Information management

UK-EU Brexit deal: TechUK and DigitalEurope hail new dawn but note unfinished data business

Technology trade bodies TechUK and DigitalEurope welcome Christmas Eve UK-EU Brexit deal as a new dawn, but say there is work still be to done on data adequacy and financial equivalence Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How to communicate amid a storm of data fatigue and misinformation

This is a guest blog by Andy Cotgreave, technology evangelist, Tableau Charts: they're all over the news. The NHS chief executive mocked others’ charts in their briefings; the science committee ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

UK-EU Brexit deal: TechUK sees positive runes on digital and data adequacy

TechUK is giving a cautious welcome to the imminent UK-EU trade deal, seeing positive signs for data adequacy and digital trade Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Downtime Upload podcasts of 2020 Continue Reading

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

Top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020

Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 Australia IT stories of 2020 Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Extended reality software gets pandemic lift

Extended reality software is not new, but the Covid-19 public health crisis has seen it take on a new lease of life as organisations face up to virtuality Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

Data has never been more important for London

As London looks to 2021 and a hoped-for recovery after Covid-19, responsible data sharing and data-driven decision-making become ever more important to the future for all the capital’s businesses Continue Reading

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• David Lutton

Guide Dogs data strategy navigates path to organisational view

Guide Dogs CIO Gerard McGovern is mapping out a data strategy that is aimed at taking the charity from an individual to an organisational view of data Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

UK police unlawfully processing over a million people’s data on Microsoft 365

The roll-out of Microsoft 365 to dozens of UK police forces may be unlawful, because many have failed to conduct data protection checks before deployment and hold no information on their contracts Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

AWS brings disaster recovery programme to Australia

Project Resilience will offer up to $5,000 worth of credits to public sector and community organisations to offset the cost of storing data on Amazon Web Services Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Interview: Sudaman Thoppan Mohanchandralal, chief data and analytics officer, Allianz Benelux

The financial services firm is demonstrating the value of the chief data officer role Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Learning on the job when working from home

Learning a new job and inducting hires when working from home has been tricky for employees and employers alike. We look at what workarounds have been adopted that could become the post-pandemic normal Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

Google services outage: Gmail, YouTube and Docs temporarily down

Google’s services suffered unexpected downtime on 14 December 2020. Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, the Android Play Store and its maps service all affected Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Singapore trials beacons to bolster police operations

Police beacons equipped with video cameras, sirens, floodlights and speakers are being deployed at two parks to improve public safety in a year-long trial Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Agility key to pandemic recovery, say APAC CFOs

Chief financial officers in the Asia-Pacific region call for financial transformation to bring about the agility that their organisations need to tide over the pandemic Continue Reading

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• Avanti Kumar

15 common data science techniques to know and use

Data scientists use a variety of statistical and analytical techniques to analyze data sets. Here are 15 popular classification, regression and clustering methods. Continue Reading

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• Ronald Schmelzer, Cognilytica

Alan Turing Institute appoints global advisory board to aid digital identity schemes project

The Alan Turing Institute announces an international advisory board for a project investigating digital identity schemes, with a view to building the technology and organisational infrastructure to sustain them as trustworthy Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

DCMS’s Whittingdale: National Data Strategy enters post-consultation phase

Minister for media and data tells TechUK’s Digital Ethics summit that the long-awaited national data strategy has entered a new, post-consultation phase, and that the UK is set to show international leadership on digital and data in 2021 Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Tour de France 2020 fans to get virtual experience delivered by NTT

This year’s Tour de France was delayed because of the Covid-19 pandemic. IT services company NTT has teamed up with event organiser ASO to offer a virtual experience to fans who cannot be at the roadside Continue Reading

Top IT predictions in APAC in 2021

The Asia-Pacific region will continue to be a cradle for technology innovation in the new year, whether it is 5G services, artificial intelligence, cloud computing or cyber security Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

AWS to open Melbourne cloud region in 2022

Amazon Web Services’ second Australian cloud region is part of its growing infrastructure investments in the maturing cloud market Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

