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Using geospatial data to unlock innovation in the property sector

Louise Weale from Ordnance Survey argues that geospatial data is key to unlocking business innovation in the property sector Continue Reading

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• Louise Weale

Civil Service Data Challenge announces longlist of ideas to improve data use

Dragons’ Den-style Civil Service competition to elicit ideas to improve data use in government has whittled a list of 200 down to eight. Four will be chosen in December for delivery Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Interview: Chano Fernandez, co-CEO of Workday – a European co-helming a Californian enterprise

Chano Fernandez, co-CEO of Workday, explains how the company’s storied and humane employee culture needs constant tending, and looks forward to a post-Covid acceleration Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Ordnance Survey Data Hub marks first anniversary with developer highlights

A year after its launch, the Ordnance Survey Data Hub is claiming a 50% increase in like-for-like downloads. The resource has proved its mettle during the Covid-19 pandemic for the London Ambulance Service and has benefited the National Library of Scotland Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How Transport for West Midlands works with geospatial data

Covid-19 showed why greater data granularity is key, with Transport for West Midlands turning to geospatial data to understand demand for services Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

FBI planned a sting against An0m cryptophone users over drinks with Australian investigators

Australian Federal Police and the FBI came up with the idea over drinks: build a cryptophone network with a built-in backdoor and sell it to crime gangs around the world Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

CIO interview: John Hunter of Council of Europe takes cloud route to document management

John Hunter, CIO of the Council of Europe, describes how his team has modernised the human rights organisation’s document management in the cloud Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Databricks unveils data sharing protocol as part of data lakehouse

Databricks announces launch of open source project called Delta Sharing at Data + AI Summit, with backing of data providers and business intelligence tool suppliers Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How the Covid-19 Genomics UK Consortium sequenced Sars-Cov-2

Consortium of universities and other institutions has harnessed datasets, analytics and cloud computing to sequence Sars-Cov-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, in a blisteringly short time Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

CDO summer school plots step change for data leaders

The summer school for chief data officers, run by Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, promises data leaders a curriculum to match the elevated salience of the CDO role Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Generation Z majority left cold by data literacy

Data literacy is a term with little currency among 16 to 21-year-olds, according to research commissioned by analytics database company Exasol, but more than half of those surveyed think data skills should be more prominent in education Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Josh Bersin 2021 technology guide vaunts employee experience

Josh Bersin’s annual HR technology market guide for 2021 pulls out employee experience as the hottest area, as the sector shifts to productivity-boosting tech Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Covid-19 and the art and science of data visualisation

The pandemic has seen political leaders and civil servants using data visualisation like never before – but there is more to the art than meets the eye Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

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

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, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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

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, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

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

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, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CTRL, ALT, REPEAT – Why short-sighted digitisation strategies may see businesses revert to analogue

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Iron Mountain’s VP of Digital Solutions. In it he writes about a new study suggesting Covid-driven digitisation of business processes could be ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Nordic countries to develop common digital system

Common digital platform will help small and medium-sized enterprises across the Nordic region with data sharing Continue Reading

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• Gerard O'Dwyer

Ethnic diversity, cloud apps for Gen Z, and accountants – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss workplace diversity in respect of ethnicity, a financial app for cashless Generation Z, and how accountancy firm Saffery Champness has benefited from a SaaS document management system Continue Reading

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

WikiLeaks published unredacted cables after password was disclosed in book

WikiLeaks published a cache of unredacted government cables after the publication of a book containing the password led to their publication on other parts of the internet, court told Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

CIO interview: Julie Berry of Saffery Champness advances business advisory role for IT

Julie Berry, IT director at accountancy firm Saffery Champness, describes how her team has enhanced its advisory role to the business, in part through the implementation of a cloud-based document management system Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CW APAC: Buyer’s guide to business intelligence and data analytics

Businesses today are seeking to discover, interpret, extract and communicate meaningful patterns in data to increase efficiency and better serve their customers. In this handbook, focused on the use of business intelligence and data analytics in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at some examples of how making sense of data makes good business sense. Continue Reading

Julian Assange held back 15,000 documents to prevent harm to US government

Investigative journalist John Goetz said today that WikiLeaks held back publication of thousands of documents that could harm individuals Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

TikTok-Oracle partnership moves forward for consideration

Joint venture proposal could create thousands of jobs and secure TikTok’s future outside China Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Is our drinking data-driven?

