Big data analytics
Big data analytics is the process of examining big data to uncover information -- such as hidden patterns, correlations, market trends and customer preferences -- that can help organizations make informed business decisions.. See complete definition.
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Feature
28 May 2025
AI and compliance: What are the risks?
We look at the areas of risk in artificial intelligence. Potential exposures abound, and include security and privacy issues, bias, accuracy and complete fabrication of results Continue Reading
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News
27 May 2025
Salesforce pays $8bn for Informatica to underpin agentic AI play
Salesforce is to pay approximately $8bn for cloud data management specialist Informatica as it looks to shore up the foundations of its developing agentic AI strategy Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
29 Mar 2021
CW Innovation Awards: Jio Platforms taps machine learning to manage telco network
Why India’s largest telecom operator built its own machine learning platform to meet the growing data and signalling requirements of new networks Continue Reading
By- Paul Mah
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Blog Post
26 Mar 2021
The National Data Strategy needs doers
This is a guest blogpost by Dan Klein, Director, Solution Centre, Zühlke Engineering Albert Einstein told us “you can’t use an old map to explore a new world”. Common sense further dictates that ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
25 Mar 2021
Alan Turing honoured with visage on £50 note
Alan Turing’s service to his country has been recognised steadily in recent years: the 2013 posthumous royal pardon for the 1952 conviction for homosexuality that destroyed his life; the ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
25 Mar 2021
TUC warns of gaps in British law over use of AI at work
The TUC has published a report warning of AI-powered discrimination against working people enabled by gaps in existing British employment law Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
25 Mar 2021
Bharti Airtel taps OpenStack to modernise telco network
India’s Bharti Airtel turns to OpenStack to ready its network for emerging technologies such as 5G and edge computing Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
24 Mar 2021
Adam Selipsky returns to AWS as Tableau melds more into Salesforce
Adam Selipsky, CEO of data analytics company Tableau, has returned to AWS as its CEO – as Andy Jassy takes Jeff Bezos’ place as CEO of Amazon.com. It’s not quite the Tableau of which Selipsky took ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
24 Mar 2021
Covid-torn supply chains speed cloud adoption, says Oracle’s Miranda
Second wave of pandemic has seen some Oracle customers speed up adoption and others attend to some enterprise software housekeeping Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Opinion
24 Mar 2021
Employees must be given the right to disconnect
As enterprises increasingly turn to workplace monitoring technologies and more of the workforce moves to remote or hybrid working, unions are campaigning for workers’ ‘right to disconnect’ and not engage in digitally enabled work after hours Continue Reading
By- Andrew Pakes, Prospect Union
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Feature
23 Mar 2021
Anti-money laundering technology must operate in a collaborative ecosystem
With new technologies making it easier for banks to spot money laundering activity, we look at why the problem persists at scale, finding that ecosystems and collaborative processes need to be built Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
23 Mar 2021
Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy
Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
23 Mar 2021
Scottish government AI strategy majors on ethics and inclusion
Scottish government announces artificial intelligence strategy that involves the creation of a Scottish AI Alliance to be drawn from across society, including trade unions and companies Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
23 Mar 2021
Home Office completes transfer of all business apps to Oracle Cloud
Home Office has completed its deployment of Oracle’s Cloud Applications suite to all its functions across 35,000 staff, ahead of other government departments Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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E-Zine
23 Mar 2021
Would the UK really nuke a cyber attacker?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, did the UK’s defence and security review really suggest a nuclear response to a cyber attack? Data visualisation has been widely used to explain the Covid-19 pandemic, but not always that effectively. And jewellery retailer Pandora explains how it kept the personal touch as customers went online. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
22 Mar 2021
Singtel and Optus partner AWS on telco edge
Singtel and Optus are supporting AWS Outposts in their telco edge platforms that will enable enterprises to use AWS services for on-premise 5G applications Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
17 Mar 2021
6 must-have big data skills to land a big data job
Learn which types of big data jobs are in demand and which six specialized skill sets are necessary to compete in this potentially lucrative data management field. Continue Reading
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News
16 Mar 2021
Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience
Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Feature
15 Mar 2021
Top 25 big data glossary terms you should know
Big data knowledge and awareness can help businesses and individuals get ahead. Understanding the most important terms in big data is an excellent place to start that journey. Continue Reading
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News
15 Mar 2021
Parliamentary PACA Committee slams Gove over Covid-19 data failures
Parliamentary Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee publishes report critical of government accountability regarding data behind the decisions taken during the coronavirus pandemic Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
12 Mar 2021
Is AI washing helpful for digital healthcare?
