Northern Ireland ICT Innovation Forum

ICT Forum Members

A&L Goodbody is an all-Island Irish law firm with over 65 partners and 550 staff. In Northern Ireland we are a leading law firm with over 30 staff, including 10 partners. Our Belfast based lawyers, together with colleagues from our Dublin, London and US offices, provide a seamless, fully integrated all-island service to our local, national and international client base. A&L Goodbody provides expert legal advice and experience across every aspect of business and commercial law and our team of ICT specialists have extensive experience advising clients in both the private and public sectors in all areas of IT law, technology transactions, business outsourcing and information governance. Excellence, commercial acumen and a practical approach are hallmarks of our service. The Firm is regularly recognised as “Law Firm of the Year” by such international publications as The Lawyer, Who’s Who Legal, International Financial law Review, and Chambers & Partners.

Contact: Ivan Waide

Tel: 028 9031 4466

Website: www.algoodbody.com

Email: iwaide@algoodbody.com

Arthur Cox is a leading Irish law firm, with offices in Belfast, Dublin, London and New York. The firm’s Technology practice is recognised as one of the foremost in Northern Ireland and advising on all aspects of information technology and e-Commerce law. The practice is augmented by the expertise of Arthur Cox lawyers in the fields of intellectual property, media, telecommunications and data protection. It is an integral part of the firm’s full service Belfast office with a reputation founded upon proven professional skills, a thorough understanding of our client’s requirements and a practical commercial approach.

Arthur Cox acts for indigenous emerging and established companies and major US and European technology companies throughout Northern Ireland, Great Britain and Ireland.

Contact: Alan Taylor (Managing Partner)

Tel: 028 9023 0007

Website: www.arthurcox.com

Email: alan.taylor@arthurcox.com

BT in Ireland helps organisations large and small, corporate and public, Irish and global to thrive through the provision of networked IT services.

In addition, in Northern Ireland, BT is committed to driving broadband based consumer and SME services including BT Vision, Pay TV, Unified Communications etc. while also having responsibility for providing regulated wholesale access to other communication providers.

BT operates across Ireland, north and south. With over 3,000 employees, the company is headquartered in Dublin and Belfast, with offices in Cork, Limerick, Galway and Waterford.

BT’s key priorities are delivering better customer service, transforming its costs, and continually investing for growth in areas that add value to customers.

BT is one of the world’s leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include networked IT services, local, national and international telecommunications services, and higher-value broadband and internet products and services.

Contact: Alayne Kinver (Public Sector Marketing)

Tel: 028 9021 3455

Website: www.btireland.com

Email: alayne.kinver@bt.com

CA is one of the world's largest IT management software providers. Our software and expertise unify and simplify complex IT environments in a secure way across the enterprise for greater business results.

We call this Enterprise IT Management (EITM™) - our clear vision for the future of IT. It's how you can manage systems, networks, security, storage, applications and databases securely and dynamically. You can build on your IT investments, rather than replacing them, and do so at your own pace.

CA serves more than 99% of Fortune 1000© companies, as well as government entities, educational institutions and thousands of other companies in diverse industries worldwide.

Contact: Ken Moran (Account Director)

Tel: 028 9051 1297

Website: www.ca.com

Email: Ken.Moran@ca.com

eircom Northern Ireland is a dynamic, proactive managed communications provider which is transforming the way companies in Northern Ireland do business. Focused on helping government and enterprise organizations achieve maximum business value from their communications infrastructure, eircom NI’s strength of service comes from listening to your business needs, understanding them, and providing the tailored solutions to help you achieve them.

In 2007, eircom was awarded the contract for the £70million Network NI (NNI) project - the powerful new communications platform that has become an important foundation for the successful delivery of shared services across the public service in Northern Ireland. Having successfully completed the implementation phase of the contract, eircom NI is now targeting upcoming business from other parts of the local public sector - including education, local government, criminal justice and health - as well as pushing further into the private sector.

Contact: Bertie Notley (Business Development Manager)

Tel: 028 9000 2112

Website: www.eircomni.co.uk

Email: robert.notley@eircomni.co.uk

Equiniti ICS is one of the UK and Ireland’s leading IT Services and BPO solutions providers. We help public and private sector organisations develop into high performance businesses by transforming your processes and operations, improving your customer service, driving organisational efficiencies and reducing costs. We do this by taking a flexible partnership approach with our clients, working closely with you to define your business objectives.

