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Blu Label continued to mature its information and technology governance in FY26, building on the foundations established in prior years and guided by the Board, Group Exco and Technology governance reporting. Guided by the principle of being “Tech Enabled, Business Driven”, our governance approach remains pragmatic and integrated: it aligns technology investment with business outcomes, strengthens resilience and operational discipline and supports regulatory, commercial and stakeholder obligations.
FY26 performance reflected a more integrated and outcome-focused technology governance model. The adoption of the modernised cloud platform provided a stronger operating foundation for resilience, service reliability, security governance and improved reporting visibility. This enabled technology performance to be assessed not only through operational stability, but also through its contribution to business continuity, stakeholder experience and responsible investment.
Governance progress was also reflected in stronger delivery discipline and clearer executive oversight. Improvements to demand management, release planning, delivery governance and cross-functional execution helped support acceleration of priority business capabilities, while maintaining appropriate focus on service stability, transparency and alignment between technology investment and business outcomes.
During FY26, Blu Label maintained strong platform stability and service continuity across core technology services, supported by significant projects to fortify system resilience, improve monitoring and strengthen platform reliability. These investments enhanced the technology environment's ability to absorb demand fluctuations, reduce service disruptions and support consistent service availability for customers, partners and internal users.
Resilience was further strengthened through a deliberate focus on multi-vendor and supplier redundancy, thereby reducing dependency on any single technology provider or service path. This included continued improvements in supplier engagements, failover readiness, hosting resilience and operational oversight, helping to improve continuity planning and ensuring that critical services can be supported through a broader and more resilient supplier ecosystem.
hosting programme remained core priorities in FY26. Adoption of these platforms advanced the transition toward a cloud-first, API-led architecture designed to improve scalability, flexibility, resilience and accelerated future product integration. These platforms also provide a solid foundation for new products, partner integrations, channel expansion and accelerated delivery.
Cloud hosting modernisation further strengthened the technology foundation by enabling greater elasticity, infrastructure efficiency and better alignment between capacity and demand.
Cybersecurity remained a significant management priority, with a continued focus on information-security certification continuity, security governance, awareness and monitoring.
The security programme continued to support operational consistency, business resilience and stakeholder trust.
The FY26 governance agenda remained aligned with recognised corporate governance, technology governance, service management and information-security standards, including King V, ISO/IEC 38500, ITIL, NIST and ISO 27001:2022.
The combined assurance model continued to mature through improved reporting discipline, engagement with assurance providers and structured executive oversight.
FY26 saw continued progress in data enablement, reporting automation and responsible AI adoption. These capabilities improved real-time insights, reduced manual effort, supported better decision-making and created a stronger foundation for more responsive services and scalable digital engagement. The focus has been on using AI and data in practical ways that improve productivity, increase the speed of analysis, support operational transparency and enable teams to identify opportunities for service improvements.
The technology operating model continued to mature, with capability uplift across programme delivery, service management, architecture, governance and assurance.
Greater emphasis was placed on delivery discipline, skills development, succession planning and cross-functional collaboration to improve execution capacity and support future transformation priorities.
FY26 reinforced the importance of disciplined technology investment, vendor optimisation, licence efficiency and improved visibility of technology spend.
The shift toward cloud-enabled scalability, automation and self-service is expected to further reduce the cost while improving insight, responsiveness and capacity management.
BLU Label Unlimited Integrated Annual Report 2025