Information management

vector

A vector is a quantity or phenomenon that has two independent properties: magnitude and direction. Continue Reading

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• Paul Kirvan

EU fails to protect human rights in surveillance tech transfers

Transfers of surveillance technology from the European Union to African governments are carried out without due regard for the human rights impacts, the European Ombudsman has found after a year-long investigation into the European Commission’s management of an aid fund Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Embedded analytics can be illuminating

In the first part of our buyer’s guide to data visualisation, we look at how analytics suppliers are increasingly offering embedded analytics – based inside applications, often real-time, and driven by APIs – as a way to get to the next level of business intelligence. Continue Reading

Is Twitter still safe, and should you stop using the platform?

In this week’s Computer Weekly, with a litany of security and compliance issues caused by Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, we ask if it’s still safe for enterprises. Our latest buyer’s guide examines the technologies and best practices behind data visualisation. And we look at the emerging devices for accessing the metaverse. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

search engine marketing (SEM)

Search engine marketing (SEM) is a method of promotion and advertising to help companies' content rank higher among search engine traffic. Continue Reading

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• Nick Barney, Technology Writer
• Lauren Horwitz, Cisco

What is a data warehouse analyst?

Data warehouse analysts help organizations manage the repositories of analytics data and use them effectively. Here's a look at the role and its responsibilities. Continue Reading

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• George Lawton

Evaluating data warehouse deployment options and use cases

There's still a place for data warehouses in data architectures. But first, ask whether your organization needs one and what type of technology platform is the best fit. Continue Reading

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• Craig S. Mullins, Mullins Consulting

How Bosch is driving Industry 4.0 in India

Bosch India is leveraging advanced analytics and artificial intelligence to detect manufacturing defects and plans to tap quantum computing for material simulation Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

How to choose the right PIM system for your business

PIM systems ensure sales channels display accurate product information. To find the right system, e-commerce leaders must first identify business goals and required features. Continue Reading

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• Jordan Jones

Post Office boosted its ‘coffers’ as Horizon system threw up unexplained shortfalls, inquiry told

The Post Office was ‘keen’ to make subpostmasters cover unexplained accounting shortfall as its business struggled, public inquiry hears Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

PIM vs. DAM: What's the difference?

PIM and DAM systems help retailers manage information, but they focus on different information types. PIM systems aggregate product details, whereas DAM systems store multimedia. Continue Reading

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• Tim Murphy

search engine results page (SERP)

A search engine results page (SERP) is the list of results that a search engine returns in response to a specific word or keyword phrase query. Continue Reading

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• Nick Barney, Technology Writer

Microsoft 365 banned in German schools over privacy concerns

German schools cannot legally use Microsoft Office 365 over lack of clarity about how data is collected, shared and used, as well as the potential for unlawful transfer of European citizens’ personal data to the US Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Parity AI talks about auditing recruitment algorithms for bias

Algorithmic auditing firm Parity speaks to Computer Weekly about the process of auditing artificial intelligence for bias, following its partnership with AI-powered recruitment platform Beamery Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

AWS doubles down on data management

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services declares a bold vision to eliminate the need to extract, transform and load data alongside other efforts to address business problems in domains like cyber security and logistics Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

‘Legal but harmful’ clause dropped from Online Safety Bill

Online Safety Bill’s ‘legal but harmful’ provision will be dropped by the UK government in favour of public risk assessments, tools to help users control the content they consume, and new criminal offences around self-harm Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

How to stop data retention from killing the planet

In this week’s Computer Weekly, there’s a hidden environmental cost to the vast volumes of data being generated – we examine what can be done to address it. We talk to the CISO of consumer reviews site Trustpilot, about building trust in IT security. And we look at what IT leaders can do if they inherit a toxic team environment. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

CIO interview: David Charnley, head of transformation and strategy, NatWest Group

Data is at the heart of the banking giant’s push to improve customer experience – and to enhance its environmental credentials Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Protecting children as they spend years in virtual worlds

To protect children online, we must now focus on pre-emptive and robust regulation around immersive technologies Continue Reading

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• Patrick Cronin

5 steps to an improved data quality assurance plan

Follow these steps to develop a data quality assurance plan and management strategy that can help identify data errors before they cause big business problems. Continue Reading

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• David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity Inc.

