Articles & Insights

From Data Chaos to Clarity: Building a Roadmap for Safe AI Implementation

As businesses look to integrate AI into their operations, many face the challenge of fragmented and unstructured data. While AI has the potential to drive meaningful transformation, its implementation is often hindered by poor data quality, governance concerns, and a lack of strategic direction.

George Toursoulopoulos

Beyond the Buzzword: Why AI Matters for Your Business Right Now

AI has dominated headlines and boardroom discussions for years. Yet, many business leaders remain unsure how it fits into their strategic goals. Is it just another buzzword, or is it a pivotal tool that can transform their operations? The reality is clear: AI is no longer optional.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

AI Agents: Moving Beyond Automation to Intelligent Decision-Making

AI agents represent the next evolution, moving beyond automation to intelligent, autonomous decision-making. These systems don’t just execute tasks; they reason, learn, and optimise processes in real time.At Synetec, we’ve seen first-hand how automation has transformed business efficiency, handling repetitive tasks with speed and precision.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

Is Your Data AI-Ready? A Guide to Unlocking the Full Potential of AI

In today’s business landscape, AI holds the promise of transformative growth. From streamlining operations to unlocking new revenue streams, AI’s potential is enormous. Yet, one question remains critical for many businesses. Is your data AI-ready?

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Strategic AI integration: Essential tips from Synetec

In a market revolutionised by AI, staying ahead isn't just about adopting the latest technologies – it is about integrating them strategically to drive real business value. As AI reshapes industries, the challenge for leaders lies in knowing where it makes sense to use AI.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

Part Two - The AI Landscape in 2025: Transformative, Not Transactional

In this second part of our future of AI article, we explore what the AI-driven business of 2025 will look like and address the real challenges companies face as they navigate AI adoption.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Part One - Exploring the Role of AI in Business: Shaping the Future in 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a major talking point for several years now, but as we look towards the future, businesses are still trying to understand what true AI integration means.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

The Synetec Advantage: why Synetec’s ‘On-site Team’ approach gives your business the competitive edge.

Synetec’s team is made up of skilled professionals who bring a wealth of experience to every project. Our on-site approach means that our team can collaborate closely, sharing insights and technical knowledge to deliver tailored solutions.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

Top 5 Challenges When Implementing a Data Lake and How to Overcome Them

A data lake is a centralised repository that allows companies to store all of their structured and unstructured data at any scale. Companies can store this data ‘as-is’ (without having to structure it first) and then run different types of analytics.

Stavros Tsagkarakis

January 3, 2025

Turbine Data Connect Case Study Interview

Many companies face challenges in collecting and consolidating data from wind turbines across multiple locations and manufacturers, resulting in fragmented and inconsistent data management.

Stavros Tsagkarakis

January 3, 2025

AI empowered business operations for software developers

Mounting pressures to rapidly create and deploy applications are faced by #SoftwareDevelopers. This is especially true for goals concerning migration to #CloudTechnology.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

The Synchronicity Gap: Bridging Technology and Business Growth

Custom software development is a powerful and strategic tool that can benefit many firms in every stage of their business evolution.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

What is the Synchronicity Gap?

In this two-part series, we explore the synchronicity gap, and how the development of custom software and support on delivery for internal teams from specialist providers can help bridge the gap.

George Toursoulopoulos

May 31, 2024

Enhancing efficiency: mastering the shift between synchronous vs asynchronous programming paradigms

Here, we explore these programming paradigms in more detail and how Synetec helps firms to overcome complexities when transitioning between the two.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Synetec’s Specialist Skill Sets

Discover how our comprehensive range of specialist skill sets can empower your team, when and where they need it.

Andrew Settle

January 3, 2025

How to respond to the FCA’s “IT controls” form

Operational resilience is a key priority for the FCA, and is defined as the ability for firms operating within the financial sector to be able to prevent, respond to, adapt, recover and learn from any operational disruptions. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Overcoming Software Risk for LLMs (Large Language Models)

LLMs were initially considered to be advantageous due to the potential to provide firms with transparency and flexibility, savings on cost, and added features to software.

Stavros Tsagkarakis

January 3, 2025

What is Software Development Risk and How Can Firms Mitigate Against It?

Risk is evaluating the likelihood of a loss that might arise as a potential problem that may or may not occur in the future.

