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One of the benefits of NCC membership is access to the wealth of experience and knowledge held by the Membership Community. If you are a Member of the National Computing Centre and you have a question you would like to put to your peers please contact us at:

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Member Question: Desktop Virtualisation and Green IT - 09 Dec 2009

Results of NCC Member Question Issued 27 November 2009We plan to move our Trading Room to another building. Currently we have conventional PCs rack mounted in a comms room with a small remote box (connected to the PC over ethernet cable) on the traders desks providing display, k/board and mouse ... read more..

Member Question: Visual Foxpro - 17 Nov 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 10 November 2009 One of our Directors has come across a package written in Visual Foxpro and is keen to implement. The package would have to support up to 250 users and I have concerns about its scaleability and fitness for purpose in ... read more..

Member Question: Secure Citizen Interaction on the Web - 17 Nov 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 11th September 2009 We are looking to implement a technical solution capable of providing secure citizen interaction over the web. The solution should allow the organisation to deploy secure web transactions via our web site, capture and provide sensitive information over the web, and identify and ... read more..

Member Question: Project Management Office - 18 Sep 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 25th February 2009'A member is interested in talking to any organisation that is setting up (or has set up) a Project Management Office, about their approach to setting up templates for project documentation, tools used, and whether the organisation is using existing staff or ... read more..

Member Question: Migrating from Lotus Notes to Sharepoint - 30 Jun 2009

Issued 30th June 09 We are currently looking to migrate a considerable amount of data, workflows and forms from Lotus Notes into Sharepoint (MOSS 2007) and were wondering if any other NCC member had already carried out such an exercise and if so, could share their experience in terms of ... read more..

Member Question: Replacement service desk call logging system - 05 Jun 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 5th June 2009We're looking at the possibility of replacing our Service Desk Call Logging System, and were looking at polling the NCC membership to see if there are any systems out there that are being used in earnest, that NCC members would be happy ... read more..

Member Question: Scanning and document management - 29 May 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 29th May 2009'We have a need to scan document sets (TIFF or PDF formats) that represents small billable jobs (our maintenance division provides a reactive maintenance service for various clients supporting their property portfolio in the maintenance of building fabric) and link them to ... read more..

Member Question: ITIL and Service Catalogue implementation - 07 Apr 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 7th April 2009Kate Rouse 'We are currently implementing ITIL and are beginning to look at a Service Catalogue for the department. What would be useful is if any other NCC members have already done this and what advice they could give us along with ... read more..

Member Question: Network cabling & comms - 19 Mar 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 19th March 2009Michael Dean 'A fellow member is looking for a company to carry out network cabling comms room work for a nationwide network of branch offices. Typical work would be cat5 cabling, installation of uninterruptible power supplies and comms room moves etc. ... read more..

Member Question: Live, test and development environments - 04 Mar 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 4th March 2009We are looking for an organisation that separates out live, test and development environments and performs structured progression through these stages of development.Can the NCC suggest a suitable organisation who would be willing to host a visit from staff here and talk ... read more..

Member Question: Single firewall vendor - 25 Feb 2009

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 25th February 2009A member is looking to replace its current DMZ infrastructure and is seriously considering adopting a single firewall vendor approach as recommended by a trusted partner and Gartner. The latter's view is that Enterprises should standardize on one firewall platform to minimize ... read more..

Member Question: Network performance - 02 Dec 2008

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 2nd December 2008The member concerned runs a campus consisting of 3 sites linked together by 4MB fibre optic cables. Outside the campus there are 6 additional sites linked by 2MB internet/adsl connections. Whilst users within the campus are happy with network performance, users from ... read more..

Member Question: Invoice scanning vendor - 18 Nov 2008

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 18th November 2008'We are currently looking to change our invoice scanning vendor and I was wondering if other members had any feedback on vendors they are using or vendors they may have experience of using.'Number of responses: 23Please note that these are responses from ... read more..

Member Question: Testing software - 28 Sep 2008

Results of NCC Member Question: Issued 30th September 2008'We are considering whether or not some testing software would benefit our organisation. We currently develop most of our applications in-house and it has been suggested that much time can be saved by such an approach. I have had a demo of ... read more..

 

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