This document summarizes the services of Specialist Education Services, an IT consultancy firm established in 1994. It provides various IT solutions to educational institutions, including virtual learning environments, intranets, dashboards and other systems. It has experience implementing solutions for clients like NHS, colleges and private sector organizations. The document outlines some of its projects, including developing intranets and online systems for various educational organizations to improve information sharing and business processes.

1. Specialist Education Services IT in Academia

2. IRW - Company Background Established IT Consultancy and Software House Originally formed 1994: 26 members of staff Provide best of breed consulting and e-solutions to private and public sector clients. Extensive business experience, educational sector references and case studies Multi award-winning business software solutions Microsoft Gold Certified Partner

3. Some of our Clients – Private and Public Sectors NHS EDUCATION PUBLIC SECTOR PRIVATE SECTOR Adam Smith College Babcock Group

5. Inventory Tracking

6. Staff PDP and Coaching systems

7. Project Tracking

8. Sickness and Holidays

9. Custom Team Workspace

10. Meeting/Classroom and Equipment Reservation

11. Library

12. Tracking Physical Assets

15. SharePoint 2007 selected for the Intranet

16. Improve information sharing and retrieval across the organisation

17. Managing documents and meetings

19. Other Relevant Projects

20. The ICT Landscape... Towards the e-Institution e-business VLEs CMS Outfacing Web KPI Dashboards Student Records Staff CPD CRM Web Marketing E-Portfolio E-Assessment Mobile Devices Extranets Intranets Student portals MLEs MIS

21. E-Business Monitoring: Executive Dashboard Views, KPIs, Drill Down Integrated User oriented transparency More efficiency More cost effective Scalable …………… ………………… + Taking the volume/ complexity of business and transforming into a clear line of sight to inform decision making

22. TRANSACTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONAL Organisation Structure External Environment (Pressures & Opportunities) Values & Culture Organisation Capability Leadership Integrate + Focus on Learner College Performance (Metrics) E Business & Processes Individual Capability Strategy Climate & Motivation

23. It’s about business…. E-Business: It's about business, not technology People, Processes, Information, and Systems Transformation to what……? It's about streamlining your current business processes to improve operating efficiencies, which in turn will strengthen the value you provide to your customers (students) - value that cannot be generated by any other means, and value that will give you real, measurable advantage and added value (IBM E- Business Web site).

24. Organisational Overview Integrated Services and Solutions