It has been fashionable for the past several years to invoke the term “artificial intelligence” as a ritual bath for the use of IT in healthcare. And while a level of hype can be taken with a pinch ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Opinion
11 Mar 2021
Why the London Data Charter could be a foundation stone in the city’s recovery
London First’s director of connectivity and competitiveness, David Lutton, explains why data is at the core of the capital’s recovery plan Continue Reading
By- David Lutton
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News
11 Mar 2021
Oracle Q3, 2020-21: Revenue growth of 3% backdrop to Ellison attack on SAP
Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches competitive attack on SAP as Oracle’s third-quarter results show revenue growth of 3% Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Opinion
11 Mar 2021
Data-driven innovation needs trustworthy governance
The pandemic has given us a glimpse of what data-driven technology can do for society – and we cannot go back to the status quo Continue Reading
By- Edwina Dunn, Computer Weekly
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News
11 Mar 2021
IFS ramps up single-platform cloud delivery as it bids ERP adieu
Business applications supplier shifts fundamentally to cloud infrastructure while sloughing off enterprise resource planning as it rebrands Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
10 Mar 2021
SAS launches free data skills programme for job seekers
Pro bono data skills programme, in tandem with job placement agencies, has the aim of training 10,000 people Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
10 Mar 2021
Police crack world’s largest cryptophone network as criminals swap EncroChat for Sky ECC
Belgian and Dutch police have breached the encryption of users of Sky ECC, the world’s largest cryptophone network. There are significant parallels with the international police operation against the EncroChat cryptophone network which led to hundreds of arrests Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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Podcast
09 Mar 2021
Hybrid working, diversity progress – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss hybrid working, progress in diversity and data in healthcare Continue Reading
By- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
08 Mar 2021
Google Cloud makes inroads in Southeast Asia
Number three public cloud supplier has made inroads into Southeast Asian enterprises such as Indonesia’s Salim Group and is assessing opportunities for new cloud regions Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
05 Mar 2021
Affordable legal advice for all – from a robot
Artificial intelligence project strives to make legal advice affordable to the whole of society Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Feature
04 Mar 2021
AI projects yield little business value so far
Artificial intelligence has been red hot in recent years, but it is generating precious little business value so far, although World Remit and Virgin Hyperloop have met with some success Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Mar 2021
Covid-19 and the art and science of data visualisation
The pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation like never before – but there is more to the art than meets the eye Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Feb 2021
Should we test data like we test software?
This is a guest blogpost by Maarten Masschelein, CEO & Founder, Soda In the not too distant past the idea of software quality was often more discussed than adhered to. In fact, Reed Hastings ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
26 Feb 2021
Palantir once more in sights of civil libertarians over NHS Covid data store
The award of a new government contract to data analytics supplier Palantir on the back of its participation in the NHS Covid-19 data store has provoked Open Democracy into legal action, backed up by an exposure of lobbying activity that pre-dates the pandemic Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
25 Feb 2021
GCHQ sets out rules of the road for AI in cyber
A paper produced by GCHQ shows how the intelligence agency can use artificial intelligence responsibly as a tool to protect the UK’s national security Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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E-Zine
25 Feb 2021
CW Nordics: Nordic startups aim to take the lead in pet tech advances
Nordic technology startups are looking to take pet tech mainstream following the acceleration of the industry during the coronavirus pandemic. Also in this issue, read how businesses can learn lessons from Nordic technology startups to prepare employees to return to the office after Covid-19 restrictions lift. Continue Reading
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News
24 Feb 2021
Internet companies should provide real-time data on disinformation, Lords told
Fact-checking experts tell House of Lords inquiry that upcoming Online Safety Bill should force internet companies to provide real-time information on suspected disinformation, and warn against over-reliance on AI-powered algorithms to moderate content Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
23 Feb 2021
How GeoSpock is supercharging geospatial analytics
Company’s GeoSpock DB is aimed at optimising queries of large volumes of geospatial data with scale and speed Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
21 Feb 2021
Dell to invest $50m in Singapore innovation hub
Dell Technologies’ global innovation hub will house a research and development lab and other facilities to drive development and adoption of emerging technologies Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
19 Feb 2021
Gaurav Dhillon: Silicon Valley is poised to grow up to seize a more spiritual future
Gaurav Dhillon, co-founder of Informatica and founder CEO at SnapLogic, comes from a generation of Silicon Valley Indian immigrants who followed a scholarship route and have helped to shape the area’s tech companies. Here he reflects on his career and the region’s future Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Feature
18 Feb 2021
Data lake storage: Cloud vs on-premise data lakes
