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Strategy, Transformation Jan 12, 2021

Tech trends 2021: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities

Despite being a year to forget for many, 2020 will also be remembered as the year that accelerated the worldwide population towards technology. From home-working to the broader adoption of digital services, such as online shopping and banking, technology has n...

Vuong Nguyen
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Transformation Apr 09, 2021

Why ‘connectedness’ is vital to achieve personalisation and a single view of the customer

Recently, I’ve spent time working with CMOs from two consumer companies. Unsurprisingly, and consistent with prevailing thinking, both cite personalisation and ...

Nigel Hughes
Strategy, Data Apr 08, 2021

Understanding data and analytics maturity: A focus on Culture and DataOps

In our last article, we explored the ‘Strategy’ and ‘Alignment’ aspects of our data & analytics maturity model. In this article, we will be focusing on the impo...

Kyle Taylor
Culture Apr 07, 2021

Stress Awareness Month: How Credera promotes a healthy workplace culture

Stress is the body’s reaction to feeling overwhelmed or under pressure, and whilst it is not uncommon, it can often feel impossible to speak out if you are stru...

Kiran Birdi
Strategy, Data Apr 01, 2021

Understanding data and analytics maturity: A focus on Strategy and Alignment

In our first article, we introduced our data & analytics maturity model and discussed why understanding maturity is crucial in delivering digital transformation...

Kyle Taylor
Transformation Mar 30, 2021

Top tips for companies wishing to build their organisational change capability

Faced with today’s unprecedented scale and pace of change, organisations need to ensure that they are on the front foot. Companies are increasingly beginning to...

Emily Richter
Transformation Mar 29, 2021

Podcast: What are the drivers to delivering successful business change?

Credera are excited to announce the release of our latest podcast in the Technically Minded series: 'What are the drivers to delivering successful business chan...

Matthew Greenhalgh
Strategy, Transformation Mar 26, 2021

As DMW Group becomes Credera, what does this mean for our clients and services?

After 32 years of being DMW Group, we rebranded as Credera on 15th March 2021. This is a moment that saw our firm establish itself as a global boutique consulta...

Keith White
Data Mar 25, 2021

Understanding data and analytics maturity: How it’s critical to your digital success

In this six-part series, we discuss how our data & analytics maturity model can help organisations prepare their programmes for success. In recent years, global...

Mohammad Syed
Cloud, News Mar 24, 2021

Credera named AWS Advanced Consulting Partner in the UK

Credera, a global boutique consulting firm focused on strategy, transformation, data, cloud and engineering, has been named an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner i...

James Breeze
Culture Mar 19, 2021

Credera’s respective CEOs talk about joining forces: Behind the scenes with Chris Dean and Justin Bell

In 2021, it was announced that Credera’s DMW Group would be rebranding to Credera to deliver global, boutique services as one brand. Following our recent transi...

Cara Bills
Data Mar 18, 2021

How banks can achieve the promise of open banking with a data mesh architecture

The changes that banking is set to undergo over the next decade will be both radical and fundamental. CDOs should use this opportunity to drive greater organisa...

Mohammad Syed
Data Mar 16, 2021

Managing data in the lakehouse: An introduction to the data lakehouse

Organisations have been performing data analysis for many years. As an increasing number of these organisations undergo large-scale digital transformations, the...

Daniel Amner
News Mar 15, 2021

Credera’s DMW Group Rebrands to Credera

London, March 15, 2021 – Credera, a consulting, digital transformation and engineering company, today announced its London-based technology consultancy, DMW Gro...

Chris Dean
Culture Mar 08, 2021

Podcast: How do we challenge the gender diversity issue in tech?

This International Women's Day, Credera is excited to announce the release of our latest podcast: 'How do we challenge the gender diversity issue in tech?'. Thi...

Kyle Taylor
Culture Mar 04, 2021

Employee Appreciation Day: Why employee appreciation is more than just a day at Credera

Employee appreciation at Credera is not just about pay and reward mechanisms that drive motivation and outputs. We believe that financial renumeration is the mi...

Warsame Iman
Strategy, Cloud Mar 02, 2021

What are key considerations for businesses adopting Cloud Storage Solutions in 2021?

