EMEA
United Kingdom
Associate Network Solutions
Brief Partner Bio:
Associate Network Solutions (ANS) has been a Novell partner for over 7 years and was the first organization in Europe to be awarded “Novell Business Expert Systems Integrator” status.
ANS pride themselves in offering world leading solutions based on real business issues. Our portfolio of services can be summarised into one cohesive goal: to deliver personalised access to your information and applications, 24x7, simply and securely.
With over 250 customers, ANS has experience within 5 main business areas: Local Government, NHS, Education, Legal and Commercial. With the acquisition of Ximian and SUSE, Novell is now a leader in Linux, and ANS is fully supporting their roadmap ahead. As we move forward, Novell and ANS are committed to providing our clients with the highest level of technology and technical expertise available in the UK.
Client Name:
Bracknell Forest Borough Council
Solution Description (business challenge, solution and results):
Secure Remote Access
Bracknell Forest Borough Council prides itself as a Borough of Innovation in the high-tech heart of Britain. Having provided a unified access point (Novell Portal) to its citizens, Bracknell Forest wanted to extend its use of the portal to give secure remote access to council employees.
With over 3000 employees, the council approached ANS who proposed upgrading all the existing Novell technology infrastructure, to provide conformity for both internal and external users and developed a new look and feel to accompany this.
By using ANS’s specific skills, Bracknell Forest was able to provide a unified, rich and secure remote access solution to council systems. More staff can now work remotely, saving valuable money on resources and allowing for the individual freedom to choose their working location.
“Having led the way in providing a portal for our citizens, we were delighted with the work carried out by ANS in helping us develop solutions to support our flexible working initiatives and provide remote access for our employees.”
Ian Slee—Assistant Borough IT Service Manager
Associate Network Solutions
Brief Partner Bio:
Associate Network Solutions (ANS) has been a Novell partner for over 7 years and was the first organization in Europe to be awarded “Novell Business Expert Systems Integrator” status.
ANS pride themselves in offering world leading solutions based on real business issues. Our portfolio of services can be summarised into one cohesive goal: to deliver personalised access to your information and applications, 24x7, simply and securely.
With over 250 customers, ANS has experience within 5 main business areas: Local Government, NHS, Education, Legal and Commercial. With the acquisition of Ximian and SUSE, Novell is now a leader in Linux, and ANS is fully supporting their roadmap ahead. As we move forward, Novell and ANS are committed to providing our clients with the highest level of technology and technical expertise available in the UK.
Client Name:
Bord Na Mona
Solution Description (business challenge, solution and results):
Bord Na Mona looked to ANS for the delivery of secure access to their corporate website and intranet. ANS and Novell approached them with the Novell exteNd suite to extract all relevant information from legacy applications and present it vie a portal. Novell iChain wraps around the solution to deliver the most secure clientless access for each individual user.
Partner Contact Info (name, address, phone, fax, e-mail):
Richard Jones
Marketing Manager
Associated Network Solutions Plc
Synergy House
Manchester Science Park
Manchester
M15 6SY
Tel# -0870 6000 900
Fax# 0161 227 1020
email richard.jones@ansplc.com
QualIT bvba
Brief Partner Bio:
QualIT is a group of Certified Novell Engineers and skilled consultants with several years of experience in complex computer environments. Design, implementation and management of directory-based solutions like identity management, desktop management and high availability solutions are QualITs main activities.
Client Name:
VDAB
Client Location:
Keizerslaan 11, 1000 Brussel, Belgium
Solution Description (business challenge, solution and results):
VDAB (Flemish Department of Employment Services and Professional Training) has more than 200 offices spread over the Flemish region. More than the half of these sites consists of 10 or less users. In these offices the cost of a network with server (hardware cost, software and hardware maintenance) per user is pretty high.
To reduce this cost QualIT designed an Offices without server concept. In this solution, the small sites consist of PCs and printers only which are connected with a central fault tolerant infrastructure. The Novell cluster environment offers ZenWorks, iFolder and NetStorage services. Together with some custom made applications the complete environment offers the users the same comfort as in traditional Offices with a Server. Users dont see the difference when they logon to the network. Applications and policies are delivered to the desktop with Zenworks Desktop Management Services in Xtier mode. Files are accessed using iFolder (personal files) and NetStorage combined with WebDrive (shared files). Printing is achieved with Qprint, a self developed directory enabled printing system, which omits spooling of print jobs.
