Enterprise software
Enterprise software covers a wide range of vital IT management decisions, from operating systems to databases, from business applications to integration and middleware. Your software purchasing and development strategy is central to delivering successful IT systems, and we examine the products and trends that help IT managers make the right choices for their organisation.
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News
11 Oct 2026
How F1 and Lenovo shrank the sport’s travelling datacentre
Three racks of IT kit have become one in Formula 1’s travelling datacentre, and the sport has pulled telemetry processing back to the circuit so teams get their data sooner Continue Reading
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Feature
09 Oct 2026
Zeiss brings data under new lens
How optical company Zeiss built a real-time data integration system using SAP Hana Cloud and Datasphere, solving data access problems across operations and saving €2m annually Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
Why websites need to assess the Wikimedia attack
An OpenAI bot overloaded Wikimedia, attacked a system at the foundation and attempted to change entries Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
Microsoft tweaks Windows to secure agentic AI
The half-yearly update to the Windows operating system gets a host of features for running AI models locally and securely Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
Interview: Chris Kairinos, senior director of global modern workplace technology, A+E Global Media
The US media company is looking to AI and agentic tools to improve its IT service desk and employee experience Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
AI model developers have ‘no justification’ for failing to comply with privacy law
Large language models must have lawful basis for processing personal data – ‘benefiting humanity’ is not enough, says Information Commissioner’s Office Continue Reading
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News
09 Oct 2026
ComfortDelGro to pull workloads back from public cloud
The Singapore transport operator can now host production Kubernetes workloads on its private cloud, and it wants most of its AI work there, too, as it tries to keep a lid on data exposure and token bills Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Scope of Asos data breach wider than first reported
Following a data breach earlier in October, cyber criminals appear to have a much more complete picture of Asos’ user base than first thought, it has emerged Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Defence tops public sector AI spend as Palantir takes £553m
A sweep of 2,008 UK public-sector AI contracts finds £1.83bn of award value, with US-owned companies winning about one in 10 contracts but more than half the money Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Oct 2026
Microsoft Windows winds back the clock
When Microsoft launched Windows 95 in August 1995 to the theme of the Rolling Stones’ Start me up, Apple took out a tongue-in-cheek ad in national newspapers. “C:\ONGRTLNS.W95,” Apple said, poking ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Oct 2026
Why coding agents need runtime security as they gain more autonomy
Arcjet this week announced an expansion of its Agent Runtime Security product to secure the coding agents developers use to build applications. DevOps (and dedicated security) teams can now ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
08 Oct 2026
What to expect from AeraHUB 2026
Billed as the “decision intelligence global summit”, the Computer Weekly Developer Network is off to AeraHUB 2026, October 27 & 28, 2026, in New York City. For the uninitiated, Aera Technology ... Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
ING deliberately started AI journey the hard way
Dutch bank has kicked off its artificial intelligence journey with a complex mortgages product line Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
HSBC cuts wealth management roles as AI increasingly services customers
UK bank could cut 70% of its human wealth advisers as it uses artificial intelligence to serve wealthy clients Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Public sector risk and double standards over occupied Palestine
The UK bans cloud and software for Russia, but sanctions illegal Israeli settlements only narrowly – while AWS, Google and Microsoft run the IT infrastructure for the occupation Continue Reading
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News
08 Oct 2026
Broadcom targets 50% VCF 9 adoption by late 2027 as AI speeds vulnerability discovery
Broadcom infrastructure software chief Ram Velaga says AI models that can find software flaws quickly are pushing VMware customers to upgrade faster, and argues enterprises should own rather than rent their AI infrastructure Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Oct 2026
SAP Connect 2026: Validating on a working vision of the autonomous enterprise
You know you’ve been covering a company for a while when the post-keynote press & analyst Q&A session starts… and the chief communications officer looks around the room before saying: “any ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
07 Oct 2026
SAP buys TechWolf to ground workforce AI in real-world work & skills
Ghent, Belgium-based TechWolf is an applied AI company known for its platform that brings together skills, work and market intelligence, into a single context graph for work. Its open-source models ... Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Atlassian Team ’26 Europe: move to AI as team sport with ‘multi-player’ agentic system
At its European customer event in Amsterdam, Atlassian unveiled AMP, a multi-player agentic AI system said to enable collaborative teamwork between humans and artificial intelligence agents Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
AI may be driving more software developers to freelance
The latest Stack Overflow survey shows that a growing number of software developers are working as sole traders Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Telstra expands key Australian comms corridor from Sydney to Perth
Integrated digital infrastructure business announces Perth-Sydney route adding high-capacity connectivity and resilience Continue Reading
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News
07 Oct 2026
Academics study impact of computer evidence presumption on lawyer perceptions
Study to delve into how 25 years of flawed legal presumption has affected perceptions of practitioners Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
How Optus, Bupa and others are using Databricks
Optus has replaced its legacy data platforms, and Bupa’s marketers now get answers in minutes rather than weeks – two of the experiences shared at Databricks’ Data + AI World Tour in Sydney Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Oct 2026
SAP Connect 2026 day #1: In the autonomous enterprise, who even needs a CEO in the future?
