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In the classic Only Fools and Horses scene, Trigger proudly reveals he has used the same broom for 20 years, boasting: “This old thing has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles!”. Much like Trigger’s broom, legacy IT systems, some dating back to the 1970s, are often held together with sticky plaster fixes, posing...

Sustainability is high on most corporate agendas. Previously, sustainability was viewed as corporate philanthropy: a ‘nice to have’ that was great for marketing but had little impact on the overall corporate strategy. This perspective has changed significantly in recent years, as business leaders respond to changing consumer habits which demand sustainable business practices and can...

SCC, Europe’s biggest independent technology solutions provider, has won Public Sector and Utilities Solution of the Year at the 12th European IT & Software Excellence Awards for its work with West Midlands Police (WMP).   The European IT & Software Excellence Awards, widely regarded as Europe’s most prestigious IT Channel Awards, recognise and reward excellence...

SCC has been named as a supplier on the prestigious Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Technology Services 3 (TS3) Framework, through which Public Sector bodies in the UK can procure a range of ICT services. This ensures SCC maintains its position on the next iteration of the successful Technology Services 2 (TS2) Framework. TS3 builds on...

Buy bad, Buy twice: Exploring Increased Investment in Homeworking bundles As we approach the one-year anniversary of COVID-19 forcing the UK and other countries into strict lockdown measures, we all know in great detail about the impact it has had on our working lives. We’ve read about and discussed at length the requirement for organisations...

The immediate impact of COVID-19 on business and, in particular, IT teams was clear for all to see. At the drop of a hat organisations had to enable homeworking for every eligible employee – causing major disruption to business-as-usual, creating a sudden shift in IT security focus, causing chaos to existing projects and IT budgets,...

As the UK turns its attention to recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and enters a new way of working, new research from SCC suggests businesses are prepared to tackle the enhanced challenge of IT security head-on, despite the coronavirus crisis offering up new opportunities for would-be cyber criminals. According to SCC’s latest IT Insights Survey,...

Lack of staff training and awareness around IT security is a much bigger risk to organisations since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to SCC’s most recent IT Insights Report, a series commissioned by SCC to gain valuable insight into the UK IT market, in which we surveyed 550 IT decision-makers from 11 different sectors about the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a rethinking of investment priorities for organisations around the globe, forcing IT decision-makers to make critical choices about whether to reallocate funds from long standing IT security projects, evidenced in SCC’s latest IT Insights Report for IT Security. The report, based on the opinions of 550 IT decision-makers from 11...

As the UK Government begins to ease lockdown measures, organisations across the country are turning their attention to recovery amid the on-going Covid-19 pandemic. In support of this, SCC is delivering critical projects across all industry sectors, helping organisations protect their people and customers with its new Thermal Fever Detection solution. What is it? SCC’s...

With an urgent need to enable widespread homeworking, SCC is supporting a key Central Government department by supplying imaged laptops from ring-fenced and prioritised kit directly to people’s homes, including, where required and possible within social distancing guidance, sending security cleared engineers out to help with installations and set-up. Remote technical support is available where...

This webinar episode covers our IoT Asset Tracking solution. Please join Tyrran Ferguson (Head of IoT / AI) to go through how we deploy our IoT solutions and for a demonstration of our Asset Tracking dashboard. He is joined by Pete Norton from Net4, and Gary de Bruin (IoT / AI Technologist) who go into...