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Sainsbury’s enlists Tata Consultancy Services for cloud first move
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is working with Sainsbury’s as the UK grocery giant looks to accelerate its cloud first strategy.
TCS has been a strategic partner to Sainsbury’s for over a decade.
As a part of a new multi-year deal, it will consolidate and modernise the retailer’s IT infrastructure landscape into a hybrid cloud stack using TCS Enterprise Cloud.
It will also provide end-to-end managed services for workplace services, network connectivity, and security.
The aim here is to help Sainsbury’s speed up time to market, create new revenue streams, and enhance agility to respond in real-time to emerging business scenarios.
Sainsbury’s plans to reinvest the savings to offer value to customers through innovation and lower costs.
Foodhub calls on new UK Prime Minister to curb spiralling food prices
Online takeaway firm Foodhub has erected a giant inflatable duck outside Downing Street and called on the incoming Prime Minister to ‘sort out this ducking shambles’, after food costs spiralled under Liz Truss’ short reign.
The company is protesting against what it calls “government inaction over rising costs” and demanding the new PM (Rishi Sunak) confront the issue head on.
E-commerce marketing and packaging startup Penny Black bags investment of £1.3m
Penny Black, an e-commerce platform that turns packaging into a marketing channel, has received £1.3 million in seed funding from AGFA and ninepointfive.
Incubated in AGFA’s innovation lab, supported by ninepointfive, Penny Black launched independently in the UK and Europe in April.
Its software connects e-commerce stores, marketing tools and fulfilment operations to…
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