Lucid Software: Miscommunication affecting day-to-day work

18 October 2024

Lucid Software has released data from its latest survey - ‘The Agile advantage: Transforming collaboration for modern teams’ - which uncovers key areas of opportunity for teams to become more agile and deliver business value faster. The data reveals trends, challenges, and opportunities facing knowledge workers in the UK.

The survey found that in 46% of UK businesses, teams can take up to three hours to decide on how to progress business objectives. This suggests firms are wasting money on ineffectual meetings which don’t deliver clear action plans.

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Ransomware victims who paid up double in 2024

17 October 2024

The number of ransomware victims who paid a ransom in 2024 (16.3%) more than doubled on the previous year (6.9%), according to new research from Hornetsecurity.

Data loss has also increased dramatically, from 17.2% in 2023 to 30.2% in 2024. Alarmingly, 5% of organizations reported a complete loss of all affected data.

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Westcon-Comstor and UiPath to drive AI adoption in UK

16 October 2024

Westcon-Comstor has announced a new collaboration with UiPath to drive adoption of UiPath solutions by channel partners and their customers.

The agreement, covering the UK, will see Westcon-Comstor distribute the UiPath fully automated enterprise platform and other products to its network of channel partners across the country.

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Women in telecoms are crucial for UK innovation

16 October 2024

The telecoms and connectivity sector has a diversity problem: only 12% of its engineers are women. And as the industry faces a major talent shortage, we’re presented with an opportunity to try and rebalance our sector.

Key to this is diversifying the talent pool and encouraging greater inclusivity, addressing the industry’s skills shortage and helping drive better business outcomes for UK telecoms.

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