Tony Head on Access IT Automation

Down to Business – Windows 10 End of Life is an Opportunity for Innovation, Not Maintenance

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:30:40 +0100

It’s just six months to go until one of the most talked about dates on the IT calendar for 2025 – Windows 10 End of Life (EOL). Anybody who has been following this story (which is probably everyone) will know that the EOL deadline has become considerably softer than initially thought. Still, now is the time to execute on Windows 10 EOL and similar programs with upcoming deadlines. It is also time to execute on supporting projects, such as application remediation.

2024 Reflections and Looking Ahead to 2025

Mon, 30 Dec 2024 12:12:07 +0100

It is becoming a bit of a cliche to say technology is changing business faster than ever, but it is hard to come to any other conclusion in our areas of expertise at Access IT Automation: application management and end-user computing (EUC).

London Is the Place to Be this November for EUC and Application Automation

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 17:16:54 +0100

End User Computing (EUC) is a part of the technology sector that is innovative, vibrant, and fast-changing to meet the demands of users and businesses. These characteristics make collaboration and communication within the EUC space critically important. In the UK, the EUC Forum is central to fostering positive collaboration and communication. This November, all roads lead to London for the forum’s Winter Meeting.

Cloud Migration and IT Modernisation in 2024 – Reflections of a CEO

Tue, 02 Jan 2024 08:14:18 +0100

There are a lot of unknowns in the world as we head into 2024, but the continuing push for digital transformation is undeniably one of them. The pace at which digital transformation strategies are being updated and implemented will, if anything, increase as organisations large and small deal with the buffeting winds of challenging economic conditions, cybersecurity threats, ongoing geopolitical upheaval, skills shortages, and the uncertainty that is inevitable with so many big elections on the horizon for the coming year.

Partnerships and Why They are Important to Us – A Message from Our CEO

Thu, 24 Aug 2023 12:24:58 +0100

There is a well-known idiom that says no man (or woman) is an island. Our belief at Access IT Automation is that this also applies in the world of business. Businesses cannot be successful as self-sufficient or isolated entities, and having business-to-customer and business-to-supplier relationships is not enough. Partnership arrangements are also crucial.

Today’s CIOs Must Drive Innovation, Rather Than Just “Keep The Lights On”

Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 +0100

It’s now not enough to just keep the light on. CIOs need to create digital transformation now more than ever.

If you are a Chief Information Officer or a similar upper management executive in the IT organization, you know that a massive tidal shift is currently underway. For the past few years, we have felt the current pulling, but now that Digital Business Transformation and growth through technological innovation is on every CEOs mindest, the time has come to implement the changes rather than wait and see! Today, we want to take a closer look at how this change has impacted IT as a department and the role of the CIO in particular.

With Increasing Off-Shore Costs Are You Getting The Service Quality You Paid For?

Wed, 12 Jul 2017 00:00:00 +0100

On the surface, it appears that offshore IT rates have remained relatively stable over the last 10 – 15 years. That is only partially true

In my experience, the average rate of an inexperienced resource for IT work is still about $18 an hour, but the rates for a high-end resource are now over $50 per hour, so the overall offshore cost depends on the project and the company.

How IT Should Be Evaluated In 2021

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Let’s take a look back at IT in 2021.

IT has always been a difficult thing to evaluate. For any enterprise, IT is a shared, limited resource that is also awfully expensive and high risk. After 35 years in the consulting business, I have had the privilege of meeting many CIOs and have learned a lot from them. The primary lesson is that IT is never good enough, never fast enough, and never cheap enough.

Making The Case For IT Automation

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Let IT automation transform your business for the better.

For decades, IT organizations have preached the virtues of automation to improve the efficiency of business operations, reduce personnel costs, and reduce human error across the enterprises they support.

Now, technology is providing IT organizations with the capability to lead by example and automate many of their own routine processes that are costly to their organization and the business. More often than not, application outages are due to human error during routine software upgrades, new software deployments, or poorly tested patches and fixes.

Real-world IT Challenges

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 +0100

Just some of the latest challenges facing the IT world.

There are numerous factors affecting the way we perceive IT and the way in which this can affect your organization overall. The list below is just some of them.