Databases
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
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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
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Databases
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
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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
Databases
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
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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
Databases
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
27 Jul 17:30 |
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26 Jul 06:40 |
Databases
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
Databases
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
Databases
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
21 Jul 18:13 |
Databases
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
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How Amazon broke free from Oracle
‘Our DBAs all became cloud architects’
20 Jul 19:06 |
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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
Databases
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
Databases
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
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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
13 Jul 14:00 |
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Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search
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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
Databases
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
06 Jul 17:45 |
Databases
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
Databases
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
01 Jul 19:13 |
Databases
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
Databases
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
Databases
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
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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
Databases
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
Databases
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
Databases
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
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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
Databases
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
Comment
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
Comment
'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
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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
