This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. At Embedded, we try to predict the requirements technology buyers will have in the future. Clearly, everyone is focussed on COVID at the moment, with financial security of the supply base and cost savings methods most likely at the top on the agenda. However, as we appear to be “normalising” the pandemic, people’s attentions are shifting to other matters. We believe Climate Change and Sustainability are going to be top of the agenda in 2021… or we certainly think that they should be ..read more

  This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. Embedded IT provides two perspectives on the IT Supply Chain - one from the perspective of the Buyer, and the other from the perspective of the Supplier. We try to keep this perspective balanced, as we believe that understanding both sides of the buying / selling transaction delivers the best services for our clients. This ultimately builds stronger relationships between the Buyer and Supplier, in a fragmented and complex industry ..read more

    This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. Throughout the summer we’ve been working on a project which involves identifying publicly available data on the UK IT industry, largely from a buyer’s perspective. Our objective is to identify all of the IT companies in the UK, so that any buyer is able to pick from the most relevant options, based on a series of attributes. This is the underlying premise of the Embedded Directory - a website we created to support buyers in sourcing technology based on available facts, rather than marketing ..read more

The Purpose There is a lot of focus in the industry today on sustainability, especially in the context of a business’s performance and approach to reducing their environmental impact. Technology companies are not immune from this focus, and if anything, have a significant role to play in leveraging the benefits of technology to drive more environmentally friendly behaviour. However, technology as an industry has also caused a lot of environmental impact, with disposable technology, and excessive power consumption. Even in this context, it is very difficult to establish how focussed an IT com ..read more

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  This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. The Embedded Directory is a labour of love for me, that is bordering on an obsession. For the last 5 years I have been trying to find a good way to simplify the complexity of the IT business to make it more accessible - and, trust me, it’s not an easy task. I’ve blogged before about the combinations and permutations of Vendors, Channel Partners, technology types and categories, and different commercial and business models… trying to get this organised is a nightmare. Way more complex than I originally thought ..read more

  This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. The prospect of attending a networking event does absolutely nothing for me. I get invited to networking events all the time, and I genuinely do try and shy away from them where possible. My worst nightmare is “speed dating events” or “breakfast briefings”, and other such events that imply some sort of desperate need to meet people ..read more

  This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. Since starting the Embedded Directory (our IT Services Comparison Tool) we’ve had quite a few interesting dialogues with Buyers and IT Managers about why it is so hard to find the right IT or Telecoms Supplier, when it comes to a new service or improving the existing provision. Some people deny there is a problem, and have never had an issue, but most will agree that it is enormously difficult to engage the market with what should be a fairly simply process ..read more

  This blog was written by Phil Clark, Embedded IT Founder and Director. So, I decided in 2017 to get into the habit of writing a yearly review of how things were going.  Its been 5 years since I started Embedded, and 3 years since I’ve been living solely off the proceeds, so think in the interests of transparency and helping others wanting to jump off the corporate bandwagon that it’s good to be open about how things are going. 2019, by stark contrast to 2018, was awesome on pretty much every level.  2018 nearly sunk me financially, and 2019 has nearly recovered the position wh ..read more