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Finance and reporting

Interview: Matt Peers, CIO, Deloitte

Matt Peers
Deloitte’s newly appointed CIO talks about his plan to support “a wave of consumerisation” at the accountancy giant, and explains his reservations about the cloud
16 Nov 2011

Big data: how to get the board on board

Man works on huge computer display
A recent Computing roundtable discussed the merits of big data and the challenge IT leaders can face in selling the concept to their C-level colleagues
16 Nov 2011

Cisco CTO: the CTO's role has changed

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Cisco's Ian Foddering is an example of a new breed of CTO: externally facing and active as an industry spokesperson
14 Nov 2011

Index Ventures to pump £429m into EU tech companies

Firm will make an equity investment of between €10m and €50m in chosen businesses
10 Nov 2011

System glitches plague banks over the weekend

HSBC, NatWest and RBS customers temporarily unable to access accounts
07 Nov 2011

HP's Whitman moves swiftly to retain PC division

HP needs to become more relevant, says analyst
28 Oct 2011

UBS rogue trader losses highlight risk of relying on IT

Compliance and monitoring systems are no substitute for human judgement
25 Oct 2011

Whitbread CIO joins Morrisons

Ben Wishart joins Morrisons as Evolve programme director
24 Oct 2011

Enterprise use of mobile mashups

Magic software demonstrates the increasing utility of mobile mashups
14 Oct 2011

Waters USA 2011

The US's largest gathering of capital markets CIOs and CTOs. The conference will focus on how leading financial firms are optimising their current infrastructure
07 Oct 2011

Nearly half of ICT companies at risk of default or bankruptcy

Many companies may not survive the next two years, according to new research
20 Sep 2011

Ring-fencing UK banks will have IT ramifications, says expert

ICB report on the ring-fencing of high street banks will result on IT system refreshes, according to an industry watcher
12 Sep 2011

Tech developer Plastic Logic heads back to Cambridge

The company had left Cambridge for Silicon Valley in the 1980s
07 Sep 2011

Scotland told to "cheer up" about broadband funding

Scottish secretary Michael Moore tells the Scottish government to be more upbeat about broadband funding
23 Aug 2011

Inconvenient truth about shared services


18 Aug 2011

IDC: Annual IT spend by utilities to exceed £7bn by 2015

Electricity providers spend the most on IT, report reveals
16 Aug 2011

JDA software boosts hotel group's revenue

Price optimisation software has increased revenue in the US and is now being rolled out in the UK
15 Aug 2011

Analysis: How do tech giants weather economic storms?

And where does the current economic climate leave smaller companies?
11 Aug 2011

Apple becomes world's most valuable company

Technology finally overtakes oil
10 Aug 2011

Select few see IT salary boost

Two-tier jobs market sees significant rewards for experienced and talented staff, but lack of job security for others
05 Aug 2011

Surrey County Council tech refresh has saved £70m says IT head

The head of IT at council welcomes spending cuts as an opportunity to innovate
05 Aug 2011

Parliament slams DoH's handling of NPfIT

Weak programme management at the Department of Health blamed for NPfIT's failings
03 Aug 2011

HSBC decision to axe 30,000 jobs likely to affect IT

The global bank said that IT support roles might make up some of the 700 jobs to go in the UK
01 Aug 2011

H4cked Off: How the hell did the RSA hack cost EMC £40m?

So what does £40m buy you these days exactly, besides reparations for a major security breach?
29 Jul 2011