Cloud

Midland Steel Manufacturing

Midland Steel is a market-leading reinforcing steel supplier in Ireland and the UK. They offer a diverse range of prefabricated rebar solutions. We completed a company-wide digital review looking at processes and technologies used across the business and delivered a comprehensive roadmap and action plan for implementation. ​

German research centre shares COVID-19 data globally

To support data sharing and knowledge dissemination, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research partnered with NHQ to create a global COVID-19 study platform.

Data sharing platforms for Influenza and RSV

As part of the ongoing work on the causes and spread of respiratory disease, the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Germany sought to build on the success of the open research platform collaborating on the seroprevalence of SARS-CoV-2 (serohub.net). We rapidly scaled two additional open research platforms supporting greater collaboration on the seroprevalence of Influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). ​

Logistics firm liberates staff with data automation

After FLS Logistics realised how much time their staff spent on spreadsheets and data, they had to find an alternative. They wanted a data warehouse and our fast-track services were the perfect solution for them so that they could have near real-time visibility without increasing IT headcount. They freed up more than 50% of staff’s time from laborious data entry!

How you can turn an extra £100 per month IT spend into more than £4,000 of staff time savings monthly

Pressure to be more efficient has never been greater. The good news is there are so many helpful time-saving software as a service tools out there! We’ve made a list of some of the best.

Cloud Migration: important for a green future

Cloud providers like Microsoft are making their data centres greener and carbon neutral, whereas your in-house servers and associated resources are burning energy. As well as potentially lowering your compute costs, revitalising your IT infrastructure, reducing risk, the green advantages make a cloud move a must for any manufacturer with sights on a net zero goal.

Software-as-a-Service to help you digitise

• Ruth Kearney
• Offerings

Software as a Service or SaaS, as it’s more commonly known, makes digital easy. Find out how it can help to streamline your processes and run a more efficient business.

How 10 manufacturers are digitally transforming with Microsoft

Here at Nightingale HQ, we’re proud to be Microsoft partners. We use their tech to power our data and AI services. To showcase the impact Microsoft services can have, we’ve collected some of our favourite Microsoft manufacturing success stories.

Europe's '2030 Digital Compass' and manufacturing

• Ruth Kearney
• Offerings

The 2030 Digital Compass aims to digitally transform Europe by the end of the decade. It aims to strengthen digital infrastructure and facilitate digital transformation of businesses and the public sector. At its core will be a framework that allows businesses and services to go digital in keeping with European values.

Europe’s Digital Strategy and Manufacturing

• Ruth Kearney
• Offerings

Data in manufacturing could have a net benefit of €1.5 trillion by 2027 so the European Digital Strategy needs to help realise that benefit. The strategy will help make common data spaces available and support cloud infrastructures to assist manufacturers.

Investing in tools scales staff productivity

Businesses with the highest productivity experience more stable and consistent revenue growth, as well as being able to adapt more quickly. With less waste and more staff power focussed on growth, manufacturers with an investment in tooling are more operationally resilient.

How to move your operations to the cloud - what you need to know

• Steph Locke
• Offerings

You’ve probably heard of the cloud but what is it and how can it help your business? Learn how moving to the cloud can help you innovate and stay ahead of the curve when it comes to tech.

Tools matter for Developer Velocity

Businesses with the highest developer velocity experience the highest revenue growth, according to new research by Microsoft and McKinsey. Read on to understand how tools impact developer velocity and what the business case is for investing in them.

Developer Velocity

Businesses with the highest developer velocity experience the highest revenue growth, according to new research by Microsoft and McKinsey. Read on to understand the factors impacting developer velocity and how you can start building a strategy to improve this vital area of technology in your business.

What Is Microsoft Power Platform?

• Nikhil Kanukuntla
• Glossary , Offerings

Microsoft Power Platform is a suite of services that consists of four key components: Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Power Virtual Agents. Its ease-of-use help a broader range of people within your organisation create innovate solutions and access previously untapped value through smarter, time-saving automation solutions.

What Is Azure Logic Apps?

• Nikhil Kanukuntla
• Glossary , Offerings

If you are looking to automate the execution of your business processes across diverse apps and services, Azure Logic Apps is the cloud service you need. Logic Apps serves as a gate to other Azure services you may want to employ to your automation solution, delivering new and innovative integration scenarios.

Nightingale HQ joins Microsoft Cloud Accelerator

We are delighted to announce that Nightingale HQ has been selected to be part of the Women in Cloud (WiC) Microsoft Accelerator 5.0. The 6 month programme has been designed to accelerate women-led tech businesses to co-build, co-market and co-sell with Microsoft.

What is Google Cloud BigQuery?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

BigQuery is a fully-managed, serverless cloud data warehouse that scales with your needs and is easy to set-up and manage. By adopting BigQuery, you can avoid the hassle of developing and managing the infrastructure needed to store large, complex datasets, allowing you to focus on gaining insight from your data.

What is Google Cloud?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Google Cloud is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as Google Search and YouTube. It provides pay-as-you-go access to vast data storage and computing capabilities and allows you to scale the costs as you grow.

What is Azure?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Microsoft Azure is an ever-expanding set of cloud services to help your organisation meet your business challenges. It’s the freedom to build, manage and deploy applications on a massive, global network using your favourite tools and frameworks.

What are Azure Cognitive Services?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Azure Cognitive Services is a comprehensive family of AI services and cognitive APIs to help you build intelligent apps. Cognitive Services bring AI within reach of every developer – without requiring machine-learning expertise. All it takes is an API call to embed the ability to see, hear, speak, search, understand and accelerate decision-making into your apps.

What is AWS (Amazon Web Services)?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Amazon Web Services is a cloud computing platform that provides customers with a wide array of cloud services. We can define AWS (Amazon Web Services) as a secured cloud services platform that offers compute power, database storage, content delivery and various other functionalities.

What is IBM Cloud?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

IBM Cloud™ is a robust suite of advanced data and AI tools, and deep industry expertise to help you on your journey to the cloud. There are more than 100 products available from IBM Cloud, across 16 categories.

What is Amazon S3?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Amazon S3 is described by Amazon as “object storage built to store and retrieve any amount of data from anywhere”. Similar to Google Drive in that it can store many different data types, Amazon S3 makes it easy to meet the data needs of large and complex web applications - including Netflix, Airbnb, and Amazon itself.

What is AWS Redshift?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Amazon Redshift is a cloud-based data warehousing solution that allows you to store, transform and query vast volumes of data at high speed.

What is Azure Batch?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Azure Batch is a service that manages the workload of applications. It is designed to take the workload that is greater than the capability of your application, and divide it between a number of nodes - virtual machines (VMs) - that can each run your application and perform different parts of the workload in parallel.

What is Azure Data Factory?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Tech stacks

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service. It does not store data itself, but allows you to create and monitor automated workflows that collect, integrate, and (to some extent) transform large volumes of data from disparate sources, and pass them on to other services that can store, transform, analyse and use the data.

What is cloud data development?

• Mia Hatton
• Glossary , Offerings

Azure Data Factory is a cloud-based data integration service. It does not store data itself, but allows you to create and monitor automated workflows that collect, integrate, and (to some extent) transform large volumes of data from disparate sources, and pass them on to other services that can store, transform, analyse and use the data.