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Despite growth, questions remain over whether SAP can get customers off-prem fast enough to appease investors

€500m cloud investments drag on profit

28 Jan 16:47 | 3

Former Oracle execs warn that Big Red's auditing process is also a 'sales enablement tool'

'Most of it – if not all of it – really amounts to fear, uncertainty and doubt'

25 Jan 12:32 | 51

Team behind delayed ERP project was aware of problems but didn't inform Surrey County Council for months

Move from SAP to Unit4 held up by comms 'issues' between supplier and authority

24 Jan 10:17 | 24

And relax: No repeat car crash financials for SAP in 2021 as cloud services come good

Let's not mention on-premise licences....

15 Jan 01:54 | 1

Games Workshop has chucked another £500k at entrenched ERP project with no end to epic battle in sight

Plans for new online shop get seal of approval despite Microsoft Dynamics delays

13 Jan 11:47 | 62

Dev's PostgreSQL experiment probes possibility of zero-downtime schema migration

It has potential, says one expert

12 Jan 09:29 | 11

Another day, another ERP project behind schedule: This time it's Norfolk County Council and an Oracle system

Cost of over-run was unknown, but won't be as bad as delays at other authorities, council document claims

11 Jan 09:53 | 21

When ERP projects go awry: Surrey County Council incurs £3.2m additional costs in delayed Unit4 project

Select committee set to examine causes of the setbacks

10 Jan 11:32 | 17

All your database are belong to us: Snowflake named DBMS of the year by DB-Engines

Homespun database trackers also see PostgreSQL and MongoDB as hotshots for 2021

06 Jan 17:28 | 5

Db2, where are you? Big Blue is oddly reluctant to discuss recent enhancements to its flagship database

Cloud-native RDBMS is coming, on AWS and Azure. Yet IBM's only preaching to the choir

23 Dec 12:02 | 54

Cerner, a company that scooped more than £100m in NHS deals in a year, is in Oracle's crosshairs

Big Red targets health records specialist Cerner in $30bn takeover bid

17 Dec 13:58 | 8

Database company Cockroach Labs more than doubles in value to $5bn

'Cloud-native' outfit munches up $278m in new funding

16 Dec 12:33 | 3

Trouble getting REST APIs into GraphQL? Try our low-code approach, says Hasura

REST-to-GraphQL data hub also on offer and looking for more contributions

15 Dec 12:30 | 1

Oracle finance application customers more likely to leave for another vendor than SAP's – analyst

Forrester research sheds new light on dynamic Larry Ellison says is going in Big Red's favour

14 Dec 15:19 | 5

Ghost of Christmas past haunts Oracle despite impressive revenue growth

Payment over Mark Hurd dispute hits figures as Ellison bigs up cloud ERP

10 Dec 13:30 | 3

Graph databases are everywhere, and will become even more ubiquitous

TigerGraph: Unlocks value from connected data with ‘explainable AI’

Still waiting for your database to deliver? You’re not the only one

Learn how to cut through the chaos with this webinar

MongoDB logs 50% hike in Q4 sales, beats analysts forecasts for next quarter

Yet losses grow at NoSQL database biz

07 Dec 20:01 | 1

AWS DocumentDB not MongoDB-compatible, says MongoDB Inc

MongoDB CTO Mark Porter: 'It is 34 per cent compatible, through our tests'

06 Dec 18:13 | 10

MySQL a 'pretty poor database' says departing Oracle engineer

PostgreSQL a better option for open source RDBMS, he claims

06 Dec 16:02 | 156

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Alert: Let's Encrypt to revoke about 2 million HTTPS certificates in two days

Relatively small number of certs issued using verification method that doesn't comply with policy

Court papers indicate text messages from HMRC's 60886 number could snoop on Brit taxpayers' locations

Bitter contract dispute revealed HLR lookup capability baked into agreement

Hardware boffin starts work on simulation of an entire IBM S/360 Model 50 mainframe

With microcode intact so it can talk to an original operator's console

5nm? Pah. Texas Instruments focuses on 45nm+ analog, embedded electronics – and makes bank

Most electronics in the things you use are on old-school-gen process nodes, after all

