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Successful business transformation requires projects to be delivered on time, on budget, with agreed objectives being achieved. Given the complexities involved in managing multiple projects, Bridgeall are delighted to announce the official launch of our new Project Management Office (PMO) solution. Based on our own extensive experience of delivering ‘exceptional software assu ...

Following our participation last year, another four hearty souls from Bridgeall will brave the cold by sleeping outside to raise funds for the Action for Children charity. Byte Night is Action for Children’s biggest annual fundraiser. A national ‘sleep-out’ event, hundreds of people from the technology industry will give up their beds for one night to help change the lives of ...

As stated in previous blog posts, migrating to the Cloud does not automatically translate into digital transformation. A wide range of other complex issues are involved. Digital transformation, however, cannot take place unless supported by the Cloud. The flexibility provided by a Cloud-enabled infrastructure is essential for the digital transformation of your organisation. Us ...

The main purpose of the Bridgeall blog is to disseminate informative and thought provoking articles covering a broad range of topics relevant to the world of software development, IT, digital disruption and transformation. Over the last year or so, we have covered topics such as the Cloud; Accelerating Digital; Business Intelligence and Data Analytics; GDPR; IR35; various Micr ...

A previous blog post, from March of this year, warned of an emerging digital skills crisis in the UK public sector. According to a National Audit Office report, the UK government will need to spend £725 million over the next five years on training new digital staff. Two thousand new hires with digital expertise will be required to keep pace with the increase in demand. We also ...

It is now widely accepted that the UK is facing a digital skills crisis. As argued in previous blog posts, the digital skills gap is a major barrier preventing the UK’s public sector from leveraging the full potential of digital transformation. In the private sector, many businesses are stuck in a cycle of poor productivity due to a shortage of digital skills. In order to bet ...

As recently reported, GDS (Government Digital Service) is taking part in an OECD initiative to reform Government technology procurement, making it more “open, flexible, transparent and agile”. Working with peers in other countries, a playbook is being developed aimed at “reshaping government technology procurement to create a vibrant, diverse economy of digital and technology ...

In a previous blog post, workplace collaboration was identified as one of the key pillars of successful digital transformation. In a fast moving business environment characterised by turbulent digital change and digital disruption, leveraging the full potential of emerging technologies for supporting collaboration and knowledge sharing, internally and externally with business ...

Towards the end of last year, we published a series of blog posts on digital disruption in the oil and gas industry, including the North Sea. The articles argued that the digital revolution was only just beginning in oil and gas. Over the next few years, however, the Internet of Things, big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning and human-machine interaction will revo ...

Based on research by Gartner, a previous blog post highlighted the significant changes taking place in the Business Intelligence and Analytics Platform market. As a consequence of the growing need for organisations to derive actionable insight from data, often in real time, the market has moved from IT-led enterprise reporting to business-led, self-service analytics. With the ...