Digital Transformation

Helping to build and enable the businesses of the future

Today, more than ever, technology is at the heart of everything we do as a society. When considering the future for your business and workplace, how do you make sure you make the right choice, especially when the rate of change is so great and the options appear endless?

We work with our customers to make sure these decisions are based on sound knowledge, experience and known outcomes. We only work with the best technologies, solutions and partners to ensure the choices we make for our customers are the right ones.

Our approach is simple. Once we understand your business, your strategy and your goals, we work on a digital transformation roadmap and programme of work that details the transitional stages that take you to where you need to be, providing expert support and assistance on the journey.

Helping you on your transformation journey

Our broad and extensive range of services and technologies ensure we transform your business to an Intelligent Enterprise for the future. Here are some of the services we currently provide.

Architecture & Design

Our certified architects and designers work to understand your business, your current technology landscape and your future goals.

Work is then done to shape the model of your future, digitally enabled enterprise including the core platforms, technologies and solutions to build the concept of your future business, working closely with you along the way.

Once the target is identified and agreed, our project and agile delivery managers will join the team to build a roadmap of work to deliver your future organisation.

Project & Agile Delivery Management​

Our delivery teams are well trained and come with the experience, knowledge and confidence to steer their teams down the right path.

Our delivery approach focuses on objectives and milestones while retaining the business perspective to ensure customers and your people get the attention and support they need and deserve.

Once the path to success is agreed, we work alongside your organisation and people to deliver it.

Test Strategy & Execution​

At every stage of transformation we ensure the work completed is of the highest quality and delivers the expected results.

We provide both functional and non-functional testing (at scale) to ensure your systems work as designed and expected and ensure success. 

ITIL Service Management​

Our ISO 20000, ITIL based, 24×7 service management function will ensure all change is managed and delivered in a low risk, controlled and efficient way.

Once delivered, we can further provide all the support you need from a service management function and team.​

AWS Professional Services

Our people excel in providing support to customers across all sectors using the latest AWS technologies.

If you want advice and support on an AWS technology or service or a full scale 100% cloud native digital transformation with help and support at every stage, we are here to help.

Salesforce Professional Services​

We have been delivering Salesforce​ solutions and transforming businesses across all ​sectors and industries for over 10 years.

We use that experience and knowledge to help your transformation release the huge potential of the leading CRM platform.​

Microsoft Professional Services

As a Microsoft Gold Partner for over 10 years, our team of Microsoft ​certified professionals​ have extensive experience of delivering services from basic infrastructure to business solutions including Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft SharePoint and cloud solutions based on Microsoft Azure.

Insights

See how we’ve used the best technologies available to help our customers achieve success.

Reduce your Costs and Protect Sensitive Data

Windows 7 End of Life: Choose the best transition strategy

Cost considerations with Amazon WorkSpaces

Securing the Desktop in Amazon WorkSpaces

Key Benefits of Amazon WorkSpaces

Chatbots, facial recognition and self-driving cars: Artificial intelligence is here

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Leeds tackles big data together.

Big data is not just for big business

“Winter is coming. You need to catch up.” This was the stark warning to SMEs who are yet to embrace…

Whose data is it anyway?

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Telling stories with data

Managers may think that they do – if they are struggling either to get the data that they need to make decisions confidently, or to define the impact of their past actions on business results.

How we’ve helped utilities companies improve service and sales

In a fiercely competitive, highly regulated industry, energy and water companies have often turned to Alscient for expertise and services in IT management, telecommunications, CRM, data collection and handling and custom software development.

Cloud migration: maximising the returns

Show me one business leader who wouldn’t be interested in an investment yielding a return of 350% after three years. In…

Key thoughts from the AWS Summit in London

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Alscient partners with University of Leeds on staff development

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Alscient confirmed as city sponsor for Big Data Week 2016

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Why we care about the cloud – rooftop BBQ to begin your journey

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Amazon in the UK

Amazon Web Services’ plan to open a data centre in the UK is good news for public and private sector organisations wrestling with the issues and uncertainties of storing their data in the cloud.

AWS Summit – London calling

On 6th and 7th July London’s ExCeL will be the location for this year’s AWS Summit in the UK, and we are pleased to be sponsoring the event.

Getting the most from consultant engagements

There’s plenty of literature out there telling consultants how to get the most out of their customers, but what about the customer? What are the benefits of consultant engagements and how can you as the customer get the most out of them?

SharePoint 2016 RTM

This week saw SharePoint 2016 made ‘Release To Manufacture’ (RTM), which means it will be generally available as soon as May.

