Ultima has appointed Tamsin Ashmore as its new CFO.
Before joining Ultima, Ashmore was Global Finance Director Film and TV VFX Segment at Technicolor.
She has also held senior finance positions at BT, Merlin Entertainments and Unilever.
Ultima CEO Scott Dodds said: “Tamsin brings with her strong experience in managing significant business transformation across different sectors, not just technology.”
More than 80 percent of IT decision-makers say working from home or a location different to their main place of work has increased in the past two years, according to SCC’s inaugural ‘IT Insights Report’ on Workplace Productivity.
The first in a new series of reports commissioned by SCC – which surveyed a panel of 550 IT decision-makers from 11 public and private sectors – shows remote working has dramatically increased, as has the number of devices people use for work.
More than 80 percent of IT decision-makers say most people within their organisation now work using multiple devices, including tablets and mobile phones, in addition to laptops and PCs, as advancements in technology make it more relevant to broader roles. 82 percent believe their colleagues want to be able to work on the move with the support of a mobile device.
Cybercriminals are viewing the channel as an attack point to spread ransomware, according to the BlackBerry Cylance 2020 threat report.
Managed security service providers (MSSPs) and managed service providers (MSPs) in particular are firmly in the sights of the cybercriminals.
The report said: “Advanced persistent threat groups and other adversaries released updated malware and displayed innovative attack techniques throughout 2019. Their focus on improving encryption routines and concealing malicious payloads through steganography raised the bar for security researchers and threat detection solutions.”
The Office for National Statistics has reported a noticeable uptake in retail sales in the month of January, providing much-needed reassurance for high street retailers that there is still considerable consumer demand for physical retail.
According to the ONS, the number of goods sold in Great Britain rose by 0.9 percent overall, but food retailers and department stores saw an impressive pickup, with purchases increasing by 1.7 percent and 1.6 percent respectively. The news no doubt represents some much-needed reassurance for high street retailers, who have been contending with steadily decreasing sales throughout 2019.
Some industry commentators have declared that the UK’s high street is destined to disappear in the coming years as online retail continues to gain ground, and shoppers turn to faster, more convenient options. However, these figures would seem to suggest that the high street and physical retail in general still has much to offer.
Fintech TransferGo has warned that while technology talent may come through the UK’s tough new anti-immigration laws will hurt business.
Daumantas Dvilinskas, CEO of TransferGo, said that whilst technically the new immigration rules might allow technology talent through, there are wider implications that the country needs to have a think about.
He said that the UK was asking the world’s best and brightest to prove their worth by arbitrary standards of the value set by the British Government, based on language skills, academic performance and income. In doing so, we are implicitly saying that people who don’t meet those criteria don’t have value to Britain.
IT software solutions provider, KFA Connect, has pledged to take its fundraising total for Marie Curie to £10,000 by the end of 2020.
This follows the launch of it’s free ‘Magic Tax’ bridging software solution, which was developed by the company in response to HMRC’s 2019 legislation for ‘Making Tax Digital for VAT’. The method gives companies and individuals access to a free platform to submit VAT returns in return for a charitable donation to Marie Curie.
Insight Enterprises said that Wolfgang Ebermann 
is quitting as President of the Company’s European, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) business, effective December 31, 2020.
Ebermann has been instrumental in driving the transformation of Insight in Europe and seen an average of 25 percent growth in annual earnings from operations over the last five years and recognition as “Best Place to Work” in several European Countries.
He will be replaced by Emma de Sousa, currently Senior Vice President of the Company’s United Kingdom business and EMEA Marketing.
Outsourcing outfit Wipro’s dedication to the digital segment and AI/ML portfolio is paying off and its growth is matching those sectors, according to GlobalData.
In light of the rising adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) portfolio, a steady fourth quarter 2019 performance, supported by the double-digit quarterly growth (year-on-year) in the consumer and digital segment revenue and the October 2019 acquisition of International TechneGroup Inc., Wipro’s sentiments are on the rise, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.
Insight, announced it has earned the AWS Well-Architected Partner status, in recognition of its expertise in building and deploying workloads in Amazon Web Services.
With European enterprises investing heavily in cloud, spending on average £29.48 million in 2018, the newly-awarded status means organisations can trust Insight to deliver expert consultancy, review their AWS architecture, and help fix any problems to optimise their environment.
Infinigate UK has signed a distribution agreement with A10 Networks, which will see the IT security distributor offer A10’s range of automation, AI and cloud-based cyber protection services to its partners.
Murray Pearce, managing director of Infinigate UK, said that A10 has developed “very good technology that uses the latest in automation, AI and cloud to protect against malicious cyberattacks” – such as multi-vector DDoS attacks and encrypted assaults.
Ping Identity has partnered with e92cloud and scored a key distribution agreement for Ping Identity in Europe which allows for broader reach in the lower enterprise market.
Ping makes its own cloudy Identity platform security solutions.
Schneider Electric has warned that channel firms will need to prove their sustainability credentials or face losing business.
Mark Garner, VP of Secure Power at Schneider Electric, said sustainability will become a key consideration for IT purchasers, along with traditional factors such as price. Moreover, he said Schneider is committed to having a carbon-neutral supply chain by 2030 and is working with channel partners on building green practices.
P2P automation software provider Yooz is expanding its global strategic partnership with Sage Intacct, the leading accounting software, in the UK.
The partnership will increase the business value of companies’ Finance and Accounts departments by providing better visibility into payables at any time and make more informed decisions with real-time data.
For those who came in late, Yooz is a cloudy AP automation provider integrating over 200 accounting and ERP software programs worldwide, based on AI, machine learning and deep learning technologies. The solution streamlines the AP workflow into a few automated steps: capture, enter, approve, pay and export invoices, cutting the processing time from weeks to days and decreasing administrative costs by 70 percent.
Arkphire has completed its acquisition of local rival Trilogy Technologies Group, and claims to have created the largest IT procurement and managed services business in Ireland.
The newly merged MSP has combined revenues of close to €150 million, with a headcount of 220 people.
Arkphire says the deal is a “major move of significant scale towards industry consolidation in the Irish ICT managed services sector”.
Nottinghamshire-based managed IT services specialist Octavian IT expanded into larger premises.
The last three months have seen the business’ annual recurring revenue increase by £78,000 thanks to signing six new contracts. With several of these deals struck with companies in the security industry, the company said 70 percent of its revenue now comes from highly-regulated, security-based industries.
The larger offices are in Bingham, Nottinghamshire and are designed to help it expand more.
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