Enterprise software
Enterprise software covers a wide range of vital IT management decisions, from operating systems to databases, from business applications to integration and middleware. Your software purchasing and development strategy is central to delivering successful IT systems, and we examine the products and trends that help IT managers make the right choices for their organisation.
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News
08 Nov 2024
Inside Grab’s platform strategy
Grab’s group CTO talks up the super app’s platform strategy, architecture and organisational structure behind its growth across diverse Southeast Asian markets Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2024
HCLTech to open AI lab in Singapore
The new facility in Singapore will be the latest in HCLTech’s network of global AI labs set up to help businesses deploy artificial intelligence applications and build local talent Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Nov 2019
Scylla’s ‘scale-up & scale-out’ mantra for monster database power
There are databases. Then there are big data databases. Then, then there are super-performance high-speed big data databases. And finally, there are real-time big data databases that run at ... Continue Reading
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Tip
05 Nov 2019
Follow these guidelines for a successful ERP upgrade project
Get a handle on the time and cost variables of upgrading an ERP system and stay laser focused on value drivers, like analytics, that have the biggest impact on business strategy. Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
Cloud native core banking enables consumers to personalise what they buy
Google inspired core banking platform could help banks offer personalised products to millions of people. Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Nov 2019
Alternative databases set for mainstream adoption?
The rise of non-relational databases has been a feature of the data management landscape in the wake of big data – but to complement or replace relational? Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
Ransomware authors seeking new ways to avoid being spotted
Sector analysis from Sophos has revealed some insight into how malware authors are adapting to thwart cyber security controls Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
VMware readies on-premise and as-a-service hybrid offerings
During its annual VMworld event in Barcelona, VMware unveiled its vision for combining vSphere and Kubernetes Continue Reading
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Podcast
05 Nov 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 35
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team pick over the finale of Channel 4 reality show The Circle, talk General Election tech and find out why enterprises are not prepared to pay a premium for business applications infused with AI Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2019
Top five cloud storage pitfalls
Cloud storage offers apparent simplicity, but unexpected costs, complexity, data movement and integration challenges can arise. We look at how to avoid common cloud storage pitfalls. Continue Reading
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05 Nov 2019
Why API-first software development leads to shiny API people
There is a fundamental difference between using application programming interfaces for integration and having an API strategy for reuse. We look at how APIs can make digital initiatives shine. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
05 Nov 2019
The benefits of API-first software development
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we find out how organisations are using an API-based approach to software development to boost digital initiatives. We examine the potential pitfalls in using cloud storage. And we talk to the Department for Work and Pensions about its four-year project to move from outsourced IT to the cloud. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
Gartner: The time is right to make IT a boardroom issue
In many businesses, IT is regarded as an internal service provider and cost centre. Gartner says now is the best time for CIOs to make IT strategic Continue Reading
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News
05 Nov 2019
OpenStack to get standardisation boost in China
New standards are being developed by the OpenStack Foundation and a standards body to improve the interoperability of OpenStack distributions in China Continue Reading
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Feature
04 Nov 2019
How to improve HR processes: 6 modern tools CHROs should consider
HR tools and techniques can help free up time in HR for more beneficial activities, but it can be hard to know what to focus on first. Start with these six methods to improve HR processes. Continue Reading
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News
04 Nov 2019
Thousands apply to Abu Dhabi AI University in first week
Artificial intelligence university in Abu Dhabi gets more than 3,000 applications in the week following its application process being opened Continue Reading
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News
04 Nov 2019
EU patches 20-year-old open source vulnerability
Ethical hackers taking part in a bug bounty programme on behalf of the European Union have uncovered a 20-year-old vulnerability Continue Reading
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News
04 Nov 2019
Chinese companies fuelling OpenStack adoption in APAC
Led by Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and China Mobile, the Asia-Pacific region will account for a third of the global OpenStack market by 2023 Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Nov 2019
How Sporting Group tackles the Rugby World Cup
Sporting Group has readied its system monitoring to ensure the technology is able to cope with the huge demand for bets during the Rugby World Cup final Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2019
CIO must focus on easing data access to help data scientists build models more quickly
Data scientists struggle to get the right data in the right format to build artificial intelligence models, so to benefit from AI, CIOs will need to simplify data access Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2019
How to break free from traditional desktop productivity
Over the last few years, the acceptance of cloud platforms in business has opened up opportunities for employees to work differently. We investigate Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Nov 2019
CI/CD series - Contrast Security: pipeline tools must be robust, sharp & safe
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by David Archer, sales engineer ... Continue Reading
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News
01 Nov 2019
Nordea brings fintech for women by women
Bank’s female-only hackathon comes up with new ideas for financial services aimed at improving women’s financial wellbeing Continue Reading
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Tip
31 Oct 2019
4 future workplace trends HR should understand for 2020 and beyond
The future of work is fueled by technology -- and the skills only people offer. Here are four forces that CHROs and their teams must understand to successfully lead in this change-intensive time. Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Oct 2019
Are AI applications failing to live up to hype in enterprise adoption?
