Exhibitor and sponsor profiles
4C Strategies Ltd
4C Strategies is one of the UK’s leading independent ICT infrastructure consultancies. Our broad area of expertise includes unified communications, networks and IP telephony, storage, virtualisation and backup solutions and data centre design and delivery. We work with our clients to successfully deliver best value solutions from strategy development, through procurement to implementation and project completion.
Adobe Systems Europe
Meet with Adobe and learn how our solutions can help institutions deliver customised, distributed, collaborative and creative learning experiences to students wherever they’re located. Visit us at stand 48 and learn how the new Eduserv Adobe CLP master agreement will deliver significant cost savings on your Adobe purchases for the next two years.
Altman Technologies Ltd
Altman Technologies provides leading edge technologies backed up by excellent, responsive service and support. The solutions are robust and highly scalable, delivering significant cost savings through automation of processes, increased productivity and enhanced management control. Areas of specialisation include print and copy management, email and web protection, auditing and security and directory services management.
Apple Financial Services
Specialists in higher education for over 15 years, Apple Financial Services offers a broad range of funding solutions designed to meet your changing needs, whether its enabling all students to own their own laptops, or funding a mobile classroom to extend your technology investment, visit our people at the show to discover new ways to meet the IT and infrastructure needs of the future.
Agresso Ltd
With the acquisitions of Distinction and CODA, Agresso is the leading supplier of business systems to the sector with now over 100 HE institutions in the UK using Agresso products.
Agresso now offers a complete software suite, including Finance, Student Records, HR and Payroll, CRM, Award Management and Course Management.
Blackboard International BV
Founded in 1997, Blackboard Inc. is a global leader in education technology that improves the experience of millions of students and learners every day. With Blackboard, thousands of higher education, schools, professional, corporate, and government organizations extend teaching and learning online, facilitate campus commerce and security, and communicate more effectively with their communities.
Business Insights Group
Business Insights Group is a company entirely dedicated to fulfilling the administrative and financial needs of the education market. In conjunction with Microsoft, the Company has developed a broad range of powerful, flexible and integrated solutions which provide financial insight and control, streamline administration and offer exceptional return on investment.
CELCAT
CELCAT is a world leader in timetabling and student attendance tracking software for universities and colleges. This popular product is used by hundreds of institutions to create, maintain and publish teaching schedules. CELCAT attendance is used to create and mark electronic attendance registers.
Damovo UK Ltd
A leading provider of enterprise Information Communications Technology (ICT) solutions and services, Damovo UK has 30 years' experience in communications, networking, systems and application integration. We have more than 50 clients from the education sector and hold the highest levels of accreditation with leading vendors including Aastra, Cisco Systems, Mitel and Microsoft.
Data Integration
We form partnerships with universities to optimise IT infrastructure. By selectively out-tasking elements of your infrastructure to us, you achieve operational efficiencies, service reliability and release your own team to work on more visible challenges specific to your institution, whilst you retain overall strategic control.
Dell
Dell is one of the world’s leading technology vendors providing cost effective, fully managed solutions to higher and further education in the UK. With a highly experienced and dedicated HE and FE Team, we are an approved supplier of key HE and FE consortia, participating in National and Regional initiatives to supply staff and students with affordable, leading edge technology.
Desire2Learn
Through extensive research and development Desire2Learn delivers an outstanding suite of products, coupled with exceptional professional services and client support. Client success is our number one priority.
Desire2Learn technology is scalable, meeting the needs of any eLearning program or institution. Our products are fully featured, designed to be flexible and easy to use.
Eduserv
Eduserv is a not for profit IT service organisation. Our mission is to realise the benefits of IT for learning and research. We are dedicated to developing effective technology solutions that meet the needs of universities and colleges and are of value to the wider public sector.
EMC Computer Systems (UK) Ltd
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organisations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products and services can be found at www.emc.com
EMMAN
EMMAN (East Midlands Metropolitan Area Network) is the owner and operator of the Janet Network, a high bandwidth regional network that delivers connectivity for education institutions in the East Midlands.
EMMAN is unveiling its new Shared Information Security Services for the East Midlands and wider community at this year's Conference.
EMOS Information Systems Ltd
EMOS is a leading supplier and systems integrator of cashless payment and control systems. We supply complete cashless campus solutions and integrate with existing access control systems and internal databases, offering solutions for ID card production, printing, copying, catering, vending and library fine payment. Students credit accounts using cash, debit/credit cards and mobile phone.
