UK council digs deeper into capital assets to keep Oracle project afloat
West Sussex plans to triple use of property sales as ERP budget blows past original estimates
Databases06 Feb 2026 | 47
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. His career was waylaid by music, which merited brief session appearances on BBC radio shows including those hosted by Mark Riley, Janice Long, and Whispering 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 to cover database software and other enterprise IT technologies.
Most SAP migrations bust budgets and project timelines, research finds
As 2027 ECC support cliff looms, half choose not to re-engineer processes in critical ERP upgrade
Databases05 Feb 2026 | 7
UK watchdog to rule on £246M Post Office subsidy over Horizon scandal and IR35
CMA's Subsidy Advice Unit reviewing state aid linked to redress and off-payroll tax costs
Public Sector04 Feb 2026 | 31
Snowflake plugs PostgreSQL into its AI Data Cloud
Yes, it already had Unistore
Databases03 Feb 2026 | 2
Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights
Opinion CEO Alex Karp meets criticism with soaring revenues and a sermon
Applications03 Feb 2026 | 72
Oracle's first general on-prem release of its .ai database iteration draws skeptics
Users happy with 19c as experts question AI lock-in
Databases02 Feb 2026 | 2
SAP refuses to budge on renewal discounts despite cloud growth slowdown
Drop in customers' cloud conversion rate causes share price to plunge 22% – steepest decline since 2020
Databases02 Feb 2026 | 4
NS&I's IT car crash considers cutting legacy links to stop the bleeding
£1.3B over budget and four years late, bank searches for a way to not to bust new timetable and funding pot
Public Sector30 Jan 2026 | 58
Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out
Cerner, though acquired in 2022, is nothing to multibillion black hole
On-Prem29 Jan 2026 | 29
Birmingham City Council's Oracle ERP fiasco now £144M and still not working
Five years after its planned go-live, the system remains incomplete as costs balloon more than sevenfold
Databases29 Jan 2026 | 86
AI agent hype cools as enterprises struggle to get into production
Only the biggest businesses are up to the challenge, says Redis CEO
Agentic AI28 Jan 2026 | 9
UK tax collector plans £2B tech binge as legacy systems refuse to die
Updated AWS and Capgemini loom large in HMRC's procurement pipeline
Public Sector28 Jan 2026 | 20
Microsoft illegally installed cookies on schoolkid's tech, data protection ruling finds
Updated Austrian education ministry unaware of tracking software until campaigners launched case
Applications27 Jan 2026 | 17
Gartner questions whether Salesforce AI buffet will stay all-you-can-eat forever
Updated Analysts say today's capped deals may become tomorrow's cost shock
Agentic AI27 Jan 2026 | 11
EU looking into Elon Musk's X after Grok produces deepfake sex images
Probe follows outcry over use of creepy image generation tool
Personal Tech26 Jan 2026 | 27
UK border tech budget swells by £100M as Home Office targets small boat crossings
Drone, satellite, and other data combined to monitor unwanted vessels
Public Sector24 Jan 2026 | 26
Microsoft shifting to cloud management software brings possibility of it peeking into your estate
Deprecation of popular management tool requires a new look at Azure-based system
Databases23 Jan 2026 | 20
As Oracle loses interest in MySQL, devs mull future options
As Big Red's governance of the popular database comes into question, contributors to MySQL consider wresting control
Databases23 Jan 2026 | 67
SAP scores £275M award from UK tax collector – sans competition
Updated System handling £800B must be SaaS and sovereign. Only German vendor fits the bill, says HMRC
Databases22 Jan 2026 | 11
Palantir CEO claims AI will mean western economies won't need immigration
Opinion Alex Karp can sniff out a hot potato topic, but what comes next in the act?
AI + ML21 Jan 2026 | 89
OpenAI is still figuring out how to make money, but wants you to believe in it
And the world economy might depend on it finding an answer
AI + ML20 Jan 2026 | 38
MPs ask who's responsible when AI crashes the UK finance system
Committee says watchdogs lack urgency as accountability for automated decisions remains unresolved
AI + ML20 Jan 2026 | 24
£45B savings remain theoretical as UK digital roadmap delayed again
Promised plan keeps slipping as ministers talk up future efficiency
Public Sector20 Jan 2026 | 17
ERP isn't dead yet – but most execs are planning the wake
7 out of 10 C-suite cats reckon software category's best days are behind it, but can't agree what's next
Databases19 Jan 2026 | 37
Hyperscalers, vendors funding trillion dollar AI spree, but users will have to pay up long term
Analyst: We'll hit a spot where 'we go from that was a great idea to where's my revenue?'
AI + ML16 Jan 2026 | 17
Bond, debt bond: Investors shaken, not stirred by Oracle’s borrowing spree sue Big Red
Investors upset that company failed to inform them might need to take out even more debt.
Systems15 Jan 2026 | 33
Teach an AI to write buggy code, and it starts fantasizing about enslaving humans
Research shows erroneous training in one domain affects performance in another, with concerning implications
AI + ML15 Jan 2026 | 32
AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty
EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands
PaaS + IaaS15 Jan 2026 | 79
UK backtracks on digital ID requirement for right to work
U-turn leaves questions on costs, funding, and benefits unanswered
Public Sector14 Jan 2026 | 155
Birmingham pauses Oracle relaunch to get staff on board
Europe's largest council delays Fusion reimplementation four years after go-live disaster
Databases13 Jan 2026 | 31
Fujitsu scores place on £984M UK government framework despite bid boycott
Turns out the voluntary pledge to restrict public sector tendering during Horizon scandal inquiry has loopholes
Public Sector13 Jan 2026 | 13
Very tough microbes may help us cement our future on Mars
Extremophile bacteria could help turn Martian dirt into building material for human habitats
Science09 Jan 2026 | 20
Bank of England's Oracle cloud migration bill triples as project grinds on
Initial £7M estimate proves optimistic after multiple contract uplifts
Databases09 Jan 2026 | 51
Ultimate camouflage tech mimics octopus in scientific first
Synthetic cephalopod skin could be used in architecture and computer displays as well as background-matching subterfuge
Science08 Jan 2026 | 35
Earlier Horizon rollout could widen net for quashed Post Office convictions
Committee told shifting timelines could alter automatic reversals in UK's historic Fujitsu computing scandal
Public Sector07 Jan 2026 | 33
UK to spend £23M on AI to tell benefit claimants where to go
Department for Work and Pensions lines up bot bouncers for one of Europe's largest call-handling systems
Public Sector07 Jan 2026 | 51
No membrane in sight as Osmos diffuses into Microsoft Fabric
AI data engineering startup acquisition brings ETL and Spark automation in-house
Databases06 Jan 2026 |
EU won't scrap tech regs just because Washington dislikes them
US trade body threatens software and services market access unless European approach changes
Legal05 Jan 2026 | 33
Capita tells civil servants to wait for chatbots to fix pension portal woes
Exclusive Outsourcer promises customers a service with 'AI at its core.' They just want a website that works
Public Sector05 Jan 2026 | 80
How California built one of the world's biggest public-sector IT systems
20 years, multiple delays, and millions of dollars later, FI$Cal is live – mostly
Public Sector29 Dec 2025 | 24
Oracle's new AI-enhanced support portal leaves users fuming
The company that bet the farm on AI said to have made things worse with AI
PaaS + IaaS23 Dec 2025 | 24
EU offers UK early gift: Data adequacy until 2031
Relief for those dealing with data pipelines between the two, but move has its critics
Public Sector22 Dec 2025 | 7
NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits
UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos
Public Sector19 Dec 2025 | 23
US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row
Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levy
Public Sector16 Dec 2025 | 75
UK.gov doubles hardware spending framework to £24B in 6 months
Massive procurement deal for laptops and software comes after minister vows to squeeze better value from big vendors
Public Sector16 Dec 2025 | 6
Salesforce willing to lose money on AI agent licenses when customers are locked in
Flat-rate deals may sting now, but vendor expects payback over decades
Agentic AI15 Dec 2025 | 8
Delay to European Central Bank messaging project cost the Bank of England £23M
Watchdog links schedule change to replanning of UK payments system overhaul
Public Sector15 Dec 2025 | 7
Workday project at Washington University hits $266M
Protests force disclosure of costs totaling $16,000 per student over 7 year rollout replacing 80 legacy systems
SaaS12 Dec 2025 | 40
Salesforce opts for seat-based AI licensing as customers demand predictability
Analysts say the shift is part of a trend which offers stability, but embedded usage caps ensure some vendors keep control
AI + ML12 Dec 2025 | 9
Home Office staff still leaning on 25-year-old asylum case management system
Replacement rollout plagued by bad data and missing features, says watchdog
Public Sector12 Dec 2025 | 20
European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger
Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better
Legal11 Dec 2025 | 12
Electric cars no more likely to flatten you than the noisy ones, study finds
Recent collision data points to comparable injury rates across modern vehicle types
Personal Tech10 Dec 2025 | 138
SAP users in the dark about vendor's plan for data analytics
February product launch fails to register, with concerns remaining about integration
Databases09 Dec 2025 |
IBM straps AI to Db2 console in bid to modernize the old warhorse
Intelligence Center features aim to unify management across on-prem, cloud, and containerized estates
Databases08 Dec 2025 | 5
UK tech minister vows more whole-government megadeals after £9B Microsoft pact
Kendall says Whitehall will use bulk buying to squeeze better value from cloud giants
Public Sector08 Dec 2025 | 21
Salesforce finds new AI monetization knobs to twist
With seat and usage-based deals back on the table, CRM giant tells investors agent prices are going up
SaaS05 Dec 2025 | 4
Pension portal launch fail sends Capita running to Microsoft for help
Union fields member complaints as it presses outsourcer over botched rollout
Public Sector05 Dec 2025 | 39
Sorry, but your glitchy connection might have cost you that job
Technical problems on video calls can cause uncanniness, which influences real-world decisions
Networks04 Dec 2025 | 57
UK SAP users say they're baffled by Business Suite reboot licensing maze
Pricing complexity makes justifying migrations an uphill battle
Databases04 Dec 2025 | 8
Space telescopes are being photobombed by satellites, and the problem is slated to get much worse
LEO communications satellites are proliferating like rabbits
Science03 Dec 2025 | 19
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