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Digital Sovereignty: what this means for the UK
Detailed research, analysis and commentary on digital sovereignty with a focus on the UK. Find out who really owns the technology that organisations use every day, where the data is stored, what the points of failure are and what British businesses and policy makers can do about it.
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Who controls the technology behind a UK law firm?
A plain-English Sovereignty Exposure Profile for a UK mid-size law firm (roughly 50–250 fee earners). Download PDF version What this is A law firm’s most valuable and most confidential asset is its client work: privileged advice, case files, and years of matter history. Most firms now keep all of it in software and cloud services…
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Who controls the technology behind a UK financial-services firm?
A Sovereignty Exposure Profile for a UK mid-market financial-services firm — a challenger bank, building society, mid-size insurer or asset manager. Download PDF version What this is Most financial firms now run on software and cloud services rented from a handful of large suppliers. This report asks a simple question about a typical UK mid-market…
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UK Digital Sovereignty – Productivity Software
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty The whole office is rented. Who’s the landlord? Email, documents, meetings, chat — for almost every UK business, the entire working day happens inside software rented from one of two American companies. We looked inside thirty-one productivity, collaboration and business-email products to ask what that means, whether the escape routes…
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UK Digital Sovereignty – Payroll Software
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty Payroll knows everything about your people. So who runs it? Salaries, bank accounts, National Insurance numbers, pension pots, sick records — payroll and HR software holds the most sensitive personal data a business possesses, and files it to HMRC every payday. We widened our first look from nineteen products to…
UK Digital Sovereignty – Accounting Software
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty The taxman sent your books to the cloud. Where did they land? Your accounts are the most complete picture of your business that exists — every customer, every supplier, every salary, every bank feed. We looked inside the full audited field of accounting and bookkeeping software sold to UK businesses…
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UK Digital Sovereignty – CRM Software
Information Matters · Digital Sovereignty Who really holds your customer list? We looked inside the full audited field of CRM software sold to UK businesses — fifty-three companies, fifty-six products — to answer one question: if you want your customer data under UK control, can you actually get it? The answer is more tangled, and…