European Electronique Ltd
European Electronique is a market leader in the provision of innovative infrastructure that transforms the whole learning and teaching experience. Our success in the Academy sector is second to none and this is being replicated across HE, FE and FE new build projects.
Freedom Communications UK Ltd
Freedom Communications UK Ltd is a leading telecommunications integrator and consultancy. We specialise in secure communications solutions for the education sector, delivering voice solutions coupled with an exemplary service delivery. With 20 years experience and strong referenceability across all areas within education, you’re in safe hands.
Google UK Ltd
Google Apps hosted approach to content creation, communication and collaboration is offered at no cost to universities and educational institutions and includes and email service (with 7.2gb per user), calendaring, word processing, spreadsheets chat and video. No additional software or hardware is required and costs are kept to a minimum.
HP
Educational institutions of all sizes count on HP for a trouble free, cost effective experience. No other company offers as complete a technology product portfolio as HP. We provide infrastructure and business offerings that span from handheld devices to some of the world's most powerful supercomputer installations. This comprehensive portfolio helps us match the right products, services and solutions to our customers' specific needs.
IBM UK - NSSA
IBM has been appointed as vendor partner under the National Servers and Storage Agreement, which offers preferential pricing for educational and research establishments.
This national agreement, announced by SUPC, offers customers a single source for all IBM servers, blades and storage products. Members of the agreement will benefit from lowest published academic UK pricing for IBM servers and storage technologies, ability to purchase under a pre-tendered framework agreement, exclusive product offers and promotions, experienced technical pre and post-sales consultancy, fully comprehensive support and installation services.
IBM UK Ltd
IBM is a leading supplier of Performance Management and Reporting software and is used by more than a third of the UK’s universities.
IBM Cognos software enables senior management within HEIs to make strategic decisions by providing insight into the wealth of valuable data already held within the organisation.
ICTS (UK) Ltd, Unique®
Unique is a comprehensive smartcard solution for the education sector.
Unique harmonises and integrates the different systems on campus into one single Student ID card. The Unique enterprise system will integrate with the Student Record DB, access control system, printing solutions, Library, T&A, PC login and all the other systems used on campus. E-purse capabilities are part of the Unique solution using kiosks and online Top-Up services for purchasing of − printing, photocopying, vending and food in the campus' refectories. Unique has vast online functionalities such as online Top-Up, online card registration, account details, student benefits and more.
InTechnology plc
InTechnology designs and supports the best IP solutions for business with a range of applications seamlessly integrating clients’ communications needs through the delivery of secure data, voice and mobile solutions. InTechnology’s broad managed data services portfolio is designed to remove risk and secure business information.
IP Performance
IP Performance is a leading supplier of customised network infrastructure and security solutions, providing innovative and emerging technologies to a large number of Universities and Colleges, U.K-wide.
Partnered with BlueCoat, Allot, Zeus, Consentry, Juniper, Avocent/Cyclades, NetFort, Bluecat, Logrhythm, Meru, Barracuda and Alcatel-Lucent, our delivery of complex network solutions using leading edge technology products is backed by our 24-hour support technical assistance centre.
Jadu Ltd
Jadu is a market leading supplier of content management systems (CMS) to universities and colleges, delivered through the Jadu Education Partnership. Jadu CMS for education provides a suite of innovative and non technical publishing solutions for internet, intranet and extranet applications and enables consistent branding at institution and departmental level.
JISC Services
JISC supports UK further and higher education and research by providing leadership in the use of Information and Communications Technology in support of learning, teaching, research and administration.
JISC Services is a new entity that brings together the collective expertise of the JISC advisory services: JISC Digital Media, JISC infoNet, JISC Legal, JISC Netskills, JISC Procureweb and JISC TechDis.
Juniper Networks UK Ltd
Juniper Networks’ high performance network infrastructure helps organisations create a responsive and trusted environment for accelerating the deployment of services and applications over a single network. With Juniper, organisations can capitalise on opportunities to innovate, grow and strengthen their operations and answer the challenge of complicated, legacy networks with high performance, open, flexible solutions.
Lenovo Technology UK Ltd
Lenovo strives to be a new world company that makes award winning PCs for our customers. We operate as a company uninhibited by walls or organisational structures using worldsourcing to harness the power of innovation across our global team. We design innovative and exciting products and services to meet our customers’ needs.
