Case Studies

Custom Probrand Development Readies Large UK Insurance Broker IT Procurement System for Growth

Probrand's Marketplace platform enabled the broker to search for the appropriate items and order them directly in minutes. Proband provisioned its Catalogue Management functionality, allowing the broker to manage which products a user is authorised to purchase.

Nourish Care Levels Up IT Procurement With Probrand Marketplace

Probrand connected Nourish Care with suppliers via its Marketplace platform. It created a personalised catalogue featuring just the handful of products that the company needed to buy on a regular basis.

IT Infrastructure transformation drives productivity at Swanswell

Swanswell had been receiving a high number of support requests from team members experiencing issues with their IT equipment. These problems were affecting productivity and employee morale, and Swanswell wanted to cut these incidents down to a minimum.

Probrand Serves Up Future-Proof IT Environment At Caterfood

In 2019, Caterfood realised it had a problem: it needed to replace its old Sage accounting software. The company had been using a version of the product called Tetra, which Sage no longer supported, running on legacy hardware. The hardware ran Windows Server 2008, which Microsoft was to stop supporting in January 2020.

West Suffolk Council streamlines procurement with the Probrand Marketplace

The team at West Suffolk Council had become aware that the task of procuring IT equipment for both council staff and its partners was taking up a significant amount of the team’s time.

Southend Borough Council Overhauls Laptop Provisioning with Probrand

Overhauls Laptop Provisioning With Probrand. The council needed a more efficient laptop procurement process. Traditionally, each purchase involved quotes from multiple suppliers and selecting based on cost. This took considerable time and effort while making pricing unpredictable. The lengthy approval process also sometimes led to stock availability problems.

Probrand enables Aston Manor to brew success

Probrand’s proactive IT support and disaster recovery unlocks platform for growth. With the company forecasted to grow significantly and its IT Manager moving on, Financial Director James Ellis recognised the business needed a 24/7 IT support function that could do the job of an IT department at a better rate than the outgoing manager.

Probrand Supercharges IT At CCSS Ltd

Probrand implemented a managed backup solution from Infrascale that backed up all systems four times each day, with an hourly backup for Alarm Master.

Calypso Drinks enhances disaster recovery provision with combined iSCSI SAN and virtualisation solution

The firm’s IT infrastructure had evolved over time to comprise 20 PC servers, each one of which had its own Direct Attached Storage and ran a different end user oriented application or database.

Beakbane safeguards future with ERP ready infrastructure upgrade

Probrand delivers enterprise Business Continuity and rationalises Beakbane’s IT infrastructure by 70% with virtualised server and storage environments to support a critical ERP system upgrade.

Ashfield District Council takes a robust, agile approach to data protection

Probrand Ltd has so far delivered 150 licensed Safesticks to Ashfield District Council employees most likely to take data off-site. The USB drives are offered at heavily discounted rates as part of Probrand’s ongoing commitment to supporting the public sector.

BHSF Boosts Business Continuity With Managed Firewall Upgrade

Birmingham Hospital Saturday Fund (BHSF) is a non-profit employee benefits group offering health insurance and occupational health services to 4,000 client businesses and 304,000 policyholders around the UK.

Get public sector specific IT, at the right price, delivered by experts

As a CCS approved supplier, Probrand provides the public sector specialism, technical expertise, reliability and value for money to enable more efficient, complaint and scalable operations.

Cheltenham Borough Council chooses Probrand for IT Procurement

With more than 900 employees and seven satellite offices Cheltenham Borough Council’s Stationery Purchasing Team has to procure thousands of different items every year for its various departments.

Canford school makes the connection

Although Canford School completely rebuilt its local area network from the ground up in 2011, it found its wireless system (WLAN) was unable to cope with the difficulties the estate presented. Two feet wide internal stone walls and large expanses of cricket and football pitches posed significant complications.

Lee and Pembertons improves IT infrastructure for future growth

Lee & Pembertons now has a high-speed solution which can handle significant expansion in the future. The firm has been able to keep its IT maintenance overhead to a minimum by outsourcing support and maintenance to a remote provider.

Digital Technology and IT Services Support : Experts in the digital transformation of healthcare services.

At Probrand, we understand that digital transformation is challenging. That’s why we offer proactive IT support and tailored digital transformation solutions which can ensure that quality care for patients will always come first. We offer a specialist healthcare team with expertise in hardware provision, cyber security, wireless networking, cutting edge mobile solutions and the implementation of AV solutions.

South Lakes Housing improves working flexibility with rapid cloud migration

With up to 80 of its 125 staff regularly working remotely in the field, SLH’s IT team needed to improve the flexible working options available to the organisation’s employees. The team wanted to create an environment that would enable staff to work remotely and on multiple devices, while still having access to their emails.

Trusted Partner Probrand Provides Rock-Solid Support for BrightBridge Solutions’ Customers

BrightBridge Solutions encountered Probrand when the Midlands-based IT support and consulting company was working with an existing BrightBridge customer. It was so impressed with Probrand’s operation that it began referring hardware support contracts to the company.

From car seats to the cloud: The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals excels at business continuity with Probrand

When your whole disaster recovery solution relies on a small cassette lying on someone’s car seat, you know it’s time to up your game. Torsten Roesler, IT co-ordinator at the Institute, explains that it traditionally used a tape-based backup system that relied on him taking the data home.

