In this OpenPerspectives article, Umit Ekinoglu, Senior DevOps Consultant at Opencast, explores how agentic AI can accelerate the modernisation of legacy monolithic systems, helping teams move from insight to Kubernetes‑ready services more quickly and with greater confidence.

In this blog, Ciara Slack, People Development Manager at Opencast, reflects on what it really takes to succeed as a Business Analyst, and why the skills that matter most might not be the ones you'd expect.

In this blog, you’ll find a summary of David Sarginson’s Global Government Forum Innovation 2026 session, highlighting his key reflections on why innovation in government so often stalls and what the teams who successfully scale ideas into real public impact consistently do differently.

Establishing a user’s identity and access rights is a fundamental capability of any IT system, underpinning secure permissions, reliable records, and optimising user experience. In this blog, Paul Crisp, an Enterprise Architect at Opencast, explores the importance of bringing a holistic service design mindset to Customer Identification and Access Management (CIAM).

If you’ve ever spoken to someone at Opencast, you may have heard the phrase “People Success.” It’s in my job title, it’s the name of our team, and it’s something we talk about a lot internally. But it’s also a question I’m asked regularly: “What actually is People Success?” The short answer is that People Success is how we enable our people to build their skills and progress their careers at Opencast. The longer answer is even more interesting.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing how analysis decision-making, and delivery happen, but it cannot replace human judgement, empathy, or ethical responsibility. Here Opencast Business Analyst (BA) Olawumi Joy Oladeji explores how Business Analysts (BAs) and Data Performance Analysts (DPAs) can use AI responsibly while maintaining trust and accountability to deliver better outcomes, particularly in complex, regulated environments such as government.

Tuesday 3 March is World Hearing Day. To mark the occasion and raise awareness, Opencast Junior Software Developer John Owens has written about his experience of deciding whether to have cochlear implants. He takes us through how he made his decision, his surgery, his recovery and how he feels about it now.

Modifying legacy systems presents real challenges. Whether its an unfamiliar code base, disregarded business logic which controls the flow of the application, or other aspects of an ageing system such as outdated norms, practices and repository structures. Senior Software Engineer Liam Treacy explores techniques and strategies which make the task easier.

Opencast’s senior service designer Dr Angela Orviz co-led a workshop at the 2025 SDinGov Conference. The session was co-led by Dr Priscilla Cheung-Nainby, from the University of Edinburgh, and was entitled From Awareness to Action: Co-creating a framework and guidelines for trauma-informed digital services.