The data science process: 6 key steps on analytics applications

The data science process includes a set of steps that data scientists take to gather, prepare and analyze data and present the analytics results to business users. Continue Reading

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• Donald Farmer, TreeHive Strategy

China lags US in computer vision

China trails the US in the field of computer vision despite making inroads in computing and research, new report finds Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Government data quality framework geared to overcome poorly organised data

The Office for National Statistics has published guidelines aimed at improving “disorganised” public sector data Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Dreamforce 2020: Hyperforce shifts Salesforce to public cloud

Salesforce COO Bret Taylor announced “Hyperforce” during Marc Benioff’s opening keynote at the virtual version of the supplier’s 2020 Dreamforce event in San Francisco Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

S/4 Hana projects come off back burner, but skills shortage impedes progress

UK and Ireland SAP User Group members set to ramp up S/4 ERP migration projects, but skills shortage and retirement of SAP managers in user organisations are a concern Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How IoT keeps water flowing in rural communities

Non-profit organisation Charity: water has built an internet-of-things device packed with sensors to keep wells in remote parts of Africa and Asia flowing with clean water Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

What is database refreshing?

IT testing and software development constantly requires fresh data. It's easy to run a database refresh and generate new data for sandbox or production tasks. Continue Reading

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• Jacob Roundy

Salesforce confirms rumoured Slack acquisition on eve of Dreamforce 2020

Salesforce has announced a $27.7bn stock and cash acquisition of Slack ahead of the virtual iteration of its Dreamforce 2020 event Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CIO interview: Danny Attias, chief digital and information officer, Anthony Nolan

Digital transformation takes on a whole new purpose when it's helping to save lives – but leading IT for a charity also has its satisfying technology challenges Continue Reading

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• Mark Samuels

Covid-19 crisis has speeded up contact centre digital transformation

Pandemic has accelerated digital transformation in many business sectors, including contact centres such as those of the University of Huddersfield and UK Power Networks Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett

The channel in the pandemic, datacentres for investors – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Simon Quicke joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to discuss how the IT channel has fared in the pandemic, how datacentres have evolved as investment assets, STEM education for children, and data strategy at Guide Dogs Continue Reading

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• Simon Quicke, Microscope Editor
• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Tech in APAC - November 2020

Welcome to our last edition of Tech in APAC for the year. One of our key stories in November was a piece we did on Snowflake, which made its debut in September on Wall Street as the biggest ... Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

How retailers are using technology to survive

In this week’s Computer Weekly, with high street retailers struggling to survive, we look at how technology can keep stores relevant. Everyone is focusing on flash storage, but hard disk drives are still an essential part of the IT toolkit. And we examine the latest developments in the ongoing Post Office Horizon IT scandal. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

MI5 accused of withholding surveillance compliance failures from cabinet minister

MI5 withheld high-risk concerns about its ability to comply with legislation from the home secretary when it submitted applications for surveillance warrants, NGOs Privacy International and Liberty claimed last week Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Algorithmic transparency obligations needed in public sector

Public sector’s use of algorithms with social impacts needs to be more transparent to foster trust and hold organisations responsible for the negative outcomes their systems may produce, says report Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

CW Nordics: Bank branch closures continue as digital banking grows

Sweden’s Handelsbanken is cutting its branch network by nearly half, which means more money will be invested in IT. But it’s not just Sweden and the Nordics – banks across the world are watching the fintech industry demonstrate to consumers what banking can be like if the right technology is in place. Also in this issue, read about the Norwegian government’s decision not to implement an outright ban on the use of 5G equipment supplied by China's Huawei. Continue Reading

Tony Blair Institute and Oracle combine to launch cloud-based vaccine management in Africa

The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and Oracle have combined to launch a vaccine management programme in several African countries Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Scottish government unveils strategy for digital planning

Scotland’s government has published a document that describes its strategy for the digitisation of the nation’s planning system Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

UK government Geospatial Commission stipulates actions to exploit location data

Report outlines some actions public bodies and companies can take to make better economic use of location data Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Brain researchers get NVMe-over-RoCE for super-fast HPC storage

