswami

  Cloud has reached tipping point in enterprise and the younger generation of employees are driving it. JP Rangaswami, chief scientist at Salesforce.com, talks...  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Plugging the gaps in the government's broadband strategy

  The government has outlined its vision for Britain's superfast broadband service. Chris Conder, who has first-hand experience of community networks, has...  Continue Reading

• Security Zone: Cloud computing puts the spotlight on security architecture

  Security is still regularly cited as a blocker to the adoption of cloud services, or other shared services, or anything being delivered "as a service". Assurance...  Continue Reading

• Federated SOA – seven steps to success

  Organisations embarking on large-scale, company-wide service-oriented architecture initiatives should consider a federated approach to minimise costs and risks, while balancing flexibility at a local and organisation level,  Continue Reading

• Will Cloud Computing lead to several own goals?

  The new Premiership football season is well under way and every manager is hoping his star talent and ‘squad strength’ will see his team through the late autumn sun to the dark cloudy evenings of winter.  Continue Reading

• Interview: How Firefox won its market share

  Chris Hoffmann, Director of Engineering and Special Projects at the Mozilla Foundation, speaks to Cliff Saran about winning the hearts and minds of internet users and developers.  Continue Reading

• Making the cloud real

  Despite the hype and the surveys that show client disinterest in cloud computing, it has the potential to deliver a significant part of the future of...

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• Are we blind to the dangers lurking in the cloud?

  The cloud - the combination of Software as a Service (SaaS) and the increasing use made by business of the public (web-based) IT infrastructure out there - is being heralded as the key way organisations can reduce investment in running their own ...  Continue Reading

• How to implement an SOA governance strategy

  A key factor for successfully introducing and operating a service oriented architecture (SOA) is governance of the architecture's components, such as services and processes…  Continue Reading

• Opinion: Defining moments in web history

  Glyn Moody was Computer Weekly’s first web columnist. Here he recounts the key events in the webs 20 year history.  Continue Reading

• Businesses should not be afraid of social networking

  Many businesses have already realised the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and wikis and are now looking to strengthen their communications...

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• Defining cloud computing

  Four key behaviours indicate whether an infrastructure can be defined as cloud computing

  Defining cloud computing

  Cloud computing is a deployment...

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• Universities must adopt Web 2.0

  Web 2.0 university systems are helping to change the way education is delivered, writes Steven Hipwell is an IT Officer at Birmingham City University. Universities...

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• Web 2.0 and business blogs: ComputerWeekly.com IT Blog Awards 08

  Help us to identify the best IT blogs in the UK by voting for your favourite in the Web 2.0 and Business category.  Continue Reading

• ComputerWeekly.com IT blog awards 08

  Computer Weekly has launched a search for the best UK IT blogs, with its first ever IT blog awards.  Continue Reading

• Traditional application development processes doom web projects to failure

  It is no secret that web projects fail, but it is lesser known that traditional application development approaches are the single biggest factor in this failure. Why? And what straightforward steps can be taken to reduce time to market, increase ...  Continue Reading

• Effective integration does not require the latest technology

  Whether it is SOA, BPM, or EDI, solving integration challenges is more about rigorous business management than the latest technology.  Continue Reading

• Make sure SOA truly starts with service

  The SOA lable is not an automatic seal of quality  Continue Reading

• SOA can light up manufacturing IT

  IT directors can help simplify the diversity of manufacturing systems in the business by implementing an efficient SOA platform, says Colin Masson  Continue Reading

• SOA as a catalyst for better IT governance

  Effective framework helps deliver business value  Continue Reading

• Web 2.0 offers a better place to stay

  It is the latest label that online software service suppliers are keen to deck themselves out in, but what exactly is Web 2.0 and what can it do for business?, asks Neil Ward-Dutton  Continue Reading

• So SOA will make life simple... but for who?

  The demands of service oriented architecture  Continue Reading

• Web access is in the balance

  When Tim Berners-Lee gave the world a simple way to share documents over the internet in a common format, he demonstrated the true power of standards.  Continue Reading

• Have we been here before?

  A lot has been written about the positive aspects of service oriented architecture (SOA). This has led to a fashion that requires every self-respecting IT department to be seen with at least one SOA project underway.  Continue Reading

• Building an SOA without the hype

  One cannot help but notice the buzz around the concept of the service oriented architecture (SOA). With so much industry talk on the topic, it is a wonder how users ever managed before.  Continue Reading

• Getting more than integration from SOA

  More than merely linked web services, SOA has the potential to enable IT and the business to talk and collaborate using a common language  Continue Reading

• Capitalising on the opportunities of SOA

  Service oriented architecture (SOA): An SOA can help IT become more responsive to business needs, but confusion about the approach means some fail to realise its potential.  Continue Reading

• IT will be key to pensions reform

  The Turner Review of pensions poses a challenge not just for the government, but for IT as well. A New Pension Settlement for the Twenty-First Century is a hefty tome, which proposes policy options to provide decent old age pensions for all and ...  Continue Reading

• Web application development continues to evolve as the Ajax approach catches on

