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Whitepaper: Cloud optimisation best practices: Finding your cloud's silver lining

In this whitepaper, we look at how to make the most of your cloud investment after the initial phase of migration is complete.

Transformation Sep 14, 2021

Five tips for organisations wanting to instil effective change

As the end of another year draws closer, some of you may have taken time away from work to recharge and reflect upon what changes you want to embed in your own ...

Culture Sep 13, 2021

Meet our intern: Walid Amine

In August 2021, we welcomed our first cohort of interns to Credera's UK offices. We caught up with intern Walid Amine to learn about his experience of working w...

Walid Amine

Culture Sep 08, 2021

Gender diversity at Credera: Putting gender on the agenda

Increasing gender diversity in the tech industry is a theme that is and should remain on the agenda. This industry, amongst others, needs to face into an inhere...

Emma Johnson

Culture Sep 07, 2021

Meet Alec Owens

We asked Managing Consultant Alec Owens why he chose to join us to further his consulting career.

Alec Owens

Culture Sep 06, 2021

Meet our intern: Delmar Leslie

In August 2021, we welcomed our first cohort of interns to Credera's UK offices. We caught up with intern Delmar Leslie to learn about his experience of working...

Delmar Leslie

Whitepaper: Data mesh: How can the insurance sector protect their future?

This whitepaper looks at how and why the implementation of a data mesh architecture can help insurance companies achieve sustainable digital success.

Culture, News Sep 02, 2021

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Wellbeing Annual Report

At Credera, we are on a continuous journey towards making an extraordinary impact on our people. To do so, working at Credera must work for everyone. Our intent...

Strategy, Data Aug 25, 2021

Culture Aug 31, 2021

Meet our intern: Nabeel Hussain

In August 2021, we welcomed our first cohort of interns to Credera's UK offices. We caught up with intern Nabeel Hussain to learn about his experience of workin...

Nabeel Hussain

Data Aug 27, 2021

Sentiment analysis explained: How organisations are using sentiment analysis to respond in real time

Sentiment analysis involves using a series of machine learning (ML) and AI techniques to identify and quantify human beings’ emotional reactions towards certain...

Sheng Zhu

Why data transformations fail and what you should do about it

Many businesses today consider data as a major asset and look to utilise it to generate further value for their organisation. In many cases, however, the setup ...

Calum Conejo-Watt

Culture Aug 23, 2021

Meet our intern: Mehak Qureshi

In August 2021, we welcomed our first cohort of interns to Credera's UK offices. We caught up with intern Mehak Qureshi to learn about her experience of working...

Mehak Qureshi

Culture Aug 17, 2021

Meet Melissa Paulus

We asked Managing Consultant Melissa Paulus why she chose to join Credera to further her consulting career.

Melissa Paulus

Cloud Aug 16, 2021

Podcast: Cloud optimisation - Is it simply about costs?

Credera is excited to announce the release of our latest podcast: 'Cloud optimisation - Is it simply about costs?'. This podcast, which is available on iTunes,...

Joshua Silver

Cloud Aug 10, 2021

Cloud computing: Getting more out of serverless

Serverless has been positioned as the engineer’s dream, and rightly so. It frees engineers from tedious server provisioning and management tasks to focus solely...

Stephen Traynor

Data Aug 03, 2021

Five principles of a successful modern data architecture

In many organisations, data is ubiquitous and growing. Data can help companies to improve customer experience, optimise sales pipelines, and measure marketing p...

Tom Kennedy

Cloud Jul 28, 2021

Whitepaper extract: Finding your cloud's silver lining: Best practices for cloud optimisation

This article provides an edited extract from our upcoming whitepaper ‘Find your cloud’s silver lining: Best practices for cloud optimisation.’

Rob Merrett

Culture Jul 22, 2021

Meet Izzy Harris

We asked Engineer Izzy Harris why she chose to join Credera to further her engineering career.

Izzy Harris

Strategy Jul 16, 2021

Understanding MarTech in a customer-centric world

MarTech, the marriage of marketing and technology, has quickly become an essential competency for companies looking to enable customer-centric, personalised mar...

Drew Allen

Cloud Jul 08, 2021

How can organisations optimise costs for public cloud platforms?

Many organisations look for cost savings as a consequence of using public cloud, so controlling cost is important to any business in the process of migrating to...

Simon Osborne

Strategy, Data Jul 02, 2021

Innovating payment processing using data-driven insights

The payments industry has long been heavily influenced by technological disruption. Increasing market disintermediation led by innovative digital service offeri...

Antonio Peneda

Transformation Jun 30, 2021

The five Bs for sustainable digital success at building societies

It has been suggested that over the last 12 months, businesses have accelerated digital transformation by the equivalent of seven years.

Keith White

Culture Jun 28, 2021

Podcast: How can consulting firms best support LGBT+ colleagues in the workplace?

Credera is excited to announce the release of the second episode of our two-part podcast: 'How can consulting firms best support LGBT+ colleagues in the workpla...

Simon Greenhalgh

Cloud Jun 25, 2021

AWS Cloud Adoption Framework: Key considerations for those planning to migrate to Cloud

Gartner predicts that the number of organisations spending on IT will increase as a result of the pandemic, and cloud is projected to make up 14.2% of the total...

Melissa Paulus

Culture Jun 18, 2021

Meet Maxon Erinjeri

We asked Managing Consultant Maxon Erinjeri why he chose to join Credera to further his technical career.

