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Category Archives: AI & Data

The backs of a woman and man at their desk in an office
Article May 2025

Why developers (and everyone else) should care about analytics
Video Mar 2025

What are all these Data X words? Warehouses, Lakes & Lakehouses
Article Mar 2025

Are LLMs destroying the planet?
Article Feb 2025

Did you just give GenAI top secret security clearance?
Video Jan 2025

What actually is data mesh?
Video Jan 2025

What is data lineage?
Article Dec 2024

AI natives: beyond the hype of modern dev tooling 
Laura Hughes of Softwire is speaking to room of people in front of presentation screen.
Event highlights Dec 2024

Event highlights: the many flavours of data projects and the data-driven enterprise
Video Dec 2024

How to make the most of metadata
Podcast Dec 2024

Building strong tech leadership networks in the Age of AI
Guide Nov 2024

Practical tips for data mesh
Article Nov 2024

Data governance and data privacy: how to keep pace with the evolving regulatory landscape
Guide Oct 2024

CTO Craft and Softwire: Spilling the AI Tea
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Article Sep 2024

Stop calling it “Prompt Engineering”
Article Sep 2024

The strategic implications of Generative AI: technology adoption as BAU
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Podcast Apr 2024

Harnessing the Storm: Data-Driven Decision Making with Glen McCracken
Article Apr 2024

Data should provide your questions, not just your answers
Article Apr 2024

Diving into the deep blue data lake, maths in 3072 dimensions, and the perfect recipe for Data Spaghetti
Article Apr 2024

What’s up with all these “Data-X” words?
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Podcast Mar 2024

Data as an Asset: Navigating the Future with BDO’s Chief Data Officer, Denholm Hesse
A headshot of Rashed Younas, head of delivery management at The Dot Collective
Podcast Dec 2023

Rashed Younas – Using generative AI to improve CX and meet regulatory requirements in insurance
Event highlights Dec 2023

Highlights from Softwire’s Productionising GPT event
A woman receives an eye test from an optometrist
Article Nov 2023

How to build a data platform to support pioneering medical research
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Article Nov 2023

How to spot the signs you’ve outgrown spreadsheets
Article Oct 2023

How to turn your sophisticated spreadsheet models into enterprise-class tools
Article Aug 2023

How our data engineers rose to the challenges of DataKind UK’s DataDive weekend
Article Aug 2023

How are companies using Generative AI to give their products a competitive advantage – and why you should take note 
Article Aug 2023

Lessons learned building big datasets with GCP Dataflow
Event highlights Aug 2023

Webinar: 4 Ways To Leverage APIs For a Competitive Edge In The Insurance Industry
Article Jul 2023

CTOs reveal their positions on AI: Cutting through the hype and seizing opportunities
Podcast Jul 2023

Weather and arthritis: How digital health data is transforming healthcare research
Podcast May 2023

Daniel Whitston, CTO: How I’ve embraced AI and large language models
Article Mar 2023

How to optimise management information and analytics
Podcast Mar 2023

SeeChange: Harnessing the power of AI to drive positive social change
Article Jan 2023

Four things every CTO should do in 2023
Article Nov 2022

Three stages to MDM-enabled data maturity
Event highlights Nov 2022

Sean Williams: How AI large language models are going to change the world
Article Sep 2022

What is Data Engineering and how can it help your business?
Podcast Aug 2022

PeripherAi: The AI startup turning business data into sales
Article Nov 2021

Why open and accessible data will be more impactful
Article Feb 2021

Instilling a security-focussed culture in digital teams
Podcast Jan 2021

Cyber security
Podcast Jan 2021

Data Engineering: What is it and how can it help your business thrive?
Event highlights May 2020

Softwire Masterclass – How tech leaders can use data and analytics to thrive during challenging times. What you missed and why sign up for the next one.
Event highlights May 2020

Masterclass: ‘Tackling remote user testing’ – what you missed and why you should sign up for the next one
Article Apr 2020

Your first AI proof of concept is complete. What next? (Part V of V)
Article Apr 2020

The skills you need to turn AI from theory to real business value (Part IV of V)
Article Apr 2020

The six steps to follow to kick-off a successful AI project (Part III of V)
Article Apr 2020

Artificial Intelligence: Inspiring real-world examples (Part II of V)
Article Mar 2020

What is data literacy?
Article Mar 2020

Artificial Intelligence: Today’s reality vs the hype (Part I of V)
Article Jan 2020

How can strong data governance improve your AI project?
Article Jan 2020

#SoftwireExplains AI
Article Jan 2020

Five ways to get the most from your analytics project
Podcast Jan 2020

Harnessing your data
Article Oct 2019

Helping match stem cell donors with patients in need of a transplant
Article Jun 2019

Behind the AI Takeover
Article May 2019

Green Consumption: Big Data holds the key to sustainability
Article Apr 2019

The state of play in AI: Insights from some industry leaders
Podcast Apr 2019

Machine Learning & AI
IoT trends
Article Mar 2019

Have you really thought about IoT security?
Article Oct 2018

Useable or Useless? How to Declutter Data for the Greater Good
Article Aug 2018

How to use data to underpin ever-more-personalised healthcare
Article Jun 2018

Fears surrounding the ethics of AI development risk constraining innovation
Article Feb 2018

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks
Article Apr 2015

Explaining a security vulnerability: the IIS Range Header attack (CVE-2015-1635)