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By Barley Laing, the UK Managing Director at Melissa
The new government has new objectives and expectations, with an emphasis on positive change and efficiencies, which is important during a period when public expenditure is under pressure like never before.
Now is the time for the public sector to take the lead in driving
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By Lesley Moore, Director, Field Services, Workday
Implementing new HR and finance systems in the public sector can be daunting.
Lesley Moore
Traditionally, these systems have been riddled with challenges, including extensive customisation, long testing phases, poor reliability and difficulty applying software and a lack of updates. Not only did that mean public sector
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Whichever party forms the next government will find a health and social care system facing enormous challenges. Highland Marketing asked its associates and clients what role health tech and med tech can play in addressing them.
Highland Marketing asked some of its associates and clients what they hope the general election will mean for
Continue reading What do health tech leaders want from the general election campaign?
By Sophie Brown, Commercial Director of FlowlioAs a project-management training and software company, working within central and local government, social housing and with SMEs, we see organisations faced with similar challenges and having to deal with the same issues, again and again. These include a disjointed approach to delivering change and transformation projects, people
Continue reading Why project management training and software solutions are vital for local government
We now know that the shift to hybrid is a fixed part of the world of work today. It’s a fundamental shift in the working landscape. But, for IT professionals, some critical aspects of navigating the cloud shift exist.
Gerry Flanagan
With remote and hybrid working, there can be some significant challenges to overcome,
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By Nicola Williams – Sales Manager at Epson UK
It’s just over a year since the UK Government launched its Digital Strategy in June 2022, with ministers heralding the policy as a “vision for harnessing digital transformation and building a more inclusive, competitive and innovative digital economy”.
Beneath the bold statement, the government’s policy
Continue reading Building on the digital foundations of local and central government
NHS trusts need a lot of technology, but they face complex, structural challenges when it comes to procurement, and these tend to work against smaller companies and innovation. The Highland Marketing advisory board met recently to discuss the issues and the role of marketing.
NHS acute trusts need a lot of technology. Infrastructure –
Continue reading Some challenges in the NHS acute tech market: and how to navigate them
By Charles Damerell, Senior Director UKI at SolarWinds
In responding to the demand for better digital capabilities, defence organisations are among many across the public sector to have seen significant recent changes in their technology strategies and investment choices.
This has delivered a wide range of benefits, such as enabling the sector to cope with
Continue reading Understanding the Future of IT in Defence
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
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
InfoSaaS and UKCloud have signed a partnership agreement that will see InfoSaaS’s data security, risk management and compliance software solutions made available to UKCloud’s customers and partners, free of charge for the an initial six month period.
UKCloud’s customers and partners can now access InfoSaaS’s solutions supporting data security, risk management and general business compliance
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Justin Day, 6point6
The Government Digital Service gave its blessing to using the Internet instead of the Public Services Network in January 2017. But there’s danger in letting the solution define the requirements, says Justin Day of 6point6 Cloud Gateway.
In early 2017, the Government Digital Service (GDS) published a blog called “The
Continue reading The Internet is still OK… sometimes
Mark Hall
By Mark Hall, public sector director at Redcentric; and Peter Nailer, senior bid manager at Redcentric
From vehicle hire to laundry services to enterprise technology – there are now countless purchasing frameworks for almost anything the public sector needs to buy. Take the Digital Marketplace, specifically covering technology. The several
Continue reading Frameworks: a victim of their own success?
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