Security, availability, auditability, usability, and supportability are all fundamental considerations when designing a cloud storage solution, but how do busin...

David Moss
Transformation Feb 25, 2021

How an enterprise roadmap will help you respond to change in today’s technical jungle

The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the past year has seen unprecedented change in how we live and work. With available investment capital dwindli...

Leo Romanenko
Data Feb 22, 2021

New podcast release: Is brand loyalty a dying trait in banking? - Part two

Credera are excited to announce the release of the second episode of our two-part podcast: 'Is brand loyalty a dying trait in banking?'. This podcast, which is ...

Kyle Taylor
Strategy Feb 19, 2021

Three UX design principles fundamental to success

We have identified three key user experience design principles which will help your organisation maximise its return on UX investment and help you avoid common ...

Alec Owens
Strategy, Data Feb 15, 2021

How can retail banking adapt to the new normal to keep up with customer demand?

Today’s retail banks are undergoing historic levels of change. The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a shift in people’s living and working arrangemen...

Bhavna Parwani
Data Feb 15, 2021

This month's podcast: Is brand loyalty a dying trait in banking?

Credera are excited to announce the release of our fourth monthly podcast in our ‘Technically Minded’ series: 'Is brand loyalty a dying trait in banking?' This ...

Kyle Taylor
Culture Feb 09, 2021

Credera’s participation in the Cancer Research Winter 10KM Challenge

On Sunday 7th February 2021 and for the fifth consecutive year, our running club took part in the Cancer Research 10KM virtual Winter Run challenge and together...

David Moss
Culture Feb 05, 2021

Credera's CSR days: My experience

Members of Credera are invited to take advantage of Credera’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) days. CSR days provide a great opportunity to explore a vari...

Sophia Bell
Data Feb 03, 2021

How a data ‘A-Team’ can help overcome systemic changes in banking

During a recent quarterly earnings call, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated: “We’ve seen two years’ worth of digital transformation in two months.” The message ...

Mohammad Syed
Culture Jan 27, 2021

New year, new starters: How we support our latest joiners

As a company, we care passionately about our people. As we leave 2020 behind and stride into 2021, we feel it is important to pay particular attention to our ne...

James Ramsden
Culture, Engineering Jan 25, 2021

Meet Sophia Bell

We asked Engineer Sophia Bell why she chose to join us to further her engineering career.

Sophia Bell
Data Jan 21, 2021

Data governance as an enabler: Agile data governance

As data & analytics becomes even more federated, CDOs need to reduce the bureaucracy of data governance and focus instead on supporting value delivery. In this ...

Mohammad Syed
Culture Jan 19, 2021

Meet Louise O'Donovan

We asked Managing Consultant Louise O’Donovan why she chose to join Credera to further her consulting career.

Louise O'Donovan
Data Jan 13, 2021

Best practices for better data insights

Data insights can help business users to make better, more informed decisions through the analysis and interpretation of data in a way that is visually engaging...

Eylem Irice
Strategy, Data, Cloud, Transformation, Engineering Jan 12, 2021

Key takeaways from our Leeds Digital Festival webinars

In this blog, we summarise the key takeaway messages shared from each of our three webinars as part of Leeds Digital Festival.

Graham Hall
Cloud Jan 12, 2021

This month's podcast: Should cloud be a part of your green strategy?

We are excited to announce the release of our third monthly podcast in our ‘Technically Minded’ series: 'Should cloud be a part of your green strategy?' This po...

Kyle Taylor
Strategy, Transformation Jan 12, 2021

Tech trends 2021: Unprecedented challenges and opportunities

Despite being a year to forget for many, 2020 will also be remembered as the year that accelerated the worldwide population towards technology. From home-workin...

Vuong Nguyen
Cloud Dec 11, 2020

Operational resilience in Financial Services: Our approach

In our previous blog, we discussed how the regulatory environment has had an impact on public cloud usage in the Financial Services industry. One of the key the...

Vuong Nguyen
Data Dec 07, 2020

Energy UK Conference 2020: Key takeaways

In this blog, Mohammad Syed ACA reflects on our sponsorship of and participation in this year’s Energy UK Conference 2020.

