Arcus Global is delighted to have won two awards and been named highly commended runner up for another at the Cambridgeshire SME Business Awards held at the Huntingdon Marriott on the 5th April 2017.

Arcus Global is delighted to have been shortlisted in three categories in the Cambridgeshire SME Business Awards. The three categories are Business of the Year, Business of the Year Greater than 50, and the High Growth Business Award.

Arcus Global are delighted to have been shortlisted in the Medium Size Business of the Year category.

In 2016 Arcus Global was honoured to have won the Small Business of the Year awarded by Cambridge Business Weekly. This year, reflecting our growth and success, Arcus Global qualified to enter in the medium size business category and are delighted to have our success recognised by being shortlisted.

Dominic Myers, a senior UX developer at Arcus Global, describes an evidenced rapid prototyping approach for JavaScript development.

Kim Kees - head of sales operations at Arcus Global - talks to Joe Tibbetts about what new technology in the planning process might do to help us solve the housing crisis.

Arcus' PR Guru Nic Williams is regularly asked what a PR Guru is. She discusses this in Cambridge Business magazine.

Arcus Global is working with Aylesbury Vale District Council to help them become the first council in the UK to use AI and AI-powered voice control to serve residents' needs.

Arcus Global sponsored a reception at Peterborough Town Hall to present the Freedom of the City to Peterborough's Olympic and Paralympic heroes.

Arcus Global and other Digital Leaders met to discuss Digital Apprenticeships. They enjoyed a lively discussion and discovered there are lots of opportunities for both candidates and employers from Digital Apprentices. At Arcus we are actively exploring the ways in which we can work to employ Digital Apprentices as part of our growing team.

Working closely with Arcus Global, Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) is an interesting case study, miles ahead of most other local councils spoken to by Diginomica. They are now pretty much 100% cloud, have saved millions of pounds over the past five years, are monetising services that it offers to local residents, and are now considering the use of AI interfaces, such as Amazon's Alexa to help interact with citizens.

Some SMEs, including Nick Howes from Arcus Global, have aired their concerns with diginomica/government about Whitehall's loss in momentum for supporting SMEs.

Aylesbury Vale District Council (AVDC) recently won Socitm's Innovation Award for its 'Right Here Right Now' programme. Alan Evans, head of transformation, and Maryvonne Hassall, computer services manager at the local authority, give PSE an update on the work and future development plans, including their work with Arcus Global. 

Colin Wales dispels some of the myths about cloud computing.

Life would be very different without the cloud. It has become so integral to our everyday lives that most people use it without even realising. In fact, life without the cloud would be unthinkable for them: there would be no Facebook, Twitter, Gmail or Spotify. 

Arcus Global has successfully listed 101 of their cloud based products and services across the Digital Framework, making Arcus Global the largest SME provider to UK Local Government by sales volume, and one of the most successful SMEs on the G-Cloud framework overall.

A recent study found more than 80% of local authorities had little or no involvement with the smart cities agenda. Take a look at Peterborough and it soon becomes clear what they’re missing out on.

The new platform will enable citizens, businesses and other stakeholders across the authority to interact digitally with the council, enabling Rotherham to be an always on, always available Authority.

Peterborough City Council has won the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Global Public Sector Smart City Award.

The council has won the top prize of $25,000 worth of promotional credits that can be used to offset its AWS cloud infrastructure costs.