White papers

This white paper builds on survey responses from 233 decision makers within central and local government - including those in HR, Finance, Operations, Procurement and more - to understand government's future priorities. 

IT leaders face an immense challenge when it comes to data loss. This Egress report, which builds on an independent survey of more than 500 IT leaders and 3000 remote-working employees, explores the tools IT leaders have in place to prevent data loss and asks how confident they are that these tools are effective.

This guide from Qlik offers 7 tips for using data to make the best possible decisions

In partnership with Dods Research, Elastic presents three strategy considerations for UK government IT leaders

Kicking the legacy modernisation can down the road costs significantly more every year. This white paper from Advanced looks at the challenges of maintaining legacy applications, the modernisation options available and a refactoring approach.

This paper will show how government can incorporate AI-driven decisioning into existing business processes. This will help them overcome the barriers to digital transformation – i.e. certain inefficient manual processes, time-to-insight, and the inability to act fast – to innovate service delivery, drive efficiency and help build a better Britain for the future.

This report from SAS outlines practical steps and advice to help fight the tide of criminal activity with best practice principles and AI. 

Whether in the public sector or the private sector, social responsibility is a slippery notion - easily recognised, but difficult to define. Nevertheless, in both the corporate world and the public sector, recent decades have seen it move ever-closer to centre stage.

With a preface from Chuka Umunna MP, the 2020 Mainframe Modernisation Business Barometer Report explores the global trends in the mainframe market, the challenges facing organisations and the case for application modernisation among large enterprises with annual revenues over $1 billion.

This report from Civil Service World & Workday explores the progress made by the public sector towards a more agile way of working.

This report from Citrix explores how to best deliver both the human and functional aspirations of the government’s Smarter Working programme

This guide, presented by Egress, outlines human activated risk, how to implement human layer security, and the role of machine learning.

This whitepaper by Global Data, commissioned by SAP Concur, explores some of the public sector's successful implementations of spend management systems.

Are contact tracing apps or a “Test, Track and Trace” strategy enough to get the UK safely back to normal after COVID-19? A public warning system that leverages location data for targeted alerts to mobile phones can extend the value of this approach.

This white paper from Everbridge looks at the learnings from countries that used such systems to accelerate a return to normal.

This report from Egress, built on the back of an independent survey, explores the significant challenge of insider breaches – employees either deliberately or accidentally sharing sensitive data.

As austerity has loosened its grip, and with Brexit looming, government spend with consultancies has crept back up. The consultancy costs reported in departments’ annual reports totalled £332 million for 2017-18. This report from Proxima asks whether government has learnt from past mistakes. 

This new report by Proxima examines the government's procurement strategy, and asks whether the transformations undertaken so far are effective in improving the commercial capabilities of departments.

This new report by International Data Corporation shows why digital transformation should go hand in hand with network transformation and reviews the factors that organisations should carefully consider in their network migration. 

This new report from EY shows how collecting and analysing data from multiple households can lead to early intervention and better outcomes for less money.