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SCC has won the HPE UK and Ireland ‘Everything as a Service’ Partner of the Year 2018 award.   The accolade was presented to the SCC team in Las Vegas at HPE’s Global Partner Summit. The award recognises SCC’s fantastic services capability and its partnership with HPE.   SCC was shown to have made a...

SCC and NHS Dumfries & Galloway have been nominated for a Digital Leaders 100 award in the Digital Team of the Year category. The event, which launched in 2013, has become the premier list identifying individuals and teams leading digital transformation in the UK. It consists of leaders and organisations who are pioneering change within the...

An expert has warned that the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) may cause businesses to pay ransom demands from criminals as they could be a cheaper option when compared with GDPR fines. George Kurtz, chief executive of ­cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, said that “the price of admission of ransomware just went up” after the introduction of...

The Birmingham PA Forum has released the shortlist for the region’s inaugural PA Awards. Fay Gleeson, Executive Personal Assistant to SCC’s Chief Executive James Rigby, is up for Greater Birmingham’s PA of the Year. 25 individuals from across Birmingham have been announced as finalists, with winners to be crowned at the awards ceremony taking place...

Europe’s largest independent IT services business has been heavily investing in the Birmingham area. SCC, which is owned by the Rigby Group, has largely invested in charity partner The Prince’s Trust, allowing for a brand new hub in Birmingham City Centre. The Rigby Foundation Charitable Trust invests in causes relating to lifelong learning, health and...

SCC is set to discuss digitisation in Health on Sky digital channel 185. The programme, ‘Digitalisation of Healthcare’, will feature SCC’s Branch Manager for Healthcare and Local Government, James Wallis, who will talk around some of the services SCC offers and how they can in turn impact this discussion. The half-hour programme is set to...

Data published by G-Cloud’s governing body, Crown Commercial Service (CCS), shows SCC as having achieved the highest revenue through the framework in 2018 so far. According to Computer Reseller News (CRN) who analysed the data, SCC achieved revenue of £1.8m, ranking it number 1 for the first quarter of 2018. In terms of the channel,...

SCC has been recognised as a finalist for two esteemed IT award ceremonies. The awards, the National Technology Awards and Real IT Awards, will happen on Thursday 17th May, and SCC is an honoured finalist at each. At the National Technology Awards, SCC is up for Cloud Product of the Year due to its work...

SCC, Europe’s largest independent IT services business, has announced the acquisition of Hobs On-Site Limited. Hobs On-Site are the business processing outsource division of the Hobs Group. The new business will be renamed M2 Managed Document Services and sit alongside M2, SCC’s existing specialist Managed Print Services (MPS) business. M2 was acquired in 2014 by...

SCC has become one of only five organisations in the UK that has been awarded the CAS (S) certification by the UK government. It’s a notable achievement, highlighting our capabilities in handling highly sensitive information by giving SCC the authority to handle and process classified government data. SCC’s Barry Mitchell (Supply Chain Sales Manager) and...

SCC’s Video Analytics solution – to be deployed across more than 40 police forces in the UK – includes pioneering Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning capabilities. East Midlands Strategic Commercial Unit, the procurement specialists working on behalf of the UK police forces, have awarded a contract for post-event video forensics and analysis to SCC. The...