Microsoft Learning Gateway Partners

Agresso Ltd is ideally placed to support the modern college and university with its aspirations for the future through its truly integrated management system with technically modern applications incorporating finance, procurement, payroll, HR, student records, customer relationship management (CRM), projects and award management.

The pre- and post-implementation agility of the Agresso solution makes it the ideal system for the ever changing demands of the education sector.

For further information on how Agresso's solutions could benefit your organisation please call 01275 377205 or email info@agresso.co.uk.

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Email: info@agresso.co.uk
Tel: 01275 377205

Akhter has been serving the education sector since 1979 and has developed a range of Microsoft compatible solutions in response to demand from schools and colleges. One such solution is Vidflow. This enables teachers to create a curriculum-based video library and make it available to students and teachers for on-demand playback or scheduled video broadcast over the network. Vidflow provides a fast and effective tool for curriculum delivery within a Microsoft Learning Gateway SharePoint Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). In addition to bespoke software, Akhter provides fast network upgrade and migration services, normally outside term for zero downtime, and offers the full range of Microsoft products.

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Email: enquiries@akhter.co.uk
Tel: 01279 821200
Fax: 01279 821300

Akhter Computers plc,
Akhter House,
Perry Road,
Harlow,
Essex,
CM18 7PN

Ascentium Corporation offers a blend of business, marketing and technical consultancy to deliver solutions specifically geared towards our Higher Education customers. Our solutions encompass Portals and Collaboration, CRM and Business Intelligence technologies integrated to provide a platform for staff, students and partners to work together and achieve measurable success. Examples of our success stories include Coventry University, University of West of England and the Royal Academy of Music.

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Email: Daniel.reardon@ascentium.com
Tel: 01635 291800

Azzurri is revolutionising teaching and learning with advanced Internet and software technology for the education sector at all levels from primary schools through to local education authorities (LEA) and government. With government requirements for every pupil to have access to an online learning space by 2008 and a fully integrated platform by 2010 Azzurri can provide invovative solutions combining its TALMOS product with the powerful Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 and Microsoft Learning Gateway product site.

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Email: info@talmos.net
Tel: 01482 601 100

Capita Children’s Services’ market leading information management system (IMS), SIMS is used every day by over 22,000 primary, secondary and independent schools in the UK. SIMS is an integrated IMS that assists with attendance management, financial administration, curriculum planning and online learning. By using a single integrated database to store pupil information, SIMS saves time, increases data accuracy and helps raise standards in schools, by performing complex analysis of pupil performance data. Teachers, parents and pupils can retrieve information that is relevant to them directly from SIMS, using SIMS Learning Gateway, a key driver towards personalising learning and improving home-school links.

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Gold Certified Partner Civica is one of the UK’s leading providers of software and services for the public sector. The company has provided ICT solutions for schools, colleges and universities in the UK and overseas for more than 20 years. It is the ICT prime contractor for all phases of the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) programme in Sheffield, while in Singapore Civica delivered a national managed service ahead of time for 330 schools.

Combining understanding of current and developing needs with core technology and software expertise, from managed learning environments and efficient infrastructure to leading finance and e-payment systems, Civica has the skill and experience to help improve the learning environment and to ensure information is created, managed and shared easily in a secure, controlled environment.

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Email: education@licencetoclick.com

As a Becta Infrastructure Services framework supplier and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Ergo Computing is ideally positioned to supply the Microsoft Learning Gateway to schools, colleges and universities, as part of a personalised and collaborative elearning solution.

Ergo Computing has grown from being the UK's largest specialist notebook manufacturer into a large scale, independent provider of ICT solutions. Beyond its significant technological capacity, Ergo's success is based on its people and their shared ethos of providing the best service and support within the IT industry.

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K2 provides the platform for a new generation of users to collaboratively assemble business process applications from reusable artefacts. Its solutions are deployed by a growing number of the global Fortune 100 and, since the release of its first software in 2000, K2 has helped clients in more than 40 countries increase profitability and productivity.

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Email: uk-sales@k2.com

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, LogicaCMG is a solutions leader in the education sector with a solid track record of delivering strategic ICT solutions on time and to budget. Its expertise in managing change powers its clients’ transformation into education and learning organisations for the 21st Century. With over 150 fully certified Microsoft professionals the company is well placed to offer a broad range of consulting services, including specific Microsoft Learning Gateway transformational change. LogicaCMG is also engaged with a number of BSF programmes, providing systems integration to ensure best value delivery of BSF visions.

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LP+ Limited provides a unique, fully-hosted and managed Microsoft Learning Gateway solution for schools and local authorities across the UK and overseas. Its systems, projects and learning teams have over 15 years' experience with educational ICT and a track record of delivering cost-effective and flexible solutions designed to inspire children and teachers to embrace new ways of learning. The LP+ hosted system reduces the complexity and cost of implementation and can be introduced incrementally across the school or local authority.

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Email: info@lpplus.com

As a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Morse has in depth expertise in portals, infrastructure and, with its own TNA accredited solution, Wisdom, many years’ experience of electronic document and records management. This combined capability is focused on the education sector, to provide solutions that enhance the learning experience with the involvement of all stakeholders. This ensures appropriate governance and high performance, stability and security over local and distributed networks, from any type of connection and device. Based on the Microsoft Learning Gateway, Morse education solutions scale easily from single school deployments to large scale LEA systems serving many thousands of users. Key components include Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Office Communication Server 2007, Forms Server 2007 and the SharePoint Learning Kit and Wisdom.

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Email: enquiry@morse.com

Nisai has delivered learning platforms for over 6 years.

The Nisai Learning Platform, based on Microsoft Learning Gateway technologies, allows it to deliver educational outcomes.

