IT Managers Forum, 29th November 2011
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The first IT Managers Forum for the 2011/2012 academic year was held at the Wolverhampton Science Park on 29th November 2011.
Facilitators' details
- Richard Mapperley, IT Manager, The Sixth Form College, Solihull
- Kevin Sharp, Customer Engagement: South West and West Midlands, JANET(UK) (kevin.sharp@ja.net)
- Carl Johnson, National Procurement Manager, Association of Colleges (carl_johnson@aoc.co.uk)
Facilitators' resources
- The Greening of IT at Solihull College - Richard Mapperley
- Efficiency Savings through Collaborative Procurement and Shared Services - Carl Johnson
- A Guide to Collaborative Procurement - Carl Johnson
- Telecoms Buying Solutions - Carl Johnson
JANET information from Kevin Sharp:
- JANET BCE Implementation Guide http://www.ja.net/services/bce/bce.html
- There is a new JANET Eligibility Policy and the JANET Acceptable Use Policy has been updated to align to this new policy.
- A Guide to Managing State Aid Issues
- Gamma connects with the Janet network to help education and local authorities reduce costs
- JANET brokering the Cloud
Additional links and resources
- Association of Colleges web-site
- Association of Colleges FE Library - Procurement (FELP) web-site
- Open Source Procurement Toolkit
- Coraid Ethernet SAN - link provided by Richard Lodge, City of Wolverhampton College