Mohammad Syed
Cloud Dec 04, 2020

Andy Jassy’s keynote speech at AWS re:Invent 2020: A techie's guide

Management Consultant Peter Kiernan joined Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy’s opening keynote speech as one of 400,000+ individuals who had registered to atte...

Peter Kiernan
Data Nov 30, 2020

Building efficient and scalable data platforms in AWS

It can be difficult to know where to start when building data platforms. In this article, we provide an overview of the facets to help guide the design of effic...

Archita Regan
Culture Nov 27, 2020

What we learned from the Women in Technology World Series Festival 2020

This month, we attended the 2020 Women in Technology World Series online festival (WiT). From living rooms, bedrooms, and home offices across the globe, over 10...

Emma Johnson
Culture Nov 25, 2020

Meet Emily Richter

We asked Emily Richter why she chose to join Credera to further her business transformation career.

Emily Richter
Data Nov 17, 2020

This month's podcast: How do you become a data-mature organisation?

Credera are excited to announce the release of our second monthly podcast in our ‘Technically Minded’ series: 'How do you become a data-mature organisation?'. T...

Kyle Taylor
Culture Nov 13, 2020

Kindness during lockdown: World Kindness Day 2020

On World Kindness Day, Consultant Joshua Silver creates a case for kindness in the workplace , describing how the supportive culture that we foster at Credera c...

Joshua Silver
Culture Nov 10, 2020

Meet Emily Markey

We asked Emily Markey why she chose to join Credera to further her career in Business Transformation.

Emily Markey
Data, Cloud, Transformation Oct 21, 2020

Credera releases a brand-new podcast: Technically Minded

Credera is excited to announce the launch of a brand-new monthly podcast: ‘Technically Minded.’ This podcast, which is available on Google, iTunes, Spotify, and...

Kyle Taylor
Cloud, Transformation Oct 15, 2020

How can Cloud enable customer-centricity for product managers?

In this blog, we will be talking about the best practices around customer centricity and product management.

Nick Hamman
Culture Oct 09, 2020

Wellbeing: What do we do and why is it so important?

Our Wellbeing Lead Annie Barrett shares what inspired her to become a member of our Wellbeing team at Credera and reflects on how we have adapted to support our...

Annie Barrett
Culture Sep 24, 2020

Meet Kelly Jackson

We asked  Business Transformation Consultant Kelly Jackson why she chose to join Credera to further her career.

Kelly Jackson
Cloud, Transformation Sep 18, 2020

Transforming your organisation to succeed with Cloud - Part 4

In this four-part series, we offer practical advice as to how organisations can successfully implement Cloud by running through the detail of our eight-layer Cl...

Emily Markey
Data, Cloud, Transformation Sep 10, 2020

Leeds Digital Festival 2020: Highlights & how to watch our events

It has been a fast-paced 18 months for us in Leeds, and one of biggest highlights is our sponsorship and participation in Leeds Digital Festival.

Kyle Taylor
Cloud, Transformation Sep 10, 2020

Transforming your organisation to succeed with Cloud - Part 3

In this four-part series, we offer practical advice as to how organisations can successfully implement Cloud by running through the detail of our eight-layer Cl...

Emily Markey
Cloud, Transformation Sep 04, 2020

Transforming your organisation to succeed with Cloud - Part 2

In this four-part series, we offer practical advice as to how organisations can successfully implement Cloud by running through the detail of our eight-layer Cl...

Emily Markey
Strategy, Cloud Aug 28, 2020

Public Cloud in Financial Services: Navigating a changing regulatory environment

This article offers practical advice on how to navigate a changing regulatory environment with regards to the EBA guidance on outsourcing. 

Rob McHugh
Cloud, Transformation Aug 20, 2020

Transforming your organisation to succeed with Cloud - Part 1

In this four-part series, we offer practical advice as to how organisations can successfully implement cloud by running through the detail of our eight-layer cl...

Emily Markey
Whitepaper

Pocket guide: Product Engineering Fundamentals

In this pocket guide, we offer advice on how to improve your digital product development processes across the range of teams involved. We asked experts in a number of areas to contribute, including business transformation consultants, engineers, and UX designers.