The data lake is a fundamental concept of data management. But what type of storage do you need to build a data lake on and what are the pros and cons of on-premise vs the cloud? Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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News
18 Feb 2021
City of Helsinki adopts MyData principles to improve digital services
Principles on the use of personal data for the benefit of society will guide Finnish capital’s ambitious digital plans Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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Opinion
17 Feb 2021
Healthcare digitisation at point financial services was in 1990s
For all the talk about digitised healthcare, the sector is only where banking was in the 1990s. How can it catch up? Can the Covid-19 pandemic crisis be a catalyst? Continue Reading
By- Jamil El-Imad
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News
16 Feb 2021
Covid-19: Risk model identifies 800,000 vulnerable individuals
Research funded by the National Institute for Health Research has resulted in the development of a new coronavirus risk assessment model Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
16 Feb 2021
Qatar regulator launches platform to monitor human understanding of financial crime
Qatari financial services regulator works with global body to provide digital platform to assess whether financial services workers understand how to prevent financial crime Continue Reading
By- Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA
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News
15 Feb 2021
NHS trust expedites data management with Qlik in pandemic
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust turned its use of BI apps from Qlik to rapid effect during the Covid-19 public health emergency Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
12 Feb 2021
UK border surveillance regime highly privatised, says Privacy International
Research from Privacy International raises concerns about the deep involvement of technology companies in the development and deployment of various technologies throughout the UK’s border regime, along with the lack of scrutiny they receive Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
11 Feb 2021
Benioff projects future of work onto Salesforce’s ‘Cloud 3.0’
Salesforce is unveiling a vision of the future of work based on what it calls ‘Cloud 3.0’, with ‘Hyperforce’ – a rearchitecting of the Salesforce CRM platform to run on public clouds Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
10 Feb 2021
AI: An intelligence without reasoning! Can we trust it?
This is a guest blogpost by Dr Jamil El Imad, Chief Scientist at NeuroPro. Alan Turing, a brilliant scientist and mathematician is attributed with being the father of artificial intelligence. He ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
09 Feb 2021
Big data platform to speed up DNA analysis
Belgium’s Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre has developed a big data platform that can analyse DNA data up to 16 times faster than current techniques Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
04 Feb 2021
Microsoft launches Viva as employee experience platform born out of Teams
Microsoft has launched an “employee experience platform”, based on Microsoft Teams, said to aid the integration of the working environment Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Feature
04 Feb 2021
Five key points about unstructured data storage on-prem and cloud
We look at unstructured data, the myriad forms of data it comprises and the key storage options available, which include NAS and object storage on-prem and in the cloud Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Opinion
04 Feb 2021
Let’s build on the innovation shown by UK tech during pandemic
The UK’s technology sector has innovated and shown leadership through the Covid-19 crisis, particularly with developments in AI. It is now time to maintain and build on that progress, so the UK remains a global force in tech innovation Continue Reading
By- Bev White, Nash Squared
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News
04 Feb 2021
CDEI: Local government data use must keep up Covid momentum
The Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation says momentum in local authority data use during the Covid-19 pandemic is in danger of being dissipated without central government investment and support for data skills development Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
03 Feb 2021
Healthcare and life sciences dominate 2021 DataIQ 100 list
NHS England’s managing director of data and analytics, Ming Tang, joins data leaders from pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and GSK in the top 10 of this year’s DataIQ 100 list Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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E-Zine
02 Feb 2021
Business intelligence helps ambulance service’s pandemic response
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how one ambulance service is using business intelligence tools to join up datasets to improve its response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Our latest buyer’s guide examines video conferencing and collaboration. And we look at the benefits of real-time streaming data analytics. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
02 Feb 2021
Microsoft and Singtel team up on 5G via Azure Stack
Microsoft Azure customers in Singapore will soon be able to use Singtel’s 5G infrastructure to power 5G applications through the telco’s edge computing platform Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
02 Feb 2021
Bank of Singapore taps analytics to improve operations
Private banking arm of Singapore’s OCBC Group will use analytics to improve compliance, customer service and the performance of its sales teams Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
01 Feb 2021
‘Victory for free speech and openness’ after tribunal confirms no territorial restrictions to FOIA
Freedom of information tribunal rules that investigative journalists and others can use the Freedom of Information Act if they live outside the UK or are not British citizens Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
31 Jan 2021
Indian firms see growing value of data