SAP CEO Christian Klein kicked off the SAP Connect 2026 conference in Las Vegas this week with some up-front statements. “We have been working with hundreds of customers so that they can put Joule ... Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
AI slop overwhelms Google’s OSS bug bounty programme
Google has closed its open source vulnerability reporting programme to new submissions while it recalibrates in the face of a surge in automated junk reports Continue Reading
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Blog Post
06 Oct 2026
SAP CEO Klein: This is a breakthrough moment for business AI
Reporting from SAP Connect 2026 in Las Vegas this week, we learn that the German softwarehaus has been working to put the autonomous enterprise (that increasingly real, but still somewhat emergent ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
06 Oct 2026
Green IT: Taking responsibility for software’s physical footprint
Green IT must look beyond physical datacentres to software efficiency. Optimising code, data retention, and architecture reduces energy demand and hardware churn Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
UK government accepts AI healthcare recommendations
An AI sandbox will be used to enable developers, regulators and healthcare partners to test how AI devices can be safely monitored continuously Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
JP Morgan Chase most advanced in AI as UK banks group in chasing pack
North American banks dominate the leading group of AI adopters, according to global benchmark Continue Reading
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News
06 Oct 2026
LeapXpert jumps into WhatsApp enterprise messaging for Webex
Governed communication intelligence provider and collaboration giant to take unified comms system beyond internal collaboration and into client messaging based on Meta platform Continue Reading
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E-Zine
06 Oct 2026
A healthy approach to AI
In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to health and hygiene products manufacturer Reckitt to find out what it has learned about successful AI adoption. Our new buyer’s guide examines process mining. And we reflect on the issues raised around trust in AI at Salesforce’s recent Dreamforce user conference. Read the issue now. Continue Reading
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Blog Post
05 Oct 2026
Reducto targets the document bottleneck in enterprise AI
Reducto is known as the software company that helps AI agents understand complex enterprise documents, extract accurate information, preserve context and connect document intelligence to real-world ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
The AI kill switch – what actually happens when you press it?
Talk of an AI kill switch abounds, but what would such a thing actually look like in practice, and what would it mean to ‘press’ it? Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
Metropolitan Police awards Atos with £350m IT deal
IT firm will provide London police force with IT services for six years as part of new deal Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Software architecture as the first line of climate defence
True digital sustainability requires addressing software waste. Refactoring bloated code cuts computational overhead, lowering enterprise energy consumption and hardware churn Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
Vultr swoops for HPE networking scale-up switching
Cloud infrastructure company to deploy first AMD Helio AI Rack by featuring new purpose-built networking scale-up switching at its US datacentres Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2026
Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud? Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2026
Gartner: Process mining and task mining insight
Gartner analysts explain when enterprises should focus on process mining and when they should use task mining Continue Reading
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05 Oct 2026
Interview: Reckitt has no fear of missing out on the AI frenzy
How Bastien Parizot, senior vice-president of global business services and artificial intelligence at Reckitt, focuses on business outcomes Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
NAO to investigate what went wrong in Capita’s civil service pension takeover
The transfer of the Civil Service Pension Scheme to a new administrator has been a disaster, but why? Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
UK signs innovation and tech deal with Taiwan
Agreement builds on existing collaboration between the UK and Taiwan, and aims to drive development in several areas, including semiconductors and standards around artificial intelligence Continue Reading
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Feature
05 Oct 2026
Gartner: Process mining and task mining insight
Gartner analysts explain when enterprises should focus on process mining and when they should use task mining Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
Why scarcity alone won't pay for Asia's AI infrastructure
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom are each betting on a different kind of scarcity. The fibre boom is a reminder that scarcity attracts capital until it disappears Continue Reading
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Opinion
05 Oct 2026
AI is creating more ‘bullshit jobs’ - here's how to stop
What's the point in AI saving hours of workers' time if there's no thought around what to do with all that time saved? Continue Reading
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Podcast
05 Oct 2026
Machine-speed security: A Computer Weekly Downtime Upload podcast
Rudra Mitra, vice president of security services at AWS discusses why we need to rethink cybersecurity in order to tackle AI-powered attacks Continue Reading
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News
05 Oct 2026
Nucleus Network taps AI agent to screen clinical trial volunteers
The Australian clinical research organisation is using an AI agent built on Salesforce’s Agentforce to do early screening of trial volunteers, but its doctors still determine who can participate in a trial Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Oct 2026
NRF Europe: tech transformations prevalent among major retailers
NRF Europe 2026 saw some key themes across the retail space, including AI, SaaS and ongoing technology transformation for even the biggest of retailers Continue Reading
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News
02 Oct 2026
Government faces judicial review over Post Office Capture redress
Former subpostmasters could apply for judicial review over unfair redress of financial losses Continue Reading
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Feature
02 Oct 2026
Has the time arrived for the retail chief AI officer?