UKISUG 2022: S/4 skills deficit worsens but SAP Rise use increases

On the opening day of its 2022 conference, the UK and Ireland SAP User Group unveils member research showing concerns that an S/4 Hana skills deficit appears worse than it was 12 months ago Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Getting data analytics right

Organisations will need to marry the art and science of data analytics to drive innovation in their analytics initiatives, according to Gartner Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Managing the maritime ecosystem with graph technology

This is a guest blogpost by Ali I. Riaz, CEO of OrbitMI Maritime is one of the most important parts of our global supply chain. Ship owners, ship operators and the entire maritime ecosystem must ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Meta faces UK lawsuit over surveillance business model

The High Court case against Meta could set a precedent for millions of UK users to object to their personal data being collected and processed for advertising purposes Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Indefinite storage: What it is and why you might need it

Indefinite storage addresses the issue that archived data may need to be kept well beyond the lifespan of the technology it was written for Continue Reading

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• Stephen Pritchard

pagination

Pagination is the process of separating print or digital content into discrete pages. Continue Reading

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• Katie Terrell Hanna
• Ivy Wigmore

Why graph technology is for all our digital futures

This is a guest blogpost by Neo4j’s Jim Webber, who says graphs are a way of managing complexity that is all around us, so why not work with it directly? As DB Engines has been tracking, graph ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Oracle’s Steve Miranda on the value of turning inside out

In a Q&A with Computer Weekly at Oracle Open World, applications head Steve Miranda discussed the supplier’s opening out and its intensification of an industry cloud approach, signally with healthcare Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Does application modernisation mean what you think it means?

Most people in IT probably think they know what application modernisation is. For many it involves application refactoring - rebuilding the app using technologies such as containers and ... Continue Reading

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• Bryan Betts, Freeform Dynamics

AI accountability held back by ‘audit-washing’ practices

Algorithmic auditing will be useless in holding artificial intelligence accountable until there are common standards, approaches and goals that scrutinise systems at each stage of development and deployment, says think-tank Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

What are the top benefits of knowledge management?

A proper knowledge management strategy can help organizations boost document security, increase employee efficiency and decrease frustration in searches for digital assets. Continue Reading

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• Reda Chouffani, Biz Technology Solutions

Three things to avoid doing with AI in a recession, and what to do instead

This is a guest post by Shaun McGirr, EMEA RVP of AI Strategy, Dataiku Some companies see AI as a tool to help them do what they already do at lower cost or faster, while others see AI as something ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Cyber criminals target World Cup Qatar 2022

In this week’s Computer Weekly, as the FIFA World Cup opens in Qatar, we examine the cyber security threats from criminals targeting the event. We report from the Gartner Symposium on the latest predictions for enterprise software development. And we talk to the CIO of Kyiv City Council about managing IT in the shadow of war. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Why robots will make work more human

Smart technology should be about making people’s lives easier, freeing them up for judgement-based tasks and giving them the data and information they need for smart decision-making Continue Reading

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• George Lynch and Jason Pyle

How Singapore’s OCBC is harnessing open source

OCBC using the OpenShift container platform to modernise its applications, reduce its reliance on proprietary software and deliver new business capabilities Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

CW APAC: Trend Watch: Artificial intelligence in APAC

Artificial intelligence is becoming more commonplace across business. In this handbook, focused on the adoption of the technology in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at what still stands in its way, Dell’s deep learning model, how AI can realise its potential in healthcare, and the pros and cons of using AI and ML applications in the cloud. Continue Reading

AI adopted without due consideration for workers, MPs told

MPs have been warned that the rapid roll-out of artificial intelligence in workplaces has changed UK enterprises’ management practices so much that current employment law is no longer fit for purpose Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

NHS trust that deleted up to 90,000 emails cleared of deliberately concealing evidence

A tribunal found in a high-profile case brought by whistleblower Chris Day that an NHS trust had not deliberately concealed evidence when a director deleted up to 90,000 emails before he was due to testify Continue Reading

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• Tommy Greene

Informatica CEO: ‘We’re the Switzerland of data’

Informatica CEO Amit Walia talks up the company’s role as the ‘Switzerland of data’, helping organisations to manage data across different platforms as it transitions into a cloud-first supplier of data management tools Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