Half of Indian IT leaders see a permanent increase in value of data as their organisations come under threat from mounting cyber attacks amid the pandemic Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
29 Jan 2021
Biometrics ethics group addresses public-private use of facial recognition
Home Office’s Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group releases briefing note on the use of live facial recognition in public–private collaborations following a year-long investigation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
28 Jan 2021
SAP launches ‘Rise’ business transformation as a service
SAP CEO Christian Klein announces business transformation as a service package, dubbed Rise Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Podcast
27 Jan 2021
HMRC IT PAC rebuke, neurodiversity in focus – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss the recent Public Accounts Committee report into HMRC IT, neurodiversity, and Gaurav Dhillon as a Silicon Valley CEO Continue Reading
By- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
26 Jan 2021
Juggling data silos, privacy and fraud
Among the uncomfortable truths about the government’s response to the pandemic is the fact that some people have and will continue to play the system. At the time it was introduced, the furlough ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
21 Jan 2021
Interview: Tony Porter, chief privacy officer, Corsight AI
Tony Porter speaks to Computer Weekly about the changes in facial-recognition during his time as surveillance camera commissioner, the ethics of using the technology, and his new role as chief privacy officer at Corsight AI Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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21 Jan 2021
How Bank Mandiri is driving the use of big data analytics
Indonesia’s largest bank has built a big data platform to track transactions and monitor the health of its workforce, among other big data analytics initiatives Continue Reading
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21 Jan 2021
How Citi is democratising access to data
Global financial institution Citi puts people at the centre of its data analytics initiatives and collaborates with users to drive adoption and success. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
21 Jan 2021
CW APAC: Trend Watch – CIO trends
Data is everywhere and businesses are seeking ways of using this data to benefit themselves, their customers and their employees. In this handbook, focused on CIO trends in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly reviews some key IT trends that are likely to shape the industry in 2021 and looks at what a number of companies in the region are doing in the field of big data analytics. Continue Reading
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News
19 Jan 2021
UK fraud agency deploys ArcGIS dashboard for data sharing
The National Fraud Intelligence Bureau says it has achieved improved transparency with the public, as well as saving 3,500 staff hours and £100,000 Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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Podcast
19 Jan 2021
Parler v AWS, digital schooling, ambulance data – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss the purgation of Parler, the traumas of digital schooling and the South Central Ambulance Service’s use of data to support their operations during the Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading
By- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
15 Jan 2021
Coalition proposes secure standard model for Covid-19 passports
Vaccination Credential Initiative is working to ensure that people vaccinated against Covid-19 can access their records in a secure, verifiable and privacy-preserving way Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
14 Jan 2021
Banks and telcos lead big data analytics spending in APAC
Banks and telcos contributed nearly one-third of spending on big data analytics in the region, while the government and healthcare sectors will register the highest growth rates, new research finds Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
13 Jan 2021
Court to rule on Facebook data sharing after Schrems drops legal challenge against Irish regulator
Irish High Court says it will issue a judgment as soon as possible over a draft decision by Ireland’s data protection commissioner to order Facebook to stop the transfer of data about EU citizens to datacentres in the US Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
13 Jan 2021
South Central Ambulance Service drives out of Covid data fog with Qlik
Ambulance service’s business intelligence has come into its own during the coronavirus crisis, helping the managers behind the paramedics to deliver the service with fast data flows and joined-up datasets Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
11 Jan 2021
Ordnance Survey opens up direct, API access to location data for public sector
Location data made available to public sector organisations via application programming interfaces, reducing data management overheads Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
11 Jan 2021
Tech key to improving lives of people with rare diseases, says government report
The UK Rare Diseases Framework will build on advances in genomics and data analysis to improve testing and diagnosis Continue Reading
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News
08 Jan 2021
AI Council advises government to do artificial intelligence moonshots
The AI Council has published a “roadmap” of advice to government in respect of developing a UK state strategy for artificial intelligence, encompassing skills, vendor support and public sector procurement Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
07 Jan 2021
Poor data flows hampered government’s Covid-19 response, says the Science and Technology Committee
House of Commons Science and Technology Committee finds poor data management to have hampered the government’s Covid-19 pandemic response Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
05 Jan 2021
Why the 2020s will be dominated by graph technology
This is a guest blogpost by Emil Eifrem, CEO, Neo4j. In his view, four major trends driving interest in graph technology are starting to surface. Let's look ahead to what could be in store for the ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
05 Jan 2021
