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What are your business plans for this year? Have you been thinking about the things you’d like to achieve? The things you’d like to do more of, and the things you want to do less?

As we approach the end of 2017 and begin planning festive fun, we wanted to take a moment to reflect back on a year of very exciting technical challenges for Olamalu.

GDPR. No, it’s not a word in another language! You may have already heard the term but not quite fully understood what it was?

Work experience. We can all remember it. Our very first taste of REAL LIFE! In today’s world, work experience is more important than ever before.

Do you have a website, but have reached a point at which it’s not quite working for you?

It’s 20 years this week since J K Rowling launched her very first Harry Potter book. Little did she know back in 1997 what an impact on the world this collection of wonderfully imaginative books of magic and wizardry would have.

Not a week goes by when we don’t hear headlines about a case of cyber crime. For some, these news stories have become wallpaper. It’s happening, but not to me. Does it really happen that much? Unfortunately, yes. Stop for a moment and think about it: what would it feel like if it did happen to you and what could the impact be?

Have you heard the famous African proverb “it takes a whole village to raise a child”? The notion is that it isn’t just about the mother and father, but the wider family, friends, indeed the whole community to step in and support the next generations of the village both practically and emotionally. In some ways this is how we feel about business and community in West Oxfordshire.

One of things we love most is solving a challenge. A problem that at first may feel like you’ve lost the end of the Christmas tree lights – the deeper you get, the more muddled you end up. Put into a business context, these problems can sometimes be one of a kind and are the type of problem that we love to solve with technology.