MSM - Application Development, Maintenance and Support Blog

MSM Software's sister company - MSM Risk Management - that focuses on risk engineering software is delighted to announce that our market-leading risk management software solution - Risk Solved - has been shortlisted for the prestigious FStech 'Risk Management Software of the Year' Award in 2012.

Do many of your suppliers let you down, performing sub-optimally and embarrassing the sourcing team that selected them?  We're seeing a strong trend amongst our larger clients to plan significant improvements to Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) activities during 2012.

So what is actually the difference between SharePoint 2007 and 2010? Well what a difference three years makes. This post looks at the key differences between SharePoint 2007 and the latest 2010 release and why SharePoint 2010 is what SharePoint 2007 should have been but wasn't.

MSM Software offers best practice advice on how to comply with the new cookie legislation.

MSM Software has continued its run of success by winning IT Employer of the Year at the British Computing Society and Computing UK IT Industry Awards held on 10 November 2011.

The Awards are a platform for the IT profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence in the UK.

MSM Software hits gold again

We are delighted to have gained Microsoft gold competency for web development. This places us in the top 1% of Microsoft partners worldwide that have attained this outstanding degree of proficiency.

Our Microsoft Partnership means that our team have passed the latest Microsoft exams in writing bespoke web-based and Windows software and databases in Microsoft technologies, a new much more demanding achievement than the old Gold Certified Partner status.  We have prioritised achievement of the Gold level for web development as this is the skill our clients most commonly demand. read more

In a recent survey of IT professionals undertaken by Computing on behalf of MSM Software, nearly two-thirds of IT professionals have been involved in a project in the past which has failed to live up to their expectations.

Delivering ROI for your charity's IT budget

This article was published in Civil Society on 6 September 2011.

Charity IT buyers are under considerable pressures; they often lack the budgets of private organisations, yet still must ensure the organisation's software enables efficient business processes.

For an IT purchasing decision to be most effective, it requires blended business and technology considerations. Return on Investment (ROI) is used to define the business value of an IT investment, and can enable third sector organisations to demonstrate business value and financial impact read more

MSM Software has been shortlisted as a finalist for three awards at this year's prestigious British Computer Society 2011 UK IT Industry Awards.

• Community Project of the Year 
• IT Employer of the Year
• Systems Professional of the Year

This is the second year running MSM Software entered the awards and we're delighted that, once again, we have been shortlisted for each category we entered - a testament to the commitment and hard work of the MSM team.

The BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards are a platform for the entire profession to celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence read more

By 31 December 2012, firms will have to be RDR-compliant and move away from provider commission to a structure where IFAs will receive a regular annual income. This is placing IFAs under a greater level of scrutiny and regulation than ever before to improve the standard of retail investment advice being given by retail advisers.

Soaring RDR implementation costs and potentially falling revenue streams are among the biggest concerns for advisers in this respect. read more