French neurological researchers deploy Western Digital OpenFlex NVMe array for super-fast HPC storage with Ethernet-based NVMe-over-Fabrics connectivity across several floors Continue Reading

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• Yann Serra, LeMagIT

How Covid-19 has accelerated tech innovation in the NHS

Of all the terrible things that Covid is, what it has done is accelerate the digital journey. In this issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the track and trace app, which was redeveloped and enhanced at breakneck speed, and explore how the pandemic has accelerated the roll-out of new technology such as artificial intelligence and video conferencing tools at NHS trusts. We also present some research into how Covid has affected IT spending. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

Big data vs. artificial intelligence: How they compare

Artificial intelligence can help synthesize and analyze the large volumes of information provided by big data initiatives. The two are different, but they work well together. Continue Reading

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• Robert Sheldon

Love (and impact sourcing) in the time of Covid

Amanda Lewis, a lawyer specialising in IT outsourcing, describes the diversity and inclusion work of Digital Divide Data Continue Reading

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• Amanda Lewis, Digital Data Divide

Inside Huawei’s APAC cloud strategy

The Chinese technology giant is counting on its strengths in hardware infrastructure and focus on research and development to make a mark in Asia Pacific’s public cloud market Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

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

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

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Claritas taps AI to enhance medical images

A Singapore startup has developed a cloud-based medical imaging platform to enhance the quality and accessibility of radiology images for doctors and patients Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

University of Melbourne to advance digital health

Australia’s University of Melbourne has established a research outfit to build and clinically validate healthcare technology solutions Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Data silos and IT complexity stifle business potential

A study from 451 Research highlights the problems organisations face in managing data Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Why databases are key to Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales

With each order split into multiple database transactions, ensuring the scalability and elasticity of database systems was key to the success of Alibaba’s Singles’ Day sales Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Konvoy Group to track keg fleet with IoT

Australian supplier of rental kegs to breweries is deploying beacons to monitor the location and temperature of 70,000 kegs in Australia and New Zealand Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

The case of Julian Assange as he faces US extradition bid – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Bill Goodwin, investigations editor, joins Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna to discuss the case of Julian Assange, whose recent extradition hearing at the Old Bailey Bill reported on Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly
• Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK
• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

How Aarogya Setu is addressing scale and security challenges

India’s contact-tracing platform leverages microservices, encryption techniques and cloud-based visibility tools to address scale and security requirements Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Automated image recognition: How using ‘free’ photos on the internet can lead to lawsuits and fines

Germany-based photographer Marco Verch uses computer scripts to populate the internet with topical images and photographs. People and companies who make mistakes in following the complex licensing terms of his ‘free to share and adapt’ photographs receive threatening ‘legal’ demands Continue Reading

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• Chad O’Carroll, NK News
• Sophie Lamotte
• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Privacy advocates call for European probe into Palantir

Dutch group SOMI is trying to raise awareness of Palantir’s data privacy practices and how it works with European government agencies Continue Reading

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• Alex Scroxton, Security Editor

Software: to build or not to build? That is the question

This is a guest blogpost by Kevin Hurd, Founder & CEO, Digital Hive. In 2015 Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella famously said: “every business will be a software business”. And it’s hard to argue ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CW Benelux: Dutch Alzheimer’s app helps dementia patients

An app aimed at helping dementia patients and their families has been developed by the Alzheimer Society in the Netherlands. Also in this issue, read about a Belgian startup's app based on blockchain technology to help container handling at ports, and why Rabobank ditched its legacy backup. Continue Reading

Winners of female-only data hackathon announced

Several firms banded together to run a virtual female-only hackathon to encourage data analysts to use Covid-19 data to solve pandemic-related problems Continue Reading

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• Clare McDonald, Business Editor

Amazon charged with breaching EU antitrust rules

Tech giant accused of using data it collects on smaller retailers to benefit its own e-commerce business Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

DCMS’s Whittingdale: National data strategy not tied to EU trade deal

Minister tells ODI Summit that national data strategy is nearly finished and will fuel UK economic growth post-Brexit and post-pandemic Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Border technologies largely fail to respect human rights