Andrew Settle

January 3, 2025

Introducing Synetec’s Software Development Risk Review

Synetec understands the importance of managing risk in software development , we do it for ourselves and help many of our clients to carry out a risk analysis of their software projects ahead of time, in order to overcome any potential disasters at the wrong time.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

Clutch Awards 2023

The awards are a reflection of the level of excellence we strive to offer our clients on a day to day basis. We are proud to have performed well in the Clutch awards 2023 and it is a great way to finish off the year.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Why data trust is critical for business success

In today’s business environment, trust is no longer just about the quality of products or services. Trustworthiness in business also focused on the quality, accuracy and reliability of data and analytics used within a company’s technology and software, and how information can be delivered to the end user.

Synetec

What is Single Source of Truth, and why is it critical for your business operations and data? 

Businesses are increasingly looking to automate operations and establish efficient systems for serving clients. When we think of how businesses operate in 2023.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

5 reasons to choose a Microsoft Gold Partner for your bespoke software development

The tech industry is often guilty of regurgitating jargon and gushing about partnerships, certifications and awards without really talking about what this means to you or why you might care.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How much does it cost to develop your own custom software?

Tech projects and, in particular, software development projects get a bad rep. And rightly so, since 70% of IT projects finish late or over budget.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to get in control of technical debt when developing your own software

If any of these sound familiar, it’s likely that you’re in debt. Technical debt, that is. It’s something your tech team will be acutely aware of, but what does it mean for your business and how should you address it?

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Webinar Replay: How to modernise a software architecture whilst meeting the needs of your existing customers

This replay of an interactive masterclass will help you understand the steps you need to take to prioritise the things you need to do to help your business grow without affecting your existing customer base and without overwhelming or asking too much of your current developers.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Empowerment through Data Independence in Financial Services

Synetec's CEO, George Toursoulopoulos was recently interviewed by Toby Babb on the FinTech focus podcast by Harrington Star to share his thoughts and experience working mostly with buy-side asset managers in the UK, Europe and now the US.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to create a data-focussed culture in financial services

So what role does the culture of your financial services firm play in ensuring the long term success of your data transformation project?

Synetec

January 3, 2025

People vs Data: Why data transformation starts with people

But if you work in financial services, transforming your data into a valuable asset (flexible, available and owned by you) requires a proactive and long-term vision that includes engaged employees.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Why data transformation in financial services starts with Business as Usual

August 1, 2022

Why financial services should strive for data independence

How to pre-empt tech debt pitfalls for your software development projects

There are certain pitfalls that are sure to derail your digital transformation project but you can avoid these risks altogether with these three guiding principles:

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to nail your digital transformation plan

It can be tempting to build something because it’s what customers want. Or because one of your more vocal customers gave you feedback. But your digital transformation project should always be based on your business objectives.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to transform your bespoke software AND your people at the same time

They know the business really well, they’re valuable and loyal and you don't want to lose them. But they can’t keep on top of BAU as well as working on new projects (which, let’s face it is the bit they’re really interested in).

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to find the right software development support for your business

Your team understand the tech debt in your system better than anyone else. They know your business, they care about the system (because they built it and they’re invested in success of the company. So they may see new hires as a threat. But they don’t have the resource to develop something new whilst keeping on top of existing workload.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Looking beyond greenwashing

Morningstar reported assets in funds comprising sustainable objectives or promoting environmental or social attributes aggregated €4.05 trillion at the end of Q4 20212 and represented 42.2% of all funds sold within the EU.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Hire In-house or Outsource Software Development? Best Tips

Right now, a large proportion of companies are reporting that one of the biggest obstacles preventing them from moving forward is recruitment challenges. The employment marketplace has changed a lot in the last two years with Software Developers becoming the most sought after people in the UK. This means that we’re in an employee’s market now, and many companies are struggling to hire to such as extent that they’re looking into outsourcing software development.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Software Development Culture: How to Keep it with Remote Work

Now, gaining access to the required technical skills to deliver on a project in this current market is difficult but can be achieved. Likewise, processes are easy to talk about, but hard to implement, but again can be achieved. The often overlooked, bass guitarist in this situation is the development of a company culture across and within your software development team

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Lead a Remote Software Development Team for Growth

One of the biggest stumbling blocks on the journey to gaining this competitive edge with remote software development jobs is how teams work together to drive each

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Build a First-Class Software Development Culture in a Remote/Hybrid World – Interview Secrets

As a software development company much older than most, we certainly have a lot of learnings to share with you. To ensure success in this volatile job market, Our COO had to rethink how we find and interview people to ensure the right fit whilst also keeping the candidate interested during the recruitment cycle. Here we share our learnings so you can also build a team that delivers.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Webinar Replay: How to hire and retain software developers

