Albemarle & Bond Holdings plc
ABH are one of the UKs largest retail pawnbrokers and unsecured lenders, with over 200 outlets across the UK.
Inspired Networks designed and managed a complete replacement of their aging IT infrastructure with a modern and cost effective virtual platform and wide area network spanning all their sites, providing both IT and telecoms facilities.
Inspired Networks also produced a 5 year IT plan and helped recruit a new in house IT team, IT Manager and CIO
Higham Dunnett Shaw
Higham Dunnett Shaw provided outsourcing and business solutions to the Pensions, Life Assurance and Insurance industries. With offices throughout the UK they were one of the leaders in their field.
Inspired networks provided services to Higham Dunnett Shaw for over 9 years, until the business was sold to Capita Hartshead in 2007, and helped them grow from 6 staff in a small London office to nearly 750 in 6 UK locations. Whether it was designing Higham Dunnett Shaw's first network, managing the deployment of numerous new offices and relocations or the recruitment of their own in house IT services team, Inspired Networks was there to provide the services required, when they were needed.
Donald Grant, Commercial Director at Higham Group said "Inspired Networks have provided services to Higham Dunnett Shaw since 1998 and I think our long association speaks for itself. We have worked with Inspired Networks on various projects and have always found them to provide innovative and professional solutions to our problems.
Saul
Saul Trustee Company is a London based pensions management company with over £4bn of assets under management.
Inspired Networks has managed the IT infrastructure for SAUL for over 5 years, including a migration from on premise to a hybrid cloud environment and an expansion of services from purely 3rd line infrastructure to 2nd and some 1st line support of their users. Inspired also provide virtual CIO functions and project consultancy.
The Lewis Group
The Lewis Group (TLG) is one of the UKs most effective debt collection agencies.
Inspired Networks were brought in to help the internal IT department troubleshoot a long list of serious issues with the IT infrastructure and design a new virtual platform for the business to migrate onto resulting in significant operational cost savings. Inspired Networks have now been retained to provide Enterprise Architect services to TLG moving forwards
The Pensions Management Institute
The Pensions Management Institute (PMI) support and develop the experts who are responsible for running the UK’s pensions and employee retirement benefits industry and are acknowledged as the leading professional body for establishing, maintaining and improving professional standards in every area of pension scheme management, consultancy and trusteeship. They are a membership organisation with currently 6000 members.
In 2009 Inspired Networks took over the support of the PMI’s IT.