Cloud Computing, by Nikit Kothari, executive director The use of cloud computing has been gaining some serious momentum in Financial Services in recent years. With an increased focus on cost efficiency, continuing to deliver against a very aggressive technical roadmap has become the norm in our current financial environment. Revenues are now growing based on […]
Testing Centre of Excellence (TCoE), by Iya Datikashvili, director No two things are ever the same. Whether it’s a piece of software, members of a testing team, or varying managerial styles, everyone and everything is always slightly different, and it is these differences that can cause problems. In the testing world, one of the biggest […]
If it’s an all-inclusive service you’re after – think cocktails on tap, food on demand and the reassurance that someone else is in charge, then it’s a managed service offering that you need. Managed service offering – outsourcing on a proactive basis Unlike traditional off-and near-shoring where individual parts of a business are transferred overseas […]
Fidor is a bank without a branch. It does however have a license. Launched in Germany in 2009, Fidor has integrated social media into the heart of its operations (it changes its interest rate on savings based on the number of Likes on its Facebook page) and is implementing the concept of ‘banking as-a-service’ by […]
For many years data monetisation has been seen as a way for data organisations (traditionally seen as cost centres) to reduce, or at least justify, their expense. By assembling data and then selling it either externally to third-party vendors, or internally within their own company, a data organisation could recoup some of its costs. This is, […]
GDPR US impact Much has been written in Europe about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a new set of legislation due to come into effect on May 25, 2018, and billed as having the greatest impact on data collection, storage and usage of any regulation in the last 20 years. Fundamentally, from this date, […]
Increasing numbers of business and IT teams are choosing to adopt DevOps and actively implement the process into their day-to-day operations. Brickendon’s DevOps experts talk to DevOps Online about the numerous opportunities that can be reaped from implementing the methodology and seek to put an end to some of the myths surrounding it. Read the […]
The term data science may not yet have made it into the official Oxford or Webster’s dictionaries, but it won’t be long. Also known as data-driven science, it is an interdisciplinary field about scientific methods, processes and systems used to extract knowledge or insights from data in various forms. Used correctly, it has the potential […]
Reimagining the banking sector – staying ahead of the buzzwords Business, and particularly banking, is all about buzzwords. Whether it’s DevOps, Big Data, robotics or Blockchain, most people have been talking and reading about them for a while now – and in the background, a few teams have actually been practicing them. Here at Brickendon, […]
DevOps, the combination of development and operations, has been proven to improve the performance of the software development lifecycle. Despite this, and the fact that is has been an emerging practice across organisations for a while now, there are many reservations surrounding its implementation. A process which can easily be plugged into the overall structure […]