Equiniti ICS’s success within the IT Services and BPO market is underpinned by an experienced 300 strong workforce. Our expertise can provide you with industry-specific and cross-industry solutions to enable you to focus on your core competences, achieve immediate and sustained cost savings, improve cash flow and drive growth - key priorities into today’s volatile market. We provide a range of solutions covering the areas of:

• HR & Payroll
• Case Management
• Electronic Document Records Management
• Finance & Accounting solutions

Contact: Clare Patterson (Head of Marketing)

Tel: 028 9056 7321

Website: www.equiniti-ics.com

Email:  info@equiniti-ics.com

Fujitsu Services is the world’s 4th largest IT Services Company with revenues of €53Bn globally and over £2Bn revenues in the UK and Ireland. We are a provider of IT based solutions to the global marketplace and are a strategic business partner for the UK Government and Northern Ireland Government.

Fujitsu helps our customers who need to respond to the challenge of planning, delivering and operating IT in a complex and changing business environment. Working with both teams in IT and business departments, we can deliver the best outcomes for our customers. We do this by working with you to identify the most important business outcomes and then work with you to design the programmes of work that will impact the processes, people and technology to deliver those outcomes.

In Northern Ireland Fujitsu employs some 800 people delivering IT Services to Northern Ireland Government and acts as a development and IT Services support centre for customers in the rest of the UK and Europe.

Contact: David Clements (Account Director)

Tel: 028 9047 4200

Website: www.fujitsu.com/uk

Email: david.clements@uk.fujitsu.com

McGrigors LLP is one of the UK's largest law firms with over 800 staff operating from offices in Belfast, London, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. The firm prides itself on being one of the UK's most dynamic legal practices with a focus on finding innovative solutions for our clients and in 2009 we were named by the Financial Times as one of the UK's most innovative law firms. We are the only full service law firm to operate in all three UK jurisdictions and our resources, reputation and business approach mean we can offer clients access to a wide range of legal services with national reach from our offices in Belfast, where our recent merger with Northern Ireland's market leading firm L'Estrange & Brett greatly strengthens our offering in Ireland. Our lawyers have extensive experience in all aspects of IT law and ICT procurements and business outsourcing.

Contact: Adrian Eakin (Partner)

Tel: 028 9089 0620

Website: www.mcgrigors.com

Email: adrian.eakin@mcgrigors.com

Northgate Managed Services is one of Northern Ireland’s Leading IT Companies, providing infrastructure services to both public and private sector organisations and specialist managed services in education, government and utilities sectors across the UK. With over 25 years experience in the IT industry, we service over 2,000 customers and 450,000 IT users right across the UK from our base in Newtownabbey;

• Helping to deliver more responsive and efficient services to citizens
• Supporting more than 380,000 teachers and learners
• Enabling greater alternatives for home, mobile and flexible working
• Simplifying and rationalizing infrastructure, reducing associated costs and risks
• Providing essential peace of mind for business continuity, recovery and security

Our goal is to make IT work harder for our customers, delivering efficiencies and unlocking the potential of IT to transform organisations.

Contact: Eleanor Lee (Head of Marketing)

Tel: 028 9085 9085

Website: www.northgate-is.com

Email: info@northgate-is.com

Sopra Group is a leader in the European consulting and IT services market, with a workforce of over 800 across the UK and Ireland and as a Group, a total workforce of over 12,000 based throughout Europe.

We provide a complete range of Consultancy, Delivery and Support Services, allowing us to offer clients specific areas of expertise, or full end-to-end solutions. By applying both technical skills and consulting techniques, we work with organisations to streamline their business and improve their operational effectiveness.

Sopra Group has a long track record of delivery of IT services and solutions to NI Public Sector. Our Belfast office is Sopra Group’s UK headquarters for our Information Security practice and also our Irish application development, application management, consulting and software testing hub.

Contact: Tom McCann (Head of Northern Ireland)

Tel: 028 9073 5450

Website: www.sopragroup.co.uk

Email: tmccann@uk.sopragroup.com

A European organisation with global reach, Steria delivers IT-enabled business services and processes designed to help our customers operate more efficiently and profitably. We combine an in-depth understanding of our clients’ businesses with expertise in IT and business process outsourcing to develop innovative solutions that address the key operational challenges faced by public and private sector organisations alike.

Our highly collaborative consulting style combined with a flexible integrated approach has been helping clients transform their businesses and focus on what they do best for forty years.

With over 19,000 employees across 16 countries committed to service delivery excellence, Steria has offices in Europe, India, North Africa and SE Asia. Our 2008 revenue was €1.8 billion. 16% of Steria’s capital is owned by its employees. Headquartered in Paris, Steria is listed on the Euronext Paris market.

Contact: Tony Rice (Client Director)

Tel: 028 9082 9702

Website: www.steria.co.uk

Email: tony.rice@steria.co.uk