SKT and AWS debut 5G edge cloud service
SK Telecom’s multi-access edge computing service will let enterprises build low latency applications that make use of AWS cloud services Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Blog Post
04 Jan 2021
Becoming the orchestrator of the digital ecosystem
This is a guest blogpost by Anthony Finbow, CEO of Cambridge-based biotech firm Eagle Genomics. For data to become truly powerful, we need more collaboration and more data exploration technology, ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
03 Jan 2021
Covid-19’s impact on the retail supply chain
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in the ability of retailers to mitigate supply chain imbalances Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
31 Dec 2020
Pandemic heroes dominate New Year Honours List 2021
The New Year Honours List 2021 is remarkable for its recognition of those who have excelled during the Covid-19 public health emergency, including digital and data professionals Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
30 Dec 2020
UK-EU Brexit deal passes Commons with six-month data adequacy bridge
IT industry trade body TechUK has welcomed a six-month data adequacy bridge, in the wake of the EU-UK trade deal that the House of Commons has voted for Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Feature
30 Dec 2020
How to monitor remote workers humanely
Monitoring employees who work remotely has taken on a whole extra dimension in the Covid-19 pandemic year of 2020. Financial services firms are among those which suggest ways of doing it humanely and legally Continue Reading
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News
30 Dec 2020
Top 10 information management stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2020 Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Dec 2020
Get real: Live streaming analytics important to post-Covid growth, but not without good data
Live streaming analytics could assume increased importance as a fuel for post-Covid growth, but not without good data Continue Reading
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News
29 Dec 2020
Top 10 business applications stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 business applications stories of 2020 Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
24 Dec 2020
UK-EU Brexit deal: TechUK and DigitalEurope hail new dawn but note unfinished data business
Technology trade bodies TechUK and DigitalEurope welcome Christmas Eve UK-EU Brexit deal as a new dawn, but say there is work still be to done on data adequacy and financial equivalence Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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Blog Post
24 Dec 2020
How to communicate amid a storm of data fatigue and misinformation
This is a guest blog by Andy Cotgreave, technology evangelist, Tableau Charts: they're all over the news. The NHS chief executive mocked others’ charts in their briefings; the science committee ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
24 Dec 2020
UK-EU Brexit deal: TechUK sees positive runes on digital and data adequacy
TechUK is giving a cautious welcome to the imminent UK-EU trade deal, seeing positive signs for data adequacy and digital trade Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
24 Dec 2020
Top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020 Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
- Clare McDonald, Business Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
23 Dec 2020
Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020
Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020 Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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Feature
22 Dec 2020
Extended reality software gets pandemic lift
Extended reality software is not new, but the Covid-19 public health crisis has seen it take on a new lease of life as organisations face up to virtuality Continue Reading
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Opinion
21 Dec 2020
Data has never been more important for London
As London looks to 2021 and a hoped-for recovery after Covid-19, responsible data sharing and data-driven decision-making become ever more important to the future for all the capital’s businesses Continue Reading
By- David Lutton
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News
17 Dec 2020
Guide Dogs data strategy navigates path to organisational view
Guide Dogs CIO Gerard McGovern is mapping out a data strategy that is aimed at taking the charity from an individual to an organisational view of data Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
17 Dec 2020
UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365
The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
17 Dec 2020
AWS brings disaster recovery programme to Australia
Project Resilience will offer up to $5,000 worth of credits to public sector and community organisations to offset the cost of storing data on Amazon Web Services Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget
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News
15 Dec 2020
Interview: Sudaman Thoppan Mohanchandralal, chief data and analytics officer, Allianz Benelux
The financial services firm is demonstrating the value of the chief data officer role Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Dec 2020
Learning on the job when working from home
Learning a new job and inducting hires when working from home has been tricky for employees and employers alike. We look at what workarounds have been adopted that could become the post-pandemic normal Continue Reading
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News
14 Dec 2020
Google services outage: Gmail, YouTube and Docs temporarily down
Google’s services suffered unexpected downtime on 14 December 2020. Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, the Android Play Store and its maps service all affected Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
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News
13 Dec 2020
Singapore trials beacons to bolster police operations
Police beacons equipped with video cameras, sirens, floodlights and speakers are being deployed at two parks to improve public safety in a year-long trial Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget