Dotcom era data wrangler Tibco to buy Information Builders, reportedly for a whopping $1bn
Like a dotcom dude vs '70s veteran buddy movie
23 Oct 2020 | 1
Lindsay Clark has been writing about business technology for more than 20 years, starting at PC Week in the late 1990s. He went on to manage the news team at Computer Weekly in the early 2000s, the then gong-collecting staple of ITâs senior managers. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long and âWhisperingâ Bob Harris. As a freelance journalist, he has written for The Financial Times, The Guardian and a list of B2B titles as long as your arm. He joined The Register in February 2020.
Got a problem with trust in AI? Just add blockchain, Forrester urges. Then bust out the holographic meetings. Welcome to the future
It takes 'grit' to send in a holograph to meetings instead of struggling with mute buttons yourself...
23 Oct 2020 | 13
Today's tech giants won't be as naive as I was in DoJ dealings, says former Microsoft chief Bill Gates
'I didn’t realise that our success would lead to government attention'
22 Oct 2020 | 33
NHS awards £500m everything-and-the-kitchen-sink framework to a long list of resellers
Backup, servers, storage, LAN, WAN and SAN, and software galore
22 Oct 2020 | 7
State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out
...even if your 18-year-old mainframe keeps getting flooded and falling over
21 Oct 2020 | 24
Who knew? Hadoop is over, says former Hortonworks guru Scott Gnau
InterviewTeradata veteran talks up his new home at InterSystems as best of both worlds
21 Oct 2020 | 20
MongoDB rolls out pick 'n' mix multi-cloud DBaaS, hopes to win over footdraggers by playing well with AWS, Google, Microsoft
Falls short as a generalist database playa, though, says analyst
20 Oct 2020 | 6
We'll know what we node, we'll grok what we've graphed: Neo4j nails graph machine learning to data science workbench
Can help build more efficient recommendation algos, amongst other stuff it hopes users want
20 Oct 2020 | 2
Transport for London data pilot: We want to keep tabs on dockless bikes and e-bikes
Peddling hard to swerve a pavement pile-up of leased 'mobile assets causing obstructions in the public realm'
20 Oct 2020 | 61
UK test-and-trace coronavirus data may be handed to police to nab those who aren't self-isolating as required
Plod 'involvement' could deter testing, says doctors' union
19 Oct 2020 | 52
The exodus continues: Less than half of contractors expect to stick with their employment set-up after IR35
Tax doesn't have to be taxing, except when it does
19 Oct 2020 | 33
Oracle aims high-end cloudy database release at existing customers in 'defensive' move
Large existing install base that's pondering move to cloud will be reluctant to ditch 'existing investments' opines analyst
16 Oct 2020 | 3
RPA firms: We have our own process mining tools. Process miner Celonis: We're all about automation now
German biz: You won't need an RPA tool, or not as often. FIGHT, FIGHT!!!
16 Oct 2020 | 4
Lift us up where we belong: UK's Network Rail puts elevators online
Where the data flies, and the travellers cry.....
16 Oct 2020 | 32
NHS looks to the market for advice on one system to replace two separate, giant Oracle ERP and HR systems
A hornet's nest within a can of worms running systems worth billions of pounds..
15 Oct 2020 | 35
UK's Cheshire Police tenders for whole new ERP system after Oracle Fusion went live with 'significant deficiency'
UpdatedDid we say £11m? Contract value now ranges from £19m to, er, £190m!
14 Oct 2020 | 44
German-speaking SAP user survey sees S4/HANA upgrade projects either sink or swim as coronavirus cuts into revenue
'Train has left the station' for more than half, while 43% delayed indefinitely
13 Oct 2020 | 1
UK taxman waves through £168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure
What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty?
13 Oct 2020 | 24
Amazon-like megacorps dominating various online sectors could become norm for pandemic-stricken planet
Certain business models work better than others when most people avoid human contact
12 Oct 2020 | 9
Bot herder of a different kind: Open sourcer Camunda buffs up RPA platform in an overcrowded market
Someone's got to wrangle all the automation now Microsoft and pals have joined the act
09 Oct 2020 | 4
Alibaba and pals grab £35m in Jisc contracts to give overseas students access to UK courses during pandemic
Bulk of deal focuses on secure, high-performance connectivity to China
09 Oct 2020 | 8
IBM to spin out Managed Infrastructure Services biz – yes, the one that was subject to all those redundancies
And the name of this fresh public entity? World, say hello to... NewCo
08 Oct 2020 | 29
NHS England offers £15m to AI firms for software that helps with stroke victims' treatment as COVID-19 stretches service
Raising inevitable concerns over protection of patient data
08 Oct 2020 | 6
Tableau continues to pursue monogamish marriage a year after Salesforce nuptials
AnalysisSure, Salesforce is our main squeeze but we're open to suggestions
08 Oct 2020 | 3
