We can strive to do the same thing in our working environments to get the most out of a diverse workforce. It might not be very realistic to have all our meetings as ‘come when you’re ready’, but actually, a lot of our interactions can be.

Ensono Digital's IdAM and Data Engineering Conference in Austria allowed our remote teams to learn together in person, with employees travelling far and wide to attend.

For artificial intelligence (AI) to play a fair role in our society, it is necessary to minimise bias in its algorithms. This blog sheds light on the issues of bias in AI and what can be done to remove them.

Following our recent company-wide Hackathon, where teams across the business had to create a prototype app in Slack that could offer meaningful benefits, we felt inspired to pursue one of the ideas and develop it into a successful project.

‘As per live’, ‘like for like’, and ‘lift-and-shift functionality’ – all these are expressions for Functional Equivalence as a baseline for a new product. And all should be a red light to analysts, architects and product people.

Ensono Digital recently came together for a company-wide hybrid Hackathon (or Hackternoon as we called it). Joel Lingard, Front End Consultant, shares his Hackathon experience and what he learned from it.

With a call for better, more immediate responses to customer needs, and the universal drive for operational efficiency and expedited data accuracy, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) is fast rising to the top of many IT leaders’ wish lists.

This guide by Senior .Net Consultant, Chris Butler, walks you through an alternative way of running integration tests within your project.

Identity management is so much more than just controlling and storing usernames and passwords. There are many compelling roles that customer identity plays in any business, not least of all the omnichannel retailer.

The next step for Amido firmly sets our people-led values on the global stage under the Ensono Digital brand.

We over the moon to announce that Ensono Digital have won Digital Services Company of the year for exceptional projects.

At the heart of every successful technical solution, customer service, or top selling product line is an understanding of the end user and a commitment to creating an experience that elicits positive emotions..

Giving your supply chain a viable longevity, but it can also unlock a new level of sustainability for your business.

We are thrilled to announce our ranking as 8th place out of 105 companies in the Great Place to Work awards.

Imagine the scenario - you enter a multi-storey building and find there’s no elevator to take you between floors. Sound familiar? This may be a minor inconvenience for you but for a number of people this can be a major problem.

Celebrations all round today as Ensono Digital have received the Best Cloud-Native Project award in the international Cloud Awards.

Missing context is common, sometimes from the beginning of projects, but even more commonly the closer to the 'coal face' you get, but it is invaluable for decision making.

Almost a year ago, we released Ensono Digital Stacks into the wild as free open source software for all developers to use. What's next on the road to micro-factories?

Is convenience still as important as it was pre-COVID and are consumers now looking for more from retailers to make their shopping journeys – and their lives – easier and more fulfilling?

Ensono Digital scoop award for best public sector project at the illustrious Computing awards.

Celebrations all round today as Ensono Digital has been ranked in the UK’s Best Workplaces™ in Tech.

Many organisations are choosing to learn from the fallout of COVID-19 and make strategic changes to the way they run their businesses.

Major online retailers have a wealth of data at their disposal who wanted to capitalise on this by establishing a data lake to inform their business decisions.

Last week IASME notified us that the audit process was complete and Ensono Digital have been certified under NCSCs Cyber Essentials programme.

Wellbeing Week inspired us all to share and kick-start conversations around our mental health and wellbeing and the things in our daily lives that can affect it.

Celebrations today at Ensono Digital as we’ve been recognised as one of the UK’s Best Workplaces™ for the third time!

I have always wanted to give Ensono Digital the best and enable the business to fulfill its enormous potential. So, it’s time to propel ourselves forward again, so that we can deliver even more value and better outcomes for our clients and ourselves.

Ensono, a digital transformation provider, has announced its acquisition of Ensono Digital, a cloud-native consultancy based in the UK.

With just about every analytics article saying data is the new oil, it may come as a surprise to learn that few data projects actually succeed. Our Principal Consultant Data Engineer explores the devolution of data.

We're going to look at how AWS Secrets (other secret stores can be used) are pulled into Kubernetes as secrets there and then used within a ForgeRock AM authentication tree

Awarded only to those Gold partners who can demonstrate proven AKS implementations in client projects and show a thorough understanding of DevOps best practice.

Around 70% of digital transformations fail, and one of the causes of failure is complexity. By leveraging cloud-native services and embracing a software factory approach, Ensono Digital Stacks overcomes these challenges to digital transformation.

It’s official! Ensono Digital are delighted to be named as a Great Place to Work-Certified™ Organisation in 2020 and to be recognised as a centre for Excellence in Wellbeing!

The main advantage of Karate over other automated API testing tools is that it requires virtually no knowledge of any programming language.

An Anaemic Domain Model is a model with no logic in it. Domain classes look more like a bunch of public setters and getters without domain logic where the client of the class has control over how to instantiate and modify the class.

