Enterprise

How mega city council's failure to act on Oracle rollout crashed its financial controls

Missing assessments, hidden caveats, and overoptimism all contributed to fateful decision, auditors find

PaaS + IaaS27 Feb 2025 | 37

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 114

Oracle extends 19c database support to 2032, making it 'longest strategic release'

Meanwhile, on-prem version of 23ai remains uncertain

Databases18 Feb 2025 | 3

Users await the fine print on SAP Business Suite reboot

Cloud-based revival should come with 'a corresponding discount scale,' customers say

Applications14 Feb 2025 | 4

SAP snared in revenue trap unless it extends legacy ERP support

User can still push for perpetual licenses despite vendor's craving for subscription deals

Databases13 Feb 2025 | 7

Mega city council's Oracle finance fix faces further delays

Third-party software sticking plaster expected six months late

Databases03 Feb 2025 | 39

Oracle finance system at Europe's largest city council still falls short 2.5 years later

Auditors find solution design 'was not fully resolved' when it went live in 2022

Databases29 Jan 2025 | 22

Tool touted as 'first AI software engineer' is bad at its job, testers claim

Nailed just 15% of assigned tasks

AI + ML23 Jan 2025 | 75

Asda tech divorce from Walmart delays cut-over for 55 stores

Supermarket taking 'pragmatic approach' to 'Europe's largest IT transformation program'

On-Prem21 Jan 2025 | 24

Sage Copilot grounded briefly to fix AI misbehavior

'Minor issue' with showing accounting customers 'unrelated business information' required repairs

AI + ML20 Jan 2025 | 23

Google reports halving code migration time with AI help

Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas

AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 15

Tech titans hide in shadows awaiting Trump tariff threats

Being more diplomatic than the politicians makes sense amid fear of upsetting the next US President

Personal Tech03 Jan 2025 | 58

Google Gemini 2.0 Flash comes out with real-time conversation, image analysis

Chocolate Factory's latest multimodal model aims to power more trusted AI agents

AI + ML11 Dec 2024 | 25

Kyndryl's consulting business may be less than it seems

Special report Insiders say it's largely a matter of labeling

CxO08 Dec 2024 | 22

Asda hits the brakes on tech tweaks to avoid festive fiasco

Stability essential ahead of Christmas trading amid ongoing Walmart divorce

On-Prem03 Dec 2024 | 33

Oh, good. Supermicro board probe clears server slinger of misconduct claims

But hunts for a fresh CFO 'in light of rapid recent growth'

Systems02 Dec 2024 | 3

Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic

You just gonna stand there, Google, let AWS take the 'primary training partner' title? Not gonna do nothing?

AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 7

Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do?

Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness

AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 35

Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business

Special report IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts

On-Prem20 Nov 2024 | 19

Asda security chief replaced, retailer sheds jobs during Walmart tech divorce

British grocer's workers called back to office as clock ticks for contractors

On-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 18

AMD axes 4% of staff while staring hungrily at AI, servers

LLM, LLM on the wall, who will be laid off first of all?

AI + ML13 Nov 2024 | 7

Europe's largest local authority slammed for 'poorest' ERP rollout ever

Government-appointed commissioners say Birmingham severely lacked Oracle skills during disastrous implementation

Databases08 Nov 2024 | 73

Users struggle with recipe when moving enterprise apps to the cloud

From meatballs and spaghetti to lasagna – same ingredients, different structure, says analyst

Databases05 Nov 2024 | 8

Sorry, but the ROI on enterprise AI is abysmal

Appen points to, among other problems, a lack of high-quality training data labeled by humans

AI + ML22 Oct 2024 | 45

Microsoft says its Copilot AI agents set to tackle employee tasks in November

Let bots manage your supply chain? What could possibly go wrong?

