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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News
24 Oct 2025
Banks’ AI cost-cutting benefits won’t last, will ‘erode’ profits
Banks are making significant cost savings through initial artificial intelligence implementations, but the technology will eventually hit their profits Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2025
Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records
Up to 1,500 claims expected from former users of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2025
Post Office scandal investigator warns public inquiry about Horizon defect at large for years
Forensic investigator who helped expose Horizon scandal described defect ‘sufficiently serious’ to inform public inquiry Continue Reading
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Definition
30 Oct 2025
What is user-generated content?
User-generated content (UGC) is published information that an unpaid contributor provides to a website. Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2025
US senators seek to prohibit minors from using AI chatbots
Two US senators have proposed legislation that would require AI chatbot companies to verify the ages of people using their chatbots, in attempt to limit their harmful effects on children Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Oct 2025
Astronomer: Why data pipelines control the flow of AI
AI ‘eats’ data. We all know the garbage-in-garbage-out analogy and we understand why AI intelligence itself is inherently artificial by virtue of the fact that it only knows what we tell it, ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Rapid7: Cyber defences stuck in the 1980s as threats mount
The company’s chief product officer notes that many defence tactics are still stuck in the past, urging organisations to adopt AI-driven security platforms to improve threat detection and response Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2025
Far more ‘reasonable’, Confluent extends AI agent strategy
Agentic artificial intelligence has superseded its predictive and generative cousins wth even more hype and hyperbole than expected. But as these services now start to come online and impact real ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2025
Confluent launches Private Cloud for simplified, scalable & secured streaming
Cloud is complicated. But of course it shouldn’t be. On the face of it (and according to all the promises made by the hyperscalers and the cloud-native advocate glitterati) cloud computing comes ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Zoom looks to launch next era of custom enterprise AI
AI-first work platform provider deploys AI leader’s technology to adapt to users’ personal work habits through model customisation and retrieval-augmented generation, with federated AI stack Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Post Office Capture redress scheme ‘went down like lead balloon’ and is ‘discriminatory’
Subpostmasters frustrated after meeting with government minister on the announcement of compensation scheme for those who had problems with Post Office Capture Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Nvidia, Cisco look to deepen AI innovation across 6G, telecoms
Comms tech giant and AI leader team to provide a critical AI reference architecture with datacentre switching services looking ahead to next generation of mobile Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2025
Monday.com eyes ASEAN growth with Singapore hub
The work management specialist’s Collier Quay office will serve as its hub for Southeast Asia as it looks to build deeper relationships with a growing customer base Continue Reading
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Definition
28 Oct 2025
What is compensation management?
Compensation management is the discipline and process for determining employees' appropriate pay, incentives, rewards, bonuses and benefits. Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2025
Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI
E-commerce giant Amazon has cited artificial intelligence as a key driver of its decision to lay off thousands of its corporate employees Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2025
Alan Turing Institute refocuses on security following Peter Kyle intervention
A letter by the former secretary of state at DSIT, Peter Kyle, has led to a major transformation, with 78 projects taken off its books Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Oct 2025
IFS progresses from ‘promise to performance’ on Industrial AI
No longer ‘just’ the ERP company that we perhaps once thought of, IFS has over the last decade shown itself to be aligned to a defined set of specific verticals for the provision of field service ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2025
Qualcomm gears up for AI inference revolution
Rack-based AI acceleration hardware is being positioned as a cost-effective and straightforward way to power AI inference workloads Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2025
Cisco and Splunk plot multi-year data fabric journey
Company leaders talk up their vision for the Cisco Data Fabric that will allow enterprises to gain insights about their IT infrastructure and security posture from machine data wherever it resides, from the network edge to the cloud Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 Oct 2025
Use second-layer tools for AI safety
While some enterprises find it difficult to adopt AI, they can now use second-layer AI tools that enable businesses to implement the technology safely Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Oct 2025
AI and digital twins to serve increasingly complex robot management
Proliferating fleets of robots, diffusion of humanoids, and the emerging robot class of androids will increase complexities of robot management in the future. AI and digital twins will become increasingly important management tools Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Oct 2025
NRF Europe – AI quietly does it…
NRF’s European event highlighted many of the tech themes that are ongoing in the retail sector, with AI making a prominent yet quiet appearance Continue Reading
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Blog Post
27 Oct 2025
A case for AI Qwerty
Techies love the 80:20 rule. Imagine there’s a bit of tech that would do the 20% of laborious tasks people have to do during their working day. Over the course of a 35-hour week, a 20% not working ... Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Oct 2025
Is agentic AI the beginning of the end for ERP?