Logicalis UK Ltd
Logicalis delivers secure, converged computing and communications infrastructure and services – improving processes and systems to meet the changing requirements of students, and staff.
Logicalis is uniquely qualified to provide a life cycle view of key pain points within education IT infrastructures. Our Data Centre expertise is an area of significant importance to clients particularly in the current economic climate.
LogMeIn Europe BV
LogMeIn is a leading provider of on demand, remote connectivity and support solutions to small businesses, IT service providers, educational institutions and local government. Helpdesk technicians use LogMeIn's solutions to deliver remote end-user support and to access and manage computers and other Internet enabled devices effectively and efficiently. Our solutions, which are deployed on demand and accessible through a web browser, are secure, scalable and easy for our customers to try, purchase and use. Since our inception, our users have connected over 40 million computers and other internet enabled devices to a LogMeIn service.
Microsoft UK
As well as seeing some of the new products launched in this last year, a visit to the Microsoft stand will give you the chance to learn about some of the ways that universities in the UK and abroad are reducing their ICT running costs through improving their strategic integration of technologies, and balancing between in-house and cloud based services.
Netmania IT Ltd
Netmania enables colleges and universities to add value to the student ID cards, greatly improving the student experience, whilst delivering time and cost savings. Solutions include self-service network account creation, password resets, print management, guest internet access, and independent consultancy services.
We will also be unveiling our new multi-function Kiosk and EPOS solutions.
Norman Data Defense Systems (UK) Ltd
Celebrating 25 years as a highly regarded IT security company, Norman leads the way in proactive IT security and malware forensics.
Our latest security offering, Norman Network Protection is particularly suitable for use in educational establishments where endpoint security is at its most difficult and the malware threat is high.etmania enables colleges and universities to add value to the student ID cards, greatly improving the student experience, whilst delivering time and cost savings. Solutions include self-service network account creation, password resets, print management, guest internet access, and independent consultancy services.
NorMAN Out of Hours Helpline
The NorMAN Out of Hours Helpline is an affordable option for providing extended support. Now in its third year, this growing shared service operates year round giving solutions wherever possible and first diagnostics for escalated incidents. Seamless transfer from the daytime service and a specialist knowledgebase ensures a valuable service.
Nortel
Nortel provides the energy efficient, unified, wired and wireless networks that are the foundation of a 21st century university. Read about our unique Unified Communications alliance with Microsoft at www.nortel.com/microsoft. Nortel counts the University of Exeter, City University, University of Oxford and Leeds Metropolitan University amongst our HE clients.
OCSL
This will be the first UCISA show for OCSL, who are delighted to have been selected by HP as a new NSSA partner. Visit our stand to see how we can make better business outcomes a reality for your organisation.
OLC
OLC is the academic division of SBL. The OLC Education Team would like to be your first point of call when looking for software, hardware and professional services advice. You may already know us as the Microsoft solution experts, but we are also specialists in information assurance products and services, and can provide the full scope of IT solutions to meet your specific requirements.
As an experienced academic supplier, SBL is a Microsoft Education LAR, a member of UCISA and an established CHEST supplier.
Prolinx Computer Systems Ltd
Prolinx provides organisations with real and valuable assets from which they can enhance and develop their IT infrastructures. Our success is built on our ability to listen, learn and understand the business requirements of our customers, and then to relate these objectives to IT solutions that reduce costs, mitigate risks and enhance growth.
PTS Consulting (UK) Ltd
PTS Consulting (PTS) is a world leading IT and project management consultancy with a reputation for innovation and thought leadership. Founded in 1983, PTS has earned a reputation for independence, professionalism and quality of service. Headquartered in the UK, PTS employs 330 staff in the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific.
RM plc
RM is a leading provider of ICT solutions and services to the higher education sector. Come to the RM stand 45, where you can discover how to improve sustainability with our ecoquietÒ technology, discuss how our products and services can be tailored to meet your specific requirements and enter our exciting prize draw.
Salford Software Ltd
Salford Software, the identity specialist, understands the complexities and challenges faced by many universities and colleges today.
Salford Software specialises in the provision of identity and access management, single sign on, infrastructure and electronic payment solutions, providing services to millions of end users through a range of flexible IT services and support.
