Just 18% of workers say hybrid working tech substantially improves productivity

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New research from Doherty Associates, the leading IT consultancy and services provider, has found that over three-quarters (77%) of workers state their company has introduced new technology to support hybrid working. However, the research found it has not had the desired effect on productivity, with only 18% stating the tools have substantially improved productivity.  

The research, which gained insights from 889 employees working in the UK Capital Markets and Legal...

How test orchestration helps in releasing faster mobile app features

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In today’s digital world, consumers demand that enterprises release mobile app features faster and developers are facing challenging times to keep up with the expectations of modern customers. Speed matters when it comes to mobile applications and in this blog we will cover how leveraging intelligent test orchestration helps developers achieve faster release cycles.

Why is it important to release mobile features faster?

● App store ratings and rankings

It...

Scottish cloud tech developer receives £5m backing

Edinburgh, Scotland.

Native cloud platform specialist, Forrit, will expand its operation after receiving scale up support from the Scottish National Investment Bank.

The £5million of funding will allow the Edinburgh headquartered technology developer to expand its workforce and target new markets.

Established in 2014 Forrit is a developer of cloud-based Content Management System (CMS) software. Its cutting-edge platform is used by globally renowned businesses to enhance customer experience,...

Accenture and Microsoft help Unilever with huge cloud transition

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Accenture, Microsoft and Unilever have completed one of the largest and most complex cloud migrations in the consumer goods industry. The migration has helped Unilever - whose 400+ brands are used by 3.4 billion people daily - become a cloud-only enterprise.

Accenture and Microsoft, together with their joint venture, Avanade, worked closely with Unilever to deliver the transformation in just 18 months with minimal disruption to business operations. It has not only helped ensure...

GFT and CloudFrame help industries say ‘cheerio’ to COBOL

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GFT, a digital transformation pioneer, and CloudFrame, a provider of pathways to digital transformation for large organisations who are running mission-critical applications on COBOL, have partnered to help COBOL users make the transition to more efficient platforms that enable users to reduce their overall mainframe costs.

CloudFrame’s proprietary technology converts COBOL code into more efficient and future-proof Java. On average, the cost of a mainframe process is reduced by...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise acquires OpsRamp

Fidelma Russo, HPE CTO.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has agreed to acquire OpsRamp, an IT operations management (ITOM) company that monitors, observes, automates and manages IT infrastructure, cloud resources, workloads and applications for hybrid and multi-cloud environments, including the leading hyperscalers.

Integrating OpsRamp’s hybrid digital operations management solution with the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform – and supporting it with HPE services – will reduce the operational...

Acxiom boosts brands’ marketing ROI with Salesforce Data Cloud

Customer intelligence company Acxiom has extended its Salesforce practice to support brands in achieving their unique business goals with Salesforce Data Cloud.

The Salesforce Data Cloud uses real-time data to deliver highly personalised customer experiences across sales, service, marketing, and commerce that continuously adapt to changing customer information and needs in real time.

Today, customers expect personalisation in their interactions with brands. In fact,...

LiveRamp enables identity and advanced activation in Snowflake

LiveRamp has expanded its partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, to upgrade its product capabilities built natively on Snowflake and increase data connectivity for next-generation, post-cookie marketing in the cloud.

By building LiveRamp’s data activation solutions using Snowflake’s Native Application Framework, currently in private preview, along with easy-to-use marketer-friendly user interfaces, LiveRamp will allow joint customers to easily...

83% of CIOs must do more with less in 2023

SoftwareOne Holding AG, a global software and cloud solutions provider, has unveiled the findings of 'CIO Pulse: 2023 budgets & priorities'.

The study, which recently surveyed 600 C-suite and IT decision-makers in the UK and USA examines how the current global economy is impacting IT priorities, revealing that despite 93% of CIOs expecting IT budgets to increase in 2023, 83% say they are under pressure to make their budgets stretch further than ever before – with a key focus...

AT&T Mexico transforms its tech strategy with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

AT&T Mexico is moving critical IT and business processes to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) to expand the benefits of mobile internet to more than 21 million subscribers and business customers in industries such as education, health and banking nationwide.

With OCI, the company will be able to manage OSS/BSS workloads, analytics, and databases more efficiently in the cloud.

Jeronimo Diez de Sollano, CIO, AT&T Mexico, said: “AT&T Mexico’s...