Our partners
Great digital communications need great technology to make them work – they’re a bit like the engine in a car. We are technology-neutral and completely independent. It means that we’re free to find the best technology for our clients – without our hands being tied.
Because we know that one size does not fit all, we build our own systems and supply open source and off-the-shelf packages to suit individual needs. We’ve carefully built up a portfolio of partnerships with technology providers so that we’re confident of recommending the right solutions to our clients.
Contact us to find the best technology to power your digital communications.
The Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform manages the people, processes, and applications that have often been autonomous marketing functions. The Alterian platform supports different marketing users, functions, and the daily activities to execute those processes across the entire organization. Running through the entire platform is an analytical capability enabling marketers to gain insight into their data by using intuitive, easy to use, visual segmentation tools. It provides answers to marketers' questions by analyzing all of the information associated with each individual customer or prospect in the entire database in a matter of seconds. The detail of this granular information and the speed at which it is analyzed encourages a thorough exploration of customer behaviour, which in turn enables truly targeted activities delivered through Alterian's integrated campaign planning and execution modules. This approach supports a unique 'train of thought' analysis capability which complements a marketer's typical working practice, and makes it practical and cost effective to drive an integrated marketing strategy across online and offline channels.
UK based Immediacy provides cost-effective Content Management solutions for organisations of all sizes.
Intuitive operation, outstanding ease of use and an ability to integrate with existing systems has helped establish an excellent track record in the Public Sector and for high profile corporate businesses.
- XML based content storage
- WYSIWYG editing
- Drag and drop document importing
- Comprehensive administrative control
- Rapid development and deployment
- .NET version with advanced multi-lingual capabilities
First released in 1997, Immediacy is now at version 5.0. Clients include:- numerous Local Authorities, BBC, Avis, phones 4u, Coventry Building Society, Equal Opportunities Commission, JPMorganChase and the British Council.
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NCC Group is the European market leader & premier provider of information security assurance.
NCC Group is a leading global provider of independent escrow, information security assurance and advisory services. As a trusted advisor, we provide business critical IT assurance and protection to over 15,000 public, private and not for profit sector organisations, including 94 out of the FTSE 100.
Formed in 1999, we are a secure, stable and well respected plc listed on the London Stock Exchange. NCC Group serves the needs of a wide variety of clients worldwide, based in Manchester UK, with 11 offices in UK, North America, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Germany and Australia we currently employ c.500 staff worldwide.
Our independence from hardware and software providers ensures the advice we offer is unbiased and impartial. We focus on developing intelligent solutions to real business issues and building lasting partnerships through our comprehensive portfolio of business critical IT assurance and protection services.
The Group operates two main complementary Divisions; Escrow, which trades under the NCC Group Escrow and Escrow Europe brands and Assurance, which trades under the NCC Group Advisory, Secure Test, NGS, Meridian, SDLC Solutions and Site Confidence brands.
Percussion Software's practical solutions enable customers to maximize both the value and quality of their content through cost-effective content management.
Based on industry standards, such as XML, XSL, Java and Web services, the Percussion Rhythmyx content management system enables organizations to better manage all of their digital communications, including web sites, intranets, extranets and emerging delivery platforms such as mobile and interactive television.
Reading Room choose to partner with Percussion because:
- Rhythmyx is one of the few content management systems that genuinely provides "de-coupled" storage, management and delivery of content. It is therefore highly cost effective, scalable, flexible and also platform agnostic.
- Licencing arrangements are more transparent and flexible than those of some of its nearest competitors. We find this delivers best value for money for our clients both now and into the future.
- Percussion is one of the most financially stable vendors in it's market, providing comfort for its future reliability, support and product development.
- Percussion provide unrivalled product, client and partner training, support and relationship management which we find has far surpassed it's nearest competitors.
- Rhythmyx supports many front end languages and databases, not only those that run on Microsoft platforms.
- Rhythmyx is extremely easy for editors to use and has excellent help and support facilities.
