McBride, which produces white-labelled cleaning products for major retailers, is embarking on a major business transformation that will involve replacing all of its existing business processes with S/4Hana. Speaking to Computer Weekly during the UK and Ireland SAP User Group Connect23 annual conference in Birmingham, the company’s chief transformation officer, Chris Ward, describes the … Leer más
At the UK and Ireland SAP User Group’s (UKISUG) annual Connect conference in Birmingham last month, SAP tried to rebuild trust after the furore over its Rise strategy. SAP recently changed its plans regarding how its S/4Hana ERP customers receive new functionality. Such updates were previously included as part of the company’s annual software maintenance … Leer más
Back in July 2021, I wrote a piece for Computer Weekly on what security teams like mine needed to consider with employees returning to the office. Back then, we all faced several challenges. One of these was where our employees could work from. Essentially, it broke down into three categories: Mandatory return to the … Leer más
The Crown Commercial Service (CCS) has quietly renewed the preferential pricing agreement with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allows public sector IT buyers to buy its public cloud services at discounted prices, despite anti-competitive concerns being raised about such schemes. Known as the One Government Value Agreement (OGVA), the scheme allows public sector IT … Leer más
The government has confirmed that Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) is behind a long-running hacking campaign that targeted politicians, civil servants, journalists and civil society organisations. The Russian campaign targeted high-profile individuals with phishing emails in an attempt to obtain information to interfere with UK politics and the democratic process. The hacking group, known … Leer más
Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI) and, in particular, the hype surrounding generative AI (GenAI) and foundational models, server company execs are talking about a turning point in servers, and are reporting growth in the need to run AI and machine learning workloads. There appears to be strong demand for high performance computing (HPC) hardware … Leer más
The Home Office’s mega £450m public cloud hosting contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is concerning public sector market watchers as more details emerge about the contract’s content and how it was arranged. The three-year contract commenced on Friday 1 December 2023, and a redacted copy of the 114-page call-off contract for the deal … Leer más
There comes a time in every digital leader’s career when they fancy doing something different. Keith Woolley has a strong commercial background, but joined the University of Bristol four years ago because he wanted to grasp the opportunity to work in higher education. “I never thought this was a sector I was going to … Leer más
The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, working alongside international allies, has called out a series of sustained and, as-yet, unsuccessful attempts by Russian state-backed cyber actors to interfere in British politics and democratic processes, attributing the group responsible to Centre 18 of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB), the main successor agency to the Cold … Leer más
The volume of ransomware and other cyber extortion attacks may have dwindled in 2022 in a trend most likely linked to Russia’s war on Ukraine, but with actors such as Clop/Cl0p making hay this year following their successful exploitation of vulnerabilities in popular managed file transfer services (MFTs), recorded victims of cyber extortion were … Leer más
