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Payments resilience playbook: building future-ready systems

Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]

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Payments resilience playbook: building future-ready systems

Resilience used to mean a disaster recovery document in a drawer and a secondary data centre on standby. But new payment methods, rising fraud, tougher regulation, and global expansion plans mean that resilience now depends on payment systems that can flex, reroute, and recover without sacrificing performance or compliance. Done well, resilience becomes a growth […]

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Retiring programmers create cloud headaches for mainframe users

There are few advantages to growing old, but if you were lucky enough to train, back in the hidden midst of times past, in programming languages COBOL or PL/I, you may have landed in later life into a well-paid role maintaining legacy mainframe systems. A large part of the market for mainframes collapsed in the […]

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Amazon to end local voice processing on Echo devices—but do people care?

Amazon Echo devices will stop supporting local processing of voice requests starting March 28, 2025. In a few days, all requests made to Alexa will be processed through Amazon’s cloud rather than locally on the device. Amazon has notified Echo users about the change via email. “We are reaching out to let you know that […]

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International Women’s Day: Women in technology in 2025 on breaking the bias

A recent PwC study found that a career in the tech industry was a first choice for just 3% of female students, and women only make up for 22% of AI professionals. With the latest wave of companies scaling back on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, women in tech find themselves at a crossroads. […]

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Ciphr releases real-time payroll software for the private sector

An HR, payroll, and benefits software provider, Ciphr, has announced the release of real-time payroll software aimed at helping private sector services streamline payroll processing. Ciphr’s latest iteration of its software is an updated version of Shape Payroll, which was purchased by Ciphr in June 2024. The upgraded platform is designed with a range of […]

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Wipro extends relationship with the John Lewis Partnership to complete cloud transformation  

Wipro, a technology services and consulting company, has been selected by the John Lewis Partnership (JLP) to transform and modernise the firm’s IT infrastructure. The transformation project will help the UK retailer advance its industry leadership and future-proof its business to drive ongoing, sustainable growth.     As part of this engagement, Wipro FullStride Cloud will extend… Read more »

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Getting digital transformation right: Lessons learned – from decisions to data

“Digital transformation becomes very ineffective if you don’t have any focus,” explains Kamala Manju Kesavan. “What are you trying to do? Are you clearing your tech stack? Are you trying to solve a customer problem? Clear strategy and goals are very important.” Of course, there might be the ideal use case where you can both… Read more »

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Co-op to transition from data centres to cloud with TCS

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has expanded its partnership with The Co-operative Group Limited (Co-op), one of the world’s largest consumer co-operatives with interests across food, funerals, insurance and legal services, to adopt a cloud first strategy that will support the group’s business growth.   TCS has been the strategic partner to Co-op for the past 14… Read more »

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Genesys acquires Radarr Technologies to unify customer experience

Genesys, a global cloud specialist in AI-powered experience orchestration, has entered into an agreement to acquire Radarr Technologies, an AI-based social and digital listening, analytics, and consumer engagement company.  By combining the comprehensive public social media capabilities within the Radarr Technologies solution with the all-in-one Genesys Cloud platform, Genesys will empower organisations to unify the… Read more »

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