JISC

Higher Education & Local Authority Shared Service (HELASS)

University of Plymouth Plymouth City Council, Serco

 To jointly explore and pilot the possibilities of cutting costs, improving service quality and efficiency by sharing and integrating their ICT infrastructure and support service provision for back-office (finance, HR) and front-end facilities, and through co-working, joint procurements, sharing of knowledge and resource rationalization.
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 Roger Hall

 Live

Shared Aggregation of Labour Market Information (SALAMI)

University of Nottingham Aimhigher in the East Midlands, New College Nottingham, Derby College

To deliver a streamlined and shared service LMI solution in the cloud (“IT-as-a-service”) for learners, employees and institutions
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 Kirstie Coolin

 Live

Kindura

Kings College London Science and Technologies Facilities Council, DuraSpace

 To pilot the use of a shared service provision via a hybrid cloud solution for repository-focused services for researchers.
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 Mark Hedges

 Live

Flexible Services for the Support of Research (FleSSR)

University of Oxford University of Reading, Eduserv, Eoverl, Eucalyptus Systems Inc, Canonocal Ltd

 To develop a public-private Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud solution for the on-demand provision of computational and data resources in support of research
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 David Wallom

 Live

Bloomsbury Media Cloud

Birbeck College IoE, SoP, SOAS, LSHTM, RVC

 To create a shared digital media platform, which will provide the facility to electronically distribute a range of media content through radio, podcast and videocasts,
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 Sarah Sherman

 Live

Intelligent Decision Support in HE (IDS-HE)

Thames Valley University

To scopes the demand and requirements for, and possible solutions to, an Intelligent Decision Support in HE (IDS-HE) as a shared service to the sector.
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Samia Oussena

Live

FSD in FE

North Hertfordshire College City College Norwich, The College of West Anglia, SHM

To investigate the practicalities of a Further Education College operating certain finance functions and activities through a shared service solution.

Paul Gillooly

Complete

To develop an electronic Individual Learning Plan (ILP) system. The system will not only be for the traditional purposes of a learning plan but centralise data in one location, providing knowledge and understand for each institutions stakeholders. GLOSS (Global Learning One Stop Shop) will enable each stakeholder to see the tailored information that they need in their role. It will be an evolution of existing quality systems that each consortia partner already possess.

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