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With the finalists for the European IT & Software Excellence Awards 2020 being released, SCC have been nominated in the Public Sector Solution of the Year category. The nomination is a fantastic achievement in itself with over 100 companies from 27 countries being entered into this year’s final. Now in its 12th year the European...

SCC are pleased to announce that we have been given a place on the London Procurement Partnership (LPP) NHS framework. This framework is a key win for our team who have worked diligently to create a proposal that is effective and enticing to the LPP. The LPP is concerned with driving improved procurement and commercial...

The £7 million refurbishment of SCC’s global headquarters in Birmingham is on schedule, a third of the way through the programme. Europe’s largest IT solutions provider, SCC, announced the refurbishment in November 2019, with its commercial premises in Tyseley undergoing a complete remodel and upgrade as the latest part of a long-term regional investment strategy...

National Apprenticeship Week 2020 is an exciting time for us. As a family owned business, with family values, SCC values and welcomes apprentices. We offer opportunities for young people so that they can study for qualifications, with on-the-job experience and the transferable skills they need to succeed in their chosen career path. We work in...

2019 was a tremendous year of growth and progress for The Prince’s Trust as a result of SCC and The Rigby Group’s continued support. The Prince’s Trust was able to reach more than 65,000 young people across the UK throughout the year. In 70% of cases a positive outcome was achieved – this meant more...

Artificial intelligence (AI) brings the potential for teaching to be enhanced and tailored to the needs of the individual student – but while it certainly has a place, it won’t be taking over from real-life lecturers completely for some time yet, says Amiee Gallagher, Education Business Development Executive at SCC. At the World Innovation Summit...

Big tech companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple are all very interested in education. Up to now, they have restricted their involvement to being providers of enabling technology to the sector. But what might happen if they decided to try and enter the market as providers of education? The sheer scale of the big...

According to one Harvard Business School professor, many higher educational institutions could be put out of business within ten years due to the rise of online learning? But is it a threat or an opportunity for HE – Amiee Gallagher, Education Business Development Executive at SCC, believes it is both. We all know what technophiles...

Networking and cybersecurity solution provider Citrix has awarded SCC its EMEA CSP Partner of the Year 2019. SCC’S dedicated sales team were in Orlando Florida this past week to collect the prestigious EMEA CSP Partner of the Year Award. In attendance from Citrix were: Justin Sutton-Parker (Director, Northern Europe), Darren Finley (VP, EMEA Partner Sales),...

SCC have been named as a supplier on Crown Commercial Service’s (CCS) Technology Products & Associated Services (TePAS) framework. This framework will run in parallel with Technology Products 2 (RM3733), which has been extended to March 2020 for Lots 1-5, and to October 2020 for Lot 6. Crown Commercial Service supports the public sector to...

Take your first step towards a managed hybrid multi cloud with IBM The task of understanding how effectively you are using your data storage infrastructure is an on-going challenge for all IT departments. Any storage transformation project requires an accurate picture of the current environment before the journey to a fully optimised architecture can begin....

Overview Cyber-attacks on organisations are now inevitable. Security is no longer about preventing attacks, it’s about preparing for them. This means finding them and dealing with them in real time. The longer a cyber-attack goes undetected (on average 154 days), the more damage it does to the business and the more money it will cost...