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National Sales Director Adam Clark is featured in CRN’s 2020 A-List. The yearly published list is made up of 144 channel executives who answer a range of questions, including their dream career as a child, their favourite and least favourite partner conference destinations, and their most-watched TV programme of the year. Now entering its third...

Young people from across the West Midlands gathered at Innovation Birmingham to discover the world of digital on November 26th. Partners ServiceNow and SCC supported the Can Do Digital event, run by TIN Smart Social, which aims to help disadvantaged people aged between 15-24 into digital careers. Young people discovered the world of digital, ServiceNow,...

Wednesday, 13 November 2019 – SCC, Europe’s biggest independent IT services and solutions business, has officially opened its new sales office in the heart of Leeds at a special reception attended by Northern Powerhouse leaders alongside senior SCC management. SCC’s decision to open a new sales office at 1 Wellington Place in Leeds is built...

For collaboration solutions to be truly effective in organisations, even the most techno-phobic users need to feel comfortable with them – simplification is key. The best solutions are often the simplest ones. This stands to reason. If something is easy to use, people will use it. If it’s difficult, they won’t. For far too long,...

While we have certainly got better at it, there are still real issues with the way we connect, communicate and collaborate. We have email, SMS, instant messaging, and multiple voice and video conferencing systems. We can use all these tools on our PCs, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Yet we are still not communicating in a...

Users who want to will find a way to collaborate and work together, even by using social media, so it’s much better to provide them with a consistent, stable and secure solution that will meet their needs – and ensure data stays inside the organisation. Shadow IT has become a real problem for many organisations....

We have become almost totally dependent on email, even though it is inefficient and time-consuming – we need to adopt better ways of communicating and working together. Email seems to rule our working lives. It has become the primary form of communication between customers, suppliers, partners and colleagues. We all spend hours struggling against the...

Customers are starting to warm to the idea of taking audiovisual solutions on a subscription basis, along with the required consultancy, installation, software, service and support. ‘As a service’ models are everywhere in IT now. It’s much easier for everyone to manage software applications and keep them up to date when they are in the...

Age-old business processes are holding us back and preventing us from being more imaginative, innovative and creative. But by making good use of collaboration technologies, we can change that and adopt more inspirational, open, free-thinking and entrepreneurial working environments. We have all witnessed the phenomenal growth of businesses like Amazon, Google, AirbnB and Uber. These...

In September and November we once again became the Co-op’s Platinum Sponsor for the Co-op’s 2019 Charity Golf Day and sponsored the Comedy Night that followed. The Comedy Night had a variety of acts including Paul Smith, Shappi Khorsandi and Pat Monahan in which SCC supported and bought a table at the event. The day...

Workflow automation solutions capture, route and deliver information securely (1), allowing employees to focus on adding value to your business. Globally, office workers spend 69 days per year completing repetitive, administrative tasks that could easily be automated (2), costing businesses $5 trillion USD annually. According to a McKinsey report, 60% of businesses could save 30%...

Successfully implementing new solutions within your organisation is rarely simple. There are often structural and physical changes that must take place in order to ensure that your new solutions yield maximum ROI. Navigating this process can seem like a minefield, as Finish Line found out in 2016 when poor implementation cost $32 million in lost...