Brightsolid Corporate Brochure

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brightsolid evolved from Scotland Online, a highly successful internet services company established in 1995.

brightsolid takes the proven products and services of Scotland Online and drives them forward in new and creative ways. The results are robust, resilient and powerful online services devised by open and innovative minds. In our book, it’s not enough to merely keep up with the times. We must keep ahead of them.

Innovation Cubed Like our cube, brightsolid has many facets.

Network security

.Net / Java / PHP

Hosting

Workplace recovery

findmypast.com

Infrastructures

Apache / IIS

Connectivity

DR hosting

ScotlandsPeople

Virtualisation

DB2 / Oracle / MySQL

Security

BC consulting

1911 Census

Databases

Interwoven TeamSite

Business continuity Project management

brightsolid is a business critical ISP. We manage our clients’ information availability and online presence through hosting, internet access, applications and business continuity products and services.

brightsolid sets great store in the relationships we build with clients. That’s why support is more than an add on. Our comprehensive and competitive service level agreements are carefully constructed with your input to give you peace of mind. And our ITIL certified service managers are your voice within brightsolid. They understand your business, your needs and technical issues. So even in a technical world, with brightsolid support you’ll always be talking to a human being. Behind the bright minds that power our thinking is a rock solid resource. We operate our own data centre, designed and built in the last few years so we don’t face the legacy challenges of older data centres. This is underpinned by a resilient and secure network with dual location and disaster recovery options. brightsolid has an impressive list of partners who share our vision, values and company ethos. We are a Microsoft Gold Partner, an Oracle Partner and our disaster recovery services are provided in partnership with SunGard, a global leader in this field. As befits a company that is constantly looking forward, at brightsolid we take our environmental responsibilities very seriously. We are ISO14001 certified, which is the standard designed to help organisations implement an effective environmental management system.

Network security Infrastructures Virtualisation Databases Business continuity Project management

According to a recent Gartner survey, as many as 65% of all IT implementations either fail to meet planned objectives or are brought in over budget. Deloitte has more bad news. Budgets are as tight as ever and business expects ever more, for ever less, from IT. If this brings you out in a cold sweat a meeting of minds might be in order. brightsolid minds to be precise.

Minds is the consulting arm of brightsolid. Our certified consultants have a wide range of expertise across all major platforms, applications and hardware. Step one involves working with you to understand and define your requirements. It’s a partnership approach that rigorously examines all IT related areas of your business. Step two is to draw up a detailed scope of works that identifies the deliverables and how we will deliver them. Step three is implementation, project managed by a certified PRINCE2 practitioner to make sure all expectations are met, on time and on budget. If you want to avoid being a statistic in the next IT survey, meeting our minds could be a wise move.

.Net / Java / PHP Apache / IIS DB2 / Oracle / MySQL Interwoven TeamSite

Applications is the area where brightsolid’s creativity really starts to shine.

Our knowledge and innovation are brought to bear in the delivery of applications for high volume, high availability, high performance websites. brightsolid has the skill-set and know-how to build scalable applications running on complex, resilient infrastructures working across multiple systems on different platforms. Our experience lies in operating enterprise-class applications handling terabytes of data and millions of transactions. It’s the sort of challenge our experts relish; high level thinking which has a direct impact on a company’s performance.

Hosting

Connectivity

Security

Virtualisation

MPLS

Managed firewall

Dedicated

National ethernet

Managed VPN

Managed

Business SDSL / ADSL

Content filtering

Enterprise co-location

Multi site VPN

Network security consulting

Storage

ATLAS

brightsolid structures form the foundations of everything we do.

Structures splits into three areas. Hosting: Our hosting services are designed to keep your business critical applications available in line with your business needs 24/7. Whether virtualised server facilities or highly sophisticated networks, you never need worry about your infrastructure. Fully managed and hosted in our data centre, we’ll provide the equipment, set it up, monitor and back it up for you. Connectivity: brightsolid business connectivity can be stand-alone or part of a hosting infrastructure, ranging from business broadband to the latest optical fibre technologies, brightsolid’s resilient network is based on diverse paths and multiple telecoms providers.

Security: Online security is a time consuming business, not to mention a specialist one. brightsolid can develop a bespoke security service package that will manage, maintain and optimise your networks’ security. Working with you, not against you, with brightsolid structures you’re ‘always on’.

Workplace recovery DR hosting BC consulting

The future is an uncertain place. Who knows what lies around the corner? Your neighbour’s building catches fire, restricting access to your premises for days or even weeks. Your IT infrastructure crashes or a key supplier goes into liquidation. Would you be prepared?

That’s what business continuity is all about. Organisations that have invested in and tested their business continuity capability are far more likely to survive the effects of an incident. brightsolid’s experienced and MBCI qualified consultants can help you set up and manage a business continuity capability now, for whatever disruption might occur in the future. We’ll carry out a complete audit, then train and mentor key staff to develop strategic, tactical and operational business continuity plans. A crucial issue is data loss through software and hardware failure, or even human error. Put bluntly it can prove disastrous. That’s why more and more organisations are seeing the importance of storing business critical information off-site. Our data centre provides data hosting in a secure and resilient environment. The four workplace recovery suites can seat 100 workers. So if you lose access to your office you can relocate to the data centre easily and efficiently. brightsolid’s IT disaster recovery services are provided in partnership with SunGard, a global leader in disaster recovery. It’s a powerful combination that ensures it’s business as usual through any eventuality. Put simply, by thinking the unthinkable, we build resilience in to your organisation.

findmypast.com ScotlandsPeople 1911 Census

brightsolid’s customers come from all industry sectors, private and public. However, on occasion, we become our own client.

Ventures is the division of brightsolid that invests in and implements new internet business opportunities. For example, we partner with the General Register Office for Scotland on www.ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. A pay-per-view e-commerce site, it allows customers to search and obtain genealogical information over the Internet. The site contains search facilities to access data for 50 million names with more than 30 million scanned images of the original paper records. Over three quarters of a million registered users search the site to access these records. In 2007, brightsolid began a partnership with The National Archives to put the 1911 census for England and Wales online. The 1911 census records currently occupy two kilometres of shelving, with information relating to over 36 million people. Most recently brightsolid acquired findmypast.com. A leading family history website, it dovetails perfectly with ScotlandsPeople to serve millions of family history enthusiasts worldwide. findmypast.com offers access to over 500 million records dating as far back as 1538. This allows family historians and novice genealogists to search for their ancestors among comprehensive collections of records. These include military records, census, migration, occupation directories, and current electoral roll data, as well as the original comprehensive birth, marriage and death records. At brightsolid, when we talk experience, technical know-how and innovative thinking we practice what we preach.

brightsolid Gateway House Luna Place Technology Park Dundee DD2 1TP T. +44 (0)1382 429000 F. +44 (0)1382 429001 E. [email protected] Sales Enquiries. 0800 027 2027

www.brightsolid.com

Innovative online thinking that delivers high volume, high availability, high performance internet products and services.