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IT services and outsourcing

• March 14, 2017 14 Mar'17

  Portakabin’s biggest-ever IT investment unifies CRM

  Modular construction firm is moving to a single source of business information through cloud technology and services

• March 13, 2017 13 Mar'17

  Nearly 2,000 Lloyds bank IT jobs set to move to IBM in £1.3bn outsourcing deal

  Around 2,000 IT staff at Lloyds Banking Group are set to transfer to IBM as part of a seven-year IT outsourcing deal, says union

• March 08, 2017 08 Mar'17

  Centrica eliminates more than 20 IT systems after replacing SAP with cloud HR technology

  Energy and services company claims major savings in IT costs after moving its HR services to the cloud

• 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

  Virtual reality simulation helps KLM engineers escape in an emergency

  Dutch airline KLM develops virtual reality simulation to show engineers what to do if a maintenance hangar catches fire

• March 02, 2017 02 Mar'17

  MoD ditches spreadsheets for SaaS-based collaboration tool

  The Ministry of Defence is taking advantage of G-Cloud for collaboration software to manage its global activities

• February 27, 2017 27 Feb'17

  Santander bank to work with IBM developing mobile apps for staff

  Santander bank wants to make its staff more productive through mobile apps, which it will create alongside IBM

• February 20, 2017 20 Feb'17

  Accenture to add thousands of US jobs as Trump effect spreads to IT

  Accenture has promised to create more jobs in the US and invest $1.4bn in skills development

• 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 15, 2017 15 Feb'17

  Deloitte readies enterprise public cloud practice with AWS and SAP

  A 2,500-strong consulting practice will focus on delivering SAP Hana on Amazon Web Services for analytics to drive digital business

• 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

  Rubbish digital collection needs to be addressed

  Services like rubbish collection, that are usually outsourced, need greater digitisation to join up to council processes

• 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 08, 2017 08 Feb'17

  How a Dublin court case could derail EU-US data privacy agreements

  The Irish Commercial Court will consider whether privacy protection offered by standard contractual clauses for data transfers to the US from Europe is legally valid

• 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 07, 2017 07 Feb'17

  Just Eat uses startup accelerator to stay ahead in foodtech

  Online food ordering service’s head of corporate ventures explains how helping startups through its accelerator programme helps it to keep in the centre of the food technology ecosystem

• February 06, 2017 06 Feb'17

  Google to appeal against order to hand over foreign emails

  UK firms urged to consider the risks of non-UK cloud service providers and to encrypt data in the light of another US warrant to access emails held by a US cloud services firm on non-US servers

• 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

  Executive interview: Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals firm's big cloud bets for 2017

  New Rackspace president Jeff Cotten reveals details of what the future holds for the managed cloud company now it's under new ownership

• January 24, 2017 24 Jan'17

  GDS signals intent to move public sector off PSN

  Government Digital Service’s Technology Leaders Network determines that the internet is an adequate solution to support the vast majority of public sector work

• January 18, 2017 18 Jan'17

  Facebook chief reveals real cost of Oculus in court testimony

  Testifying in an IP-theft case against Facebook-owned Oculus, Mark Zuckerberg reveals the acquisition cost $3bn, not $2bn as originally announced

• 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 09, 2017 09 Jan'17

  Waymo self-driving minivans to begin public road tests soon

  Google spin off Waymo announces trials of new self-driving vehicles, with all technologies involved developed in-house to cut costs and improve performance

• December 20, 2016 20 Dec'16

  Digital Realty sets sights on loosening Equinix’s grip on global colocation market

  Digital Realty's managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa sets out how the business is drawing on its recent datacentre acquisitions to take Equinix on in 2017

• December 14, 2016 14 Dec'16

  Swedish Cider company upgrades to cloud ERP to keep up with growth

  Apple-based product manufacturer moves to an industry-specific ERP system in the cloud

• December 09, 2016 09 Dec'16

  IT Priorities 2017: Nordic organisations to spend more on cloud services

  The adoption of cloud computing in its many guises will be a top priority in the Nordic region in 2017

• 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

• 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

  HCL completes integration of Volvo Group IT services

  Deal sees 2,560 Volvo Group staff transferred to HCL, bringing mainframe expertise to Indian IT services firm

• November 17, 2016 17 Nov'16

  Telenor IoT strategy required core software change

  Norwegian telco is expanding its internet of things business, which packages all the components its customers require to offer IoT-based services

• November 16, 2016 16 Nov'16

  Hiring cyber security and big data experts named top priority for IT recruiters in 2017

  Research suggests IT professionals with expertise in cyber security and big data could find themselves in high demand in 2017

• 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 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

• November 03, 2016 03 Nov'16

  Climate hackathon aims to use tech to save the planet

  London joins cities around the world to seek technology solutions to tackle climate change and help the environment

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Coca-Cola cloud project bottles rewards for 25,000 staff

  Coca-Cola European Partners, which bottles 15 billion litres of soft drinks each year, is working with an HR technology supplier to develop flexible rewards packages for its 25,000 employees

• November 02, 2016 02 Nov'16

  Unilever puts digital transformation in the hands of IT

  The global IT director of digital marketing at Unilever explains how the firm has managed digital transformation by shifting the role of the IT team

• October 26, 2016 26 Oct'16

  John Lewis chooses three retail tech startups to receive 2016 JLab funding

  Department store retailer John Lewis selects three retail tech startups to receive their share of the £200,000 JLab funding pot

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  Case study: Ocado uses machine learning to help customer services deal with email overload

  Ocado's head of data, Dan Nelson, reveals details of how the online grocer is using machine learning to bolster the responsiveness of its customer service teams

• October 25, 2016 25 Oct'16

  How collaboration will feature in the future of digital supermarkets

  Morrisons’ new deal with Ocado has helped the supermarket chain expand its online capabilities, but will we see more collaboration between retailers and digital service providers in the future?

• October 21, 2016 21 Oct'16

  Spotify on benefits of ditching its datacentres and going ‘all-in’ on Google cloud

  Spotify’s vice-president of infrastructure opens up about the company’s datacentre downsizing plans, and how taking a multi-cloud to IT consumption would not work for the firm

• 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

  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 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 13, 2016 13 Oct'16

  IT startups suffer from strict, out-of-date Dutch laws

  The Netherlands government needs to ensure that legislation enables disruptive technology to flourish

• October 11, 2016 11 Oct'16

  IR35 dispute prompts mass walkout of IT contractors from MoD agency

  Public sector IT contractors leave UK Hydrographic Office en masse over IR35 clampdown, Computer Weekly understands

• October 04, 2016 04 Oct'16

  Dymaxia: Combining cloud, IoT and wearables to manage the anxiety of autism

  Canadian startup Dymaxia explains how it's using cloud, IoT and wearable devices to help autistic people manage anxiety

• September 30, 2016 30 Sep'16

  How IoT can revolutionise running railways

  Mobile computing, mobile sensor networks and deep learning are behind French rail operator SNCF’s efficiency drive

• 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 28, 2016 28 Sep'16

  BlackBerry ends production of mobile phones

  Canadian firm to focus on a strategy built around software development, including security and applications, and mobile device management

• September 26, 2016 26 Sep'16

  Bangkok Airways takes customer service to the cloud

  Airline is the latest Southeast Asian organisation to harness cloud-based software to improve customer services, deploying the Oracle Service Cloud