Case Studies
Roundhouse case study
The Roundhouse is a legendary London venue that has played host to the BBC Electric Proms and the Royal Shakespeare Company amongst others. But as well as being a commercial multi arts venue it is
also a charity that provides a creative education for young people.
Case_study_Roundhouse.pdf
Supplier:Sage Outsource services
End-User: The Roundhouse
Family Mosiac Case Study
A housing association, which employs over 1,300 people, outsourced their payroll system to control costs, manage risks and accessing expertise, all with ease of use.
Case_study_Family_Mosaic.pdf
Supplier:Sage Outsource Services
End-User: Family Mosiac
Prestige Systems Case Study
Prestige had been in partnership with a London based data centre provider for a long time but due to its increasing need for contemporary solutions, especially in the field of managed services (Microsoft ERP range), and as a result of its increasing customer base Prestige started exploring different data centre provider options - at one point even looking into building their own independent data centre. This case study outlines the process and how improvements in security and data resilience were achieved.
Prestige_Case_Study.pdf
Supplier:UKSolutions
End-User: Prestige Systems
Successfully Backing Quality
Blue Square is Rank's interactive gaming business launched on 5 May 1999. The product suite offered by Blue Square has grown from its traditional bookmaking business to now offer all aspects of the gaming market including online casino, slots and online poker. The fixed odds betting services covers many channels including the Internet, Interactive TV, WAP and telephone.
Case_Study_Blue_Square_9_2010_EN.pdf
Supplier:SQS
End-User: Blue Square
Provident Financial partners with Node4 for data centre outsourcing
Provident Financial specialises in home credit for private individuals, loans of typically £300 to £400 with repayments collected weekly from customers’ homes. It has some highly specific sector needs such as weekly reporting and also supports over 180 branch offices and 12,000 self employed agents across the UK and Ireland.
A year ago, Provident Financial undertook a review of its business and decided that it should consolidate and outsource its data centre operations as part of its planned move of its Bradford HQ (on the outskirts of Bradford) to a new location in the city centre. A significant factor to the move was that the cost of building a new data centre would be in excess of £7-8million which was a significant up-front investment. The company previously used four data centres located at various points across the UK and Northern Ireland but wanted a data centre supplier which was locally sited (to supply the time-critical access its staff required); provided the state-of-the-art facilities it wanted; and was focussed on excellent customer service. Additionally it had extremely tight deadlines as the move had to be completed in 12 months.
Provident_Financial_Node4.pdf
Supplier:Node4
End-User: Provident Financial
Heriot-Watt University case study
Heriot-Watt University’s Institute of Petroleum Engineering runs a research programme, the Edinburgh Time-Lapse Project (ETLP), which relies on data that has been provided by industry sponsors, such as BP and Shell. The Institute recognised that its IT infrastructure could no longer provide the processing power or storage space that the research team needed for accessing and storing vital information for its pioneering research.
The University required a specialist High Performance Computing partner to facilitate a solution that focused on scalability, availability and rapid deployment while providing 100 terabytes of disk space to archive data. Following consultation with systems integrator, Esteem Systems, the Institute asked Esteem to design and implement a High Performance Computing (HPC) Cluster based on Sun Microsystems technology.
Heriot_Watt_University_Esteem.pdf
Supplier:Esteem Systems
End-User: Heriot-Watt University - Institute of Petroleum Engineering
Tower Hamlets Community Housing and Sovereign Business Integration
Tower Hamlets Community Housing’s (THCH) first foray into outsourcing has proved a success, with Sovereign Business Integration delivering a more robust, reliable and well managed IT infrastructure. THCH is keen to build upon this improvement and has embarked upon a three year outsourcing contract with Sovereign.
Tower_Hamlets_Community_Housing.pdf
Supplier:Sovereign Business Integration
End-User: Tower Hamlets Community Housing
