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Company news, and 15 articles on security, Oracle, cloud, automation, AI and the sectors we work in.

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Dates are as published. The source pages carry a day and month without a year, so the order below is the order they were written in rather than a sort on a date we do not have.

Security

Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026: a guide for companies

What this year's campaigns in the US, Canada, Europe and India ask for, what the four habits and CISA's three Rs look like inside a company, and the gaps no amount of training closes.

Cloud

Cloud security and risk management

Five best practices for cloud security, the figures behind the risk, and the four trends reshaping it: AI involvement, zero-trust network access, task automation and cloud-native security.

Data

A complete guide to data visualization tools

Ten open-source and free data visualization tools, what each one is best at, and what you need before choosing between them.

Automation

Five factors while deploying an RPA system in your business

What robotic process automation is, the bank case that ran 85 bots across 13 processes, and the five factors that decide whether an RPA deployment succeeds or collapses.

Cloud

Best ideas for cost-effective cloud computing

Direct and indirect costs of a cloud migration, how to calculate total cost of ownership, the hidden costs that get missed, and how to decide between a full and hybrid move.

Deep tech

The blockchain spur

What a blockchain actually is, how the hash of each block makes tampering visible, and where the technology is being applied: healthcare, banking, voting, supply chain and IoT.

AI

AI in 2020 and beyond

Where artificial intelligence already sits: drug discovery, navigation, home assistants, trading algorithms and wearables, and what the next stage of human-machine conversation looks like.

Sector

Reshaping e-commerce amidst COVID-19

The four trends expected to reshape e-commerce after COVID-19: digitized retail, automation, IoT-enabled commerce and personalized shopping, with the traffic and payment figures behind them.

Oracle

Oracle Database Vault 19c

Oracle Database Vault 19c on EBS 12.2: realms preventing privilege misuse, controls for HIPAA, GDPR and PCI-DSS, a single trusted path, and simulation mode for verifying controls.

AI

Why an AI chat bot is important for your company

What a chat bot is, the two tasks it has to perform, the answer types it can return, and the market growth projected from $2.6 billion in 2019 to $9.4 billion by 2024.

Fintech

Five examples which suggest that fintech is important

Mobile payments, digital banking, insurtech, cryptocurrency, blockchain and crowdfunding: the fintech categories reshaping financial services, and the investment share behind them.

Oracle

Innovative and enhanced Oracle Enterprise Command Centers

Oracle Enterprise Command Center: a dashboard management system on the E-Business Suite framework, with built-in commands, interactive visual components and updates deployed without changing the EBS database.

Sector

Making education tech-led amidst COVID-19

How COVID-19 changed the face of education: virtual classrooms, e-learning platforms scaling their server infrastructure, and a market predicted to cross $350 billion by 2025.

Delivery

Offshore support amid COVID-19

How AtomicNorth built its work-from-home delivery infrastructure on MS Teams, Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence to keep offshore support running through COVID-19.

Company

The AtomicNorth approach in COVID-19

The measures AtomicNorth took during the COVID-19 outbreak: office sanitisation, no pay cuts, regular HR sessions, retaining non-essential workers, and a work-from-home network.