Heads of IT are claiming that Google is “still not a corporate contender” with its apps and services, according to The Corporate IT Forum. Research from the Forum, which surveyed heads of IT at some of the UK’s largest ...
Tags: apps, Google, Google Earth, Google Maps, Research forum
SAP and a financial analyst are at loggerheads over a recent report by the analyst, claiming that a handful of customers had received substantial discounts on their software maintenance renewals. “We recently spent time talking with ...
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Government IT reformers have criticised the Cabinet Office's plans to give chief procurement officer Bill Crothers a more prominent position within the IT leadership team. Sources told Computer Weekly they were concerned the move could ...
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Tony Prestedge is COO at Nationwide.He joined the building society halfway through a GBP1bn IT transformation which he then took charge of.He talks to Computer Weekly about the progress being made,the benefits already being seen and what ...
Tags: ageing IT systems, up to date, virtualise desktops, data warehouses
Computer Weekly has announced the third UKtech50, our annual definitive list of the real movers and shakers in UK IT - the CIOs, industry executives, public servants and business leaders driving the role of technology in the UK economy. ...
Tags: UK IT, UKtech50, ARM, GCHQ, Government Digital Service, Salesforce.com
After a lengthy and often heated consultation, the government has finally released its new open standards principles intended to level the supplier playing field and avoid product lock-in. But is the document a blueprint for a radically ...
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In large technology departments,dysfunctional relationships breed like mushrooms in a dank basement.Your dev and ops teams are no longer on speaking terms,while your junior and senior developers can't seem to agree on anything.IT and legal ...
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Government’s addiction to mega-contracts has been pegged as a key factor in the exclusion of small to medium-sized enterprises (SME) from the public sector IT market. Deputy government CIO Liam Maxwell (pictured below) and a number ...
Tags: SME procurement, mega-contracts, Victor Baldorino, UK
A comprehensive annual survey of £14bn worth of UK IT services contacts has revealed a continued appetite to outsource, new reasons for doing so and different ways of doing it. In its sixth year, KPMG's annual UK IT Service Provider ...
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David Weymouth, group director of operations and risk at insurance giant RSA, talks to Computer Weekly about the importance of training the next generation of IT leaders; the key changes affecting finance technology; and why a government ...
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Former government deputy CIO Bill McCluggage has criticised the government for a lack of metrics in IT, and a failure to profit from 'shadow IT' and the cloud. Further reading Former government deputy CIO slams UK cyber security ...
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The government reduced its IT spend by £249m in 2011/12, with savings of £104m coming from its move to digital services and contract renegotiations, and £145m from its moratorium on contracts above £5m. The ...
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Denise McDonagh, director of the government's G-Cloud programme, talks to Computer Weekly about the implementation challenges of the programme and the routes being taken to break government's dependence on large outsourcers. To describe ...
Tags: Interview, G-Cloud programme, cloud frameworks, big legacy systems
HCL said its European sales have increased as a result of businesses focusing on efficiency while attempting to reduce the number of suppliers they use for specific service lines. Despite the Euro crisis, the Indian service provider's ...
Tags: HCL, Euro crisis, transformational services, specific service