
Miya Knights
A 25-year veteran enterprise technology expert, Miya Knights applies her deep understanding of technology gained through her journalism career to both her role as a consultant and as director at Retail Technology Magazine, which she helped shape over the past 17 years. Miya was educated at Oxford University, earning a master’s degree in English, and has enjoyed a hugely varied career in leading roles such as a global technology research director at Planet Retail and a senior research analyst at IDC.
She has also co-authored two books on business technology: ‘Amazon: How the World's Most Relentless Retailer will Continue to Revolutionize Commerce’ and ‘Omnichannel Retail: How to Build Winning Stores in the Digital World’, the latter of which was shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award in the Sales & Marketing category.
Her role as a journalist has seen her write for many of the leading technology publishers in the UK such as ITPro, TechWeekEurope, CIO UK, Computer Weekly, and also a number of national newspapers including The Times, Independent, and Financial Times.
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Swarovski sparkles after solving IT bottleneck
Case Studies The cut crystal giant has boosted performance for customers and employees alike.
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Cloud provides recipe for Yo! Sushi success
Case Studies International restaurant chain saves with business applications upgrade to support growth.
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New comms supports debt counselling service
Case Studies Charity improves staff productivity and customer service levels with unified communications.
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BT launches life sciences R&D into cloudNews Introduction of cloud services for pharmaceutical industry is set to increase productivity.
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Atos, EMC and VMware take the wraps off CanopyNews New joint venture will aim to be the first one-stop global cloud shop to offer SaaS, PaaS and PaaS
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Citrix launches CloudStack 3News The first release under proprietary brand increases integration and builds portfolio and community.
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Google working on Siri rival?News Latest rumours circulate about efforts to catch up with iPhone voice software.
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Explosion confirmed at Apple supplier factoryNews Will disruption at the Chinese manufacturing plant disrupt Apple's supply chain?
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ICO: Private email is subject to FOINews Guidance suggests organisations should update communications policies.
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CIO warning: Prepare now for eurozone crisisNews Gartner issues enterprise IT wake-up call over impact of current global economic events.
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Nissan signs up for Microsoft Dynamics CRM cloudNews The pair sign a global deal to build an Azure-based dealer management system and host it on Microsoft's public cloud.
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If retailers build it, will the shoppers come?In-depth Will mobile shopping revolutionise our High Street? Miya Knights tries to find out…
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Direct commerce IT goes multi-channelNews London trade show highlights latest retail technology trends and challenges.
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M-commerce reaching tipping pointNews 2012 predicted to be breakthrough year for consumers interacting and shopping via mobile devices.
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Cloud equipment market to exceed $33 billion in 2011News Deployments driven by the accelerated IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS adoption will boost the cloud equipment market this year, an analyst firm claims.
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ICO issues more council finesNews But some call into question severity of penalty for mistakenly emailed personal data.
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Twitter acquires mobile security firmNews Android data encryption and security management software boosts micro-blogging platform defences.
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Cyber crime on the rise in the UKNews Cyber crime contributes to rising UK fraud levels, according to consultancy’s latest global research.
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Nominet to review domain suspension policyNews Internet registry goes back to drawing board after ISPs reject cyber defence plans.
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NPIA renegotiates £1m PNN3 contract savingNews Cable&Wireless secure communications network contract extended for less money.
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Government publishes cyber security strategyNews Government sets out plans to strengthen national defences over the next four years.
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EC clears Western Digital Hitachi dealNews Merger approved as good for competition in storage market under the EU merger regulation.
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Nokia Siemens says 17,000 jobs will goNews Thousands of jobs will go as part of a major global restructuring programme to refocus on mobile networks and services.
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Windows 8 promises setup improvementsNews Microsoft details changes to next operating system release to cut installation times by 90 per cent.
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