Enterprise software
Enterprise software covers a wide range of vital IT management decisions, from operating systems to databases, from business applications to integration and middleware. Your software purchasing and development strategy is central to delivering successful IT systems, and we examine the products and trends that help IT managers make the right choices for their organisation.
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Conference Coverage
02 May 2025
SAP Sapphire 2025 news, trends and analysis
SAP showcases new business AI applications and continues to make the case for S/4HANA Cloud as the future of SaaS-based ERP innovation and digital transformation. Continue Reading
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News
02 May 2025
India’s Hexaware targets public sector business as it expands UK operation
Indian heritage IT services firm opens office in Canary Wharf and sets is sights on growing its UK public sector business Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2018
Government must challenge popular smart city misconceptions
A report by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Smart Cities says many people feel alienated by the concept, and calls on the government to challenge some popular misconceptions Continue Reading
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Photo Story
27 Jun 2018
Surface 2 family reboots desktop
Microsoft's latest range of Surface 2 devices provide tight integration with Windows 10, PowerBI and Office 365, giving users a new approach to working Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2018
HSBC puts humanoid in New York branch
HSBC has put its first humanoid member of staff into a branch role in New York City Continue Reading
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News
27 Jun 2018
AI and other tech key to post-Brexit success, says Matt Hancock
Digital secretary Matt Hancock highlights the importance of emerging technologies to the future of the UK at the opening of London’s cyber security innovation centre Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Jun 2018
MapD gets granular on spatio-temporal data
What’s better than data analytics? Well, one answer is Marmite mixed with peanut butter and orange marmalade, obviously. MapD Technologies thinks it can go one better. The company’s spin doctors ... Continue Reading
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Podcast
26 Jun 2018
SAP C/4HANA, Pega Infinity ramp up the CRM market
The Pipeline podcast duo discusses the CRM market after the unveiling of Pega Infinity and SAP C/4HANA, as well as technology news from Uber about detecting drunk passengers. Continue Reading
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Tip
26 Jun 2018
How to avoid wasting time in a mobile app development project
A tedious, drawn-out app development process can frustrate everyone involved. Follow these five tips and tricks to ensure that developers don't waste time. Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
British Muslim challenges use of intelligence databases for repeated police stops
Muzaffar Abdullah is challenging police use of intelligence databases to repeatedly stop and question Muslims, after being arrested for refusing to answer questions under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. His lawyers say he had been stopped at least 10 times before and the police should have known he had no connection to terrorism Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
High-Tech Bridge bets on machine learning capabilities
Machine learning has a great potential to drive the automation of some security tasks to free up information security professionals to do more strategic work, says High-Tech Bridge founder Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Jun 2018
Who is right on blockchain Gartner or Deloitte, or even both?
It is hard to tell the real status of blockchain take up because there is so much background noise Continue Reading
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Opinion
26 Jun 2018
Digital transformation is just business change
Don't always start with the technology if you're driving transformation, but always start with the business Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
NHS collaborates with private health on sharing patient data
Work has begun on establishing a set of data standards to enable private healthcare patients’ data to be shared with the NHS Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
Data locked in legacy systems curbs digitisation plans
Maintaining access to data stuck in legacy systems is costly and limits IT’s ability to work on digital transformation initiatives Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
Liberty Global picks Cisco to transform customer service ops
Virgin Media parent enlists Cisco in a bid to transform its customer service experience across Europe Continue Reading
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26 Jun 2018
Adapting to the rise of the holistic application
A containerised, componentised and compartmentalised approach to software presents CIOs with the challenge of managing a more complex environment. Continue Reading
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News
26 Jun 2018
Malaysia makes good progress in building analytics talent
The country’s talent development and funding schemes have brought the benefits of big data to many organisations, but the quality and volume of its analytics talent can be improved Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Jun 2018
Pusher: treat developers ‘as customers’
Pusher is a developer tools company that makes communication and collaboration APIs for web and mobile applications. The company’s core product is called Channels, developers use it to create ... Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jun 2018
Succession planning best practices you need today
Michael McGowan, who leads the leadership and talent practice at BPI group, a talent management consultancy, shares important advice on how to get succession management right. Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
