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2. Compsoft
Creative– Building
revolutionary
mobile apps
that challenge
and refine the
currently existing
technologies
"We recognize
that creating an
app is much more
than creating a
product –it's a
proposition, a
service offering an
extension of your
business ethos."
A
pps are becoming the dominant form of
digital interaction. The customers in today's
world are on the move, and they're using
mobile application platforms to get there. Whether
they use mobile phones, tablets, or other smart
mobile devices – they have all the information they
need. That's why mobile apps are so much essential
in today's business environment. Now day's
customers prefer apps over a website. The days are
gone when users are used to searching websites for
information. They need everything personalized
and fast. Users prefer to download the mobile
app and perform all the activities through those
apps. They need access to information whenever
they want. Companies have understood this and
started marketing apps for business, as app use is
increasing.
Daniel Payne, Managing Director

3. One of the most significant
benefits of having a mobile
app is that all the information
you'd like to provide to your
customers, including special
sales and promotions, is right at
their fingertips. Through push
notifications, you're getting even
closer to direct interaction. You
can easily remind customers
about your products and services
whenever it makes sense; if your
business is online and your app
is also available, it makes users
more comfortable. The future
of any business depends on the
apps available on the mobile
phones of customers worldwide.
Compsoft Creative is the UK's
leading mobile app development
company. The firm has developed
well over 100 apps for iPhone,
iPad, Android, Windows 8, and
Blackberry, for clients including
Hotels.com, npower, Orange,
Nissan, and Symantec, to name
just a few. The firm has been
developing bespoke software for
many years and has specialized
in mobile since 2009, combining
cutting-edge development with
a fantastic design to create some
of the world's best apps. Building
on a web-based application
development background,
they've also integrated many of
its apps into clients' back-end
systems.
Revolutionary products
and services offered by
Compsoft Creative
Community Beacon
It is designed to create a safety
net of people across the UK. It's
incredibly simple to use, to meet
the basic need of connecting
communities. It takes less than a
minute to sign up and start helping.
Register and select the things you
can help with. This could be fetching
shopping, having a chat on the
phone, collecting a prescription,
popping out to the post office, etc.
Suppose you, or someone you know,
is in isolation, either because you
have symptoms or are one of the
vulnerable who is self-isolating. In
that case, Community Beacon can
put you in touch with support in the
local community.
Design and Demonstrate
The vastly experienced design
team here at Compsoft Creative
uses an agile approach to the
graphic and user interface design
to create solutions. It all starts
with you and your idea and what
excites you about it. The firm then
looks at who your users will be,
what makes them tick, what they
want from your app or service,
and then combine your business
requirements for the product with
the end user's needs. The team uses
sketch style 'wireframes' to design
the layout, interaction, and screens
for the solution's user interface,
keeping your business needs. These
wireframes will usually go through
many iterations as the team, and
yours works closely together to
shape the perfect solution. The
Compsoft Creative design team will
then create the app's art direction:
the look and feel, app brand, tone of
voice, and overall graphic style.
Premium App Design and
Development
At Compsoft Creative, the
firm develops mobile apps for
smartphones and tablets on
Android, iOS, and Windows
platforms. It develops native apps
using the toolsets provided by
Apple, Google, and Windows (Xcode,
Android Studio, and Visual Studio),
and where appropriate, it will
use cross-platform technologies
such as HTML5. It is a vertical
agnostic. This is key; developers
who focus in a single sector (such
as pharmacy or banking) tend to
have preconceptions about how
things should work and cannot
think creatively when posed with an
operational or technical challenge.
The company's pedigree is such that
it can have those eureka moments
which turn your mobile app from
another mobile app in 5 million to
something which can stand out.
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4. C
ompanies of all industries
are learning the value of
outsourcing IT services to
third-party providers. By working
with a contractor partnership,
companies can enjoy having more
time and resources for other
projects. At the same time, experts
in the field maintain network
management operations and
other tech-related tasks remotely.
Companies no longer have to
support in-house IT departments or
invest heavily in infrastructure and
maintenance. Instead, a business
can rely on third party providers
to take care of these daily tasks,
while employees are distributed
elsewhere in the business model to
enhance marketing, development,
and other important departments.
