Digirati

Star, a provider of on-demand computing and communication services to UK businesses, has announced a partnership with Digirati, experts in enterprise information management, to deliver on-demand Content Management Solutions (CMS) to businesses looking to enhance their web presence. Star's Business Hosting services will complement Digirati’s content management solutions, which will be made available as one complete, on-demand service. The partnership means that Digirati will be able to offer a CMS that is delivered and hosted as a managed service on a platform that is secure, fast and reliable.

The on-demand service will deliver online applications underpinned by the Alterian CMS platform, to simplify the complex task of managing online resources. Digirati has a long track record of delivering Alterian CMS solutions and the partnership combines their market-leading expertise with specialised support and maintenance services to deliver an integrated solution at an affordable, fixed monthly fee. The partnership means that Digirati can provide a service that not only updates and maintains web content but will also be able to host the web site on a secure and resilient server. Digirati customers will benefit from Star's UK support, full data backup and a choice of flexible management options.

Digirati will provide out of the box software and collaborate with Exalead in the development and implementation of bespoke search based applications. It is currently evaluating the use of Exalead technology with a number of clients looking to develop consolidated information management systems, including local and national government bodies, in data-driven education and media contexts.

Following a successful project between Star and Digirati, working together to deliver the on-demand CMS and hosting solution for English Heritage to improve the functionality and features of their website, the partnership was formalised to offer this capability to any UK business.

John Baker, Managing Director, Digirati comments: "We're partnering with Star because we recognised the significance of having a relationship with a service provider that has the ideal technology platform to deliver hosting services with the highest levels of quality and customer service. We have been impressed not only with Star's ability to provide solutions, which are tailor-made to their customers needs, but also their support and attention to detail which has marked them out against their competition. With Star as our partner we are able to join up solution delivery, support and hosting and can add real value to the services demanded by our customers."

Grant Tanner, Business Development Director at Star comments: "We are delighted to be partnering with a leading full service digital agency such as Digirati to provide on-demand CMS and hosting solutions to UK businesses looking to get more from their existing resources. Working alongside highly focussed experts in content management, in order to deliver a seamlessly integrated service, provides customers with a cost effective solution that is easy to use and pay for. One of the main benefits of our integrated and end-to-end service is that it enables customers to concentrate more of their time, energy and resources on more strategic activities and projects by saving them from the overhead and risk of managing complex systems in-house."

Exalead, a global provider of search-based business application (SBA) technology, today announced that Digirati, a leading edge Enterprise Information Management (EIM) solutions and consultancy provider, entered into a strategic partnership to provide Exalead's CloudView product and search based applications.

"Digirati is an independent consultancy: we apply objective processes to get the best possible results for clients," explained Managing Director, John Baker. "Exalead is a radically progressive developer offering leading edge technology and a very attractive licensing model for our clients. Our new partnership is a direct reflection of our rigorous technical and commercial approach to ensuring that our clients can access the best search based applications and technology available."

Digirati will provide out of the box software and collaborate with Exalead in the development and implementation of bespoke search based applications. It is currently evaluating the use of Exalead technology with a number of clients looking to develop consolidated information management systems, including local and national government bodies, in data-driven education and media contexts.

"Our ability to offer Exalead means that we can offer unparalleled speed and ease of integration coupled with a very low cost-per-search, factors often critical to the success of a project," concluded Baker. "Exalead's pedigree in web search applications and the technical excellence of CloudView, it's core offering, mean that we are now in an even stronger position to address our clients needs with robust and flexible stable of technologies."

"Digirati is a highly respected independent consultancy, with whom we are very pleased to collaborate," said Exalead's UK Managing Director, Raymond Bentinck. "We add significantly to the options, both off the shelf and bespoke, that Digirati can offer to clients. Search based applications are the future of search, enabling businesses to continue to innovate and thrive in a very competitive landscape. They are meeting businesses' needs for better operational decision making and competitive differentiation."

