An introduction to Eduserv and the Government Ready Platform

1. Eduserv
Public Sector Manager
Julian Mitchell

2. About Eduserv:
• 1988 first licence negotiated, saves money for UK
Universities and colleges
• 1994 Athens developed
• 1999 Eduserv established as independent organisation
• 2000 Athens adopted by NHS
• 2003 first web development projects delivered
• 2008 Government Ready Platform developed
• 2009 state-of-the-art Data Centre built

3. Eduserv today:
• Provide web solutions to a range of customers
• DfE
• NHS Direct
• National Science Museum
• and of course BIS
• Over 4M customers worldwide use our OpenAthens
software
• Save HE and FE £29M/year on software and data
licences

4. Company Ethos/Mission
• Not for profit and registered charity
• For the public good
• Providing services that help Government, Education and
NHS reduce costs and improve efficiency
• saved education £29M last year
• helping organisations like BIS, DFE, JISC, DVLA
deliver more effective sites with an ongoing reduction
in management charges.

5. Company Operation
• We are an SME - 110 employees, about 50 of which
cover web solutions, managed services and hosting
• PRINCE2 Project Management
• ITIL certified support staff
• PAS 99:2006, BS ISO 9001, BS ISO 14001, BS ISO
18001

6. Our customers include:

7. Web Solutions
Website Development
We develop high profile public sector sites, using best of breed technologies
including Sitecore, .NET and open source
Managed Hosting
We are trusted by many central government departments to ensure their critical
internet applications are highly available, secure and scalable

8. Web Development
• Advanced content management
• Exceptional value for money
• Intelligent business solutions
• Flexible to your needs

9. Sitecore
• Sitecore’s first UK Solutions Partner in 2003
• Largest Sitecore Certified development team in the UK
• We develop award winning websites
Two category winners in the Sitecore UK Site of the Year Awards 2009:

10. Why we use Sitecore
• Exceptional integration possibilities
• Fully customisable
• Extensive version control and workflow management
• Great for SEO – offering meaningful and friendly URL’s

11. Managed Services
“The web hosting is consistently resilient,
delivering exceptional uptime. Eduserv are
flexible to our needs and are always available
to provide expert support and delivery”
Jan Griffiths, Web and Development Manager, DVLA

12. Managed Services
Government Ready Platform:
• Managed services for the public sector
• Cost effective
• Secure
• Green
• Flexible

13. GRP – Secure
Works within Government Security Policy Framework:
• Designed and dedicated to the public sector
• Snapshot services for roll back of failed deployments
• Identical infrastructure for hot-standby disaster recovery
• Over two data centres for resilient disaster recovery
• Near real time data replication

14. GRP – Green
Reduce carbon emissions by up to 29%:
• Less physical servers
• Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) < 1.5

15. GRP – Flexible
Adapts quickly to meet your capacity requirements:
• Rapid creation of new virtual servers
• Quickly build new environments for testing and proof of
concepts

16. Why Eduserv?
• Proven track record in the public sector
• Excel at managing complex projects
• Great at working with multiple partners
• Not-for profit company
• Ideal long term development partner

17. Get in touch
For more information please contact:
Email: julian.mitchell@eduserv.org.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1225 474317
Neil Williams, Head of Digital Communications, BIS