Imagination GPU cleared for RISC-V CPU compatibility, licensed to chip designers

We love it when a plan comes together

For first time in nearly 17 years, stable Linux kernel version has over 999 commits – but not everyone heard about it

'Script was adding the cc: to msg.000 not msg.0000'

Toaster-friendly alternative web protocol Gemini attracts criticism for becoming exclusive clique

While creators were stripping away annoying styling, users started to make Geminispace a bunker, says engineer

Something 4,000 light years away emitted strange radio bursts. This is where we talk to scientists for actual info

'This experience has taught me that it's worth trying out looking at the sky in entirely new ways'

Windows boss Panos Panay talks up 'new era of the PC' – translation: An era of new PCs

1.4 billion devices running Redmond's OS, Android apps coming, and more

In a first, FTC extracts millions of dollars from online store accused of blocking bad reviews on its website

Glad rags merchandiser denies wrongdoing, says it coughed up $4.2m to 'avoid distraction'

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The dark equation of harm versus good means blockchain’s had its day

Put crypto back in the crypt

06 Dec 09:15 | 168

UK and Ireland S/4HANA migrations accelerated during 2021 COVID-19 lockdowns, figures reveal

User group survey shows concerns linger about support skills for upgrade

29 Nov 13:38 | 2

RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme

Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade

22 Nov 22:14 | 2

SAP's Embedded Steampunk little use to those on anything but the most recent system

Effort to bring the ABAP programming language to S/4HANA cloud ERP system attracts criticism

22 Nov 10:15 | 3

Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees

17 Nov 14:45 | 2

Sheffield Uni cooks up classic IT disaster in £30m student project: Shifting scope, leadership changes, sunk cost fallacy

And in the end, policy tweaks made most of it unnecessary

16 Nov 09:30 | 96

The rise of the cloud data warehouse

Performance at the right price is key, says AWS

MongoDB 5.1 for DBaaS arrives amid questions over on-prem release stability

New features focused on times series and analytics fail to quell concerns over 5.0 bugs

System at the heart of scaled-back £30m Sheffield University project runs on end-of-life Oracle database

Extended support for 11.2.0.4.0 ended nearly a year ago

11 Nov 10:16 | 56

Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met

How can you get to net zero without knowing what's generating the nasties?

10 Nov 10:15 | 37

Stacking up: Building a modern data warehouse with Amazon Redshift

The cloud has opened up large-scale data analytics opportunities

Microsoft's Dynamics portfolio has become an all-you-can-eat SI buffet for consultancies

Market for related services driving an M&A feeding frenzy

09 Nov 08:45 | 6

Looking for flexibility and scalability? You might want to sign up for a document database

But you might not want to go it alone

RISE with SAP? Never heard of it, say 30% of UK users

While 11% plan to take up the package, lack of use cases keep numbers low

04 Nov 13:00 | 3

Sheffield University scales back student system after Oracle integration stumbles

£30m project uncertain amid cuts to academic departments

03 Nov 10:00 | 38

How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview

The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards

02 Nov 18:06 | 2

Infosys awarded contract to replace East Sussex County Council's ageing ERP system

Indian service provider tasked with getting authority from SAP R/3 to Oracle Fusion

02 Nov 13:26 | 3

SQL Server on Linux: Canonical offers official support, AWS Babelfish helps users move to Postgres

Amazon tech requires fork of PostgreSQL, is not fully compatible with SQL Server

02 Nov 10:01 | 33

Migrating to Amazon Web Services' Aurora just got a lot easier

Making the switch using Babelfish

Yugabyte's latest funding round values the distributed SQL system at $1.3bn

Double-decker database raises $188m from hungry VCs

Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane

It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst

19 Oct 18:45 | 1

Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2

Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system

19 Oct 11:27 | 4

Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface

Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019

15 Oct 13:28 | 5

Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020

Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round

13 Oct 15:22 | 2

And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system

Award delayed nine months due to pandemic

13 Oct 08:30 | 5

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says

12 Oct 13:02 | 150

AWS gets persistent with MemoryDB for Redis

Amazon service offers 'real, solid, multi-Availability Zone durability'

England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data

Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare

11 Oct 12:16 | 43

Testing times: Microsoft gets PostgreSQL on Azure a day after GA

High end workloads with Hyperscale (Citus)

04 Oct 17:29 | 2

Open-source veteran PostgreSQL emits release 14: Tweaked, scalable, and ready to get heavy

That's the hope as distributed and heavy workloads promised a boost in targeting Oracle for high-end workloads

01 Oct 18:58 | 14

tz database community up in arms over proposals to merge certain time zones

Handbags at 12 o'clock! Er, is that with or without daylight saving?