Caroline Carruthers, CEO of Carruthers and Jackson, cogitates on the balance between gut and data in making personal risk decisions, ahead of a CDO summer school Continue Reading

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• Caroline Carruthers

Political parties harvest personal data to create profiles on voters, most of it wrong

The UK’s three main political parties are collecting personal data on voters, but much of it is wrong and its use may fall foul of data protection laws Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Facebook allows US users to disable political ads

Users of the social media platform will soon be able to opt out of seeing politically motivated posts Continue Reading

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• Laura Middag Alvarez

Norway’s contact-tracing app suspended over privacy concerns

Norway has been given until 23 June to justify the location tracking of citizens who download its contract-tracing app Continue Reading

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• Laura Middag Alvarez & Bill Goodwin

Collaboration technology is breeding burnout – keep it real

The Covid-19 pandemic has inevitably caused the use of collaboration platforms to spike. But as fatigue sets in, organisations try to keep their use cases focused Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

Max Schrems accuses Ireland of ‘Kafkaesque’ delay in Facebook GDPR investigation

Privacy campaigner Max Schrems has urged the European Commission to intervene after the Irish Data Protection Commission allegedly used ‘Kafkaesque’ tactics to delay investigations into Facebook’s compliance with GDPR Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

FBI search warrants reveal Trump aide’s messages to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

FBI search warrants reveal Trump campaigner Roger Stone sent private messages to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after the site published thousands of documents that damaged Hillary Clinton’s election campaign Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Designing software to include older people in the digital world

The Covid-19 coronavirus crisis has accentuated the importance of including older people in the digital world. How can software firms design products to include generations that came to maturity before the internet? Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

Data excess linked to climate change

IT departments are unwittingly contributing to climate change by storing too much data, much of which will never be used Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be legally extradited for ‘political offences’, say lawyers

Lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange argue that he has been charged with political offences and cannot be legally extradited to the US under the US-UK extradition treaty Continue Reading

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• Greg Wilford

Assange extradition is a politically motivated ‘abuse of power’, court hears

US government’s attempt to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face espionage charges in the US is politically motivated and an abuse of process, court told Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Refinitiv uses Google Cloud to revolutionise delivery of huge datasets

Financial data giant is expanding delivery of its services in the cloud, removing the need for customers to use hard disks and trucks to transport large datasets onsite Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Dutch tech firm transforms real-life football through video game concept

Tech company that helped the Belgian football team in the last World Cup is changing the way footballers are scouted and teams are trained Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Smart use of data takes Dutch railways further

De Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways), ensures, among other things, that 1.2 million train passengers arrive at their destination every day. Through a subsidiary, it’s using data to improve both the customer experience and internal processes Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

How IT can back up ESG efforts to do environmental and social good

Organisations’ environmental, social and governance programmes depend on IT leaders for technological backup Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

Decide if a paywall strategy is right for your business

Organizations that sell content might benefit from a paywall. Here are some questions to ask when deciding if a paywall strategy is right for your business. Continue Reading

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• Laurence Hart, CGI Federal

Russia’s VTB and Rostelecom focus on big data

Russian financial services and telecoms enterprises to create a platform that will allow them and other organisations to utilise big data technology Continue Reading

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• Vladimir Kozlov

Top 10 information management stories of 2019

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 information management stories of 2019 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Lloyd's of London secures £300m for digital transformation

Lloyd's of London has secured funding for a modernisation programme that will start next year Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Online fact-checkers warn of misinformation on unprecedented scale in 2019 election

The UK’s elections watchdog, the Electoral Commission, is calling for new powers to regulate online political advertising Continue Reading

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• Alex Varley-Winter

Content management systems play role in digital transformation efforts

Companies can stoke their digital growth by the use of content management systems, making digital transformation more than just a boring cliché Continue Reading

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• Peter Ray Allison

Dreamforce 2019: Benioff puts data centre stage as protestors disrupt speech

Salesforce founder and co-CEO outlines data integration and data visualisation product vision underpinned by MuleSoft and garnished with Tableau Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How companies can do the right thing with online reviews

TripAdvisor and Amazon have had to learn how to manage online reviews in ways that other companies can learn from Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

Search beyond search engines

All-purpose search engines can have drawbacks for professional searchers. Technologies are emerging to take consultants, journalists, academics and others beyond search engines Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

If data really is the new oil, the raw materials need a different economic approach

The International Monetary Fund is the latest to say that data is the new oil – the change agent in the economy – but striking it rich is a complicated matter Continue Reading

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• Tim Worstall, Adam Smith Institute

GDPR compliance: Whose job is it and is it really possible?

