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InVision joins G-Cloud to bring workforce management to public sector contact centres

Duncan MacRae — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 08:21:24 +0000

InVision Software’s cloud-based injixo workforce management (WFM) solution has been accepted onto the G-Cloud 13 framework. Accelerating its adoption by UK public sector organisations, such as local authorities, injixo is now available via the G-Cloud Digital Marketplace. To deliver effective, efficient service to customers and meet service level agreements public sector organisations need to have... Read more »

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Digitalised workplaces for optimised public services

Xavier Mongin — Sun, 11 Sep 2022 19:39:31 +0000

Governments across the globe have long recognised the need to undertake a form of digital transformation. Many have been working for some time on transformation strategies designed to support the gradual adoption of digital technologies to increase productivity, improve efficiency, and enable better resource management. Whatever shape these strategies took, they had one common goal... Read more »

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Ministry of Defence (MoD) engages Netcompany to migrate pivotal apps into MODCloud

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 08:34:05 +0000

Netcompany, an international IT services company, has migrated 47 Ministry of Defence (MoD) applications from a legacy private cloud environment to MODCloud. These applications include the armed forces websites and many more, used by hundreds of thousands of users. A key objective for the migration was to deliver greater flexibility to manage and engineer applications,... Read more »

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British Army chooses Hadean to build cloud distributed simulation Pathfinder

Duncan MacRae — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 16:05:21 +0000

Deep tech start-up Hadean has been awarded a contract to help build and scale a cloud distributed simulation demonstrator for the British Army. This Pathfinder agreement marks Hadean’s first direct commitment with military end-users and sets the scene for the wider introduction and application of cloud-based computing in the MOD’s Defence Synthetic Environment Platform (DSEP),... Read more »

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Singapore’s HTX taps Microsoft for city-state’s first sovereign cloud

Fin Strathern — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Singapore’s Home Team Science and Technology agency (HTX) has called on Microsoft to develop its sovereign cloud. The agency promotes technological adoption across Singapore’s Home Team departments, which are responsible for national security, policing, civil defence, and immigration. HTX said the project will accelerate digital transformation and allow domestic services such as the police to... Read more »

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T-Systems and Google Cloud to deliver public sector cloud for Germany

Fin Strathern — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:27:46 +0000

Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Systems has unveiled plans to build a ‘sovereign cloud’ for German enterprises and its public sector alongside Google Cloud. The companies, which began collaborating on cloud-based solutions and services back in March 2020, hope to jointly innovate to “develop a large spectrum of next-gen sovereign cloud solutions and infrastructure”. T-Sytems will provide... Read more »

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AXELOS: How to get the most out of the ITIL 4 framework

James Bourne — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 13:08:36 +0000

The ITIL framework – the acronym being retained from its former description of Information Technology Infrastructure Library – is focused on aligning IT services with the needs of businesses, including activities such as IT service management (ITSM) and IT asset management (ITAM). Since 2013, it has been owned by AXELOS, a joint venture between Capita... Read more »

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How Greater Manchester has utilised cloud-based low-code development for its Early Years app

James Bourne — Mon, 09 Nov 2020 12:54:18 +0000

Sponsored The benefits of low-code, which enable companies to build custom applications in the cloud, are primarily three-fold: speed of innovation, reduced costs, and a faster time-to-market. By using low-code functionality, organisations can adapt to changing market trends enabling quicker speed of innovation – as well as faster time-to-market, while also creating a better user... Read more »

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Cloud executive demand soars due to Covid-19, data shows

James Bourne — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 13:31:25 +0000

The Covid-19 pandemic has found an accelerated demand for cloud services – and it has also resulted in an increased need for premium executive talent. According to findings from executive search company Leadership Capital Group, queries for senior cloud executives in the digital realm are up 224% since March. The company said there was an... Read more »

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AWS and Microsoft ramp up war of words in JEDI cloud contract row

James Bourne — Mon, 11 May 2020 14:41:38 +0000

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has said it ‘won’t back down’ in its appeal process for the $10 billion JEDI government cloud computing contract – as the war of words between AWS and Microsoft escalates. The contract for the Department of Defense has long courted rumour and conjecture around alleged potential intervention by President Trump, whose... Read more »

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