Brian McKenna

United Kingdom

Business Applications Editor at Computer Weekly

Enterprise Applications Editor, Computer Weekly. Views own.

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Infosecurity 2025: SMEs feel on their own in the face of cyber attacks

3 weeks ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

Barrier to entry In the session at Infosecurity Europe 2025, Furnell will say that while a wealth of information is potentially available to SMEs, even navigating the landscape can represent a barrier to entry. This has the clear potential to impact them, but it can also have a cascading impact on larger organisations where SMEs form part of their essential supply chains, as they often do.
Infosecurity 2025: NCA cyber intelligence head spells out trends

3 weeks ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

Will Lyne, head of cyber intelligence at the National Crime Agency, is speaking at this week’s Infosecurity Europe conference about cyber criminal trends. Ransomware, and other varieties of cyber attack on the public, are, he said, becoming commoditised beyond the traditional provenance of Russian-speaking expert coders. Lyne has worked in law enforcement for over 15 years.
Sapphire 2025: BASF evolves business with move to SAP S/4Hana

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

Chemical industry giant BASF is moving its SAP IT estate to the supplier’s S/4Hana enterprise resource planning (ERP) system as part of a business modernisation strategy, it was announced at its Sapphire user and partner conference in Madrid. Petra Scheithe, senior vice-president of digitalisation of services and ERP platforms at BASF Business Services, outlined the latest development in the company’s long-standing relationship with SAP.
Sapphire 2025 : SAP s’allie à Palantir et étend son assistant Joule | LeMagIT

1 month ago | lemagit.fr | David Essex |Brian McKenna |Philippe Ducellier

Joule s’étend avec Perplexity et WalkMe Christian Klein a également souligné les avancées autour de Joule, l’assistant à base d’IA générative de SAP. L’outil est désormais doté d’une « action bar» alimentée par WalkMe, racheté en juin 2024 pour 1,5 milliard $, pour anticiper les besoins des utilisateurs en analysant leur comportement sur les différentes applications. SAP insiste sur le respect de ses lignes directrices éthiques pour encadrer l’usage de cette IA proactive.
Sapphire 2025: SAP mints business AI flywheel with Palantir on board

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

Christian Klein, SAP’s chief executive officer, put economic and geopolitical uncertainty at the heart of the opening keynote at the supplier’s global Sapphire event in Orlando. The European version of the event will be held in Madrid next week and is likely to repeat the same themes. Like other enterprise software suppliers, such as Oracle and Salesforce, SAP is invoking a trinity of capabilities for the artificial intelligence (AI) age, in its case applications, data and AI.
Smart ball analytics proves value in rugby

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

Smart ball in motion Biggar was speaking at a recent media event where the possible data analytics generated by Sportable’s “smart ball” were being demonstrated. Sage, which provides accounting, financial, HR and payroll technology for small and medium-sized businesses, set up the event alongside Sportable, a global data collection and analytics platform.
Apple and Gmail make it harder for email campaigns to get to the inbox

1 month ago | devicedaily.com | Brian McKenna

Apple and Gmail make it harder for email campaigns to get to the inbox Google’s year-old spam limit and Apple’s iOS are causing significant problems for email marketingSMB or enterprise, CPG or B2B — brands of all sizes and verticals are still struggling to get under Gmail’s spam thresholds. It’s not for lack of trying, either.
Oracle NetSuite’s Goldberg: autonomous AI next applications phase

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

Evan Goldberg, executive vice-president of Oracle NetSuite, has a computer science student hinterland in artificial intelligence (AI) that pre-dates his joining Oracle as a software engineer in 1987. He also founded NetSuite in 1998 as a pioneer software as a service provider. Goldberg spoke to Computer Weekly at the supplier’s recent SuiteConnect London 2025 conference.
ServiceNow K25: McDermott vaunts agentic AI platform as revolutionary

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

ServiceNow CEO Bill McDermott hailed AI as an “absolute requirement” for the survival of humanity at the supplier’s Knowledge 2025 customer and partner conference in Las Vegas. “AI is civilization’s opportunity of this century. It is a gateway to prosperity. It is the only $22tn global market opportunity between now and 2030. It’s the only opportunity to take out $4tn in operating expenses. This is not an incremental change.
Brunel versus Putin: next steps for UK tech sector need to be transformational

1 month ago | computerweekly.com | Brian McKenna

This is a guest blogpost by John Bates, CEO of SER Group. A short time ago, I’d have cautiously suggested long-term investment and a shift in UK higher education as keys to regenerating the native tech industry. Recent events though have convinced me there’s a real opportunity for the UK to foster a new wave of tech leaders like Mike Lynch and global-impact tech builders like Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis. And whether we like it or not, this moment is defined by Trump, Chinese AI, and Moscow.