Projects receive funding to help digitise manufacturing
Following recommendations from the Industrial Digitisation review, the EPSRC is funding AI and process automation projects Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
VM-aware storage pioneer Tintri on verge of bankruptcy
Recent first-quarter results by the VM-aware storage pioneer throw light on a fragile financial situation that needs new funds or a buyer to avoid bankruptcy by the end of June Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
Nordic and Baltic states agree on joint approach to AI
The governments of the Nordic and Baltic region want to work closer together to further increase the status of artificial intelligence in business and society Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Jun 2018
Adapting to the rise of the holistic application
A containerised, componentised and compartmentalised approach to software presents CIOs with the challenge of managing a more complex environment Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jun 2018
Electric Cloud develops 'credit score' for application success
There’s applications and application delivery… and then there’s the arguably more upmarket notion of Adaptive Release Orchestration & Continuous Delivery (AROCD - not a real acronym). Placing ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
Apple rejects claim of iPhone brute force hack
Apple has rejected claims by a security researcher that he was able to bypass the iPhone defences against brute force passcode hacks Continue Reading
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Blog Post
25 Jun 2018
SUSE CaaS Platform 3: ein fabelhaftes Container-Paket
Software-und System-Entwicklung (or, SUSE, to you and me) has been active this month and opened the box on SUSE CaaS Platform 3. SUSE CaaS is the acronym for the open source operating system ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Jun 2018
SAP outlines approach to data management
Through its Hana Data Management Suite, SAP hopes to alleviate the challenges of managing data amid growing data security needs in an increasingly hybrid IT landscape Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Jun 2018
Assessing the hyperscale squeeze on G-Cloud's SMEs
The latest government spend data suggests public sector IT buyers are increasingly using G-Cloud to procure services from the hyperscale cloud community, prompting concerns about the impact this might have on the SME-friendly framework Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2018
How Australia is gearing up for 5G
From trialling 5G networks at the recent Commonwealth Games to flying drones in surf sport lifesaving, Australia is becoming a test bed for 5G services with its dense cities and wide-open spaces Continue Reading
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News
22 Jun 2018
IBM early findings on disastrous TSB core banking system migration released
Report released by Treasury Committee criticises lack of rigour in preparation for core banking system migration, but TSB says report’s content is out of date Continue Reading
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News
21 Jun 2018
CDO interview: Andrei Belevtsev, Gazprom Neft
Russian oil giant will harness the latest technologies right across its business, says chief digital officer Continue Reading
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News
21 Jun 2018
HR projects are leading company moves to digital tech, say business leaders
Business leaders say their human resource IT programmes are leading the way to the wider deployment of digital and cloud technology across their organisations Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Jun 2018
The external workforce: are you realising its full value?
This is a guest blogpost by Mikael Lindmark, a senior vice president at SAP Fieldglass As CIOs and other executives across enterprises turn to contractors, freelancers and other external workers to ... Continue Reading
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E-Zine
20 Jun 2018
CW ASEAN: Banking on buckets of data
Organizations across ASEAN are starting to turn to object storage due to the explosive growth of data from new sources such as sensors, mobile apps and social media. In this month’s edition of CW ASEAN, we look at how enterprises have benefitted from object storage, the roadblocks to wider adoption and the future of the technology in an increasingly software-defined world. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
20 Jun 2018
CW ANZ: Object storage hits a sweet spot
Enterprises in Australia are only getting started on object storage, which does away with the traditional file directories, making it easier to access and move data in a heterogeneous IT environment. In this issue of CW ANZ, we look at how Australian companies are dipping their toes into object storage, the challenges they are facing and the state of the market. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2018
Adobe-Microsoft partnership adds key integrations
Adobe brings its Document Cloud to Microsoft Office 365 and Dynamics 365, making it easier for licensees of both to quickly convert files into PDFs and into Acrobat. Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2018
Teradata sues SAP over Hana for stealing trade secrets
Data warehousing supplier Teradata is suing SAP in a Californian court for stealing trade secrets, copyright infringement and antitrust violations Continue Reading
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Feature
20 Jun 2018
Ethical AI requires collaboration and framework development
Countries and companies are attending to the ethics of artificial intelligence technology use. Such efforts need to be collectively determined to result in solid frameworks Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2018
Nine out of 10 enterprises will use robotic process automation by 2020
Robotic process automation take-up expected to reach 92% of European enterprises within two years, finds ISG survey Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2018
Oracle full-year results show 6% growth, but cloud revenue opaque?
