Widening the ICT skills net
Alex Meehan explains how businesses can broaden their reach in the search for talent
Optimal working: what will it look like after Covid?
The concept of the new normal may be a cliché, but many companies are finding that the way they work is changing, most likely for good
Video conferencing: optimising often sub-optimal situations
The pandemic has brought video calling and collaboration to the next level
Back to the future: Mark O’Connell interview
His first two books, To Be a Machine and Notes from an Apocalypse, have set him apart as one of the foremost thinkers and writers of his time. Here, the author talks transhumanism, doomsday preppers and billionaire bunkers.
Automatic for the people: how to get the best from CRM
As automation in customer service grows in popularity, it’s time to ask what customer relationship management can do for you
Short courses can be best way address ICT skills shortage
Micro qualifications can allow people to upskill quickly and address market needs
How ERP has been an unexpected lifeline for companies during pandemic
For most companies, enterprise resource planning systems are at the heart of how they do business – and the ability to continue to use these systems through the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting work-from-home era of Irish business has been crucial
Counting the cost of digital privacy
If your online business model depends on your customers not understanding what you’re doing, is it a sustainable and ethical business, and does it deserve to survive?
Urban Co-Op booms during the pandemic
A Limerick food co-op has seen sales rise by more than 40 per cent in the past year as a result of changed shopping habits
‘My goal is to make fish accessible and make it fun’
At just 26, Aishling Moore is one of the country’s youngest head chefs. She tells us about her career, her love of seafood and why more young people should consider a career in the kitchen
Video conferencing is here to stay for 2021
The usefulness of remote video technology for businesses was one of the few high points in a year to forget
Why hyperconverged infrastructure is gaining ground during lockdown
With companies beginning to look to the future again, this technology is enjoying a surge in popularity
Managed ICT services and the Covid connection
At first glance, it might not seem like there’s much in common between Covid-19 and the business of providing outsourced IT services, but scratch the surface and shared points quickly become visible
Break out and book into a luxury hotel
It’s been a pretty tough year for most of us, but what better way to blow the bleakness away than an opulent break in a top-class hotel. Best of all, you don’t have to get on a flight. We have the pick of the crop here at home
Northern star: The chef helping put Belfast on the Michelin map
Stevie Toman of Ox will be spending his second lockdown of 2020 getting ready to make the restaurant better than ever
Ahead of the game
The world of gaming has given birth to computational and display technologies that have gone on to become mainstays of medicine, architecture, engineering and the film and TV production industries. Alex Meehan reports on what’s next
ERP spend continuues through the pandemic
Remote working, efficiency-at-a-distance and even Brexit all present challenges in 2020, but enterprise resource planning can offer solutions. Alex Meehan reports
Why a good knife is the most important item in the kitchen
From off-the-shelf models to custom-made pieces, your perfect blade is out there somewhere
Pandemic brings both problems and solutions to managed print
Alex Meehan on how a classic part of IT has adapted through the crisis
The follow-me workplaces of 2020
Working from home is here for the foreseeable future, and the workplace needs to evolve to keep up with societal changes