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by Richard Walker, Data and Insights Partner, Agilisys
Over the past 12 months we have frequently heard the Prime Minister declare that Government is “following the science”. At the same time, millions of us have found ourselves staring at charts and monitoring trends eager to understand the current situation. The link between the data that
Continue reading Putting a Value on Public Sector Data
Newham Borough Council is a vibrant Council bordering the City of London, most of its residents are from ethnic minority backgrounds and cumulatively speak more than 100 languages. Newham’s leadership team is constantly looking for ways to provide the best for its citizens. Introducing intelligent chatbots to its parking customer service offering is an important
Continue reading A Digital Transformation Journey with Futr AI – Newham Council Parking Customer Service Team
DSEI, 14 – 17 September, 2021, ExCeL, London, Stand No: H1-450
Armour Comms will be showcasing several new capabilities of its OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE, NATO approved Armour® Mobile at DSEI, including a technical preview of its secure collaboration solution, Unity by Armour. Other innovations on show will be Armour’s work with the Ministry of Defence
Continue reading Armour Comms showcases new secure collaborative working solutions with MOD and Bittium at DSEI
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
As organisations throughout the public sector have turned to remote working solutions over the past year and a half during the global pandemic, technology has solved countless problems—but it’s created challenges, too. The tried and tested “business as usual” processes were disrupted, and organisations were forced to rely
Continue reading Public Sector IT: How Monitoring Could Be The Answer
Ireland’s leading medical virology laboratory works with Medical Supply Company (MSC), CliniSys, and the Health Service Executive (HSE) to deploy the modern laboratory information system at Backweston Laboratory Campus
The move will future-proof capacity at the dedicated SARS-CoV-2 RNA testing facility and is already improving turnaround times
Ireland’s National Virus Reference
Continue reading National Virus Reference Laboratory (NVRL) moves Covid-19 testing onto WinPath Enterprise
SolarWinds IT Trends Report 2021: Building a Secure Future examines how technology professionals perceive the evolving state of risk in today’s business environment following internal impact of COVID-19 IT policies and exposure to external breaches
SolarWinds introduces Secure by Design program as a guide for industry-wide approach to help prevent
Continue reading Annual SolarWinds Study Reveals Opportunities for Business and IT Collaboration in Managing Enterprise Risk Driven by Internal and External Security Threats
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
IT teams across the public sector are under pressure to migrate technology infrastructure, services, and data to the cloud. Whether the objective is to deliver cost savings, performance improvements, better reliability, or a combination of benefits, the trend is well established. Increasingly, the emphasis is shifting away from
Continue reading How to Deliver on the Potential of Public Sector Cloud Migration
Employability Voices ASK SETH
Support for jobseekers has been taken to a new level with the launch of the first online platform that connects them directly with local support to help them find work.
Called ASK SETH www.askseth.org, which stands for Skills, Employment, Training and Help, it is the only free, single source,
Continue reading Government welcomes post-pandemic employment initiative
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
Public sector organisations across the country are looking closely at the way they can improve services and performance by optimising their use of data. Indeed, many are focusing on it as a key asset and a driving force behind their wider technology strategy to build a ‘data-centric’ approach.
Continue reading How Public Sector Database Teams Can Become ‘Data Centric’
Software consultancy Scott Logic has been awarded a new contract to act as implementation and development partner on the Scottish Government‘s digital identity programme.
The digital identity programme is part of the Scottish Government’s Digital Strategy actions to build a suite of common platforms to be adopted across the public sector, transforming government. The commitment
Continue reading Scott Logic awarded contract to develop the Scottish Government’s digital identity platform
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
Recent research in the U.K. public sector shows a combination of cloud and local infrastructure will continue to be used over the course of this year, with up to 53% of services confirming they use hybrid infrastructure. In essence, hybrid IT is the integration of on-premises IT services
Continue reading How to Maximise the Advantages of Hybrid IT
Highland Marketing’s advisory board welcomed Jane Brightman, social care lead at Institute of Health and Social Care Management, to discuss the sector and its technology needs. A lot of hope is being pinned on integrated care systems, but when it comes to joining up health and care systems and putting the underpinning IT in place,
Continue reading What next for social care?
Digital transformation pushed to the top of the priority list for central Government
An estimated 60% of UK central government departments have an IT modernisation strategy in place and even more want to upgrade legacy systems due to security vulnerabilities, according to a new study from BAE Systems Applied Intelligence.
The recent research
Continue reading BAE Systems Applied Intelligence: Cyber security concerns drive digital transformation in UK public sector
By Evan Wienburg, CEO at Bath-based Truespeed, a full fibre infrastructure provider and ISP
Hybrid Nirvana. It sounds like a chart-topping music album, and it is certainly top of the pops at the moment for organisations of all shapes and sizes. Working from home, aka WFH, has become the norm for huge numbers of employees
Continue reading Laying down the digital tracks for hybrid working
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
As our cities continue to grow in population density, the need for positive environmental action on a domestic and global scale grows more urgent. However, the sheer complexity of contemporary urban living means city planners need more actionable insight into the factors affecting issues such as air quality
Continue reading How a Business IT Mindset Can Help Smart Cities Maintain Cleaner Air
Leaders launch digital exclusion taskforce to help Londoners get better connectivity, acquire digital skills and access devices
LGfL to provide 200,000 low-cost laptops for schools
28% of children in state funded-education are disadvantaged
The attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their more affluent counterparts currently
Continue reading Edtech Charity LGfL joins Mayor of London and London Councils to help close the digital divide and provide 200,000 low-cost laptops for schools
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust is to work with smart health tech provider Alcidion to provide vital tools to help thousands of staff enhance patient safety.
Thousands of NHS professionals across five hospitals in East Lancashire are to benefit from early warning technology that will help them detect and swiftly respond to
Continue reading East Lancashire signs deal for early warning technology from Alcidion
Sascha Giese, Head Geek™, SolarWinds
By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds
Most public sector organisations and their IT teams will be familiar with the challenge of balancing time between implementing new technologies against the need to keep existing systems running effectively. In some cases, organisations can do little more than focus on
Continue reading How to Tackle Technical Debt
The services supplied by the UK’s public sector, particularly those provided by the world-renowned NHS, are considered by many to be the jewel in our crown. Never before has this commitment to service excellence been more evidenced than by the way our public servants have responded to the challenges presented by the global pandemic and
Continue reading GFT: Intelligently exploiting the cloud to power the UK’s public sector, the jewel in our crown
Dedicated app simplifies parking permit renewals for Nottingham drivers
Drivers in Nottingham can now buy and renew their parking permits through Nottingham City Council’s parking app – RHParking – following the ongoing development of the app by APT SKIDATA, one of the UK’s leading parking solutions providers.
The new ‘permits module’ within APT
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