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This was followed by moving to a managed services deal for the PC estate within the organisation, and Walsh completed the second round of PC managed services outsourcing in 2009, signing a deal with SCC.

Unlike many IT companies of comparable size, SCC remains a privately owned corporation still in the hands of founder Sir Peter Rigby who began his career in IT coding and went on to set up the consultancy.

During 2010 the entire PC estate will be upgraded to Windows 7 from XP. The decision to embark on a second-generation outsourcing project came about as a result of the need to transform and improve the services delivered by technology, in addition to ensuring our operating costs are as low as they possibly could be.

"We don't need or want to own our hardware," says Walsh. "We have to respond to pressure for the smartest, fastest and greenest solutions, delivered when and where they are needed, at a predictable cost. This requires us to be more flexible in how we deliver systems to our people and in extending the opportunities for remote working.

"We wanted a genuine collaboration with an organisation that both understands our culture and will help achieve service transformation, supported by the best available SLAs."
 

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