Find out how how we provided a chatbot prototype in record time and our tips for anyone else thinking about deploying this technology.

People across Scotland who need help and information about coronavirus can now get assistance using an online chatbot from NHS 24.

For the third year running Ensono Digital are proud to be listed in the FT1000 Fastest Growing Companies in Europe 2020.

Ensono Digital has kicked off celebrations for its 10-year anniversary by announcing the opening of a new office in Manchester.

Ensono Digital is excited to announce that it has achieved a Two Star Michelin accreditation as a result of the Employee Engagement Survey with Best Companies.

Microservice architecture is an approach to software design that breaks down large projects into a set of manageable, independent and loosely-coupled services

As a company that has to handle large amounts of traffic, Netflix points to the scalability advantages of the cloud as one of the key drivers for their decision to migrate.

FarmSmart, in partnership with London-based technical consultancy Ensono Digital, has launched an innovative mobile application that shares essential, sustainable and climate-smart farming knowledge to smallholder farmers.

Ensono Digital, a vendor-agnostic technical consultancy specialising in cloud transformation and data engineering, has ranked number 26 in the UK’s Best Workplaces for 2019.

Managing user identities and access to IT resources has never been more important as organisations increasingly turn to cloud services and mobile apps to empower mobility and scalability.

As a Tech Lead at my current client, my role is quite varied. I focus on the bigger picture of business requirements and architecture of the solutions to fulfil the requirements.

More applications are built using microservice architecture, which allows us to deliver independent components more regularly in the distributed system.

Be inquisitive, ask questions and present options. All of these things will help you to find out what you need and enable you to define what elements are needed in a project.

We are proud to be named one of the UK’s leading digital agencies with this year’s 100 Digital Agencies report from Econsultancy

In recent years many housing associations have been struggling to improve customer services, with ratings dropping as low as 58% in some instances

As a result of an investigation on Node and Serverless application I have created a POC using AngularJS and AWS lambdas.

Secret management is the process of protecting sensitive information such as credentials, keys, and certificates throughout their entire lifecycle.

Terraform is a great infrastructure-as-code tool which we love at Ensono Digital, but effectively implementing the aws_lambda_function resource in the real world can be a little bit challenging.

Ensono Digital Named In The FT1000 Fastest Growing European Companies

Ensono Digital have reached number 686 on the FT1000 Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies for 2019

Ensono Digital has been named 2019’s Leading Innovators in Cloud Native Technology Solutions in SME news’ 2019 Business Elite Awards programme.

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to work closely with Microsoft on “Red Dog”; this is the project that was to become Azure.

Microservice architecture allows businesses to manage parts of larger projects individually, avoiding blanketed updates or uploads, which can result in system delays or down-time.

Working at a consultancy gives you somewhat of a dual personality, at the end of the day, a consultancy thrives on the skill of its employees and the reputation with its clients.

Over the last few years, the term Microservices has skyrocketed, and a question raised is always around the tooling to support them.

ITIL as a concept was introduced as a way to manage an IT environment but has grown to encompass managing processes and customers.

People still tend to over-engineer the packaging strategy of an application they’ve built in only 30 minutes as part of an interview process.

A typical development and testing activity normally begins with taking a user story and digesting the information in it. From this shared understanding, we start to construct a set of use cases as a means of verifying the implementation and its completeness.

Ensono Digital has made its debut in the Microsoft Partner Digital Marketing Excellence report.

A key part of any identity process involves the sending of emails for things like account verification, forgotten password and security updates. Testing these can present several challenges as there are usually 3rd party services involved (you’re unlikely to be including a custom SMTP server and mailbox with your project!)

In this post, I’m going to delve a bit deeper into the functional world and specifically, explore the awesomeness of currying and function compositions.

Often you need to manipulate a data structure without knowing it’s shape at compile time i.e. when authoring classes that expose generic interfaces or dealing with data described by runtime metadata.

Identity and Access Management (IdAM) solutions provide organisations with the ability to manage users’ identities and create logical access to an organisation’s applications.

There is a fundamental conflict between services and data systems. Microservices are designed to encapsulate data within their inner workings, data systems are designed to expose data.

The destructuring assignment syntax was introduced to JavaScript in ES6, it is a simple way of extracting data stored in objects and arrays into variables.

It took five years to learn the basics but in the year that I have been working at Ensono Digital I have learnt more than I ever did before.

I’ve wanted to get into IT since my school days where, along with a weekend job in a sweet-shop, I would work as an IT technician once a week after school

One of the core principals of software development is “Don’t Repeat Yourself”, that is never do something twice in two different places.

In everyday life, no one would want to buy into a service where they felt they had no alternative provider. We all take competition for granted.