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Sorodo successfully transitions to eCloud VPC with ANS

As an FCA-regulated organisation handling hundreds of financial applications a day, any downtime posed a significant risk to Sorodo.  
Over the course of a 15-year partnership with ANS, Sorodo eventually ran eight dedicated servers to host its sites and ensure uninterrupted availability and reliability of its services. 
However, as Sorodo continued to grow and the need for more computing resources increased, running that number of dedicated servers was becoming a significant cost to the business...
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Lowe Corporation partners with ANS to build unified data platform

With Dynamics 365 for Sales and Power BI, Lowe Corp. was able to streamline its data management and reporting across its businesses. Instead of spending 3 days a month on producing manual reports, the client could now access real-time insights from a single platform. This freed up valuable time and resources for the company, while also enhancing its visibility and decision-making capabilities.
With the whole organisation now on the same data level, everyone profiles customers in the same way, ma...
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The UK’s leading Cruise Tour Operator highlights wins from ANS Partnership

Cruise.co.uk, a dynamic tour operating company specialising in cruise holidays to top destinations, secured a strategic partnership with ANS. Cruise.co.uk’s growing digital presence has experienced significant transformation since 2000, with a huge growth in website visitors each year. The journey began with legacy hardware, requiring reliable web hosting and has now evolved with ANS.  
This case study explores the forward-thinking approach undertaken for Cruise.co.uk’s technological innovation,...
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AI and us: Personal journeys in the age of artificial intelligence

Janet Robb, Director of Change Enablement at ANS, shared her invaluable insights on the integration of AI within businesses. Her talk at DTX Manchester put forward the idea that, while mastering the technology side of AI is crucial, it’s the people side of things – the people deciding how and why to implement AI tools, and the employees at all levels of an organisation that need to use them – that can make all the difference. 
Janet emphasised the importance of having a clear vision for AI, aski...
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Meet Microsoft MVPs at ANS: Dan Barber

In this blog series, we’re interviewing the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) that work at ANS.
Dan Barber is Director of Digital at ANS and has been a valuable member of the ANS community for just over a year. Dan comes wealth of experience ranges from tech consulting, to working for Hitachi and building its practice as it is today, to being CTO at Cloud9, to finally arriving at ANS, just to name a few. We sat down with Dan to discuss all things tech, imposter syndrome, and much more...
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Meet the Microsoft MVPs: Chris Huntingford

In this blog series, we’re interviewing the Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) that work at ANS. 
Chris Huntingford is the Director of Innovation at ANS. He works closely with Microsoft to explore new and emerging technologies, and then he helps ANS to bring them to the market. He is responsible for creating the delivery mechanisms for new tech, such as Copilot, and making them accessible and relevant for customers. 
Bring Clippy back! (I think Copilot is secretly super advanced Clippy...
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FAB FROZEN FILMS: Drama teacher from Berkhamsted raises money for NHS with Princess Anna videos - My Local News

A drama teacher from Berkhamsted is raising money for the NHS by dressing up as Princess Anna from Frozen on her Facebook page.

Claire Charlotte creates videos of herself dressed as Princess Anna for free with donations to her JustGiving page encouraged.

She got inspiration for the idea two weeks into lockdown, when she found her “Anna costume knocking around.”

She said: “There was a big drive for PPE and Clap for the NHS and I thought this was the right time to fundraise for them because cle...