Nobody seems to have a good handle on business GDPR compliance, how many businesses are compliant, or indeed what compliance really is, but according to security experts, it very much depends on who you talk to Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Northwestern cuts storage costs in half with Komprise

Komprise’s Deep Analytics helps university classify and migrate research data to cheaper disk and cloud as it cuts storage costs from $1.1m to $680,000 per annum Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Brexit disrupts FCA exploration into data use in wholesale banking

The extra work for banks due to Brexit preparations has caused a delay to FCA work on the use of data in the wholesale banking sector Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

London Stock Exchange agrees to acquire Refinitiv for £22bn

The London Stock Exchange has agreed to a multi-billion pound takeover of data giant Refinitiv Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

London Stock Exchange eyes £22bn acquisition of Refinitiv to expand data capabilities

The London Stock Exchange is looking at a huge tech acquisition to provide customers access to a wealth of data services built using the latest technologies Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Forward-thinking companies are listening to employees

Technologies and programmes amplifying employees’ voices gain interest among companies keen to keep staff loyal and motivated Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

Budgets for customer experience projects grow, but more are stalling

Organisations are spending on advanced analytics to improve customer experience Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Why the real value of AI in business is in automating backend tasks

For all the hype around artificial intelligence (AI), and the excitement around some of its potential – personal assistants that develop a personality, robot-assisted micro surgery, etc. – it is ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Blockchain and deep neural networks show digital archive promise

Every event, past and present, is in the digital archive, but there is growing concern that this data can be easily manipulated to change historical facts Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CW APAC: Expert advice on data management

Data is growing exponentially, so managing it well is crucial to business success. In this handbook, Computer Weekly looks at how companies and data management experts are tackling data challenges, studies the findings of Gartner’s CDO study, and finds out how organisations are augmenting data management through artificial intelligence and machine learning. Continue Reading

Facebook engaged in ‘calculated’ campaign to eliminate competition, claims businessman

A US businessman is seeking damages from Facebook after accusing the social media company of unfairly blocking “humorous” Facebook pages which generated hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising revenue Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin and Sebastian Klovig Skelton

Dutch road management organisation encourages startups to innovate

Dutch highway management agency RWS is sharing data with the private sector to stimulate innovation Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

Mike Lynch heads to High Court to defend against HP allegations

The UK’s biggest fraud case commences, with the former CEO of Autonomy, Mike Lynch, attempting to clear his name Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

IBM demos quantum leap in artificial intelligence

Working with MIT and Oxford university, the researchers have looked at how quantum computing can accelerate data classification in machine learning Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Met Police collaborated with US prosecutors in WikiLeaks investigation

The Metropolitan Police has confirmed it exchanged information on WikiLeaks staff in the UK with the US Department of Justice, which is conducting criminal investigations into the organisation Continue Reading

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• BIll Goodwin & Niels Ladefoged

OpenText Enterprise World Europe: CEO Barrenechea stakes claim for EIM as competitive edge

OpenText’s CEO and CTO Mark Barrenechea used his keynote at the company’s inaugural Enterprise World Europe customer and partner conference in Vienna to make a case for enterprise information management as a software category that can give corporate organisations a competitive edge Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Facebook asked George Osborne to influence EU data protection law

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg invited one of the chancellor’s children to Facebook’s office as part of a intensive lobbying programme to influence European data protection legislation Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Duncan Campbell & Sebastian Klovig Skelton

Interview: London Grid for Learning CEO on putting technology to work in schools

John Jackson, CEO of the London Grid for Learning, discusses how the organisation supports technology adoption in schools Continue Reading

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor

Lucidworks CEO talks up ‘data experiences’

Will Hayes discusses Lucidworks’ Asian expansion plans, as well as efforts to help enterprises deliver rich data experiences for employees and customers through AI-augmented search engines Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Explainable AI: How and why did the AI say ‘true’?

The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is 42, according to Deep Thought in ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ – but experts need to explain AI decisions Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Technologies to support deep learning

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies needed to support deep learning and artificial intelligence applications in your organisation. We hear about Southern Water’s data management overhaul and the benefits achieved from centralising its data specialists. And we examine best practice in managing large-scale Docker implementations. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Watercolour World digitises ‘photographs’ of the pre-camera age

Charity dedicated to making thousands of fragile pre-1900 watercolour paintings available on the web has launched its site with help from Fujitsu scanner maker PFU Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Using business intelligence tools to prevent team burnout

This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Filev, founder and CEO, Wrike. Since no business wants to leave money on the table, it’s tempting to try to squeeze as much productivity as possible out of your ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

When is it best to stick with paper?

