Our latest insights
Our world-class consultants' latest perspectives and pragmatic insights on technology
At Scott Logic, we're passionate about sharing our insights on technology and innovation with our clients and the wider technology community, in line with our open source ethos. Below, we've put together a selection of our latest content and publications across a range of topics that will be relevant to how your organisation can achieve its business goals through technology.
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Artificial Intelligence
How to de-risk GenAI across your enterprise
Technology Director Oliver Cronk presents a clear-eyed view of the potential of GenAI, an outline of the main business and technological risks, and a layperson's overview of a software architecture that can significantly reduce those risks.
Is generative AI coming for programming jobs?
Colin Eberhardt is joined by colleagues for a lively debate on whether the latest advances in generative AI are going to threaten our jobs – are developers going to be made redundant by their own creation?
Cloud
Thinking differently: The cloud as a value driver
Too often, organisations focus on the cloud as a means to reduce costs, overlooking its greatest capability: agility! In this white paper, Colin Eberhardt explains how public cloud platforms not only offer an unprecedented level of technical agility but also a strong foundation for business agility.
What's next for your cloud strategy?
Principal Consultant Robert Griffiths sets out the core elements of a cloud strategy and considerations specific to retail banking, before going on to describe how you progress from cloud adoption to cloud maturity and ensure security in the cloud.
User experience
Why good design is fundamental
Design Principal Atika Bennamane explains how customer expectations are evolving, why that makes good design a key business differentiator, and how Scott Logic is uniquely positioned to provide design expertise in complex business domains.
Solution Architecture
The Architecture of the Bank of 2030
The retail banking landscape is undergoing a tectonic shift. Open Banking is evolving into Open Finance, embedded finance is blurring industry lines, and customers are demanding hyper-personalised experiences. In this white paper, Oliver Cronk and Joel Smith provide pragmatic insights on how to modernise your bank's technology to capitalise on the opportunities and mitigate the inherent risks, while managing the challenges of operating.
Open your eyes to APIs
It is critical to move on from short-sighted API projects driven by technical necessity to strategically aligned efforts that deliver broader business benefits and opportunities. This white paper by Graham Odds, our Chief Strategy Officer, is designed to help you better understand the potential of the humble Application Programming Interface (API) in unlocking genuine digital transformation.
Sustainability
Technology Carbon Standard
Our proposed Technology Carbon Standard is a method of mapping an organisation’s technology estate. It's designed to make it easier for organisations to measure and mitigate their carbon emissions. Find out more about the standard and the thinking underpinning it:
Can technology sustainability really make a difference?
Oliver Cronk is joined by Jeremy Axe, Group CTO at DS Smith, and consultants Darren Smith and Katie Davis from Scott Logic. Together, they unpack topics like the energy usage and carbon emissions of IT infrastructure, and whether claims of ‘green tech’ are substantiated or just hype.
We have a company strapline of ‘The Power of Less’, and that works really well for packaging, right? But I use that in IT as well to describe what I’d like to see.
Jeremy Axe, DS Smith
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