AWS: flexibility redefined

We are getting very excited by Amazon Web Services. Understanding our customers’ business needs and delivering the best solution is what we’re good at and we keep finding that AWS is the perfect answer to many of their technical problems.

SAS 2016 kick-off event highlights huge cross-sector capabilities

The day and a half event was hosted by SAS for their employees and partners. This involved Case Studies and…

Proud to be supporting St George’s Crypt in 2016

St George’s Crypt are a great charity based in the centre of Leeds working with the homeless, the vulnerable and…

Certifications strengthen our AWS partner status

It is award season…

Technology in the news

Conversation in the office often turns to the latest technology news stories. The new ideas we wished we’d had and the ones we’re not quite so sure about. This is an occasional series of posts on the stories that caught our eye.

Helping enable the businesses of the future

We help to build digitally enabled organisations that leverage the speed and agility of the latest cloud platforms, technologies and solutions allowing you to focus on building and growing your business.

Our low risk adoption approach provides a simple, clear path to your future state by carving up your roadmap into transitional stages that deliver value, capability and tangible benefits.

Our experience across all areas of technology and business help ensure we work with you to deliver valuable outcomes. We also work to leverage our partner network to drive additional value and benefits for your organisation.

Whatever the challenge, we will find a way and help you build and grow your Intelligent Enterprise.

Our Partners

Case Studies

See how we’ve used the best technologies available to help our customers achieve success.

Brooke – Global Desktop

A multi-national animal charity approached us seeking advice on how to reduce their server provisioning costs across each branch satellite office.

BrightGen – Amazon Connect for Salesforce

Our client (BrightGen) is a Salesforce Platinum Partner who has successfully managed over 1000 Salesforce projects. They’ve been working solely with Salesforce since they were founded over 12 years ago. And they provide unrivalled knowledge of the platform to ensure their clients get a return on investment, fast.

IT Consultancy – Amazon Connect

Our client is an IT Consultancy who partners with many leading technology companies to deliver business critical IT solutions to a variety of organisations.

Standard Wool – Remote Desktop Service

Standard Wool are a traditional (founded in 1864) but forward-thinking Wool Trader which has a customer base spanning 30 countries. Much of their core infrastructure was reaching end of life and they approached us to recommend a secure cloud infrastructure solution.

Local Government – Development Environment

In 2018, a leading provider of education management software approached Alscient to assist with the setup of a virtualized desktop environment to support their development team. Following a strategic review, AWS was chosen as their platform of choice and our client was keen to validate the use of Amazon WorkSpaces.

Insurance Client – Secure Desktop

A market leading financial services company approached us to propose a secure desktop solution which would allow them to support their aggressive expansion plans.

Solid business communication

When Thistle was acquired, their existing complex email architecture needed an overhaul. The challenge was to migrate 250 employee mailboxes, untangle 50 domain names while keeping 100% receipt during the migration.

Infrastructure build for continuous delivery

Following their purchase of another broker, our client had multiple data feeds. These included legacy broking systems in addition to their strategic broking platform. Combining these disparate systems into one reporting system was our main task.

Organising the perfect data structure

The infrastructure within giffgaff was hosted on dedicated hardware, provided and managed by a 3rd party provider. This restrictive set up slowed them down and a cloud-based pipeline for DevOps was required.

Work flow management for Developers

giffgaff used Confluence, JIRA, Crowd and Bamboo to manage their projects but this complexity hindered growth. Migrating the applications to an AWS platform was needed but automation was required.

Analytics deployment at speed

Viya, the cloud analytics platform from SAS needed deployment but there were many manual activities which could slow the process down. Automation, using Ansible playbooks was our chosen route.

Business Intelligence for Health Services

Dudley CCG needed to build a platform that not only analysed data but allowed access to multiple audiences. A secure, but easily scalable SAS analytics tool was the answer.

Let the data do the bidding

This complexity was sure to yield some patterns, but how could we make sure we took advantage of them?

Keeping data fresh for major retailers

This can produce a lot of data and it becomes more important with dairy and fresh products, as it can easily end up as waste.

Globally delivered graphics, with no risk

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Swapping CRM systems without headaches

Thousands of large business customers, constantly updating sales data and a CRM system that was beginning to collapse. Systems integrations involving two different platforms and databases are fraught with danger, so this needed tight project management.

Helping NHS grow their service offering at speed

Multiple data points, manual analysis and slow extraction meant managers were spending too much time on collation, rather than understanding. There was plenty of good data, but no way to access it quickly.

Get in touch on 0113 8000 200 or info@alscient.com