Case Studies

South Lakes Housing (SLH) is an independent housing association, which manages more than 3,000 rented properties across the South Lakeland area of Cumbria.

I now can’t imagine going back to how we were operating before. For us, the Marketplace is a no-brainer!

Following a period of rapid growth, this Trust had a number of IT challenges including remote working and security.

Probrand provides Elite Plastics with Server Migration and Cloud Backup to deliver continuity and future proofing.

Probrand recommends NetApp as the foundation for a virtualised x86 server infrastructure rationalised by 70%.

Heathfield Community College is a secondary college and sixth form located just outside the market town of Heathfield, in the heart of the Wealden district of East Sussex.

Probrand refresh the infrastructure and introduce data protection solutions, producing numerous benefits for Swanswell, from security to safely backing up data.

Probrand was able to source replacement technology and IT infrastructure at the lowest possible price by utilising the buying power of our digital marketplace.

Probrand Ltd implements a scaleable, cost effective VDi environment to help drive desktop computing costs down by 45% and unlock site-to-site DR.

Probrand, proposed a fully managed support service

Probrand deploys a robust wireless network across a 300 acre estate.

Probrand install Ruckus wireless access points at Leabrook House Nursing Home to ensure service delivery and resident well-being.

Probrand installs a remote access solution to give the 'voice of nursing' secure, reliable and faultless remote network access, without the cost.

“If I want to make a purchase then Probrand's Marketplace will be the first place I look. I know that nine times out of ten, I will get the best price available.”

Westfield Arts College is a 4-19 special school in Dorset serving the needs of 180 children and young people with moderate to complex learning difficulties. The IT department at Westfield Arts College, led by Richard Gould, is responsible for purchasing all the necessary IT equipment for pupils and staff.

West Suffolk Council has 24 staff working within its customer and infrastructure, and business application support.

The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals excels at business continuity with Probrand

Probrand consolidates server environment by over 60% to unlock business for legal services firm Enoch Evans LLP with an integrated ‘matter management’ system.

When Birmingham based retail property consultancy Rowley, Hughes and Thompson set up in January 2004, it needed to find an IT provider that could help them get up and running quickly and efficiently.

Probrand provides clinicians with a secure and reliable way to access clinical care records anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

The main Domain Controller and E-mail server at MO Holdings central London Head Office had been outgrown, the limitations of Windows Small Business Server had become apparent.

Landsdon Limited was established in 1992 and over the past decade has grown into the UK's largest independent distributor of floorcovering products

Dunwoody Airline Services maintains a six year old server estate. Business continuity planning needed to be tightened and an extra layer of protection put in place.

Due to a successful growth programme, the practice had outgrown its current IT infrastructure.

Probrand's Marketplace was tasked with assisting North West London Hospitals NHS Trust in finding a secure but cost effective way to transport data.

Anne Sendall Group was looking to manage the relocation of its business from Sutton Coldfield to Tamworth, which included a significant IT infrastructure.

Probrand delivers enterprise Business Continuity and rationalises Beakbane's IT infrastructure by 70% with virtualised server and storage environments to support a critical ERP system upgrade.

The key challenge was to overcome a variety of platform integration concerns and ensure that all IT security and anti-virus systems worked efficiently across all operating systems.

Knowsley Community College (KCC) is one of the largest providers of further education in the country with over 12,000 school leavers and adults studying each year. The organisation prides itself on strong strategic leadership, excellent partnership agreements and highly effective teamwork, which have earned it an Ofsted Grade One award for 'Equality of Opportunity'.

NHS resource Collaborative Procurement Hub was launched in April 2006 and is entirely owned and accountable to Member Trust organisations within the NHS East Midlands region. Its core objective is to deliver £67.4m of cumulative savings for reinvestment in front line services, improved products and services across 29 NHS organisations.

Educational establishments within the public sector have a number of key challenges facing them and procurement efficiency is one area that is seeing particular attention. With Gordon Brown's demand for huge procurement savings and the call for joined up government on the back of the Gershon report, it is the role of e-procurement that has hit the top of the corporate agenda.

The debate around IT in the classroom no longer resides around 'computers for schools' per se, it has shifted focus to getting the very latest technology into the classroom in the shortest possible time for the best price.

With Gordon Brown's demand for huge procurement savings in the public sector on the back of the Gershon report, allied private sector organisations are also finding their processes are in need of efficiencies. E-procurement has been put at the top of the corporate agenda.