24th February 2023

Azure hybrid cloud benefits

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Microsoft Azure is Microsoft's public cloud computing platform offering many cloud services. This includes computing, analytics, storage, and networking. A major advantage for end users is the ability to use any service to develop new applications or run existing applications in the public cloud. With migration and networking tools, single sign on, and identity management, [...]

22nd February 2023

A brief SAP Analytics Cloud overview

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Modern companies are inundated with large quantities of business data with a need to categorise, analyse, and report to make the right business decisions. The challenge is even more complex when considering that data arrives from different sources that aren't connected together. There is increasing difficulty in finding a suitable tool that can handle this [...]

Headless Architectures and Composable Systems

21st February 2023

Headless Architectures and Composable Systems

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Looking for more flexible architecture choices that can guarantee greater security and scale? It might be time to consider more complex customisations and integrations. What happens when you want all the juicy bits of a system- data models, business logic, and machine learning capabilities - without the baggage of being boxed into the platform's standard [...]

Key Considerations For Bespoke Software Development

10th February 2023

Key Considerations For Bespoke Software Development

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Is a bespoke software solution on the cards for your business in 2023? If you've already started looking into development, you know the number of options and considerations can be overwhelming. To try simplify the process, we've put together a list of the most essential factors to consider before investing in a bespoke software solution. [...]

8th February 2023

The ChatGPT revolution

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OpenAI's ChatGPT, a powerful AI chatbot, has been the centre of attention since November 2022 when it was first released in its current iteration. Based on Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT3.5), ChatGPT is essentially a language system that can compose song lyrics, write poetry and code, and even conduct conversation. It was trained using trillions of [...]

Microsoft Teams Premium is now available

6th February 2023

Microsoft Teams Premium is now available

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With the current challenges to our economic climate and the move to flexibility in work patterns, companies are looking for innovative solutions to new situations. Microsoft is investing heavily into modern digital tools to supplant legacy ways of working. AI-powered technology shows promising results to enhance team collaboration, working productivity and to change our fundamental [...]

Key features of a modern customer portal

31st January 2023

Key features of a modern customer portal

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A customer portal gives organisations a professionally branded web presence and gives users the ability to choose how they want to interact with a company. It serves as a single point of access for customers to view information and documents relevant to them. In addition, customer portals are intended to be accessible any all times, [...]

Microsoft Teams: Building A Community of Collaboration

16th January 2023

Microsoft Teams: Building A Community of Collaboration

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The ways in which we interact with one another have shifted dramatically over the past few years. Thanks to digital transformation, we have the ability to work from anywhere at any time and minimise face-to-face communication. But some things haven't changed in a hybrid world. Microsoft Metaverse Last year, Microsoft introduced their own version of [...]

16th January 2023

Influential Software turns 30

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January 15 marks our 30th company anniversary, and we're going to celebrate in style! But how did we get here? Well, 30 years ago, Andy Richardson started it all off and began a company called Influential Software. Together with John Simpson, they began offering digital transformation services before the term itself had even been coined. [...]

10th January 2023

Key cloud adoption trends

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Organisations are increasingly having to adapt to changing technological, economic and industry challenges. Modern businesses focus on reducing business costs and complexity, as well as increased agility and innovation. Modernising workloads by moving them to the cloud is a significant digital transformation and one that provides security and flexibility. In addition, cloud infrastructure and capabilities [...]

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