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• January 05, 2017 05 Jan'17

  Robots replace staff at Japanese insurance firm

  Japanese insurance company Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance replaces 34 members of its claims assessment team with IBM Watson

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Pernod Ricard toasts better demand forecasting with Infor

  Drinks company Pernod Ricard, known for its Absolut, Malibu and Jameson tipples, has improved demand forecast accuracy with Infor software

• December 21, 2016 21 Dec'16

  How Shazam handles its data reserves

  Chris Kammermann, senior infrastructure engineer at Shazam, explains how adopting the Splunk platform has helped the firm deal with legacy systems and data analysis

• December 16, 2016 16 Dec'16

  Amadeus turns to NoSQL to answer complex travel questions

  Travel software and services company Amadeus has employed a NoSQL database technology to help travellers find answers to complex travel queries

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  The United Arab Emirates enterprise IT trends for 2017

  The UAE is already a leader in areas such as smart city developments, and 2017 looks set to see organisations in the country increase its adoption of other transformational IT

• November 25, 2016 25 Nov'16

  Boots SAP centre of expertise helps take back control

  Walgreens Boots Alliance has built an SAP centre of expertise to take back control of the strategic direction of its IT organisation from its previously outsourced structure

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  How InterContinental Hotels connects with real-time marketing

  InterContinental Hotel Group’s European marketing manager, Charlie Aspey, tells Computer Weekly how the firm has deployed dynamic email marketing across all its hotel brands

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Case study: How the RAC is digitising roadside assistance

  The RAC, an organisation steeped in tradition, is on a modernisation drive. We look at how Microsoft Azure is helping it digitise older cars

• November 21, 2016 21 Nov'16

  Foot Locker to roll out ‘best fit’ recruitment software after productivity hike

  Sports retailer to adopt online software to identify best job candidates after its use led to double-digit rise in team performance in US stores

• November 18, 2016 18 Nov'16

  Ordnance Survey to lay groundwork for UK 5G networks

  The government has asked Ordnance Survey to develop a planning and mapping tool to help determine the future locations of 5G mobile network infrastructure

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  GE pushes ahead into the software market

  GE’s stated policy is to become a top 10 software company by 2020. The company set out its action plan at the start of its Minds + Machines conference in San Francisco

• November 15, 2016 15 Nov'16

  Amber Rudd orders Lauri Love extradition to US to face hacking charges

  Engineering student Lauri Love faces trials in three US states and a possible 99-year jail sentence for allegedly hacking into US government computer systems as part of a political protest, despite concerns over his health

• November 01, 2016 01 Nov'16

  Insurers face same legacy system battle as retail banks

  The biggest barrier to insurance companies adopting digital technology is their heavy reliance on legacy IT systems

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Virgin Atlantic finds community benefit with Salesforce

  Airline’s business-to-business and cargo divisions have found Salesforce CRM to offer a “family feel” beyond the software

• October 20, 2016 20 Oct'16

  Diageo opts for additional services centre in Bangalore

  Drinks maker Diageo is increasing its footprint in India with a new business services centre in the city of Bangalore.

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Snowden: the IT analyst turned whistleblower who exposed mass surveillance

  Oliver Stone's biopic on Edward Snowden reaches the heart of the ethical crisis posed by mass surveillance for the state and ordinary citizens

• October 07, 2016 07 Oct'16

  Dunkin’ data – how one firm is going donuts for data analytics

  The director of consumer technology and mobile for Dunkin’ Donuts explains how the retailer uses Splunk to manage customer satisfaction through data

• October 06, 2016 06 Oct'16

  Benioff follows Will.i.am on stage to promote Stem education as way out

  Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff endorses Will.i.am’s education drive for black youth and Bono’s anti-AIDS charity, (Red)

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  NGOs challenge UK and US mass surveillance in human rights court

  Privacy International, Liberty and the American Civil Liberties Union are among 10 human rights groups backing a landmark challenge to mass surveillance in the European Court of Human Rights

• September 29, 2016 29 Sep'16

  Is it NAS? Is it object storage? It’s both. It’s Avere’s C2N

  Avere launches C2N hybrid NAS/object storage box that uses touted efficiencies of erasure coding to take aim at claimed drawbacks of clustered NAS rivals like Isilon

• September 15, 2016 15 Sep'16

  Manchester City builds digital fan wall on Hana Cloud Platform

  Football club has unveiled an interactive fan wall, built on SAP’s Hana Cloud Platform, to engage fans better

• September 14, 2016 14 Sep'16

  Royal Shakespeare Company targets more groundlings with Progress

  The Royal Shakespeare Company revamps its web site and gets its customer engagement act together with content management and digital marketing tools from Progress

• September 05, 2016 05 Sep'16

  Silverstone Circuit pilots smart transport service at 2016 British MotoGP

  Silverstone Circuit tests InterDigital’s oneTransport traffic flow management service at the 2016 British Grand Prix MotoGP

• August 31, 2016 31 Aug'16

  Welcome Break uses SAP Jam to spread collaboration

  Motorway services company is using SAP SuccessFactors HR technology to manage its people across franchises that include Starbucks and KFC

