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How working with a Microsoft Partner can help take your business to the next level
Microsoft partners typically offer a range of technical expertise across Microsoft's products and services to help their customers understand, deploy and get the most from the technologies and their digital ecosystems. There are around 64,000 partners, vendors and service providers that build or sell solutions based on Microsoft products across…
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How Microsoft Catalyst can support your organisation’s transformation.
Since Microsoft began rolling out its Catalyst programme to inner circle partners in 2019 I have witnessed, first hand, the difference that it makes in the work that we do with our customers and the fundamental shift in the conversations that we are having. Microsoft Catalyst is a framework (The…
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Is the technology sector failing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion?
In early July I had the pleasure of speaking at Civil Service Live in London’s ExCeL. My topic – whether the technology sector was failing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (ED&I). As part of the session, I hosted a panel with 3 fantastic speakers, Miranda Pottinger, Funmi Surl and Aaron Prior…
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Where is the construction industry heading on its digital journey?
Our author Sabrina Hilmer explores what’s moving the industry. The construction industry has now reached the point of intensively dealing with the megatrend of "digitalisation" and the subtrend of "platformisation" and quickly taking advantage of their opportunities. What is missing, however, is a common approach that takes into account the…
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Can we improve margins in the construction sector?
Construction is renowned for competitive pricing and tight margins, which the industry has been trying to improve for years. Faced with unique circumstances and complications other industries do not have, tackling these issues is not as easy as it seems on your own. In this 3-part series, we’ll be exploring…
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Practical insights from the CDAO conference: How Gridserve succeeded in their data and analytics transformation
At CDAO, the leading trade fair for data analytics decision makers, Gridserve's CITO was on stage with Hitachi Solutions. The UK company develops and distributes sustainable, technology-enabled energy solutions. The customer and implementation partner reported on how a cloud-first approach to data analytics can be successfully implemented.
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Solving your organisation’s HR needs by using Microsoft Dynamics 365 Human Resources
Keeping top talent in your organisation is more important than ever these days and having the right tools will help you to achieve positive employee experience, effective management of HR processes and empower you with robust reporting capabilities resulting from storing and working with all the HR data in one…
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Latest survey results reveal customers are very satisfied with Hitachi Solutions Lifetime Services
Each year we ask our customers to complete a customer satisfaction (CSAT) survey. We are delighted to announce that our overall satisfaction score increased from a healthy 79% in 2020 to 84% in 2021. Read more about what our customers have said in this blog.
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Building an enterprise data capability to support our communities
On Wednesday 13th October, Freddie Saunders had the opportunity to attend UK Authority's Innovation and Data4Good alongside Dionne Lowndes, Chief Digital and Technology Officer, at Southwark Council. In this blog, Freddie takes at what was discussed and how Public Sector organisations now have an opportunity to transform public services by…
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How Catalyst can support your organisation’s transformation
Microsoft Catalyst is a framework (The IDEA framework) of activities designed to support organisations that are about to embark upon some form of transformation. Carl Gallagher discusses more in his latest blog.
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The future of shared services: Building towards user centred corporate services
As part of Civil Service Live Hitachi Solutions hosted a roundtable chaired by its authors and sponsors Matthew Coats and Nathan Moores. Ed Pikett discusses a bit more about the UK Government published its new Shared Services Strategy and the roundtable within this blog.
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Azure Synapse Analytics – Serverless SQL Pool
Following on from our Director of Data Science & Analytics blog on how Azure Synapse Analytics went GA, Sandeep Sohal takes a closer look at one of the new capabilities Synapse SQL.