Oracle’s full-year results for 2017-18 reveal total revenue of $39.8bn, up 6%, but reporting of cloud with on-premise revenue under “bring your own licence” policy has raised qualm over cloud weakness obfuscation Continue Reading
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Opinion
20 Jun 2018
Why software giants are failing
Oracle’s latest financial results illustrate that the core businesses of many of the software behemoths of the past are under strain Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Jun 2018
Cast analysis: cold war era ‘Thatcher’ apps still rock, Agile more flaky
Cast is a company dedicated to the code analysis it performs as its core bread and butter. Not a security company as such, Cast describes itself as a software intelligence specialist How much code ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2018
More APAC consumer goods firms expected to adopt blockchain
The adoption of blockchain technology is likely to increase in the consumer goods industry as more businesses use the technology to address fraud and improve supply chain management Continue Reading
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News
20 Jun 2018
Chief data officers go to summer school
Authors of the “Chief data officer’s playbook”, Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, are running a summer school, supported by data governance software supplier Collibra Continue Reading
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News
19 Jun 2018
Young generation tempted by Amazon bank-like services
Tech firms offering banking services will be inevitable in the future as more than half of young people are tempted by such a prospect Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 Jun 2018
Kafkaesque: Instaclustr creates Kafka-as-a-Service
Instaclustr has announced Kafka-as-a-Service in bid to provide an easier route to the real-time data streaming platform An open source player from the start, the e-dropping Instaclustr specifies ... Continue Reading
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19 Jun 2018
SAP banks on “intelligent enterprise” at Sapphire 2018
SAP, at its SapphireNow 2018 conference, promoted the “intelligent enterprise”, with Hasso Plattner and head of machine learning Markus Noga setting out the philosophy. Continue Reading
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19 Jun 2018
Making sense of Microsoft’s cloud developer platform
We assess how Microsoft is aligning its development tools to support Linux and open source, in light of its acquisition of GitHub. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
19 Jun 2018
Microsoft becomes devoted to open source developers
In this week’s Computer Weekly, after Microsoft’s recent acquisition of GitHub, we examine the software giant’s tools for embracing open source developers. Secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport Matt Hancock talks about growing the UK digital economy and supporting the tech sector. And we look at SAP’s next steps for its “intelligent enterprise” strategy. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2018
Enterprise AI: fiction and reality
If you are starting to suspect that the AI hype is overblown, and that it's just the latest term that marketing folk love to add to make their product sound more interesting, you are not alone. ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Jun 2018
Bank uses AI to select job candidates
Singapore’s DBS Bank is using artificial intelligence to automate parts of its recruitment process Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2018
Your PC is rooted and jailbroken: deal with it!
One of the defining characteristics of the modern digital workplace is a Windows PC on every desk and a smartphone in every pocket. The ability to centrally discover, provision, deploy, update, and ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Jun 2018
Can Hitachi Vantara build 'ecosystem, stack, platform' universe with enough granular clout?
Hitachi Vantara continues its development in the post-HDS post-Pentaho post- ‘the other bit’ (okay we know it was Hitachi Insight Group) amalgam that has seen the company now build its current ... Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Jun 2018
Making sense of Microsoft’s cloud developer platform
We assess how Microsoft is aligning its development tools to support Linux and open source, in light of its acquisition of GitHub Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Jun 2018
How to create an effective employee retention plan
The unemployment rate is low, and your workers are likely being courted by other companies. Here's how to create retention strategies that will make your workers want to stay put. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Jun 2018
Recruiting with social media: Tips, tools and challenges
Using social media in your company's recruiting efforts can help you find hidden talent pools and both active and passive candidates. Here's what you need to know. Continue Reading
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Feature
15 Jun 2018
IPsoft’s digital worker is part of a shift in human productivity
IPsoft used its annual user summit to allow customers to update themselves on the career of its cognitive digital agent Amelia Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2018
Can good data approaches help uncover bad data social manipulation?