Percussion is well proven with over 2,500 major customers worldwide. Percussion has received many awards for its products, including a "Best of Aim 2003" award from Transform Magazine, KM World's "100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management" in February 2003, and an SIIA Codies Award for "Best Content Management Solution" in January 2003.
PolySpot is a leading provider of Enterprise Search solutions. Founded in 2001, the company is recognized as a leading provider for search and retrieval projects. In 2006 and 2007, Gartner named PolySpot in its "Information Access Technology" Magic Quadrant, confirming the growing position of PolySpot within this market.
Headquartered in France (Paris), Polyspot has two subsidiaries, PolySpot UK Ltd and PolySpot Italia Srl, based respectively in London and Milano.
PolySpot provides a comprehensive range of end-user search and navigation tools enabling users to have a 360 view on information. People can quickly access highly relevant information from internal and external sources, capitalizing on the company assets and sharing documents between Communities.
RedDot Solutions is a leading provider of intuitive extended content management solutions. RedDot's pioneering technology provides ease-of-use, rapid installation and low cost solutions, empowering non-technical employees to implement their own Web content needs. Built on open industry standards, RedDot's XCMS (Extended Content Management System) suite requires minimal training, thus delivering an unparalleled return on investment.
Since its first installation in 1996, RedDot Solutions is widely used across all industries, including financial services, manufacturing, education, the public sector and retail. RedDot's business model works through some of the leading channel and agency partners with whom it has successfully built a customer base of over 1100 businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide.
SDL Tridion is a leading European provider of advanced XML-based enterprise content management software. Its solutions create competitive advantage for enterprises by helping them make effective and efficient use of content. SDL Tridion's unique single sourcing and Blueprint Management concept offer enterprises a leading ROI for complex content management infrastructures.
SDL Tridion was founded in January 1999, is headquartered in Amsterdam and has offices in all European countries and the US.
We can work with SDL Tridion software to enable enterprises to aggregate a common view on content from various sources and manage and deliver all content in multiple formats and languages to numerous Web sites, channels and online applications.
Sitecore provides web content management (CMS) and portal software for organizations to create compelling website experiences. Sitecore’s broad range of features, combined with strong development architecture, enables marketing professionals, content editors, other key stakeholders and IT executives to rapidly implement a successful online business strategy, and measure and manage that ongoing website success.
Based on the Microsoft .Net platform, Sitecore web CMS is optimised to provide enterprises highly scalable and secure applications for multiple inter-related websites and leverages design and functionality concepts from the Microsoft Office 2007 user interface, which gives its clients a product easier to build, integrate and use.
- Customers: Thousands of public and private organisations, including national governments and Fortune 500 companies utilise Sitecore solutions for their websites. These organisations have created and now manage over 20,000 dynamic websites with Sitecore including Microsoft, Sara Lee, Siemens, ABN Amro, Omni Hotels, Cabinet Office, Manchester United, Bristol Airport and The Science Museum.
- Accolades: Amongst the many awards and accolades including Microsoft Gold Certified Partner; in April 2008, Gartner, the world leader in fact-based IT consulting services, named Sitecore "Cool Vendor in Content Management, 2008" for innovation and impact. In July 2008, Sitecore was included in Gartner's highly regarded "Market-scope for Content Management," in which it received a "positive" rating.
- Partners: The Sitecore Certified implementation partner ranks have grown appreciably, with over 700 worldwide. Key technology partners continue to help add the pieces so our customers get the whole package they are seeking.
- Community: Sitecore has a global community of IT professionals. Developers, website designers, graphics specialists, architects, database pros and more contribute to our lively online forums and share and borrow code snippets, shared source Sitecore solutions and best practices.
- Investors : Sitecore was founded in 2001 by five technical colleagues and has grown organically ever since, although at a very rapid pace. The company is self funded, profitable and plough most of its earnings right back into better product development and service.
Headquartered in Denmark, today Sitecore is a global company with over 120 employees across 8 major offices worldwide which include Denmark, UK, Germany, USA, Ukraine, Holland, Sweden and Australia. The company also has representation in over 40 countries.