  Google put the Ajax development method on the map with the launch of its Google Mail service, and now there are more than 50 websites taking a similar approach to online applications.  Continue Reading

• The network's missing link moves closer

  With "application oriented networking", Cisco aims to improve performance through closer interaction between the network and the applications that run on it.  Continue Reading

• Your shout: SOA shivers, men only, the real offshore objective

  Computer Weekly readers have their say  Continue Reading

• Web services and SOA enable organisations to simplify exploitation of the mainframe

  The arrival of web services has reduced terrors of mainframe deployment, says Andy Gutteridge  Continue Reading

• Proactivity breeds predictability and the chance for better business opportunities

  Firms should blend service- and event-driven architectures, says Chris Phillips  Continue Reading

• Don't let the supplier agenda dictate the future of business process management

  Products must reflect real issues, not suppliers' business goals  Continue Reading

• Web services: The universal glue

  Truly effective interoperability is the big promise held out by web services, but that will only be delivered through a holistic...  Continue Reading

• Are web services the answer to integrating mobile devices into corporate systems?

  Web services could provide a cost-effective way of distributing corporate data.  Continue Reading

• Web apps need standards

  Integration and open standards empower web services, says Mike Lucas.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:The good, the bad and the ugly

  Simon Moores asks why the quality of Government Web sites fails to match up to the standards of their commercial counterparts.  Continue Reading

• Web services put spotlight on IT

  Your IT department is about to become the public face of your business - are you ready?  Continue Reading

• Web futures at your service

  Introducing Web services will be worth the effort, once early hurdles have been crossed.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:The real world of Web services

  Hard-hitting IT columnist Simon Moores gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Web services are, as we know, a...  Continue Reading

• Web services get real

  Web services are a set of common IT standards wrapped around a business application that allow it to interact with any other...  Continue Reading

• Thought for the day:Protect and survive Web services

  Iain Franklin gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.Believe it or not, we have been talking about Web services...  Continue Reading

• The confusion over Web services

  Web services are at risk of being overlooked because of misdirected marketing efforts.  Continue Reading

• New online services standards will alleviate businesses' security fears

  The Web services framework, by its nature, increases the ability of software to be exposed to the Web. As confidential...  Continue Reading

• XML: the next generation

  Some of the W3C's work on XML will have a direct impact on the way we use the Web.  Continue Reading

• Thought for the Day:Time for a standardised Web

  Research wizard Peet Morris gives his personal take on the hot issue of the day.  Continue Reading

• Keep cool over interactivity

  Web site forums, baskets and SMS messages must be grounded in economic viability  Continue Reading

• Web services: reinventing extranets

  Web services will allow the extranet idea of creating secure business links to progress and realise its true potential  Continue Reading

• Microsoft: Windows will dominate Webservices, Sun executive warns

  Sun Microsystems' chief strategy officer, Jonathan Schwartz, has appeared in court to give evidence in the remedy phase of...  Continue Reading

• Microsoft .net made visible

  Easy-to-use Web services developer tools could shape the future of the business Internet  Continue Reading

• Web services: the case for

  Web services have arrived to help make your business become more agile and flexible, as well as helping to reduce costs.  Continue Reading

• Web services: the case against

  Web services: the latest and greatest invention from the IT industry to form the backbone of application components an ocean of...  Continue Reading

• Interoperability is key to Web services

  Can the problem of interoperability be addressed to make Web services work for business? Users and suppliers have united to form...  Continue Reading

• The way ahead with Web services

  The huge price of duplicating the IT services that every company needs can no longer be sustained. Web services will allow...  Continue Reading

• Dawn of the next Web battle

  Microsoft is turning its big Visual Studio .net gun on Sun's Java in a bid to maintain its domination of the software developer's...  Continue Reading

• E-commerce: Vision on-line

  E-commerce is a mixed bag for customers and until a common platform is created the potential of Web services won't be realised  Continue Reading

• The Internet's not just the Web - and don't you forget it

  Too many people have forgotten about the Internet. In fact, too many people who work for Internet-based companies don't seem to...  Continue Reading

• The future lies in integration

  Without integration to back-end legacy systems, your whizzy Web front-end will fail to deliver. Julia Vowler reports  Continue Reading

• Web content: getting the fundamentals right

  
  
  Toby Poston

  Content, as the old Web cliche says, is king. This message seems to have got through to most Web site proprietors now.

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• Get prepared for Web-enabled euro e-business

  
  
  Roger Annett

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  Companies entering the e-commerce fray are salivating at the prospect of EuroLand's 300 million consumers using...

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• Don't expect B2B to cover your organisation in glory

  Promoting a fancy e-business Web interface is little more than putting lipstick on the pig.  Continue Reading

• Developing Web commerce skills

  
  
  I am a 24-year-old analyst programmer with two years' experience developing business applications. My main skills are C and Unix. I am currently...  Continue Reading

• Bloated Web sites frustrate even the unmetered Net user

  
  
  Free (unmetered) Internet use is sweeping the UK. And while it's changing the way people use the Net, I don't think it will affect the backlash against bloated...  Continue Reading