This browser is not supported

We recomend using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Edge to view the site

Need to get in contact with us?

For the best experience we recomend using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox or Edge to view this site

Free No-Risk Discussion

The initial requirements gathering and analysis of your project is completely free, with no-obligation to purchase our services.

Provide your contact details below and we’ll get in touch to arrange a chat.

Thanks, we'll get back to you soon. In the meantime please add any extra information below

Thank you.

We'll get back to you as soon as possible.

or call us on 01753 213 700

Subscribe for Updates

Get all the latest news and insight from the Avco blog directly to your inbox!

Tech roundup - October 2018 cover image
Jag Singh

Jag Singh

Oct 2018

3 minute read

Tech roundup - October 2018

The tech news and insights for leaders that you won’t want to miss. For October’s tech news round up, we have some deeper insights into Digital Transformation, a peek into Rockstar games, and some new developer tools that may make life easier for your development team.

Don’t miss out. Subscribe for the next hot issue delivered direct to your inbox.

subscribe

Tech Insights for Leaders

Interesting advancements and insights for Tech Leaders

How to Transform and Build a People Platform

17 October / Arjun Sethi

How to Transform and Build a People Platform

An interesting look at how tech companies give their teams flexibility to innovate and perform better. In summary, you need to find the dependencies between your team and why they exist, and then rather than forcing a “right way of doing things,” give people building blocks.

read article

LinkedIn founder Explains The Most Important Challenge For Tech In The Next 25 Years

12 October / Nicholas Thompson

LinkedIn founder Explains The Most Important Challenge For Tech In The Next 25 Years

you expect the answer to be around nurturing coding talent, but actually it’s about building soft skills (written/oral communication, team building, leadership, etc) to take advantage of AI advances. And the trick is to build everyone up to have a base level of ‘digital fluency’ skills, as it’s more complex learning multiple skills at the same time.

read article

What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

Julian Hamilton and Richard Horwood

What is RPA? A revolution in business process automation

RPA is Robotic Process Automation, which is governed by software robots (bots) or artificial intelligence to gather and interpret applications and systems data. It can give you quick wins for process automation, but to be done at scale, like any transformation program it needs to be embedded with IT and the rest of the organisation so expectations and impact can be managed.

read article

Cool Work tech tools

Tools to save you and your team time, and increase your productivity

The Google Cloud Developer Cheat Sheet

The Google Cloud Developer Cheat Sheet

A comprehensive list of all of the Google Cloud products and online resources with concise and succinct descriptions.

read article

NorthStack

NorthStack

NorthStack is a managed application hosting built on a modern serverless AWS stack. Deploy vanilla or headless WordPress, Node, (Laravel coming soon), or static sites with ease. Pay-as-you-go billing independently meters CPU, DB, Data Transfer, and Disk while the platform elastically autoscales in a serverless environment.

read article

Github Actions

Github Actions

A workflow automation tool in GitHub. With an interface that will be familiar to anyone who has used IFTTT, Actions will help engineers run their workflows directly from GitHub. Summary - No more messing around with 10 different services just to get your code into production. Engineers will be able to automate time-consuming, low-level workflows and, as GitHub puts it, “Focus on what matters: code.” Just like repos, Actions will be shareable and discoverable.

read article

Apisentris

Apisentris

Apisentris is a platform that turns database schema into RESTful API. Apisentris is built with developer-in-mind. It makes you develop APIs effectively and easily although you don't understand programming language.

read article

ApexCharts

ApexCharts

ApexCharts is an open-source modern charting library that helps developers to create interactive visualizations for web pages with simple API.

read article

Alternative Industry Insights

Interesting insights into technology to Level Up your knowledge

How smart cities are about to rock our world

24 October / Adam Beck

How smart cities are about to rock our world

In summary, it’s about using IoT sensors to provide data to help with planning to ease congestion and emissions, provide better transport options and improve health and safety.

read article

Google’s take on Digital Transformation in Marketing

October / Gill Whitehead and Gerald Breatnach

Google’s take on Digital Transformation in Marketing

Insights on developing a connected data platform to help drive effectiveness, including an easy to understand digital maturity framework. And an overview of multi-touch attribution, which will help better understand the relative contribution of each online channel to a given conversion.

read article

Here’s how you can painlessly integrate voice in your business

Andy Zimmerman

Here’s how you can painlessly integrate voice in your business

In short, it’s about building process bridges between various software platforms in charge of different services so that voice can give meaningful customer experiences, rather than simply being a gimmick. For example, if you could edit your Dominos order using Alexa instead of simply ordering.

read article

Tech stuff we love

We cherry picked the juiciest stories for you

Inside Rockstar: Red Dead Redemption 2

25 October

Inside Rockstar: Red Dead Redemption 2

Aside from our quick lunchtime gaming sessions, we don’t particularly have time for games anymore. Nevertheless, this is an interesting peek behind the curtain of the most successful games developer, and how story telling is becoming more central to creating immersive experiences.

read article

Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Automatic litter boxes and mobile cereal cups.

28 October / Drew Prindel

Awesome Tech You Can’t Buy Yet: Automatic litter boxes and mobile cereal cups.

An edit of the most unusual, ambitious, and exciting new crowdfunding projects out there.

read article

Looking for a good read? Here are the best, most eye-opening books about tech.

21 October / Luke Dormehl

Looking for a good read? Here are the best, most eye-opening books about tech.

Sometimes it’s sensible to put down the gadgets and pick up a good old-fashioned book — to read about the latest gadgets, of course. But with so many tech-themed books around, which should you check out first?

read article