As I See It: Terry Murden Three months and counting, an economy brought almost to its knees. There were fears that by now, as the lockdown took hold, the hard-won gains in the technology sector would have been lost. A number of reports from, among others, the Turing organisers and anxious letters to MSPs , […]
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Jargon can disambiguate ideations in the new normal
Tech Talk: Bill Magee The perfect Covid-19 pandemic lockdown antidote. Swapping a dull breezy day in Edinburgh for a brighter yet equally brisk spell in Chicago. Then to be offered up the ultimate in tech conference guru sessions entitled “How to Eliminate Jargon.” This just had to be checked out.. It happened a wee while ago fitting […]
Absoft ahead of the curve with SAP Managed Service
Leading SAP consultancy, Absoft, has announced a step change in the way it monitors clients’ enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, with the launch of its next generation SAP Managed Service. The first SAP specialist in the UK to offer this level of business process monitoring, Absoft has focused upon automated monitoring, incident self-healing and self-service […]
Veteran energy warrior says his smart grid is ‘lost opportunity’
With unemployment set to soar in the UK following the Covid19 pandemic, alongside an eco-friendly economic recovery to fight climate change, a retired engineer is continuing to lament the fact that successive Governments since 2010 have not adopted his innovative Smart Grid solution. Hugh Smeaton’s system, which has been patented recently in the UK (Apparatus […]
Don’t overlook online security in the rush to go digital
Tech Talk: Bill Magee The Digital Dash, as I’ve labelled the Scottish Government’s call during Covid-19, urging everyone to “think radically” about embracing new technologies, is to be applauded, but still has me a bit worried. Anything that acts as a technological booster to Scotland’s place on the global stage is welcome. As long as […]