How to get structure from unstructured data

We look at how to gain structure from unstructured data, via AI/ML analytics to create new records, selecting object data via SQL and storing unstructured files in NoSQL formats Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

PyTorch

PyTorch is an open source machine learning (ML) framework based on the Python programming language and the Torch library. Continue Reading

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• Kinza Yasar, Technical Writer
• Sarah Lewis

Applying blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB in green energy trading

Energy trading platform Powerledger has leveraged the power of blockchain, Kafka and MongoDB to make its mark in renewable energy trading in Australia Continue Reading

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• Stephen Withers

SAP Build launched at TechEd to appeal to business user developers

SAP is launching a low-code platform, SAP Build, aimed squarely at line of business users, at its TechEd conference in Las Vegas. Build is part of the supplier’s Business Technology Platform Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

TUI plots course for self-service analytics

The international travel group is overhauling its data stack and aims to provide self-service analytics to key employees across the organisation, as Marc Jennings, CIO of analytics and AI, explains. Continue Reading

How to protect against ransomware attacks

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at how to prepare for and protect against ransomware, and what to do if you’re hit by an attack. We gauge industry reaction to Ofcom’s plan to investigate the big three cloud providers. And we find out how travel giant TUI is implementing self-service analytics. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Met Police removes nearly two-thirds of people from gangs matrix

Legal action by human rights group Liberty forces Met Police to overhaul its gangs violence matrix database Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Sadiq Khan launches Data for London Advisory Board

Board will look at how to join up and share data between public and private London organisations in an effort to build a stronger data economy and improve public services Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Siemens aims to pioneer industrial metaverse usage

German engineering giant is exploring industrial metaverse use cases, and the Biosphere Foundation in Devon is proving out Siemens technology Continue Reading

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• Marc Ambasna-Jones

Scrutinising AI requires holistic, end-to-end system audits

Understanding the full impacts of artificial intelligence requires organisations to conduct end-to-end social and technical audits of their systems, but the process comes with a number of challenges Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

search engine

A search engine is a coordinated set of programs that searches for and identifies items in a database that match specified criteria. Continue Reading

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• Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor

CW Benelux: Heineken finds the right brew for digital

Heineken’s data management director has revealed some of the ways the company is using information technology to transform digitally. Also read how a PhD student in the Netherlands is detecting hidden messages on the internet by exploring the practice of steganography. Continue Reading

ODI fuel poverty survey shows young adults most hard up

A fuel poverty data report and index from the Open Data Institute shows that young adults and people in multi-occupied accommodation are most at risk Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How organisations can right-size their data footprint

More data is not always better, says Gartner, which is calling for organisations to focus on metadata and synthetic data to reduce their data liability and address privacy challenges Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

How the US-China chip war will affect IT leaders

In this week’s Computer Weekly, as the US ramps up semiconductor sanctions on China, we examine the ramifications across the tech sector. Cyber criminals are turning to new forms of encryption – we talk to the Dutch researchers trying to catch them. And we look at what cloud providers need to do to improve customer experience. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

falsifiability

Falsifiability is the capacity for some proposition, statement, theory or hypothesis to be proven wrong. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon
• Ivy Wigmore

How government can capitalise on a revolution in data sharing

Alison Pritchard, deputy national statistician at the Office for National Statistics, says the new government Integrated Data Service enables tackling questions that we don’t yet know we need to answer Continue Reading

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• Alison Pritchard

Public sector IT projects need ethical data practices from start

Data ethics needs to be integrated into public sector IT projects from the very start, and considered throughout every stage of the process, to be effective Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Department for Education escapes £10m fine over data misuse

Department entrusted data on 28 million children to a company called Trustopia, which turned out to be anything but trustworthy, but has escaped a £10m fine under new rules Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Candidate experience evolves to engender more emotional engagement

Despite the cost-of-living crisis, employment is high and companies need to create a compelling candidate experience when competition is strong and ‘ghosting’ is common Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

How Globe is driving data analytics with Snowflake

The largest telco in the Philippines has moved its on-premise data warehouse to Snowflake to address scalability challenges and improve customer experience Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Data-driven decision making will fail – and here is why

