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14/12/2011

Two Weeks Until the Cloud2 & Microsoft Free SharePoint Event in London

It’s now only TWO WEEKS until the Cloud2 and Microsoft free SharePoint in Healthcare event at Microsoft UK’s headquarters in Cardinal Place, London.

Microsoft UK, Cardinal Place, Victoria, London, SW1E 5JD

The event on Wednesday 14th December will cover SharePoint in the NHS, from NHS Information GovernanceKPIs and Workflows, to eForms,Dashboards and our Confer solution, Kinesis. Demonstrations and presentations will also be given by partners AvePoint on DocAve Backup and Restore, and Kodak on managing paper and electronic documentation.

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Hosting the event with us will be NHS South West London Cluster, who will be sharing some case studies and experiences of the SharePoint projects we have worked on together.

You can view a full agenda on our dedicated events page, or download one by clicking this link.

To book your place, please visit our events booking page, or alternatively email us at events@cloud2.co.uk for more information.

For more information on the location of the event and directions, please visit the events page.

14/12/2011

Cloud2 and Microsoft Free SharePoint Event at Cardinal Place, London

Cloud2 and Microsoft will be hosting another free SharePoint in Healthcare event on Wednesday 14th December at Microsoft UK’s headquarters in Cardinal Place, London.

Microsoft UK, Cardinal Place, Victoria, London, SW1E 5JD


The event will cover SharePoint in the NHS, from NHS Information GovernanceKPIs and Workflows, to eForms, Dashboards and our Confer solution, Kinesis. Demonstrations and presentations will also be given by partners AvePoint on DocAve Backup and Restore, and Kodak on managing paper and electronic documentation.

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Hosting the event with us will be NHS South West London Cluster, who will be sharing some case studies and experiences of the SharePoint projects we have worked on together.

Among the speakers are:

  • Simon Hudson, Director, Cloud2
  • Taran Sohal, Director, Cloud2
  • Colin Sweeney, Kings College Hospital
  • Alan Ruan, Web manager, SW London PCTs
  • Colin Labrum, Document Imaging, Kodak
  • Tim Foulkes, Enterprise Account Manager, AvePoint

There will also be a “Hands-On Lunch”, where attendees will get a chance to try out breaking Microsoft technologies, such as Slates/Tablets, Mango phones, Photosynth, Kinect, Kinesis, Lync and Office365.

You can view a full agenda on our dedicated events page, or download one by clicking this link.

To book your place, please visit our events booking page, or alternatively email us at events@cloud2.co.uk for more information.

For more information on the location of the event and directions, please visit the events page.

Cloud2 Raise Money on Fun Run for Cancer Research

The Cloud2 Team

Bradford-based IT Company Cloud2 were delighted to hand over a donation running in excess of £1200 to Cancer Research UK last Friday, after raising the money in September and October for the Bradford City Fun Run.

The whole team were involved in the fundraising and thanks to the very generous contributions of friends, family and business partners in person and online using JustGiving.com, a grand total of £1273.10 was donated, smashing the Cloud2 target of £800 two weeks before the run!

Cancer Research UK is a charity close to Director Simon Hudson’s heart after losing his mother to lung cancer. He says of the event: “I’m delighted and impressed that as well as the whole Cloud2 team, my wife and daughter both of whom do some work for Cloud2 also opted to participate. I’m very pleased that we can get behind something like this as part of the Bradford community and a great team.”

Director Taran Sohal is also delighted, adding:  “I’m proud of all the team who trained hard to take part in the Bradford City Run to support such a fantastic charity.”

The team are now looking forward to next year’s run, where some of them at least hope to take on the half marathon – it’s all for a good cause after all!

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust Implement NHS SharePoint Solution Accelerator Hadron SA

Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust have implemented the Cloud2 NHS SharePoint Solution Accelerator Hadron SA to manage their policies and procedures with the Document Centre.

IM&T Project Manager Clare Jones says of the solution: “Being pretty much “off the shelf”, it just requires local configuration – this allowed us to have a very short implementation timescale – our first workshop was the 4th February and we went live on 31st March. We also implemented a number of the IG add-ons enabling us to automatically monitor when documents require review, are due to expire etc. and set up a feature whereby members of staff acknowledge receipt of new or updated policies. The only thing I would say is take care how you implement notifications of the availability of new policies / documents and consider the impact on your email server but Cloud2 can advise on this.

The big benefit of using Cloud2 is that they have a lot of NHS experience already and have or at least understand the type of requirements you may come up with. They will endeavour to accommodate any changes and as far as I understand, using their development methodologies this would not normally mean a protracted development timescale.

South West London PCTs Choose DocAve Back-Up and Restore

South West London PCTs have chosen to protect and back-up their major new SharePoint platform with AvePoint DocAve Backup and Restore, the market leader in high-fidelity document back-up and recovery.

