Information management

BT signs multimillion HR technology contract with Oracle

The project, one of the largest contracts signed so far for Oracle’s Fusion technology, is strategically important both to Oracle and BT Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Case study: Pumps maker Hayward Tyler’s restructure sharpened ERP business focus

When a restructure arrives half way through an ERP upgrade, it could be a threat to the IT programme. But Hayward Tyler saw it as a chance to ensure business goals were at the heart of its Epicor project. Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Toyota e-learning upgrade aims to cut mechanics' training time by up to a year

Car distributor Toyota Motor Europe is using e-learning to manage the training and certification of motor technicians and engineers Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Rugby Football Union uses analytics to educate and engage with users

The RFU is introducing data analytics technologies for public use to encourage engagement with existing fans and education of the sport Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

UK trading sector faces challenges as US regulator prepare rules

UK trading firms will have to makes their trading software more resilient to ensure they comply with the imminent regulations being put together by the US SEC Continue Reading

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• Karl Flinders, Chief reporter and senior editor EMEA

Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Oracle customers continue to invest in big data

Airbus, Thomson Reuters and the New York Stock Exchange have all implemented Oracle's big data products to improve their businesses Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

C-level executives cry out for data scientists

Board level executives are putting pressure on their IT organisations to find data scientists, according to Teradata research Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Big trends from Oracle OpenWorld 2013: Big data and cloud

Oracle tackled issues of big data and cloud head on at its annual OpenWorld 2013 user conference in San Francisco Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

British Army’s manpower planning saves £770m through SAS BI

The British Army's headquarters is using SAS to analyse and more efficiently allocate manpower and resources Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Businesses hit digital roadblock due to paper processes

A survey of business and IT leaders has found that paper-based processes are creating inefficiencies Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Quantum upgrades big data storage to StorNext 5

Quantum’s StorNext big data tiered architecture operating software gets a boost to five billion files and a claimed 10x performance jump via multi-threaded CPU ops Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Executive interview: Andrew Brem, Connected Homes, British Gas

British Gas is digitising energy. Andrew Brem speaks to Computer Weekly about the internet connected home Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Unlocking the value of big data

This independent report provides the first in-depth assessment of the role that data-intensive technology can play in supporting jobs and growth in Ireland over the next five years. Continue Reading

Diageo to change how it manages APIs to support digital strategy

Diageo is contemplating introducing a lightweight middleware layer to better manage the APIs that govern the software services it uses Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Banks tighten data handling in race for compliance

Data is obviously a valuable asset to any company, but managed poorly it could also be a liability. Data in the financial sector continues to grow at a rapid pace, so getting your house in order will ensure you are not hit with any unwanted fines or receive any negative PR due to data loss. In this issue of CW Europe read how data discipline ensures you avoid data loss, as well as helping you to think clearer and to be organised. Continue Reading

Data steward role needs some shepherding itself

Consultant David Loshin gives suggestions for building and managing a data stewardship program that can effectively support data governance. Continue Reading

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• David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity Inc.

Big data adds new complications for data stewards

In order to accommodate big data and the needs of data scientists, data stewards will need to adjust to a more short-term view of data stewardship. Continue Reading

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• Beth Stackpole

eHarmony finds MongoDB the perfect match for data store

Online dating site eHarmony has used open source NoSQL database MongoDB for its data store, to speed up delivery of matches between users Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Coca-Cola overcomes challenges to seize BI opportunities

The Coca-Cola Co. understands that analytics challenges can be overcome and that a team approach helps businesses take advantage of BI opportunities. Continue Reading

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• Ed Burns

CW buyer's guide: data management

Effective use of data management systems will provide access to consistent, accurate and current information Continue Reading

Data governance tools: Part, but not all, of the governance puzzle

While tools designed for data governance are helpful, organizations must also implement best practices and standard processes to be effective. Continue Reading

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• David Loshin, Knowledge Integrity Inc.

