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• March 07, 2017 07 Mar'17

  ZF Group opens doors to Hyderabad tech centre

  German car parts manufacturer ZF Group opens a technology centre in India to focus on software lead innovation

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  CIO interview: Sarah Wilkinson, Home Office

  The Home Office tech boss shares her views on Brexit challenges, collaborating with GDS and running large government IT programmes

• March 06, 2017 06 Mar'17

  Deutsche Bank creates group-wide CIO role

  New chief will drive technology transformation across the bank

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Hundreds more sub-postmasters apply to join group action against Post Office

  Initial hearing regarding sub-postmasters who say they were wrongly punished for false accounting reveals admission by Post Office legal team

• February 22, 2017 22 Feb'17

  Corporate IT Forum aims to fill gap in discipline of SRM

  Forum to fill supplier relationship management gap opened up by growing centrality of IT to business, and transitions to cloud

• February 17, 2017 17 Feb'17

  HPE services and CSC to become DXC Technology

  The merger between HP's services division and CSC will launch in April 2017 and is expected to save the companies billions

• February 16, 2017 16 Feb'17

  CIO interview: Matt Peers, Linklaters

  Linklaters CIO Matt Peers is taking the firm through a complete digital transformation and making some big changes

• February 15, 2017 15 Feb'17

  UAE bank builds predictive marketing models

  Rakbank is using SAS analytics software to better understand its customers following a successful implementation of the supplier’s anti-money laundering software

• February 13, 2017 13 Feb'17

  Autodata turns to big data to predict vehicle failures

  Vehicle data company sees 30% jump in revenue after moving to open source software and opening its data to garages, insurers and parts companies

• February 10, 2017 10 Feb'17

  FDM Everywoman in Tech: 2017 winners announced

  Women’s network Everywoman announces the winners of its 2017 Everywoman in Technology awards, sponsored by FDM

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Government digital transformation strategy promises to ‘serve’ its people

  Long-awaited strategy aims to change the way government departments and services work though digital technology

• February 09, 2017 09 Feb'17

  Case study: Australia’s Salmat to go cloud-only after getting a taste for the technology

  Australian marketing company Salmat plans to move everything it can into the cloud following a highly successful initial SaaS implementation

• February 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  Middle East and North Africa public cloud spend to hit $2bn by 2020

  Middle East-based organisations are turning to public cloud services, with software as a service driving a major year-on-year spending increase

• February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17

  CIO interview: Adam Gerrard, Yodel

  Parcel delivery firm has seen significant business improvements from a digital transformation programme and replacement of legacy IT systems

• February 03, 2017 03 Feb'17

  London Fire Brigade system crashes cause delays reacting to emergencies

  Control room system crashes have been causing delays in London Fire Brigade response times

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  CIO interview: Alex Alexander, Yoox Net-a-Porter Group

  It is not always the catwalk where the biggest trends in fashion take place. Tech is driving fashion today, says CIO Alex Alexander

• February 01, 2017 01 Feb'17

  Finnish city takes €10bn leap into digitisation

  Tampere is encouraging its people, businesses and government organisations to come together to make digital transformation work for everyone

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Mixed feelings on Australian enterprise app market

  The enterprise mobile app development market is attracting big money despite a lack of corporate appetite

• January 26, 2017 26 Jan'17

  Human-centric technologies will dominate next three years

  Accenture says businesses will develop technology and services to match human behaviour in the next few years

• January 23, 2017 23 Jan'17

  Singapore and Indonesia stand out for IT spend in Apac banking sector

  Singapore is the top spender on IT for banking of all developed economies in the Apac region, while Indonesia has the fastest growth rate in IT spending

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  Blockchain can cut investment bank infrastructure costs by 30%

  Investment banks can make huge cuts to their IT infrastructure costs through blockchain, according to analysis

• January 17, 2017 17 Jan'17

  HSBC appoints technology advisers to keep pace with IT changes

  Bank hopes to gain knowledge about technologies such as artificial intelligence and biometric security through its new technology advisory board

• January 16, 2017 16 Jan'17

  Australian government technology suffers failure after failure

  Former government IT leader says Australia’s IT is so bad that if the government were a private sector organisation, it would fail

• January 13, 2017 13 Jan'17

  Davos: Technology poses new risks to jobs, economies and society

  Politicians and business leaders will discuss the risks posed by technology to jobs, political stability and cyber security at the World Economic Forum in Davos

• January 12, 2017 12 Jan'17

  Lloyds Bank digital banking problems an industry warning

  Lloyds Bank’s digital banking problems still unresolved after a second day

• January 10, 2017 10 Jan'17

  Cyber security scare stories could sharpen focus at banks

  There are continual cyber attacks on banks, and although most are repelled, there is significant room for improvement

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Dubai-based Aramex optimises branch office connectivity

  How global logistics firm streamlined its branch office operations in the Middle East

• January 04, 2017 04 Jan'17

  Customer-first approach will make 2017 a challenge for Dutch CIOs

  CIOs in the Netherlands could see their strategies lead to thousands of jobs being cut as businesses automate

• December 30, 2016 30 Dec'16

  The CW500 Club in 2016

  Computer Weekly's CW500 Club attracts the top IT leaders in the UK to talk to their peers. We present coverage of all the 2016 CW500 events, including articles and video interviews.

