by Amanda Bunney | Mar 14, 2019 | Articles, Practice - Data, Practice - Digital
Spreadsheets are indispensable for many functions. They are the main component in end-user computing (EUC), which is software built by non-programmers usually on a users’ desktop. They are the ideal choice for financial reporting, ad-hoc analyses, personal data...
by Claire Shoesmith | Feb 28, 2019 | Articles, Practice - Data, Practice - Digital
In today’s highly-competitive financial markets the margins on trading are getting thinner and banks are having to increasingly focus on reducing costs in order to maintain profitability. This is especially true for mistaken or accidental costs incurred by banking...
by Claire Shoesmith | Feb 15, 2019 | Articles, Practice - Automation, Practice - Data, Practice - Digital
Two decades after being established under the motto ‘don’t be evil’, tens of thousands of Google employees conducted a worldwide walkout targeting workplace culture in November 2018. Ironically, only a year earlier, Google ranked top of Fortune magazine’s list of Best...
by Claire Shoesmith | Feb 11, 2019 | Articles, Hot Topic - Robotics, Hot-Topic - Technology, Practice - Automation, Practice - Data
Winning is all about doing things first, fastest and/or better than everyone else. In business that means finding ways of excelling where others don’t, seeking an advantage and using it to your own benefit, or taking something that everyone is looking at and using it...
by Claire Shoesmith | Jan 21, 2019 | Articles, Practice - Data, Practice - Digital
We’ve all been there – touched the wrong key on the keyboard and before you know it a formula has changed and suddenly the output of the equation is not what it should be. Or alternatively, the individual responsible for a particular spreadsheet has left the business...
by Claire Shoesmith | Jan 17, 2019 | Articles, Hot-Topic - Technology, News, Practice - Data, Practice - Digital, Practice - Quality & Testing
Banks are currently facing a raft of challenges in the areas of technology advancement, regulation and Brexit. However this is not all. In an article published in Specialist Banking, Pierre Velinor, Brickendon’s head of engagement, looks at the...