Fordway is a leading provider
of IT as a Service to mid-size UK
enterprises. It has been providing
consultancy and services for 30
years. This is underpinned by its
commitment to ensuring long-term
customer success. Many of their
customers use us as their long-term
partner and rely on their services
and expertise to deliver true
business value.
Why Fordway
Simplifying Complexity:
The company makes IT
manageable. It also resolves your
immediate priorities and enables
transformation step-by-step at a
pace to suit you. It also cares deeply
about what it does and about
ensuring a lasting positive impact on
customers. It also cares about staff
and corporate implications.
Bridging the Gaps: It has an
end-to-end service solution that
ensures nothing falls through the
gaps. Working with Fordway is
simple, straightforward, and easy.
It gives flexibility to its customer's
needs and creates lasting value.
Getting IT Right: Fordway
recommends only practical IT
solutions. It doesn't matter whose
logo is on the box.
Experience and Expertise:
Customers choose them for a
combination of responsiveness,
experience, quality of service,
in-depth technical expertise, and
security accreditations.
Path-breaking solutions
and services offered by
Fordway
Delivers transformation
and enables business
improvement: It simplifies the
complex and manages your services
on an "as-needed, pay-as-you-go"
basis while giving you independent
strategic advice throughout the
journey. Free up resources, access
new capabilities and take back
control to use IT innovatively.
Public Cloud: Fordway can also
manage your Microsoft 365 tenancy
to provide a device-agnostic mobile
working platform with built-in
security and staff collaboration
tools. You can combine this with
technical support to your IT
administrators and IT power users
and end-user service desk capability
from product experts. Many
organizations fail to understand
that Microsoft does not guarantee
backup for these products, leaving
documents and data held on
OneDrive, SharePoint, or Teams
vulnerable. They provide peace of
mind by ensuring that your files and
data are always safe and recoverable
and optimized to minimize back-
end storage and cost even in the
most unlikely public cloud failure
scenarios.
Data Centre and Private
Cloud: Get the benefit of secure,
fully managed scalable and elastic
cloud with consistent fixed-cost
monthly billing in your private cloud
environment. Its cloud platform acts
as the foundation for your hybrid
cloud strategy, a replacement for
internal infrastructure, and a base
for running legacy applications that
Fordway – Commitment to ensuring
long-term customer success
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5. can't easily be migrated to the
public cloud.
Connectivity and Access:
Fordway Cloud Connectivity
Services can be deployed over
existing or new bandwidth.
Using state of the art SD-
WAN and LAN management
techniques delivers a
network service that uses
dynamic application-based
routing to make the best of
your underlying network
infrastructure. Deployed over
an existing WAN to improve
performance or supplied as
part of a WAN replacement
where Fordway will specify and
source new bearers to meet
your needs. The beauty of this
approach is that you do not
need co-termination of your
existing WAN circuits or LAN
management contract to take
advantage of the improvements
offered by Fordway as both new
and old circuits may be wrapped
up into a single service.
PSN Gateway Service:
Fordway provides a PSN
Gateway service for
organizations such as local
authorities, social housing
providers, and smaller central
government entities that need
PSN connectivity, but would
like to simplify compliance
requirements and reduce costs.
Fordway's PSN Gateway Service
provides a highly available,
flexible service significantly
reduced cost compared to
the existing PSN connection.
Fordway is a certified PSN
Service Provider with significant
infrastructure, delivering
key services over the PSN to
Government departments and
associated agencies.
"Our success comes
from delivering
lasting business value
and building strong
relationships based on
mutual trust."
Richard Blanford
CEO
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6. Alert Logic–First
SaaS-enabled
managed detection
and response (MDR)
provider, delivering
unrivaled security
value
The pre-eminent leader behind the success of Alert Logic
Bob Lyons is the Chief Executive Officer of Alert Logic. At Alert Logic, Mr. Lyons will support its continued
leadership and growth in security and compliance solutions for today’s diverse technology environments. He has
an overall experience of 25 years as a global executive with a demonstrated track record of value creation through
technology innovation, revenue growth, customer experience, and operational excellence. Mr. Lyons is recognized
for his success in helping high-growth technology. Software-as-a-Service companies scale globally and innovate,
most recently as President and Chief Operating Officer of Connexions, a global leader in SaaS-based customer
loyalty and engagement solutions. Previously he served as Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations at
Ascend Learning, a leading educational content and SaaS company.