Nisai develops, personalises, and configures each Nisai learning platform to meet schools’ and local authorities’ BSF educational requirements.

Not only does the company have the experience of delivering learning platforms, it also runs its own virtual school for students who are unable to attend school due to factors such as disability or chronic illness.

Nisai consistently achieves outstanding results that are higher than the national average and it has the expertise and knowledge to guide you through.

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Email: info@nisai.com
Tel: 020 8424 8475
Fax: 020 8424 0485

NS Optimum’s approach to education ICT in the UK is to provide a total solution. It believes in providing the platform for delivering all aspects of elearning including data networking, fibre optics, servers, PCs, mobile devices, support services, software integration and licensing tailored to education. It has vast experience and many very long relationships with a wide variety of schools, including Harrow School, Bromsgrove School, Northampton School for Boys and the Royal Grammar School to name but a few. NS Optimum is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and an Intel Channel Premier.

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Email: sales@nsoptimum.co.uk

Ramesys provides consultancy, implementation and roll-out services for the Microsoft Learning Gateway product suite. Its experience of deploying learning platforms at RBC, LEA and school level with the Microsoft suite of products enables it to offer a full set of integration services with Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Exchange. Ramesys can also provide training and transformation services and add-on modules, to ease the deployment and ongoing management of the solutions.

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Email: enquiries@ramesys.com

Redstone is an established IT/communications system integrator with over 10 years' experience providing a comprehensive list of services for schools. A schools core function is provision of learning and Redstone aims to ensure that when you need ICT, it just works.

Redstone offers:

• Flexibility, allowing schools to choose which element(s) to implement.
• Proactive management and helpdesk services supporting schools' total ICT infrastructures.
• Incident, problem and contract management.
• Configuration and capacity management.
• Proactive monitoring to alert its engineers and schools’ ICT technicians.
• Consultation on special needs learning, hardware and software integration, training and remote support.

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RM’s vision is a world where ICT is fully integrated into the way schools work, where every user has access to the information and tools they need, when they need them. Many schools already have elements of a learning platform but few of these systems interact to share common information. Working with schools and other organisations in the education sector, RM has developed an integrated ICT environment, based on Microsoft SharePoint technology, that improves communication and collaboration by providing users with a single point of access to applications and information.

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Tel: 08450 700300

Scholaris is a role based teaching and learning environment accessible anywhere, anytime through a unified interface for all members of a school community. The Scholaris comprehensive framework takes the tools you currently have and integrates them with exciting and intuitive new features and resources to enhance the teaching and learning experience.

Scholaris enables:

• Students to have their own rich and engaging digital learning environment where they can share, communicate and collaborate with others, as well as complete assignments and activities online.
• Teachers to tailor learning to their students individual needs through one unified interface using a wealth of applications, tools, content and student-centric data.
• Parents to have easy access to information on their child's academic performance, attendance and workload, as well as visibility of school events and news.
• School leaders and administrators to make better informed decisions using the wealth of centrally-stored information.

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Email: UK@scholarisintl.com

Tel: + 44 7736 283 817

Serco provides effective solutions to management and learning needs, addressing the unique requirements of every institution. Its Facility suite gives managers total control and promotes data-driven decision making. It creates an educational environment in which each learner’s academic career is underpinned and enhanced by powerful software. Facility combines a management information system, secure e-Portal and Becta-framework learning platform, with effective consultancy, backed by reliable customer support. More than a million learners in schools and colleges around the world already benefit from Serco’s products and services.

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Email: enquiries@sercolearning.com
Tel: 01332 660060
Fax: 01332 66011

Serco
Winchester House,
Stephensons Way,
Wyvern Business Park,
Derby
DE21 6BF

Synetrix (incorporating i2Q) is a leading supplier of ICT to UK schools. It delivers broadband, ISP services and learning applications to customers, including the London Grid for Learning and Leeds Learning Network. Synetrix specialises in managed, enterprise grade, hosted and bespoke deployments of the Microsoft Learning Gateway with a range of interface and integration options. This includes an end-to-end service including identity management and MIS integration, single sign-on, content access and subscription management, plus customised school learning environments with integrated timetable and class information. Synetrix helps educators deliver personalised, role-based learning experiences via industry standard, user focused technologies, including Exchange, SharePoint and SharePoint Learning Kit.

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Email: education@synetrix.co.uk
Tel: 0125 240-5600

Teksys is an experienced Microsoft Learning Gateway (MLG) Partner that has completed MLG implementations for over 300,000 pupils, teachers and education stakeholders in schools and further education establishments across the UK. Teksys designs and implements high performance and fully featured learning platforms specifically to meet your needs and it has a wide range of finance, software, hardware and network options to complement your ICT infrastructure. Additionally, Teksys can provide a fully-managed, hosted MLG service, so that you receive immediate benefits from having your own learning platform without the need to purchase, install and manage any of the infrastructure elements yourselves.

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Email: info@teksys.co.uk

Viglen, as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has evolved its well established education product set with the introduction of Cohearo, a product based on Microsoft Learning Gateway (MOSS2007). This has been supplemented by a virtual learning platform that itself is built on .Net 2.0 and is accessed through the gateway via Web parts.

Cohaero glues together the disparate components of modern school networks, providing a central point of access for the component parts and a powerful toolset for educators and learners. Cohaero can be supplemented by VRAMS, a Microsoft-underpinned remote software management and distribution system.

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Email: sales@viglen.co.uk
Tel: 01727 201 820

Viglen Ltd,
VHQ, 7 Handley Page Way,
Old Parkbury Lane,
Colney Street,
St. Albans,
Hertfordshire AL2 2DQ