The Rise of Voice Search By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Voice search is on its way towards disrupting the search engine industry and how we discover content online. It’s posing challenges for search engine marketers as the nature of search changes from text-based to voice. What is voice search? Voice search uses…
The Dawn of a New Era for Technology in the Construction Industry By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Construction is an industry in need of technological disruption. Firms must frequently coordinate large-scale, complex projects with a large number of stakeholders, and project requirements change on a regular basis. Everyone knows that construction work…
GDPR: A year to get compliant By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read It’s just under a year now until businesses are required to become compliant with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). This is a directive from the European Union that deals with issues of data protection and privacy for EU citizens. Since…
The Slow but Steady Rise of Civic Tech and Smart Cities By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read Both Civic Tech and Smart Cities are technologies used en masse for the greater good. They are driven by government initiatives, used by the general public, and the latter is supported by the private sector. Civic…
What is Cloud Sprawl? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read After the recent WannaCry cyber event that rocked the National Health Service and thousands of companies worldwide, the thought of any additional threats to the way we use technology in our organisations is both frustrating and deeply concerning. So, mention the term ‘cloud…
Open Source Software: Demystified By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read The term ‘open source’ is used frequently, and is applied to fields other than software programming. Companies often describe their business approach as ‘open source’ when they mean they have an open source leadership style or workplace culture. In this article, we’ll discuss…
Native, Hybrid or Web apps: Which one to choose? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 7 mins read It goes without saying that most of us find it hard to imagine life without smartphones and mobile apps. There are apps for just about everything from getting you up in the morning, working productively during the day,…
Why Optimise Cloud Deployments? By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read It only makes sense that creating best practices and cost-effective systems increases the likelihood of business success. So why not apply this same thought process to Cloud deployment? Why is optimising Cloud deployments so important? Have you noticed increased reliance on the Cloud…
Arrk’s Radical Transition Towards Test Automation By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read “We have to move towards automated testing really, really quick!” In the early days of our adoption of automated testing, this was the clarion call that rang within Arrk that got us starting a program in earnest. This story explains how…
SaaS: Software as a Service and How it’s Taking Over By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read You’ve probably used SaaS before, even if you haven’t heard of this type of software distribution model until now. Just think of a web service like Google’s Gmail email provider – that’s an example of SaaS. SaaS…
