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• Blog Posts

  • Want real strategic business insights? It all starts with your data warehouse.
  • What is IR35 and how is it going to affect the private sector and professional services?
  • How event-driven business process management enables you to target, design and deliver change
  • How business dexterity can unlock market leading customer experiences
  • Overcoming the CIO’s dilemma: data protection or business agility?
  • Why GDPR compliance can make your business more agile
  • Protect your customers, profits and reputation with an IT security healthcheck
  • Believe it or not, good software is supposed to be expensive
  • 4 neverfail ways to capture what’s inside your client’s head
  • Staying sane and efficient during the software scoping process
  • SaaS, PaaS, IaaS and all that jazz made into clear business sense
  • Why DevOps is being prescribed in the healthcare and pharma sectors
  • How coding became cool
  • How your business could profit from AI in the future
  • What Blockchain could mean for your business
  • 5 reasons to use data visualisation for business advantage
  • Why boring old backup should be a top business priority
  • Software and data: keys to the progressive NGO
  • Is your ERP system ready for 3D printing?
  • The best of the best 2017 IT business predictions
  • How to preserve the right culture in a growing software development company
  • Why smart buildings are an opportunity for every business
  • Six Helastel secrets to share
  • NGO software development challenges and how to solve them
  • Tales from the discovery workshop
  • Five things that make CyberEssentials essential
  • Six more reasons to smartsource your software development
  • The amazing drug delivery technologies set to transform the pharmaceutical industry
  • How new changes to PCI compliance affect you
  • Scoping software projects the Agile way
  • How to develop custom software to address your company’s needs
  • What happens when big pharma and big data collide?
  • Virtual Reality in healthcare, Sci-Fi or certainty?
  • 5 Ways to Bring Order to Data Chaos
  • How Mental Health Services Benefit from Digital
  • How Data Scientists deliver better value
  • How ‘User Power’ defines the future of ERP
  • Creating the ultimate Electronic Patient Record system
  • Top tips for hiring the best software developers
  • The challenges of NHS Information Governance compliance
  • Three ways to revamp the IT/business relationship
  • The three habits of highly successful IT managers
  • Big data analytics has one golden rule
  • How to Turbocharge Your Programming Team
  • The pros and cons of cloud based ERP
  • IT Outsourcing returns… The scariest sequel that tests our limits?
  • 5 Steps every software startup must take
  • Why Hackers Love Healthcare (and how to protect against them)
  • Four new opportunities to make SAP better for your business
  • Digital Healthcare in the Age of the Hyperconnected Patient
  • Are You Ready for Digital Transformation? Take the Quiz
  • A day in the life of a Software Engineer
  • Are these IT budgeting mistakes losing you money?
  • 3 quick ways to troubleshoot your business processes
  • Don’t miss out on these Internet of Things (IoT) opportunities
  • 3 easy ways to make your IT budget go further
  • The easy way to create a digital strategy for your business
  • Harness technology for more profit in any business
  • Helastel named SIIA business technology CODiE award finalist
  • The three myths of software developers
  • Choosing the right CMS for your business
  • How technology can improve your business plan
  • Building Your First Web Application – Part 2
  • Building your first web application – Part 1
  • A Journey Through Date and Time
  • The easy way to test your startup idea before launching
  • An Investigation into Bugs
  • How to make more money from your website
  • 5 reasons why PHP Storm is my go-to IDE
  • How to use software to get ahead of your competitors
  • The sticky secret to getting and keeping startup customers
  • Do’s and don’ts of startup customer research
  • Why you need more than one revenue stream for your startup
  • How to write the perfect elevator pitch and sell your startup idea
  • How to create a software startup prototype on a shoestring
  • Software startup: 4 ways to know your customer and sell more
  • Create the best customer experience during software or web development
  • How to Monetise Your Website and Improve User Experience
  • 6 Ways to Save Time and Money in the Software Development Process
  • 5 Questions To Ask About The Software Development Process
  • Challenging What You Think You Know About Bespoke Software
  • Is Bespoke Software or Off The Shelf Better for Your Business?
  • How to manage your first web development project
  • Bespoke Software or Off the Shelf – Which is Best for Business?
  • Sort out your faltering software development project
  • The Project Rescuer: Six Steps to Software Development Project Success
  • How to turn a brilliant idea into a viable software application
  • The Project Rescuer: Why Software Development Projects Fail
  • Software risk management: choose the right partner
  • Software company values: choose the right partner
  • In-House vs Outsourced Developers: 7 questions to Ask Before you Decide
  • When your software project fails – a five step rescue plan
  • The Education Show with Penstripe at the NEC
  • ​Before you invest in business software
  • Mapmyhealth wins award for innovative diabetes management tool
  • Fast tech: the ups and downs of responsible growth
  • Working at Helastel: we’re social
  • Probably the Best Spot in Bristol
  • Food festival mark three
  • Queens Road Lunching
  • What a lovely mug
  • Working at Helastel: Greg
  • Working at Helastel: Jon
  • Is my server at risk from Poodle, Shellshock or Heartbleed?
  • What Makes a Great Software Engineer? Helastel lecture at the University of Bristol.
  • The myth of the everlasting website
  • Letting the details take care of themselves
  • The free peak-performance tool that Google is excited about
  • Going for gold – business success
  • Want that rewarding feeling?
  • Top 3 risks to avoid in software project management
  • Being a software developer at Helastel
  • Change your course online by just a few degrees
  • How to measure your true website conversion rate
  • Produce the right kind of movie content to promote your company
  • Business, the art of social experience
  • IT MegaMeet: Plundering Programming Paradigms for Profit
  • Salesforce London

• Guides

  • Why projects fail
  • 5 steps to a successful Software Startup
  • How to Ratchet up Revenue
  • GDPR
  • Preparing a brief for software development