The rise of agentic AI promises much for ERP, possibly even its supersession. But ERP isn’t dead – it’s evolving as it seeks to govern AI Continue Reading
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News
27 Oct 2025
Post Office paid one law firm more for inquiry representation than cost of actual inquiry
Public inquiry into one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in UK history cost less to run than the Post Office paid one law firm for representation during the four-year process Continue Reading
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Feature
27 Oct 2025
Windows 10: Microsoft Extended Support Upgrade programme explained
Gartner explains how IT leaders can manage their migration from Windows 10 to Windows 11 using the Microsoft ESU programme Continue Reading
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Opinion
27 Oct 2025
Building trustworthy technology: How AI and data can improve government
AI is reshaping government and public services. We should harness it to make government more efficient, fairer and more responsive Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Oct 2025
AI workflows - Elastic: Hope-flows and hard truths
This is a guest post by Nic Palmer, head of customer architecture for international, Elastic - the company known for its open source platform that powers search, observability, security and wider ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2025
Banks’ AI cost-cutting benefits won’t last, will ‘erode’ profits
Banks are making significant cost savings through initial artificial intelligence implementations, but the technology will eventually hit their profits Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2025
Government awards Post Office £2m contract to search for its own Capture records
Up to 1,500 claims expected from former users of the Post Office’s controversial Capture software Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2025
AI chip challenger Groq eyes APAC expansion
Groq’s novel chip architecture that speeds up AI inferencing has attracted a fast-growing developer base as it plans its first datacentre in the Asia-Pacific region Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2025
Canva to save 30,000 work hours with agentic AI
The graphic design giant is training hundreds of staff on a low-code AI platform and agentic AI tools that are set to save around 30,000 person-hours this year and generate financial returns Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Oct 2025
AI workflows - Snyk: Embedding developer-centric security into the AI pipeline
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Randall Degges, head of developer relations & community, Snyk. Degges writes in full as follows… AI-powered workflows ... Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2025
Capita rubbishes Public Accounts Committee report claims
The outsourcing giant has missed IT deadlines, stoking fears it won’t be ready to take over the civil service pension contract Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2025
Abu Dhabi bets on autonomous racing to accelerate AI and mobility innovation
Through the Autonomous Racing League, Aspire and the Advanced Technology Research Council are using high-speed competition to test and advance real-world AI and robotics systems Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2025
Ministry of Justice’s OpenAI deal paves way to sovereign AI
OpenAI has been busy signing deals with the UK government to bolster UK artificial intelligence. It’s now launching data residency for UK customers Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2025
NHS could save millions of hours a year using AI, pilot shows
A Microsoft Copilot AI trial in 90 NHS organisations found that a national roll-out could save up to 400,000 hours per month Continue Reading
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Feature
23 Oct 2025
AI, XR, digital twins set to transform robotics
The availability of advanced sensors, artificial intelligence, digital twins, XR and robotics has changed technology-driven markets. We look at how the intersection of these technologies will create commercial opportunities Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Oct 2025
NTT DATA Inc: Resilience brilliance needs a helicopter view
AI is changing things. Aside from the surface-level services now helping people create amusing videos and images, the penetration of artificial intelligence is helping people research more broadly ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Oct 2025
Jozu drives open source ModelPack & KitOps Modelkit
DevSecOps company Jozu is taking a prominent role in two open source projects, KitOps and ModelPack. KitOps is an open source DevOps tool that packages (and version tracks) an AI or ML model, a ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2025
Singapore unveils efforts to govern agentic AI, prepare for post-quantum era
Guidelines and tools will help organisations in the city-state manage risks from AI agents and prepare for a future where quantum computers could break current encryption Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2025
Render Networks unveils next-generation business intelligence platform
Digitising network provider embeds advanced data and AI capabilities in bid to ‘redefine’ how entire broadband value chain anticipates risks, forecasts outcomes and uncovers opportunities across large-scale environments Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2025
More openness on the cards for Apple and Google’s mobile platforms
Competition and Markets Authority will look closely at the openness of Google and Apple’s mobile platforms after designating both with strategic market status Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2025
Atos boss ‘utterly determined’ not to allow GenAI to pull up career drawbridge
AI is being used in all sectors of the economy and society, but adopters must ensure the next generation of professionals are not denied a first rung on the ladder because of it Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Oct 2025
Valkey 9.0 ‘unlocks’ atomic slot migration & straddles real-time workloads
Valkey is an open source key-value database that resides under the Linux Foundation. It is built for high performance, horizontal scalability and observability. As nicely defined by AWS, a ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2025
Building security and trust in AI agents
AI agents require standardised guidelines, clear human responsibility and a shared language between developers and policymakers to be secure and trusted, experts say Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2025
Inspired by the EU: Sweden eyes open standard for encrypted chat services
What if your messaging and collaboration app could talk to all the others? Swedish government agencies are investigating the possibility Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Oct 2025
What to expect from Confluent Current 2025
Officially just known as ‘Current’ - and we say this every year, Confluent doesn’t necessarily include its own brand name in an event that is itself driven by the data streaming platform company - ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
Do government services need a rethink for AI and automation?
