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Erudine announces its support for the UK Innovation Initiative (UKii)


Erudine is proud to be founder and sponsor of the recently launched UK Innovation Initiative (UKii). UKii is specifically looking at how best to tackle the current obstacles in identifying innovation in IT security and bridging the gap to securing its adoption in industry. UKii is challenging SME’s innovators to address the hard truths about doing business with corporates, as well as challenging corporates to lower their procurement and due diligence barriers to enable adoption of innovation.

Martin Rice, CEO of Erudine, said: “Innovation is a core component in the creation of sustainable value in today’s highly competitive markets. UKii provides a necessary framework for evaluating technical competence and ensuring that innovation is positioned in business terms. Through its close links with the corporate world, UKii helps to identify current “pain points” and reduce the “noise” experienced by end-user decision-makers, to ensure that truly creative and innovative SME’s are not lost.

John Suffolk, CIO, HM Government added: “I fully support the UKii’s efforts to bring innovators and large enterprises together, express innovation in business language and understand each others mindsets.”

Supported by a high-profile advisory panel of senior corporate IT users the UKii has experience invaluable to an SME innovator wanting to enter and understand the corporate world. The advisory panel includes:

  •     John Suffolk, CIO, HM Government
  •     Andrew Rose, Global IT Risk Manager, Clifford Chance
  •     Mark Bentall, CTO, EADS
  •     Paul Stevens, former VP UK IT Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline
  •     Bhaskar Dasgupta, Head of Global PMO, Global Finance Change Programme, HSBC
  •     Ray Titcombe Chairman, IBM Computer Users Association
  •     David King Chairman, Information Security Awareness Forum
  •     Prof. Jim Norton, until recently Head of E-Commerce Policy, Institute of Directors
  •     Geoff Harris, Chairman, Information Security Services Association
  •     Jenny Sener, Director of ICT, OCS Group
  •     Howard Wright, Director, Futures Strategy, Pitney Bowes Inc
  •     David Lacey, former CISO, Royal Mail
  •     Carl Ricketts, Chief Technology Officer, Worldcheck
  •     Colin Beveridge, Chairman, The Better Practice Forum
  •     Jeremy Acklam, Business Development Director, thetrainline.com

John Riley who heads-up the UKii project commented: “The UKii has an educative role, a facilitating role and a lobbying role, all designed to narrow the gap in the between SME innovators and corporate business.”

“Already in its first program the UKii is achieving success by linking several SME IT innovators with FTSE top 50 companies and government organisations. This collaboration is exploring how technologies from Erudine, Crisp Thinking, CODEL, VETT, Tricerion and many others are able to address emerging challenges in the fields of Cyber Security and Information Assurance that large-scale vendors simply can not resolve.”

For more information about UKii please visit www.ukii.org

About Erudine

Erudine has introduced a radically different method of system development through its core technology, Erudine Behaviour Engine (EBE). An enterprise-grade, integrated development environment that allows systems to be authored and evolved at a low cost and reduced risk, the EBE can deliver up to 90% cost-savings, faster time to market, and true business agility.

EBE builds system behaviour in a way similar to how children learn. The developer teaches EBE, by showing it what to do situation by situation and telling it ‘why’, then correcting any exceptions. EBE gives the developer the ability to visualise and change processes quickly and safely with confidence and ensure that no new behaviour will break existing behaviour.

EBE’s unique technology automates the capture and management of existing behaviour, selection of test cases, and production and modification of software and tests when the behaviour needs to be evolved. EBE offers zero order performance that far exceeds traditional software development techniques, together with seamless integration with enterprise systems.

EBE has been actively used in large-scale private and public critical infrastructure projects including;
  • Complex legacy migration
  • Adaptable security control
  • Situational awareness and decision support
  • Security management framework
  • Secure assured delivery
  • Security compliance audit
  • Simulated environments