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Public confidence in police across the West Midlands focus of new Warwick Business School study

Kevin Morrell, Associate Professor of Governance at Warwick Business School, will be analysing data collected by West Midlands Police over the last 12 years on public confidence, to dig below the surface of what is now a large dataset and potentially suggest fresh scope to analyse this important topic.

“The West Midlands Police database is unique in UK and possibly the world too,” said Dr Morrell. “There is a consistency and sophistication in the way West Midlands Police has asked questions of the public, investing over time in this important dimension to policing."

: THE EDITORIAL TEAM; Case Studies; Posted On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 15:50

Computop and CardinalCommerce partner to enable retailers to minimize fraud in online and mobile commerce

New York and Cleveland, OH: Computop and CardinalCommerce have announced a global strategic partnership that will help retailers improve their authorization rates and reduce their fraud risk. Through this relationship, Computop has integrated Cardinal Consumer Authentication into the Computop Paygate platform, providing retailers in the US, Europe and other key international markets with secure, guaranteed payments and the best possible conversion for their e-commerce and mobile operations, including cross-board transactions.

: Jessica Mularczyk; Global Retail; Posted On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 12:19

Aridhia selects Skyscape Cloud Services to host collaborative research platform AnalytiXagility

London: Skyscape Cloud Services Limited has been selected by health informatics specialist, Aridhia, to host its AnalytiXagility platform, which will enable data-driven projects to be executed more quickly, accelerating clinical research into illnesses such as heart disease, obesity and diabetes. AnalytiXagility is delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) via Skyscape’s assured cloud infrastructure, which maximises flexibility and cost control for organisations due to its usage-based charging model.

: Stacey Nardozzi and Charlotte Martin; Industry News; Posted On Tuesday, 20 October 2015 12:14

Group to address security challenges

Sophia Antipolis, France and Dusseldorf, Germany: Security in the NFV/SDN environment is one of the major challenges the industry needs to address for 2016 but it should also be seen as an enormous opportunity. It will combine analytics with the network agility enabled by NFV and SDN to improve the resilience of networks to security threats. This was one of the key messages from a range of ETSI ISG NFV personalities speaking this week at the Layer 123 SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Dusseldorf.