Evidence presented in a new Public Accounts Committee report covering smart public services delivery suggests a change in tack is needed Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe: Migrating off VMware
With Broadcom’s focus on VMware Cloud Foundation subscriptions, OpenStack is being positioned as the open source alternative Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
Government to launch AI sandbox scheme
The proposed AI Growth Lab aims to cut red tape and allow companies to test artificial intelligence products in a safe environment Continue Reading
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Blog Post
21 Oct 2025
Series brief: Self-service developer tools
Software application developers love users and operations professionals… and that feeling holds for database administrators to sysadmins to penetration testers and security professionals. What’s ... Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
Startup law firm wants to ‘live and breathe technology’
Law firm will use artificial intelligence in its business from the word go, cutting the cost of managing large business contracts Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
AWS and e& launch AI and cloud training programme to build UAE’s future-ready workforce
The ‘AI Nation – Afaaq’ initiative will train 30,000 individuals in AI and machine learning, addressing critical skills gaps and supporting the UAE’s digital transformation ambitions Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2025
Dell Technologies accelerates AI and digital transformation across the Middle East
Through strategic partnerships and innovations unveiled at Gitex 2025, Dell is helping UAE organisations harness AI, multi-cloud, and edge computing to drive faster, smarter business transformation Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2025
From Whitehall to WhatsApp: The rise of conversational government
Chatbots and secure messaging are reshaping citizen access to public services, offering speed and simplicity, but raising questions of trust and inclusion Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Oct 2025
Cloud Foundry: Anti-fragility on the new complexity frontier
The Computer Weekly Open Source Insider blog recently sat down with Ram Iyengar, chief evangelist at the Cloud Foundry Foundation. Iyengar says that we’re staring at a new frontier of complexity. ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
20 Oct 2025
What to expect from IFS Industrial X Unleashed
Staged on Thursday, 13 November 2025, New York City plays host to IFS Industrial X Unleashed NYC. Billed as “more than just another industry showcase”, industrial AI company IFS promises a ... Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2025
Companion.energy intros cost- and carbon-aware networking
Belgian energy company turns to comms tech provider to fulfil mission to allow enterprises to turn energy from a cost centre into a strategic advantage through sustainable networking Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2025
EU regulation sharpens fear of Norwegian AI exodus
Norway’s government wants fast-track adoption of EU AI Act as pressure mounts for the EU to ease regulation on high-tech sectors Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2025
OpenInfra Summit Europe: Digital sovereignty in the face of political tension
Attendees at the OpenInfra Summit in Paris were shown why open source IT infrastructure provides supplier flexibility and digital sovereignty Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2025
Microsoft admonished for role in facilitating Gaza genocide
Following credible allegations that Microsoft Azure was being used to facilitate mass surveillance and lethal force against Palestinians, which prompted the company to suspend services to the Israeli military unit responsible, human rights organisations are calling for further action Continue Reading
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Feature
18 Oct 2025
How APAC organisations can embrace hybrid cloud
As cost pressures, data sovereignty rules and the rise of AI reshape IT priorities, we look at what organisations across Asia-Pacific can do to adopt the hybrid infrastructure model that places each workload in its optimal environment Continue Reading
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News
17 Oct 2025
HMRC rolls out Microsoft Copilot AI
HM Revenue and Customs has begun to roll out Microsoft 365 Copilot to its staff, with the aim of making productivity savings Continue Reading
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News
17 Oct 2025
UK Salesforce execs: Agentforce begins to stoke new business forms
Salesforce UK CEO Zahra Bahrololoumi and CTO Paul O’Sullivan put Dreamforce 2025 discourse about agentic AI into a UK context Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Oct 2025
Qualys ROCon 2025: Day 2 - Balancing risks across innovation & compliance
Deeper into Qualys ROCon 2025, day 2 kicked off with a somewhat esoteric session entitled Risk Yoga: Stretching Strategy Into Measurable Action, presented by Richard Seiersen, the company’s chief ... Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2025
CCRC formally sends Post Office Capture referral to Court of Appeal