Artificial intelligence has been baked into enterprise applications in recent years and often given special names, such as Einstein, Leonardo and Coleman. But has the hype delivered? Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Oct 2019
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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News
30 Oct 2019
L'Oréal builds Talend-based data lake in Microsoft Azure to accelerate product R&D
Cosmetics giant L'Oréal reveals details of how it is combining Microsoft cloud technologies with Talend's data integration tools to speed up product development within its organisation Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2019
Legacy monitoring tools hamper digital progress
Older monitoring tools lack support for microservices, containerisation and serverless computing, Forrester Consulting warns Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2019
Executive interview: Why the times are a changin’ in collaboration
Companies are aware that the next wave of talent wants to work collaboratively, but how do you collaborate and what policies discourage collaboration? Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2019
Cost savings drive business automation
While businesses are using automation to save money, many also see robotic process automation as essential to support new business initiatives Continue Reading
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News
30 Oct 2019
Singapore startup plugs AI skills gap with pre-trained microservices
Sentient.io is offering artificial intelligence microservices that developers can use to augment their applications with speech recognition and other AI capabilities Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2019
How Aussie Broadband is improving service levels with automation
Australian telco Aussie Broadband has improved customer service though automation, even with a lean team and a growing subscriber base Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2019
Will context fuel the next AI revolution?
This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Amy Hodler. Imagine the possibilities when AI can handle ambiguity, she says. Business and governments are turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to automate ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2019
Businesses at risk as mainframe skills die out
Most businesses that are heavily reliant on mainframes fear a shrinking skills pool Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2019
Post Office IT trial judgement within days
The judgment in the second trial in a multimillion-pound legal battle over an allegedly faulty IT system at the Post Office is imminent Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Oct 2019
CI/CD series - Tibco: Continuous self-service intelligence with Kafka DataOps
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network in our Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Delivery (CD) series. This contribution is written by Mark Palmer in his capacity ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Oct 2019
Why Singapore’s GovTech is building an IoT technology stack
Government Technology Agency has built an internet of things technology stack to level the playing field for smaller firms and drive innovation in public sector IoT projects Continue Reading
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E-Zine
29 Oct 2019
IR35 reforms – the difficult decisions facing IT contractors
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the difficult choices facing UK IT contractors from the controversial IR35 tax reforms. Social engineering is a major source of cyber security attacks – we look at mitigation strategies. And the IT chief at Mercedes F1 explains what it takes to support a world championship team. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Oct 2019
Time to unplug PowerPoint
Can a corporate piece of software change the culture of an organisation. It happened in 1983 when Mitch Kapor developed Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC, the PC’s first killer application. Aldus ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Oct 2019
Tibco adds extra sauce to open source
Tibco is focused on open source and Agile this month. The integration and analytics specialist has upped the toolset in a group of its products with a key focus on Agile agility for cloud-native ... Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2019
Windows 7 upgrade haunts health service tech vision
Windows 7 issues at the NHS are making headlines, 15 months after the release of the review of how legacy IT was exploited by the WannaCry attack Continue Reading
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News
28 Oct 2019
Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling: enterprise customers won’t pay extra for AI
Mike Ettling, chief executive, Unit4, spoke to Computer Weekly at the Unleash HR conference in Paris about ERP trends, and how he is positioning the firm he started running this year Continue Reading
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News
25 Oct 2019
Cloud leaders invest in datacentres as public clouds expand
Microsoft and Amazon have posted strong results for Q3 2019. Both are investing heavily in cloud infrastructure to support cloud services Continue Reading