We’re all facing the struggle to secure the right technical talent, but that struggle doesn’t have to impact our business objectives. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

In Conversation with Synetec COO: How We Guarantee Delivery on bespoke software development projects, even the most complex and critical

Lisa Venter joined the Synetec team a little over two years ago, after having lead Operations in major corporations on four different continents. She has implemented tools and processes that ensure client budgets and deadlines are met consistently. She is also big on mentoring team members. Her methods earned her a finalist position at the Women in IT awards in 2021. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Efficiently Manage Risk on Your Legacy System in 2022

Quite often, an organisation will adopt a new software system only for it to become obsolete within just a few years. Often companies are reluctant to rebuild or abandon their legacy systems – instead opting to extend support for their current set up. Fortunately, a system can be supported beyond an expected life cycle with proper maintenance and updates. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Automate IFPR Reporting: Say Bye to Paperwork Today!

There are significant changes with IFPR, and this will inevitably create a lot of additional reporting and extra drain on company resources. With the introduction of the new regime quickly approaching, firms need a fast, efficient and accurate method of presenting their reports.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Choose a Software Development Company in 2022

Most software development companies have a similar offering but a different value proposition.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Plan New Software?

Are you thinking about new software to enable your digital transformation? You're in the right place. Keep reading about how to prepare and how to ensure a positive impact on the business.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Unlock Your Invisible Sales Pipeline

The first stage of the buyer journey is always awareness. Contacting a vendor only happens when 70-90% of the journey is already done, and buyers contact 6 vendors on average. AI finds the opportunities that are still in the awareness stage. 

January 3, 2025

Avoid a Messy Divorce from Your Software Development Supplier

Over the years, we’ve gained valuable knowledge on the challenges businesses face when parting ways with their current supplier, and how these issues can be alleviated. With input from one of our industry experts, we’ve put together this short guide to help you prepare for the switch.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

AI Is Not the Death of the Sales Team

Many people across the business spectrum have differing opinions when they hear the words ‘business automation’ or 'data transformation', which are often intertwined. On one hand, there is a sense of fear that automation will lead to mass job losses and a realisation of science fiction movies depicting robots taking over the world. But the realistic outlook is that automation will reduce costs, maximise productivity, improve operational efficiency and much more.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Legacy Software Tips: How to Improve your Legacy Software

Let us take you through the most important points and give you some legacy software tips to consider when improving existing software, whether it's an internal application or a customer-facing one. 

Stavros Tsagkarakis

January 3, 2025

Enterprise Software Trends in 2021

Looking at trends can help you find new opportunities that your competitors are probably already making use of.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Award for Top Software Development Company

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Our AI Wins Award for Top Software

Synetec’s new AI offering is already winning industry recognition, having been awarded the prize for Top Artificial Intelligence Software by Goodfirms. Keep reading for an outline of the benefits of the product, and details on how it works.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Saas Lead Generation: Top Challenges and Tips for Your Success

So, your role is focused on Saas lead generation, and you need to get results quickly. You'll be expected to bring new lead generation strategies to the table to maximise growth and streamline the process of acquiring qualified leads.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Feeding 1,000 Children to Celebrate the England Team

The cost of distributing 1,000 meals to children in need will be covered by us. Our contribution is made via FareShare, a food charity supported by England squad member Marcus Rashford MBE. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Get Started with AI

When you’re looking to adopt AI, you should focus on what builds business value. AI is a powerful asset when used right, so aim to get the wins that matters the most rather than focusing on minor improvements. To get the most value out of AI, use it to solve a business problem, not a tech problem. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Synetec COO Shortlisted at Women in IT Awards

Lisa’s leadership skills have now been recognised by the Women in IT Awards, shortlisting her in the category of Board Director of the Year. While none of her colleagues are surprised, we’re grateful that she has been set as an example by such a celebrated organisation as Women in IT. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

AI In Sales: The Advantages of Using AI in Your Sales Campaign

AI can tell you which companies and contacts are ready to buy from you right now. It uncovers the best prospects for your sales, meaning you achieve maximum performance and don't waste time on dead leads. The implementation of AI will give your sales reps a solution focused on machine learning to make their sales process easier, more fluent and more effective.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

AI Marketing: Boosting ROI through Intelligent Prospecting

Artificial intelligence can tell you which companies and contacts are ready to buy from you right now. AI marketing tools will help uncover the best prospects for your marketing campaigns, meaning you achieve maximum performance. You won’t waste time and money trying to market to audiences that won’t convert. Rather the use of AI tools allows you to put your resources exactly where they make the biggest difference.

