With the Chancellor’s cost-cutting measures in the pipeline, organizations in both the public and private are slowly coming to the realization that cutting everything is necessarily the answer.

In fact, they realize that they need to invest in improving efficiency in order to make real long-term cost savings.

There are tangible and achievable savings and other benefits that enterprises can achieve if they implement a common and controlled information environment. At Bramble.cc, we’ve put together a report structure that can quantify real benefits from having such an environment in place. In our experience, it is possible to reveal at least 5% annual efficiency savings within an organization.

Whilst recognising today’s difficult economic environment, enterprises need to be bullish about investing short-term for medium- to long-term gain. To put together a benefits quantification report costs £5,000 (up to 500 employees) or £10,000 (more than 500 employees), excluding expenses and VAT. The report details efficiency and cost saving measures, identified from discovery and user interviews, and highlights where they can be achieved.

At Bramble.cc, we’ve decided to put our money where our mouth is. If our report doesn’t reveal tangible and achievable annual efficiency savings of at least 5% of the operational costs of the knowledge-based part of an organization, we simply won’t charge for it.

Today there is pressure on organizations to cut costs, by maybe 10-20% over the next year or two. The question is: where are those savings going to come from? Answer: through implementing a common and controlled information management environment.

The fact is, in the information age, most large organizations spend an inordinate amount of time creating, reading, manipulating, storing and sharing documents and other data. They are knowledge-based or, to be more accurate, information-based.

You would think, therefore, that they would regard information as their most important asset. Wrong. Instead the focus is on other resources, such as people or equipment, information technology and possibly individual items of information.

People are often left to their own devices, teams don’t collaborate effectively and information is simply not managed on an enterprise-wide basis.

This is a serious failure of management. What needs to happen is that an organization must be re-engineered around its information, which needs to be understood, categorized, standarized, structured – and above all, controlled. Only then can an enterprise fully realize both cost and efficiency benefits.

No organization should embark on an information management project unless it can realize significant benefits. The questions are: what benefits can be achieved, what will be the value of these benefits and how can they be achieved?

Whilst benefits realization is key, actually identifying and measuring the benefits of information management initiatives can be difficult.

In the work that we do with clients we regularly find as many as 25 distinct benefits to support business cases for information management projects, and we have a checklist of over 50. Every benefit is measurable and almost all are expressed in monetary terms – the value that the project will deliver to the organization.

The discipline of benefits realization ensures that projects and programmes deliver what they promise: it provides focus, demonstrates value-for-money, reduces the risk of failure and maximizes the benefits eventually achieved.

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Bramble.cc Limited awarded multiple Lots on Software Application Solutions framework agreement from Buying Solutions

Bramble.cc is delighted to announce it is now a successful supplier on the Software Application Solutions framework agreement from Buying Solutions.

This has been won as a consortium, with Bramble.cc as the prime contractor, and consortium members: Apto Solutions, C&C Technology Consulting, DHC, Hugh Symons Information Management, Sourcewrite, and Toplevel Computing.

This extends our service offering and adds to the existing Buying Solutions framework agreement for ICT Consultancy & Delivery Services. The new framework is a replacement for the Specialist Solutions – Applications Solutions framework, on which Bramble.cc was also a supplier under the EDRM Lot.

Bramble.cc can supply the following services through the new Software Application Solutions framework agreement:

• Customer/Citizen Relationship Management and Case Management Solutions
• Document and Records Management Solutions
• Web Design and Content Management Services

Procurement

Public sector organisations can procure easily from suppliers on the framework agreement safe in the knowledge that a fully EU-compliant procurement process has been followed.

“The framework agreement awarded by Buying Solutions recognises and demonstrates that Bramble.cc has the expertise and dedication to provide leading software application solutions and services to our clients. It confirms our place as one of the best delivery providers in the UK.” Richard Archer – Managing Director, Bramble.cc

Consortium partners

The Bramble.cc consortium members are:

• Apto Solutions – template-based applications such as output management and transformation and electronic forms-based workflow
• C&C Technology Consulting – ICT consultancy in authentication, SOA, networks, telecommunications, architecture, secure networks, business continuity, data management.
• DHC – client relationship projects relating to both conventional CRM (customer relationship management) and also transactional interaction at a client/case level.
• Hugh Symons Information Management – providing scanning services.
• Sourcewrite – complete content management systems and web solutions from branding, through web design, planning, to implementation and support.
• Toplevel Computing – providing secure interactive solutions delivered over the web or intranet.