Going digital has been seen as the thing to do, but there can be limits to digital and there's an enduring value to paper. Digital isn’t always best Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

Amazon AI debacle won’t stop adoption for recruitment

The sexist artificial intelligence recruitment debacle at Amazon should prove a blip as the technology gains ground in and for human resources departments Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

Mike Lynch charged with fraud over $11bn sale of Autonomy

It may be long forgotten, but HP once wanted to be in software and spent a lot of money on Autonomy, which was regarded as one of the hottest tech firms Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Storage 101: Unstructured data and its storage needs

Unstructured data exists in huge volumes, but often it is semi-structured with metadata. We lift the lid on unstructured data and key approaches to its storage Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

Survey: Data very fragmented, and that’s a worry for most

Cohesity-sponsored survey finds most organisations store multiple copies of secondary data and worry about the cost and the effect on their competitiveness Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Microsoft’s Xiaoice chatbot is now designing textile patterns

Software giant claims the design knowhow of its popular AI chatbot is a breakthrough in the field of image-based creation Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Agfa’s move to cloud HR paves the way for healthcare IT spin-off

Agfa-Gevaert is moving HR systems from 40 countries into the cloud as the company prepares to turn its health IT operations into a standalone business Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

UK winners and losers in digital tech

The UK's retail and telecoms companies are among the best in the world at digital technology, but a survey of digital leaders shows there is still room for improvement for many UK firms Continue Reading

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• Tony Farnfield

Software requirements for international aid go beyond cloud and apps

Aid workers in extreme situations don’t always have stable access to the software they need over the cloud. Find out how they work around this Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

Adobe’s Vittal: AI ‘bigger than the web’, and in use at Swisscom

Adobe and one of its customers used the DMEXCO digital marketing conference and exhibition in Cologne to talk about artificial intelligence efforts and spell out what each sees as their value Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Amnesty International creates human rights digital archive

Digital preservation platform from Preservica will protect digital records of significant historical importance to Amnesty and its supporters Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

National Archives races to create electronic archive of EU law before Brexit

The National Archives faces challenges converting the EU's enormous library of laws into a publicly accessible UK archive ahead of Brexit. The Archives’ digital director, John Sheridan, explains how Continue Reading

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• Wendy M Grossman

Capital markets firms to ramp up public cloud spending

Companies in the investment sector are increasingly using the public cloud to improve access to business-critical data Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Has collaboration software wrought perilous communication overload?

A new generation of collaborative software, such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, could prove a knowledge management boon. But does it have a dark side of communication overload? Continue Reading

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• Peter Ray Allison

Why AI must move beyond pattern-matching

Artificial intelligence and deep learning have revolutionised applications such as computer vision, but more complex problems require a different approach Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

NHS collaborates with private health on sharing patient data

Work has begun on establishing a set of data standards to enable private healthcare patients’ data to be shared with the NHS Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

CIO interview: Mike Young, Centrica

We speak to the CIO whose CEO recently met with the head of Microsoft to talk about strategy Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Chief data officers go to summer school

Authors of the “Chief data officer’s playbook”, Caroline Carruthers and Peter Jackson, are running a summer school, supported by data governance software supplier Collibra Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Two chiefs, two approaches to digital transformation

While the definition of digital transformation is debatable, IT business leaders agree it's all about the data Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

London CDO: More groundwork needed to gain trust for data use

London’s chief digital officer, Theo Blackwell, says organisations need to do more groundwork if a smarter city is to be real possibility Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

GDPR: An overview of the latest data protection legislation

The forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will have wide-ranging implications for every organisation that processes personal data. This comprehensive overview tells you what you need to know Continue Reading

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• Dai Davis, Percy Crow Davis & Co

CenturyLink takes aim at APAC market post-Level 3 merger

The US telecoms giant is expanding its footprint in Asia through its merger with Level 3, and hopes to bring its offerings on par with that of rivals in the region Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Blockchain: Paving the way for broad adoption

The foundations have been laid for organisations to begin standardising on the technology, talent and platforms that will drive future blockchain initiatives Continue Reading

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• Mark Lillie, Deloitte

Intelligent information management is ready for AI, blockchain

A panel discussion at AIIM 2018 looked at how AI, cloud and blockchain will disrupt the intelligent information management space. Continue Reading

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• Jesse Scardina, News Writer