Information management
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E-Zine
09 Nov 2023
Heineken lets the data flow
In this month’s CW EMEA ezine, we find out about Heineken’s mission to make the most out of the data it holds through an enterprise-wide data ecosystem. We also look at how the UK has turned its back on the German government-funded Gaia-X data platform, why cyber experts are urging the EU to rethink vulnerability disclosure plans, and how the IT industry is responding to the software developer skills shortfall. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
05 May 2023
Employee perception may be key to success of UAE’s big data initiative
Study shows the impact employee perception can have on big data projects in the United Arab Emirates Continue Reading
By- Pat Brans, Pat Brans Associates/Grenoble Ecole de Management
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News
27 Jul 2021
Digital manufacturing industry gets £53m government funding boost
Money will be used to create five digital manufacturing research centres, a digital supply chain innovation hub and to fund 37 industry projects Continue Reading
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News
23 Jul 2021
SAS steps up free data skills programme for job seekers
SAS has expanded its free data skills for jobseekers’ programme, aiming it at people who have been adversely affected by the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
23 Jul 2021
BCS, Royal Statistical Society, Alan Turing Institute combine to cement data science professionalism
BCS, the Royal Statistical Society and the Alan Turing Institute are combining to form an alliance to promote professional and ethical standards in data science Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
22 Jul 2021
UK government publishes full Innovation Strategy
Strategy aims to put the UK at the global forefront of science, research and innovation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
21 Jul 2021
SAP Q2 2021: revenue down 1%, 600 new S/4 Hana signups
SAP has reported second-quarter 2021 revenue of €6.669bn, down 1% on the same year-ago quarter. Cloud revenue has increased by 11% to €2.276bn, just over one-third of the total, and 250 customers claimed for new Rise with SAP package in the quarter Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
21 Jul 2021
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
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
21 Jul 2021
How IoT and machine learning are automating agriculture
A new generation of farmers is tapping the internet of things and machine learning to operate self-sustaining urban farms with minimal supervision Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
20 Jul 2021
Will databases be the kingmakers in the cloud wars?
This is a guest blogpost by Mike Waas, CEO of Datometry The days where Hyperscalers competed primarily for their customers’ compute and storage needs are numbered. Over the past years, enterprises ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Blog Post
20 Jul 2021
Beware the 1% view of data science
This is a guest blogpost by Shaun McGirr, AI Evangelist, Dataiku As data science and AI become more widely used, two separate avenues of innovation are becoming clear. One avenue, written about and ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Tip
19 Jul 2021
An introduction to big data in the cloud
As enterprises add big data projects in the cloud, IT admins need to adjust their skills accordingly. Dive into this comprehensive guide to see what makes a cloud shift so attractive. Continue Reading
By- Stephen J. Bigelow, Senior Technology Editor
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News
19 Jul 2021
SAP invests €250m in UK economy
Investment includes a new, UK-based cloud service, two new offices, and a beefing up of SAP’s apprenticeship and internship programmes Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
19 Jul 2021
Privacy Shield: One year on and companies are still grappling for answers
Activist lawyer Max Schrems and Eduardo Ustaran, partner at Hogan Lovells, look for common ground in a problem with no easy answers Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
13 Jul 2021
Oracle’s Miranda advances customer wins against SAP for cloud applications suite
Steve Miranda, executive vice-president of applications development for Oracle globally, is showcasing three US customer wins against SAP at the supplier’s quarterly Oracle Live event Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Definition
12 Jul 2021
metadata
Often referred to as data that describes other data, metadata is structured reference data that helps to sort and identify attributes of the information it describes. Continue Reading
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News
09 Jul 2021
Met Police should release information on British WikiLeaks journalists passed to US, tribunal told
The Metropolitan Police should release correspondence with the US Department of Justice about three UK based WikiLeaks journalists, despite national security claims, a tribunal heard Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
08 Jul 2021
Developers have a moral duty to create ethical AI
Corsight AI publishes report on how organisations can develop more human-centric AI and biometric technologies Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Blog Post
08 Jul 2021
Is it time football teams rebranded as technology businesses?
This is a guest blogpost by James Petter, VP International, Pure Storage. All eyes at this year’s UEFA European Football Championship have been on the performances of the players and managers. The ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
08 Jul 2021
CIO interview: Ian Cohen, CPIO, Acacium Group
Acacium’s chief product and information officer joined the healthcare specialist in the midst of the pandemic, and is responsible for data, product, business process and automation Continue Reading
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E-Zine
08 Jul 2021
CW Middle East: Pandemic speeds up edtech revolution in Gulf
One of the lessons the Covid-19 pandemic has taught governments across the world is that education providers can still teach when their premises are inaccessible. Read how organisations in the Gulf region’s education sector have been quick to adopt the latest education technology, known as edtech, to help in this endeavour. Also read in this issue how Indian IT services company TCS is bringing together universities, businesses, tech startups and government to work on sustainability challenges. Continue Reading
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Feature
07 Jul 2021
Oracle Fusion cloud applications pathways tend towards pragmatic
Oracle’s full suite of cloud applications can be a pragmatic step-by-step journey for customers – we look at some examples Continue Reading
By- Madeline Bennett, Mowser Media
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News
07 Jul 2021
Clara Shih, CEO, Salesforce Service Cloud on the shape of post-pandemic service work
Salesforce Service Cloud CEO Clara Shih has returned to the supplier after a period as a founder CEO and sees the future of contact centre and field service with relatively fresh eyes Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
07 Jul 2021
Forrester finds companies confounded by data deluge
A Dell-commissioned study by analyst firm Forrester finds organisations overwhelmed by mounds of data Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Blog Post
06 Jul 2021
Businesses need to show data science isn’t dull, it can be fun and rewarding
This is a guest blogpost by Libby Duane Adams, chief advocacy officer at Alteryx. In today’s business environment, data is key to success. With over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data created each day, ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
06 Jul 2021
Gulf hospitals flock to digital health to manage lifestyle diseases
The Middle East is accelerating its take-up of digital healthcare technologies following lessons learned in the Covid-19 pandemic Continue Reading
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News
06 Jul 2021
Nordic fintech could lead the world
Will the Nordics become the fintech and open banking innovation capital of the world? Continue Reading
By- Alex Cruickshank
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News
05 Jul 2021
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
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
05 Jul 2021
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
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Blog Post
02 Jul 2021
Why and how RPA differentiation must advance beyond hype
This is a guest blogpost by Jason Kingdon, chairman and CEO, Blue Prism Robotic Process Automation’s potential to transform the way we work means every technology vendor under the sun is now ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Feature
30 Jun 2021
Lakehouse concept aims to merge data lake and data warehouse
Data lakes are big, amorphous and difficult to access, while data warehouses are costly and aimed at structured data. The data lakehouse aims at analytics in an age of unstructured data Continue Reading
By- Antony Adshead, Storage Editor
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Blog Post
29 Jun 2021
The era of continuous actionable intelligence
This is a guest blogpost by Seamus Keating, CEO KX The frontiers of data management technologies are being extended as organisations across every industry sector seek to extract greater insights ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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29 Jun 2021
NHSX policy document focuses on patients and data sharing
Patient privacy and data and code reuse are three of the pillars outlined in the NHSX’s new data strategy for sharing patient data Continue Reading
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E-Zine
29 Jun 2021
Is the UK government planning to rewrite GDPR?
In this week’s Computer Weekly, a government taskforce on post-Brexit regulations has recommended changes to GDPR in the UK – we examine the implications. The NHS has launched a new data strategy - we look at what it means for your medical records. And we ask how to avoid the performance problems that affect private cloud. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Opinion
28 Jun 2021
How CIOs can help their organisations accelerate digital transformation
Companies need to win the trust of their customers to gather the data they need to transform their businesses Continue Reading
By- Dan Higgins, EY
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News
24 Jun 2021
Online Safety Bill unfit for purpose, says new campaign group
Campaign group set up to oppose Online Safety Bill says the duty of care is too simplistic, cedes too much power to US corporations and will, in practice, privilege the speech of journalists or politicians Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
24 Jun 2021
Gousto uses Sisense Fusion to broaden analytics across business
AWS-based Sisense platform enables meal-kit company to provide more of its employees with data and create custom dashboards Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
24 Jun 2021
Salesforce declares AWS partnership to enable intelligent applications
Salesforce and Amazon Web Services have declared a ‘strategic partnership’ that is claimed to enable the easier creation of artificial intelligence-infused applications Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
23 Jun 2021
IBM serves more AI power at Wimbledon 2021
The annual Wimbledon tennis championship is an event IBM uses to showcase the insights possible using Watson-based artificial intelligence applications Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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Feature
23 Jun 2021
Real-time analytics begins to find business vocation