“We take partnering very seriously, and look forward to continuing to work with our specialist partners to deliver a wide range of software application solutions to the UK public sector. Our partners do make the difference.” Roland Cunningham – Partner Manager, Bramble.cc

About Buying Solutions

Buying Solutions is an Executive Agency of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) in the Treasury. As the national procurement partner for UK public services, it enables customers to improve value for money and efficiency.

About Bramble.cc

Bramble.cc is the UK’s leading independent specialist in information management. Bramble.cc transforms organizations to focus properly on their information. This begins by re-designing and improving the structure of a client’s information, then implementing a programme of change to realign the business and its people with its information, involving technology as necessary. This management-of-change approach results in consistency, standardization, control and integration of information.

Please click here to go to our main Buying Solutions supplier page, which describes the frameworks and our services in more detail.

For more information on how Bramble.cc can help your business, email contact@bramble.cc or call 020 7735 0030.

With a fully integrated information management strategy, utilities companies can manage information and business processes better while connecting these assets with other applications, such as ERP and financial systems, across the enterprise.

Bramble.cc enables utilities companies to:

• Simplify and unify the enterprise information architecture with a single solution
• Provide timely and accurate sharing of information and business processes
• Better manage core business applications, such as management of change, plant and asset life cycle management

Address the requirements of regulatory compliance.

Clients

Our clients in utilities include:

• Northumbrian Water Ltd
• Southern Water Services Ltd

In the face of relentless competitive pressure, the core business activities of engineering and telecommunications companies must be managed as efficiently as possible.

Bramble.cc helps these companies address key business imperatives by:

• Effectively integrating diverse information sources and systems to achieve a greater return on investment
• Improving how information is managed and shared
• Improving the customer experience
• Reducing problem resolution time
• Reducing customer service costs
• Increasing operational efficiency and reducing operational expenses
• Complying with evolving industry and governmental regulations

Clients

Our clients in engineering and telecommunications include:

• BT Group plc
• Rio Tinto plc
• WS Atkins plc

Faces with many challenges, including globalisation, consolidation, the transport industry is seeking ways to enable more efficient and flexible operations, improve security and ensure compliance with industry and governmental directives.

Bramble.cc’s information management solutions enable them to meet these challenges and:

• More effectively manage high volumes of technical and other documents
• Significantly improve the efficiency of their operations across geographical and departmental barriers
• Accelerate the contract development, negotiation and review process
• Comply with evolving local and global industry and governmental regulations
• Improve the management of maintenance, operations and repair processes.

Clients

Our clients in transport include:

• British Transport Police
• Department for Transport
• Driving Standards Agency
• Highways Agency
• Jet2.com
• London Ambulance Service
• NATS
• Office of Rail Regulation
• Translink
• Transport for London
• London Fire & Emergency Planning Authority

With a fully integrated information management strategy, banks and financial institutions can manage information better and accelerate business processes while reducing costs associated with risk management and regulatory compliance mandates.

Bramble.cc empowers banks and other financial services institutions to:

• Streamline how information is shared and accessed
• Increase productivity and reduced operational costs
• Lower costs of meeting regulatory compliance
• Improve risk management
• Improve customer service levels

Clients

Our clients in banking and financial services include:

• Bank of England
• Eiger Systems Limited
• Financial Services Authority
• HBOS plc
• The MDU

Since it is the job of media companies to impart information, they need to have in place the very best information management processes.

Bramble.cc helps media companies to be at the forefront of information management,
enabling them to:

• Implement effective information management strategies
• Improve efficiency and productivity
• Reduce paperwork and costs
• Meet regulatory compliance.

Clients

Our media clients include:

• British Library
• Tate
• Teachers’ TV
• UK Film Council

Whilst charities, housing associations, professional bodies, societies, and other not-for-profit organisations don’t face the same pressures as, say, commercial organisations, they nonetheless have to have effective information management strategies in place to maximise the effectiveness of their operations.

Bramble.cc works with these organisations to help them:

• Improve efficiency and productivity
• Reduce paperwork and costs
• Implement effective information management strategies
• Meet regulatory compliance.

Clients

Our clients for charities, housing associations, professional bodies, and other societies include:

• Barnardo’s
• British Dental Association
• The Law Society
• Records Management Society
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
• Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA)
• Thames Valley Housing Association
• World ORT