SCC
How do I keep up with the pace of technology change and users' spiralling demands for data and services? Leverage our experience and investment in cloud computing, shared services and Microsoft's Infrastructure Optimisation to release immediate savings whilst driving growth and efficiency. Talk to us to see how we facilitated transformation for King's College London and University of Derby.
Servo Ltd
Servo is a leading IT systems and services supplier to all businesses, universities and colleges. Specialising in managed hosting and outsourcing services working towards infrastructure optimisation, Servo works closely with its customers to reduce cost, mitigate risk and enable the success of the business objectives.
SolStonePlus
The Business Intelligence and Performance Management specialists
SolStonePlus, leading experts in advising and implementing effective Business Intelligence solutions, have helped many of the country’s higher education institutions to enhance fundamental areas of their operations.
Our independent approach, together with our comprehensive business knowledge, technical expertise and in depth applications experience, enable us to deliver our Intelligent Campus solution specifically tailored to the needs of each HE client.
Sub.tv
Sub.tv Info, the digital signage system exclusive to the education sector, is part of the Media 42 Group. It offers a truly flexible communication system that meets the many requirements of a diverse campus. The Groups overall estate has more than 2000 screens at over 400 locations across the UK.
Sun Microsystems Ltd
Guided by a singular vision − The Network is the Computer − Sun drives network participation through shared innovation, community development and open source leadership. We enable academic institutions to build the digital campus in which faculty, staff and students can interact and collaborate no matter where they are − in a seamless, secure, personalised environment for learning. Find Sun on Stand No 25.
SunGard Higher Education
SunGard Higher Education provides software and support, systems implementation and integration, strategic consulting, and technology management services to help colleges and universities build, unify, and manage their digital campuses. Bringing together people, processes, and technology, SunGard Higher Education assists more than 1,600 customers worldwide to strengthen institutional performance through improved constituent services, increased accountability and better educational experiences
Symantec (UK) Ltd
Symantec solutions help keep critical information secure, available, and compliant − and help keep public sector organisations up and running, no matter what happens. By delivering an integrated approach to information and systems management, Symantec helps organisations create a trusted IT environment; one that is free from security breaches, complies with regulations and is available and high performing at every level.
Telepen
Telepen, leading UK suppliers of data capture solutions, have developed their own Student and Event Attendance monitoring system in conjunction with the University of Bedfordshire. Able to monitor lecture attendance, assignment submission, examination attendance, event monitoring and open day registration, the system can be linked to either fixed or portable scanners. Telepen supplies Access Control Systems to over 60 universities throughout the UK and Ireland. Founded in 1971, they also supply data capture software, RFID tagging equipment, barcode labels and plastic cards.
TERMINALFOUR
TERMINALFOUR is a leading provider of highly functional web Content Management Systems, eForms and Self Service software and associated professional services to universities and colleges. Our WCM software is specifically built around the needs of HE website management and the creation, flow and delivery of information through channels including websites, personalised portals and Web 2.0 technologies.
The IT Job Board
The IT Job Board is one of the UK’s leading IT jobsites. At the forefront of the IT recruitment market, The IT Job Board works together with many leading universities to support their efforts to attract high calibre IT professionals.
Toshiba Information Systems (UK) Ltd
Intensive research and development work on mobile technology has made Toshiba a leading innovator in IT and the producer of highly reliable laptops. From low cost NetBooks to AV capable Qosmios with 19 inch screens, we make a huge range of portable communication and computing devices.
Tribal
Tribal Group offers professional support and consultancy services to over 2,500 public sector organisations, including central government departments, local authorities, housing associations, schools, colleges and universities, the NHS and primary care trusts, as well as to the private, not for profit and third sectors.
In education, we specialise in the supply of IT and information management solutions to improve and transform education today.
Viglen Ltd
Viglen is a leading technology partner to UK higher education. Supplying IT, storage and HPC solutions through many agreements, Viglen is also an approved supplier for the IRDA and NSSA frameworks. In the case of the NSSA, Viglen was the only indigenous company to be awarded this framework contract.
VMware
VMware is the global leader in virtualisation solutions from the desktop to the datacentre. Universities of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure IT continuity, strengthen security and go green. Over 100 universities use VMware solutions including the Universities of Plymouth, Sheffield Hallam, Hull, Brunel and Oxford.