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Culture Jul 27, 2020

Omnicom Precision Marketing Group’s Credera broadens geographic reach with the acquisition of London-based DMW Group

London, July 27, 2020 -- Credera, a consulting firm focused on strategy, transformation, data, and technology, today announced it has acquired a majority stake ...

Chris Dean
Whitepaper

Whitepaper: Open Data & Energy

Read our latest insights on the importance of Open Data within the Energy market and how Energy companies can incorporate Open Data within their organisation.

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Culture, Engineering Jul 08, 2020

Meet Nicholas Griffiths

We asked Engineer Nicholas Griffiths why he chose to join Credera to further his engineering career.

Nicholas Griffiths
Culture, Engineering Jul 08, 2020

Meet James Ryan

We talked to James Ryan, an Engineer at Credera, about why Credera has been a great career choice.

James Ryan
Culture Jul 08, 2020

Meet Aflal Asker

We asked Consultant Aflal Asker why he chose to join Credera to further his technical career.

Aflal Asker
Whitepaper

Whitepaper: The ultimate guide to Hybrid Cloud

In this whitepaper, we offer practical advice on Hybrid Cloud and answer FAQs, such as 'What options do I have, how do I get the best value from these, and how would this work in practice?'

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Transformation Jun 22, 2020

NHS Digital and Credera achieve 90% of HSCN migrations, saving the NHS £75 million annually

Credera have worked alongside NHS Digital on the Health and Social Care Network migration. This is Europe’s largest Wide Area Network (WAN) migration, helping t...

Iona White
Data Jun 11, 2020

What role does digitalisation play in achieving Net Zero by 2050?

Digitalisation has the potential to catapult the world into a new era where clean, sustainable and renewable energy is produced.   

Hamzah Khokhar
Data Jun 08, 2020

Tech spotlight: Driving data democratisation in your organisation using Dataiku

It’s common knowledge that data analytics are increasingly crucial for business across the board. Generating and storing large quantities of data is now easy to...

Kim Warren
Data May 27, 2020

The data ethics of a pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is a major crisis that will continue to pose a significant threat to the entire global community. To mitigate its lethal effects, unpreced...

Mohammad Syed
Transformation Apr 28, 2020

What happens to organisational reporting lines in Agile transformations?

In 2019, we saw one of the UK’s most distinguished airline and travel agencies, Thomas Cook, file for bankruptcy after nearly 178 years of existence. This is on...

Emily Richter
Data, Cloud Apr 18, 2020

Key takeaways from our Leeds Digital Festival webinars

In this blog, we summarise the key takeaway messages shared from each of our three webinars as part of Leeds Digital Festival.

Graham Hall
Strategy, Transformation Apr 01, 2020

Business transformation in a crisis [Part 2]

Within the next month it is likely the UK government will lift some of the current social distancing restrictions, allowing business to begin rebuilding revenue...

Matthew Maguire
Culture Mar 31, 2020

Why visibility is important: International Transgender Day of Visibility 2020

At Credera, we pride ourselves on being an open and inclusive employer. We asked Kim Warren why they believe trans visibility is so important, especially in the...

Kim Warren
Strategy, Transformation Mar 30, 2020

Business transformation in a crisis [Part 1]

The protracted societal changes necessary to respond to the global Covid-19 outbreak have created an intense crisis for many businesses; the behaviour of the ec...

Matthew Maguire
Data Mar 17, 2020

How can the public sector use AI effectively? Part 2

We take a pragmatic look at AI in the public sector and discuss the ethics surrounding it. Read part one.

Vuong Nguyen
Data Mar 09, 2020

How can the public sector use AI effectively? Part 1

In this two-part blog, we look at clearing up some of the myths surrounding AI and how the public sector could be using it to improve their working practices.

Vuong Nguyen
Culture Mar 05, 2020

How Credera supports #EachForEqual with flexible working

This year’s International Women’s Day 2020 campaign theme is #EachForEqual, which centres around equality being a collective issue rather than simply ‘a women’s...