Marc Warner, CEO at Faculty, contends that corporate organisations need to go through a cycle similar to the development of scientific thought – from divination, via data deluge to theoretical understanding Continue Reading

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• Marc Warner

Computer simulation at work for the future of nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion works, just not yet well enough. Learn how software simulations running on modern supercomputers and data science are lighting up possible paths forward Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

CIO interview: Marc Jennings, CIO of analytics and AI, TUI

The international travel group is overhauling its data stack and aims to provide self-service analytics to key employees across the organisation Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Data Summit majors on ethics in data use, demonstrates diversity

The Data Lab’s Data Summit majored on the ethical use of data, and featured Scottish government minister Tom Arthur, science broadcaster Hannah Fry, and Nasa chief science data officer Kevin Murphy Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Data Lab bolsters business execs data course in time with Data Summit

Course focuses on the leadership skills needed to design, resource and implement a data strategy that will enable organisational change Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Justice transparency: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

We speak to The National Archives about how it is using semantic data to make court and tribunal judgments searchable Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Aiven expands in APAC, builds new capabilities

Managed service provider of open source databases and data platforms Aiven grew its business in Asia-Pacific by over 100% over the past year, and is now building new capabilities in data warehouses and other areas Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Retail’s robotics reboot

Walmart and Amazon are among the retailers acquiring warehouse robotics firms, during a period of significant innovation in this space Continue Reading

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• Ben Sillitoe

How Prostate Cancer UK built its own message bus

The cancer charity received funding ring-fenced for modernising its data management – the funds were spent on a solutions architect and an ETL process Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

What's the difference between WFM and WFO?

WFM and WFO systems can automate employee schedules. However, WFO platforms include contact center features, such as call recording, to improve agent performance. Continue Reading

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• Tim Murphy

Does data need to come from a single source of truth?

This is a guest blogpost by Steve Neat, General Manager, EMEA, at Alation For a long time, the overall objective of any data transformation has been to get all of an organisation’s data into one ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

system of record (SOR)

A system of record (SOR) is an information storage and retrieval system that stores valuable data on an organizational system or process. Continue Reading

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• Andrew Zola

How Data Mining Can Optimise Mining Mining...

It’s all too easy to get so engrained in the world of IT that sometimes you need a reminder that the globe is a large and diverse place; one that isn’t purely digital. Such a reminder came most ... Continue Reading

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• Steve Broadhead, Broadband Testing

Scotland’s Data Lab CEO Brian Hills on its ambition to change lives

Brian Hills, chief executive of The Data Lab in Scotland, on why he thinks the organisation’s mission is less about data and more about changing lives by giving people career opportunities Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

The rise and risks of sovereign data strategies

Data and analytics leaders need to understand what is happening now to mitigate risk and exploit data-driven opportunities Continue Reading

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• Andrew White

How the pandemic accelerated tech adoption in hospitality

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at how the hospitality sector is turning to technology to rebuild after it was devastated by the pandemic. Google’s cloud business is growing but remains well behind the market leaders – what does its future look like? And we look at the benefits of AIOps for storage. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

AI experts question tech industry’s ethical commitments

The massive proliferation of ethical frameworks for artificial intelligence has done little to change how the technology is developed and deployed, with experts questioning the tech industry’s commitment to making it a positive social force Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Data science quiz: Test your knowledge

Interested in becoming a data scientist? This short quiz will test what you know about the data science process, required skills and how data scientists do their jobs. Continue Reading

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• Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
• Kara E. Joyce
• Tréa Lavery, Editorial Assistant

Top 50 women in UK tech, IR35 Truss fiasco – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

The team reflects on the announcement of the Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2022, the IR35 reforms being scrapped, then not, and Dreamforce & Oracle Cloud World in the US Continue Reading

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

Will the OCSF create an open and collaborative cyber industry?

The Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework promises to transform security data analysis and collection, but there are challenges around adoption Continue Reading

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• Nicholas Fearn

ICO warns against using biometrics for ‘emotional analysis’

ICO warning highlights risk of ‘systemic bias’ and discrimination associated with organisations using biometric data and technologies for emotion analysis Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

When technology lets you sleep easy

Indian mattress supplier Duroflex has taken a leaf out of mattress design in its technology implementation to double its growth in an industry dominated by unorganised players Continue Reading

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• Pratima Harigunani

SAP Q3 2022: revenue up 15%, Ukraine war impact €250m

SAP has announced third-quarter 2022 revenue of more than €7.8bn, up 15% year on year, with cloud revenue at 42% Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

citizen data scientist

A citizen data scientist is an individual who does some data science work for an organization but doesn't hold the title of data scientist or have a formal background in advanced analytics, statistics or related disciplines. Continue Reading

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• Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
• Laura Fitzgibbons

One in five tech workers subject to workplace surveillance

Digital surveillance is now a common feature of the UK’s post-pandemic economy, says Prospect Union, adding to growing calls for workers to be given a greater say over how technologies are deployed in the workplace Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Dutch lawyers raise human rights concerns over hacked cryptophone data

Dutch defence lawyers say in an open letter that there is a risk of unfair trials unless they are allowed to test the reliability and legitimacy of hacked cryptophone evidence Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Germany: European Court of Justice asked to rule on legality of hacked EncroChat phone evidence

Berlin’s Regional Court has asked the European Court of Justice to answer questions about whether the use of hacked EncroChat phone evidence complies with European law Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

The Most Influential Women in UK Technology 2022

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we reveal our annual list of the 50 Most Influential Women in UK Technology. We talk to the No.1 on the list, Flavilla Fongang, about how to improve diversity and inclusion in the sector. And we introduce our seven rising stars – the future female leaders of UK IT. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

foreign key

A foreign key is a column or columns of data in one table that refers to the unique data values -- often the primary key data -- in another table. Continue Reading

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• Ben Lutkevich, Site Editor
• Adam Hughes

Digital Transformation Week Amsterdam: The growing divide between the haves and have-nots

The most successful companies carefully manage how data is taken in and processed – and they use tools to ensure they squeeze the most they can out of every bit of information Continue Reading

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• Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management

Improving finance and accounting software with AI

Artificial intelligence algorithms and datasets have potential value across many areas in finance and accounting, but usage isn’t yet widespread Continue Reading

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• Craig Le Clair

HSBC chooses Oracle Exadata Cloud@Customer service to underpin digital

Bank selects Oracle’s Cloud@Customer service to upgrade and migrate some of its database systems as part of its digital transformation Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Did Truss authorise ‘war risk’ provocation over Black Sea?

A UK Boeing RC-135W Rivet Joint spy plane was ordered to approach Russian territory in a Cold-War-style provocation just days after Liz Truss’s mini-budget collapsed Continue Reading

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• Duncan Campbell , 2QQ Ltd, Sussex University

Efficiency to empathy: Customer experience in cost-of living crisis

Find out how businesses can shore up their CX strategy to support consumers struggling with the cost-of-living crisis Continue Reading

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• Madeline Bennett, Mowser Media

High data quality key to reducing supply chain disruption

What could be the role of data quality enhancement in reducing the supply chain disruption that has beset the UK economy because of Brexit, Covid, and war in Europe? Continue Reading

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• David Cotriss

CW APAC: Trend Watch: Database technology

Innovative data management offerings are improving the efficiency of enterprise operations. In this handbook, focused on database technology in the Asia-Pacific region, Computer Weekly looks at the impact of graph databases, Neo4j’s partnership with Deloitte, TigerGraph’s added security features and the different types of database management systems currently on the market. Continue Reading

Parliamentary committee launches inquiry into AI governance

MPs will examine the impacts of artificial intelligence throughout the UK economy and how governance of the technology can be improved ahead of the government publishing its formal regulatory proposals Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Oracle: We’re punching above our category

Oracle claims to have debunked the misnomer that Oracle Cloud is only good for Oracle workloads and that its efforts to support and interoperate with other platforms has been driving growth Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Oracle CloudWorld 2022: Ellison vaunts centrality of healthcare to mission

Oracle CTO Larry Ellison put the company’s healthcare initiatives front and centre of its vision during his keynote at Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

data scientist

A data scientist is an analytics professional who is responsible for collecting, analyzing and interpreting data to help drive decision-making in an organization. Continue Reading

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• Bridget Botelho, Editorial Director, News
• Nicole Laskowski, Senior News Director
• Laura Fitzgibbons