Denis
Recent Posts
Why data visibility and “One Source of the Truth” underpins everything
02 Mar 2022 by Denis 10 minute read
Digital Leaders Week has Launched
25 Mar 2021 by Denis 1 minute read
We are delighted to be Digital Leaders Partner for Northern Ireland this year. We very much support the Digital Leaders mission of building leaders to drive digital transformation across the public sector. This is particularly important in a post pandemic world.
Agile and DevOps Needs a Stakeholder Reporting Layer
16 Apr 2020 by Denis 4 minute read
Introduction
In the late 1990’s, several new methodologies began to gain acceptance in the software development community. These methodologies emphasised close collaboration between the development teams and business stakeholders; frequent delivery of business value, tight, self-organising teams; and smart ways to write, test, and deliver code.
How to Solve the Legal, Privacy and Security issues when you choose Cloud Services
02 Jul 2014 by Denis 6 minute read
Legal, Privacy and Security issues with choosing cloud services
Over the course of the next five years, Gartner believe enterprises will spend $112 billion cumulatively software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) [Gartner11]. Among the reasons given was a desire to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for products and services. A survey conducted by Gartner in 2H10 in EMEA with 90 respondents, established the primary reasons SaaS was being considered. The most common reason selected (with 48 out of 90 respondents) was: "…considered to be more cost-effective from a TCO standpoint than on-premises solutions."
How to Measure your Environmental Key Performance Indicators - Green KPI's
13 May 2013 by Denis 5 minute read
The implications of global warming and the sustainability of industries that consume significant energy and other resources have become more of a central concern in industrialised countries with global governments pledging to bring global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. In order to reach net zero industries and companies will need to see where their most significant environmental impacts are, measure and report on them to communicate to stakeholders and ultimately work towards driving improvements. One way to do this is to define company wide environmental KPIs and manage environmental impact based on these.