28 Sep 08:30 | 125

Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS

Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden

24 Sep 18:41 | 10

Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push

Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey

20 Sep 12:15 | 3

UK Cabinet Office calls off its search for a 'partner' in Whitehall SaaS ERP migration

'This is not the outcome you were hoping for,' bidders told

16 Sep 10:00 | 3

Vector database Pinecone promises to bring ML data management under control with 2.0 release

Hybrid disk and RAM system should slash costs, firm says

Cloud is fundamentally more profitable than on-prem, says Oracle's Safra Catz as revenue misses mark for investors

In case you were wondering why vendors are so excited about it

14 Sep 13:45 | 9

When ERP migrations go bad: Games Workshop says project issues are delaying refresh of 'dated' online store

Commissar Yarrick's bale eye focuses on company's web retail presence as 'long and complex' saga continues

14 Sep 09:43 | 16

Spending watchdog blames British Home Office for delays to £1bn crime-fighting IT system

Department says it's prepared to run ailing Police National Computer out of support if it has to

13 Sep 14:30 | 11

Tennessee agrees to pay Oracle $65m for Nashville location plan

There’s room for you and your cowboy boots, we’ll even get you a rhinestone suit

09 Sep 18:32 | 14

Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner

Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists

08 Sep 16:45 | 2

Met Office signs 32 vendors to £30m framework to put the wind up data platform

Deloitte, Computacenter, KPMG, E&Y among listed suppliers hired by local weather watcher

07 Sep 09:13 | 12

Dobler effect: Spinnaker Support snaps up rival database consultant

Sets sights on third party support and managed services for Oracle, SAP and Microsoft

06 Sep 16:32 | 1

Big data means big money for the UK government as £2bn tender mooted

Central procurement team tickles the market with tantalising offer... but what for?

03 Sep 14:10 | 12

NHS England's release of 'details' on access to Palantir COVID-19 data store: Good enough? We're in a 'dialogue' says national data watchdog

Critics, meanwhile, voice incredulity over how little data has been shared

31 Aug 10:34 | 17

Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data

Could help boost deployment times, says analyst

27 Aug 12:33 | 1

'Worst' AWS service ever? Cloud giant introduces Redis-compatible MemoryDB – to mixed response

'The absolute best sales pitch for Redis that I have ever seen'

23 Aug 12:25 | 9

UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'

And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July

19 Aug 10:43 | 31

Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store

18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods

18 Aug 13:29 | 70

Leeds City Council swallows the Gartner glossary and orders up 'post-modern' ERP in £44m SAP replacement

When do we get avant-garde ERP?

03 Aug 09:31 | 9

NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule

Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog

02 Aug 10:41 | 19

NoSQL Couchbase launches schema-like features to take on the transactional databases of the relational world

Doing both in one system might be 'somewhat elegant' but user experience remains to be seen, analyst says

29 Jul 14:45 | 2

Equiniti wins Northern Ireland Finance Department contract to build land revenue system... 4 years after project proposed

Now that's agile

29 Jul 10:43 | 1

Ex-health secretary said 'vast majority' were 'onside' with GP data grab. Consumer champion Which? reckons 20 million don't even know what it is

Guess what? When people find out about the scheme, trust in the NHS falls

29 Jul 08:30 | 82

Infor ERP kicked out at closing time for Fuller's brewery biz while Microsoft Dynamics is invited to stay for lock-in

Pandemic offers chance to change focus just four years after £10m deal

28 Jul 10:45 | 1

Cassandra 4.0 finally out of the gates after being delayed for last-minute bug swat

Speed and stability top list of NoSQL database's features, Netflix dev says

In the Navy, we want to share data with some ease. In the Navy, can someone help us with this please?

