SAP has announced revenue of €9.027bn for the second quarter of 2025, up 9% year-on-year, and a gross profit of €6.62bn. In its results statement, it chose to highlight partnership deals with Palantir, Accenture and China’s Alibaba. SAP said its cloud revenue was up 24%, with cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) sales up 30%. “AI…
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Technology leaders are baffled by a “cacophony” of “buzzwords, hype and confusion” over the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), according to the founder and CEO of technology company Pegasystems. Alan Trefler, who is known for his prowess at chess and ping pong, as well as running a $1.5bn turnover tech company, spends much of his…
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With millions of businesses now using Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their cloud computing needs, it’s become a vital consideration for IT security teams and professionals. As such, AWS offers a broad range of cyber security tools to secure AWS-based tech stacks. They cover areas such as data privacy, access management, configuration management, threat detection,…
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As global chief innovation officer (CIO) at EY, Joe Depa helps his firm embrace new ideas that boost service delivery and address client challenges in key areas, such as tax and assurance. Depa, previously chief data and artificial intelligence (AI) officer at Emory University and global lead for data and AI at Accenture, became global…
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So far, there is no regulation anywhere in the world specific to the environmental impact of software – a fact that runs alongside the reality that neither consumers nor investors are towards or away from companies based on the green credentials of their software. Many experts expect Europe to be the first region to enact regulation that enforces green software practices. One…
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The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is expanding a free cyber defence service to all schools across the country, helping the heavily at-risk education sector enhance its resilience at no cost. The expansion follows a successful roll-out of the NCSC’s Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) for schools in 2023, and the enhanced service will…
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Numerous IT service providers and consulting businesses have ramped up their artificial intelligence (AI) practices in recent weeks in a bid to drive demand for enterprise AI. The latest announcement is Accenture’s expansion of its partnership with Nvidia, resulting in the formation of the Accenture Nvidia Business Group, through which it plans to help enterprises…
The UK’s C-suite boasts some of the most technically savvy executives in the world, according to research by Accenture. Looking into CEOs and board members across thousands of global companies, the technology service provider found 23% of higher-ups in the UK have a technology background, either through having worked in such a role at a…
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Hybrid multicloud storage is intended to create the best of all worlds. By mixing on-premise technology with multiple public cloud resources, enterprises hope to optimise the attributes of each with regard to pricing, capacity, performance, features, security and resilience. The challenge is to create a coherent storage architecture out of multiple technologies rather than a…
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IBM came within a whisker of taking over from Fujitsu as the Post Office’s core system provider, until complexity forced an “anxious” Post Office into a u-turn, the public inquiry has heard. During the latest Post Office Horizon scandal inquiry hearing, it emerged that although IBM had started work on the £100m project to replace…
