Five ways to become a data-driven organisation
Becoming data-driven has been a widely advertised objective for many organisations these last few years. While investment in the aim has increased, progress has been slow. According to a 2019 report, 92% of firms are increasing the pace of their Big Data and AI investments, but only 31% identify as data-driven. Three years ago it […]
Core banking and Digital: Two Sides of the Same Coin
When you consider a bank’s core banking and digital departments, the two evoke very different thoughts. Core banking can often be seen as the dinosaurs of banking technology, specialising in legacy mainframe systems with complex batch based architecture and slow change processes. Digital are seen as the cool kids on the block: specialising in agile, […]
How We Landed on the Cloud: A Quick History of Data Storage
The other day a friend wanted to take some files from my laptop and asked if I could bring her a USB. A few years ago, I had plenty of USBs lying around ready for this exact use. As I searched frantically through all my cupboards, draws and boxes, I realised that USBs had come […]
Head in the clouds
Is cloud computing not a bit old hat now, with banks benefitting from widescale adoption across their business lines? And given the dramatic quarterly jump in earnings for both AWS and Microsoft Azure in Q4 2018 (45% and 76% respectively), shouldn’t we expect that banks across the UK and globally have contributed substantially to this […]