All Insights

Four things every CTO should do in 2023

Martin Twiss

How to ensure your organisation is properly prepared for disruption

Martin Twiss

Service teams: Five ways to improve your accessibility testing

How to spot a failing IT project (and what to do about it)

Martin Twiss

Mobile app development: When is React Native the right choice for your business?

Laura Hughes

Gender Pay Gap Results: Opportunity, Fairness and Representation at Softwire

Chris Harris

Alpha projects: How do you make yours a success?

Dharmesh Chauhan

Three stages to MDM-enabled data maturity

Yemi Olagbaiye, Jonathon Artus

Four definitions of ‘good design’ that we love

Callum Bates

How to scale an image processing pipeline to hundreds of workers using Kubernetes and KEDA

Simon St John-Green

Discovery projects: What do they involve and how do you make them a success?

Dharmesh Chauhan

What is Data Engineering and how can it help your business?

Jonathon Artus

DNSControl (Infrastructure as Code series)

Usman Iqbal

What really happens when a Kubernetes container runs out of memory?

Simon St John-Green

Government leaders need to take the GDS Service Standard seriously or risk rising costs.

Callum Bates

Four workarounds to use when Scrum or Kanban agile methods don’t work

Raul Tabacu

How to turn your sophisticated spreadsheet models into enterprise-class tools

Hereward Mills and Simon St. John-Green

Designing an operating model to unlock the potential of a headless CMS build

Emily Feinson

A day in the life of: Stevie Jones, Design Principal at Softwire

Stevie Jones

What do CTOs need to know to successfully product prototype?

Continuous Delivery vs Continuous Deployment: Understanding the Difference

A day in the life of: Dan Waters, Delivery Principal at Softwire

How to choose the right Container Orchestrator

Usman Iqbal

User experience design: Top advice from the RSA’s Head of Digital

Is a cross-platform app the best way to build your mobile offering?

Sam Collard

Innovation projects need careful financial planning to succeed – and here’s why

Helen Jeffers

Training the next generation: A two-week crash course in software engineering

Taiwo Olateju

Digital accessibility 101: Six things every CIO needs to know

Sam Collard and Katherine Langford

Why you shouldn’t lift-and-shift legacy software to the cloud (and what to do instead)

Joe Edwards

How to improve your diversity monitoring

Ariana Ocampo

How can businesses help avoid systemic racism in the workplace?

How Covid-19 put IT at the forefront of decision-making

The three common digital transformation pitfalls to avoid

Why open and accessible data will be more impactful

Benjamin Fernandes

Looking for a new in-house system? Here’s how to decide between bespoke and off-the-shelf

Jane Haysome

How digital leaders can support today’s truly hybrid workforces

Usman Iqbal

How to turn your big idea into digital reality

Martin Twiss

Five ways to create better digital services

Seven things you need to know about Serverless computing

Olly Levett

Securing digital advantage

Why a cloud-native technology approach is key for any media business if it’s to thrive in the modern world

Yemi Olagbaiye

From project management to software development

Lorraine Gillespie

Learn to trust yourself before you learn to code – my journey to becoming a developer

Five ways tech will shape organisations through 2021

Yemi Olagbaiye

Galvanising the Geeks

Zoe Cunningham

Three ways the CTO role has changed

Martin Twiss

Instilling a security-focussed culture in digital teams

David Edey and James Griffiths

How to spot the signs you’ve outgrown spreadsheets

Jonathon Artus

Cloud optimisation

Why are we still talking about cloud in 2021?

Zoe Cunningham

Remote work experience

Matthew Wilson

How to overcome the common blockers to cloud adoption

How to get more value from your moderated user testing

Ruth Swift-Wood

Five principles of good digital design

Innovation: What the private sector can learn from government

Understanding the innovation cycle part 3: Pilot and MVP

Yemi Olagbaiye

Mental health learnings from four months of home-working

Sarah Binney, Marcus Gardiner & Esme Chant

Understanding the innovation cycle part 2: Prototyping

Yemi Olagbaiye

The 6 challenges facing neobanks

The challenges of returning to work after a career break (and what we can all do to help)

Jane Haysome

Understanding the innovation cycle part 1: Proof of Concept

Yemi Olagbaiye

The changing role of the digital project manager

Halina Wojszwillo

How to successfully outsource your IT project

Chris Harris

Predicting the future of Financial Services: What’s changed since 2018?

Yemi Olagbaiye

Financial Services in Disruption

Jonathon Artus

Your first AI proof of concept is complete. What next? (Part V of V)

Yemi Olagbaiye

The skills you need to turn AI from theory to real business value (Part IV of V)

Yemi Olagbaiye

The six steps to follow to kick-off a successful AI project (Part III of V)

Yemi Olagbaiye

Artificial Intelligence: Inspiring real-world examples (Part II of V)

Yemi Olagbaiye

What is data literacy?

