Wrapping up 2025. Looking forward to 2026.

As we complete another orbit of the sun, it’s time to reflect on what we’ve achieved at DeeperThanBlue in 2025.

We continue to work closely with our vendor partners to stay ahead of the curve in the technology space we work in. Thanks to IBM, we have hosted in-person events in Sheffield and London where we helped delegates understand the potential of Agentic AI. These included fascinating insights from Carolyn Shepherd (Emmeline.AI), Duncan Payne (Zoo Digital) and David Royle (Tanhill.AI) into where AI is making a real difference in business, as well as deeper dives into the technology from IBM’s experts, Mark Ketteman, Dan Laycock and Matt Newton.

• Sheffield event write-up
• London event summary video

IBM also invited us to present at the AI Summit in London in July, where we talked about the process of how DeeperThanBlue works with clients to identify potential AI use cases with our SORT model and how discovery workshops help customer start the journey to build a minimum viable AI product before progressing to scale out.

On the Commerce side of the business, in September BigCommerce invited us onto their stand at eCommerce Expo in London to present a case study on our work with one of our long-standing clients, Howarth Timber and Building Supplies. As part of our ongoing development of Howarth’s eCommerce site, we have introduced several new features to help them stand out from the crowd. These include real-time data management and a staff self-service portal. See some of these developments here:

Congratulations to Howarth on recently winning the Builders Merchants Award for Best ‘Online and Digital Strategy’ for their site.

Further details of the Howarth project, and some other client success stories can be found in our recent case studies:

• Howarth: Empowering Real-Time Data Management with a Self-Service Portal
• Optimising Kubernetes environment for ultimate data security and scalability
• Replatforming a logistic client’s trading partner integrations to IBM ACE
• Scaling eCommerce for Growth: East Riding Horticulture
• Implementing Secure, Streamlined Kubernetes Infrastructure for NYK

Towards the end of the year, we launched a campaign to highlight the risks to businesses who cling to legacy IT infrastructure and the importance of application modernisation. Some of you may have received a little gift in the post! If you have concerns about outdated IT systems and applications, send me a message, and we’ll drop one of our gifts in the post to you!

Along similar lines, we have worked with our distributor partner, Arrow, to raise awareness of this issue. Hot off the press is our webinar talking about the Modernisation Imperative, in which we talk to Doug Coombs from IBM about how businesses should adopt an approach to infrastructure modernisation which is intentional by design, aligning technology, people, and processes from the outset to deliver sustainable business outcomes.

We’ve had an interesting year helping clients move into the cloud with workloads and new solutions being deployed on Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and AWS.

For the second year in a row, we have been awarded Cyber Essentials Plus status, recognising our commitment to enhanced organisational cybersecurity.

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