12th August 2022
What is staff augmentation? An in-house team with supplemented skills from external technicians. The set up allows business to maintain complete control and visibility while adding the key skills and knowledge needed to make rapid progress. An outsourced IT team should feel like an extension of your business. But that is rarely the case - [...]
27th July 2022
Why your business needs an evergreen IT strategy
Evergreen IT strategies are rapidly becoming the best approach for businesses. The idea involves making minor, iterative updates to the organisation's IT landscape (including software, operating systems, desktop hardware, products, applications, and server infrastructure) on an ongoing basis rather than undertaking a massive migration project. When planning your own Evergreen IT strategy, a whole spectrum [...]
27th July 2022
From on-prem to the cloud, why migrating makes sense
With 94% of businesses already using cloud computing to some degree, the global market is forecast to grow to £440 billion in 2023 – it’s clear cloud computing is an integral part of business in today’s climate Although, many companies are still reluctant to fully migrate to the cloud. If you’re one of them, don’t [...]
20th July 2022
SAP BO Business Intelligence 2024 Announcement
As SAP defines the future of it’s Analytics Strategy, there’s a clear wish to ensure the current SAP BOBJ Business Intelligence customers continue to be looked after for a bit longer yet. This means that SAP continues to add new enterprise reporting features to allow businesses to transition to the cloud at their own pace. [...]
18th July 2022
Influential Academy 2022: Skyrocketing Interest in Tech
Last week Influential Academy 2022 class welcomed young students from St Augustine's for work experience week. They joined our delivery office in Maidstone and we walked them through the day-to-day of our architects, developers, and support technicians. Day 1: The week started with an introduction about everything we do at Influential Software, as well as [...]
28th June 2022
Our apprentice software engineer wins Apprentice of the Month
We're proud to announce that our software engineer IT apprentice, Ethan Lane, has been recognised as MidKent College's Apprentice of the Month for his outstanding work and positive attitude as part of our team. Growing with Influential Ethan is passionate about the work in software engineering and approaches new challenges with a curiosity that allows [...]
28th June 2022
Benefits of Agile Software Development
Agile methodology is the modern approach to software development that encourages businesses to get an immediate return on investment. The iterative approach keeps communication between client and developer open - meaning the project can be handled quickly and efficiently, in a way that allows the product to launch sooner and be updated with regular patches. [...]
17th June 2022
Influential Software Earns Its First Review on Clutch
The digital development industry is one of the fastest-growing and highly competitive fields in the world. Every company needs to do something unique in order to stand out from everyone else. This is the reason why we decided to create our Clutch profile. Our team recently published our first review on the platform, and we’re [...]
24th May 2022
How To Boost Your Cloud ROI
As the use case for on-prem servers gets increasingly smaller, it's clear that businesses realise the potential of cloud storage. Most organisations are aware of the benefits moving to the cloud can bring their business, from increased efficiency to improved run times and significant cost reductions. Like most business decisions, the ROI behind the move [...]
10th May 2022
Power BI April Feature Summary
Over the past two months, Microsoft 365 has made leaps and strides in improving usability, flexibility, and security within all it's apps. As the workforce continues to adjust to new hybrid working expectations and BYOD culture, Microsoft has progressed in parallel. From easier account switching to new updates for Microsoft Teams and 365 users, 2022 [...]