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Cliff Saran's Enterprise blog
Unravelling the hype behind IT for creating useful CIO strategies.
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Quantum Computing: A UK moon shot or £670m research indulgence?
- Managing Editor 27 Jun 2025 -
A G7 AI roadmap lacking IP protection is one with potholes
- Managing Editor 19 Jun 2025 -
GenAI: Talk to me
- Managing Editor 12 Jun 2025
Among the questions raised during the inaugural Quantum Datacentre Alliance forum held at Battersea power station in London, was one from a delegate from the government’s Quantum testbed programme, ...
The G7 meeting of world leaders is a clear indication of how the leading economies see AI. With the stagnation of economic growth alongside rising costs of maintaining existing public services, ...
Who would have thought that a black slab of Gorilla Glass in a titanium frame that fits in the palm of your hand would not necessarily offer the best user experience? A recent YouTube video ...
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Putting a price on the value of IP
- Managing Editor 28 May 2025 -
Microsoft entices developers to build more Windows AI apps
- Managing Editor 21 May 2025 -
Risk of corporate hospitality to IT teams
- Managing Editor 08 May 2025 -
It's the end of coding as we know it
- Managing Editor 01 May 2025 -
Making America great, but at what cost?
- Managing Editor 09 Apr 2025 -
Avoiding AI lock-in
- Managing Editor 01 Apr 2025 -
An agentic AI reality check
- Managing Editor 19 Mar 2025
The government sees artificial intelligence (AI) as a high octane fuel to boost productivity and drive the economy forward. The Regulatory Innovation Office (RIO) aims to cut bureaucracy to ...
Microsoft’s annual developer conference is rather like a litmus test, showing the general direction of travel of the software industry. Given the massive footprint of Windows in desktop computing, ...
The practice of making deals on golf courses seems to be alive and well. And it is IT leaders and their teams that are having to pick up the pieces following the agreed purchase of unsuitable tech ...
During a fireside chat at LlamaCon 2025, Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg asked Microsoft chief, Satya Nadella about the use of AI for coding. Nadella responded that up to 30% of the code in Microsoft’s ...
It is highly unlikely any country facing US tariffs will want to curb the ability of their citizens and businesses to buy software and IT services from US firms. Yet the current tariffs affecting ...
One of the big problems with deploying a software as a service (SaaS) product across an entire organisation is that once it is widely used, swapping it out becomes an extremely costly exercise. In ...
No one can deny the tech sector’s level of excitement when something new starts to gain traction. Rather like the car mechanic or builder who urges their customers to buy more expensive components ...
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The importance of taking time to get IT right
- Managing Editor 17 Mar 2025 -
Spotlight on an indulgent tech sector
- Managing Editor 27 Feb 2025 -
Budget flexibility for on-prem AI
- Managing Editor 19 Feb 2025 -
Should the UK spend hundreds of billions on AI?
- Managing Editor 14 Feb 2025 -
Why are we waiting?
- Managing Editor 06 Feb 2025
The dust has yet to settle on the 67-page auditor’s report looking into what went so badly wrong at Birmingham City Council with its enterprise resource planning (ERP) project to replace SAP with ...
We often hear of senior tech industry execs drawing an analogy between the tech sector and automotive manufacturing. Basically, if car development followed the same rules as the tech sector, by now ...
Consider an organisation that, understandably, wants to ensure its customer data and intellectual property is kept as safe as possible, assessing how to “do AI”. It is easy to assume everyone is ...
This week the European Union (EU) announced a €200bn InvestAI fund, to build out sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This follows on from the Trump administration’s $500bn Project ...
Consider the office laptop. It certainly may be used in the office, where its owner, a company employee, requires the best user experience for accessing the software needed to do their work when in ...