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HANA to fully underpin SAP cloud products within one or two years

Enterprise software giant SAP has unveiled a ‘unified’ cloud strategy this week, which will see its cloud products supported by its in-memory database technology, HANA, within one or two years. read more »

Royal Society scientists debate future of electronics

The future of electronics is likely to encompass new areas of technology, including biotechnology, and exploit new forms of optics and photonics, according to scientists meeting at the Royal Society this week. read more »

Coding and technology essential for an educated youth, says Gove

Education secretary Michael Gove has said that in order for future generations to call themselves educated, they will need to be able to code, as well as understand and influence technology. read more »

HANA should be used as a catalyst to consolidate licences and save billions

Enterprises are running on average at least five instances of SAP and should be using the introduction of HANA as a catalyst to consolidate into one global platform and save billions of dollars, according to the latest research from HCL Technologies. read more »

Teradata takes on SAPs HANA with intelligent in-memory

Teradata has stepped into the in-memory database market to take on the likes of SAP’s HANA with a solution that aims to reduce the cost of placing data in RAM by ‘intelligently’ identifying the most used data. read more »

Financial Times appoints ex-BBC exec as new CTO

The Financial Times (FT) has appointed John O’Donovan as its new Chief Technology Officer, who will lead the FT’s technology strategy across development and operations teams. read more »

Barclays adopts voice biometrics for customer identification

Barclays Wealth & Investment Management is using Nuance’s FreeSpeech voice biometrics solution to automatically confirm and identify customers, instead of using security questions that rely on the customer’s ability to remember a number of different details. read more »

BMW selects Accenture to roll-out new web platform

Premium German car manufacturer BMW has selected Accenture to manage the roll-out of a custom-built web platform to 100 of BMW’s major markets by 2014. read more »

Salesforce customers will need a serious reason to be in new UK data centre

European Salesforce customers will need a ‘serious reason’ to be hosted in the cloud giant’s new UK-based data centre, which is due to open by 2014. read more »

Government launches cloud first policy alongside G-Cloud iii (Amazon STILL absent)

The government has used the launch of the third G-Cloud framework to adopt a cloud first policy, claiming that the public cloud should be the first option considered by public sector buyers of IT products and services. read more »

IMIS members agree merger with BCS

Following an ‘overwhelming majority vote’ from its membership, the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (IMIS) has agreed to merge with BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. read more »

G-Cloud director labels EU cloud plans 'old world thinking'

The director of the government’s G-Cloud, Denise McDonagh, has questioned the European Commission’s Cloud Computing Strategy, labelling the approach as ‘old world thinking’. read more »

Salesforce (finally) announces UK-based data centre for 2014

Cloud giant Salesforce.com has finally revealed plans to open a data centre in the UK, based in Slough, to serve its customer base in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. read more »

TalkTalk files broadband complaint against BT, Ofcom opens investigation

Communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into BT’s wholesale and retail broadband prices following a complaint from TalkTalk. read more »

Parliament calls back Google over tax claims

Google executives are to be hauled back in front of the UK’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) after new claims about the location of its salespeople, which could have tax implications for the internet giant. read more »

Study: High growth companies are better at analysing data

The Economist Intelligence Unit has found a strong relationship between the growth of corporate earnings and companies’ use of data in strategic planning, with high growth companies performing better at analysis and use data for decision making. read more »

Government outlines plans for £30m SME advice programme

The government has outlined its plans for a two year, £30 million programme to provide external advice to SMEs in the UK, which was first revealed earlier this year in Osborne’s budget. read more »

All ministerial departments now migrated to GOV.UK

The Government Digital Service (GDS) has completed the migration of all 24 ministerial departments onto the government’s recently launched central domain website, GOV.UK. read more »

Universal Credit goes live...in one area…for 300 people

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has gone live with the first pilot for its high profile welfare reform project, Universal Credit, but will be limited to one small region and only cover approximately 300 people a month. read more »

UK Oracle User Group appoints Masternaut CIO as new president

The UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG) has finally appointed a new president following the shock resignation of Debra Lilley in August of last year. read more »

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