Big Data in Big Companies 

The International Institute for Analytics (IIA) and SAS, assess how 20 large firms have deployed analytics to generate value from their big data assets. Continue Reading

Winning the Paper Wars

This report from AIIM, a global community of IT professionals, assess the ROI of paper free projects, the drivers for eliminating paper, and the hurdles. Continue Reading

Privacy and big data

Sixteen key questions companies need to answer when considering the privacy and governance aspects of big data Continue Reading

Online retailing means the industrialisation of analytics

Figleaves founder and eCommera chief scientist Michael Ross argues that online retailing requires a new type of action-oriented business intelligence Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Gartner describes the building blocks for a strong MDM program

MDM teams should consider these seven building blocks, outlined by Saul Judah, research director on the information management team at Gartner Inc. Continue Reading

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• Emma Preslar

The data fragmentation challenge

Few organisations have policies to guide where data should and should not be stored. The result: data fragmentation Continue Reading

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• Tony Lock, Freeform Dynamics

Case study: How Premier Inn uses mobile analytics

Premier Inn's mobile app has been downloaded more than two million times and 77% of room bookings are made via the app Continue Reading

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• Graham Jarvis

Whiteboard it – the power of graph databases

Graph databases map relationships between entities in a network. They won’t replace conventional relational databases, but for harnessing the value of interconnectedness they mark a breakthrough Continue Reading

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• Andy Hogg, Contributor

Taylor Wimpey builds cloud forecasting process with Anaplan

Homebuilder Taylor Wimpy teams up with Anaplan to ditch its old Excel suite and head for the cloud Continue Reading

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• Kayleigh Bateman, Computer Weekly

Virgin Media uses ETAdirect to manage engineers more predictively

Virgin Media is using predictive analytics to get the right engineer out to the right problem. It believes its use of TOA Technologies cloud-based ETAdirect system gives it a competitive advantage Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Big data journalism exposes offshore tax dodgers

How journalists harnessed big data to challenge offshore financial secrecy Continue Reading

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• Duncan Campbell and Craig Shaw

Aintree NHS saves £1m a year with electronic patient records

Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust replaces paper medical records with an electronic system to save £1m per year Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

The need for data speed

In this week's Computer Weekly, we find out how the McLaren Formula One team is using high-speed data analytics to improve race performance. Our new buyer's guide looks at best practices in data management. And we discuss IT leaders' frustrations about the unwanted complexities of software licensing. Continue Reading

The Economic Value of Data

Big data analytics promises to boost the profits of financial services firms, according to this report from Cognizant. Continue Reading

CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4

Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading

Indian banks harness big data analysis amid competition

The increasing penetration of broadband and growth in smartphone usage in India are driving the development of IT-based services for bank consumers. Continue Reading

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• Viraj V Desai

OpenCorporates makes company data public

Company data is being made available as part of an initiative to place more government data in the public domain Continue Reading

Davenport: Travel industry data pioneer has lost way but can be saved

Tom Davenport sees the travel industry as a data pioneer that has lost its way, but can be redeemed Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Case study: Toyota fleet management system gathers global fork-lift truck data remotely

Toyota Material Handling Europe develops operational data management system that monitors and controls fork-lift trucks globally Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

From chess to ping pong: How Pegasystems is capturing the Fortune 500

Pegasystems is winning business from the world's leading companies as business process management technology enters the mainstream Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Ocado delivers with in-house software development

Online grocery retailer Ocado built its own software for its own business – and now it delivers for Morrisons Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

NHS IT to embrace open source

A new report from NHS England promises open source will be at the heart of the plans to digitise the health service Continue Reading

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• Jennifer Scott, TechTarget

Business value from the internet of things

In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from manufacturing giant GE about its plan for gaining business value from the "internet of things", analysing huge amounts of machine data in an industrial internet. Our latest buyer's guide looks at HR management systems. And we look at ways to improve the detection of data breaches. Continue Reading

Oracle 12c database goes to general availability

The Oracle 12c Database is now generally available, its most touted aspect a virtualisation feature called Pluggable Databases Continue Reading

CIO interview: Paul Clarke, director of technology, Ocado

Paul Clarke is responsible for the technology strategy at online grocer Ocado, where IT is used in every aspect of the business Continue Reading

Datacentres must be tuned to the application in the mobile-cloud era: Cisco

Cloud, big data and mobile applications are challenging the traditional datacentre infrastructure, says Cisco Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Data quality more important than fixating over big data, says Shell VP

Johan Krebbers, vice-president of architecture at Shell, says it is more important to get data quality right than to find a ‘big data silver bullet’ Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

BI program rescue strategy: Breaking the rules

If business users are losing faith in a business intelligence team, it might be time to throw out the BI rule book and do what needs to be done, writes TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson. Continue Reading

The challenges of information governance in our increasingly litigious age

Formulating the right enterprise-wide information governance policies is essential in heading off potential legal and compliance costs Continue Reading

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• Doug Miles

Startup profile: Growth Intelligence

Growth Intelligence is a technology startup offering a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product to B2B corporations wanting to search for sales leads. Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

Is it time to outsource your BI program?

TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson writes that if your business intelligence efforts aren't producing the desired business results, one option to consider might be -- yes -- outsourcing the BI initiative. Continue Reading

Inadequate datacentre infrastructure is a barrier to big data analytics

Inadequate datacentre infrastructure and siloed work practices are preventing UK enterprises from benefiting from big data analytics, shows study Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

Enterprise data quality efforts in good company with MDM, governance

Combining data quality initiatives with master data management and data governance programs can help ensure that data remains accurate and consistent. Continue Reading

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• Alan R. Earls

Lloyds customer complaints plummet after automating manual processes

Lloyds is claiming dramatic improvements in the quality of its customer service after automating manual banking processes Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

An Information Architecture Vision

The Open Group assesses the "big data" problem and offers an Enterprise Information Planning and Architecture Model to help organisations make the most of their information. Continue Reading

NHS numbers to be mandated by 2014

NHS providers must use an NHS number to identify all patient data, Tim Kelsey, director for patients and information at NHS England announces Continue Reading

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• Kathleen Hall, TechTarget

ICO fines Glasgow City Council for loss of unencrypted laptops

Glasgow City Council has been fined £150,000 for losing two laptops which held personal details of more than 20,000 people Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

SAP buys e-commerce company Hybris to move into CRM market

SAP is moving into the CRM market with its purchase of Hybris, a Swiss customer relationship management (CRM) supplier Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Sports performance data analytics fuels Opta’s business expansion

Football performance data could play a role in clubs’ scouting efforts, and even in footballer market evaluation, according to OptaSports Data Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Gartner: Deriving value from Big Data for CRM

Kimberly Collins, research vice-president of Gartner highlights the critical steps organisations should to take to integrate big data into Customer Relationship Management (CRM). Continue Reading

CW500: Back to the Future: Big Data at Channel 4

Bob Harris, Chief Technology Officer of Channel 4 Television, explains the broadcaster's approach to big data in this presentation for Computer Weekly's 500 Club. Continue Reading

Information Governance

This research from AIIM looks at the risk profile around electronic records, the keep-all versus delete-all options, e-discovery, and the implications of social, mobile and cloud on risk management policies. Continue Reading

Six steps to creating a BI competency center

TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson lays out a roadmap for setting up a successful business intelligence competency center, and breaking down BI silos, in a decentralized company. Continue Reading

Aadhaar project data collection: An interview with Mindtree's CEO

Get a view into the data collection efforts for the Aadhaar project from Krishnakumar Natarajan, the CEO at service provider Mindtree. Continue Reading

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• Dinesh Dhiman

ARI uses HANA to power self-service BI for fleet management

ARI, the leasing and fleet management business, has used SAP HANA to boost business intelligence (BI) and predictive analytics Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Embedded BI: Largely invisible, but not for long

TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson tracks the ongoing evolution of embedded business intelligence tools and sees big things ahead for the technology. Make that very big things. Continue Reading

Eurovision Song Contest app built and delivered via Google's cloud platform

Service providers Scalr and Grandcentrix used Google Compute Engine to build the app for the second largest television event Continue Reading

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• Archana Venkatraman, Datacentre Editor

UCL turns to private cloud to solve its data storage woes

University College London is building a storage infrastructure in the cloud that will scale up to 100PB Continue Reading

McLaren uses high-speed data analytics to gain Formula 1 edge

The McLaren Group uses high-speed data analytics as it seeks a competitive edge for its Formula 1 racing team engineers Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Tesco uses big data to cut cooling costs by up to €20m

Tesco is aiming to save over €20m a year by using sophisticated analytical technology to ensure its chillers work at optimum temperature Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Gartner: Big data will transform customer relationship management technology

CIOs need to start thinking how to integrate big data into their customer relationship management (CRM) systems, says technology analyst Continue Reading

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• Bill Goodwin, Computer Weekly

Lean analytics to change business decision making

Attending to the “one metric that really matters” is one principle of a “lean analytics” approach Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

SAP readies the Hana-powered enterprise cloud

SAP is making its Hana in-memory database available as a hosted service to power enterprise applications Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna and Cliff Saran

British Army data quality programme tackles ‘whole army’ concept

The British Army’s data quality programme faces a challenge with moves to unify regular and territorial soldiers into one force Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

Beyond Big Data – The New Information Economy

How information is managed is more important than 'big data', say analysts Clive Longbottom and Rob Bamforth. Continue Reading

