Software

Background

The software industry underpins the key sectors of the UK economy,  growing steadily with Ovum estimating it to be worth around £6.44billion by the end of the decade. Although there have been mixed reports of the impact of the current economic downturn, some product segments such as games, business intelligence and security will continue to exceed the industry average. There is continuing innovation in the software industry, with the emergence of new business models such as Software as a Service. There will be more to come as cloud computing becomes a reality. This innovation is enabling the industry to take advantage of global challenges and is helping the UK remain a leading player in this sector. Intellect is at the forefront of such developments allowing members to pool and share knowledge.

Current workstreams

Intellect’s Public Sector programme represents the interests of members who supply IT, software and services to the public sector. The key pillars of the programme include: 

• the Intellect Public Sector Council , which brings together senior figures from the industry and acts as the lead partner for all major dialogues with government and other stakeholders around the transformation of public services  and industry issues such as procurement
• an array of special interest groups with a focus on key vertical markets - including central and local government, healthcare, education and transport – these provide direct interface with the buy-side and others shaping the design and delivery of public services

Intellect’s Private Sector programme represents  and supports members who supply into a number of private sector vertical markets as well as specific business activities. Key components of the programme include:

• our work in vertical markets such as financial services, utilities and postal services, providing a voice between industry regulators, stakeholders and industry as well as the horizontal issues around datacentres, skills, offshoring and security.
• specific groups looking at the software industry and standards including a working group dedicated to Software as a Service
• continuing analysis of the Software industry including the role it plays within the UK economy and the issues impacting companies in this sector

Environmental issues:

• Key Public Sector issues include:
  
  
  • Public procurement
  • Greening Government IT
  • Delivering efficiencies through re-use, shared services, service transformation etc
  • Reputation of public sector IT

• Key Private Sector issues include:
  
  
  • Role of Software SMEs in vertical markets including public sector
  • New business models and the impact on the economy
  • Role of software testing
  • Privacy and security issues
  • Virtualisation and Cloud computing

Get in touch

If you would like some specific advice on how you can make the most of Intellect’s IT services offering, do pick up the phone and get in touch:

Public Sector

Private Sector