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New solution unifies real-time data to inform incident response and improve frontline and community safety
Leicestershire Fire & Rescue Service (FRS) has selected Motorola Solutions’ (NYSE: MSI) command centre technology, including Control Room Solution (CRS), to strengthen the service’s call handling and emergency dispatch. The solution will help to increase the speed, effectiveness and
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Autumn 2023 Cover story – by Barley Laing, UK Managing Director at Melissa
Barley Laing
The public sector has long been considered a soft target by fraudsters. This is backed up by data from the Cabinet Office which highlights that fraud and error in public spending are estimated to cost taxpayers up to £51.8
Continue reading How to know your citizens (KYC) and prevent fraud
The British Embassy in Washington DC recently hosted a Thought Leadership event and reception and invited a select number of British companies to showcase artificial intelligence (AI) and zero trust architecture (ZTA) solutions.
Left to right: David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks and Jamie Eykyn, Chairman of Bridgeworks, outside the British Embassy in
Continue reading UK Tech Firm Bridgeworks Showcases AI WAN Acceleration at British Embassy in Washington DC
Tarian Technology, a Wales-based provider of cybersecurity solutions and commercial spin-out of Exsel Electronics, announces today a ground-breaking licensing agreement with Ploughshare, the commercial face of the UK Government’s Defence Science and Technology Labs (Dstl), for the use of game-changing cybersecurity products.
The partnership brings together years of work between Exsel Electronics and
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By Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist, SolarWinds
Sascha Giese, Tech Evangelist, SolarWinds
The UK Government has made no secret of its ambitions to become an artificial intelligence (AI) superpower. Introducing a pro-innovation approach in the recent AI regulation policy paper, the Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, Michelle Donelan, outlined a technology-led future
Continue reading UK must close skills gaps if it’s to become an AI superpower
The 2023 Spring Budget depicted a further £21.6 billion in unannounced cuts to public services by 2027/28*. In line with this, we’ve seen technology budgets slashed across the sector, with NHS tech funding falling below the £1 billion mark**. As such, the public sector must find new and innovative ways to maintain the supply and
Continue reading Driving efficiency, saving time, and saving money – how automation can benefit the public sector
Cybersecurity solutions firm, Tarian Technology, part of the Exsel Electronics Group, has launched a new market leading, multi-level file protection software to fully safeguard secret, sensitive or personal information contained in a document before it is shared with pre-approved intended audiences.
The new Need2Know software, has been developed for government departments handling sensitive information as
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Sascha Giese
By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds
Earlier this year, NHS England — the largest of the four public health providers in the UK — merged with NHS Digital to become the sole custodian of NHS data and technology.
The move is designed to bring responsibility for NHS data and technology expertise all under
Continue reading The NHS is awash with data — how it manages it is pivotal to its success
By Sascha Giese, Solarwinds
Rishi Sunak spoke recently about his ambitions to make the UK an AI superpower. Opening London Tech Week the Prime Minister said the UK was an island of innovation in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, synthetic biology, and semiconductors.
But he acknowledged the UK’s position as a tech
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Leading public sector and professional services organisations look to shared services model to improve core business functions, data compatibility and real-time analytics
Unit4, a leader in enterprise cloud applications for people-centric organisations, today highlighted key trends in shared services adoption among public sector and professional services organisations (PSO), drawing on data from
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boxxe, a York-based IT solutions company, has today announced a successful partnering with Dell Technologies to secure a place on the SSSNA framework as trusted providers of hardware solutions to Higher Education institutions.
SSSNA is an IT purchasing framework agreement enabling all universities, Higher Education and Further Education establishments to purchase tech provision in a
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Clinicians and healthcare workers across Ireland to benefit from increased security and significant time savings that can be redirected towards providing excellent patient care
Imprivata®, the digital identity company for life-and mission-critical industries, announced that together with regional partner, PFH Technology Group, it has won a national framework contract with Health Service Executive (HSE)
Continue reading Imprivata and PFH Technology Group Win National Contract to Supply Access Management to Healthcare Services Across Ireland
Jakub Lewandowski
By Jakub Lewandowski, Global Data Governance Officer at Commvault
It can’t have escaped your notice that there’s a lot of heated debate around AI at the moment, most specifically around the emergence of generative AI algorithms and Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Google Bard, Dolly, and others.
The rapid uptake
Continue reading Risk and Data Regulation: Are We Playing ‘Catch Up’ with AI?
Nick Denning, CEO of IT consultancy Diegesis and veteran of multiple public sector IT transformation projects shares his thoughts with GPSJ on what makes a successful risk awareness strategy
Risk management involves identifying, assessing, mitigating, and planning for potential events that could impact a business. This article explores risk management in practice and the priorities
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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust gained complete visibility across their IT infrastructure enhancing clinicians’ digital experience and improving patient care with Riverbed’s Unified Observability solution
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) is one of the largest NHS community health providers in England, serving a population of about 1.4 million. KCHFT’s IT team
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By Stephanie Ward
The intricacies of the IT systems companies rely on to operate are more now complicated than ever. There is the constant challenge of managing internal service providers and multiple third-party vendors. Fortunately, Service Integration and Management (SIAM) has emerged to bring sanity to an IT world plagued with chaos and poor return
Continue reading Driving forward SIAM innovation through practitioner collaboration
By David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks
Let’s face it, change is often held back by fear. The same principle applies to both the public sector and the private sector. People are often the reason why projects advance, don’t go hard or fail. With artificial intelligence – particularly generative AI – there is some
Continue reading Why Artificial Intelligence is The Next Revolution: The Good and the Bad
High-trust organisations believe technology choices play a vital part in securing customer trust
For nearly three quarters of AV professionals (70%) improving customer trust is the number one priority when selecting new collaboration and communication tech, beating other options such as increasing efficiency (69%) and increasing productivity (68%). That’s according to a new ‘Trusted Connections
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Claire Agutter
In the volatility of today’s international markets, businesses need to be agile and responsive and supply chain flexibility has emerged as a game-changer. “The ability of a business and its capacity to swiftly adjust supply chain operations in response to unpredictable market demands and supply-side disruptions can be make or break
Continue reading Closing the Gap: In a turbulent economic environment, how can a more agile supply chain deliver business growth?
Matrix funds new course helping young people transition out of childcare
Market-leading workforce technology and services platform Matrix is providing funding for a new adult education course aimed at helping young people successfully transition out of the childcare system. Certified as City and Guilds Level 5, the Young Adults Skills Development Care Leavers’ Programme has
Continue reading Care leaver programme secures key funding from Matrix
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