Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug
Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees
Databases17 Nov 2021 | 2
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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
Databases16 Nov 2021 | 106
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
Databases11 Nov 2021 |
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
Databases11 Nov 2021 | 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?
Databases10 Nov 2021 | 37
Microsoft's Dynamics portfolio has become an all-you-can-eat SI buffet for consultancies
Analysis Market for related services driving an M&A feeding frenzy
Databases09 Nov 2021 | 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
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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
Databases04 Nov 2021 | 3
Sheffield University scales back student system after Oracle integration stumbles
£30m project uncertain amid cuts to academic departments
Databases03 Nov 2021 | 38
How about a big dollop of Azure with that database engine? Microsoft opens up SQL Server 2022 preview
Ignite The direction of travel is clear – cloudwards
Databases02 Nov 2021 | 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
Databases02 Nov 2021 | 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
Databases02 Nov 2021 | 33
Yugabyte's latest funding round values the distributed SQL system at $1.3bn
Double-decker database raises $188m from hungry VCs
Databases29 Oct 2021 |
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
Databases19 Oct 2021 | 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
Databases19 Oct 2021 | 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
Databases15 Oct 2021 | 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
Databases13 Oct 2021 | 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
Databases13 Oct 2021 | 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
Databases12 Oct 2021 | 150
England's Data Guardian warns of plans to grant police access to patient data
Proposed law could 'erode trust and confidence' in healthcare
Databases11 Oct 2021 | 43
Testing times: Microsoft gets PostgreSQL on Azure a day after GA
High end workloads with Hyperscale (Citus)
Databases04 Oct 2021 | 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
Databases01 Oct 2021 | 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?
Databases28 Sep 2021 | 125
Yugabyte's double-decker DBaaS follows Cochroach in distributed RDBMS
Hopes to lure users with promise of relieving operational burden
Databases24 Sep 2021 | 10
Yikes, tough crowd: Only 30% of German-speaking users are happy with SAP's cloud push
Updated Licensing, integration and security remain challenges, says DSAG survey
Databases20 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases16 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases15 Sep 2021 |
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
Databases14 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases14 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases13 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases09 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases08 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases07 Sep 2021 | 12
Dobler effect: Spinnaker Support snaps up rival database consultant
Sets sights on third party support and managed services for Oracle, SAP and Microsoft
Databases06 Sep 2021 | 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?
Databases03 Sep 2021 | 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
Databases31 Aug 2021 | 17
Rockset hopes to lessen streaming analytics time-suck by having SQL transform live data
Could help boost deployment times, says analyst
Databases27 Aug 2021 | 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'
Databases23 Aug 2021 | 9
UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar'
Updated And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July
Databases19 Aug 2021 | 31
Watchdog 'disappointed' it took NHS England over a year to release details of access to Palantir COVID-19 data store
Updated 18 months after controversial project began, non-departmental public body finally gives up the goods
Databases18 Aug 2021 | 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?
Databases03 Aug 2021 | 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
Databases02 Aug 2021 | 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
Databases29 Jul 2021 | 2
Equiniti wins Northern Ireland Finance Department contract to build land revenue system... 4 years after project proposed
Updated Now that's agile
Databases29 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases29 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases28 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases27 Jul 2021 |
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
Databases23 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases23 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases21 Jul 2021 |
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
Databases21 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases20 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases19 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases19 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases13 Jul 2021 |
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
Databases09 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases06 Jul 2021 |
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
Databases05 Jul 2021 | 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
Databases01 Jul 2021 |
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
Databases01 Jul 2021 | 2