The retail jobs of the future are oft-debated, but the industry looks to be entering an era primed for the arrival of the chief AI officer Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Oct 2026
SQC and Schneider Electric deploy hybrid quantum-classical models for energy forecasting
Silicon Quantum Computing (SQC) is a company working to deliver a commercial-scale quantum system. SQC holds an exclusive capability to manufacture silicon chips with atomic precision, enabling ... Continue Reading
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Blog Post
02 Oct 2026
Coder Field CTO: AI intelligence is becoming fungible; infrastructure is where control matters
Field CTO for the EMEA region at Coder, Eric Paulsen, sat down with the Computer Weekly Developer Network this month to clarify, break down and extrapolate the rationale for the company’s core ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
02 Oct 2026
The NHS accidentally bought the most valuable AI capability in enterprise software
The NHS could already have one of the most powerful AI platforms in healthcare sitting inside its own data infrastructure – but it barely seems to know what it has Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Bank of England warns of AI debt
Bank of England governor Andy Bailey warns that artificial intelligence benefits may take longer to be realised Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
NetApp aims Novus storage at AI factory bottlenecks
NetApp Insight launches for new Novus storage that scales to 100TBps to keep AI factory GPUs fed, European data sovereignty controls and six months of free AI Data Engine Continue Reading
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News
01 Oct 2026
Atos invests in AI education for West Midlands youth
IT services provider is working with Tech First Youth to provide artificial intelligence education to 650,000 young people Continue Reading
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Feature
01 Oct 2026
Post Office Horizon scandal explained: Everything you need to know
Computer Weekly has investigated the Post Office Horizon scandal since 2008 and is, in fact, part of the story. This guide contains essential information about the scandal Continue Reading
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Blog Post
01 Oct 2026
What to expect from Confluent Current 2026 Americas
Once again, we’re packing bags to attend Confluent Current 2026 USA, held in San Francisco on November 4th and 5th this year. For the uninitiated, Confluent is an enterprise data streaming software ... Continue Reading
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Feature
30 Sep 2026
IT event dive: AI for its own sake at Tobacco Dock with Everpure
Inside a 200-year-old bonded tobacco warehouse, Everpure’s Accelerate London delegates wrestle with competition, orders from on high and AI for AI’s sake Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
‘Inherent sovereignty is a fallacy’ says Beyond.pl AI factory exec
Beyond.pl built central Europe’s first sovereign AI factory on Everpure and Nvidia kit – now its CEO argues the real issue is operational sovereignty, not where the box sits Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
Post Office process redress scheme pays out £4m so far
Post Office Process Review scheme, set up to redress subpostmaster losses caused by non-Horizon processes, products and policies, closes Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Sep 2026
CScale drives optical interconnect for AI, gigawatt-class AI datacentres come next
CScale is a newly launched startup that has been working since its founding in 2023 to build an “integrated light engine” designed to deliver reliable optical connectivity for AI infrastructure at ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
Trust Bank cuts incident triage time to two minutes with AI agents
The Singapore digital bank is running AI agents on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to work out the likely cause of an incident before engineers join the call, with humans still deciding on the fix Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
Saudi Arabia’s next AI challenge is turning infrastructure into capability
Magna AI executive says governance, operational ownership and sovereign control will determine whether organisations can scale artificial intelligence beyond pilots Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
Everpure survey: 88% of executives fear data sovereignty failures
An Everpure survey of 2,100 C-suite and IT leaders across eight countries finds 90% recognise the risk, yet 64% lack a formal strategy to close ‘the sovereignty gap’ Continue Reading
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Blog Post
30 Sep 2026
Cribl wants to end the trade-off between a monolithic SIEM and a DIY security stack
AI platform for telemetry company Cribl has been busy at the coding workbench this month. The company issues a brace of news alerts this week to announce StreamAI and Cribl Detect, built on the ... Continue Reading
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News