About Exalead
Founded in 2000 by search engine pioneers, Exalead® is a global software provider in the enterprise and Web search markets. Exalead's worldwide client base includes leading companies such as PriceWaterhouseCooper, Michelin, and American Greetings, and more than 100 million unique users a month use Exalead's technology for search. Today, Exalead is reshaping the digital content landscape with a platform, Exalead CloudView™, that uses advanced semantic technologies to bring structure, meaning and accessibility to previously unused or under-utilised data in the disparate, heterogeneous enterprise information cloud. The system collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualised building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative search-based business applications. Exalead is an operating unit of Qualis, an international holding company, with offices in London, Paris, San Francisco, Glasgow, Milan and Darmstadt. Readers who wish to gain more information about Exalead can visit our partner page or go to www.exalead.com.

Following a competitive tender, Digirati have been selected by English Heritage as technical solution providers for their new corporate web strategy. The strategy aims to create a new web presence that will improve user experience, brand awareness and provide value return to each department throughout the organisation. Work will include the implementation of a new CMS, E-Commerce, Enterprise Search and Web2.0 features such as Forums and Blogs.

John Baker, Managing Director of Digirati, is particularly excited by the opportunities for high quality delivery that working with English Heritage will offer. "Having been personally involved in this work from inception, I've been impressed by the expert, multidisciplinary team that English Heritage have assembled and we are very much looking forward to the collaboration. It is an honor to be selected as their long-term technical partner in what will be a genuinely transformational project. I'm confident that we can deliver on their great vision, and that in doing so English Heritage and Digirati working together will create the digital environment and service that benefits such an essential organisation and its stakeholders."

Chris Provan, Business Development Manager was very pleased with the overall result. "This is a fantastic business win for Digirati and continues to increase our brand recognition throughout the UK marketplace. This was a great example of Digirati's ability to identify the best solution based on the customers technical and commercial requirements".

Alterian, the leading provider of integrated marketing platforms, acquired Mediasurface, including its flagship web content management products, Morello and Immediacy, in July 2008. The prospect of the Morello Content Management System being integrated as a key component of the Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform holds much promise in terms of enhancing the content management and execution for websites through online and offline analytics - a principle which underlies the thinking behind the acquisition.

John Baker, Managing Director of Digirati, says, "With Digirati's expertise in the realm of content management we can see the huge potential of this integration and are now proud to be able to take this offering to the marketplace."

Rebecca Liebling, Director of UK Agencies for Alterian commented, "Digirati have always been highly regarded in terms of their track record with Morello and so we are excited at the opportunity to expand their expertise into the other components of the Alterian Integrated Marketing Platform."

Further details will be released on the Digirati website in the coming months.

Digirati has opened its new operations centre in Glasgow, Scotland. The centre will handle back-office operations, technical support for the UK and provide a base for the Scottish deployment team. The new larger premises were selected to accommodate the growth that the company is currently experiencing as its reputation as a serious provider of Enterprise Information Systems takes root throughout the UK.

John Baker, Managing Director of Digirati says, "Scotland has always worked well for us and the quality of the available workforce in central Scotland is very high for our sector; in terms of the Scottish market I feel that we have only just scratched the surface".

Digirati's other office is in Clerkenwell London which provides a similar base for the London deployment team. "Having the 2 office locations in the UK has made it easy to stay close to our customers and so provide an overall higher level of service" commented Nareen Griffin, Service Delivery Manager.

Digirati enters into Partnership with Jiglu - the Intelligent Tagging engine. The Jiglu products are part of the next generation of intelligent discovery; they help make sense of unstructured content and support community and collaboration around it.

John Baker, Managing Director of Digirati says, "Jiglu is an extremely innovative product, from the conversations we have been having with clients we can see many applications for this tool - we are very excited to have this product in our suite of Enterprise Information Management solutions".

Stephen Hebditch, Founder of Jiglu commented "Digirati have impressed greatly in terms of their consultancy expertise - combined with our cutting edge technology this partnership should prove to be a highly effective combination".

More details regarding Digirati Intelligent Tagging solutions and the Jiglu products are available on the Digirati website.