Information Security Breaches Survey 2013

Security breaches cost large businesses an average of £850,000, the 2013 Information Security Breaches Survey reveals. Continue Reading

Tesco uses supply chain analytics to save £100m a year

Understanding return on capital employed was a driving force behind an analytics programme which saves Tesco £100m in supply chain costs Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Big data security: getting a grip on multiple data sources

Big data analyses multiple data points, but how do you ensure that ecosystem is secure? In this podcast, Mathieu Gorge, CEO of Vigitrust, outlines the key steps in achieving big data security Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Case study: Telefonica Ireland uses business intelligence to reduce churn

O2 Ireland, part of Telefonica, has been using Teradata’s data warehousing and Cognos BI to stop customers leaving and entice them with location-based offers Continue Reading

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• Lindsay Clark

Spam SMS messages drop following ICO penalty

The number of spam SMS messages has significantly reduced since government regulator ICO issued £440,000 fines last year Continue Reading

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• Caroline Baldwin, Freelance editor and journalist

CIO interview: Mike Croucher, head of IT architecture and delivery, British Airways

After changes in IT leadership two years ago, the IT strategy at BA is focusing on infrastructure modernisation and smarter use of customer data Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Change management tips for BI program managers

TechTarget's Wayne Eckerson writes that business intelligence managers can learn some valuable lessons from the book "Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard." Continue Reading

Open data leaders slam government over postcode privatisation

The Open Data Institute has hit out at Whitehall plans to allow details of UK postcodes to continue to be sold for profit Continue Reading

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• Bryan Glick, Editor in chief

Business Outcomes from Big Data

This research study from CEB evaluates the CIO's role in making big data attainable and useful for the business. Continue Reading

Microsoft SQL Server data profiling tool put to work

Andy Hogg demonstrates how to clean up dirty data with the data profiling tool that comes with Microsoft SQL Server Continue Reading

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• Andy Hogg

CIO interview: Mary Hensher, IT director, Cancer Research UK

Charity Cancer Research has felt the impact of recession on fundraising and the need to innovate through technology is more important than ever Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Big data storage: Defining big data and the type of storage it needs

Big data storage: What is big data, what compute/storage system configurations are used for big data analytics, and what type of storage infrastructure does it require? Continue Reading

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• Antony Adshead, Storage Editor

Enabling the secure use of RFID

Dario Bevilacqua and Keith Mayes describe the design of an UHF RFID system for secure identification and tracking. Continue Reading

Is EMC Greenplum the real Hadoop company?

EMC Greenplum launched two new Hadoop-related technologies to support Big Data deployments. Analyst Group, Nucleus Research assesses their importance. Continue Reading

Effective print security for SMBs

Analysts Louella Fernandes and Clive Longbottom discuss how integrated print management provides SMBs with a simple and scalable approach for print security. Continue Reading

SAS: Data quality, data governance concerns impede big data programmes

Only 12% of information management professionals are doing big data, according to a survey from SAS and SourceMedia Continue Reading

Business intelligence program needs long-term tending to fully blossom

The evolution of Quicken Loans' business intelligence strategy from static reporting to self-service BI holds useful lessons for other organizations. Continue Reading

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• Craig Stedman, Industry Editor

Strategic investments drive modest growth in IT spending

The relatively stable economic climate has resulted in modest IT investment, according to Gartner’s latest quarterly spending forecast Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor

Making sense of storage in a big data world

Robert White, executive director for enterprise infrastructure at Morgan Stanley, offers advice on how to develop a strategy for managing big data storage. Continue Reading

42% of businesses use existing IT department for big data projects

Businesses are creating in--house big data functions with 42% of big data pioneers use existing IT resources and 37% creating separate functions Continue Reading

Oracle Q3 revenues down, operating profitability up, net income flat

Oracle’s Q3 sales dip 1% to $9bn, compared with Q3 the year before, but operating profitability is up and free cash flow in good shape Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

What does a petabyte look like?

How can you visualise a petabyte of data? What is it in real terms? Some experts try to make real the colossal size of the mighty petabyte Continue Reading

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• Brian McKenna, Senior Analyst, Business Applications

CIO interview: Darrell Stein, IT director, Marks & Spencer

As M&S develops its multi-channel capability, Darrell Stein and his team are delivering projects focused on innovation and profitability Continue Reading

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• Angelica Mari

Accenture delivers rapid reporting for Six Nations

In sponsoring the Six Nations Rugby tournament, Accenture has shown how rapid prototyping can be applied to building enterprise reports Continue Reading

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• Cliff Saran, Managing Editor