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How ITRS Group London chose a charity to support for CSR and what we have done since.  We are fortunate to be a successful global software company in our 23rd year, operating from offices in 9 countries across APAC, EMEA and NA. Much of our success is of course due to having a happy and engaged workforce, which we spend a lot of time and effort on. One avenue for this is our People and Culture forum, whose remit is to sustain and develop our culture to create a great place to work.  

The pace of change might vary, but technology is an ever-evolving field. Today, enterprise-focused, business-critical IT is going through one of its periodic episodes of accelerated change. And that requires new tools to monitor, manage and control IT estates.

The Cloud has been trending as the hottest business destination for a while now. It’s scalable and flexible, with the potential to reduce IT costs. In short, it’s the must-have accessory for the ‘modern organisation’.

Time for a check-up When there are more UK banking outages than days in the year, it’s not a good sign of the health of the British financial industry. 2018 saw 375 incidents reported over a nine month period – and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is calling for a check-up.  Consumers are more reliant than ever on technology for banking services. Where once access to online banking was an exciting and convenient development of the digital age, it is now viewed as a given. Yet for millions of account holders in 2018, it wasn’t.   

When Neil Armstrong said those famous words in 1969, his boots forever imprinting the surface of the moon, it in many ways erased all that had come before and much of what was to come. The failures of those many other missions that both preceded and followed Apollo 11 are nothing in historical memory compared with that single moment.

Some people say it all started with Jeff Bezos’ famous mandate to his employees:  “All teams will henceforth expose their data and functionality through service interfaces. Teams must communicate with each other through these interfaces. There will be no other form of inter-process communication allowed…” He dramatically finished it with:  “Anyone who doesn’t do this will be fired. Thank you; have a nice day!”

Face to face with ITRS engineering On June 6th, the product and engineering teams at ITRS Group will open the office doors to all London based Geneos users. The face to face meetup will offer high-touch engagement between the people who use ITRS products every day, and the people who build and maintain them.

In a frenzied example of ‘just in-case’ planning, anxious shoppers across Briton have been turning to stockpiling over the last few months as the answer to Brexit uncertainty. Now with no deal all but off the table, much of this ‘worst case scenario’ food could go to waste.