Insurers Take a New Approach to the Legacy Challenge
Very few organizations struggle with the burden of legacy technology debt to the extent of major insurance carriers.
How AI and Platform Sharing will Transform Logistics
Logistics companies are facing a second wave of major disruption – and this time, artificial intelligence and industry-wide platforms will be at the heart of it.
A Fresh Approach to Reducing Lights-on IT Costs
The pace of digital transformation is accelerating, as businesses look to fully harness the potential of technology to enable deep and lasting changes in their organisations.
Red Hat Summit 2020
This week PAC attended Red Hat’s annual summit 2020. As an online-only event running during the current crisis, the organizers were sensitive to the pressures on the ecosystem, but still highlighted several interesting new capabilities that make IT easier and more consistent across bare metal, public cloud, private cloud and edge.
Helping homeworkers adapt to the new normal
The switch to mass homeworking has for many organisations been swift, dramatic and not entirely painless.
Google Cloud reaction to the COVID-19 Crisis
teknowlogy Group recently had a briefing with Chris Ciauri, President EMEA at Google Cloud. In this blog we discuss how the company is helping organisations of all types adapt to the challenges of remote working, which is enabling Google to build and reinforce trusted relationships as a foundation for future growth.
Vertical View: UK Transport Sector & SITS investment
The UK transport sector finds itself in the eye of the storm, as the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic shuts down airports, slashes rail passenger traffic, and makes cross-border journeys hugely challenging.
FireStart aims to ignite process automation
Many companies were already planning on ramping up their robotic process automation (RPA) activities in 2020.
And once the peak of the pandemic crisis eventually passes, there will inevitably a renewed focus on process automation in order to improve the agility of a business model that has been tested to its limits, while supporting the ...
The C&SI vendor landscape for digital factory use cases in Germany: a heterogeneous picture ranging from generalists to specialists
teknowlogy | PAC's Digital Factory - C&SI Vendor Landscape in Germany 2020 illustrates that relevant C&SI players range from global to local C&SI players. Three of them are capable of addressing all 36 of our predefined use cases.
Digital Factory – C&SI Vendor Landscape in Germany 2020: key enablers, maturity, and adoption
When it comes to implementing such digital factory use cases, very often we see manufacturers facing the challenge of lacking own in-house capabilities and know-how – in particular related to the usage of new digital technologies – to drive development and implementation on their own. That was the trigger for us to start building a vendor ...
Vertical View: UK Retail Sector & SITS Investment
The coronavirus crisis has had a devastating impact on the UK High Street, with most stores outside of food retail and pharmacies currently shuttered. Against this background, teknowlogy Group considers how the UK retail sector will respond, and what this means for Software and IT Services sales to this segment.
Mixed fortunes for Dutch SITS vendors as Covid-19 bites
COVID-19 is severely disrupting business in regions across the world, and the Netherlands is no exception.
EIS aims to accelerate European insurers
Europe’s insurers have long struggled to overcome their legacy software debt.
After a decade of market consolidation, the region’s carriers have accumulated a tangle of platforms on which they continue to run billions of euros worth of business.
COVID-19 and the push to hybrid cloud
In the last few weeks, all of our lives have been changed by the coronavirus pandemic. This blog considers the impact on the world of work, focusing on how the pandemic is driving increased adoption of hybrid cloud services.
SAP Outlook Errs on Side of Optimistic
Applications giant SAP, one of the sector’s most important bellwethers, has provided an outlook that is closely in line with PAC/teknowlogy’s “optimistic” forecast for the software market.
Covid-19 and the Impact on Project Delivery
One of the most startling aspects of our industry’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has been the pace at which delivery teams have been able to switch to remote working, while ensuring that critical systems and projects keep running.
The Impact of COVID-19 on UK’s Business Applications and Software Market
IT providers show compassion to struggling businesses and organizations facing enormous pressure on revenue and cash flows in a time where COVID-19 sends shockwaves through the software and IT services market.
The Impact of COVID-19 on the Netherlands SITS Market
The Netherlands remains one of few major countries in Europe to have not yet entered an enforced widespread lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The Impact of Covid-19 on UK SITS Market: Conclusions & Updated Outlook
The crisis affects different sectors in different ways.
The Impact of Covid-19 on UK SITS Market: A Vertical View
In some industries such as utilities or telecommunications, the short-term effects of the coronavirus crisis on IT spending will be manageable. Other industries, such as leisure and hospitality have no choice but to massively cut and/or re-prioritize any IT spending planned for the coming months and years.