Novosco achieves prestigious quality awards – ISO 27001, ISO 9001:2008 & IIP
Belfast, 12th March, 2009 — Novosco, who is Ireland’s leading provider of virtual IT infrastructure and services, has been awarded the prestigious and internationally recognised ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications. This formed part of an integrated achievement with Novosco also being awarded the Investors In People (IIP) award. Novosco achieved the awards with the assistance of CIMAOMEGA, experts in transformational change in the workplace.
- Patrick McAliskey, Novosco Managing Director; Gillian Esquivel, CIMAOMEGA Director & Susan Magee, Novosco Human Resource Manager
ISO 27001 & ISO 9001:2008 are internationally recognised awards. ISO 27001 is a highly sought after certification which proves an organisations commitment to providing information security management, ensuring business continuity, maximising business investments and reducing business damage by preventing and minimising the impact of security incidents. The ISO 9001:2008 recognises an organisation’s ability to consistently provide service that meets customer and regulatory requirements. To achieve these awards Novosco designed and implemented a formal ‘Novosco Integrated Management (NIMS) System’.
The Novosco NIMS system contains details of the procedures and processes that meet ISO requirements for business continuity, data security, and disaster recovery, as well as providing Novosco management and staff with an objective method of maintaining excellent working practices.
Patrick McAliskey, Managing Director for Novosco explained, “As an IT service provider, Novosco customers trust us with their confidential data and their IT infrastructure. The awards reinforce our commitment to providing our customers with service excellence and they formally recognise that the products and services which we provide are consistently on par with world class standards. Despite the current economic climate, Novosco felt it was important to invest in the awards as it gives us further competitive advantage and has reinforced Novosco’s position as Ireland’s leading IT provider to both public & private sector customers”.
“Novosco has been our trusted partner since 2003 and we congratulate the company on the achievement of the ISO awards. Novosco implemented the virtualisation of our IT infrastructure, which decommissioned over 20 servers and saved around £200k compared to the cost of a non-virtualised environment.” said Jim Fennell Information Systems Manager, Lagan Holdings Ltd.
At the end of last year, Novosco also received the Investors in People (IIP) recognition. The company was formally assessed with regard to staff training, development and overall company performance.
Patrick McAliskey continues, “The IIP award shows that we take our commitment as an employer very seriously. The process has helped us to organise our development programme so that it delivers focused, up-to-date skills to our workforce. The award is integrated with the ISO accreditation to ensure the high standards needed for these awards are continually maintained.”
About Novosco
Novosco is one of Ireland’s leading providers of virtual IT infrastructure and services and is committed to assisting customers in the evaluation and optimisation of their IT systems. With established hardware/software vendor partnerships with Citrix, EMC, Microsoft and VMware, Novosco offers the highest level of accreditation in Ireland for Virtualisation solutions. This approach enables Novosco to develop and deliver cost-effective IT solutions that enhance client operations.
Novosco have provided solutions to a range of clients including government establishments and private sector organisations of all sizes including Acheson Glover, Belfast Trust, Lagan Holdings and many more.
For more information visit www.novosco.com
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