Business software - Software - computing

US chipmaker Broadcom is under scrutiny by EU antitrust regulators over alterations to the licencing conditions of its recently acquired cloud computing company VMware, following complaints from...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4197637/broadcom-tinkers-vmware-licencing-terms-eu-involved

Microsoft plans to increase prices for a variety of Dynamics 365 offerings on 1st October by an average of 12% or $17 per user or per device per month, as the vendor adds more generative AI func...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4197203/microsoft-dynamics-365-prices-set-rise

Amazon has announced a significant shift in its grocery store technology, bidding farewell to its cashier-less checkout system, "Just Walk Out," in favour of a new innovation, the "Dash Cart."

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4193362/amazon-bids-farewell-walk-checkout-introduces-dash-carts

In her opening keynote at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe in Paris, Priyanka Sharma, executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), spoke of AI being in an "irrational exhub...

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4187673/harnessing-irrational-exhuberance-ai

Greggs bakeries the length and breadth of the UK have been forced to close this morning after an IT issue left some stores unable to process payments.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4187555/greggs-forced-close-stores-glitch

Oracle Cloudworld 2024 was all about AI and customer service - with an acknowledgement that Oracle hasn't always been known for the latter.

https://www.computing.co.uk/event/4187085/oracle-promises-ai-everywhere-cloudworld-2024

Fast food titan McDonald's faced a worldwide technical outage on Friday, leaving numerous outlets temporarily closed and scores of customers disgruntled across various countries.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4186319/mcdonalds-blames-configuration-change-global-outage

Google has published a threat model for the arrival of quantum computers that can crack commonly used cryptosystems such as RSA and ECC.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4184532/google-publishes-plans-post-quantum-cryptography

SAP and SAP partner Lemongrass have addressed some of the concerns raised by customers over migrating to S/4HANA, which has a 2027 deadline.

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/4178668/lot-confusion-unpicking-saps-recent-changes

Generative AI is certainly making a grab for our attention, but as our recent research found, the move from the headlines into real applications in businesses and other organisations is yet to h...

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/4175589/jobs-risk-ai-2024-roles-created-leaders-tell-us

From all the noise, you'd be forgiven for thinking that UK organisations are falling over themselves to adopt generative AI; but as with many hyped new technologies, the reality is far less fren...

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/4172241/uk-business-intrigued-cautious-about-ai-research

Just to be different from every other article you read about technology this week, I am going to limit my take on AI to just a few sentences where it is most relevant.

https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4159219/future-erp-automated-conversational-cloud

Every organisation has them: those tasks that really should be automated but aren’t.

https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/4154967/secret-automation-success-aa

At the end of 2023 a big question for IT leaders is how and where to start rolling out AI. It’s not as if they have a choice.

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/4154551/chatgpt-iphone-moment-leaders-respond

How did a global business which processes vast volumes of small transactions transform their core business processes?

https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/4154240/talk-agile-development-multimillion-dollar-investment-approved

Delegates and leadership of the UK and Ireland SAP Users' Group (UKISUG) spoke of their unease at the German software giant’s apparent side-lining of customers who prefer on-premises and hoste...

https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/4151284/sap-customers-feel-misled-cloud-push

Patricia Gestoso, is an award-winning technologist and inclusion strategist with over 20 years of experience in digital transformation with a focus on client service, artificial intelligence, an...

https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/4132077/automated-ai-affecting-workforce-dramatically

Microsoft engaged in talks about potentially selling its Bing search engine to Apple three years back, although Apple chose to stick with Google Search within its ecosystem.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4130660/microsoft-discussed-selling-bing-apple-2020-report

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it will start rolling out the AI assistant, Microsoft 365 Copilot, for enterprise customers beginning on 1st November 2023.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4127742/microsoft-launch-365-copilot-enterprise

The government has announced a new fixed compensation payment of £600,000 for victims of the Post Office Horizon scandal.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4126501/fujitsu-horizon-scandal-postmasters-offered-gbp600k-compensation-wrongful-conviction

Following a weekend of complaints, Microsoft has backed down on its plan to replace the Mail and Calendar apps with Outlook for Windows in September 2024.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4118393/microsoft-changes-plans-launch-outlook-windows

Shifting the ERP to the cloud is the first step to modernising procurement and finance says head of technology Risk Alkunshalie

https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/4118282/upwards-onwards-digital-transformation-manchester-airports-group

Sustainability chiefs at SAP speak about the circular economy and helping customers to track supply chain emissions, and how ESG begins at home

https://www.computing.co.uk/feature/4117181/decarbonising-scale-saps-sustainability-strategy

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4116328/microsoft-build-2023-intensifies-windows-ai-efforts

ChatGTP has learned fast from the foibles of its creators,

https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4077014/peter-cochrane-chatgpt-learn-overhype

Microsoft first tweeted at 4:56 pm Wednesday about the issue; said it was resolved hours later

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4076877/microsoft-investigates-exchange-onlinemailbox-glitch

AI-enhanced Bing and recommended content join screen recorder capability with Snipping and tabs creation in Notepad in Microsoft's latest update

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4076755/updated-windows-adds-ai

Problem has been rumbling on for months

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4076357/microsoft-outlook-users-report-flood-spam-emails

Dean Clark from GFT discusses the principles and rewards of green coding.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news-analysis/4066191/coding-sustainable-future

New pricing for Oracle's Java standard edition (SE) licensing is raising eyebrows as the company switches from charging based on Java users to total number of employees.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4066266/oracle-sharply-raises-price-java-licences

By creating a big picture view of all operations, APIs, systems and server health, organisations will be better equipped to manage issues as they occur and even predict them in future

https://www.computing.co.uk/opinion/4062355/observability-key-faster-efficient-organisations

https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4061556/partner-content-mongodb-cto-mark-porter-empowering-developer-productivity-databases

The mapping software company is integrating open data from OpenStreetMap with sensor observations in what Eric Bowman claims will be a game-changer

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4061062/tomtom-cto-weve-profound-technical-breakthrough

The platform failed to meet the financial expectations as an independent business

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/4061034/ibm-maersk-shut-blockchain-joint-venture-tradelens

Earlier this year Unilever, the multinational consumer goods company, began a trial with SAP to bring traceability to its supply chain using blockchain.

https://www.computing.co.uk/interview/4060540/blockchain-unilever-supply-chain

More and more articles, blogs and videos mention natural language processing (NLP) as a tool to get information from vast amount of text. What they rarely mention is that NLP can also be used to...

https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4060326/nlp-increase-diversity-text-analysis

AI continues to garner interest across industries, demonstrating clear benefits to cost savings, decision-making speed, and customer insights. However, fully realising benefits in a measurable w...

https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057633/intel-dcai-q3-partner-content-taking-ai-roi

A successful, cost-effective AI journey is built on high performance hardware. Analysing vast amounts of data quickly and accurately, a key mechanism in AI, relies on specialist technology with ...

https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057634/intel-dcai-q3-partner-content-importance-hardware-building-strong-ai-foundations

The benefits of AI in enterprise environments are widely recognised. From intelligent reporting to proactive cybersecurity, and from customer insights to automating human-intensive processes, th...

https://www.computing.co.uk/sponsored/4057630/intel-dcai-q3-partner-content-real-world-ai-success-stories