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Closing the Gap: In a turbulent economic environment, how can a more agile supply chain deliver business growth?

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

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Care leaver programme secures key funding from Matrix

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

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Why it makes financial sense to migrate to a modern real-time data platform

Martin James

by Martin James, VP EMEA, Aerospike

Data is crucial in allowing any government or public sector organisation to make informed decisions to drive mission-critical applications appropriately. Whether improving the supply chain, connecting cities for a more efficient traffic flow, to respond to terrorist threats swiftly, real-time data is the linchpin. The

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Matrix ramps up tech investment with Matrix Prism launch in collaboration with OutSystems to boost platform capabilities

Workforce management platform and services company Matrix is strengthening its commitment to providing a world-class contingent workforce management system, starting with the launch of Matrix Prism, powered by OutSystems’ low-code development system, which will replace Matrix existing proprietary platform, CR.net.

Matrix Prism will provide an intuitive end-to-end workflow management platform that covers the full spectrum

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Defra turns to Kyndryl to support its critical services for UK citizens

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider and Leader 2022 in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Hybrid Cloud and Network Mobility, and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) today announced a collaboration to help manage and support Defra’s core network infrastructure used to host and run their critical services, benefiting

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SD-WANs: Are They Enough for Modern Government Enterprises?

David Trossell, CEO and CTO of Bridgeworks

The public sector continues to promote and undergo digital transformation. The drivers for it range from a need to digitalise operations, to increase innovation and agility or encourage and permit easier collaboration across different Government departments and public sector organisations.

There is also a need for

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Pay rates on the rise amid social care worker exodus, finds Matrix data

Julian Panter

The number of active social care work placements have reached an all-time high, with average pay rates on the rise in an effort from businesses and councils to attract more candidates into vital roles, according to data from market-leading workforce technology and services platform Matrix.

Despite the rising need for

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Deliver a single citizen view (SCV) to ensure under pressure budgets are efficiently spent By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa

Barley Laing, UK Managing Director at Melissa

With precious budgets under significant pressure due to high inflation and belt-tightening post-pandemic, it has never been more important to ensure funds are efficiently spent.

One important way is to gain insight, a single citizen view (SCV), of those on your database. This will facilitate the

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From paper to pixels: Secure scanning in public sector digitalisation

By Kevin Dobson, product manager, Epson UK

This month marks three-years since the government first gave the order for people to work from home, wherever possible, at the start of the COVID19 pandemic.

Nobody at the time would have predicted that this simple order – enforced to slow the spread of a deadly disease –

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How observability is crucial to tackling tool sprawl

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek, SolarWinds

The task facing government departments and agencies as they progress towards their digital transformation objectives cannot be underestimated. For the IT professionals involved, it requires modernising their operations, applications, and databases while leveraging hybrid and multi-cloud deployments. And all of this must be done while supporting existing traditional workloads

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Hackers in the White House

By Casey Ellis, CTO and Founder of Bugcrowd Cyber experts levelling the playing field and disrupting threat actors

In technology circles, it’s a well-known and often lamented fact that technology and cybersecurity have a habit of moving at a much faster pace than policy. “Hackers on the Hill” (HotH) is a program that works to

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Investing in people always pays dividends

By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™

When it comes to digital transformation, one area of investment trumps all others. It’s not hardware. It’s not software. It’s not even the latest development in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

It’s people. And if public sector organizations want to deliver data-rich government services, they need to

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Vodafone: Helping local government make the most of the digital future

By Claire Harris – Head of regional business Vodafone UK

When is your next bus due? How full are your local litter bins? How clean is the air where you live? How many parking spaces are available in this part of town right now? If a council can measure something, it can improve it with

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Public sector ICT switches to greater energy efficiency

Sascha Giese

Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™

The recent spike in energy prices has once again drawn attention to the costs associated with powering IT infrastructure, and high-density technologies such as data centres aren’t the only things under the spotlight.

The energy consumption of technology across departments and agencies within the government—including PCs,

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How new technology is resolving the costly data quality issues afflicting the public sector

Barley Laing

By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa

Evolving technology is driving efficiencies in processes and reducing costs across most sectors. The significant impact of this trend is quite apparent in the public sector, where budgets have fallen dramatically, or are being scrutinised. Whatever the reason – continued government borrowing,

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Legacy systems and security will continue to dominate the agenda for public sector IT professionals

Sascha Giese

By Sascha Giese, SolarWinds Head Geek™

When protecting computer systems and networks, the “biggest cyber risk is complacency, not hackers.” That’s according to John Edwards, the UK’s Information Commissioner who warned that companies are leaving themselves open to cyberattacks by ignoring crucial measures such as updating software and training staff.

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Crisis moves apps & data to the cloud to streamline the operation of its annual Christmas campaign to support the homeless

IGEL, provider of the managed endpoint operating system for secure access to any digital workspace, recently announced that it is a major technology partner supporting the annual Crisis for Christmas campaign to help the homeless – the 12th year it has helped the charity.

Since 1967, Crisis has supported the most disadvantaged in society at

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Managing digital expectations as pressure mounts for public sector transformation

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

With citizens looking for convenience wherever they can—from responsive mobile apps to joined-up services—public sector organisations are under increasing pressure to develop and deliver the IT solutions needed to facilitate such services.

It was something laid out in June when the U.K. Government published its 2022 – 2025

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Removing departmental siloes is vital for Governments under fire from state-sponsored salvos

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

When it comes to IT, much is made of the differences between public and private sector projects. People are quick to point out the world’s most successful go-getting companies use technology to gain a competitive advantage, while the public sector is motivated by the delivery of services to

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The importance of trust in delivering public services

Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

By Sascha Giese, Head Geek™ at SolarWinds

Trust underpins the foundations of modern and legitimate democracies. From civil safety and national security to upholding the rule of law, trust is vital if we’re to function as a society.

Get it right, and public trust can

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