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An overview of news, trends and research in IT Strategy consulting in the UK:

Bain: Chinese cloud market to reach 20 billion by 2020 The Chinese IT landscape has over the past twenty years been catching up to that of the developed world.
29 July 2015
Dicitas: Digitalisation transforms business ecosystem Consumer demand and lower cost profiles are driving a move towards digitalisation. According to Dicitas Consulting, businesses need to treat their digitalisation process as a transformation of the entire business, and not as a siloed process.
28 July 2015
NHS awards Accenture cloud email service contract Accenture and subsidiary Avanade have been awarded a contract to provide the NHS in England and Scotland with a cloud-based secure email and collaboration service.
20 July 2015
Accenture & UN refugee body create biometric identity Accenture, after a successful bid in a competitive tendering process, will be providing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees with on-going system maintenance and user training for a Biom
15 July 2015
Infosys invests in Ireland via strategic AIB-partnership Infosys has joined with Allied Irish Banks in a strategic partnership that will see the consultancy firm, among others, invest $10 million into Irish start-ups as well as create a presence in the loc
09 July 2015
Big Data translators crucial for capturing potential Big Data is complex and in order to maximise its potential, organisations not only need specialists who understand the data, but also “translators” who can analyse and clearly communicate the retriev
09 July 2015
PA Consulting: Four in ten UK firms will outsource more 40% of UK organisations plan to outsource more in the next few years, research by PA Consulting and Whitelane Research shows, highlighting the significant growth potential of the UK outsourcing marke
25 June 2015
CGI assists Highways England to become independent CGI has won a three-year end user computing services contract for the new government owned Highways England.
18 June 2015
CFO and CIO collaboration growing in importance With more and more aspects of business becoming digitalised, a recent survey from EY highlights a drawing together of the CFO and CIO functions.
11 June 2015
Capita acquires IT solutions specialist Pervasive Capita has acquired IT solutions specialist Pervasive, strengthening its Technology Solutions division with mobility services offerings, as well as improving the division’s expertise in wireless networking, storage, computing and security./e
09 June 2015
Demand for outsourcing to grow in the Netherlands IT outsourcing in the Netherlands is expected to grow over the coming years, with 49% of top IT spending organisations looking to outsource more in 2015 against only 6% of companies that expect a dec
27 May 2015
Marsh launches Cyber Monitor & Cyber View offerings Consulting firm Marsh recently launched two cyber security services, Marsh Cyber Monitor and Marsh Cyber View, to help businesses stay on top of threats in real-time, with the services including updated threat indicators and analytics driven unders
21 May 2015
PwC: Internet of Things to grow to 9 trillion by 2020 The Internet of Things market is set to grow to around $9 trillion by 2020, with up to 30 billion devices connected a recent report from PwC highlights. Especially the energy/utilities, construction/infrastructure and re
18 May 2015
Accenture: Proactive strategies improve cyber security Companies that tackle cyber security proactively, the so-called Leapfrog companies, are able to attain improved security effectiveness, research by Accenture and Ponemon Institute shows. According to the firms, companies wishing to improve their se
18 May 2015
Seven consulting firms win SAP Pinnacle Awards 2015 IBM, Deloitte, Tata Consultancy Services, Capgemini, Accenture, Atos and EY have been recognised by SAP for their partner contributions to customer success and innovation.
07 May 2015
Accenture to improve operational efficiency UniCredit European financial group UniCredit has selected Accenture to help it improve its operational efficiency and support its growth.
30 April 2015
Gartner: Cloud-based bypassed for own IT infrastructure Cloud-based offerings are still not seen as the first port of call for CIOs deciding on IT project spends, with many companies too focused on their own – often legacy – infrastructure, a recent report from Gartner concludes. New generat
28 April 2015
Protiviti: Top priorities for CIOs and IT professionals With information security and data privacy vulnerabilities no longer just technical issues, top priorities for companies going through transformations are shifting towards mitigating and combating security risks, a recent research from Protiviti fi
27 April 2015
Atos: Shadow IT spend to increase by 20% in 2015 Shadow IT is an increasingly growing expense for companies, research by Canopy shows. The biggest drivers of this spend turn out to be back office needs for back-ups, file sharing and archiving.
09 April 2015
Gartner: DevOps toolset sales reach 2.3 billion in 2015 The sales of DevOps toolsets, tools to implement DevOps – a software development method that focuses on communication, culture and people – are expected to grow with 21% to $2.
07 April 2015
McKinsey adds SATMAP to Solutions business unit McKinsey Solutions, the data analytics and software unit of strategy consultancy McKinsey & Company, has entered into a partnership with SATMAP, a North American software specialist that provides contact center technology. With the alliance, Mc
02 April 2015
Off the shelf tech set to transform banking industry The development of new, off-the-shelf banking IT solutions is transforming the back-office of the banking landscape. On the back of more efficient and innovative platforms, new entrants are eyeing the opportunities in th
19 March 2015
Accenture: Combining digital technologies for success In order to benefit the most from the digital era, companies should jointly implement digital technologies instead of one at a time, research by Accenture shows. A unified approach will bring about a variety of benefits, including improved business
18 March 2015
M&A activity in UK cloud consulting market booming Cloud-based consulting M&A deals in the UK have more than doubled since 2012 on the back of strong demand for skills and the widening of specialised offerings like cloud, data analytics and cyber security. With the i
16 March 2015
Amey strikes 78 million IT services deal with CSC Engineering consulting firm Amey has signed a 7 year agreement valued at $78 million with global IT Services company CSC, who will deliver next-generation IT services to the consultancy.
09 March 2015
KPMG: UK businesses reluctant to stick head in cloud Despite the clear advantages of Cloud services, UK businesses show reluctance ‘sticking their head in the cloud’, research by KPMG shows, with 71% of these companies spending 10% or less on the cloud. According to the research, one of t
09 March 2015
Unicorn and ENTSO-E deliver electricity platform Earlier this year the so-called ‘ENTSO-E Transparency Platform’ was launched, a platform that aims at boosting the transparency in the European electricity market. The platform was jointly designed and built by Czech origin/
26 February 2015
Capgemini Consulting: Big Data trends & challenges Although the belief among executives is wide-spread that Big Data will disrupt their industry in the next three years, only 13% has Big Data insights fully integrated into their business operations,
26 February 2015
Capgemini supports Office Depot with IT integration Office Depot has hired Capgemini to support the firm with post-merger integration support in the field of finance and accounting and IT. The new contract comes on top of the existing relationship between the two firms – Capgemini h
04 February 2015
Moorhouse: Moonpig security fiasco is a wakeup call Moonpig, a large supplier of personalised greeting cards, recently was faced with a serious cyber security flaw. More worrying is that the online company had more than 18 months to fix the flaw, without any subsequent action taken. Accor
20 January 2015
Digital leaders focus on growth instead of efficiency Digital leaders are on the rise, most visibly in the smallest but also the biggest companies, new research by Accenture shows. These leaders, dubbed Digital Transformers, not only use digital strategies to improve business efficiency, but as a tool
19 January 2015
Strategy&: IT failure contingency plan key for aviation Mid December, chaos erupted over the skies of the capital as a technical glitch in the NATS air traffic control system caused widespread cancelations and delays. This is not the first such glitch, almost a year to the date a similar soft
13 January 2015

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