Sep 4, 2013 | B2B Marketing, Content marketing, Uncategorized
Guest blog from Rob Skinner, MD at Skout PR, a specialist business to business PR, social media and digital content consultancy. Research from the Content Marketing Institute and the Direct Marketing Association revealed that we are content hungry nation of B2B...
Sep 4, 2013 | e-invoicing, Government Digital Strategy, Interoperability
BASDA gained a mention in the June 2013 Government publication of their strategy for an information economy in partnership with Industry. “For UK businesses, particularly small and medium sized enterprises, to realise the full benefits of e-invoicing, it is...
Aug 20, 2013 | VAT working party
The EU are now considering the option of following the principle set out for services, where VAT would need to be charged, by the supplier, at the VAT rate of the country of destination. This could mean that a UK exporter would have to know the tax rates and tax...
Aug 7, 2013 | Identity Assurance, Information security
The forthcoming implementation of Identity Assurance is the biggest change to the way that we, as software developers, help our customers to submit forms to HMRC. In stages, starting from October 2014, services that currently rely upon the Government Gateway...
Jul 8, 2013 | Computer Science
With Michael Gove’s changes to the National Curriculum, it has got to be good news for the UK software development industry that there is a change to focus on writing computer programs rather than just using them? Computing will teach pupils how to write code....
Jun 20, 2013 | BASDA Members, Uncategorized
Tim Cole, Causeway Executive Vice President and Chair of the BASDA eBusiness SIG, has written article on e-invoicing for Chartech, the magazine of the ICAEW, outlining the key benefits of e-Invoicing and provided useful pointers to choosing the right service provider:...
Jun 19, 2013 | Business Software
At the BASDA Summit event on 21st May, we were lucky enough to hear about the success of the Raspberry Pi Foundation in their quest to re-generate interest in computer science in schools and the wider community to ensure that the UK again leads the way in computing. •...
Jun 7, 2013 | B2B Marketing, Uncategorized
Robert Mullins, co-founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation: Shaping the Future of the UK IT Sector Robert updated us on their fantastic progress since the launch of the Raspberry Pi computer in February 2012. Manufacturing is now in the UK by Sony who produce...
May 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Recently I was invited for lunch at the House of Commons to help launch BASDA’s Interoperability Charter. This was the day before Maggie’s funeral so, as you might imagine, we were all subjected to some very tight security checks. As one of the software...
May 15, 2013 | Cloud computing
Whilst the pros and cons of cloud computing may be regularly debated by the IT team, many FDs and CFOs are still afraid to take the plunge despite being familiar with the clear benefits that cloud computing can offer. Cloud computing brings with it many advantages to...
