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01732 759725 14 BULLETIN Quadruple award win TrustRadius has recognised Kofax Power PDF with three 2022 PDF Editor category awards: best relationship, feature set, and value for price. Power PDF was also named a G2 2022 best software awards winner for best office products. www.kofax.com Green initiatives Alibaba Group has joined the Low Carbon Patent Pledge (LCPP), an international platform that encourages the sharing of patents for low carbon technologies, to accelerate the adoption of green technology and the fostering of collaborative innovation by making nine key patents for green data centre technology available for free to external parties. In keeping with its support for green initiatives, Alibaba Cloud, the digital technology and intelligence backbone of Alibaba Group, also aims to have its global data centres running entirely on clean energy by 2030, starting with upgrades to five of its hyperscale data centres in China. alibabacloud.com Recognition for Cohesity Cohesity was named a major player in the IDC MarketScape Worldwide Distributed Scale-Out File System 2022 Vendor Assessment. This is the first year this MarketScape has been published. The IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. Cohesity was recognised as a major player based on 12 capabilities and ten strategies criteria and metrics. The company also received a customers’ choice in the 2022 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer: Distributed File Systems and Object Storage report for the second consecutive year. Cohesity also was recognised as a strong performer in the midsize enterprise market in the report. www.cohesity.com Avaya expands Microsoft partnership Avaya and Microsoft have expanded their global partnership by pairing the Avaya OneCloud portfolio with Microsoft Azure to provide organisations with more options to increase their productivity and customer engagement. Building on the success of Avaya OneCloud Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) delivered on Azure, Avaya is now expanding its partnership to include the Avaya OneCloud portfolio on Azure, for customers that want maximum flexibility to deploy in a hybrid, public or private cloud environment. “Our strategic partnership with Microsoft is an important milestone in our continued transformation to a cloud business model,” said David Austin, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Alliances, Avaya. www.avaya.com Is Hybrid working here to stay? Hybrid working or Office-based full time – which works best? One of the biggest shifts we have seen in recruitment over the last two years has been the move to hybrid working. Due to forced homeworking through COVID-19 restrictions, many businesses had to quickly adapt and set up processes to enable efficient home working for staff. For many businesses this meant heavy investment. Laptops instead of desktops, mobile phones, and software to ensure data protection is maintained. But where businesses have spent money, they saved on the costs of running an office. No computers, printers and lights running 12+ hours a day. No constant kettles boiled or air conditioning running. With all this investment and money saved you would expect companies to be committed to hybrid working. But will Hybrid working really be here to stay? Whilst most businesses are offering hybrid working as now, we are slowly seeing a creep back towards fulltime office-based roles. Certainly, when we were out and about in London last week the businesses and office spaces seemed as bustling as ever. So, which will provide the best outcome for your business? There will always be some roles that need to be office based. For most employees and company’s flexibility has worked in their favour. Flexible working can often mean you get more from your employees. Some people still prefer to be office based as they need the structure of 9-5 and a commute. True flexible working is to offer both hybrid and full-time office-based options to employees. In doing so you are allowing them to choose a work environment that will help you (and the employee) achieve the best possible productivity for your business. For advice on recruitment or the current market, speak to Max Levenger or Lynsey Arnold at Henley Executive on 0333 567 4888, or email [email protected]. https://henleyexecutive.co.uk BUSINESS BRIEFING - RECRUITMENT

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