Maxon Erinjeri

Transformation Jun 15, 2021

Technology Trends and Innovation in the London Insurance Market

Credera has been working in the London Insurance Market for nearly 15 years, providing assurance and advisory on market modernisation, strategic transformation,...

Nick Vaughan

Transformation Jun 14, 2021

Podcast: The barriers and opportunities to creating a single view of the customer - Part 2

Credera is excited to announce the release of the second episode of our two-part podcast: 'The barriers and opportunities to creating a single view of the custo...

Matthew Greenhalgh

Culture Jun 11, 2021

Meet Bhavna Parwani

We asked Managing Consultant Bhavna Parwani why she chose to join us to further her consulting career.

Bhavna Parwani

Whitepaper: Building a data-driven enterprise of the future

Read our latest insights to discover the top five trends Credera’s data leaders believe will shape the future of organisational resiliency and effectiveness.

Pocket guide: An Introduction to DataOps

In this handy pocket guide, we run through the basics of DataOps, such as what does it mean, and how does it deliver value to organisations?

Transformation Jun 02, 2021

Capitalising on the benefits of Artificial Intelligence of Things: Opportunities presented by AIoT

In this article, we provide examples of AIoT application across industries and explore its potential use cases and benefits.

Sheng Zhu

Whitepaper: Are you failing to deliver a single view of the customer?

Read our latest insights on how ensuring "connectedness" across four business areas will help you achieve SVC and personalised insights.

Transformation May 17, 2021

News May 24, 2021

Credera secures five finalists in the MCA Awards 2021

We are proud to announce that Credera has secured five finalists at the 2021 MCA awards. Each of our finalists have been nominated against one of five categorie...

Kelly Jackson

Podcast: The barriers and opportunities to creating a single view of the customer - Part 1

Credera is excited to announce the release of the first episode in our two-part podcast: 'The barriers and opportunities to creating a single view of the custom...

Joshua Silver

Strategy, Data May 14, 2021

How wealth managers can use data to keep focused on what really matters: Achieving digitisation success

Wealth managers will need a clear strategy for digitisation that reflects the client needs and channel preferences that their client personas have. Using your d...

Bhavna Parwani

Transformation May 12, 2021

Leveraging operational excellence to optimise payments processing

Operational excellence is playing a major role in driving efficiency across various sectors, and digital transformation backed by modern technologies has helped...

Jun Wang

Transformation May 10, 2021

In the digital age, what are the key takeaways for organisations wanting to prepare their workforce for change?

This article highlights, in our experience, three key obstacles that hinder an organisation from successfully embedding change and therefore should be at the fo...

Strategy May 07, 2021

Key takeaways from ‘What the FLoC? How do you prepare for a post-cookie future?’

In April 2021, we hosted a virtual event as part of our Executive sponsorship of Leeds Digital Festival: ‘What the FLoC? How do you prepare for a post-cookie fu...

James Breeze

Pocket guide: Realising a data mesh architecture

In this pocket guide, we offer advice on how organisations can successfully implement a data mesh architecture and realise its benefits.

Strategy, Data Apr 29, 2021

Understanding data and analytics maturity: A focus on Data Services and final reflections

In previous articles, we have touched on a number of trends affecting the basic assumptions of why data exists, how it should be stored and used, and how teams ...

Culture Apr 26, 2021

Credera’s global carbon emissions and how we celebrated Earth Day 2021

Earth Day, which took place last week on 22nd April, is a global event that demonstrates support for environmental protection every year. We worked across our c...

Vinay Patel

Data Apr 26, 2021

Podcast: Is your governance agile enough to meet your data aspirations?

Credera is excited to announce the release of our latest podcast in the Technically Minded series: 'Is your governance agile enough to meet your data aspiration...

Strategy, Data Apr 22, 2021

Understanding data and analytics maturity: A focus on Data Services and Compliance

In previous articles, we have discussed several important aspects of our data & analytics maturity model and how they contribute towards successful transfor...

Calum Conejo-Watt

Transformation Apr 20, 2021

Whitepaper extract: Why are you failing to deliver a unified and consistent view of your customer?

This is an edited extract from our upcoming whitepaper: Why are you failing to deliver a unified consistent view of your customer?

James Breeze

News Apr 20, 2021

Omnicom's Credera Acquires Areteans to Extend Digital Transformation & Marketing Consulting Depth

LONDON, April 20, 2021 – Credera, a consulting firm focused on strategy, transformation, data and technology, today announced it has agreed to acquire a majorit...

Credera Team

Strategy, Data Apr 15, 2021

Understanding data and analytics maturity: A focus on TOM and Data Platforms

Building on our recent article’s focus on culture and DataOps practices, this article will focus on the vitally important aspects of ‘Target Operating Models’ a...

Data Apr 12, 2021

Podcast: Is it good to adopt data openness by default?

Credera is excited to announce the release of our latest podcast: 'Is it good to adopt data openness by default?'. This podcast, which is available on iTunes, ...

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 ...

Strategy, Data Apr 01, 2021

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

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 transforma...

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...

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, gl...

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...

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...

Strategy, Cloud Mar 02, 2021

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

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

Podcast: 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 ...

Strategy, Data Feb 15, 2021

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Culture, Engineering Jan 25, 2021

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

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 t...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

Data Nov 17, 2020

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

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: 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.

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: 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?'

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...

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...

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...

Strategy, Transformation Apr 01, 2020

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

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...

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.

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.

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 ...

Strategy, Transformation Jan 14, 2020

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

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 five 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 ...

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...

Strategy, Data Oct 02, 2019

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

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 a '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.

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...

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...

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...