Northern Ireland ICT Innovation Forum

Previous ICT Forum Members

A&L Goodbody is one of Ireland's premier law firms. Our Belfast-based lawyers, together with colleagues from our Dublin, London and US offices, provide a seamless, fully integrated 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 and business outsourcing, as well as intellectual property 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.

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: Thomas Kendall (Senior Marketing Executive)

Tel: 028 9056 7370

Website: www.equiniti-ics.com

Email:  thomas.kendall@equiniti-ics.com

HP Enterprise Services provides applications, business process, and infrastructure technology outsourcing services, consulting, and support to more than 1,700 business and government clients in 90 countries. As one of the largest segments of HP, we leverage the breadth of our extended portfolio to offer the most comprehensive end-to-end IT services. HP Enterprise Services delivers business outcomes as a service, providing the people, ideas, business processes, and technology to help you focus your investments on the results you need. We help enterprises become more productive, innovative, and secure so they can grow - or for governments, more efficiently deliver services to citizens. To help achieve these outcomes, we utilize our BestShore® delivery strategy, making processes more consistent, increasing availability of systems and resources, and improving run performance globally.

HP creates new possibilities for technology to have a meaningful impact on people, businesses, governments and society. The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at http://www.hp.com.

Contact: Brian Hurley (Enterprise Services Director, HP Ireland)

Tel: 028 9056 7321

Website: http://welcome.hp.com/

Email:  b.hurley@hp.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

PwC is one of the world's pre-eminent professional service organisations. We help our clients solve complex business problems and aim to enhance their ability to build value, manage risk and improve performance. We provide industry-focused assurance, tax and advisory services to enhance value for our clients. More than 163,000 people in 151 countries in firms across the PwC network share their thinking, experience and solutions to develop fresh perspectives and practical advice. Our Belfast-based Technology practice is the UK firm's Centre of Excellence delivering solutions to a broad range of domestic and overseas clients in the public and private sectors.

We have 100 Consultants specialising in providing:

• Oracle application consulting
• Data management and related services
• Business Intelligence services
• Technology services (strategy, enterprise architecture and sourcing advise)
• A range of supporting procurement project and programme management consulting.

The Northern Ireland practice has established itself as a key PwC service hub for the Irish and UK Markets and, along with the wider practice, aims to more than double Technology resources by 2013.

Contact: David Coates (Associate partner)

Tel: 028 9024 5454

Website: www.pwc.co.uk/ni

Email: david.coates@uk.pwc.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