European organisations face a growing operational problem. Thousands of disconnected applications now sit across finance, sales, delivery, HR and project delivery, creating what many describe as SaaS sprawl. Teams plan projects in slides and spreadsheets, track dependencies in email and manage risks in separate documents, while data is reconciled manually and visibility erodes. Even established platforms such as monday.com struggle to deliver value when project workflows, resource models and operating systems lack structural alignment. Over time, these gaps create blind spots in reporting, project prioritisation and daily execution. Mutherboard was built to address this problem at its source. Based in London and Harrogate, it restructures fragmented operational environments into unified systems where projects, resources and integrations work together and workflows and data remain connected in real time. Working across platforms including monday.com, Projectworks and Make. com, Mutherboard helps growing organisations achieve measurable ROI without slowing momentum or overwhelming teams. Its focus is not automation for speed alone, but on restoring coherence to how work moves through an organisation, how projects are governed and how resources are deployed. Project Management and AI Mutherboard designs project and programme environments that make timelines, dependencies, risks and status unambiguous across portfolios. Boards, dashboards and automations are structured so teams can see what is due when, what depends on what and where the blockers are without navigating multiple tools.
Top Managed Cloud Service in Europe 2026
As cloud migrations accelerate in Europe, outages dominate headlines and latency costs profits. Amidst such unpredictability, one cloud provider stands out with its promise to keep data sovereign, systems resilient, and support unmistakably human. That is Dade2. Headquartered in London, with data centres across Iceland, Spain and Germany and an additional facility in Miami, Dade2 has earned the loyalty of more than 8,000 customers. And how did it do so? Through trust. Trust that is built on proximity, performance and people. For Dade2, “European” is the keyword. With infrastructure, operations, and support based entirely within Europe, sovereignty is treated as a default, not an optional toggle. Clients gain legal clarity, audit-ready governance, and data locality aligned with Europe’s evolving expectations for cloud resilience. They work directly with multilingual engineers, who understand their environments, respond with context, and are available 24/7, turning support into an ongoing partnership rather than a ticketing transaction. This proximity sits atop an enterprise-grade foundation built for uniformity under load. Dade2 standardises on proven technologies—HPE, VMware, Cisco, and Veeam—across all-flash storage and software-defined networking, ensuring steady latency and predictable failover across its European data centres. What customers ultimately experience is flat pricing, no egress fees and a cloud partner engineered to feel personal and dependable. “Trust is proximity, performance, and people, in that order,” says Manuel Trongone, CEO..
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Navigating the Complexities of Process Automation in Hospitality
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Building Ecosystems for Smarter Traffic Management
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IN FOCUS
Navigating Digital Resilience with Managed Cloud Services in Europe
Managed cloud services in Europe expand through digital transformation, hybrid work demands, and data regulation, leveraging advanced technologies to fuel business agility.
Intelligent Automation in the UK: Paving the Path to Digital Excellence
Intelligent automation in the United Kingdom drives scalable efficiency, data-driven decisions, and resilient operations by integrating advanced technologies across industries.
EDITORIAL
Building Resilient Digital Foundations Across Europe
In the Intelligent Automation Solution in the UK category, this edition features Mutherboard, a company responding to the operational fragmentation created by SaaS sprawl and disconnected workflows. Rather than layering automation onto broken processes, Mutherboard restructures the underlying operating environment. This system-level approach helps organisations regain visibility across workstreams and capacity, enabling better decisions and stronger governance. It reflects a maturing view of automation, where value comes from operational discipline, not just acceleration.
Cloud strategy is undergoing a similar recalibration. Under the Top Managed Cloud Service in Europe category, this issue profiles Dade2, a UK-headquartered provider delivering sovereign cloud infrastructure across multiple European jurisdictions. As outages, compliance demands and cost volatility expose the limits of hyperscale models, Dade2’s focus on European data residency and hands-on engineering support points to a renewed emphasis on accountability. Managed cloud, in this model, functions less as a utility and more as an operational partnership.
Insights from enterprise leaders such as Olga Grohmann, VP, Head of Data Access Layer at Allianz Global Investors, and Vaclav Sedlacek, Head of Cloud and Software Service at ComAp Group, reinforce a shared reality. Automation and cloud initiatives can no longer operate in isolation. They must integrate directly with governance frameworks and execution models at scale.
The message running through this edition is clear. Sustainable digital transformation in Europe is not driven by tooling alone. It is built on clarity of design, control in execution and intent in how technology supports the business.

