Bimodal IT is Not an Excuse for Inaction: Modernizing Traditional Applications

“The practice of managing two separate but coherent styles of work — one focused on predictability and the other on exploration. Mode 1 is predictable, improving and renovating in well-understood areas. In Mode 2, business and IT together explore and experiment to innovate and solve new challenges.”

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SCC is Europe's largest independent Information Technology services business, with over 2,500 customers in more than 50 countries. SCC plans, supplies, integrates and manages IT for leading public and private sector businesses across Europe. The business operates from 75 locations in the UK, France, Spain and Romania

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WHAT JOBS ARE AFFECTED BY AI?

whitePaper | December 15, 2019

The debate between experts over how automation will affect the future of work has been one of the most active cottage industries in labor economics in recent years. Numerous scholars forecast major disruptions of human work; others minimize those impacts. And yet, the field has nevertheless managed to generate a number of shared insights, with none more consistent than the finding that least welloff will suffer automation’s greatest shocks on the labor market.

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How MongoDB Provides Strategic Advantage in Financial Services

whitePaper | August 9, 2020

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the pace of change in the financial services industry was exhausting. The challenges just kept coming: from the 2008 financial crisis to a raft of fintech newcomers and established brands pivoting into the industry, a panoply of regulations and the looming threat of a recession — to name a few.

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Front Line Consulting

whitePaper | April 16, 2020

Front Line Consulting (FLC) is a government consulting firm—and majority veteran-ownedand-operated Project Manager-as-Agent. Presently, FLC is managing a group of 60 publicly-funded projects for Travis County, home of the unequalled Austin, Texas. Front Line’s responsibilities include meeting a tight “substantial completion” deadline defined in public forum, coming in on (taxpayer-funded) budget, and keeping elected officials apprised of financials and material progress in projects within their respective jurisdictions.

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Making an impact with Cloud Data Management

whitePaper | August 14, 2020

As consumers and customers, we are accustomed to easy, intuitive and superfast transactions driven by data. Therefore, businesses have the various challenges of managing and mining the data they produce and use, but also ensuring that their digital experience is 100% reliable for their customers — so the chain of trust is never broken.

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MongoDB and IBM zSystems

whitePaper | May 25, 2022

Modernization of data and applications on the mainframe is a necessary priority for modern organizations. Building a MongoDB Operational Data Layer (ODL) is a pattern widely used to make critical mainframe data available for modern mobile and web applications.

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5 Brass tacks to achieve compliance with AI and ML

whitePaper | March 1, 2020

The lucrative business of banks selling their customers “financial advice” coupled with financial products has been in the spotlight recently with the events that have shaken up the banking and financial services world. The most notable ones are the investigations of the Royal Commissions into the misconduct of the banking and superannuation industry1 , the misconduct charges of £264 billion fined by EU on the top 20 banks2 , the Wells Fargo fake accounts scandal3 and the nearly 1000 cases of fraud reported to FINRA resulting in a fine of $61 Million in 20184 .

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SCC is Europe's largest independent Information Technology services business, with over 2,500 customers in more than 50 countries. SCC plans, supplies, integrates and manages IT for leading public and private sector businesses across Europe. The business operates from 75 locations in the UK, France, Spain and Romania

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