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SCC Chief Executive James Rigby has been shortlisted for a prestigious accolade at the Midlands Leadership Awards. The awards, created by TheBusinessDesk.com, aims to celebrate the people and organisations across the region who are role models for their teams and raise the bar for their competitors. The shortlist showcases the best qualities of modern leadership...

The Rigby Group, parent company of SCC, is on course to create a £1bn market value diversified business with EBITDA of £100million   07:00am, September 19th, 2018 Rigby Group (RG) plc, the parent company for a portfolio of family-owned and highly successful businesses operating across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, has published its final results...

A new NHS approved £1.5m ‘Tele-Pharmacy’ has opened in Liverpool aimed at assisting people living with chronic care conditions to manage their medicinal needs through an artificial intelligent (AI) mobile app. ‘Now Patient’, developed by Now Healthcare Group, aims to support up to 15 million people living with long-term health conditions such as cancer, diabetes...

A new study by Unisys Corporation, 56% of digital workers at “technology laggard” organisations expressed frustration with their employer, as compared to only 9% of workers at “technology leader” organisations. The study, which explores the importance of deploying current and future digital capabilities in the workplace, also found that workers at technology laggards (14%) were...

An expert has warned that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may cause businesses to pay ransom demands from criminals as they could be a cheaper option when compared with GDPR fines. George Kurtz, chief executive of ­cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, said that “the price of admission of ransomware just went up” after the introduction of...

SCC is set to discuss digitisation in Health on Sky digital channel 185. The programme, ‘Digitalisation of Healthcare’, will feature SCC’s Branch Manager for Healthcare and Local Government, James Wallis, who will talk around some of the services SCC offers and how they can in turn impact this discussion. The half-hour programme is set to...

Data published by G-Cloud’s governing body, Crown Commercial Service (CCS), shows SCC as having achieved the highest revenue through the framework in 2018 so far. According to Computer Reseller News (CRN) who analysed the data, SCC achieved revenue of £1.8m, ranking it number 1 for the first quarter of 2018. In terms of the channel,...

New research from multi-cloud data management firm Vertias Technologies has suggested a lack of trust in businesses’ ability to protect data, and that consumers will penalise those who fail. The statistics are taken from Veritas’ Global Data Privacy Consumer Study, which reveals insights from 12,500 consumers across 14 countries, including 1,000 consumers from the UK....

SCC has been recognised as a finalist for two esteemed IT award ceremonies. The awards, the National Technology Awards and Real IT Awards, will happen on Thursday 17th May, and SCC is an honoured finalist at each. At the National Technology Awards, SCC is up for Cloud Product of the Year due to its work...

Data migration should be well planned and well executed. If not, it could seriously hinder your organisation. We have all witnessed the catastrophic effects of what can go wrong when migrating from legacy systems. The banking industry is a particular example; thanks to the large volumes of data they house, a general lack of data...