Laura Farrar
Cloud Feb 24, 2020

The best way for companies to save money using public, private, and hybrid cloud

Delivering a cost-effective cloud strategy is important to any business migrating to the cloud. We’ve looked at how companies can save money using the range of ...

Vuong Nguyen
Culture Feb 14, 2020

Valentine's Day: How Credera enables its people to follow their passions

It’s Valentine’s Day, so we thought we’d ask our staff to share how Credera enables them to do the things they love by encouraging staff clubs and activities.

Ernest Asare
Data Feb 05, 2020

The data lake house: the next generation of data warehouse uncovered

We investigate some of the recent announcements from Re:Invent and how they are influencing the architecture patterns of data warehouses in the cloud.

Tom Smith
Data Jan 30, 2020

Naya Giannakopoulou wins Business Role Model of the Year at The Women in IT Awards 2020

Naya Giannakopoulou, a Credera consultant, was recognised last night as Business Role Model of the Year 2020 at The Women in IT Awards.

Bobby Mahey
Data Jan 28, 2020

Five security tips to protect your client's data 

As we celebrate Data Privacy Day 2020, it is worth thinking about the role businesses play in protecting client data and the consequences of non-compliance. Fai...

Ernest Asare
Strategy, Transformation Jan 14, 2020

Why do IT projects fail and how can you ensure yours doesn't?

The media is full of stories of IT projects gone wrong, like the £300m TSB IT migration failure or BA’s £150m IT Disaster Recovery failure. So it is vital for y...

Leo Romanenko
Cloud, Transformation Nov 26, 2019

How to improve public sector IT programmes with 5 simple interventions

Last year, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority’s Annual Report showed that a third of major programmes delivered by 16 government departments and public b...

Vassilis Serafeimidis
Transformation Nov 26, 2019

How to develop complex mobile applications at pace whilst retaining quality and innovation

In an ever evolving world of innovative mobile applications, how do you deliver a secure digital platform, support multiple applications, provide access to mult...

Matt Buley
Data Nov 26, 2019

Is Open Data enablement the answer to the UK's Net Zero challenge?

The UK government took unprecedented action by being the first major economy to pass Net Zero emissions legislation in June last year.

Hamzah Khokhar
Data Nov 26, 2019

The three states of Digital Transformation in the Energy sector

The Energy Sector is in an era of accelerating change driven by a rapid decline in renewable energy costs, improving energy efficiency, “smart” technologies, in...

Francesca Boarolo
Cloud Nov 21, 2019

AWS re:Invent 2019: Andy Jassy's keynote speech

Credera are at AWS re:Invent this week, one of the world’s leading cloud conferences. Konrad Petrusewicz attended Amazon Web Service's CEO Andy Jassy’s opening ...

Konrad Petrusewicz
Culture, News Nov 21, 2019

Credera at Trans in the City 2019

Trans In the City is a fundraising event supported by over 60 companies in the City of London, who have partnered to demonstrate their support for all trans ind...

Kim Warren
Culture Nov 19, 2019

Male role models and mental health - International Men's Day and Credera

On November 19th every year, we celebrate International Men’s Day. This year, the theme circles around ‘Making a Difference for Men and Boys.’

Helen Kilvington
Culture Nov 08, 2019

Credera's family day & National STEM/STEAM day 2019

On the 8th November every year, we celebrate National STEM day. But what is it, why is it important and how does it relate to a large technology consultancy?

Lettie Sturley
Cloud Nov 05, 2019

Microsoft Ignite 2019: Satya Nadella's keynote speech

Credera are at Microsoft Ignite this week, one of the world’s leading cloud conferences. Rob Merrett attended Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s opening keynote spee...

Rob Merrett
Culture Oct 10, 2019

Raising mental health awareness in the workplace

We asked one of our Mental Health First Aiders, John Kendrick, to write about the importance of good mental health as part of World Mental Health Day 2019.  

John Kendrick
Data Oct 09, 2019

SFTR reporting – identifying key challenges and how to solve them

While ESMA have tweaked SFTR reporting validation rules for non EU Legal Entity Identifiers (LEIs), the Data Quality challenges remain considerable.

