Slough, UK, 11th January 2011 –
International solutions provider, Logicalis, today published its
Public Sector Network (PSN) Delivery Framework, bringing its unique
experience in delivering large scale PSN projects into the public
domain and helping public sector organisations to accelerate shared
service communications projects, the critical first steps for
frontline service and back office ICT consolidation.
Logicalis’ PSN Delivery Framework provides substantial detail
on the key elements of a successful PSN, from project inception to
ongoing service delivery and operations, and highlights the
necessary stages and key stakeholders required to make these
complex, but now critical, shared communications services
succeed.
“In publishing this document, Logicalis has taken the bold step
of releasing substantial intellectual property around PSN into the
open market,” commented Tom Kelly, MD of Logicalis UK.
“As we move into 2011, it is vital that the
public sector and ICT partners engage differently. Logicalis’
openness is in the spirit of true partnership with the UK public
sector and I believe that bringing our experience into the public
domain will help those organisations in the early stages of
initiating a PSN programme move forward more quickly and
confidently. We can enable Local Authorities, Police services,
health providers, and educators to spend together and save
together, and help preserve funding in frontline services by
transforming and reducing the cost and complexity of the back
office.”
Logicalis believes there are six critical PSN
programme challenges for public sector stakeholders and service
providers;
- Governance – creating and maintaining
security and trust between all parties
- Goal Architectures – a solution fit
for today that encourages not inhibits future change
- Collaborative Procurement and Funding
– buying and saving together at best value
- Transition and Deployment – leveraging
existing investments in diverse infrastructures
- Service Management and Reporting
- collective improvement of services
- People, Politics, and Policy –
stakeholder engagement and project momentum.
Logicalis‘ PSN Delivery Framework provides a
comprehensive overview to achieving a successful, operational PSN
programme, and is as relevant to a Chief Executive as it is to a
Chief Information Officer.
“In this new era of public sector, where
disparate and historically disconnected organisations will
dynamically come together around shared service delivery, PSN is a
fundamental platform,” said Chris Gabriel, Director of Solutions
and Marketing at Logicalis UK.
“But, although 20-40% savings can be realised
through connectivity consolidation, PSN isn’t merely about cutting
communications costs. PSN will allow Chief Executives or
politicians to make policy decisions about service change or
dramatic consolidation with an understanding that their
organisations can work together on the frontline or in the back
office. Consolidating frontline services or data centres is
not a trivial exercise, but without a PSN it is nearly impossible
to achieve at all, and certainly not at the speed and the scale
required under the current economic conditions. PSN is a
successful, flagship project to emerge from the Cabinet Office, and
we intend to educate and encourage colleagues working in the public
sector by spreading our knowledge as widely as possible.”
A core principle of Logicalis’ PSN framework
is to advocate a new approach, urging government to think of PSN as
a marketplace for ICT service users and service providers, creating
new eco-systems of partnership, and dramatically altering the
public sector ICT landscape. PSN will cut communication costs, and
act as a multiplication agent for savings elsewhere; from data
centre consolidation, use of open source software, through to
aggregation of local and regional ICT demand.
Logicalis’ PSN Delivery Framework is freely
available for download
here, or from
www.uk.logicalis.com/solutions-and-services/public-sector-solutions/psn-delivery-framework.aspx
To accompany its PSN Delivery Framework, Logicalis will be
running a series of open door workshops across the UK from February
2011.
About Logicalis
Logicalis is an international provider of integrated information
and communications technology (ICT) solutions and services founded
on a superior breadth of knowledge and expertise in communications
& collaboration; data centre; and professional and managed
services.
Logicalis Group employs over 1,900 people
worldwide, including highly trained service specialists who design,
specify, deploy and manage complex ICT infrastructures to meet the
needs of over 5,000 corporate and public sector customers. To
achieve this, Logicalis maintains strong partnerships with
technology leaders such as Cisco, HP, IBM and Microsoft.
The Logicalis Group has annualised revenues of
$1 billion, from operations in the UK, US, Germany, South America
and Asia Pacific, and is fast establishing itself as one of the
leading IT and Communications solution integrators, specialising in
the areas of advanced technologies and services.
The Logicalis Group is a division of Datatec
Limited, a $3.7 billion revenue business listed on the Johannesburg
and London AIM Stock Exchanges.
For more information, visit http://www.uk.logicalis.com/.
For further information please
contact:
Andrew Parker/Jennifer Manning/Charlotte
Sandy
Cohesive Communications
T: +44 (0) 1291 626200
E: logicalis@cohesive.uk.com