Birmingham City Council’s 2024/25 Budget setting for general fund revenue account report shows the council has set aside £25m this financial year on its Oracle transformation programme. During a meeting held today (27 February), council leaders discussed Birmingham’s Improvement and Recovery Plan (IRP), which sets out the actions necessary to bring about change and restore … Leer más
Thomson Reuters has been innovating with artificial intelligence (AI) for a number of years. “We launched our very first natural language question answering and search algorithm back in the 1990s and we have been incorporating AI tech into products like Westlaw [a legal research platform] and different search algorithms,” says the company’s chief product officer, … Leer más
It’s just a year since backup product maker Hycu announced R-Cloud, and already it can protect 64 software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Now, it plans to integrate many more, with AI capable of generating its own connectors from a small amount of information about the SaaS application. “From the start of R-Cloud, we’ve had R-Graph visualisation that can … Leer más
More staff are experimenting with generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools in the workplace, but adoption may be being held back by a lack of guidance from managers. In its latest survey of more than 10,000 desk workers around the globe, the Workforce Lab from Slack found that experimentation with AI tools in the office continues … Leer más
Working in IT was always likely to be the career destination for Nigel Richardson, European CIO at PepsiCo – after all, technology runs in the family. His parents met on a programming course in the 1960s, while Richardson and his brother were brought up in the 1970s in a house full of computers. They spent … Leer más
Microsoft president Brad Smith has posted a blog that lays out how the company plans to support software developers building artificial intelligence (AI). Among the areas he covered included providing open application programming interfaces (APIs) to foundational AI models hosted on Azure and a commitment to only use public data when training Microsoft’s AI models. … Leer más
Threat actors with links to the Russian state are changing up their tactics as more organisations migrate to cloud-based infrastructure, but the good news is that baseline cyber mitigation strategies are still remarkably effective against even sophisticated government hackers, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said. In an advisory published jointly with its … Leer más
A week after being knocked offline in a combined multinational law enforcement operation led by the UK’s National Crime Agency, the main operator, or someone claiming to be the main operator, of LockBit has reemerged, taunting law enforcement agencies and setting up fresh infrastructure and a new leak site that already contains details of five … Leer más
Storage and backup investment plans for 2024 show a significant bias towards averting risk and building resilience. At the same time, storage spending plans lean towards the cloud, but with very robust on-premise storage spending plans also present. Those are the findings of the Technology spending intentions survey from TechTarget and ESG, which questioned 1,432 … Leer más
Birmingham City Council’s troubled Oracle system is facing reimplementation as part of a recovery programme that aims to have a functioning financial system by 1 April. The Oracle system was meant to replace a heavily customised SAP system that was originally implemented in 1990. But a council report published in 2021 shows that due to … Leer más