In November, Amazon announced the Alexa For Business, which brings the increasingly popular intelligent personal assistant device from your living room to your office. While the Alexa device in your house offers an array of features that allow you to control your home as well as manage your lifestyle, the Alexa For Business provides the…
Unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, present opportunities for forward-thinking businesses, but at the moment, tight restrictions apply to their usage. In the UK, drones cannot be flown within 150 metres of a congested area, or within 50 metres of a person or vehicle not under the control of the pilot. Drones over the weight of…
We live in a world where cyber-crime and ransomware hacks are on the increase, often with devastating consequences for those organisations caught unaware. In this climate, your customers may well be wary about handing over data if you can’t guarantee it won’t fall into the wrong hands. There are steps you can take to prevent…
The term “Internet of Things” (or IoT for short), is a phrase coined by technology expert and entrepreneur Kevin Ashton in 1999, although variations on the concept had existed previously. It describes a network of physical devices embedded with electronics such as sensors and trackers that connect to the internet, allowing for precise control and…
SOLID is an acronym for five object-oriented design principles. S – Single responsibility principle O – Open-closed principle L – Liskov substitution principle I – Interface segregation principle D – Dependency Inversion Principle The intention behind these five principles is to promote flexible, understandable and maintainable code. The Single Responsibility Principle asserts that a class…
In a BBC news feature from 2012, the author pointed out that despite existing for 40 years as a concept, the widespread reality of an entirely “paperless office” had yet to materialise. The average administrative worker uses 10,000 sheets of paper a year, and 6800 of them are considered to be a waste. But there…
The ability to take cashless payments for your business, either in-store or online has benefits far beyond customer convenience. Not having to collect, count up and transport cash is the most obvious one. Having a running total of all of your transactions in real time is another. Distance is less of an obstacle, and accepting…
With the release of SwiftCase 2.0, the team have taken the opportunity to optimise the system in various ways. As we added new features in this version, it became apparent that existing functionality could also be improved. We have internally highlighted multiple areas that, at the time of development were written efficiently, but over time,…
Website speed is a crucial part of website design that is often surprisingly neglected. According to, theedesign.com the majority of users expect web pages to load in at least 2 seconds and web traffic will drop by around 40% if speeds are over 3 seconds. Don’t underestimate the importance of speed to provide a better…
In 2015, the company Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), in collaboration with the University of Oxford, tested their Lutz Pathfinder car on the roads of Milton Keynes, the first time an autonomous vehicle was permitted by the UK government to travel on public highways. Further tests involving higher speeds and longer distances have taken place since,…