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• January 27, 2014 27 Jan'14

  Teradata launches analytics product as SAP BW replacement

  Teradata has released an analytics product for SAP ERP, as a full-blown alternative to SAP BW

• December 17, 2013 17 Dec'13

  NHS clinical research body uses QlikView to forward open data

  The clinical research delivery arm of the NHS is developing an open data platform using QlikView

• December 09, 2013 09 Dec'13

  Case study: London Borough of Islington’s smart working journey

  The London Borough of Islington is using technology to ensure its staff are as productive as possible travelling along a ‘smart working journey’

• December 06, 2013 06 Dec'13

  Nokia Solutions Networks HR rejects best of breed for best of platform

  Nokia Solutions and Networks has chosen a ‘best of platform’ approach for its global HR programme in the wake of a reduction in staff from around 80,000 to 50,000, consequent to a restructure in 2011

• December 05, 2013 05 Dec'13

  700,000 benefit claimants miss out on Universal Credit deadline

  The secretary for work and pensions has admitted the Universal Credit benefit scheme will miss its 2017 deadline

• December 03, 2013 03 Dec'13

  Tech spend to increase in 2014 as executives explore big data

  Over three-quarters of chief financial officers plan to increase technology investments in 2014

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  Mobile business intelligence adoption slows, BARC BI survey finds

  Mobile BI adoption is slowing and much vaunted social media analytics are little deployed, according to the latest BARC BI global survey

• November 29, 2013 29 Nov'13

  IT budgets to rise by 3% in 2014 as companies step up spending on mobile

  IT spending will increase by 3% in 2014, up from 1.8% last year. But shadow IT spending will add another 40% to technology budgets

• November 20, 2013 20 Nov'13

  Case study: McGraw-Hill Education mobilises with Salesforce

  The educational resources provider utilises Salesforce to develop a mobile app and get its sales reps selling more on campus

• November 14, 2013 14 Nov'13

  CIO interview: Paolo Cinelli, CIO, Ikea

  Ikea's priority is to get closer to its customers using a multi-channel approach which combines digital and traditional methods

• November 06, 2013 06 Nov'13

  IT spending up as companies invest in digital technology

  Businesses are stepping up their spending on IT as they invest in strategic digital technologies, a CIO survey by Deloitte reveals

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Companies are not taking advantage of data analytics, research says

  Research by Bersin by Deloitte shows that 86% of businesses have yet to progress beyond using their HR data to generate basic reports

• October 31, 2013 31 Oct'13

  Government calls for more data scientists in the UK

  The government is calling on industry and academia to help produce more data scientists in the UK

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

  The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT

• October 22, 2013 22 Oct'13

  Case study: Pumps maker Hayward Tyler’s restructure sharpened ERP business focus

  When a restructure arrives half way through an ERP upgrade, it could be a threat to the IT programme. But Hayward Tyler saw it as a chance to ensure business goals were at the heart of its Epicor project.

• October 08, 2013 08 Oct'13

  Rugby Football Union uses analytics to educate and engage with users

  The RFU is introducing data analytics technologies for public use to encourage engagement with existing fans and education of the sport

• September 25, 2013 25 Sep'13

  Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle customers continue to invest in big data

  Airbus, Thomson Reuters and the New York Stock Exchange have all implemented Oracle's big data products to improve their businesses

• September 24, 2013 24 Sep'13

  C-level executives cry out for data scientists

  Board level executives are putting pressure on their IT organisations to find data scientists, according to Teradata research

• September 16, 2013 16 Sep'13

  British Army’s manpower planning saves £770m through SAS BI

  The British Army's headquarters is using SAS to analyse and more efficiently allocate manpower and resources

• September 13, 2013 13 Sep'13

  Businesses hit digital roadblock due to paper processes

  A survey of business and IT leaders has found that paper-based processes are creating inefficiencies

• September 09, 2013 09 Sep'13

  Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas

  British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home

• August 28, 2013 28 Aug'13

  eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store

  Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users

• August 16, 2013 16 Aug'13

  Online retailing means the industrialisation of analytics

  Figleaves founder and eCommera chief scientist Michael Ross argues that online retailing requires a new type of action-oriented business intelligence

• August 12, 2013 12 Aug'13

  Case study: How Premier Inn uses mobile analytics

  Premier Inn's mobile app has been downloaded more than two million times and 77% of room bookings are made via the app

• August 02, 2013 02 Aug'13

  Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

  Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud

• July 12, 2013 12 Jul'13

  Indian banks harness big data analysis amid competition

  The increasing penetration of broadband and growth in smartphone usage in India are driving the development of IT-based services for bank consumers.

• July 11, 2013 11 Jul'13

  OpenCorporates makes company data public

  Company data is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain

• July 08, 2013 08 Jul'13

  Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved

  Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed

• July 05, 2013 05 Jul'13

  Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

  Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally

• July 03, 2013 03 Jul'13

  Ocado delivers with in-house software development

  Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons

• June 28, 2013 28 Jun'13

  CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

  Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business

• June 13, 2013 13 Jun'13

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

  Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  SAP buys e-commerce company Hybris to move into CRM market

  SAP is moving into the CRM market with its purchase of Hybris, a Swiss customer relationship management (CRM) supplier

• June 06, 2013 06 Jun'13

  Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion

  Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data

• May 29, 2013 29 May'13

  ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management

  ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge

  The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers

• May 22, 2013 22 May'13

  Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m

  Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature

• May 21, 2013 21 May'13

  Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology

  CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst

• May 10, 2013 10 May'13

  Lean analytics to change business decision making

  Attending to the “one metric that really matters” is one principle of a “lean analytics” approach

• May 08, 2013 08 May'13

  SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud

  SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications

• May 01, 2013 01 May'13

  British Army data quality programme tackles ‘whole army’ concept

  The British Army’s data quality programme faces a challenge with moves to unify regular and territorial soldiers into one force

• April 30, 2013 30 Apr'13

  Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year

  Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs

• April 29, 2013 29 Apr'13

  Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn

  O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers

• April 09, 2013 09 Apr'13

  CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK

  Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever

• March 28, 2013 28 Mar'13

  Business intelligence program needs long-term tending to fully blossom

  The evolution of Quicken Loans' business intelligence strategy from static reporting to self-service BI holds useful lessons for other organizations.

• March 22, 2013 22 Mar'13

  42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects

  Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions

• March 20, 2013 20 Mar'13

  CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

  As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability

• March 15, 2013 15 Mar'13

  Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations

  In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports

• March 06, 2013 06 Mar'13

  Businesses and IT suppliers to collaborate on big data

  Businesses are to collaborate to work out how to exploit the rapidly growing volume of data generated by social media, mobile devices and the internet of things.

• February 11, 2013 11 Feb'13

  Gartner: analytics will be more transparent, real-time and automated

  Analyst firm Gartner has identified three trends for analytics and BI: transparency, real-time and automation