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The future is all about transformation This latest edition of the Brickendon Journal (Journal 14) focuses on some of the key areas currently influencing the financial services sector, including the cloud and data. We look at how data analytics is becoming increasingly important and how, by embracing the latest tools and techniques, many new business […]

Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in the best finance sector project category of the DevOps Industry Awards for the second year running. Also a two-time winner of the European Software Testing Awards, Brickendon won the nomination for successfully implementing a DevOps programme that has increased the client’s global software releases by 45 […]

Brickendon Director Iya Datikashvili features in the September edition of International Finance magazine discussing the myths surrounding DevOps. DevOps, the combination of software development and operations, has been proven to improve the performance of the software development lifecycle. The DevOps methodology has attracted a fair share of confusion and therefore many businesses have not fully […]

Brickendon Partner and data expert Nathan Snyder features in the latest edition of Global Banking & Finance review (issue 12) discussing GDPR’s international reach. In the countdown to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which came into force on 25 May 2018, the majority of businesses only considered the implications of this within EU boundaries […]

By Iya Datikashvili, director Want to build quality software in a rapid, continuous and repeatable manner? Then it’s time to adopt DevOps. The DevOps software development practice brings formerly siloed teams within an organisation together to work as part of an integrated team that does just that – builds quality software in a rapid, continuous, […]

By Executive Director Nikit Kothari and Director Andrew Lawson Data globalisation challenges The advent of big data and the cloud was supposed to make distributing applications and data easier for global banks. A key selling point was to have a single location from which to run applications and store data which would make the process cheaper […]

By Iya Datikashvili, director DevOps is a hot topic at the moment, but as technology forges ahead with adopting the practice, the business unit seems to be lagging behind. The reason for their delay in embracing the practice is simple: the lack of clarity of their role in the DevOps world. Traditionally the business unit […]

Cloud Computing, by Nikit Kothari, executive director The use of cloud computing has been gaining some serious momentum in Financial Services in recent years. With an increased focus on cost efficiency, continuing to deliver against a very aggressive technical roadmap has become the norm in our current financial environment. Revenues are now growing based on […]

The deadline for compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may now be behind us, but there is still no room for complacency. While companies within the EU are well aware of the implications of non-compliance – fines of as much as €20 million or 4 per cent of global turnover – many […]