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As the interest in large-scale cloud adoption rises, so do the questions around spend that many customers face pre-adoption. Cloud technology platforms continue to offer considerable business advantages....

In this second whitepaper of our series – Is the utility industry at the centre of a digital shift? – we delve deeper into digital transformation within the Utility Sector. Digital transformation...

What is currently happening in the Utility industry? Whatever your role is in the utilities environment; whether you are an energy generator, provide transmissions & distribution capabilities or are...

In this Whitepaper, Josip Pavlic, Oracle Applications Consultant at Version 1, talks about his experience using JSON in Oracle 12.1, as well as the key functionalities of JSON in Oracle 12c. Josip explores...

As experts in enterprise license optimisation, we encounter organisations that are moving to or have moved to the cloud, and have overlooked or misunderstood the full impact of cloud adoption on their...

Nearshoring is the outsourcing of business processes, especially information technology processes, to companies in a nearby country. Nearshore partnering with Version 1 is an extremely advantageous option...

In 2020, the Education Authority (EA) identified a need to establish a new online application process to streamline their admissions process and system. The Covid-19 pandemic expedited the need for such...

In response to the latest guidance note published by the Office of Government Procurement (OGP Cloud Services Guidance Note February 2021) on Cloud Services Procurement, Version 1 has published a Whitepaper...

NEL engaged Version 1 for an Azure Data Migration as part of a co-funded project with South West London (SWL) to migrate a number of shared datasets to Microsoft Azure. This project would enable NEL’s...

OAuth 2.0 is the industry-standard protocol for authorisation, focusing on client developer simplicity while providing specific authorisation flows for web applications, desktop applications, mobile phones,...

In a highly competitive environment, there is a growing need for businesses to be increasingly data-driven to succeed. Businesses that best utilise data stand a better chance of serving more customers,...

One of the biggest challenges in leveraging data in legacy systems is that there is no single version of the truth. It makes it difficult to use the data when it is spread out on different platforms....

Smart Text is a Natural Language Processing (NLP) solution developed by Version 1’s Innovation Labs. Developed using open source software, this solution gains insights into unstructured documents...

In the world of enterprise IT, vendor audits are unavoidable. Regarded by most enterprise consumers as an unpleasant necessity, they are something to be endured rather than embraced. In 2009, during the...

Business leaders will be exploring any number of ways to survive the 2020 recession as a result of the pandemic and setting out their plans for the future.  Unfortunately, in the world of enterprise...

One of today’s most highly discussed technologies, Blockchain, can bring significant business benefits across a variety of industries, ranging from financial services and personal identity, to healthcare...

Java underpins a wide variety of enterprise software, particularly on the server side, and has historically been considered ‘free’ by businesses. Upcoming changes to the way Oracle Java is licensed...

“This white paper aims to provide organisations moving Oracle to Microsoft Azure cloud with the necessary knowledge and business strategies.” There is often a misconception that migrating Oracle...

Licensing Oracle Workloads on AWS Oracle licensing is a major factor organisations need to consider when making any change to their Oracle environments. It involves an evaluation of complex rules, policies...

Enterprise application vendors do not design their license policies to be easily understood and customers often find themselves paying for products that they do not require and overpaying for the ones...