It’s a little-known fact but pesky little SIM card registration failure messages only seem to appear on your mobile phone at the most inopportune moment. Ever had one when you didn’t need to access your mobile network?

These days, having the right managed services partner for your comms network counts as calculated competitive advantage. It’s a far cry from the old notion of “one throat to choke”. This unfortunate term was used extensively across the telecoms sector and in industry parlance described a single point of contact to blame when things go wrong. But as outsourcing IT and telecoms management has become a strategic imperative, it’s decidedly old school to think of your telecommunications managed services provider in this way.

To give employees an out-of-box startup experience with all passcodes and zero-trust access policies in place, there is much to do when your organisation takes possession of your new fleet of mobile devices before you can distribute them to your team.

Such is the complexity of natural human language, it took the loveable eco-friendly but rusty droid character WALL-E more than 700 years on this planet to develop intelligible human language. That’s because there’s unstructured data to contend with as well as formal rules that have too many exceptions (I’m looking at you I before E expect before C). Ripe with nuances, real-world context, and sometimes unfortunate double meanings, natural human language has been near impossible for computers to understand and mimic in a way that truly makes sense.

Attractive working conditions with the flexibility to work outside the office is a major drawcard for boosting employee engagement and attracting new talent. With the shift to hybrid working patterns, keeping employees securely connected to company applications and data while they work from home, in a café, or on the go, is now part of the many and complicated challenges tasked to the IT team. When your organisation embraces workplace flexibility it’s essential to adopt powerful security controls to go with it.