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McLaren CIO uses SAP's HANA to scale back on ‘expensive PhDs’

McLaren CIO Stuart Birrell has said that he is using SAP’s in-memory HANA technology to try and scale back on using “expensive PhD” skills within the group’s Formula 1 teams. read more »

Facebook will settle class-action suit over Sponsored Stories

Facebook is to settle a class-action lawsuit in California that accused it of appropriating its users' likenesses for its Sponsored Stories advertising feature, according to a court document filed Tuesday. read more »

Firms suffer app performance failure through poor network management

Corporate networks across Europe are experiencing significant performance problems due to network "blind spots" around the applications being run across them, according to research. read more »

Tesco speeds release of new online applications

Tesco is speeding the way it prepares and releases new applications across its online business. read more »

Bloomberg acquires PolarLake to bolster data management capabilities

Bloomberg has revealed today that it has acquired Dublin-based software provider PolarLake in a bid to bolster a newly launched enterprise data management (EDM) service. read more »

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Are financial IT systems ready for a Greek euro exit?

With Greece's exit from the eurozone looking increasingly likely, financial experts around the world are speculating about the effect this will have on the global economy. Some say that the contagion could spread to Spain and Italy, banks that have lent money to Greece could suffer catastrophic losses, and the entire European monetary project could crumble. read more »

New Analytics: Enterprise BI models undergo radical transformation

About two years ago, CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield implemented a self-service business intelligence platform to aggregate and analyse vast amounts of data from multiple repositories scattered throughout the company. read more »

Gamification - How enterprise mobile apps can learn from mobile games

Enterprise mobile apps are shifting from small, narrowly task-oriented programs to larger, more complex ones. To design them well, enterprise developers can learn a lot from a surprising source: mobile games. read more »

Apache OpenOffice - Can it still compete with LibreOffice?

It used to be that OpenOffice.org was the leading open source alternative to proprietary productivity suites like Microsoft Office, and it was included in pretty much all the major Linux distributions. read more »

No SOS for SAS: what the latest ECJ case means for software

On 2 May, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) made a landmark judgment that the functionality of computer software cannot be protected by copyright. Lawyers Belinda Doshi and Louisa Dixon explore how the ruling will affect players in the software industry. read more »

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