Alasdair will hold responsibility for Digital Transformation, Software Development and its DevOps practice across the UK, and joins the business from Sopra Steria, where he spent over 10 years in various roles including his most recent as Head of Regional Digital Transformation. The appointment of Alasdair is part of a larger strategic plan which will […]
Exception, Scotland’s largest indigenous IT consultancy company has taken a significant minority stake in Dundee-based augmented reality (AR) business Mozenix. Exception CEO, Scott McGlinchey stated, “Our investment in Mozenix is one we are very excited about. To be able to provide additional expertise in emerging technologies such as Augmented Reality supports our business to deliver […]
Here’s a question: Could we create a more collaborative, cohesive and joined-up Scotland where we help each other in trade and commerce; with real partnerships, with measurable outcomes creating new supply chains and an enhanced indigenous marketplace? Not in place of internalisation but alongside it: effectively developing our own eco-market? We could start in the […]
Current Cloud climate A wealth of off-the-shelf solutions and components are now available, and the selection is ever growing. Almost any functionality required can be purchased as a virtual machine image or as-a-service. Public Cloud solutions can now also cope with higher performance and scale requirements than ever before – for example Cloud instances to […]
To achieve this objective many organisations have adopted an Agile-based development process. However, this in itself does not deliver the desired goal of business agility or responsiveness. The adoption of Cloud infrastructure and the implementation of a DevOps process for software development, testing and deployment are now considered essential if an organisation is to become […]
Category 1 – Intelligent Technologies AI Foundation The ability to automate business practices and utilise Artificial Intelligence in business decision making will be a key consideration for CEOs in 2018. Creating added value for customers is at the forefront of digital transformation programs. For an organisation to harness the potential benefits of AI it must […]
What is PSD2? The Payment Services Directive (PSD2) is a fundamental new piece of payments-related legislation in Europe and is the biggest disruption the banking industry has seen in decades. EU regulation – law from January 2018 – looks to shake up the banks’ exclusive rights to customer data and open it up to more […]
Estonia: Small independent nation to global digital powerhouse Post-independence from the Soviet Union in 1991, Estonia had to build its national infrastructure from scratch. The Estonian government initially approached a couple of the established global IT infrastructure providers to help at the time, but found they did not have the budget to support such sizeable […]
Assuming you have an appropriately defined digital strategy, then based on our experience of working with clients across different sectors, I believe that, while no means exhaustive, the following areas are absolutely key to create and deliver a successful digital strategy: Strength in Leadership – social, mobile, analytics, Cloud and the Internet of Things (loT) […]