One of the things I think our sector suffers from is the belief that it is inherently different from all other sectors. But from my point of view, all sectors need to adopt technologies that allow and facilitate growth. In a commercial world, businesses are driven by profit and the need to deliver returns for…
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2017’s top IT security considerations
IT security isn’t news, it’s business critical. Protecting your IT system and the data within it is essential. For any organisation operating in today’s digital landscape, IT security is a very real concern. With stories of high-profile hacks, breaches and data leaks continually making headlines, it’s tempting to think that it’s just the major players…
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Appura’s view of the cloud
Elon Musk on a housing estate. That’s not a place you expect to find the billionaire owner of PayPal, Tesla and Space X, to name just a few of his pastimes. However, this is no ordinary housing estate. It’s a presentation set constructed for the purpose of launching his latest world-changing product called Tesla Solar…
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Data is a currency – Spend it wisely
Data is becoming a currency, but how do we derive value from it? We leave trails of data wherever we go these days. Each time we click on a website, or buy something, sign up to a newsletter or interact with an organisation, we produce data that, when aggregated and analysed, can reveal trends about…
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There’s an IoT for Hue Tado
The internet of things (IoT) is broadly seen as the next evolution of the internet, the integration of connected computing into people’s everyday environments. This presents enormous opportunities for computing to transform our lives in ways that can be hard to imagine. Global consumer technology providers are racing to commercialise IoT concepts and to establish…
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Nudging your way to channel shift
Eight housing providers have joined forces with Capita for a ground-breaking collaborative research project using ‘nudge’ theory to promote channel shift in their organisations. Following Capita’s recent behavioural insight project, ‘Nudging your way to reduced rent arrears’, a new programme has been launched using the same approach to achieve channel shift among tenants, encouraging them…
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