Continuous real-time analytics, operating at sub-second speed, are finding real-world applicability across industry sectors, such as retail, transport and banking. Their value crux: can businesses act on the signals provided? Continue Reading
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News
23 Jun 2021
DataStax eyes growth in APAC
DataStax opens regional headquarters in Singapore to tap the growth opportunities in Asia-Pacific where more organisations are modernising legacy systems and building cloud-native apps Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Definition
22 Jun 2021
Db2
Db2 is a family of database management system (DBMS) products from IBM that serve a number of different operating system (OS) platforms. Continue Reading
By- Craig S. Mullins, Mullins Consulting
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News
22 Jun 2021
EU regulators call for ban on biometrics in public spaces
European Union’s data protection regulators say facial recognition and other biometric identification technologies present too great a risk to fundamental human rights to be allowed in public spaces Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
22 Jun 2021
CDEI: UK public wants clear algorithmic transparency policies
A research exercise by the Centre for Data Ethics and Innovation has found the UK public wants clear, easy-to-understand information about algorithms in use by the public sector Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
22 Jun 2021
NHSX policy document focuses on patients and data sharing
Patient privacy and data and code reuse are three of the pillars outlined in the NHSX’s new data strategy for sharing patient data Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
22 Jun 2021
Inside Macquarie Bank’s data transformation journey
Australia’s Macquarie Bank has moved all its data and analytics to the cloud and is applying machine learning to detect fraud and improve customer experience Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
21 Jun 2021
Exor International showcases Industry 4.0 smart factory
Intel and Telecom Italia have worked with Exor to look at how 5G and AI can help build Industry 4.0 applications for manufacturing Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
21 Jun 2021
NHSX set to unveil post-Covid data strategy
The smart use of patient data could power new AI-based healthcare systems and speed up the discovery of new treatments Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
21 Jun 2021
New lab to bolster Singapore’s Industry 4.0 capabilities
Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research teams up with local manufacturing software company to make Industry 4.0 capabilities more accessible to manufacturers Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
18 Jun 2021
ICO issues guidance on facial recognition in public spaces
Information commissioner’s concern over the problematic use of facial recognition in public spaces has prompted her to publish official guidance on its deployment, while civil society calls for an outright ban Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
18 Jun 2021
UK taskforce calls for cutting GDPR protections
The UK’s Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform has recommended scrapping safeguards against automated decision-making contained in the General Data Protection Regulation Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
17 Jun 2021
CIO interview: Warren Breakstone, S&P Global Market Intelligence
S&P’s managing director and chief product officer for data management solutions talks about using data to make better decisions and how to continue innovating in a fast-moving market Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2021
Tech features high on McKinsey’s disruption list
The management consulting firm has published a list of innovations that could disrupt business models, with many related to IT Continue Reading
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News
16 Jun 2021
Matt Hancock at CogX: ‘Huge opportunities’ ahead to exploit health data
Health secretary tells CogX 2021 conference in London that huge opportunities lie ahead in the application of analytics to pseudonymised patient data Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
16 Jun 2021
Databricks taps groundswell in lakehouse adoption
Databricks has been expanding its footprint across the Asia-Pacific region amid growing interest among traditional enterprises and digital native companies in the data lakehouse architecture Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Blog Post
15 Jun 2021
Emerging trend expands data science capabilities to more people using AI
This is a guest blogpost by Andrew Beers, CTO, Tableau. Ideally, every business decision today would be based on a thorough understanding of all relevant data available. But there’s simply too much ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Opinion
15 Jun 2021
Why a data-driven world should consider an oath of ethics
The Hippocratic Oath is perhaps the most widely known of Greek medical texts – and such an oath is needed in data science Continue Reading
By- Iain Brown
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News
15 Jun 2021
Oliver Dowden hails Tech Zero Taskforce at CogX
Government backs a group of UK tech companies and associations to combat the climate emergency, drive green investment and help consumers make greener choices Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
15 Jun 2021
Amazon Web Services launches space tech accelerator
Accelerator will see a cohort of 10 space startups use AWS to accelerate their research, development and growth Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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E-Zine
15 Jun 2021
Discovering great ideas – innovation at the Discovery Channel
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the owner of the Discovery Channel about how collaboration software enabled a culture of innovation. Our latest buyer’s guide looks at developments in cloud printing technology. And we hear from the technology chief at Rightmove about the online property site’s digital transformation. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
15 Jun 2021
How healthcare organisations are tapping data analytics
Healthcare providers are harnessing data analytics to improve clinical and operational outcomes even as they continue to face challenges in data aggregation and data protection Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Feature
14 Jun 2021
Europe’s proposed AI regulation falls short on protecting rights