The statutory body agreed in July to refer the conviction of Capture software user Patricia Owen to appeal court Continue Reading
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Opinion
16 Oct 2025
Why we should all be worried about the AI bubble
The phrase 'don't believe the hype' has never been more apt - there are growing warnings of an AI investment bubble that could affect everyone if it bursts Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2025
Pet insurers fuel AI take up in veterinary sector
Through tech startups, insurers are offering artificial intelligence-based veterinary services as part of pet insurance contracts Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2025
UK banks must be more like Big Tech to catch the US on AI, which comes with a high price
Evident research into artificial intelligence adoption in banking reveals US banks dominate when it comes to making AI work for the business Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2025
AI market is ‘frothy not bubbly’, says Cloudian CEO
To meet the growth in demand for on-premise AI inferencing, Cloudian has developed an AI platform to help enterprises apply large language models to their private data and address security and sovereignty concerns Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
AI World: Oracle brings agents to bear on world of finance
Oracle AI World has seen a host of new introductions, among them agentic capabilities for customer finance teams Continue Reading
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Definition
15 Oct 2025
What are virtual agents and how are they being used?
A virtual agent is an AI-powered software application or service that interacts with humans or other digital systems in a human-like manner, most often using natural language. Continue Reading
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Definition
15 Oct 2025
What is core HR (core human resources)?
Core HR (core human resources) is an umbrella term that refers to the essential, mandatory and fundamental tasks and functions of an organization's HR department as it manages the employee lifecycle and develops human capital. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Oct 2025
Qualys widens TruRisk platform with agentic AI fabric
Qualys has updated its flagship Qualys Enterprise TruRisk Management (ETM) service to widen, broaden and extend this platform-level technology to include identity security, industry-specific threat ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
AI-ready companies turning network pilots into profit
Research finds ‘pacesetter’ companies significantly more likely to move network AI pilots into production, and 50% more likely to report measurable value from AI Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
Real-time analytics tops priorities for 82% of IoT enterprise
Research finds IoT is evolving from simple data collection to process automation, with enterprises starting to layer additional services like AI and machine learning to process data from IoT deployment Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
Patch Tuesday: Windows 10 end of life pain for IT departments
Windows 10 is no longer supported, but that does not mean it is not impacted by the latest Patch Tuesday update Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
Why the future of work is agentic
Organisations are starting to look at where artificial intelligence fits into business workflows Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
Dreamforce 2025: Benioff vaunts Slack as interface to agentic enterprise
Salesforce has launched Agentforce 360, a platform for agentic AI, integrating Slack as its interface Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
Infor doubles down on APAC with cloud and AI
The enterprise software firm is targeting the region’s vast manufacturing sector by easing the move to the cloud and rolling out industry-specific AI agents, says CEO Kevin Samuelson Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
AI will create a better world, says Oracle’s Ellison
Oracle ramped up its plans to lead in all things AI on the opening day of its renamed customer event, AI World, with founder Larry Ellison emphasising AI’s transformative potential Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2025
AI becomes major accelerator for IoT
Survey reveals ‘soaring’ enthusiasm for IoT, with multiple emerging technologies acting as catalysts, and efficiency and productivity gains demonstrating return on investment Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Oct 2025
Cognite: Databricks & Snowflake partnerships forge new links in industrial AI value chain
Industrial AI company Cognite has detailed a new partnership with data engineering company Databricks with plans for a “bidirectional zero-copy data sharing integration” between the two firms. The ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Oct 2025
Cognite aims to deliver hydraulic lift for asset-heavy industries
Industrial AI company Cognite used its Impact 2025 conference to explain where the growth patterns now sit within the Cognite Industrial AI and Data Platform. A new integration with GPU ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2025
Infosys multiplies UK public sector revenue by 160 with £1.2bn NHS deal
