Unite Form is a web design and development agency specialising in marketing, branding and development for a range of clients.
Providing services across the entire country, the firm deals with a wide client base from SMEs to very large enterprises. With a rapidly expanding client base it realised that it had to look outside the organisation to find a third party that could provide a high level of service that could offer the flexibility and reliability essential for attracting and maintaining successful relationships with these clients.
Kelly Dempski, technology research director at Accenture's European technology lab in France tells Warwick Ashford what CIOs need to know about Generation Y - the 'Millennials', web 2.0, social networking, and emerging technologies.
Liberty Living, the Brandeaux Student Funds brand, is the fastest growing student and key worker accommodation provider in the UK. Providing over 10,000 beds in 14 Cities, Liberty Living works in conjunction with Universities and other representative bodies to provide modern, attractive and affordable accommodation to the growing student and key worker population in the UK.
Media Storehouse creates e-commerce websites based around photography. The company offers two distinct photographic services: it creates online image libraries for sports clubs and media outlets, enabling the general public to select and buy prints via the internet; and photographers can upload images from their digital cameras for Media Storehouse to print and send directly to their homes.
The Synergy Housing Group is one of the largest social housing providers in the south of England. It helps build thriving neighbourhoods where people choose to live.
Like any business, it relies on effective communication and the ability to grow and develop when the market demands. This requires a flexible and scaleable IT infrastructure.
Microsoft is giving away free development tools and server software to start-ups less than three years old. Cliff Saran find out more about the initiative, called BizSpark, from Dan'l Lewin, corporate vice president responsible for strategic and emerging business development at Microsoft.
Security researcher Ian Amit was given a keen insight into the working of the cybercriminal world when he found a way into a database of stolen access credentials. Amit, who is the director of security research at Aladdin Knowledge Systems has since drawn up a report on his research. Computer Weekly’s Warwick Ashford spoke to him on his recent visit to London and asked him to highlight some of the findings in the report.