30 Sep 2026
Token bills to push most enterprise AI workloads onto open-weight models
With AI agents consuming tokens at an alarming rate, most enterprises have blown their AI budgets – and McKinsey expects cheaper open-weight models to handle the bulk of routine work Continue Reading
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Blog Post
29 Sep 2026
Cantina develops ‘The Brain’ for autonomous security agents
Cantina has developed a “shared context and memory layer” that connects identities, infrastructure and prior investigations, helping security agents investigate alerts with less discovery work. The ... Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2026
Only 30% of Metropolitan Police officers have completed mandatory data training
Metropolitan Police senior officers admit that only 30% of the force has completed mandatory data protection training following a series of high-profile data incidents Continue Reading
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News
29 Sep 2026
US university implements campus-wide Cisco network refresh
University of Notre Dame modernises network infrastructure to create resilient network to support the growing demands of AI, immersive research and bandwidth-intensive learning applications Continue Reading
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Feature
29 Sep 2026
Ukraine’s tech industry still stands strong
Andy Burnham visited Kyiv in Aug 2026, the fourth UK PM since 2022. UK-Ukraine tech collaboration has grown with AI-focused military deals, and Ukraine’s tech sector has proven resilient despite the war Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
Are AI coders more trouble than they’re worth?
More and more code is being produced by AI tools. A poll finds that software teams are struggling to keep pace Continue Reading
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Opinion
28 Sep 2026
The GPU mirage on a lazy Sunday afternoon
An attempt to spin up my own Whisper transcription server resulted in an afternoon of sold-out zones and vanishing GPUs – a worm's-eye view of the shortage the industry talks about Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
Oktane 2026: The industry is ready to talk about AI kill switches
The concept of an AI kill switch – a means to terminate out-of-control agents – sounds dramatic, but security leaders are now starting to talk openly and pragmatically about why they are needed and how to use them Continue Reading
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News
28 Sep 2026
UiPath’s Cartographer agent interviews staff to map how businesses run
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines says the company’s Cartographer agent will capture the institutional knowledge AI agents lack by interviewing employees and learning from the corrections they make Continue Reading
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Blog Post
28 Sep 2026
Tensordyne co-founder: When it comes to inference, enterprises need more options than ever
This is a guest post for the Computer Weekly Developer Network written by Gilles Backhus, co-founder of Tensordyne. Tensordyne is known for hardware and software acceleration platforms designed ... Continue Reading
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News
27 Sep 2026
Vast Data pitches confidential AI to APAC’s regulated industries
DataEnclave, due in the coming months, protects artificial intelligence models and sensitive data while they are processed on GPUs, with Australian neocloud Sharon AI among the cloud providers lined up to offer it Continue Reading
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Blog Post
26 Sep 2026
What to expect from NTT R&D Forum 2026
Kādo (カード)! It’s what you say in “standard loanword” (Gairaigo) Japanese when you need to buy a drink at a store in Tokyo and it sounds just like card-0, as in credit card. It’s a term that we'll ... Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2026
French local authorities to replace WhatsApp with ‘sovereign’ encrypted messaging
French local authorities to deploy ‘sovereign’ end-to-end encrypted messaging service in a move away from US big tech Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2026
Dreamforce 2026: A question of trust
Salesforce’s Dreamforce 2026 event tried to focus on trust in AI development, amid current fears about autonomous AI risks. Is AI just the new cloud? Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2026
Consumers want strong independent oversight of banking AI
Despite strong security foundations, customers using AI want independent eyes to watch over banks Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2026
Qualcomm sets out for future at beginning of agentic age
Annual conference of leading mobile platform provider sees transition into harnessing the power of agentic technologies through end product line including PCs, phones, cars and advanced eyewear Continue Reading
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Feature
25 Sep 2026
AI promises a productivity windfall – who will reap the benefits?
