Untangling your data
Derek Blair of Pinkham Blair explores the ample market opportunities to be found in helping businesses untangle their data, including explaining the term ‘data plumbing’.
Cloud computing
News, opinion pieces and case studies aimed at helping members gain a better understanding of cloud services.
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Features and articles
The Swingman
From professional basketball to artificial intelligence, Nicola Morini Bianzino, chief client technology officer at EY, talks to Chris Evans about his unusual career trajectory
The seven technologies transforming finance work
Disruptive technologies are creating opportunities for accountants to use their skills in faster and more efficient ways. Tim Leung, Management Consultant at Deloitte, outlines the key technologies which the big four firm believes are transforming finance in his webinar: "Visualising finance transformation in a digital world".
Practice 2018
Digital and Cloud Accounting - 5 KPIs all firms should monitor regularly
Guidance
How to audit the cloud
Cloud computing is transforming business IT services, increasing its operational efficiencies and reducing its costs. But the use of cloud computing services also poses significant risks that need to be planned for by audit committees, boards and management if they are to be handled effectively.
How to audit the cloud
Cloud computing is transforming business IT services, increasing its operational efficiencies and reducing its costs. But the use of cloud computing services also poses significant risks that need to be planned for by audit committees, boards and management if they are to be handled effectively.
The Cloud and Financial Services
Use of Cloud services continues to grow rapidly.
Do I have to encrypt personal data to comply with DPA 2018 (GDPR)?
Find out whether you should consider encrypting your data, how encryption works in practice and what types of appropriate technical and organisational measures are common.
Webinars and recordings
Digital accounting systems: an overview and roadmap for adoption
Matt Flanagan, Managing Director at Bluehub, describes the types of add-ons and applications in the cloud account ecosystem in this webinar. He also outlines the process for applications with clients and gives top tips for the journey with technology.
Adopting the cloud: considerations for your business
Expert Thinking's Ben Fry outlines how moving to the cloud has the potential to transform your business and significantly enhance your value proposition. In this webinar, he explains the key issues you need to consider before implementing the technology.
Journey into the cloud
First broadcast on 26 June 2017. As cloud technology continues to disrupt the accountancy profession and with MTD on the horizon, it has become even more critical for practices to develop and implement their cloud conversion strategy.
Finance in a Digital World
ICAEW is collaborating with Deloitte to ensure its members and students have the knowledge and skills to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the fourth industrial revolution and to meet its challenges head on. Log-in to access exclusive content, including: eLearning, webinars and bite-sized summaries on individual technologies and the broader impact of digital technologies on finance.
Industry press
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Hybrid cloud is a key milestone for storage
The article offers information on the popularity and rising use of hybrid cloud for data storage. The topics discussed include the tremendous growth of cloud computing, the challenges experienced by chief information officers (CIOs) related to cloud data storage, and the common errors they encountered.
Keeping tabs on cloud costs
The article focuses on the issues regarding costs for cloud services and cloud contracts need to be managed effectively. It mentions approach offers huge benefits to the business, enabling pilots and projects to consume cloud resources and public cloud services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. It mentions software as a service (SaaS) is easy to procure and deploy that it often bypasses procurement and information technology policies.
Taking the cloud first approach
The article focus on impact of cloud computing on the logistic and mentions transaction on global trade management (GTM) and transportation management systems (TMS). Topics discussed include use of cloud computing in the supply chain management (SCM) of several logistics, option on use of functionalities given by vendors to shippers, and customer relationship management (CRM) used by cloud computing.
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Useful links
Cloud Computing
Overviews and beginners guides to cloud computing from Tech Donut.
CloudwatchHUB
Resources from CloudWATCH, a project funded by the European Commission, providing practical information and guidelines for SMEs on cloud computing. Includes the interactive tool European CloudScout which provides tailored information for businesses on how best to use the cloud.
Guidance for firms outsourcing to the ‘cloud’ and other third party IT services
FCA guidance relevant to firms who are interested in outsourcing to the cloud and other third party IT services. It may also be of interest to third party IT providers (including cloud providers), trade associations and consumer groups, law firms and other advisers, and auditors of financial services firms.
BSA global cloud computing scorecard
The BSA/The Software Alliance scorecard examines the legal and regulatory framework of 24 countries around the world, to rank countries’ preparedness for the adoption and growth of cloud computing services.
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