• December 23, 2016 23 Dec'16

  CIO interview: MoD’s DII replacement will feed government as a platform

  Mike Stone, who will soon be leaving his position of CIO at the Ministry of Defence (MoD), explains how the MoD’s DII replacement will feed into government as a platform

• December 13, 2016 13 Dec'16

  Metro Bank moves IT infrastructure to cloud

  Metro Bank moves its IT infrastructure to a private Rackspace cloud platform, which will allow it to keep up with the latest technologies and reduce costs

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  Government Transformation Strategy to 'fundamentally' change the way departments operate

  A background document seen by Computer Weekly outlines details of the forthcoming Government Transformation Strategy

• 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

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  UKtech50 2016 - The most influential people in UK IT

  Computer Weekly has announced the seventh annual UKtech50 – our definitive list of the movers and shakers in the UK IT sector

• December 07, 2016 07 Dec'16

  UKtech50 interview: ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars

  The UKtech50 most influential person in UK IT 2016, ARM Holdings CEO Simon Segars, shares his thoughts on the consequences of Brexit, access to skills and the importance of security in a world full of connected devices

• December 06, 2016 06 Dec'16

  London Stock Exchange opens tech services centre in Sri Lanka

  The London Stock Exchange increases its technology support services operation in Sri Lanka

• December 05, 2016 05 Dec'16

  Top 10 ANZ enterprise IT stories of 2016

  Here is a rundown of Computer Weekly’s most popular ANZ enterprise IT articles for 2016

• November 30, 2016 30 Nov'16

  Nearly a quarter of board-level execs struggle to see value of tech

  While many executives are on board with digital transformation, research shows some aren’t sure why organisations find digital technology important

• November 29, 2016 29 Nov'16

  CIO interview: Neil Moore, head of ICT, Hampshire Fire and Rescue Service

  Hampshire Fire and Rescue’s CIO talks about collaborating, moving to the cloud and getting staff on board with digital transformation

• November 24, 2016 24 Nov'16

  CIO Interview: Jim Fowler, GE

  Imagine if your boss was a CEO pioneering a digital revolution in a company over 120 years old, connecting industrial machines to the internet

• November 23, 2016 23 Nov'16

  Budget busters: Three ways for CIOs to fund digital initiatives

  The business wants IT to innovate, but CIOs find their budgets are frozen. Who you gonna call?

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Middle East bank to launch AI for customer support

  Middle East bank Emirates NBD is piloting artificial intelligence to automate customer services

• November 22, 2016 22 Nov'16

  Dutch IT ministry needed to take digital lead

  Whenever the media covers a failed Dutch government IT project, the question is always asked whether the government should have a ministry of IT

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Dutch bank ING to spend millions ‘disrupting’ its own business

  Dutch bank ING used digital technology to reinvent itself following the financial crash, and is about to reinvent itself again, says its global CTO, Brendan Donovan

• November 09, 2016 09 Nov'16

  Australia’s IFC Logistics virtualises storage to prevent further outages

  Australian logistics firm moved to virtualised storage through a managed service after a serious outage

• October 27, 2016 27 Oct'16

  Open source no longer scares the enterprise

  Open source breaks the rules on corporate procurement, but developers never play by the rules and now open source has sneaked in through the back door

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Interview: Kevin Cunnington, director general, Government Digital Service

  The government’s new digital chief talks about his plans for the future and the challenges of transforming public services

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  GDS goes nationwide to ease relations with government departments

  Government Digital Service aims to open more regional outposts for training civil servants in digital skills, says new chief Kevin Cunnington

• October 19, 2016 19 Oct'16

  Cloud backup saves data after fire destroys school

  Data from The Academy secondary school in the seaside town of Selsey was restored just hours after a fire destroyed most of the premises, thanks to a cloud backup agreement set up a year earlier

• October 18, 2016 18 Oct'16

  DCMS appoints director general for digital and media

  Matthew Gould is taking on the role as director general for digital and media to help build “digital ecosystems” and promote innovation