A useful guide to Cloud Best Practice
With so many guides on best practice, available, a natural response would be not ANOTHER one. In response to this I have sought to keep this guide brief, pragmatic and relevant to everyone in the business. Understand what you want to achieve as a business (but keep it fluid): Establish clear targets & metrics aligned
Read MoreConsolidating Microsoft Licensing on AWS
As a leading software provider, Microsoft has built a reputation of being a reliable vendor to business and personal users alike. For many, there is no recollection of a time before Microsoft applications that have become a staple part of our lives and long may that continue. Many companies have adopted a Microsoft offering as
Read MoreApplication Modernisation
“Let’s go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.” – Steve Jobs In an earlier article, I discussed modernisation and noted that the intention to modernise is to replace an older system/ model with an entirely new one and that there cannot be any middle ground. It was noted that the entire organisation
Read MoreWhat would Modernisation mean for you
“To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” Buckminster Fuller The term modernisation is trending in many different aspects of life. For some, the true meaning and implication of the word has not been understood resulting in poor outcomes that are unhelpful Modernisation is not about making what we have
Read MoreWho is knocking at the door? A case for Identify management and access control
Our personal identity is unique to each of us, it makes us who we are and the thought that someone can take that away from us is morally and ethically disturbing. Identity theft is not only a personal attack that robs us of who we are it is also a cause of personal financial loss.
Read MoreCloud Financial Management – Saving you time, money and effort
For many small and medium sized businesses, cloud financial planning and management remains an anathema. Some consider it a minefield and best avoided, while others may have fallen victim to overzealous organisational dreams of world domination with little thought to the financial management of this. If you consider accounting and financial management to be more
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