Paymentsense proves agility during Coronavirus thanks to Google Cloud migration
Fast growing fintech, Paymentsense, moved from a monolithic application in a data centre to microservices built on Google Cloud Platform.
Archive: Use cases
Hachette CIO writes a new leadership story
Chris Howell tells the story of how publishing leaders Hachette UK is reappraising people management, technology and data
Graph proves an ideal way to answer the ‘Who Owns Me?’ anti-money laundering question
A business data giant says a property graph approach is proving its best bet in untangling the relationships businesses don’t always want exposed
Operation Fistula aims to highlight gender inequality with #Viz5
The London-based non-profit is teaming up with data visualization community Makeover Monday to shine a light on the hidden inequities that girls and women face
RWE AG rebuilds its tech function from the ground up after asset swap with E.ON
We speak to the Head of Infrastructure at RWE AG, who explains that the project is costing in the region of ‘three figure millions’ and has huge complexity.
The challenge of upgrading finance systems - Direct Line, Skanska UK and Investec share insights
The firms share their lessons learned from upgrading their Oracle financial systems - with change management being key.
Greenpeace turns to open source to finish its web transformation
New collaboration with Red Hat seen as key to delivering on the original idea of its new online identity- a global ‘engagement platform,’ Planet 4
MESTEC goes multi-cloud with Oracle and MSFT to become a SaaS provider in its own right
MESTEC provides execution systems for manufacturing companies that need to be more productive. But when it became a SaaS provider, it needed to turn to multi-cloud.
Learning from Milk Bar about Spectacles, a new community tool for Looker integration and DevOps buffs
Why should we geek out over DevOps? How about serving business users better? How about automated data testing? That was the goal when two engineers launched Spectacles, an open source Looker tool.
ZohoDay 2020 first take - how ONE Business Solutions humanizes and delivers their answering services with Zoho One
Analyst days are rich with information, but they are usually woefully scarce on customer interaction. At ZohoDay, Zoho turned that stereotype on its head. Here's what the diginomica team learned from one of the many customers present.
Acumatica Summit 2020 first take - Hartzell Construction on how modern construction ERP changed their business
My first review of Acumatica's annual user and partner Summit finds a cloud ERP company in confident growth mode - but not without its challenges. Here's my burning questions for the show - along with a fresh use case that shows how modern ERP impacts industry verticals.
Plastic pollution - away from the Trump v Thunberg war of words, can tech provide practical solutions?
Plastic pollution remains a huge part of the global environmental crisis. There are some positive tech initiatives that aim to tackle the problem.
NRF 2020 - how Neighborhood Goods is shaking up department store conventions, live from Manhattan
Store tours put the happy retail talk from the show floor to the real world test. At Salesforce's Neighborhood Goods reception, I got a firsthand look at a new kind of department store, and learned why digital brands - and customers - find it appealing.