AI + ML21 Oct 2024 | 17

UK authority struggles to RISE with SAP, throws another £9M at project

Gloucestershire continues with legacy system as SaaS replacement delayed by more than a year

Databases21 Oct 2024 | 13

Inexorable march of progress at SAP threatens to leave users behind

AI hardly a hot topic with some customers calling for more innovation on-prem

Databases16 Oct 2024 | 4

AMD downplays risk of growing blast radius, licensing fees from manycore chips

House of Zen says it's done the analysis, and concerns are a 'little bit' unfounded

Systems15 Oct 2024 | 16

CIQ takes Rocky Linux corporate with $25K price tag

Backs RHEL-compatible distro with indemnification and update guarantees

OSes09 Oct 2024 | 21

Windows 11 migration? Upgrade engine revs up, enterprises have no choice

Support expiry clock ticks for Windows 10 – PC makers won't be happy with latest stats

Personal Tech07 Oct 2024 | 28

Mega supermarket spots stock discrepancy of tens of millions amid ERP system migration

Exclusive Britain's Asda admits tech divorce from ex-owner Walmart is still overrunning

Databases03 Oct 2024 | 109

SAP support auto-renewal gotcha: Do nothing now, pay for another year

Updated Single digit price hikes suspected for UK and Europe and double digit mooted for everywhere else

Databases26 Sep 2024 | 13

If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ

Add compliance requirements to your AI to-do list

AI + ML25 Sep 2024 | 31

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

Workers forced to manually correct setup that struggles to produce auditable accounts after customizations

Databases20 Sep 2024 | 51

ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it

Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts

Databases19 Sep 2024 | 6

No major AI model is safe, but some do better than others

Feature Anthropic Claude 3.5 shines in Chatterbox Labs safety test

AI + ML17 Sep 2024 | 14

Sainsbury's bags a ticket to RISE with SAP, hoping not to trip like Asda

UK's second largest retailer set to move ERP to the cloud with AWS, Accenture, and the German software gaint

Databases17 Sep 2024 | 5

GenAI hype meets harsh reality as enterprises wrestle with business case

Nvidia, Equinix clearly making a killing over costs, confusion, and cold feet

AI + ML09 Sep 2024 | 17

Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom

This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path

Databases28 Aug 2024 | 8

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?

Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 59

Two senior board execs leave SAP as restructuring hits the fan

German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts

PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2024 | 2

Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructure

Revenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs

Databases23 Jul 2024 | 9

SAP system gives UK tax collector a £750B headache as clock ticks on support

Updated For now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again)

Databases23 Jul 2024 | 27

Brit council gives Oracle another £10M for professional services amid ERP fallout

Birmingham struggles to get current version of Fusion fit for purpose

Public Sector08 Jul 2024 | 56

Google festoons Chrome Enterprise browser with more controls

Because if there's one thing it really needed more of...

Software26 Jun 2024 | 2

SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 to receive support right up to end of Unix epoch

And there's a special offer on the CentOS-compatible Liberty Linux

OSes26 Jun 2024 | 10

GenAI dominates the narrative in ERP, but what is it good for?

Low-code and report production vie for early use cases, but risks remain

AI + ML25 Jun 2024 | 7

Oracle Ads have had it: $2B operation shuts down after dwindling to $300M

Analysis In this slightly more private era, your data ain't as profitable as it once was

Personal Tech13 Jun 2024 | 25

SAP customers may struggle to escape ECC before support shutters if they don't start now

User group warns of systems integrator and consultant shortage to make herculean shift to S4/HANA

SaaS12 Jun 2024 | 10

Payoff from AI projects is 'dismal', biz leaders complain

No wonder most orgs are slowing their spending

AI + ML12 Jun 2024 | 132

IBM dream to gobble up HashiCorp challenged in court

Updated This benefits management, but not us shareholders!

Software11 Jun 2024 | 3

'Building AI co-workers going to be largest opportunity of tech in our lifetime'

Or so this Thomson Reuters bot boss claims

AI + ML04 Jun 2024 | 32

Microsoft smartens up Edge for Business with screenshot blocking, logo branding, more

Build And real-time video translation for things like this: ¡Apestas, Redmond!

Software21 May 2024 | 27

Anthropic goes after iPhone fans with Claude 3 chatbot app

Also adds a Teams plan that's still under development

AI + ML01 May 2024 | 4

Java 17 now developers' favorite brew, with Eclipse Adoptium proving popular, too

New Relic report also sees accelerated uptake of freshly-ground JDK releases

Software01 May 2024 | 6

Enterprise browser maker Island says it's now worth $3B

Big rise in valuation... for browser that won't let you Control-V any data copied inside it

Applications30 Apr 2024 | 24