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General Data Protection Regular (GDPR). Practicalities and Preparation. Summary GDPR. What, Why and When? General Data Protection Regular (GDPR) is new legislation which impose new data security requirements for personal information within the European Union (EU) and is effective from 25 th May 2018. GDPR is primarily concerned with transparency of the intent and purpose of the data that an organisation wants to collect and why, demonstrating privacy is taken seriously by having the appropriate control measures in place, and not holding information where there isn’t a business need or longer than the purpose it was intended for. The impact of this new legislation is wider spread than the EU as it affects organisations globally that may operate within the EU and/or holds personal information about EU citizens without having an EU presence. GDPR applies to public and private sector organisations including not for profit, if you are an organisation that offers servic...

What does GDPR mean for users and customers? You might have found yourself surrounded with loads of articles talking about how important GDPR is and how it will change the way things are working today, but let’s be honest, it is a bunch of boring data that nobody reads, so let us make it easier and understandable for you. Why is GDPR happening? Not that long ago, we were more aware of how our data was being collected by companies, as we were the ones providing the data, filling up a form for example. Nowadays, due to the technologies, we are being tracked without us being conscious about it. It is like when we go to Amazon and it is already showing us the prices of paint brushes, because we have checked a video on Youtube on how to paint flowers. Companies know things about us that we didn’t tell them, so the GDPR is trying to make us aware of who has got our information and what are they intending to do with it. So, what is GDPR? GDPR stands for General Data Protect...

The low code revolution From all the challenges enterprises are facing today, digital transformation is the single most critical one as it disrupts industries, transforms businesses and creates new competitive challenges that will last for years. Because of this digital challenge, the demand for application development has skyrocketed, creating a crisis within most IT organisations.   Gartner, the world's leading information technology research and advisory company, predicts that market demand for application development will grow at least five times faster than IT’s capacity to deliver it through. This is a very worrying state of affair for any enterprises that are becoming more and more dependent, on both the speed of delivering robust applications and the availability of developers. So, let us look in which ways businesses are affected: Application backlog The first impact is associated with the production of applications.   Most IT organisations ha...