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What 2020 had shown us is, balance is everything. It’s shifted perspectives and forced new ways of living, working and connecting. In business, the difference between digital leaders and laggards has become even more marked. While industry survivors are just about managing to balance the books, those thriving in their respective categories are already seeking...

A modern cloud-ready database platform and services for all your databases and workloads, delivering invisible operations, one-click simplicity and automated database lifecycle management.     The Challenge   Data is one of the most valuable resources in the world. Reliable data can be the key to the development of a new application, helping transform customer...

The digital revolution is here – but the journey to transformation isn’t always straight forward, particularly in the UK public sector. With many priorities to consider, organisations must look to digital transformation to reduce cost, increase multi-authority collaboration, improve public services, tighten security, consolidate silos and systems, automate processes, and deliver real business value. This...

Just like the world of work, education has changed dramatically since the introduction of social distancing. Teachers and students have had to adapt to the new reality of distance learning and find new ways to connect, communicate and motivate. The classroom has become virtual and new tools and resources are being utilised to ensure learning...

Now more than ever, the ability for people to work from home with the best-in-class user experience is critical. With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, remote working is already creating entire new organisational structures and even new business models. Technology enables this new of working. Working closely with vendor partners like iiyama, SCC ensures...

We live in unprecedented times. Our personal and professional lives are under enormous strain from a pandemic nobody predicted. And if that was difficult to predict, it’s even harder to know what lies ahead, with so much of the workforce now working from home and social distancing measures likely to remain for the foreseeable future....

With organisations around the globe forced into enabling widespread remote working at short notice due to the Covid-19 pandemic, SCC is working in partnership with Cisco to ensure its customers minimise disruption by enabling worldwide remote communication and collaboration tools. In both the public and private sectors, across all industry verticals, organisations faced the challenge...

A recent research project into workplace productivity by SCC found that providing mobile technology options is now essential for all organisations to thrive – to attract new workers, give the current workforce the flexibility they need and keep them happy. Mobility has been one of the key themes within IT over the last decade. And...

Age-old business processes are holding us back and preventing us from being more imaginative, innovative and creative. But by making good use of collaboration technologies, we can change that and adopt more inspirational, open, free-thinking and entrepreneurial working environments. We have all witnessed the phenomenal growth of businesses like Amazon, Google, AirbnB and Uber. These...

Customers are starting to warm to the idea of taking audiovisual solutions on a subscription basis, along with the required consultancy, installation, software, service and support. ‘As a service’ models are everywhere in IT now. It’s much easier for everyone to manage software applications and keep them up to date when they are in the...

We have become almost totally dependent on email, even though it is inefficient and time-consuming – we need to adopt better ways of communicating and working together. Email seems to rule our working lives. It has become the primary form of communication between customers, suppliers, partners and colleagues. We all spend hours struggling against the...

Users who want to will find a way to collaborate and work together, even by using social media, so it’s much better to provide them with a consistent, stable and secure solution that will meet their needs – and ensure data stays inside the organisation. Shadow IT has become a real problem for many organisations....