Category: Tech Insights Date: 06/06/23

Microservices in Serverless Functions – an Experience Report

What are the inherent benefits and complexities associated with building large-scale software solutions using serverless runtime on AWS Lambdas? This experience report presents an innovative approach to balance the scalability and simplicity of serverless runtime, using microservices.

By: Digiterre

Category: Industry Insights/ Tech Insights Date: 07/10/22

Key themes from Energy Trading Week 2022

Price volatility, reporting challenges, data democratisation. We take a look back at Energy Trading Week 2022 and reflect on the conversations, presentations and panel discussions to tease out our key takeaways.

By: Gill Frood

What is BVSSH?
Category: Industry Insights/ Tech Insights Date: 30/09/22

What is BVSSH?

The Better Value Sooner Safer Happier (or SSH) movement is the brainchild of Jon Smart, (author of the bestselling book Sooner, Safer, Happier) and is the culmination of knowledge acquired over 30 years of leading an agile approach to change as a business technologist. BVSSH have successfully codified for the benefit of all in the industry, ...

By: Jon Smart

How to Manage Complex Technology Projects
Category: Tech Insights Date: 08/06/22

How to Manage Complex Technology Projects

Leading complex software and data engineering projects requires the expert application of planning, management and communication, especially in the new world of remote and distributed working. Find out new approaches to successfully manage complex, high-risk and time-constrained projects.

By: Rajesh Jethwa

Building small teams of high performing people is the answer to corporate waste
Category: People Blog/ Tech Insights Date: 22/03/22

Building small teams of high performing people is the answer to corporate waste

The mistake that most buyers of technology services make, is in thinking that if a small team of expensive techies can write a small amount of code, a larger team of cheaper techies – often in far-flung locations – can write similar code, in greater quantity, and for fewer $ per line. That is a fundamentally flawed idea. ...

By: Ian Murrin

Being data-driven means survival in a volatile world
Category: Industry Insights/ Tech Insights Date: 22/03/22

Being data-driven means survival in a volatile world

The ‘power crunch’ of 2022 has put the West’s continued reliance on fossil fuels under the microscope, making the race to find and commission alternative energy sources more urgent than ever before. But that’s only half the picture: without accessible real-time data and advanced analytics it’s hard to trade competitively, given the intrinsic ...

By: Mark Pickering

ESG moves from narrative to action with advanced technology
Category: Tech Insights Date: 20/04/21

ESG moves from narrative to action with advanced technology

ESG is under the spotlight in financial services. Asset managers and owners increasingly demand the integration of ESG factors into the investment process and governments and companies are benefiting from lower borrowing costs associated with sustainable businesses and assets.

By: Digiterre

Guest Blog: Data is at the heart of ESG's mission
Category: Industry Insights/ Tech Insights Date: 15/04/21

Brexit is not the greatest risk facing the city, it’s technology and data

Financial institutions in Europe are falling behind in the technological arms race. In twenty years of working with financial institutions of all kinds, we have noticed that the most successful firms recognised early on that technology and data would be game changers in the digital age and acted accordingly. Published by Finanical IT< Our CEO ...

By: Ian Murrin

Technology and Data Lower Barriers to ESG Adoption in Asset Managemen
Category: Industry Insights/ Tech Insights Date: 20/01/21

Technology and Data Lower Barriers to ESG Adoption in Asset Management

ESG has become a top priority in asset management, with the industry no longer considering why it should integrate ESG into investment processes but how it should do it. However, investment managers focussed on ESG adoption and implementation are running into a significant roadblock in their journey – data. The sobering reality is that ESG cannot ...

By: Digiterre