Marketplace innovation delivers delegated procurement to keep Fieldfisher running during the pandemic

The marketplace enabled the procurement team to set employee spend limits and curate a bespoke catalogue hat only Fieldfisher employees could access, including monitors, chairs, and keyboards.

Probrand IT Support Inspires Confidence at Surveyor Cullum Morris Powles

Emma White has a difficult job on her hands. As PA to the busy founders of quantity surveyor Cullum Morris Powles (CMP), her daily workload was busy enough. To compound matters, all the company’s IT problems land at her door.

Probrand Engineers a Smooth Move for Sale Rugby Club with a site move, IT support and managed security services

Founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club, Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club based in Greater Manchester. It is one of the oldest English rugby clubs and currently plays at the AJ Bell Stadium in Manchester, which has a capacity of 12,000.

Probrand Pursues Excellence in Healthcare with Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Linda was impressed with Probrand’s professionalism in sourcing and supplying the products that it prompted her to contact Probrand for support with a sensitive procurement problem.

Midland Heart streamlines procurement with Probrand

A Midlands-based housing association, Midland Heart manages more than 33,000 affordable homes on behalf of 70,000 customers. Its IT team, which includes a team of 8 technical analysts and Technical Service Team Leader Rob Cross, supports more than 1,600 staff who manage this operation.

Reliance Precision streamlines procurement with the Probrand Marketplace

Reliance Precision is a specialist engineering company providing custom-built, high reliability, precision instrumentation to customers from a range of global markets. The procurement team is responsible for purchasing IT equipment which supports approximately 250 users located across two main sites.

The 2gether NHS Foundation Trust – remote access solution

The 2gether NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of mental and social healthcare in Gloucestershire. The organisation operates out of 99 sites and is split into five clinical Strategic Service Units, employing about 2,000 staff who deliver services to more than 570,000 unique individuals.

Coffee Republic brews success with integrated cloud and on-premises infrastructure

Within the first two months Coffee Republic recognised the considerable impact of Probrand’s marketplace, saving nearly a quarter of normal day- to-day operating time and 5% of the normal monthly spend on IT products.

Mears Group streamlines IT
procurement with Probrand Marketplace

Gaining access to lower IT product prices was Mears Group’s initial concern but the procurement team has found several additional benefits from using the Probrand Marketplace.

D-Link provides peace of mind at Heathfield

Network manager Lee Geering turned to Probrand, a UK leader in end-to-end IT provision and a trusted partner with whom the college has enjoyed a nine and a half year relationship.

District Council delivers better services from the desktop for less

Large District Council providing hundreds of services from multiple sites with a network of 80 servers supporting over 250 end users.

MO Holdings upgrades IT infrastructure

“This managed service has reduced the number of times our IT system impacts on the business increasing our uptime to over 99%. When we do have down time it is no longer hours, it’s minutes. "

Anne Sendall Group relocates and manages IT infrastructure

Founded by a former Midlands Business Woman of the Year, Anne Sendall Group specialises in the design and merchandising of show homes for major national and regional house builders.

The Works tames its infrastructure With Probrand's Outsourcing Service

Probrand had supplied The Works with hardware and software for 20 years, and the retailer quickly included it in a shortlist of three incumbent suppliers for its infrastructure service.

Giving the 'voice of nursing' secure, reliable and faultless remote network access

In 2010, a routine audit of the organisation's IT infrastructure identified that additional levels of authentication were required regarding remote access.

How The Children’s Family Trust secured their IT systems

The Children’s Family Trust was facing a number of IT challenges, following a period of rapid growth. This included supporting the flexible working requirements of staff across the country, while also ensuring all sensitive data relating to fostering was kept safe.

H2E engages Probrand for cyber security services

The Health 2 Employment Group comprises two distinct entities, OH One, the trading named corporate division, with a growing and enviable reputation for providing SEQOHS accredited occupational health and wellbeing services

Probrand Powers Whitetower Energy Transition With Seamless IT Services

Formerly known as Rolls Royce Power Development, Whitetower supports 40 + employees across its entire operation, most of which are technical and operations that operate and maintain the power plants.

Waingels College takes back control with Probrand's Marketplace

Probrand was able to source replacement technology and IT infrastructure at the lowest possible price by utilising the buying power of our digital marketplace..

Leicester Grammar achieves seamless infrastructure upgrade

The school needed to replace its virtual server and storage infrastructure. The eight year-old environment ran 14 VMware virtual hosts on Dell PowerEdge servers and a Dell MD3200 storage array. It was coming to the end of its life, explains IT manager James.

Arden University deliver a high-quality learning experience with Probrand

Arden University is a higher education institution with approximately 10,000 students. It focuses on providing access to flexible learning for ambitious students of all ages around the world and provides a mixture of distance (online) and on-campus teaching services at five UK sites and one in Berlin.

Westfield College shaves days off procurement time with Probrand's Marketplace

The procurement process for IT equipment at Westfield Arts College had become a frustrating, time consuming process.

Platform Housing adopts Probrand Marketplace to streamline IT procurement

The Midlands-based housing association, which owns and manages over 47,000 homes, has adopted the platform as part of a move to digitalise procurement processes, saving time and money compared with traditional ways of working.