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Feature
24 Oct 2019
ERP evolution sees major shifts in holistic view of business
Implementers and users recall the late 1990s move off mainframes and the rise of SaaS and monolithic suites. Plus, ERP founders Hasso Plattner of SAP and Evan Goldberg of NetSuite share their insights. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Oct 2019
Abbyy Content IQ: keynote notes, quotes & anecdotes
Abbyy (or ABBYY if you follow the firm's corporate brand guidelines) kicked of its Content IQ Summit in Nashville, Tennesse this week and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team were there to ... Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2019
British Gas powers customer experience with third-party Salesforce app
Its parent company, Centrica, uses Salesforce to support Hive – now British Gas is using a third-party Salesforce app to improve customer experience Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2019
How Singtel and Dell are approaching digital transformation
Singtel employees are learning to create their own robotic process automation-powered bots while Dell has speeded up application development from months to weeks Continue Reading
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News
24 Oct 2019
Total saves £95,000 a year with Nutanix hyper-converged
Gas and electricity supplier struggled with ageing traditional infrastructure, but moved to hyper-converged for projects that include containers and DevOps deployments Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2019
Kinetica opens Melbourne office, bullish on data analytics
Analytics startup is bullish about the Australian market as more organisations leverage GPU-based platforms to support real-time analytics Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Oct 2019
Apache Tinkerpop rocks DataStax support for Gremlin
DataStax offers a commercially supported ‘enterprise-robust’ database built on open source Apache Cassandra. As such, DataStax has told Computer Weekly Open Source Insider that it is actively ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
23 Oct 2019
Gartner: Three Barriers to AI Adoption
CIOs are set to include artificial intelligence in their IT strategy. Technical, legislative and cultural challenges could influence their AI ambitions Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2019
Take responsibility for cyber security basics, urges NCSC CEO
At the launch of its third annual review, NCSC head Ciaran Martin appealed for individuals and businesses to address the fundamentals of cyber security hygiene to help lighten the load Continue Reading
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News
23 Oct 2019
Interview: Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi, head of digital, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company
Abdul Nasser Al Mughairbi is leading digital developments at Abu Dhabi's state-owned oil giant Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2019
Australia, Singapore emerge tops in data readiness index
Organisations in Australia and Singapore are among the most advanced in the Asia-Pacific region in harnessing data to achieve key business outcomes Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Oct 2019
Splunk .conf keynote notes, quotes & anecdotes
What’s not to love about log file management and trace analytics? Nothing apparently. Splunk managed to attract what was claimed to be somewhere over 11,000 attendees to Las Vegas for its .conf ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2019
Banks move to contain impact of Samsung biometric flaw
NatWest and Nationwide have moved to lock down their mobile banking apps after Samsung warned of a biometric security flaw on its Galaxy and Note S10 devices Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2019
Abu Dhabi National Oil Company uses blockchain for inter-group network
The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company is using blockchain internally, with plans to expand it beyond the group boundaries Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Oct 2019
Splunk Mission Control acts on data ‘at machine speed’
Splunk has built new functions into its Security Operations Suite to modernize and unify its Security Operations Center (SOC) product. Anchored by the newly launched Splunk Mission Control, the ... Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Oct 2019
Discover 5 key cloud networking basics for your organization
Clear away the fog, and explore these five key cloud networking fundamentals -- such as models, challenges and tools -- you need to know before you adopt a cloud network strategy. Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2019
Executive interview: How Moleskine digitises ideas
Handwritten notes jotted down on paper are not often shared, but capturing these digitally can encourage a creative approach to collaboration Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Oct 2019
Can advanced fire modeling put out wildfires?
Splunk has ‘closed funding’ in Zonehaven, a cloud-based analytics application designed to help communities improve evacuations and reduce wildfire risk with data. The funding is the first ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Oct 2019
Different Clouds Don't Like To Cluster...