AI-powered border technologies used to ‘manage’ migration frequently make the process more arbitrary, discriminatory and unjust, says human rights group Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

AWS expands footprint in India with Hyderabad region

Amazon Web Services is investing $2.8bn in a second cloud region in one of the fastest-growing public cloud markets in the Asia-Pacific region Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Quarter of UKISUG members plan S/4 Hana migration by 2022

Research by UK and Ireland SAP User Group and analyst firm shows SAP customer base still moving slowly to S/4 Hana Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

BBVA creates market information infrastructure on AWS cloud

Spanish bank BBVA is using Amazon Web Services to give its traders better access to market data following a project which also involved data provider Bloomberg Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Mastercard: Looks like a tech firm, acts like a tech firm, is a tech firm

Financial services giant finds itself in a prominent position as the volume of digital transactions increases Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

How crowd simulation modelling enables organisations to develop social distancing strategies

Crowd simulation modelling has a role to play in maximising the Covid security of offices and other buildings by facilitating social distancing to help get people back to workplaces Continue Reading

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• Peter Ray Allison

Nordic countries to develop common digital system

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

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• Gerard O'Dwyer

EU to introduce data-sharing measures with US in weeks

The European Commission is to issue updated standard contractual clauses (SCCs) that will allow organisations in the EU to exchange data with the US, but they may arrive too late to incorporate into UK law Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

UK government coronavirus data flawed and misleading

Government Covid-19 coronavirus data has been a miasma of inexactitude, often basically flawed and misleading Continue Reading

The UK government’s ‘flawed and misleading’ Covid-19 data

In this week’s Computer Weekly, the coronavirus data relied upon by the UK government is ‘flawed and misleading’ say experts – we examine the implications. Ikea talks about how it turned to the cloud to deal with the impact of the pandemic. And we look at the digital transformation underway at credit card giant Capital One. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

How Snowflake is charting its growth in APAC

The cloud data warehouse supplier set foot in Asia-Pacific just three years ago and has started to gain traction among large enterprises in Singapore, India and Southeast Asia Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Death of tech startups in pandemic. Bolstering diversity – Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast

In this episode of the Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast, Caroline Donnelly, Clare McDonald and Brian McKenna discuss the collapse of UK tech startups in the wake of the pandemic, driving diversity, and SAP’s ‘5 & 5 by 25’ procurement pledge Continue Reading

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

Pet project: How Pets at Home cares for customers with data analytics

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the chief data officer of Pets at Home, about using data analytics to care for customers. British Airways had its GDPR fine reduced to just £20m – we ask what this means for data protection regulation. And we look at GPT3, the language prediction tool that could revolutionise AI. Read the issue now. Continue Reading

SAP Q3 2020 results: revenue down 4%, cloud silver lining hailed

SAP’s third quarter 2020 results stated a 4% year-on-year reduction in revenue, with an 11% increase in cloud revenue lightening the gloom Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

What will it take for humanity to fully understand tech?

The failure of the coronavirus contact-tracing system, due to limits set by an old Excel format, demonstrates a failure of technology to cope with human reliance Continue Reading

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• Iain Brown

How SATS is streamlining procurement

Singapore-based supplier of ground handling and food services is deploying what it calls ‘touchless procurement’ Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Serco and Sitel contact-tracing contracts agreed to be penalty-free for underperformance

Penalties for underperformance were not included in NHS contact-tracing contracts with Serco and Sitel, it has emerged from questions to the Department of Health by Conservative MP David Davis Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CIO interview: Generali’s Yanna Winter on the power of data integration

Yanna Winter, CIO and head of IT at insurance firm Generali, discusses how to slice up the legacy IT elephant in the room to enable data-driven applications Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

BI not BS: how businesses are building futures with data analytics

Business intelligence software is finding an intensified mission as companies try to forecast beyond the global Covid-19 health pandemic Continue Reading

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• Marc Ambasna-Jones

Services Australia taps AI in document processing

Services Australia and Capgemini have developed an AI engine to classify and extract information from claim documents in a pilot project Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