Software definitely helped cause the pernicious problem of fake news – but could also ameliorate it, says data expert Emil Eifrem, in a guest blogpost. Time was it was the tabloid newspapers that ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Jun 2018
DeepMind Health must be transparent to gain public trust, review finds
Independent review of DeepMind Health says the company should provide more clarity on data and business plans, while legal audit finds its controversial data-sharing deal with Royal Free is lawful Continue Reading
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News
15 Jun 2018
How Ocado built an online grocery delivery platform business
Ocado has used open source tools and a cloud-native approach to develop its fully automated warehouse management platform Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2018
LzLabs: source code dependency dragged down mainframe rehosting, until now
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Mark Cresswell in his capacity as CEO of LzLabs. LzLabs develops what it calls its Software Defined Mainframe (SDM) package ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jun 2018
Challenges and benefits of the Cloud
This is a guest blog by Claudia Imhoff, CEO Intelligent Solutions and founder, Boulder BI Brain Trust Like any new initiative, there are both challenges and benefits to weigh when deciding whether ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2018
Government Geospatial Commission opens up OS MasterMap data
The Geospatial Commission, announced by chancellor Philip Hammond in his 2017 Autumn Budget, has opened up some Ordnance Survey MasterMap data to boost small businesses Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2018
AI is key to keeping IBM compliant with GDPR
Artificial intelligence is vital for keeping IBM compliant with the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation, which, in turn, provides opportunities for business, says the company’s data protection officer Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jun 2018
The ‘problems’ with machine learning, Databricks MLflow to the rescue?
Databricks announced a new open source project called MLflow for open source machine learning at the Spark Summit this month. The company exists to focus on cloud-based big data processing using ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Jun 2018
Schneider Electric CTO tips liquid cooling for take-off as machine learning takes over datacentre
Witn machine learning fuelling demand for graphics processing units in the datacentre, Schneider Electric CTO claims this will require a drastic rethink of how operators manage their sites, paving the way for liquid cooling to hit mainstream adoption Continue Reading
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E-Zine
14 Jun 2018
CW Europe: Lufthansa’s HR IT project takes off
Lufthansa says it is confident of landing a company-wide HR IT project after having to go back to the drawing board. Also in this issue, read about the ComputerWeekly/TechTarget IT Priorities survey’s findings that many European technology leaders are expecting to increase IT spending through 2018, and how a major report has reassured Swedish society that artificial intelligence will be a positive force for change despite fears of job losses. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Jun 2018
The SAP link in Cirque du Soleil’s Toruk
Fans of Cirque du Soleil’s highly-anticipated Toruk – The First Flight were encouraged to whip out their smartphones during the performance in Singapore recently – with full blessings from the ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jun 2018
Better off Elon
This week, we suppose we’re meant to have some kind of sideways take on Downtime icon Elon Musk selling flamethrowers to his lamewad fans, but documenting this man’s hijinks is starting to become ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2018
DCMS sets out plans for National Data Strategy
A new centre for data ethics and innovations will drive UK government policy making regarding data sharing and use of public data Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Jun 2018
What is graph analytics?
TigerGraph has brought forward a free Developer Edition of its graph analytics platform for lifetime non-commercial use. But, please, what is graph analytics? As defined nicely here by Hitachi ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2018
CogX AI show opens with debate on Europe’s lack of dominance
European researchers have made significant breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, but the dominant players all seem to be based in Silicon Valley Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2018
Tips on reducing IT expenditure
There is constant pressure for IT to reduce cost and do more with less. Computer Weekly explores how this is being achieved in practice Continue Reading
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News
13 Jun 2018
Australian university reaches for the stars after HPC boost
The University of Sydney has upgraded its supercomputing infrastructure to answer big questions on cosmology and keep pace with growing research needs Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2018
Mayor Khan bids to make London the world’s smartest city
At London Tech Week, mayor Sadiq Khan launched a city-wide initiative to harness the capital’s technology talent to address London’s most pressing problems Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2018
IT teams should rework supplier contracts to free up budgets
There is no money for IT to help the business to innovate digitally, so CIOs should look at how their IT teams can maximise value from existing contracts, survey shows Continue Reading
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News
12 Jun 2018
Alibaba Cloud touts AI smarts to keep pigs healthy
The Chinese cloud supplier has developed an AI program that has improved the yield and productivity of pig farms Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Jun 2018
Splunk adds AIOps talent, nabs VictorOps
Machine data log file analytics specialist Splunk has added an extra dose of incident management capability into its stack with the acquisition of VictorOps. The Colorado headquartered VictorOps ... Continue Reading
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12 Jun 2018
Is DevOps the best approach to software development?