• August 22, 2016 22 Aug'16

  Bangkok Hospital recognised for its use of electronic records

  Private hospital in Thailand is recognised for its effective use of IT by a global accreditation body

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  UK data scientist roles grow by 32% in first half of 2016

  There has been a big rise in the number of data scientist positions in the UK and Europe in the first half of 2016

• August 16, 2016 16 Aug'16

  Case study: Improving food safety and traceability

  We look at how Transparency-One is using a Neo4j graph database to deliver traceability across the global food supply chain

• August 10, 2016 10 Aug'16

  MI5 staff repeatedly overrode data surveillance rules

  Security service MI5 is responsible for 210 “clear contraventions” over five years for the way it accessed private internet and telephone data

• July 29, 2016 29 Jul'16

  German digital bank Fidor acquired by French banking giant

  Fidor CEO says merger with BPCE will allow challenger to continue its international expansion

• July 26, 2016 26 Jul'16

  Tel Aviv Stock Exchange centralises functions with ERP

  The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange has installed first ever ERP system. CIO Eldad Hershtig explains his strategic choices and implementation path

• July 14, 2016 14 Jul'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Roland Grunéus, Intrum Justitia

  Roland Grunéus, the CIO of Swedish-founded Intrum Justitia, reveals the credit management services group’s efforts to make better use of data

• July 08, 2016 08 Jul'16

  New Jersey turns to technology to keep offenders out of jail

  New Jersey is developing criminal justice applications that will save offenders from spending years in jail before their cases are heard

• July 07, 2016 07 Jul'16

  Pure Storage drips out more of its all-flash analytics FlashBlade

  Pure lets more customers use its flash-based analytics platform FlashBlade, before the product aimed at high-throughput unstructured data is made generally available later in 2016

• June 13, 2016 13 Jun'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Johnny Bröms, Swedish fast-food chain Max Burger

  The CIO of Swedish fast-food chain tells Computer Weekly how digital technology is increasing sales and supporting expansion

• June 02, 2016 02 Jun'16

  Big data and open-source cloud technology help Gulf Air pin down customer sentiment

  Big data engine that performs sentiment analysis on both Arabic and English textual data helps airline to understand and react rapidly to customer preferences

• June 01, 2016 01 Jun'16

  MPs’ private emails are routinely accessed by GCHQ

  Computer Weekly investigation reveals the extent of interception of MPs’ and peers’ email communications and data

• May 30, 2016 30 May'16

  Middle East CIO interview: V. Chandrasekar, Standard Chartered

  The CIO of Standard Chartered bank in the Middle East tells Computer Weekly about the challenge of keeping customers happy through IT

• May 26, 2016 26 May'16

  Nordic CIO interview: Petteri Naulapää, Stockmann

  CIO of Finnish-listed international retailer tells Computer Weekly about the department store’s journey towards omnichannel

• May 19, 2016 19 May'16

  ING Turkey uses digital technology to improve services and grow customer base

  Turkish bank uses business process management technology to offer financial services through 1,500 grocery stores, technology outlets and post offices

• May 16, 2016 16 May'16

  Foxy Leicester City FC won Premiership with data analytics

  Leicester City Football Club was the surprise winner of this season’s English Premier League, thanks, in part, to data analytics

• May 05, 2016 05 May'16

  Gulf Air creates private cloud to support open-source big data engine

  Airline is using a private cloud and open-source software to enable it to analyse social media and understand what consumers think about it

• April 26, 2016 26 Apr'16

  GE launches Predix-power application for the industrial internet

  GE’s digital division is now a fully fledged software business with the introduction of an asset performance management system

• April 22, 2016 22 Apr'16

  France takes the lead in the global open data race

  The appointment of a chief data officer (CDO) has already seen the nation create five different types of economic and social value

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  UK economy faces digital divide, CBI warns

  A report from the Confederation of British Industry and tech giant IBM paints a bleak picture of UK businesses' adoption (or not) of digital technologies

• April 21, 2016 21 Apr'16

  GCHQ told analysts to assume surveillance 'bulk data' is legal

  Documents obtained by charity Privacy International reveal insights into GCHQ’s collection of sensitive bulk data, as lawyers question the impact of surveillance on legal privilege, fair trials and protection of whistleblowers

• March 30, 2016 30 Mar'16

  Centrica deploys large scale Hortonworks cluster to boost business

  Utility company Centrica is looking at how to grow the business by harvesting data lakes

• March 24, 2016 24 Mar'16

  The Israeli companies disrupting mobile technology

  Israel's high-tech startups are developing innovative technology that will bring new capabilities to consumers and mobile phone operators

• March 21, 2016 21 Mar'16

  Britain to pay billions for monster internet surveillance network

  New questions raised about Britain’s snoopers’ charter after Denmark abandons its own UK-style surveillance programme for a second time

• March 16, 2016 16 Mar'16

  Rolls-Royce cloud HR project will pay for itself in two years

  HR IT director Mark Judd explains how engineering and aerospace firm swapped ageing ERP and spreadsheets for a company-wide core HR system

• March 11, 2016 11 Mar'16

  Predictive maintenance brings efficiency to Trenitalia

  New management system will help railway company reduce costs by applying predictive maintenance and data analytics to essential parts