Trans Day of Visibility: What being trans means to me?

Artificial Intelligence: Today’s reality vs the hype (Part I of V)

Yemi Olagbaiye

Building resilience into your technical team

Chris Harris

Continuity and control through COVID-19

Yemi Olagbaiye

David Lloyd – from paper to prototype

Six ways to make your media business more agile and innovative

Chris Harris

When am I ‘at work’?

Zoe Cunningham

20 Years of Technology

Zoe Cunningham

The six steps to instilling a productive DevOps culture in your organisation

Usman Iqbal

2020 tech trends: Five things to look out for this year

Yemi Olagbaiye

Project Success: Why is stakeholder buy-in critical?

How can strong data governance improve your AI project?

Gareth Edwards

#SoftwireExplains AI

Gareth Edwards

Five ways to get the most from your analytics project

Usman Iqbal

Election 2019: Why the UK is right to stick with pencil-and-paper voting

Francine Barsam

How can your company implement DevOps?

Usman Iqbal

How a business can help make the world a more inclusive place

How organisations can give themselves an edge over startups

Making our recruitment more inclusive (part 2)

Zoe Cunningham

Project Success: Why is managing expectations so important?

Chris Harris

Technology – Good or bad for the environment?

Zoe Cunningham

Helping match stem cell donors with patients in need of a transplant

How the smarter state will mean a healthier you

Zoe Cunningham

Greener states demand digital innovation

Zoe Cunningham

When should you build a prototype?

Making our recruitment more inclusive

Zoe Cunningham

Why is User Research Important?

Ruth Swift-Wood

Unlocking the value of prototyping

Four steps to choosing the right software support supplier

Six steps to choosing the right partners for your digital project

Behind the AI Takeover

Yemi Olagbaiye

Why create a prototype

Yemi Olagbaiye

Tech Future

Zoe Cunningham

Arithmetic using the Scala Type System

Joe Edwards

Implementing a custom Netlify CMS widget

Katherine Langford

The Rise in Employee Activism

Zoe Cunningham

Making a positive impact within the workplace

Francine Barsam

Unearthing Untapped STEM Talent

Gareth Johnson

Green Consumption: Big Data holds the key to sustainability

Chris Harris

The state of play in AI: Insights from some industry leaders

Helen Jeffers

Women in Tech: What more could be done

Zoe Cunningham

8 top tips you need to manage your IT budget

Yemi Olagbaiye

Company culture that delivers results

IoT trends

Have you really thought about IoT security?

Sean O'Connor

The importance of awards for promoting diversity

Zoe Cunningham

Want to be successful? Don’t hire a yes man.

Zoe Cunningham

A look ahead: Predicting 2019 technology trends

Yemi Olagbaiye

How I set up a tiny Docker Swarm cluster in my living room

Simon St John-Green

The 5 technology trends shaping retail

Yemi Olagbaiye

Useable or Useless? How to Declutter Data for the Greater Good

Gareth Edwards

My experience as a Softwire Intern

Why open Banking demands a truly customer-centric approach to designing services.

Sean O'Connor

How to transition from Tech to Business

Zoe Cunningham

How to use data to underpin ever-more-personalised healthcare

Zoe Cunningham

Time for a toilet break?

Francine Barsam

Fears surrounding the ethics of AI development risk constraining innovation

Yemi Olagbaiye

Why are there still expensive IT failures?

Cultural change – setting businesses up for success

Zoe Cunningham

Healthcare in 2040: How robots could transform the NHS

Women in Tech – How long can we wait ?

Zoe Cunningham

What will banking look like in 2020?

Yemi Olagbaiye

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks

Six tech trends you need to know about in 2018

Yemi Olagbaiye

A summer internship at Softwire

How to create the perfect working environment for your business

Zoe Cunningham

Creating a great organisational culture: Perks

Zoe Cunningham

How to get ahead with public sector tenders

How to build a business that attracts and retains the best people

Zoe Cunningham

My experience as an intern at Softwire

Jenny Potter

6 key factors for successful sprint planning

Alexa is the New Command Line

Andy Patterson

Employee Benefits

Best Small Companies to work for award

Working at Softwire

Software Development. Where do you even start?

A quick guide to javascript streams

Top 5 technology trends for 2017

Top 5 technology trends for 2017

Yemi Olagbaiye

Submitting your cordova app to the apple app store

Typing Lodash in TypeScript, with Generic Union Types

Fixing aggregation over relationships with Sequelize

Explaining a security vulnerability: the IIS Range Header attack (CVE-2015-1635)

Configuring IIS with PowerShell

I wrote a bot to solve 2048 so I would never have to play it again

Don’t be too lazy – LINQ’s lazy evaluation gotchas

Unit testing NHibernate-based data access code using SQLite

Content-Disposition headers in .NET

Interview question: Potato Spies