By implementing the QualITs Offices with Server solution VDAB saves more than 500.000 each year.
Partner Contact Info (name, address, phone, fax, e-mail):
Ludo De Pauw
Bedrijvencentrum Waasland
Industriepark West 75 b10
B-9100 Sint-Niklaas
Belgium
email ludo.depauw@qualit.be
Salford Software
Brief Partner Bio:
Salford Software is the leading supplier of Novell solutions into the academic market place. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Salford University and are known throughout academia because of our unique licencing agreement and technical support expertise within the sector. We support more Novell users than anyone else in EMEA, and are committed to staying at number one.
Client Name:
Huddersfield Technical College
Client Location:
Huddersfield, UK.
Solution Description (business challenge, solution and results):
When Huddersfield Technical College wanted to make better use of their resources, they started looking for a solution. That would leverage the power of identity to make their life easier.
Huddersfield decided to implement Salford eNrol® to automate the enrolment process for the 2004 intake of students. Salford Software began the engagement with the team at Huddersfield early in 2004. Working in partnership with the local IT team, eNrol ® was implemented over a period of several weeks to connect all systems, paying particular attention to the work flow, naming conventions and data validation rules at each step of the process.
The project went live in July of 2004, and has been a great success. It has freed up several members of the IT team who can now be deployed elsewhere. Enrolment is no longer the panic it used to be, with the trickle of account for weeks. A Student has access to the network and facilities from the day they eNrol and provide details of payment, this also means that if a student is not paying their fees, then no college resource is provided to them.
Partner Contact Info (name, address, phone, fax, e-mail):
James Doggart
Sales Director
Salford Software Ltd,
Lancastrian Office Centre
Talbot Road
Old Trafford
Manchester
M32 0FP
Tel 0161 906 2233
Telamon Systems Limited
Brief Partner Bio:
Telamon Systems Limited are a Novell Business Expert Systems Integrator partner specializing in infrastructure solutions, messaging and collaboration, secure identity management, e-Enabling and self-provisioning. With its head office in Berkshire, Telamon have worked closely with Novell for over 8 years in Local Government, Health, Legal and Commercial sectors promoting Novell-based business solutions.
Client Name:
London Borough of Hillingdon
Solution Description (business challenge, solution and results):
The London Borough of Hillingdon needed a secure, scaleable enterprise-wide email solution that would not be impacted by viruses. Telamon delivered a successful solution to the client, migrating approximately 3,000 Exchange users to GroupWise 6.0 and implementing the solution on a NetWare 6.0 cluster. Since the migration, the Borough has not experienced any email system downtime.
Partner Contact Info (name, address, phone, fax, e-mail):
Bruce Thomson
Development & Security Manager
London Borough of Hillingdon
Civic Centre, Uxbridge
Middlesex.
Tel# -01895 250111
Fax# 01895 273636
email bthomson@hillingdon.gov.uk
Telamon Systems Limited
Brief Partner Bio:
Telamon Systems Limited are a Novell Business Expert Systems Integrator partner specializing in infrastructure solutions, messaging and collaboration, secure identity management, e-Enabling and self-provisioning. With its head office in Berkshire, Telamon have worked closely with Novell for over 8 years in Local Government, Health, Legal and Commercial sectors promoting Novell-based business solutions.
Client Name:
Suffolk County Council
Solution Description (business challenge, solution and results):
Suffolk County Council needed to manage user identities on an ever growing number of Windows NT Domain and Active Directory servers running applications and Exchange 5.5/2000. Using the native tools was proving time consuming and costly in manpower. There was also an identified need to allow for end user self-provisioning to reduce IT admin involvement in managing such items as personal details, phone numbers, etc. Telamon implemented a pilot project using Novell eDirectory and Novell DirXML 1.1 to provide a meta-directory where user self-provisioning and identity synchronization across a number of systems could take place. The pilot was successful and the solution adopted. This has now grown to incorporate the HR systems and new telephone systems to provide self-provisioning across a wide number of systems, thus enabling a true Zero Day Start and Zero Day Finish environment. The next phase of the project will be to incorporate the door entry system and implement secure identity management for remote users.
Partner Contact Info (name, address, phone, fax, e-mail):
Roger Manyard,
IT Manager, Suffolk County Council
St Edmund House
Rope Walk, Ipswich
Suffolk, IP4 1LZ.
Tel# 01473 583160
Fax# 01473 230703
email roger.maynard@et.suffolkcc.gov.uk