How Tokopedia is streamlining incident management

Indonesian e-commerce giant Tokopedia has improved incident management and developer productivity using a cloud-based incident management tool Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

NHS England issues integrated cloud ERP procurement advice call

NHS England is calling on software suppliers for advice concerning the feasibility of moving and integrating its ERP systems in cloud infrastructure Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CDO interview: Pets at Home uses data analytics to further petcare ‘ecosystem’

Robert Kent, chief data officer for Pets at Home, describes how he has built a data analytics team and technology stack to enhance the petcare company’s understanding of its customers Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

NetSuite CEO Goldberg: Growing in the house of Oracle

NetSuite CEO Evan Goldberg briefs analysts and press on the eve of the supplier’s annual, this year virtual, conference Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

UK government coronavirus data flawed and misleading

Government Covid-19 coronavirus data has been a miasma of inexactitude, often basically flawed and misleading Continue Reading

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• SA Mathieson

GPT3 could revolutionise how business can use AI

OpenAI’s language prediction model that produced an essay could be used to deploy cloud resources and improve the quality of chatbots, among other business use cases Continue Reading

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• Anthony Caruana

Employees overwhelmingly hostile to workplace monitoring tech

The use of workplace surveillance technologies to monitor and track staff working from home has increased hugely since the start of the pandemic, but most workers say it makes them feel uncomfortable Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Singapore firm rolls out robotic barista

Crown Group’s robotic coffee kiosk, powered by a slew of artificial intelligence capabilities, serves up coffee beverages round the clock without the need for human baristas Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Benelux ports use blockchain in major efficiency drive

Belgian startup T-Mining develops application based on blockchain technology to make container handling safer and more efficient Continue Reading

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• Kim Loohuis

How a Singapore startup is disrupting logistics management

Portcast’s cloud-based logistics management platform uses machine learning and big data to improve supply chain visibility for logistics companies, shipping lines and manufacturers Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Wipro and AWS open Sydney innovation centre

The Wipro-AWS Launch Pad will offer in-house technical expertise for Australian businesses as well as a physical studio to spearhead cloud adoption Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

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

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

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

Location intelligence: Geospatial technology’s vital role in the UK’s housing crisis

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bonthrone, Chief Executive, Esri UK. The UK’s housing crisis has reached a crunch point over recent years - and it’s now estimated that a massive 345,000 new ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Oracle OpenWorld 2020: Miranda – business model changes are driving turn to cloud

Steve Miranda, who leads Oracle applications development globally, spoke to Computer Weekly ahead of his keynote at the virtual version of OpenWorld. Supply chain management and customer experience are vectors where improvements are being made, he said Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Over two million Brits using open banking

Data shows more than two million people in the UK are now taking control of their financial data through open banking Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Exploiting enhanced data management to create value in the ‘new normal’

This is a guest blogpost by Stuart Bernard, Vice President, Global Digital Solutions, EMEA, Iron Mountain. COVID-19 has turned businesses and economies upside down, changing the world irrevocably. ... Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Government updates data ethics framework

The new data ethics framework was created to better reflect how projects are run in practice after finding there was “little awareness” of the previous framework across the public sector Continue Reading

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• Sebastian Klovig Skelton, Data & ethics editor

Tibco eyes growth in emerging APAC markets

Tibco’s regional head honcho, Erich Gerber, sees massive potential in Asia’s large population and thirst for technology, including advanced analytics tools that will help businesses glean actionable insights Continue Reading

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• Aaron Tan, TechTarget

Gartner: Balance safety, privacy and productivity when employees return to the workplace

Organisations may decide that data collection can help keep employees safe in a Covid-secure workplace – but employers must consider all the privacy and productivity implications Continue Reading

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• Bart Willemsen, Gartner

Business process automation expansion could founder on IT drift from business focus

Business process automation might find new territory to expand into as businesses have become bloated with excess processes since the 2008 crash. But has IT drifted out of business alignment again? Continue Reading

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• Cath Everett