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Business Systems Group
Industry IT Managed Services
Founded Incorporated in 1987
Headquarters London, UK
Key people Vin Murria (CEO), Nick Gerard (Executive Chairman), Neil Cross (Managing Director)[1]
Products Managed Services, IT Outsourcing, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing, Software Development, Business Intelligence.
Parent Advanced Computer Software PLC (AIM:ASW)
Website www.bsg.co.uk

Business Systems Group Ltd (BSG) provides outsourced IT managed services, software development and business intelligence services to the commercial, not for profit, health and public sector markets.

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Operations

BSG is based on City Road in London. Incorporated in 1987 and acquired by Advanced Computer Software Plc (Advanced) in 2009[2] BSG has approximately 120 employees and as part of Advanced, BSG have substantial cash reserves and the group contracts with over 7000 customers and has over 50% contracted annuity revenue. BSG customers include: Association of Accounting Technicians, Cazenove Capital Markets, Charles Stanley Stock Brokers, Enrich Reward Ltd, High Speed 1, Morgan Sindall Plc, Newspaper Licensing Association, and Vail Williams LLP.

History

1987

Business Systems Group formed by Phil Buckingham and Nick Gerard.

2000

Purchased Webgenerics Ltd, a provider of hosting and ASP software[3]. Floated on the London Stock Exchange as Business Systems Group Holdings Plc July as a constituent of the TechMark Index, raising £15m to finance the ongoing development of the group. Nick Gerard becomes CEO of the new Plc.

2001

Purchased the Experience Design team of Atomic Tangerine[4] to extend user experience capabilities of the consulting practice.

2004

Acquisition of the managed hosting and IT maintenance services of GNS Europe Ltd.[5]

2008

Appoint Vin Murria as Non Executive Chairman

2009

BSG acquired by Advanced Computer Software Plc to focus on managed services, application development and SaaS. Neil Cross announced as Managing Director, Nick Gerard becomes Executive Chairman.

Awards, accreditations and memberships

  • Finalists for the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award in Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, Exchange Migration and Deployment.[6]
  • ISO27001, Information Security Management System accredited.
  • ISO 14001, Environmental Management System accredited.
  • ISO9001, Quality Assurance accredited.
  • TickIT, quality-management certification program for software development accredited.[7]
  • Member of the National Outsourcing Association[8]
  • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with 6 Competencies across their two main focus areas of application development solutions and core IT systems infrastructure.
  • HP Gold Certified Partner with the HP Authorised Service Partner (ASP) specialisation, focussing on commercial clients, servers and storage.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ Key People at BSG
  2. ^ Article showing the purchase of BSG by Advanced Computer Software Plc
  3. ^ Net Imperarive Article discussing BSG's ownership of Webgenerics Ltd
  4. ^ Articles discussing BSG purchase of Atomic Tangerine
  5. ^ Article outlining details of BSG's purchase of GNS Europe Ltd
  6. ^ 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Finalists
  7. ^ TickIT certified company list in PDF format
  8. ^ NOA Directory showing BSG
  9. ^ HP Gold Certified Partner

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