Barrachd Continues Expansion.

We are pleased to announce we have recently expanded the team, we have added two new faces to our sales team, and have also added two new consultants to our Analytics team as we continue to develop our solutions portfolio.

Colin Cochrane has joined us as a sales executive focusing on the infrastructure based solutions we have developed over the past 18 months. As we continue to grow that element of our business Colin will give us a great deal of energy and experience across the sector.

Nikki Walker has joined us in an internal sales role to help us provide a more comprehensive sales coverage model. Nikki will help us drive our overall solutions portfolio into the territory and will no doubt make a big impact on the business moving forward.

As TM1 becomes more and more popular with our customer base and the market in general we are delighted to announce that Jack Tuckerman has joined us in the role of Senior Consultant. Jack has a vast array of experience in the TM1 market and will prove invaluable as TM1 becomes further embedded into the IBM analytics portfolio.

There is little use trying to report on data if it is not reliable, with that in mind we have further strengthened our ETL ( Extract, Transform, Load ) capabilities and are pleased to welcome Mark Adamson to the team, his wide variety of ETL experience will prove valuable to our customers who are expanding their ETL requirements.

Barrachd have been awarded an IBM Centre of Technical Excellence (CoTE) for Business Partners Award.

In April '2009 IBM implemented the Business Partner Technical Vitality (BPTV) scorecard, providing a set of clear, visible and objective measures that can demonstrate the overall breadth and IBM product depth of a partner's skills in Sales, Technical, Architecture, Project Management, Solutions and other key internal processes and in October last year we announced that in early 2011 we would be recognising IBM Business Partners who have attained the highest BPTV Scores in two different Award

Categories:

• The IBM Centre of Technical Excellence for Business Partners -
  Overall Breadth Award, awarded to Business Partners who have achieved
  the highest "Overall Technical Vitality" scores in Europe.
• The IBM Centre of Technical Excellence for Business Partners - Brand
  Award, awarded to Business Partners who have achieved the highest
  Individual STG "Brand" scores in Europe.

Barrachd have been selected to win a special IBM Beacon Award - the North East Europe IBM Choice Award for Totality of IBM.

IBM Beacon Awards are a central and vital element of IBM’s Business Partner recognition program. They recognise the best solutions that IBM Business Partners deliver across our business and around the world. While IBM's Business Partners are invited to nominate themselves for most of the Beacon Awards, this award is is different as it is based on nominations from IBM's regional leadership team and awarded by a cross-IBM executive team from our region.

The conference brings together more than 1,500 Business Partners and IBM executives from around the world to share best practices for delivering innovation and value for our clients. It not only includes an opening keynote address from IBM Chairman Sam Palmisano, but also concludes with a dedicated session for European delegates on 17th February.

Barrachd would like to congratulate Glenrothes Strollers FC on their recent award from the Scottish Football Association.

The Fife based youth football club is sponsored by Barrachd and is 3 years into a long term development and growth plan.

The hard work by a group of over 50 volunteers has been recognised with the award of the 'National Grassroots Community Football Club of the Year'.

The award was presented to some of their committee members by Liverpool FC manager and Scottish football legend, Kenny Dalgleish, along with SFA International Coach, Craig Levein.

Over the past 3 years, Glenrothes Strollers have taken on responsibility for their own home park on a long term lease. They have developed this 16 acre site with 9 football pitches, car parking and changing facilities. They have also raised and spent £140,000.00 on installing land drainage across the park.

In this time membership has grown from around 150 players to over 450 youths and kids from 5 years old through to 19 years old. They have also added a girls section and a young adults amateur team.

Barrachd are delighted to announce...

Barrachd are delighted to announce we have signed an agreement with IBM to design, resell and support the range of products from SPSS, a recent IBM acquisition.

SPSS provides a comprehensive predictive analytics portfolio that includes data collection, text and data mining, and advanced statistical analysis and predictive solutions, helping customers predict future events and proactively act upon insight to drive better business outcomes.

Barrachd Expanded Sales Team!

James Gamgee has been appointed presales consultant, in the latest expansion of the sales team.

James comes to us with over 7 years Cognos software experience, including 3 years at Adaytum, where he was a seniorconsultant on Cognos Planning. James is also an accredited PRINCE2 and MSP practitioner and has worked with such household names as Halifax, easyJet, PC World and William Grants.

Barrachd to Receive IBM Certification for Dynamic Infrastructure Skills

First IBM Business Partner in the UK

Barrachd today announced it has gained certification in IBM’s Dynamic Infrastructure Specialty Programme in the area of Business Resilience. Through the programme, Barrachd will work with IBM to help clients build a new, more dynamic infrastructure that will bring greater intelligence, automation, integration, and efficiencies to the digital and physical worlds.

The programme is designed to enable customers to use powerful computing systems to manage and gain insight from an increasing number of things in their physical infrastructure that are being instrumented with intelligent sensors. IDC estimates the market opportunity for the software, servers, technologies and services to manage the world's converged IT and physical infrastructure to be $billion by 2012.

"We are committed to the dynamic infrastructure model which helps us to create value for our customers whether they define their requirements as short-term productivity gains or long-term transformation projects." said Clark Wilson, Managing Director, Barrachd.

Barrachd's participation in the Dynamic Infrastructure Specialty Programme better positions them to assist businesses in managing challenges presented by today's globally integrated planet. Barrachd is able to deepen its skills in areas such as business resilience, and these enhanced skills will enable Barrachd to more accurately respond to their customers’ multi-faceted IT challenges and help customers with the creation of dynamic infrastructures.

“The need for IT professionals to build a dynamic infrastructure in order to fully benefit from their data centre technologies is undeniable,” said Andrew Sime, IBM General Business Leader, Scotland. “Barrachd’s dedication to fuelling the adoption of the dynamic infrastructure model only helps them deliver more powerful, intelligent and secure data centre solutions to their customers.”

In order to achieve this certification, Barrachd has invested many hours in IBM training classes; achieved brand, system architecture and project management based certifications; and built new offerings to help customers evaluate their environments and implement robust solutions for their dynamic infrastructure environments.