Two previous industrial revolutions suggest gains arrive late and flow to capital first. Meanwhile, a 200-year-old idea – the ‘general intellect’ – holds the key to why Continue Reading
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News
25 Sep 2026
Australia sets up taskforce after OpenAI agent breaches statistics portal
Prime minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI did not alert the government until almost three months after one of its AI agents got around blocks on a Medicare statistics portal, and even then only by emailing a public mailbox Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
Meta Connect 26: Muse paves the way to global domination
Given the reach of its platforms, Meta is making its Muse agentic system a platform for orchestrating third-party services on behalf of users Continue Reading
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Opinion
24 Sep 2026
Is AI dangerous? Trying to separate hype from fact
The danger is not a conscious machine, but a dazzling prediction engine that moves faster than we can supervise. The real risk is that we hand over the controls too easily Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
Interview: Frank Karlitschek is David to Microsoft’s Goliath
With 170 employees and European Commission endorsement, Nextcloud’s founder is building Europe’s open source answer to Microsoft 365 Continue Reading
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Blog Post
24 Sep 2026
What to expect from Qualys ROCon 2026
It takes technology vendors years to cement the name of their user conferences in the minds of practitioners; it’s a core branding exercise that only reinforces itself through time and effort. ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
24 Sep 2026
Why every telco's AI strategy looks different
Singtel, SK Telecom and China Telecom all agree that AI-ready infrastructure is worth building. Where they disagree is on what stays scarce once everyone has built it Continue Reading
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News
24 Sep 2026
Sea doubles down on full-stack AI with Nvidia Vera Rubin
The Singapore-founded company, set to be Southeast Asia’s first enterprise to adopt Nvidia’s latest AI platform, runs its own datacentre infrastructure and models while equipping frontline teams with tools to build AI agents Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
Law firm paid £200m to support Post Office, while police investigating scandal are forced to beg
There are concerns that a lack of funds for the police investigation could prevent the full Post Office scandal truth getting out Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Sep 2026
Wisdom AI CEO: Why enterprise AI needs smaller, purpose-built applications
More active than a good number of its competitors this year (if we measure the number of platform announcements and tool updates emanating from its core communications portal, if not also by dint ... Continue Reading
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Opinion
23 Sep 2026
Agentic AI in the enterprise: why governance, not adoption, will define the winners
IT leaders racing to deliver agentic AI risk repeating a familiar problem with new technologies - establishing controls after proving the concept. Agentic AI requires governance to be established from the outset Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
Former subpostmaster demands extension to Post Office scandal claims deadline
Subpostmasters can only make claims for losses through Post Office Process Review until September 30, but a former subpostmaster says there is a necessity to extend the deadline Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
Informatica wants AI agents to stop making up the numbers
Informatica, owned by Salesforce, is making its catalogue metadata machine-readable, and adding trust indicators to answers in Claude so customers can see where a figure comes from before they act on it Continue Reading
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News
23 Sep 2026
Lumen lights up Intelligent Internet for AI demands
Infrastructure provider looks to bring cloud-like agility to enterprises with internet model combining on-demand bandwidth, digital control and predictable costs Continue Reading
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Blog Post
23 Sep 2026
Abbyy FineParser tackles the document ingestion problem behind enterprise AI
Developers need to parse. Why? Because software application developers need to parse raw documents into structured formats in order to avoid problems such as poor ingestion and to prevent ... Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2026
Okta debuts agentic lifecycle management tools, AI kill switch
In the wake of a string of incidents involving badly managed AI agents, security firm Okta enhanced its year-old agentic services proposition with capabilities to securely manage agentic lifecycles Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Sep 2026
Zero-trust was built for people. Nobody told it about agents
The concept of zero-trust needs no introduction, but in the new world of AI agents, it’s a model that now needs to evolve. Continue Reading
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News
22 Sep 2026
Data dive: Mapping UK police forces’ hyperscale dependence
Computer Weekly used public DNS records to map which outside companies Britain’s 48 police forces connect to – and found a service that has quietly standardised on one US hyperscaler Continue Reading
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Feature
22 Sep 2026
Interview: Paris Marx on why hyperscale datacentres pose greater threat than AI ‘science fiction’
Ahead of the release of his latest book, Paris Marx tells Computer Weekly how tech companies’ insatiable datacentre demands are accelerating the climate crisis Continue Reading
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Opinion
22 Sep 2026
What do we mean by sovereign AI?
‘Sovereign AI’ is everywhere but rarely defined. It bundles ownership, control, jurisdiction, capability and optionality. The real test for most organisations is, do you know your dependencies, and can you leave if you need to? Continue Reading
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Blog Post
22 Sep 2026
Vast brings confidential AI to sensitive enterprise data with DataEnclave
Data storage specialist VAST Data (hereafter written as Vast) these days styles itself as an AI operating system company. The organisation’s latest release is Vast DataEnclave, the confidential AI ... Continue Reading