Palantir potentially in line for £50m contract with Brit maritime force

23 Jul 13:45 | 12

Even Facebook struggles: Zuck's titanic database upgrade hits numerous legacy software bergs

The Social Network™ has spent years trying to hop from MySQL 5.6 to 8.0 and still isn’t done

23 Jul 07:01 | 42

How does SAP know business travel is back? Its expenses software unit is still breathing

Want to dust off that flash luggage set? We Concur, says German giant

Snail mail would be a fool-proof way to inform patients about plans to slurp GP data, but UK govt won't commit

'Campaign of engagement and communication' might not include letter, but junior minister doesn't rule it out

21 Jul 12:15 | 39

England's controversial extraction of personal medical histories from GP systems is delayed for a second time

Doctors wrote to UK government saying they would refuse to hand over data

20 Jul 11:31 | 89

SAP uses Scalpel to carve shape of post-Brexit UK ambitions

Multinational software peddler decides suburban Feltenham just doesn't have the je ne sais quoi it needs

19 Jul 15:31 | 8

Cassandra 4.0 release held back after Apple engineer discovers last-minute bug

Bid to build the most stable iteration of the columnar database has its price

19 Jul 11:30 | 4

MongoDB 5.0 hits GA with a trio of new features for time series data, sharded workloads, Versioned APIs

Will somebody think of the technical debt this creates? cries Percona

Oracle files $7m copyright claim against NEC's US limb over 'unreported royalties' from database distribution

Subsidiary kicked out of Big Red's friend OPN club following audit

09 Jul 19:10 | 33

Infor offloads its asset management unit on Swedish 'digital reality' biz to focus on industry-specific cloud ERP

That's fancy talk for sensors, software, and autonomous technologies btw

NHS England staff voice concerns about access controls on US spy-tech firm Palantir's COVID-19 data store

Foundry platform lacks transparency and accountability, sources tell El Reg

05 Jul 10:01 | 49

SAP founder's charity foundation withdraws from joint venture with software giant

Questions all got a bit too much, although nothing legally wrong with the holding

NASA reaches for graph DB to find people, skills for Moon and Mars missions

Fixing the talent pipeline so that finding rocket scientists doesn't have to be rocket science

01 Jul 01:32 | 2

Fujitsu wins £9m contract hike for Oracle HR system running nearly 3 years late at Northern Ireland Education Authority

Nice work if you can get it

29 Jun 12:13 | 20

Backbench Tory campaigner promises judicial review of data grab of English GP patients unless UK government changes tack

Trove too tempting for computer criminals while public unaware of their rights, says David Davis

25 Jun 16:00 | 27

BMA warns NHS Digital's own confidentiality guardian could halt English GP data grab unless communication with public improves

Data law's transparency requirement currently not being met, according to powerful doctors' union

25 Jun 10:45 | 21

Doggy DNA database adopted by Gloucestershire cops to bring crims to heel

Pet parents asked to fork over £75 for the privilege, though

24 Jun 13:45 | 36

Enterprise databases deployed in Kubernetes? Proceed with caution, warns seasoned analyst

Deploying the ultimate stateful code in a stateless environment is a 'tricky business' IDC guru opines

24 Jun 07:28 | 14

UK health secretary Matt Hancock follows delay to GP data grab with campaign called 'Data saves lives'

As ever, the devil is in the detail for privacy activists

22 Jun 13:30 | 101

Graph DB slinger Neo4j secures $325m round of funding for $2bn valuation

Also touts sharded graph application running on 1,000 servers

17 Jun 16:01 | 3

British Medical Association calls for clarity on patient deadline for opting out of NHS Digital's GP data grab

Did health service's tech arm give a cut-off date for doctors to process forms? Apparently not

16 Jun 11:30 | 20

Of all the analytics firms in the world, why is Palantir getting its claws into UK health data?

Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee asked health secretary Matt Hancock, but he wasn't much help

15 Jun 10:45 | 48

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

09 Jun 09:15 | 86

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

08 Jun 13:59 | 64

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing

07 Jun 14:29 | 41

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