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Held in Stirling, the event covered One Scotland Portal, Customer First, Benchmarking, Green ICT and a Socitm update.
Two of the presentations from the recent east Midlands event themed on shared services are now availbel via the link below.
Presentations from the latest NI event, sponsored by SQS Ireland now available.
sponsored by IBM with the theme of "The Virtues and Vices of Virtualisation" -
sponsored by Siemens and with the theme of shared services and new ways of working -
The next meeting date(s) are:
2008 meeting dates:Next meeting date to be announced
themed around the IT Professionalism agenda. The meeting was sponsored by Capita and speakers included members of Socitm along with Ian Wathen from LB Lambeth as well as the sponsor presentation from Capita.
Facilitated in conjunction with 4C Strategies and Central Telecom the slides cover what IP telephony is about, the benefits, the market, the costs and deployment.
Themed on IT Procurement with presentations and workshops run by Procurement Scotland and ScotExcel and contributions from A Kirkland, N Bell, D Cowie, C Elliot and G Neill.
held at Guildford and sponsored by Cisco speakers included -
held at Belfast with presentations on Green It, virtualisation and sustainability.
sponsored by 2e2 and hosted by Lord Anthony St John of Bletso, themed on 'Unified Communications, Collaboration & Shared Services' with an update on the current state of Socitm, the outcomes of the recent AGM and EGM and what lies ahead for Socitm.
The presentations are now available for download from the event link below
The South West Regional event on 20 June was very successful with around 40 regional members attending.
A list of the future meeting dates for 2008. Agendas and presentations (where received) for past meetings can also be downloaded by following the download links below.
The presentations are now available for download from the event link below.
The presentations are now available for download from the event link below.
Presentations can be downloaded via the event page link below.
Presentations can be downloaded by following the link below.
A list of the future meeting dates for 2008. Agendas and presentations (where received) for past meetings can also be downloaded by following the download links below.
The presentation given by the Audit Commission on ICT Strategic regulation is now available form the links below.
The theme of the first meeting of 2008 held on 28 February was Green IT & Data Centres and opportunities for shared services with talks from London Connects and Socitm Insight. The meeting was sponsored by SunGard at their offices SunGard Court, 4-5 Paris Garden, London SE1 8ND
including data protection and security (ICO Scotland), data security (Socitm Scotland Security Group), eCare programme (Scottish Government), Nomad project (Glasgow City), Customer First programme (Improvement Service)

Socitm North East has produced an updated prospectus in pdf format setting out its role and position in the region and documenting in diagram form the relationships involved.
including Diagnostic Pathway toolkit (Improvement Service), Improvements in Standardisation (Edinburgh CC), Shared Services (Belfast CC), together with Socitm updates from the Socitm President.
including project and programme management from the sponsors pearcemayfield, Improvement and efficiency partnership (SECE), regional projects and prgrammes (SEEDA), transforming the Fire Service from Neil Moore of Hampshire Fire and Rescue and Socitm business updates on service reviews, Consulting services and the Insight Software Application Index.
A list of the future meeting dates for 2008
2008 meeting dates and locations.
2008 meeting dates (all at Media Resouce Centre Llandrindod)