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Helen Macaskill 29/09/2020

Recalibration: An Ex-PhD Student’s First Year at Village

The 12th of August marks the end of my first year at Village Software – also my first year in industry after completing my PhD in experimental physics. While the applicat…

07/05/2020

The world working from home

The world working from home I’ve just ended my 6th full week working from home. Starting out with my laptop in the front room, then as we realised this was going to be…

29/04/2020

Move to Azure Sql

What can you gain by moving from an on-premises SQL Server to Azure? One of biggest benefits according to this Forrester financial impact study is the infrastructure main…

25/02/2020

Data Quest 2020 Round Up

Village Data Quest 2020 has finished! Twenty-two students from various universities in the Liverpool area descended upon our office last Friday to demonstrate their data…

27/01/2020

University life vs work life

I started my placement with Village Software 5 months ago. I’ve been in education all my life with only the odd part-time job here and there, so I was a little nervous! I…

22/01/2020

Data Quest 2020 is coming!

We have been planning the 2nd coming of Village Data Quest on 21st of February 2020, a BI puzzle to talent spot the upcoming talent in business intelligence. Under our Da…

13/01/2020

2020: Let's Get Productive

The UK statistics society has given the UK productivity growth  of 0.3% in the 2010’s the accolade of “statistic of the decade”. By comparison spending on the NHS rose by…

Village Team 19/12/2019

We hope that you have a truly wonderful Christmas and enjoyable New Year!

It's been a busy and exciting year with lots of new deployments for new and existing customers.  In order to celebrate properly and to give the team a well-earned rest, t…

15/08/2019

There’s definitely a chilli in the air ...

The pressure of being a judge is not to be underestimated. Not exactly to RHS standards but by carefully ignoring all the various subterfuge plots, and following the rule…