Database management
The long and winding road
CIO UK's update on the travel and transport industries and their investments in IT
Not only are transport companies corporate organsations in their own right, but they are also often the engines that keep the wheels of the UK economy turning more...
Database management Indepth
CIO Profile: Trinity Mirror's Tony Pusey on pioneering retail systems
As a pioneer of extranet systems at BHS, newspaper IT boss is no stranger to transformational tech
Before joining Trinity Mirror, CIO Tony Pusey worked in retail with maverics like Phlip Green more...
Rediscovering enterprise search
The answer to Big Data?
The mature enterprise search market is about to have a second youth as data volumes increase and nuggets of information become ever more difficult to find more...
JD Williams CIO rises to the multi-channel challenge
The extended economic slump is driving retailers to redraw their clicks to bricks ratios
Economic pressures, a confidence in online payments and increasing adoption of smart mobile devices has shifted retailers perspectives on sales channels more...
Why enterprise software will never be the same
SaaS, social networking and key acquisitions changed the landscape in 2011
A series of significant events took place in the enterprise software market, that will have a lasting impact on the industry in years to come. Here's a look at some of the biggest turning points more...
A source of much relief for charity CIO Marcus East
Open source software helps Comic Relief make more of public's donations
Comic Relief CIO Marcus East explains the benefits of open source software for keeping administration costs down to make the most of public donations more...
IT Matters. Again
Businesses are spending again on IT
In times of uncertainty, businesses are spending again on IT, says Richard Hammell, Lead Partner for Deloitte Analytics more...
Traditional databases have no hope of understanding the unstructured data in enterprises
Unstructurally sound
Information management is changing to meet our needs more...
Why today more than ever, Big Data is the big issue
Six safeguards to help ensure your BIM investments deliver real benefits
You will have seen the corporate urge to squeeze maximum value from the vast amounts of data that are now available, and many have turned to Business Information Management (BIM) as a way of getting to grips with this data explosion. more...
Flat management helps CA Technologies CEO move at the speed of business
Bill McCracken talks with CIO UK
CIO UK secured an interview with CA Technologies CEO Bill McCracken at the CA World conference in Las Vegas, in which he talked about the death of the mainframe and flat management more...
Database management news
Oracle asks for retrial against SAP in TomorrowNow case
A federal judge last year lowered the award to Oracle by $1 billion
A federal judge last year lowered the award to Oracle by $1 billion more...
Misys and Temenos eye merger
Software firms could become largest specialist financial IT supplier
Software firms could become largest specialist financial IT supplier more...
Scottish council cleanses data to improve public services
North Lanarkshire invests in single customer view
North Lanarkshite invests in single customer view more...
Big Data drives demand for database management skills
Mobile technology skills also highly sought after says recruiter
The growing amount of structured and unstructured data being processed by businesses is driving a demand for more database skills, a survey from recruitment specialist Robert Half has found. more...
Salesforce.com customers want analytics to be included in core fees
Users are angry at the extra cost tied to the upcoming Analytics Edition, saying the core product's reporting function has long been lacking
Salesforce.com customers are sounding off about the fact that an upcoming Analytics Edition of the CRM (customer relationship management) software will have an additional price tag, saying that the functionality it includes should be part of their base subscriptions. more...
Roche eyes Illumina for DNA analysis in £3.6bn bid
Systems will analyse DNA and tailor medicine to patients for pharma giant
Roche has made a $5.7 billion (£3.6 billion) hostile bid for Illumina, with DNA analysis systems as a key focus. more...
SAP to deliver core ERP on HANA in-memory database
More ammunition for SAP drive to migrate applications customers from Oracle's database
SAP plans to roll out support for the ERP module within its flagship Business Suite product family on the HANA in-memory database platform in the fourth quarter of this year, according to executive board member and technology chief Vishal Sikka. more...
IBM and NEC buddy up to offer OpenFlow networking products
Companies say three organisations using their combined OpenFlow system to handle Big Data
IBM and NEC have partnered to offer OpenFlow-based networking products to joint customers. more...
Ladbrokes bets on Las Vegas casino IT supplier
Bookmaker confident of the city's continued soft regulation on gambling
Ladbrokes is accelerating its online drive, after buying a majority stake in a major IT supplier to Las Vegas' largest casinos. more...
George Osborne: UK needs renminbi top clearing tech
Hong Kong also extends hours of its own payments system, to cover London trading day
Chancellor George Osborne has vowed that the UK will have the top clearing and settlement technology for the Chinese renminbi currency. more...
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