Headline sponsor
BlackBerry
A global leader in mobile communications, BlackBerry® revolutionized the mobile industry when it was introduced in 1999. Today, BlackBerry aims to inspire the success of our millions of customersaround the world by continuously pushing the boundaries of mobile experiences. Founded in 1984 and based in Waterloo, Ontario, BlackBerry operates offices in North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America.
At this year’s Socitm Spring Conference, BlackBerry will be showcasing its new BlackBerry Enterprise Service (BES) 10 solution. Building on BlackBerry’s industry-leading reputation in secure enterprise mobility management, BES 10 extends BlackBerry’s unrivalled security and manageability features to iOS and Android devices, providing enterprises with a single solution to manage their entire mobile estate, irrespective of device type or platform. With over 30,000 BES 10 servers deployed by organisations including 40% of the FTSE 100 in less than one year, BES 10 further enhances BlackBerry’s position as the market-leader in mobile device management.
Workshop sponsors
DSDM
DSDM is a proven framework for agile project management and delivery, helping to deliver results quickly and effectively. It concentrates on strategic goals and incremental delivery of real business benefits while keeping control of time, cost, risk and quality. The DSDM Consortium is the not-for-profit community behind the framework providing products and services that support organisations and individuals in their learning, adoption and application of DSDM. Since 1995 DSDM has been effectively applied to a wide range of projects from small software developments all the way up to full-scale business process change.
Objective Corporation
With over 20 years Information Management experience, Objective is an established leader and specialist provider of proven content, collaboration and process management solutions. Our solutions are created specifically for use by government organisations and are used by over 400 different agencies, including 170 local authorities on a daily basis. Objective Connect – our web-based information and process sharing solution - enables fast, easy and secure information sharing, while maintaining the security, auditability, traceability and data sovereignty to help you keep your information under control.
Verisec
Freja, from Verisec, is designed to be the ultimate solution for identity management within the UK public sector. Freja is rapidly becoming the first choice among councils as it provides strong authentication, in an easily integrated solution, without a per-user cost. Councils save up to 60% when replacing existing solutions with Freja and at the same time they achieve PSN-compliance while also reducing IT Helpdesk support calls and administration responsibilities. In short, Freja is a complete solution for strong authentication at an unsurpassed price, ready for challenges like secure remote working, cloud access and citizen authentication.
Exhibitors
Hydra Management Limited
Hydra Management is the PPM software that is helping many IT departments in public services across the UK to achieve efficiency, optimise resource allocation and reduce costs.
With customers like Staffordshire County Council, Leeds City Council, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS and many others, Hydra is a trusted partner of the UK public sector.
Hydra PPM is your solution if you need to:
- Instantly optimise all your resources and run “What-if” scenarios to prioritise your projects
- Know what you can really deliver, and by when, with the resources you have
- Achieve real-time business intelligence on all your projects
governmentM: Setting the standard for mobile in Local Government
The Socitm 2014 Spring Conference app has been created using the governmentM platform which delivers mobile apps for government services. Compliant with G-Cloud, governmentM engages all users with personalised services targeted to profiled groups such as citizens.
The proven technology of the governmentM platform is unique in bringing together native apps and responsive HTML5. It makes light work of app deployment, analytics, updates and customisations. governmentM works with device capabilities such as push notifications and offline working to turn high-cost transactions - such as bin collection enquiries - into intuitive mobile interactions that users complete without resolving to the Call button.
IBM United Kingdom Limited
'Top Talent' is a leadership development programme created from a partnership between Socitm and IBM. The simple aim of this initiative is to help equip future transformation leaders with the skills, knowledge and confidence to effect meaningful change in their own organisations. Come and talk to us at our stand to see if it might be relevant for you.
Logicalis UK Ltd
Logicalis UK Ltd is an international IT solutions and managed services provider with a breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications and collaboration; business analytics; data centre and cloud services; and managed services. Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM, CA Technologies, NetApp, VMware and ServiceNow.
Meru Networks
Meru Networks' virtualized wireless technologies have helped over 2800 education customers in the UK & Ireland to enable their mobile and e-learning vision. Over 15 schools per week are choosing Meru's technology, which was designed to handle high densities of mobile users. Meru's unique architecture puts the network in control, not the devices. With the advent of BYOD (Bring-Your-Own-Device),Meru's Identity Manager products ensure that guest and student devices can securely connect to the network with a minimum of input from the IT teams and enable monitoring of who has done what and where on the network.
Verizon
Verizon Communications Inc. (NYSE, Nasdaq: VZ), headquartered in New York, is a global leader in delivering broadband and other wireless and wireline communications services to consumer, business, government and wholesale customers. Verizon Wireless operates America’s most reliable wireless network, with nearly 103 million retail connections nationwide. Verizon also provides converged communications, information and entertainment services over America’s most advanced fiber-optic network, and delivers integrated business solutions to customers in more than 150 countries. A Dow 30 company with more than $120 billion in 2013 revenues, Verizon employs a diverse workforce of 176,800.
