My First 8 Months at Arrk Group By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 3 mins read In my interview for Arrk, I was asked what I wanted to get out of this job. If I remember rightly my response was something like: “I’d like to learn all about the computer systems that are increasingly pervading every…
Google taking positive action on web security By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 6 mins read For over twenty years it’s been possible to protect interaction with websites using encryption. The majority services we interact with daily such as online banking, major online retailers and social media giants such as Facebook, Google, Twitter etc use this…
Using Psychological Safety to Build Great Teams By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 4 mins read A new-starter, a young graduate just out of university, is sat in a meeting attended by some senior managers who are discussing an important business initiative. The graduate notices a glaring error in the financial statement on the screen that…
The Rise of Voice Search By Team Arrk Thought Leadership 5 mins read Voice search is on its way towards disrupting the search engine industry and how we discover content online. It’s posing challenges for search engine marketers as the nature of search changes from text-based to voice. What is voice search? Voice search uses…
East Sussex County Council engaged with Arrk Group to digitise and enhance the way it deals with its school allocation appeals procedure. The previous largely offline service offering didn’t meet the expectations of today’s parents, as the service wasn’t available around the clock, therefore parents weren’t able to check on their appeal status at a…
Our Cloud expertise and experience helps a wide variety of organisations harness the power of the Cloud and irrespective of how Cloud-centric your organisation is, Arrk offers a range of innovative solutions, geared around maximising the myriad benefits on offer. Benefits such as: Flexibility Scalability Speed Capital-expenditure Free Collaboration Security The advent of Cloud technology…
Arrk Group optimised a large AWS environment to ensure best use of resources, using a variety of techniques and tools, including New Relic and Google Analytics. The demands on the service vary throughout the year, with the service needing to deal with activity spikes of 500% and 400% over normal usage conditions. A Cloud performance…
Ever heard of European Union General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR)? It may be quite the mouthful, but it’s one that will soon be rolling off the tongue – because you have less than two years to ensure you’re compliant with it. Wait… what is EU GDPR? In short, GDPR is regulation being introduced by…
There is a new term that has entered the vocabulary of not just information technology specialists but also those within the financial services industry, in the form of “fintech”. Referring to the plateau of technology emerging in the financial sector in the 21st Century, fintech has become much more than a term for technophiles –…
Cast your mind back to the summer of 2009. Facebook was still in short trousers and the first iOS developers had only been cursing Objective-C for a year. The mobile apps race was already up to speed and although exciting new apps were being launched at a heady rate, it was just possible to keep…