George Toursoulopoulos

January 3, 2025

Bespoke Software: Managing Your Security Like a Pro

Nearly 80% of IT leaders believe their organisation lacks sufficient protection against attacks. With a global shortage in cyber security skills, this is hardly surprising. Companies who build and support their own bespoke software and/or off-the-shelf software tend to find that they don't have the right skills and they prioritise rolling out new features above security over and over again.

Andrew Settle

January 3, 2025

Synetec Named the Best Software Testing Company in the UK

One of our specialties as a software development company are our software testing services. The best types of software in the world today were highly likely imperfect in their first iteration. Nevertheless, through dedicated testing, companies are able to develop a product with high functionality and user experience.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Fostering Accountability in Agile – Tips from Agile Team Coach

It’s the responsibility of the Scrum Master in their turn to nurture accountability among their teams. A positive work culture is born through better engagement and motivation. Ultimately, a higher quality software product is delivered, earlier, compared to a team who don’t feel responsible. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Cloud Consultancy: How to Choose the Best Cloud Solution Now

You need to know what you’re trying to achieve before you get started on migration. There are no instant wins for those who don’t know what migration method and tools are right for them. 

Synetec

January 3, 2025

The Best Cloud Computing Adoption Method & Why it Matters

With the speed they needed to make those moves, many businesses have been left not realising the full potential of cloud adoption by the right cloud providers and not experiencing the benefits they'd initially hoped for.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

What Benefits Did Companies Expect from Cloud Computing?

We discovered that many companies are experiencing difficulties, and as a result are not experiencing the full benefits of cloud. These difficulties are mostly due to the cloud-native tools not being utilised.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Benchmark Yourself on Cloud Adoption

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Synetec Wins Two Tech Categories at UK Enterprise Awards

Many recent Synetec projects have revolved around cloud-native software development and cloud-optimising legacy technology and processes.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Government to Boost Public Sector Uptake of Cloud Solutions

The programme features a pre-approved group of vendors, such as Synetec, considered suitable for public sector projects. All cloud service providers on the framework have been vetted for an ethical use of AI, as well as other special standards set for government suppliers. This means that one step in the procurement process has been removed from the organisations using the service.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How We Enabled IT Transformation for a Government Supplier

TerraQuest are a specialist land referencing business providing GIS and Data Services to both Public and Private businesses.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Perform a Project Rescue Operation

Realising you need Project Rescue: In a lot of cases the company does not realise that the project is actually in “trouble” until it is a substantial way through the project. Usually identified if the delivery is not as far down the project plan as anticipated or that requirements are not meeting the expectations of end users or customers. As an organisation you need to acknowledge this and put in steps to implement project changes. Do not keep doing the same things you were doing before as you will be in the same position in a few months.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Don't sit still, look to the future and change

In my last blog I focussed on sharing content that had made me think differently about things as a result of the lockdown. For this blog I thought I'd share some more articles that I've enjoyed over the past month. This time most focus on the business impact of COVID-19 and what's next.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

How to Manage Legacy Software: Tips from the Trenches

Perhaps the legacy software system has started performing poorly, or the stability has decreased to worrying levels with bugs appearing regularly; or even that it is just not possible to develop the system at the rate required.

Andrew Settle

January 3, 2025

DevOps - What can go wrong?

DevOps adoption is, more often than not, a difficult process. There are many pitfalls to avoid and challenges to overcome. Look long enough and you will find that many do fail, resulting in expensive exercises that do not achieve the promised benefits.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Helping organisations grow their revenue using data science

To help put this in context, Actionable Insights is a data science term for information that can be acted upon or information that gives an organisation enough insight into the future that the actions that should be taken become clear for decision makers. Audience Definition identifies where the most promising prospects are, which networks they sit in and how to activate those networks. This is geographical networks and spheres of influence.

Synetec

January 3, 2025

Working Agreement: Why you Need One and the Benefits

January 23, 2020

Futureproof your App Design with DevOps on Microsoft Azure

Modern businesses need applications which delight customers with ease of access and performance, to quickly achieve their desired goal whether that's making a purchase, registration or enquiry. This requires frequent innovation to retain competitive edge.

Synetec

January 3, 2025