Case Studies

Having worked with many of the UK's leading organisations, including FTSE 100 companies and major government departments, we’ve seen a lot. But more than that, we’ve been there to either help avoid escalation or resolve things in a disaster. The case studies below give you a brief insight into how we’ve helped our existing customers. You’ll see that while each client has a tailored set up they can all be sure of unmatched reliability, the highest levels of security and outstanding cost performance.  Once you’ve had a look we’d be delighted to discuss how our service, skills and assets could benefit you.

Scotland's Census 2011

Every ten years the Scottish Government is required to carry out a national census, which provides official statistics on the demographics of the country. After a competitive tendering process, brightsolid online technology was chosen to host the Census from their Tier 3+ Data Centres. The project was delivered within budget and on schedule, while meeting the Government's IL4 data security standard.

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CLYDEUNION Pumps

CLYDEUNION Pumps is one of the world's leading pump companies - a centre of excellence in Pump Technology, Hydraulic Design and Engineering. Formed through mergers and acquisitions, CLYDEUNION Pumps required a unified ERP platform. On investigation of the best-value solution, brightsolid was chosen to host the infrastructure for the new SAP solution, delivering resilience and 99.9% availability.

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The British Newspaper Archive

The British Library's newspaper collections are among the finest in the world, containing most of the runs of newspapers published in the UK since 1800. In May 2010, the British Library signed an agreement with brightsolid for the mass digitisation of millions of newspapers pages to be made available online. As one of the UK's largest ever digitisation projects, brightsolid successfully launched the British Newspaper Archive in December 2011. The website coped with significant peak demand with over 1 million searches within the first day.

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Fife Council

Fife Council is the third largest authority in Scotland and employs over 22,000 people who work to deliver more than 900 services to the people of Fife each year. Fife Council aims to be a responsive modern organisation that demonstrates continuous improvement across all of its services and to promote innovation and improvement by sharing resources, knowledge and learning, across services and partners.

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findmypast

findmypast.co.uk is one of the UK's leading family history websites, specialising in the digitisation of historical family records. These records enable individuals to trace and contextualise their family history. findmypast.co.uk makes over 750 million records available to over 3 million registered users. It is part of brightsolid, the UK's largest family history organisation, which includes Scotland's People, 1911census.co.uk and the British Newspaper Archive.

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Cheshire Building Society

Established in 1870, Cheshire Building Society has over 37 branches and 460,000 customers. In 2008 the Cheshire Building Society merged with the Nationwide Building Society – an existing client of brightsolid online technology. In order to facilitate further growth of their internet banking channel, they required the fully managed hosting of their Ektron Content Management System, as well as upgrading their existing Windows 2000 platform to Windows Server 2008 Release 2.

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