Had another interesting cloudy discussion last week with SIOS – one of ITs better kept secrets, certainly in the UK. Much of that is down to the sensitivity of what it does and who it does it for. ... Continue Reading
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22 Oct 2019
Public cloud computing is early on its journey to core of the bank
Banks are no longer reluctant to use the cloud as the technology pierces the outer layer of the banking sector and begins its journey to the core. Continue Reading
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E-Zine
22 Oct 2019
Microsoft vs Google – who’s winning the cloud email race?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, there’s a two-horse race for dominance in the cloud email market between Microsoft and Google, but they are not alone – we examine the runners and riders. Our latest buyer’s guide looks at governance, risk and compliance solutions. And we assess the progress of public cloud in the banking sector. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
22 Oct 2019
APAC spending on AI systems to hit $6.2bn in 2019
Led by China and organisations in the banking industry, APAC spending on artificial intelligence is set to grow by almost 64% this year, according to IDC Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2019
Edge computing, 5G spur mobile mixed reality market
Research identifies 5G networks and edge computing as two key emerging technologies that will accelerate the development of mixed reality from 2020 Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2019
Many companies fail to empower employee data-driven decision-making
In a data-driven business, staff need access to the right data at the right time to help them do their jobs, but there appears to be a data gap Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2019
SAP cloud revenue boosted by Microsoft deal
New contract with Microsoft will see Azure become the preferred hosting platform for ECC to SAP S/4 Hana cloud migrations Continue Reading
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News
21 Oct 2019
Australia government moots cloud marketplace
The Digital Transformation Agency is planning a cloud marketplace for Australian government agencies to acquire a broader range of cloud services through a new procurement model Continue Reading
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News
20 Oct 2019
The lure of Google Cloud for Singapore’s Ninja Van
Regional logistics startup Ninja Van is consolidating all its compute resources on Google Cloud for cost savings and performance Continue Reading
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News
18 Oct 2019
Mark Hurd, co-CEO of Oracle, has died
The software giant announced a leave of absence for Hurd only last month, while he underwent treatment for undisclosed health problems Continue Reading
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News
18 Oct 2019
Home Office Brexit app finally available for iPhone
A mobile app to help EU citizens apply for Settled and Pre-Settled Status after Brexit is finally available for Apple iPhone devices, but only on newer generations Continue Reading
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Blog Post
18 Oct 2019
What to expect from Tableau Conference 2019
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team are big fans of business intelligence and big data analytics, interactive data dashboard technologies, data visualisation specialists and companies that ... Continue Reading
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News
18 Oct 2019
Talent shortage impedes UK business data analytics efforts
Research from data blending and preparation supplier Alteryx finds UK businesses struggling to make the most of their data due to a shortage of data analytics expertise Continue Reading
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News
18 Oct 2019
Two-thirds of UK financial services firms are using machine learning
The use of machine learning in the finance sector is set to increase as obstacles to its take up are not seen as being insurmountable Continue Reading
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News
18 Oct 2019
Due diligence requires a flexible, standardised approach
A study has found that procurement professionals are not confident of the process for vetting new suppliers – but a one-size assessment approach does not fit all Continue Reading
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News
18 Oct 2019
Huge rise in rogue banking apps driving fraud attacks
Fraud perpetrated through fake mobile apps purporting to be from legitimate banks has seen a statistically significant spike, says RSA Continue Reading
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News
17 Oct 2019
Barclays demonstrates proof-of-concept quantum clearing algorithm
Barclays and IBM researchers publish paper on a quantum computing algorithm for securities transaction trading Continue Reading
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News
17 Oct 2019
Abu Dhabi AI university open for applications
New university in UAE aims to enable students, businesses and governments to increase the use of artificial intelligence technology Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Oct 2019
Plush giraffe perturbation
A robot hand has been taught by OpenAI to successfully solve a Rubik’s Cube in an average time of four minutes. “So what?” you ask, being the unbearable Rubik’s Cube expert you are. It’s true, mere ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Oct 2019
SELIS: A recipe for a shared logistics information space
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Dr. Takis Katsoulakos in his role as managing director for Inlecom Systems. Inlecom Systems is an information learning and ... Continue Reading
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Feature
16 Oct 2019
3 potential multi-cloud challenges that could go unnoticed
Disaster recovery, vendor lock-in and cost are major factors as organizations evaluate multi-cloud strategies. However, these pros can become cons if teams aren't careful. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
