Public sector organisations face a host of pressures to reduce costs; to make the most effective use of public funds; to work more effectively and collaboratively; to deliver joined up services; and provide better visibility and control. We work with local and central government organisations across the UK to help them tackle these pressures through the use of technology.
Here’s just a few reasons why public sector customers choose to work with us :
- Our Public Sector Experience – we’ve been working alongside local and central government organisations for 25 years. We’ve developed an in-depth understanding of the challenges you face and have a dedicated Public Sector team that specialize in meeting the needs of public sector organisations.
- Our Flexible Approach – we can provide a complete range of services from simple procurement through full solution design and delivery, to on-going support and management. Our flexible approach means that you can choose the level of service that suits you best, but you’ll always benefit from the breadth of our expertise.
- Our Technical Expertise - we have the highest levels of technical accreditation with the world’s leading software and hardware vendors including Microsoft, VMware, Sun Microsystems, Citrix , and Netapp.
Our Integration & Migration Skills – we can design and manage complex infrastructures that seamlessly combine and integrate technologies from different IT vendors. Our customers also value our application migration experience and the strong relationships we have in place with software providers such as SAP, Oracle Financials, Northgate, and Anite. Working with us is easy, we have partnerships in place with various primary Catalist Partners enabling us to deliver solutions and services under this scheme and we are also an approved ESPO supplier.
The core solutions we deliver for public sector organisations are focused on achieving the following:
Reducing costs - we can help you to reduce the day to day running costs of your IT by simplifying IT management, centralizing and integrating disparate systems, increasing server and storage utilization, breaking the desktop re-fresh cycle, and consolidating maintenance and support agreements
Improving public service delivery – we’ll work alongside you to meet your performance targets and improve your services to the public by joining together previously disparate systems, ensuring 24x7 system availability and making sure your employees have access to the applications and data they need, where they need it
Reducing carbon emissions - using our Green Computing audit tool we’ll enable you help to understand your existing carbon footprint. We can then work with you to reduce your energy emissions by consolidating and virtualising your server infrastructure, increasing storage utilisation rates, reducing your cooling requirements, and lowering desktop power requirements
Improving visibility and control – we can help enable information to be securely accessed and shared across different teams, departments, with other government bodies or with citizens with our business productivity solutions.
A continued drive for efficiency led Knowsley Council to review its options for the delivery of its Unix environment and move this element of its IT delivery to a managed service.
Working alongside Esteem Systems, London Borough of Havering has developed a new organisation-wide access strategy based on Citrix technology. The new strategy has transformed the Borough's IT infrastructure; reduced IT support costs; provided on demand access to 2000 users; enabled mobile working and improved services to the public.