26th May 2023
If your business is looking to migrate workloads and systems, you'll need to ensure that you've done careful planning beforehand. Be aware of the potential challenges and unexpected situations that may arise in your migration journey. You may be planning to migrate to the cloud for the first time, or moving to the latest SharePoint [...]
15th May 2023
7 Things To Achieve With .NET Development
.NET development is an open source platform made for building desktop, web, and mobile applications that can run natively on any operating system. We've had the pleasure of helping various businesses across different sectors with their .NET development needs, so we thought we'd share what you can really do with the technology. Building cross-platform applications [...]
17th April 2023
Connect your data with Boomi aXis for SAP
SAP S/4HANA is a leading, modern ERP system used by many organisations around the world. The S/4HANA platform is subscription-based, efficient at multi-tasking, able to automate many processes, and is easily accessed through multiple channels. As you may already know, SAP ERP Central Component (SAP ECC) support is due to cease in 2027. SAP users [...]
14th April 2023
Azure DevOps for modern software development
Azure DevOps is a cloud based software development life cycle management service provided by Microsoft. Since its release, it has become one of the most popular project management tools. Today, software developers use Azure DevOps to manage, build, deploy, and test their applications. The service promotes collaboration among teams and defines the process to unify [...]
28th March 2023
Why Use Blazor in .NET Development?
Any web developer worth their salt knows the importance of JavaScript in modern web app development. In recent years it's become the backbone of development and one of the most popular programming languages, empowering front end web developers to build high quality user interfaces for both web and app. But picture this: .NET running on [...]
21st March 2023
The new Outlook Scheduling Poll
How I Learned To Stop Organising And Let Technology Do It For Me by Eliot Cole Microsoft has recently released a new exciting feature for Outlook, the Scheduling Poll. Akin to Doodle, this new planning tool is an easy way to reduce the emails, calls, and instant messages that go back and forth to arrange [...]
15th March 2023
Microsoft announces the preview of serverless Azure SQL Database
Microsoft has announced a preview of the serverless for Hyperscale in the Azure SQL database; bringing the benefits of Hyperscale and serverless into a single solution. Azure SQL Database is a managed cloud-based database service, available in several formats based on the purchase model, deployment model, service tier, compute model, and hardware types. Customers can [...]
14th March 2023
Emails Exposed in DoD Azure Attack
A gap in a US military server operated by Microsoft left more than a terabyte of data exposed to the internet. This comes only one month after Microsoft 365 was awarded higher level government security accreditations. The openly accessible server was part of an internal mailbox system hosted on Azure's Government cloud and used by [...]
8th March 2023
Embrace Equity This International Women’s Day
Happy International Women's Day! At Influential, we don't just use this day to celebrate the team's female members and educate our staff on Influential women in tech - for us, this is an opportunity to highlight the problem in the industry and tackle it head-on. Women in tech: notable statistics It's no hidden secret that [...]
21st February 2023
Headless Architectures and Composable Systems
Looking for more flexible architecture choices that can guarantee greater security and scale? It might be time to consider more complex customisations and integrations. What happens when you want all the juicy bits of a system- data models, business logic, and machine learning capabilities - without the baggage of being boxed into the platform's standard [...]