Bob Lyons, CEO
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7. A
s organizations expand their
IT infrastructure, they deploy
an increasing number of
network endpoints such as laptops,
desktops, and mobile devices. They
may also develop a hybridized
cloud environment where they
deploy a suite of applications
that support business functions.
While each of these deployments
helps expand and solidify the
organization’s IT infrastructure,
each presents potential security
vulnerability and a possible
entry point for cyber-attacks.
Managed Detection and Response
(MDR), sometimes abbreviated
MDR, is an outsourced security
service that helps organizations
detect malicious network activity
(network intrusions, malware
attacks, attempted data theft, etc.)
and quickly respond to eliminate
the threat.
MDR service providers facilitate
threat detection by deploying
their tools and technologies onto
the customer organization’s IT
infrastructure, then managing and
monitoring those tools. Although
Managed Detection and Response
depends on the use of software
tools to assist in aggregating
event logs and detecting potential
Indicators of Compromise (IoC),
service providers typically employ
security analysts around the clock
to provide 24/7 live monitoring
of your network security posture.
The combination of computerized
and human monitoring provides
excellent coverage and detection of
security threats in real-time.
Alert Logic is the first-ever SaaS-
enabled managed detection and
response (MDR) provider. Since
no investment level prevents
or blocks 100% of attacks, you
need to continuously identify and
address breaches or gaps before
they cause real damage. With a
limited budget and expertise, this
level of security can seem out of
reach. The company’s purpose-
built technology and a team of
MDR security experts protect your
organization and empower you to
resolve whatever threats may come.
Innovative solutions and
services offered by Alert
Logic
Threat Detection and
Response
Alert Logic provides insight
into your environments’ real
threats, helping you make more
informed security investment.
With Alert Logic’s Professional
and Enterprise Managed Detection
and Response (MDR) services, you
get an intrusion detection system
that includes network security
monitoring and threat analysis
from certified security experts
that helps you detect threats,
analyze, and prioritize incident
response. The firm helps you to
capture the right data, minimize
storage requirements, meet
security compliance mandates,
and trace activity to gain a deeper
understanding of what happened
when an event occurs.
Log Management Solution
With a log file monitoring
approach informed by leading
practices, organizations can
capture the right data, minimize
storage requirements, meet
compliance mandates, and
traceback activity to gain a deeper
understanding of what happened
if an event occurred. Extensive log
search and analysis capabilities
can also support forensic
investigations, and compliance
responses should the need arise.
Leverage a centralized repository
into the MDR console that displays
easily configurable, third-party
platform integrations for assisting
in log collection. This helps security
teams stay up to date on the latest
log sources and incident types
available, as well as what is on the
horizon.
Antivirus Analysis and
Detection
Antivirus (AV) scanning is an
essential part of an organization’s
security monitoring and provides
valuable data for security teams to
handle potential compromise and
improve their security posture.
With the integration, analysis, and
detection of AV logs from third-
party tools, Alert Logic helps place
threats identified from your AV
data into a more comprehensive
threat management view. In
addition to antivirus analysis and
detection, Alert Logic’s Managed
Detection and Response platform
also provides an extended endpoint
protection capability. With this
capability, the firm blocks endpoint
attacks through a combination of
machine-learning attribute analysis
and real-time behavioral analytics.
“Our employees
thrive in a
fast-paced,
collaborative
work
environment
that puts our
customers at
the heart of
everything we do.”
SR

8. With its remarkable services,
Regally Refined LLC is redefining
and empowering women globally
to cultivate healthy habits and
achieve their goals
W
omen empowerment
is a widely discussed
topic, and over the past
few decades, a steady increase
can be found in the same. Women
must possess freedom, self-worth,
and confidence to choose their
requirements and needs. It is very
unreasonable to classify people
based on their gender, and it has
very insignificant value. Even
after this, women are forced to be
confined to the kitchen and are often
restricted by their family members.
