Information Technology

Study Shows Significant Opportunity for Companies to Manage IT Spend and Re-Invest Savings in Digital Transformation

Maidenhead, UK – October 15, 2019 – Flexera, the company that helps organisations realise technology’s power to accelerate their business, announces the findings of the Flexera 2020 State of Tech Spend Report. The first annual Flexera 2020 State of Tech Spend Report provides insight into current and future technology spend from the perspective of enterprise CIOs and IT executives. The report highlights how companies are shifting spending to support their critical IT initiatives, how they’re tracking and managing IT spend, and the challenges they face in optimising spend.

15th October 2019, Bristol, UK Bristol-based software company, Iken, have announced the arrival of a new cloud-hosted product, alongside significant upgrades to their existing on-premise desktop offering. The launch of Iken Cloud and the development of Iken Desktop is testament to the company’s desire to cater for all customers, regardless of their IT strategy.

Iken’s user-led approach – finetuned over 25 years in the specialist software space – led to the decision, which allows customers to select technology that best fits their business needs; both now and in the future.

·         FT and RSG Consulting shortlist ThoughtRiver in two categories.

·         Shortlisting comes after tremendous momentum for the company, with key new hires and integrations with Tableau and Microsoft Office

·         Awards on 22nd of October in San Francisco.

London, UK. October 10, 2019: ThoughtRiver, the market leader in intelligent legal pre-screening, has been shortlisted for two awards in the 2019 FT/RSG Intelligent Business Forum and Awards.

Firebox T35-R provides high-performance, enterprise-grade security beyond traditional office settings and to industrial internet of things (IIoT).

8 October 2019 – WatchGuard® Technologies has announced the release of its new Firebox T35-R industrially hardened, network security appliance. The T35-R allows midmarket businesses, distributed enterprises and the managed service providers to extend WatchGuard’s security services and performance beyond traditional office and data centre settings to protect against malware, intrusions and other threats in the harshest environments.

Retailers of all sizes can influence purchasing decisions and increase basket value by printing professional quality visual communications in-store, from hanging banners to floor stickers and beyond

Egham, 3rd October 2019 - OKI Europe is offering retail customers the chance to boost sales and enhance customer experience in-store with the C800 Series of A3 colour printers. These award-winning printers will help businesses of all sizes from large high street retailers to smaller stores and independently run retail spaces to produce eye-catching visual communications quickly and easily in-store, in a variety of sizes and formats, to influence purchasing decisions and increase sales.

OutSystems solves one of the biggest problems facing developers today – quickly delivering brilliant, omnichannel experiences that users love

LONDON, 3rd October – OutSystems, provider of the number one low-code application development platform, today announced new digital customer experience (CX) capabilities that enable any organisation to quickly and easily deliver high-quality, omnichannel experiences that compete with the CX leaders and drive high user adoption.

84% of surveyed UK businesses report breaches, primarily caused by phishing attacks

READING, UK. 1st October 2019 - Carbon Black, (NASDAQ: CBLK), a leader in cloud-native endpoint protection, today released the results of its third UK Threat Report, based on a survey of 250 CIOs, CTOs and CISOs across the UK. The results show that the threat environment is sustained and sophisticated with phishing attacks serving as the primary cause of data breaches.

Key UK research findings from the responses of the surveyed UK businesses: