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Hospitals offered £260m fund to help adopt safer e-prescriptions

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas) — Fri, 17 May 2013 15:29:00 GMT

Responding to the Francis report, which called on the NHS to make better use of technology to help ensure safe care, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a new £260 million fund for hospitals.

Tibco offers free R to the enterprise

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Joab Jackson) — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:30:00 GMT

Hoping to entice more enterprises to use the R statistical programming language directly within their predictive modeling and data visualization jobs, Tibco has released a free version of its R runtime engine.

Windows 8 won't hit critical mass in enterprises, Forrester says

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Juan Carlos Perez) — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:50:00 GMT

Windows 8, the most significant upgrade to Microsoft's operating system since Windows 95 and one of the most important products in the company's history, will not achieve enough adoption in enterprises to be considered a standard, according to Forrester Research.

Mozilla postpones default blocking of third-party cookies in Firefox

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (John Ribeiro) — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:18:00 GMT

Mozilla has postponed blocking third-party cookies by default in the Beta version of Firefox 22, "to collect and analyze data on the effect of blocking some third-party cookies."

SAP urges large enterprises NOT to virtualise HANA

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:56:00 GMT

Enterprise software giant SAP has urged its customers not to virtualise HANA for large production environments, claiming that it isn’t necessary, and said that they should be buying the latest x86 hardware for the best performance.

Retail giant Kingfisher to rollout SAP Business Suite on HANA

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Fri, 17 May 2013 09:05:00 GMT

European retail giant, Kingfisher, is in the process of consolidating a mess of systems and applications into one centralised SAP Business Suite on HANA platform, which it hopes will drive revenues and cut an array of costs.

SAP builds out HANA platform and ecosystem

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus) — Thu, 16 May 2013 17:36:00 GMT

Anyone remotely within the orbit of SAP lately knows that its number-one focus is the HANA in-memory database and development platform. At this week's Sapphire conference in Orlando, the vendor sought to show the progress it is making in both building out HANA's capabilities as well as attracting developers and partners to HANA.

Google issues YouTube ultimatum to Microsoft as Hatfield-McCoy feud heats up

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Gregg Keizer) — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:01:00 GMT

Google yesterday sent a cease-and-desist letter to Microsoft, demanding that its rival remove the YouTube app built for the Windows Phone platform.

Technology Strategy Board to invest £47m in digital economy this year

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Sophie Curtis) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:01:00 GMT

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has been allocated a record £440 million budget this year to support innovative businesses and drive growth across the UK.

Comparethemarket.com improves customer experience with MongoDB

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Sophie Curtis) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:58:00 GMT

Insurance comparison website Comparethemarket.com is using open source NoSQL database MongoDB to improve the customer experience of its home insurance offering.

Amazon gives DynamoDB a performance boost

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs) — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:29:00 GMT

Amazon Web Services is improving the performance of its DynamoDB database service with Parallel Scan, which gives users faster access to their tables.

Spiceworks' free management software gets integrated MDM

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Mikael Ricknäs) — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:44:00 GMT

Spiceworks has teamed up with Fiberlink to add mobile device management functionality to the next version of its free network and IT management software.

SAP CEO “not concerned” with rise of third party maintenance and support players

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Thu, 16 May 2013 12:01:00 GMT

SAP’s co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has said that he’s “not concerned” about the rise of third party maintenance and support providers, such as Rimini Street and Spinnaker, as most of the software giant’s install base wants access to innovation.

Google Wallet makes payments possible through Gmail

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (John Ribeiro) — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:40:00 GMT

Google is integrating Gmail with Google Wallet so that users can send payments as a mail attachment, even if the recipient doesn't have a Gmail address.

SAP CEO shuns Forrester's criticisms that HANA cloud is a ‘half-baked business model’

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Thu, 16 May 2013 09:20:00 GMT

SAP’s co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has responded to analyst Forrester’s criticisms following the launch of HANA enterprise cloud, claiming that it is a logical business model because customers want to control their core systems.

SAP announces general availability of Business Suite on HANA

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:39:00 GMT

SAP’s co-CEO Jim Hagemann Snabe has announced the general availability of the enterprise software giant’s widely used Business Suite on its in-memory platform HANA, after four months of ramp up with 100 customers.

Windows 8 isn't New Coke, says top Microsoft exec; it's Diet Coke

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Gregg Keizer) — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:47:00 GMT

Frank X. Shaw, Microsoft's head of corporate communications, defended his company's Windows information disclosure strategy, denying that Microsoft has adopted Apple's "cone of silence" approach to imparting news.

Dell slashes its Windows RT tablet price by $200

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Matt Hamblen) — Wed, 15 May 2013 16:58:00 GMT

Dell drastically cut the online price of its Windows RT tablet, reducing the price by $200 to $299.99 for Dell XPS 10.

Oracle opens second UK data centre to support government G-Cloud

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Sophie Curtis) — Wed, 15 May 2013 13:59:00 GMT

Oracle has announced the opening of a new data centre in the UK to support the government's G-Cloud initiative, following a similar move by Salesforce.com earlier this month.

SAP attracts new customers with Suite on HANA – but not Oracle’s

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Wed, 15 May 2013 12:12:00 GMT

SAP’s announcement earlier this year that it is making its widely used Business Suite applications available on its in-memory database technology, HANA, has led to new customers signing up to the solution – but it is yet to draw Oracle’s application customer base into the fold.

Halfords pushes PC lifecycle management strategy

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Antony Savvas) — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:59:00 GMT

Car maintenance and cycling retailer Halfords has deployed a new PC lifecycle management system to cover over 700 devices across two central offices.

Port of San Diego finds value in SAP cloud apps, but not HANA

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Wed, 15 May 2013 10:00:00 GMT

The Unified Port of San Diego (UPSD), a US government agency that manages port activity, has said that it sees significant benefit in adding SAP cloud applications to its core ERP estate, but isn’t considering HANA because it is ‘too big’ for its business.

Salesforce.com adds central file view to Chatter mobile app

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Juan Carlos Perez) — Wed, 15 May 2013 09:11:00 GMT

Salesforce.com wants to simplify the way mobile users find, access and share files from its Chatter enterprise social networking (ESN) application.

HANA to fully underpin SAP cloud products within ‘one or two years’

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Derek du Preez) — Wed, 15 May 2013 07:15:00 GMT

Enterprise software giant SAP has unveiled a ‘unified’ cloud strategy this week, which will see its cloud products supported by its in-memory database technology, HANA, within one or two years.

SAP unveils 'consumer-friendly' Fiori app suite

cwukfeedback@idg.co.uk (Chris Kanaracus) — Wed, 15 May 2013 01:29:00 GMT

SAP's software is known for its role running many of the world's largest companies, but not necessarily for its user-friendliness. As part of an ongoing effort to change this perception, SAP unveiled Fiori, a set of 25 lightweight "consumer-friendly" applications that can run on desktops, tablets and mobile devices, on Wednesday at the Sapphire conference in Orlando.