Information management

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

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

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

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

CW APAC: Buyer’s guide to data management

In this handbook, focused on data management in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at best practices, Alibaba’s use of databases, the role of artificial intelligence in handling information and data trends to look out for Continue Reading

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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

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• Jamil El-Imad

Swedish central bank extends digital currency project

Sweden's central bank has extended its pilot of a digital currency for at least another year Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Cancer Council NSW fixes data silos in integration move

The Cancer Council in New South Wales has integrated its core systems to eliminate data silos and improve productivity Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

10 BI dashboard design principles and best practices

BI dashboards are a key tool for delivering analytics data to business users. Here's how to design effective dashboards that can help drive informed decision-making. Continue Reading

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• George Lawton

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

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Data teams struggle to maximise business benefits

Many data scientists are having a hard time moving data science initiatives beyond proof-of-concept projects Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

How Yarra Valley Water is tapping APIs

The largest water retailer in Melbourne has rolled out application programming interfaces to improve operations and customer service Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

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

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• Bev White, Nash Squared

UiPath hires former cloud executive to head APAC business

Former Google and AWS executive Rick Harshman will lead UiPath’s business in Asia-Pacific, where adoption of robotic process automation is growing Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

‘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

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Hunting and anti-hunting groups locked in tit-for-tat row over data gathering

The leaking of internal documents has prompted a row between pro- and anti-hunting groups about the legality of the other’s data collection practices Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

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

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

SAP full-year 2020: Revenue down 1%, cloud growth up 17%

SAP has announced full-year 2020 revenue down 1%, but with cloud growth of 17%, as it divests Qualtrics as a subsidiary. S/4 Hana customer base up 16% to 16,000 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

How to thrive in the post-Covid world – 5 tips for success

This is a guest blogpost by Gordon Wilson, CEO, Advanced It would be an understatement to say that Covid-19 has disrupted the way the world does business. How we now operate has to be set in a new ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

10 years on, and HPC is taken for granted

In recent weeks we’ve looked back at several areas of IT. In many, we concluded that while today may look technically very different from yesterday, that’s just superficial: the underlying ... Continue Reading

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• Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics

SAP launches ‘Rise’ business transformation as a service

SAP CEO Christian Klein announces business transformation as a service package, dubbed Rise Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor
• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

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

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

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

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

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

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

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

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

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor
• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK

APAC buyer’s guide to data management

In this buyer’s guide, we look at the challenges surrounding why enterprises are struggling to deal with data, the use of cloud data management platforms, artificial intelligence, and recommend some best practices Continue Reading

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• Edwin Yapp

150,000 records accidentally wiped from police systems

Home Office claims data wiped from national police systems only relates to people who have never been convicted of a crime or had further police action taken against them following an arrest Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

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

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Business performance management 14 years on: still chasing the real-time dream

As our contribution to the bit of fun that is Throwback Thursday, we're taking a regular stroll in the Freeform Dynamics archives.  “Continuous innovation and real-time steering are needed in the ... Continue Reading

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• Dale Vile, Freeform Dynamics

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

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

6 top business benefits of real-time data analytics

The potential benefits of real-time analytics applications for organizations include faster decision-making, increased business agility, better customer service and more. Continue Reading

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• Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• Lis Evenstad

Government use of 'general warrants' to authorise computer and phone hacking is unlawful

A court has ruled that the security and intelligence services can no longer rely on ‘general warrants’ to authorise the hacking of large numbers of computers and phones belonging to UK citizens Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Investigations Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

BPM vs. BPA: The differences in strategy and tooling

The differences between BPM and BPA come down to process complexity, an organization's proficiency with software code and how quickly the business must see ROI. Continue Reading

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• Mary K. Pratt

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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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• SA Mathieson

Top 10 information management stories of 2020

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2020 Continue Reading

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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• Marc Ambasna-Jones

Top 10 business applications stories of 2020

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 business applications stories of 2020 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor
• Clare McDonald, Business Editor
• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK

Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020 Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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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• Cath Everett

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

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• David Lutton

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

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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• Mark Samuels

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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• SA Mathieson

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

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

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

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Agility key to pandemic recovery, say APAC CFOs

Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific region call for financial transformation to bring about the agility that their organisations need to tide over the pandemic Continue Reading

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• Avanti Kumar

15 common data science techniques to know and use

Data scientists use a variety of statistical and analytical techniques to analyze data sets. Here are 15 popular classification, regression and clustering methods. Continue Reading

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• Ronald Schmelzer, Cognilytica

Alan Turing Institute appoints global advisory board to aid digital identity schemes project

The Alan Turing Institute announces an international advisory board for a project investigating digital identity schemes, with a view to building the technology and organisational infrastructure to sustain them as trustworthy Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

DCMS’s Whittingdale: National Data Strategy enters post-consultation phase

Minister for media and data tells TechUK’s Digital Ethics summit that the long-awaited national data strategy has entered a new, post-consultation phase, and that the UK is set to show international leadership on digital and data in 2021 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Tour de France 2020 fans to get virtual experience delivered by NTT

This year’s Tour de France was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IT services company NTT has teamed up with event organiser ASO to offer a virtual experience to fans who cannot be at the roadside Continue Reading

Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021

The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, cloud computing or cyber security Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

AWS to open Melbourne cloud region in 2022

Amazon Web Services’ second Australian cloud region is part of its growing infrastructure investments in the maturing cloud market Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

The data science process: 6 key steps on analytics applications

The data science process includes a set of steps that data scientists take to gather, prepare and analyze data and present the analytics results to business users. Continue Reading

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• Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy

China lags US in computer vision

China trails the US in the field of computer vision despite making inroads in computing and research, new report finds Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

Government data quality framework geared to overcome poorly organised data

The Office for National Statistics has published guidelines aimed at improving “disorganised” public sector data Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Dreamforce 2020: Hyperforce shifts Salesforce to public cloud

Salesforce COO Bret Taylor announced “Hyperforce” during Marc Benioff’s opening keynote at the virtual version of the supplier’s 2020 Dreamforce event in San Francisco Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

S/4 Hana projects come off back burner, but skills shortage impedes progress

UK and Ireland SAP User Group members set to ramp up S/4 ERP migration projects, but skills shortage and retirement of SAP managers in user organisations are a concern Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

How IoT keeps water flowing in rural communities

Non-profit organisation Charity: water has built an internet-of-things device packed with sensors to keep wells in remote parts of Africa and Asia flowing with clean water Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget

What is database refreshing?

IT testing and software development constantly requires fresh data. It's easy to run a database refresh and generate new data for sandbox or production tasks. Continue Reading

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• Jacob Roundy

Salesforce confirms rumoured Slack acquisition on eve of Dreamforce 2020

Salesforce has announced a $27.7bn stock and cash acquisition of Slack ahead of the virtual iteration of its Dreamforce 2020 event Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

CIO interview: Danny Attias, chief digital and information officer, Anthony Nolan

Digital transformation takes on a whole new purpose when it's helping to save lives – but leading IT for a charity also has its satisfying technology challenges Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Covid-19 crisis has speeded up contact centre digital transformation

Pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in many business sectors, including contact centres such as those of the University of Huddersfield and UK Power Networks Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

The channel in the pandemic, datacentres for investors – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Simon Quicke joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to discuss how the IT channel has fared in the pandemic, how datacentres have evolved as investment assets, STEM education for children, and data strategy at Guide Dogs Continue Reading

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• Simon Quicke, Microscope Editor
• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
• Brian McKenna, Enterprise Applications Editor

Tech in APAC - November 2020

Welcome to our last edition of Tech in APAC for the year. One of our key stories in November was a piece we did on Snowflake, which made its debut in September on Wall Street as the biggest ... Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, Informa TechTarget