IT Collective

Alongside people and premises, IT is likely to be the next major operating cost in any organisation’s budget.

Monitoring systems which offer 'state of the art' functionality to support your organisations business operations is expensive, as of course is the renewal cycle for both hardware and software.

Bailey Computer Services, a subsidiary of Skipton Building Society, offers a ready-made totally outsourced solution for Building Societies which embraces the very latest in technological functionality, from desktop to web to counter service delivery – and all at a cost likely to be significantly below maintaining an in-house IT infrastructure.

Look at these quotes from the Chief Executive's of two of our five clients who are already using the outsourced Bailey Computer Services system:

'The problem was our systems needed a lot of management time and staff resource. It also placed a big development and cost burden on the Society. For me it felt like I was running an I.T. company that sold a few mortgages on the side. The driver therefore was to derisk the business and get back to doing what we do best - meeting the saving and borrowing needs of our members. We looked at becoming a bureau client but in our view that didn't meet all of our requirements, leaving as it did a number of risks and responsibilities within the Society. By outsourcing everything including the I.T. infrastructure itself we felt that we had removed significant risks with an added benefit of achieving significant cost savings -a win-win in our eyes. Outsourcing to another Building Society offered comfort in terms of shared priorities and a belief that the supplier fully understood our business. Yes, we have to manage the relationship and we retain responsibility for the outsourced service but overall I no longer lie awake at night wondering what I would do if my Head of I.T. left suddenly!'

Stephen Peete
Chief Executive, Loughborough Building Society

'Our original driver for considering IT outsourcing was the real difficulty in attracting and retaining IT staff of sufficient quality. In addition there were significant cost savings to be made. In looking at our business risks we came to the conclusion that the latter point would continue and that there would always be issues with ensuring our IT systems were able to match the needs of the market place. As a result we decided to go the next step and outsource all of our IT operations.'

Paul Winter
Chief Executive, Ipswich Building Society

To sum up – through Mutual One and Bailey Computer Services a fully-outsourced IT solution, future-proof, functional and cost-effective is available now.

To find out more, simply contact Philip Dearing on philip.dearing@mutual-one.co.uk or 07861 290624