The European Commission’s proposal for artificial intelligence regulation focuses on creating a risk-based, market-led approach replete with self-assessments, transparency procedures and technical standards, but critics warn it falls short of being able to protect people’s fundamental rights and mitigating the technology’s worst abuses Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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News
11 Jun 2021
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
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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News
11 Jun 2021
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
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2021
Why modern BI is a necessity in a post-pandemic world
This is a guest blogpost by Jay Heglar, Chief Business Officer, Domo. Contagion rate. Hospitalisation rate. Case fatality rate. We are now seeing the start of a new era where data takes a central ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Blog Post
10 Jun 2021
Throwback Thursday: The business change agenda
It might come as a shock to some people in marketing to find that business transformation, or "business change" as I prefer to call it, is neither new nor driven solely by digital transformation ... Continue Reading
By- Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics
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E-Zine
10 Jun 2021
CW Europe: Amsterdam reins back datacentre developments over environmental concern
The construction of datacentres in the Netherlands’ Amsterdam region has accelerated at such a pace that their demands for electricity are causing concern, prompting city authorities and datacentre operators to open a dialogue about sustainable datacentre industry expansion. Also in this issue, find out the state of play in the adoption of open banking across Europe. Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Jun 2021
Covid-accelerated recruitment digitisation to gain sophistication with hybrid models
Recruitment has had to go remote and digital during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and looks set to fill out and become more sophisticated as hybrid models of working emerge Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Jun 2021
With the National Data Strategy, execution is everything
This is a guest blogpost by Peter Campbell, Data & AI practice director at Kainos The latest stage in the National Data Strategy – the Government’s response to consultation – shows the UK has a ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
08 Jun 2021
Oracle and Crown Commercial Service renew MoU to continue cloud use
Oracle and the UK government’s Crown Commercial Service have renewed a memorandum of understanding for the continued use of the supplier’s cloud infrastructure and applications Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
07 Jun 2021
Campaigners plan legal action over NHS data sharing
Privacy coalition aims to force NHS Digital to push back its plans to scrape medical information on millions of patients into a central database Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
07 Jun 2021
BT claims £2m in savings with Qlik data analytics
BT claims it has secured £2m in cost savings by putting Qlik data analytics in the hands of 1,200 members of staff in its Consumer business Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
04 Jun 2021
BCS: Lack of communication over NHS GPDPR ‘astonishing’
The Chartered Institute for IT has warned that millions of people are not being properly informed of NHS Digital plans to harvest their data Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
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News
03 Jun 2021
Sapphire 2021: Klein vaunts rebooted Ariba business network as sustainability driver
At the virtual Sapphire 2021 conference, SAP CEO Christian Klein trumpeted the supplier’s procurement network, Ariba, as the core of a revamped global engine for promoting sustainable economic growth Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Opinion
02 Jun 2021
Can we rely on AI?
As artificial intelligence comes increasingly to bear on human lives, how ought we to address social and ethical concerns? Is a tighter symbiosis between human systems and AI systems the way forward? Continue Reading
By- Fred Werner, International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
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News
02 Jun 2021
Mulberry bags Google Cloud support for data-driven sales push during Covid-19
Public cloud giant adds Mulberry to its roll-call of retail customers Continue Reading
By- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
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News
01 Jun 2021
NHS trust’s Pioneer data platform joins up care delivery and improves outcomes
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust aims to improve patient care by bringing together anonymised health data from different care settings to better understand the patient journey Continue Reading
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Feature
31 May 2021
How computational storage delivers datacentre benefits
Computational storage is an emerging field of IT that features compute processing power closely coupled with storage. We look at what it can be used for Continue Reading
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News
31 May 2021
Great Eastern doubles down on data analytics
Singapore insurer Great Eastern has started a centre of excellence to drive adoption of data analytics and hone its capabilities in data governance and data engineering Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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Guide
28 May 2021
Essential Guide: How APAC firms can ride out the pandemic
In this Essential Guide, we examine the impact of Covid-19 on Asia-Pacific businesses, how they have responded and important lessons that can be learned as they ready themselves for the post-pandemic world. Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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27 May 2021
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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News
27 May 2021
Loss of 150,000 police records made worse by management failures
The loss of 150,000 records from a number of national policing systems was caused by a human coding error, but made worse by process and management failures Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
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Blog Post
27 May 2021
How graph technology is helping enterprises to harness the complex skill sets of employees
