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DCMS Coronavirus Impact Business Survey

By updatesPosted on 21st August 202021st August 2020Posted in Industry News, COVID19

The purpose of this survey is to understand the impact of the Coronavirus outbreak on organisations in the digital, culture, media, sport, gambling, telecoms and tourism sectors and their engagement with the available government interventions. This survey has been commissioned

Data Adequacy and Brexit Roundtable

By updatesPosted on 21st August 202021st August 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Brexit, ScotlandIS News

Yesterday, ScotlandIS Head of Data, Katy Guthrie, hosted a roundtable to focus on the impact of the end of the Brexit transition agreement on international data flows. We heard from Martin Sloan, Data & Tech Partner at Brodies LLP, on

SD-WAN Insider episode 3: Combating branch sprawl

By updatesPosted on 21st August 20206th August 2020Posted in Member News

Branch sprawl can hoover up a lot of extra cost, space and resource. Learn how SD-WAN can help you avoid that. If you connect multiple sites or locations through a secure network infrastructure, you’ve probably already felt the effects of

Abertay Ethical Hacking Course Achieves Full NCSC Certification

By updatesPosted on 18th August 202018th August 2020Posted in Member News, ScotlandISCyber

The university was the first in the world to offer courses in both computer games and ethical hacking. Abertay University’s postgraduate course in ethical hacking has been awarded full certification by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). The MSc Ethical Hacking and Cybersecurity

Understanding the UK Artificial Intelligence (AI) Labour Market

By updatesPosted on 18th August 202018th August 2020Posted in ScotlandISData, Industry News

The government is carrying out research to understand and measure the UK AI labour market. This will help inform future policy and strategy. The government is undertaking a survey of UK businesses and charities to help understand the UK AI

4 Reasons Why SMEs Should Target Public Sector Opportunities in Scotland

By updatesPosted on 18th August 202018th August 2020Posted in Member News

The Scottish Government state that ‘almost 80% of public sector contract awards now go to SMEs’. Yet, when speaking with SMEs, I have found that public sector opportunities are often dismissed. They appear to either be overlooked or are an

Nottingham Building Society

By updatesPosted on 14th August 20206th August 2020Posted in Member News

What if a smart connection could get people into their dream home sooner? When you’re looking for a home, there’s nothing worse than seeing your perfect property slip between your fingers. Staff at Nottingham Building Society were relying on traditional

Business Working Practises, Travel and COVID-19 Survey

By updatesPosted on 14th August 202014th August 2020Posted in Member News, Policy, COVID19

This survey will provide Transport Scotland with a snapshot of employers’ experience of working from home / flexible working, business travel and commuting before the COVID-19 pandemic, during the lockdown (March-June), and in the longer term as we recover from

Lanarkshire startup’s smart building technology to feature in apartment blocks across UK

By updatesPosted on 13th August 202013th August 2020Posted in Industry News

A Lanarkshire-based ‘internet of things’ (IOT) startup has won a contract to supply a prominent property firm with technology that it is reckoned will help make buildings across the UK more sustainable. Utopi has been appointed by build-to-rent specialist Moda

Tyneside commercial maintenance firm snaps up Glasgow business developing new tech

By updatesPosted on 13th August 202013th August 2020Posted in Industry News

A growing Tyneside maintenance company has snapped up a Scottish software firm which is develping new technology to aid commercial heating markets. Commercial Maintenance Services UK Ltd (CMS), based in Gateshead, has acquired Radisoft Ltd, a Glasgow company which is