Gone are the days of Indian IT suppliers being shunned in UK government contracts through job and security fears Continue Reading
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Podcast
14 Oct 2025
Value-based contracts: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
We speak to Accenture partner, Prem Ananthakrishnan about the evolution of software licensing in the age of AI and agentic AI Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2025
Shameless Fujitsu boss confident firm will be back in ‘good books’ in 18 months
Pressure is mounting on Fujitsu as its internal culture and lack of genuine regret over its part in the Post Office scandal are revealed by Computer Weekly Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2025
Vox pop: Digital transformation across the Arab world
We asked exhibitors at UAE startup event Expand North Star about the challenges – from lack of fundamental infrastructure to first-world problems – faced by startups and digital businesses in the Middle East Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
The importance of upgrading to the latest Windows operating system
Despite plans to make it the last major upgrade, Windows 10 was superseded by Windows 11, and now Microsoft has pulled support for Windows 10 Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
Interview: Sacha Vaughan, chief supply chain officer, Joseph Joseph
As homeware maker Joseph Joseph’s supply chain is being digitised, its leader, Sacha Vaughan, tells Mark Samuels why technology knowledge and systemic control have become crucial to the company’s operation Continue Reading
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14 Oct 2025
Vibe coding: A question of chicken feed or food
If used correctly, large language models promise to revolutionise software development – but they do not easily fit some corporate IT use cases, with the vagaries of natural language raising some challenges. Cliff Saran reports Continue Reading
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E-Zine
14 Oct 2025
End of support
In this week’s edition of Computer Weekly, the Buyer’s Guide takes a deep dive into the issue of Microsoft ending support for Windows 10, in terms of what this means for enterprises running the flagship operating system. Additionally, we look at the evolving role that business intelligence technology is playing in the enterprise, as well as the challenges of “vibe coding”, whereby artificial intelligence is used to assist with software development tasks. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2025
Nvidia scores Meta and Oracle for networking fabric
Nvidia lands hyperscalers Meta and Oracle for its Spectrum-X networking fabric and is leading an industry coalition to adopt an 800-volt DC power standard for datacentres Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2025
Interview: Shaping the future of AI in the UAE
At Gitex 2025 in Dubai, the largest tech show in the Middle East, Chiara Marcati, chief AI advisory and business officer at AI71, discusses the UAE’s ambition to become a global leader in artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2025
Microsoft and the UAE: Driving AI from strategy to real impact
Exploring how Microsoft and the UAE are turning AI ambition into practical solutions, empowering talent, and guiding CIOs to adopt AI at scale Continue Reading
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Blog Post
13 Oct 2025
AI workflows - Starburst: Chewing into the fruits of AI data products
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Justin Borgman, CEO of Starburst. Starburst is known for its data platform that allows data science and software ... Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2025
UK police to upgrade illicit asset recovery system
A new system is being developed by the Police Digital Service and NEC Software Solutions to help manage the recovery of criminal assets, replacing 20-year-old legacy infrastructure Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2025
Thales: Trust in AI for critical systems needs to be engineered
Confidence in artificial intelligence capabilities that power critical systems must go beyond words and be built on a hybrid model that combines data with physics and logic to prove reliability, according to Thales’s chief scientist Continue Reading
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News
13 Oct 2025
UAE AI minister: ‘We’ll have 10,000 AI companies in five years’
Gulf state AI minister sets out plans to encourage artificial intelligence companies with certification and ranking based on AI competence and UAE presence at startup event in Dubai this week Continue Reading
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Feature
13 Oct 2025
The importance of upgrading to the latest Windows operating system
Despite plans to make it the last major upgrade, Windows 10 was superseded by Windows 11, and now Microsoft support for Windows 10 has come to an end Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Oct 2025
AI workflows - Boomi: Fixing foundations with smarter data management
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Ann Maya, EMEA CTO, Boomi. Maya writes in full as follows… Businesses across all industries are racing to tap into the ... Continue Reading