This is a guest blogpost by Amy Holder from Neo4j. She examines recent interest in graph databases as the basis for the next wave of human capital management technology. For global HR influencer ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
27 May 2021
Singapore deploys drones to monitor reservoir water quality
Singapore’s national water agency PUB is deploying autonomous drones at six reservoirs to monitor water quality and other activities to improve operational efficiency Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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News
26 May 2021
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
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
26 May 2021
Disabled travellers promised better train journeys by Passenger Assistance app
An app developed by UK startup Transreport for the Rail Delivery Group aims to improve train travel for disabled passengers Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
24 May 2021
Melbourne taps AI to ease traffic congestion
University of Melbourne has teamed up with public and private sector organisations to build an AI application that can predict traffic congestion up to three hours ahead Continue Reading
By- Aaron Tan, TechTarget
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24 May 2021
Government response to data strategy consultation depicts data as an ‘asset’
Government responds to consultation with a promise of delivery, putting an emphasis on data as an asset, not a threat, and finding respondents keen on levelling up Continue Reading
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E-Zine
24 May 2021
Making data an asset, not a threat
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we examine the latest developments in the UK government’s National Data Strategy and what it means for the economy. Our latest buyer’s guide explains the emerging technologies around computational storage. And we look at the advances in customer experience management during the pandemic. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Podcast
21 May 2021
CyberUK, bees and datacentres, Red Cross digital mapping – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly and Brian McKenna are joined by Alex Scroxton, security editor, to discuss CyberUK, bees and datacentres, and the British Red Cross’ use of digital mapping to combat Covid-19 Continue Reading
By- Alex Scroxton, Security Editor
- Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Definition
21 May 2021
unstructured data
Unstructured data is information, in many different forms, that doesn't follow conventional data models, making it difficult to store and manage in a mainstream relational database. Continue Reading
By- Katie Terrell Hanna
- Craig Stedman, Industry Editor
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Blog Post
21 May 2021
Where is the strategy in the National Data Strategy?
Who is the presiding genius behind the National Data Strategy? Who is its architect? What are its goals? And what will it have achieved in five years’ time? That the government has responded to the ... Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
20 May 2021
Government sets out implementation plan for genomics strategy
The 2021-22 implementation plan for government’s 10-year Genome UK strategy includes improving diversity of genomics data, rolling out whole genome sequencing to rare diseases patients, and delivering a proof of concept for a next-generation approach to cancer treatment Continue Reading
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Blog Post
19 May 2021
Data's role in economic recovery
The economy is slowly opening up. Red is red. Green is green and as for amber...that’s red, at least as far as the latest government travel guidance is concerned. Data is going to be absolutely ... Continue Reading
By- Cliff Saran, Managing Editor
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News
18 May 2021
Legacy data and IT issues ‘laid bare’ during Covid-19, says NAO
The pandemic has exposed challenges with legacy data and IT systems in government, and has made the government response more challenging, says the National Audit Office Continue Reading
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News
18 May 2021
Government response to National Data Strategy consultation depicts data as ‘asset, not threat’
Government responds to consultation with a promise of delivery, putting an emphasis on data as an asset, not a threat, and finding respondents keen on levelling up Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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News
18 May 2021
Irish High Court dismisses legal bid by Facebook over EU-US data transfers
Latest twist in long-running legal battle sees Facebook lose legal bid to prevent the Irish Data Protection Commissioner suspending its transfer of data about European citizens to the US Continue Reading
By- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
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E-Zine
18 May 2021
The real-life consequences of ransomware attacks
In this week’s Computer Weekly, after a ransomware attack shut a major US oil pipeline, we examine the real-life consequences for organisations facing similar threats. We ask the experts for their top tips in reducing datacentre running costs. And we hear how data science skills are helping government make better decisions. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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News
17 May 2021
Oxford University uses Oracle Cloud to speed up analysis of Covid-19 variants
The University of Oxford is availing itself of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in the genomic sequencing and analysis of SARS-CoV-2, in part to identify new Covid-19 variants Continue Reading
By- Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications
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Opinion
14 May 2021
Digital bootcamp initiative could kickstart new thinking about technology skills
The government’s digital bootcamps initiative could help begin to shift the way we think about the roles of technology professionals Continue Reading
By- Bev White, Nash Squared
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News
14 May 2021
Dutch police used deep learning model to predict threats to life
Dutch police developed a deep learning model in their EncroChat investigation to predict which messages contain serious threats to life Continue Reading
By- Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor
- Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly