Centralis Customers & Solutions: Education and the Third Sector
		Within the Education sector organisations typically have large numbers of users to reach, often spread over multiple locations and a wide variety of devices.  Providing quality systems to staff and students is increasingly important as user's expectations increase and learning moves towards more flexible and distributed delivery. For the Third Sector investment in I.T. is essential to allow a distributed workforce to access essential systems, but has to be justified against the organisations core charitable aims and objectives.

	Customer References
	" Our aim is always to streamline and improve our IT provisions for staff and students across the campus. We have seen improvements in performance and reduced support calls, particularly in the delivery of some of our most widely used applications."	Kevin Garner, Head of Technical Services, UAL
	" When an organisation seeks to exploit leading edge technology, you need to recognise that you need a partner which is an expert to make success easier. In Centralis BUPA found experts who also matched our delivery approach in every way and, best of all, kept to their promises. "	Ian Shaw, Head of IT Services, BUPA

Centralis has worked closely with Education and Third Sector sector clients for many years, providing cost-effective, high performance, flexible access to a wide range of systems and data.

With many users accessing systems from their own laptops or from remote locations, security and performance are critical success factors.  Centralis can help by providing applications and desktops as a service - delivering all the power and flexibility needed as a centralised service, without the need for local data or configuration of the user's PC.

Our clients range from some of the UK's leading higher education establishments to Further Education Colleges and specialist charities.

Services available include:

• Multi-media and non-Windows clients - support the use of rich media and deliver all your core systems to any device including Macs, iPads and iPhones

• Virtual learning environments - Providing high performance courseware to users securely wherever they are

• Dynamic Desktops - Deliver complete classroom and working environments in seconds using virtual desktops 

• Meet "Green" Directives - Reduce power consumption at the desktop and encourage reduced travel and flexible working

• Branch Office support - Deliver high performance systems to distributed workforces without costly WAN upgrades

• Consumerisation - Allow the use of staff and student's own laptops and other client devices without compromising security

If you would like to find out more about working with Centralis as your partner in education or Third Sector accounts, please click here and we will contact you.

	Customer References
	" We now have the flexibility to troubleshoot issues from our central location in the UK. This means we don’t have to deploy manpower at all locations, which has helped to keep the costs of administration down and the overall IT environment."	Tony Tarragona-Fiol, program manager at the Imperial College London
	" When engaging with Centralis, we expected competence in specific areas because that's why they had been recommended to us - what we didn't expect however was the level to which the consultant took it upon himself to own issues and deliver resolutions in associated areas that would have a major impact on deliverables "	Tony Rucinski, Assistant Director and Head of the Strategy Group, Cardiff University

Centralis Higher Education customers include University of the Arts, London, University of Cardiff, University of Liverpool, University of Leeds, University of Birmingham, University of Northumbria, Imperial College, London, University College, London, King's College, London, University of Teesside, University of Central Lancashire,  and the University of Warwick.

Centralis Further Education customers include Sheffield College, Hull College of FE and Warwickshire College.

Case Study - Imperial College, London
International AIDS Vaccine Initiatives (IAVI), a global not-for-profit partnership based at Imperial College London approached Centralis to help  deliver its Laboratory System worldwide - click here to read the case study.
 

Case Study - Cardiff University
Centralis worked with Cardiff University to deliver the first ever fixed, dedicated link between the disparate worlds of higher education and health. providing medical students access to their university data and systems while on placement in the NHS - click here to read the case study.

	Customer References
	" Much credit must go to the team at Centralis who rose splendidly to the challenge of delivering a quality solution in such tight timescales, and were willing to go that extra mile on the RNLI's behalf, exceeding what was required of them contractually on a number of occasions. "	Richard Miles, Head of Information Systems, RNLI
	" Our people are mobile and need to access mission-critical information while away from the office or on the road. Our ongoing work plays a critical role in keeping our palaces open to the public so we needed a far more flexible way of working. "	Rob Ellner, Infrastructure Manager, Historic Royal Palaces

In the Third Sector, the Centralis case study and reference portfolio Our UK customer portfolio in the “Not for Profit” sector includes BUPA and Nuffield Hospitals, the Scout Association, the R.N.L.I. (Royal National Lifeboat Institution), Mencap, the Services Sound and Vision Corporation, the British Red Cross, the Institute of Cancer Research, the Dogs Trust,  Skills for Care, the Royal National Institute for the Deaf and Historic Royal Palaces.

Case Study - the RNLI
Working with Centralis, the RNLI delivered fundraising, marketing, membership administration and lifeboat logistics to remote locations in support of this life-saving service - click here to read the case study.
 

Case Study - Historic Royal Palaces
Independent charity Historic Royal Palaces implements secure remote access to deliver applications to its remote workers supporting some of the UK's finest historic buildings- click here to read the case study.
 

Case Study - BUPA
Market-leading healthcare provider BUPA engaged Centralis to design a centralised solution that would enable secure remote access for roaming executives, international users and offshore administration workers - click here to read the case study.