The common tech challenges for accountants
Jessica Pillow offers her takeaways from the Alternative Accountancy Strategic IT Conference, which showed that accountants have common ground when it comes to tech issues.
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
In case of emergency
What more could have been done to lessen the effects of the attack?
The right security approach
Improving your office operations may be just an app away. Whether it’s collaboration, file sharing, instant messaging or productivity solutions, here we profile seven apps on the market.
Byte size: Tech news roundup
A roundup of the latest news surrounding technology. This edition includes enhancements to Bluetooth, statistics on the usage of artificial intelligence, and a teenager earning a ‘bug bounty’ for finding a flaw in FaceTime.
Guidance
How to audit the cloud
Cloud computing is transforming business IT services, but it also poses significant risks that need to be planned for. This practical guide for internal audits outlines how they should assess risk management.
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.
Cloud adoption: a risk-based approach to choosing a cloud platform
This guide takes you through the decision-making process and outsourcing options for IT platform procurement.
Webinars and recordings
It never rains it pours - the challenges of auditing the cloud
The webinar will look at the challenges faced by internal auditors in auditing the cloud.
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.
Finance in a Digital World
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Industry press
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Online accounting software: three firms share their journeys into the cloud
The article presents case studies of accounting firms who were successful through technology using cloud computing software. Software services included payroll management, servicing remote clients, and doing bill payment, software products included Xero, QuckBooks Online, and Sage Business Cloud Accounting.
Cloud bursting: What it is and how to do it
The article discusses the pitfalls to cloud bursting, a process in cloud computing where some workloads in a private cloud are moved to a public cloud for a temporary period to deal with peaks in information technology (IT) demand. Topics covered include managing peaks in website traffic with on-demand infrastructure, impact of cloud bursting on data storage, locking process in metadata management and cloud bursting storage solutions.
Choosing the right kind of hybrid cloud management
The article offers information on various factors that businesses should consider to solve their cloud management challenges using hybrid cloud management (HCM) solutions.
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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.
Selecting business software guide
Guidance from British Application Software Developers Association (BASDA) to help buyers of business software make the right decisions. It offers advice and best practices seen in the procurement of a wide range of systems from Apps through Cloud-based and On-premise solutions by purchasers from all types and sizes of organisations. Registration required.
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