Rob McPherson
Strategy, Data Oct 02, 2019

RegTech and Legacy - the path to better adoption

There are many benefits of using RegTech for the financial services industry, but there are also barriers that need to be overcome in order to make it successfu...

Rob McPherson
Data, Transformation Sep 12, 2019

Surveillance: Readying for the Seismic Shift

To date the overriding priority of surveillance in Financial Institutions has been one of coverage, but a seismic shift is upon us.

Matt Pockson
Data, Transformation Sep 12, 2019

Market Abuse and Conduct Surveillance: Are you drowning in a sea of alerts?

A multi-faceted approach to transformation is needed in Financial institutions to combat market abuse.

Matt Pockson
Data Jul 02, 2019

How to design and implement big data programmes

The pressure is on for many organisations to be ‘seen to be using big data’. 

Mark Atterbury
Culture Jun 19, 2019

Why celebrating Pride is more than just a banner at Credera

June is international Pride month, where we celebrate LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) identities and highlight the work that still needs to be don...

Simon Greenhalgh
Transformation Apr 09, 2019

Disrupt the digital challengers with transformation mindset

Transformation can no longer be seen as a one-off project, and for organisations to survive, it is becoming the new norm.

Marcus Hall
Cloud Apr 01, 2019

Credera on G-Cloud Framework

Credera delivers complex cloud migrations to public and private sector clients, supplying public sector organisations via the G-Cloud 11 Digital Marketplace.

Graham Hall
Cloud Feb 08, 2019

Helping our customers harness the power of cloud

We’re delighted to boost our cloud computing credentials with the announcement that we are now a Standard Consulting Partner in the AWS Partner Network (APN).

Marius Rubin
Culture Jan 31, 2019

Credera welcomes... Hani Qadiri

As Credera continues to grow at a blistering pace, we are welcoming more people to the company than ever. Here is the first in a series of blogs where we interv...

Hani Qadiri
Culture Jan 07, 2019

Meet Dr Kim Warren

Kim Warren, transgender activist and data guru, answers our staff questions to give a better understanding of Credera’s culture.

Kim Warren
Culture Jan 05, 2019

Meet Jenny Gallagher

Jenny Gallagher, one of  our senior technology consultants, answers our staff questions to give a better understanding of Credera’s culture.

Jenny Gallagher
Culture Jan 03, 2019

Meet David Moss

David Moss, a consultant who has just returned from a sabbatical, answers our staff questions to give a better understanding of Credera’s culture.  

David Moss
Culture Jan 02, 2019

Meet Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis, the leader of our engineering capability and recent father, answers our staff questions to give a better understanding of Credera’s culture.  

Chris Lewis
Culture Jan 01, 2019

Meet Nina Kenyon

Nina Kenyon, one of our agile experts who works 4 days a week, answers our staff questions to give a better understanding of Credera’s culture.  

Nina Kenyon
Cloud Dec 13, 2018

The Cloud Brick Wall, Part 3 of 3

In the first two blog articles of our series from Konrad Petrusewicz, we started by covering the fundamental challenge of building a business case for migrating...

Konrad Petrusewicz
Cloud Dec 07, 2018

CTO hot take from AWS re:Invent 2018

As the Credera team jet back from AWS re:invent, Amazon Web Services major cloud technology event in the states, we offer their technical take on the keynote by...

Rob Merrett
Cloud Dec 04, 2018

The Cloud Brick Wall, Part 2 of 3

An essential component of any Cloud migration is the actual code base that needs to be run and understanding how it operates within the ecosystem of your organi...

Konrad Petrusewicz
Cloud Nov 29, 2018

AWS re:Invent 2018 Keynote Hot Take

Credera are at AWS re:Invent 2018, the leading cloud technology event from Amazon Web Services in Las Vegas this week. Here’s our take on all the announcements ...

Marius Rubin
Cloud Nov 27, 2018

The Cloud Brick Wall, Part 1 of 3

The Cloud Brick Wall is approaching. In this 3-part series of blog articles Konrad Petrusewicz maps out how to break through the brick wall more of us are facin...

Konrad Petrusewicz