A DevOps model builds on an agile approach to software development, but a different approach to tooling is needed. Continue Reading
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12 Jun 2018
After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise
Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub propels the company that is loved and hated for Windows to the very heart of open source. Can it be trusted? Continue Reading
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E-Zine
12 Jun 2018
How National Geographic uses tech to captivate its audience
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how the world-famous National Geographic magazine is adapting to the digital age and using technology to better engage its audience. We ask what Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub means for the open source community. And our latest buyer’s guide looks at the trends in developer tools. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2018
London wants to show it’s open for business in Tech Week 2018
London Tech Week 2018 kicks off with attracting young people into tech a key theme Continue Reading
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Blog Post
11 Jun 2018
Brave new world opens up for Microsoft
Arguably, open source is not an alternative to commercial software. Rather, it is a way to create software collaboratively, and at a global scale. Active contributors in the open source community ... Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2018
Artificial intelligence names London as UK’s top innovation hub
An AI tool from Data City and the Open Data Institute has ranked the best clusters of cities for innovation across various technologies Continue Reading
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Feature
11 Jun 2018
Is DevOps the best approach to software development?
A DevOps model builds on an agile approach to software development, but a different approach to tooling is needed Continue Reading
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News
11 Jun 2018
APAC remains a hotbed for software piracy
The Asia-Pacific region is still seeing the highest use of unlicensed software installations globally, making enterprises more susceptible to cyber attacks from malware Continue Reading
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News
08 Jun 2018
Thriving fintech, AI sectors give boost to UK tech funding
British technology businesses have received £5bn worth of venture capital funding since June 2016 – more than France, Germany and Sweden put together – with fintech and AI startups standing out Continue Reading
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News
08 Jun 2018
Medical firm puts vTax and SAN to sleep to save £30,000 with Scale
Penlon replaces HPE servers and storage and VMware virtualisation to escape the high costs of licensing, and deploys Scale Computing hyper-converged appliances at two UK datacentres Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Jun 2018
Educating Norris
One app mentioned at Zendesk’s customer experience conference this month was Replika, an AI friend that on first impression seems barely an improvement on grandparent’s crumpet Eliza from 1964. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Jun 2018
SAP new products span chatbots, AI, multi-cloud & blockchain
It has been a busy week at SAP Sapphire, the conference is staged in association with the independent ASUG (Americas SAP User Group). Along with partner news, there were core platform shifts (news ... Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2018
IT spending reaches 10-year high as CIOs struggle with digital technology strategy
IT leaders have seen their budgets and headcounts rise for the first time in 10 years, but face challenges implementing their digital strategies Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2018
Nation state cyber attacks affect all, says former GCHQ boss
Cyber attacks by nation states used to be a small part of the problem for state authorities to address, but now all organisations are potential targets of nation state attacks, according to former GCHQ head Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2018
Newcastle Council to show off smartest street in Britain
The Great Exhibition of the North will see Mosley Street in Newcastle upon Tyne transformed into Britain’s smartest street as part of a demonstration of IoT technology Continue Reading
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News
07 Jun 2018
European CIOs establish committee to drive IT value in business
Technology Business Council creates a European arm to help CIOs get the best value and efficiency from their IT assets Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2018
What SAP C/4 Hana means for the APAC enterprises
The cloud-based CRM suite could find takers, but it may not be enticing enough for Salesforce.com CRM customers that also run SAP’s ERP software to make the switch Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2018
Financial Conduct Authority raises questions over TSB's IT regression testing
The FCA will look at whether TSB carried out sufficient regression and user acceptance testing before migrating to a new IT platform Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Jun 2018
Mimosas at dawn, SAP serves up new cocktail for analytics
SAP staged a press 'breakfast with mimosas' session at the ASUG SAP Sapphire conference and exhibition in Orlando, Florida this year. For the uninitiated, a 'mimosa' is what would normally be ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2018
After GitHub acquisition, Microsoft will need to up its game in the enterprise
Microsoft’s $7.6bn acquisition of GitHub propels the company that is loved and hated for Windows to the very heart of open source. Can it be trusted? Continue Reading
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News
06 Jun 2018
Singapore government to form AI advisory council
New council will develop standards and guidelines to address ethical issues arising from the growing use of artificial intelligence Continue Reading