Industry news

Wipro has secured a data centre transformation contract with National Grid. The five-year deal, which contains two twelve month extension options, is valued at $44.5m (c.£32m). The engagement will see Wipro help the UK and US energy company move to a hybrid cloud infrastructure.

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Mastercard, has utilised technology from Accenture and Salesforce in an effort to meet its environmental obligations and take meaningful action against climate change. The card provider hopes that the cloud-based analytics will help it to better understand its carbon footprint and the effect that its network of global suppliers is having on the environment.

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Cognizant has announced plans to add a further 2,500 personnel to its UK headcount over the next four years. If achieved, it will lift the offshore centric major’s staff numbers in this country to nearly 10,000 employees by 2025 and the opening of two new delivery centres in Leeds and Northern Ireland.

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Marks & Spencer has committed over £20m to a technology investment fund managed by True Capital, a sort of hybrid corporate advisory-cum-private equity outfit that specialises in the retail and consumer sector.

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Atos has announced a global partnership with Johnson Controls, a “global leader for smart, healthy, and sustainable buildings”.  The aim is to help private and public sector customers accelerate their journey to Net Zero by providing a set of end-to-end advisory services, digital, and other decarbonisation capabilities.

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The UK is creating almost $1bn “unicorn” technology business a week after influx of £13.5bn venture capital (VC) funding in the first six months of the year, setting the tech sector up for another record year of investment in 2021. Read the full article here on ComputerWeekly.com 

Researchers from the University of Cambridge say a combination of statistical techniques and radar data makes it possible to forecast whether a drone intends to enter restricted airspace.

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The technology giant made passwordless accounts available for business users of its products in March.

It said "nearly 100% of our employees" were already using the new, more secure system for their corporate accounts.

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London’s 115,000 Taxi and Private Hire Vehicles are Set to Benefit from a New Cloud-based Smart Mobility System Powered by Tata Consultancy Services’ DigiGOV™ Framework

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) (BSE: 532540, NSE: TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, has been selected by Transport for London (TfL) to design, implement and operate a new smart mobility system that will reimagine the administration of taxi and private hire vehicles in London.

Read more on the TCS site here.

Ascensos has announced its expansion into South Africa with the opening of a new operation in Cape Town.

The leading customer service outsourcing firm, which is headquartered in Motherwell, employs over 3,000 colleagues and has expanded internationally since its 2013 launch, with its network of offices now spanning the Isle of Wight, Bucharest and Istanbul, as well as several bases in Scotland.

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