Cloud2 will be delivering the solution, after engaging South West London Primary Care Trust with AvePoint on the strength of their market-leading tools for SharePoint. Cloud2 will be using DocAve to ensure all of the Trust’s content is backed up at a granular level, that their large SharePoint environment is adequately administered and that all existing content is migrated.

DocAve comes as part of the Trust SharePoint Pack, which is a collaboration between Cloud2 and AvePoint bundles a set of tools from the DocAve suite together with solutions from Cloud2 to address several common scenarios in the NHS. Together these enhance control, increase productivity and ensure security while reducing total cost of ownership and creating a truly enterprise document and record platform.

With a strongly architected broad SharePoint platform, deep applications and solutions and the strength of the world’s leading technologies in the health sector, it is possible to develop a SharePoint based strategy that can radically improve how information and documents are created, stored and used; how clinical and administrative systems are integrated; how knowledge and records are secured.

For more information on the solutions we offer in conjunction with AvePoint, please follow the link.

07/12/2011

Cloud2 and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS SharePoint in Healthcare Event

Cloud2 and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals will be hosting another free SharePoint in Healthcare event on Wednesday 7th December at The Birch Hotel in Rochdale.

The event will cover SharePoint in the NHS, from NHS Information Governance, KPIs and Workflows, to eForms, Dashboards and our Confer solution, Kinesis.

Hosting the event with us will be Blackpool Teaching Hospitals, who will be sharing some case studies and experiences of the SharePoint projects we have worked on together.

You can view a full agenda on our dedicated events page, or download one by clicking this link.

To book your place, please visit our events booking page, or alternatively email us at events@cloud2.co.uk for more information.

For more information on the location of the event and directions, please visit the events page.

13/10/11

Cloud2 at Techmesh Expo 2011

Today Cloud2 are exhibiting at the Techmesh Expo 2011 at The Royal Armouries, Leeds alongside partners Waxtie, and it looks to be an interesting day. Companies from the IT and Telecoms sector will be sharing their ideas and demonstrating what they can do, while speakers such as David Parkin, editor of The Business Desk and James Askrigg, Head of Technology for Partners at Microsoft will be giving presentations throughout the day.

We will be at our stand to answer questions and give demonstrations all day at stand IZ3 – if you’re at Techmesh Expo 2011 why not come and say hello?

Cloud2 Sponsor Leeds Uni Enterprise Competition

Cloud2 are pleased to announce their sponsorship of the Leeds University business enterprise competition, the Coffeemat Challenge.

The Coffeemat Challenge encourages students to think up a winning business idea or product which they think will change the lives of thousands forever. Ideas are written on the back of specially-designed coffee mats left all over the university, and then submitted to a team who will judge the ideas on:

  • Originality
  • Innovation
  • Usefulness

Ideas can also be submitted online on the official website, and there have already been loads of interesting ideas. People visiting the site can vote for ideas they think deserve to go through to the next round, and the whole competition is heavily engrained in social media sites – the best ideas so far are all tweeted from the competition’s official Twitter feed: http://twitter.com/#!/coffeemat_chall

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18/11/2011

Cloud2 & Blackpool Teaching Hospitals SharePoint Event at The Birch Hotel, Heywood, Manchester Wed 7th December

Due in part to the success of our recent SharePoint event in Kettering, Cloud2 and Blackpool Teaching Hospitals will be giving people another chance to learn about what SharePoint can do for the health sector and the NHS at their upcoming event hosted at The Birch Hotel, Heywood, Manchester.

The event will involve case studies from NHS Trusts and organisations who have worked with Cloud2 on various beneficial SharePoint projects, as well as partners who provide an interesting insight into what can be achieved with SharePoint when you use specific tools to your advantage.

The event is free, and will last all day from 08:30am until 16:00pm. To book your place now and avoid dissapointment, visit our special events page.

You can also download an agenda by clicking here.

Also involved with demonstrations and presentations are Cloud2, who will also be providing hands-on workshops during lunch, involving the Zoostorm SL8 and Windows 8.

We hope to see you there!

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Cloud2 SharePoint Event – Thank you!

Here at Cloud2 we’d just like to say a big thank you to everyone who came down to our SharePoint in Healthcare event at Kettering General Hospital yesterday. We had a fantastic day, it was great to see some new faces as well as catch up with some old friends, and we hope that you all learned as much as we did.

If you’d like to contact us about the event, or about any of our future events, you can email us at events@cloud2.co.uk, follow us on Twitter and Facebook for regular updates, or visit our events page on the website.

Also a big thanks goes out to Linda Cottenham from Kettering General Hospital and all of our partners who supported us on the day. We couldn’t have run the show without you!

Our next event will be held at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust on Friday the 18th of November. If you couldn’t make it to Kettering, why not book a place now for Blackpool and come and learn more about Governance, Business Intelligence and the future of SharePoint in the NHS?