Centiq approved as Buying Solutions sub-contractor

Centiq, an IT consulting and services provider has been approved as a sub-contractor by Buying Solutions, the national procurement partner for the UK's public services. The accreditation will enable public service organisations, for the first time, direct and quick access to specialist IT skills previously only accessible by the time intensive tendering process.

Partnering with Buying Solutions' approved supplier European Electronique, Centiq has been selected because of its 11 years of experience in the public sector market. As an accredited business partner to technology providers, including IBM and HP, Centiq can offer local government bodies, NHS Trusts and other public service organisations a quicker route to solving IT problems or procurement of new IT systems specific to the public sector.

Data Storage; Tiers, not Tears

Glyn Heath, MD of Centiq Ltd, says small companies are struggling as they wrestle with the ball-and-chain of unstructured data

A recent data health-check on a mid-sized organisation found an average of 5,000 different spreadsheets per user.  On another occasion, directors admitted they didn't know what unstructured data was, let alone have a management policy for it.

Businesses are paying over the odds for IT maintenance and management costs because of data storage issues.  Companies are also preventing their key applications and their staff from responding effectively to their customers.  Many companies are not getting a grip on the huge amounts of data that their organisation generates, and so it continues to spiral out of control. 

The Telegraph Business Club 

Three steps to gaining better value from IT systems expanded in the boom years could ensure survival, says Glyn Heath, CEO of IT services company Centiq.

Despite research predicting a three per cent contraction in the UK economy in 2009¹ and business failures up 59 per cent on last year,² the survival of UK businesses lies in their own hands. According to Centiq, an IT services provider focused on the data centre, this is particularly the case if they take practical measures to drive far greater productivity from their existing IT systems.

Microscope.co.uk

Novell has taken the wraps off its last three months work bolstering its reseller numbers as the vendor continues to reconfigure its channel.

The list of the latest resellers to sign up with vendor includes Kavanagh, Centiq, Insight, Bytes Technology Group, Everett, CMS, Kelway, Morse and Syan.

Retail Technology

Fastener component distributor The Fastener Network Ltd has completely transformed the performance of its IT infrastructure, achieving nearly 20 times faster data interrogation and reporting, with expert help from Centiq, a premium-level IT services provider.  Centiq achieved this breakthrough performance by optimising The Fastener Network’s existing data storage and management systems, and then migrating SAP R/3 from a UNIX-Oracle platform to Windows-SQL Server with high-performance hardware.

The Fastener Network engaged Centiq for the complex system migration and optimisation to improve the infrastructure’s ability to handle simultaneous requests from different departments; data input, access and reporting – processes that were essential to support the group’s continued business growth.

Computing.co.uk

Computer Active

IT services provider Centiq has urged UK businesses to make a pre-emptive strike on the effects of an economic downturn by revamping their IT infrastructure.