Technology Solutions

Matching Hardware & Software to your business needs

The overriding aim for any IT department is providing the hardware and software platforms to enable the enterprise to meet its business objectives. Too often, technology constrains business initiatives. Too many organisations arrive at technical dead-ends, creating the need for major, unexpected IT investments.

IT is also under constant pressure to reduce costs and justify any expenditure with a business case. Despite this, IT is important to organisations, both facilitating business operations and acting as an enabler for business change.

Our skills at Computacenter cover all types of IT, including databases, networking infrastructures and software packages, across all major platforms. 

We are partners of the world’s leading IT suppliers, such as Cisco, EMC, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft and Oracle. 

However, we are not just ‘techies’: we always seek to create business-aligned solutions, providing quality deliverables which drive out complexity and reduce operational costs. 

We work with you to define your requirements and identify the best hardware and software solutions for your business needs. The expertise and creativity of Computacenter’s specialists, project managers and client managers often lead to solutions outside of the obvious, but which provide a better, more cost-effective platform for our clients’ business.

IBM Hardware Solutions

Computacenter is an IBM Premier Business Partner, combining traditional IBM Business Partner hardware and software expertise with infrastructure and managed services

More than half of Computacenter’s maintrame arm is dedicated to IBM eServer technical delivery, with industry-wide expertise in IBM software, IBM TotalStorage and System p, x and z. The benefits of working with Computacenter are listed below:

• Deliver tailored solutions for all IT project sizes.
• Expert service enhanced by a long-established relationship with IBM.
• Simplified client relationships by providing a single point of contact, without compromising expertise.
• Account managers approved to the highest IBM standards to deliver real business support and effective partnership relationships with clients.
• For hardware and software sales, we work with IBM account teams and ensure that all client requirements are met.
• Cost-effective solutions and IBM Finance (IGF) options.
• Computacenter is IBM’s first and most experienced System z Premier Partner in the UK, with more IBM-accredited z resources than any other supplier. We have been in the mainframe support business in the UK for two decades with:
  • over 100 large systems projects every year.
  • more than 600 man years’ mainframe support experience.
  • unrivalled experience in the migration of legacy systems to z/OS.

Operating Systems

With expertise in a broad range of operating systems, Computacenter has the skills to plan, install, configure, upgrade and tune systems for clients. We also have extensive experience of migrating to new operating systems. We bring both the technical knowledge of individual operating systems and the management skills to oversee their implementation and ongoing operations.

Systems where we have expertise include: AIX, CMS, DOS, HP-UX, Linux, Novell, OS/2, OS/390, OS/400, PR/SM, SCO Unixware, Solaris, Sysplex, Ultrix, Unix, VM/ESA, Windows XP/NT/2000/9x/3.1, z/OS, z/VM.

Infrastructure Availability Services (IAS) Agreement

The unified approach to sharing business information and ideas both internally and externally.

Computacenter’s expertise and knowledge management will give a real return on investment and improve your business throughout.

Our experts prevent your communications and business process strategies from ending up as a series of uncoordinated projects.

Successful twenty-first-century businesses operate at high speed to remain competitive. Both internally and externally, there is a need for quality information and communications on a 24-hour basis.

Our expertise enables IT departments to logically centralise information in an increasingly decentralised and often global environment. We ensure that you have the most effective infrastructure in place to give your employees, partnerships and clients consistently high-quality collaborative communication experiences.

Collaborative Solutions = Competitive Advantage

Working in partnership with us ensures that your projects will actually move your organisation forward and accelerate business. Our specialists take your strategy, develop it, prototype it and build a solution leveraging your existing technology and, if required, plug in additional functionality on a best-of-breed basis.

We have the in-depth experience and resources to implement a robust, extensible and cost-effective solution for your organisation.

HP

Computacenter is an HP Preferred Partner specialising in HP Information Management, Datacenter and StorageWorks. We offer HP hardware and software expertise, along with infrastructure and managed services.

Our accreditations, along with our 20-year background in delivering managed services and infrastructure solutions, enables us to design, install, support and manage complete HP solutions while removing risk and delivering business benefits to our customers.

The benefits of partnering with Computacenter for HP are listed below: 

• HP certified account managers and consultants
• Dedicated HP specialists
• End-to-end solutions
• Mainframe migration expertise and experience
• Unix and Wintel solutions
• Tailored solutions for all IT project sizes
• Expert service enhanced by a close relationship with HP
• Simplified client relationships by providing a single point of contact