Women’s empowerment is needed
to overcome adverse situations and
give women the confidence to take
up an individual role in society.
Empowering women must also be
considered as a fundamental right,
and they should have equal rights
to take part in politics, education,
economics, and society. In a
developing society, unemployment
can be seen as a common problem.
Unequal work opportunities and
unemployment can be swiftly
eradicated with the help of women
empowerment. The true potential
of a woman goes unnoticed when
she doesn’t get the opportunity to
display it. To make full use of the
women’s potential and strength,
equal opportunities must be given
to them. We must empower women
to understand their intelligence, and
their presence at work is extremely
important. Appreciating the good
things around us is an ideal thing
to do; similarly, we must also honor
the women who tend to play an
essential role in ourlives.
Regally Refined LLC is a coaching,
mentoring, and networking
organization that empowers girls
and women to overcome gender
bias by acquiring knowledge, skills,
Meet the leader behind the success of
Regally Refined LLC
Requita Byrd is the Founder and CEO of Regally Refined
LLC. She is an empowerment and executive leadership coach
who inspires women all over the world. She is the author of
self-improvement books and currently an Associate Professor
at Alfaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Requita offers a
plethora of knowledge, experience and opportunities for many
women who are ready to grow and expand their lives. Her motto is
Think Boldly, Act Fearlessly, Be Courageous.
Requita Byrd, Founder & CEO

9. and healthy habits. The journey to
becoming empowered does not end
with success or the completion of
multiple goals. This is why Regally
Refined continues to coach its clients
until they have the confidence they
need to start coaching or mentoring
others. Regally Refined recognized that
this is a crucial step in maximizing its
impact. The company was founded
in 2018, and it is based in Chicago,
Illinois.
In conversation with
Requita L. Byrd, Founder
and CEO of Regally
Refined LLC
Developing soft and behavioral
skills requires understanding
themselves, seeing the need for
change. How do you make an
individual develop a new habit
that solidifies the change?
I provide a strategy which is currently
being written as a book known as
the 12 Steps of Self-Empowerment.
The first step in this process involves
letting go of the past to develop
new mindsets and healthy thinking
patterns. This is how I begin to help an
individual solidify change.
Whom do you give credit for
your business success? Why?
I give God all of the credit because
without him none of my success would
be possible.
What are some of the
significant challenges you
faced in initial years? How did
you overcome them?
Significant challenges include
explaining the benefits of coaching.
Many people are reluctant to invest
in a coach because they do not fully
understand the purpose or benefit of
having one, two, or three. I overcome
this by being consistent with my
teachings and by continuing to
spread understanding for all forms of
coaching.
How efficient are your learning
& training strategies? Justify.
I consider myself to be highly efficient
and learning and training strategies
because I have a background in
Teaching Education and I am a certified
coach. My experience speaks for itself.
Behavioral skills are basic
psychological human aspects
and are difficult to measure.
What is your approach to
measure and compare?
I track my clients’ process through a
series of self-assessments.
There are other reputed
companies in the market
which are into coaching and
mentoring. What makes you
an expert coach/mentor?
Besides my qualifications and
certifications, I am a living testament
of the effectiveness of my strategies. I
practice what I teach.
A coach/mentor is also an
efficient learner. What did
you learn from your clients/
students/disciples? Also, share
some of your memorable
moments of your career.
I learned that coaching or self-
empowerment is an ongoing process,
so it is important to remain humble
and continue to seek ways to grow.
The most memorable moments
are receiving multiple awards as
Best Women’s Coach from different
organizations.
How do you keep your service
standards up and running?
I keep my service standards above
expectations by constantly assessing
my progress and seeking client
suggestions.
Our
approach is
individualized.
We believe
that you can
only become
empowered
by first
establishing
a solid
relationship
with us and
by having a
full sense of
self. With that,
we focus on
redefining
limiting
beliefs,
collaboration,
vision and
goal setting.”
“
SR