Blending Front and Back Office: Key Ingredients for an Enhanced Customer Experience
Richard Mill from Business Systems explains why CIOs need to focus on blending the front and back office – putting the customer at the centre of digital transformation to give them...
Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP to interlink their cloud-based blockchains
Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP (AIMOS), arguably the 'Big 5' in blockchain, are working together to see if they can create one huge interconnected blockchain based around the Linux Foundation's...
2020 vision: What MWC19 tells us about the year ahead
If hindsight is 20/20 vision, can the melee of announcements and exhibitor displays at this year’s Mobile World Congress provide us with the foresight for the year ahead and what to...
MWC19 Insights PART II: Tech Review
In Part I of my MWC19 review, I covered the changes to industrial structure, but no review of MWC is complete without one or two tech highlights from the telco side –...
MWC19 Insights Part I: An industry in motion, but where to?
I’ve been in the telco industry in various guises for the last 22 years and attended mobile world congress since 2011 and usually I have left vaguely disappointed – this year...
Data quality – the key to ensuring big data is good data
Big data has grown exponentially in recent years as new technologies have enabled the capture of data at an unprecedented volume and rate. In healthcare, analysis of big data has helped...
What business leaders need to know from the Spring statement
With this year's Spring Statement overshadowed by Brexit, it was never going to be a big event but its always useful to see where the Government's direction of travel will be...
Article 13 European Copyright Directive
You have a fantastic website or online platform, for your business, and this is enhanced by third party photos and content. Your web terms and disclaimers all make it clear that...
The state of financial services M&A in the UK
Despite Brexit and some concerns about global trade Angus Grierson, Managing Director, LGB Corporate Finance says the outlook for M&A activity in the UK financial services sector in 2019 and beyond...
Outlook for fintech in 2019
‘FinTech’ – once a buzzword is now common parlance. Globally, investment into the sector has roared ahead at a record pace in the first half of 2018. With $57.9bn invested across...
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Accelo expenses module is generally available
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SafeBreach warns of critical vulnerability in PC-Doctor
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How SNIA is using Open Source to speed up storage standards
Developing a storage standard has always been a long, arduous and contentious process. It is the same for most standards.
However, with the speed that...
What to make of Facebook’s Libra?
On June 18th Facebook 'announced Calibra and Libra (though they will not be available until 2020). This is either a momentous event or an...
New but familiar player in Service Desk Software – SolarWinds
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Microsoft, SalesForce and the Ethereum Foundation join Hyperledger
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Reports highlight future of Jobs in the digital age
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Kaminario launches new Storage as a Service Offerings
Kaminario, a cloud storage software company, announced three new offerings and a unified licensing framework. The announcement is aligned to the company’s vision of...
Ripple partners with MoneyGram
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TCS teams with SAP to transform surgical kit ecosystem
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FDA program to evaluate blockchain to protect pharmaceutical integrity
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has selected IBM, KPMG, Merck and Walmart for inclusion in a program which will support the U.S....