16 Oct 2019
Financial services firms reveal their fintech status in major study
Fintech leaders in traditional banks are making significant progress but major challenges remain Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2019
Southeast Asian organisations warm to Anthos
Google Cloud sees pockets of interest in Anthos and could review its pricing strategy as adoption of the multi-cloud management platform grows Continue Reading
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News
16 Oct 2019
Zopa continues in its mission to apply a Netflix user experience to banking
Zopa has made a credit scoring tool available as it continues to expand the portfolio of products it offers beyond loans. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Oct 2019
UiPath makes key acquisitions for RPA discovery & process mining
UiPath has been shopping, perhaps unsurprisingly. The software automation company specialises in the platform-level development of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technologies. Having been on a ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Oct 2019
What to expect from Splunk .conf 2019
The Computer Weekly Developer Network team is off to Splunk .conf for the fourth consecutive year. Splunk is a Data-to-Everything Platform, helping organisations to get a complete view of their ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
15 Oct 2019
UiPath Forward III: keynote notes, quotes & anecdotes
Software automation specialist organisation UiPath staged it's annual FORWARD user conference this week in Las Vegas and the Computer Weekly Developer Network team was there to soak up the tech ... Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2019
Software architects struggle with relational database legacy
Legacy relational database management systems were originally designed as systems of record, but they don’t work as well in modern, cloud-native designs Continue Reading
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Podcast
15 Oct 2019
Podcast: The Computer Weekly Downtime Upload – episode 34
In this week’s episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, the team discusses BBC conspiracy thriller, The Capture, and its focus on video surveillance and facial recognition technology Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2019
OVH rebrand signals renewed push to become Europe’s alternative cloud provider of choice
French public cloud provider OVH has undergone a rebrand and doubled down on its pledge to offer European enterprises an alternative place to store their data Continue Reading
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News
15 Oct 2019
AI Singapore to set up on-premise HPC infrastructure
Singapore’s national AI programme is getting its own high-performance computing infrastructure to support more compute intensive workloads Continue Reading
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E-Zine
15 Oct 2019
Securing the internet of things
In this week’s Computer Weekly, as security concerns prevent many organisations from adopting the internet of things, we examine mitigation strategies. Many firms are still struggling with GDPR policies – we assess if full compliance is ever possible. And we look at the technologies for delivering on-premise object storage. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Oct 2019
Dynatrace analytics drives business towards the ‘expected normal’
Dynatrace has added a new raft of analytics to its software intelligence offering. Known as Digital Business Analytics, the software itself is made of code (it’s digital), it’s intended for ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
14 Oct 2019
Software development spires and foundations
CCS Insight has predicted that by 2023, psychometric testing of software developers will become commonplace. The analyst firm believes that ethical psychometric testing will appear more regularly ... Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2019
Why API-first software development leads to shiny API people
There is a fundamental difference between using application programming interfaces for integration and having an API strategy for reuse. We look at how APIs can make digital initiatives shine Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2019
The Security Interviews: Applying AI to Lego, and security
Ann Johnson, Microsoft corporate vice-president of cyber security, is on a mission to prove that artificial intelligence holds great promise for the security sector, and she has the analogies to back it up Continue Reading
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News
14 Oct 2019
PDPC issues cross-border data transfer guidelines for cloud services
Singapore’s data protection watchdog issues advisory guidelines to help businesses and cloud suppliers stay on the right side of the law under the country’s data protection regime Continue Reading
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Blog Post
12 Oct 2019
What to expect from Scylla Summit 2019
The Computer Weekly Developer Network and Open Source Insider team are big fans of Greek classics, San Francisco clam chowder shared-nothing architectures and open source-centric real-time big data ... Continue Reading
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Tip
11 Oct 2019
Get smarter about HR data security
HR deals with mountains of sensitive employee data and must do a better job of protecting that information. Here's a look at how they can do just that. Continue Reading
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News
11 Oct 2019
How code reuse drives business change at the DWP
Department for Work and Pensions is using application programming interfaces to promote reuse of granular microservices across the organisation Continue Reading
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News
11 Oct 2019
SAP CEO Bill McDermott steps down
McDermott will be replaced by SAP board members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein Continue Reading