IT Services

IT Services has subscribed to the Gartner Campus Agreement, so Sussex staff and students can now search Gartner's web site for their research and reports on information technology.

"Working within the school of Business Management and Economics we aim always to offer students access to the most relevant and up to date commercial information as well as our own research led material. Knowing Gartner as the pre-eminent source of "Knowledge Leadership" from my Consultancy days I was delighted to discover that ITS not only had a subscription for their own business intelligence purposes but had generously made full access to research papers available to registered students and staff." David Green, Tutorial Fellow, School of Business, Management and Economics

Further information about Gartner, from Emma Doherty, our Sussex Education Account Executive at Gartner emma.doherty@gartner.com:

Gartner, Inc. (NYSE: IT) is the world's leading information technology research and advisory company.

Gartner offers the combined brainpower of 1,200 research analysts and consultants to help you make smarter and faster decisions. Our years of relevant experience and institutional knowledge prevent costly and avoidable errors for you. Be confident that with Gartner, your decisions are the right decisions.

The Core research program which the University of Sussex currently has in place provides strategic and project based information via a 650+ Analyst Community, of which over 60 publish research targeted specifically written for Education institutions. Through this community we are able to provide actionable advice to all faculties and students who are concerned with anything that is IT related.

Please see below the different ways (at a high level) in which Gartner can be involved and add value.

How other universities use it:

IT Staff

• Use our team of experts to help explain the value of IT to the business of the University
• Use our advice to reduce risk in every IT related decision
• Rely on case studies for best practice
• Collaborate with our analysts on Document review, IT strategy
• Use Contracts reviews can ensure you obtain best pricing, choose the most suitable Vendors for the university, utilise best negotiations tips etc
• Use our advice on Professional growth and Development ie how to ensure you (and your team) are doing the right things to progress
• Understand technology and market trends/implications within the Higher Education sector

With a Campus agreement, you can also benefit the

Students

• Appreciate the case studies that demonstrate how to apply what they learn to the real life business scenario for presentations, dissertations etc
• See practically how organisations have re-engineered their processes to increase revenues and reduce costs
• Understand and keep up to date on which technology tools are available to practically implement strategies

Researchers and Professors

• Plan their courses on the basis of what will be topical in business and IT in the next few years
• Use the data and information to substantiate their research papers
• Use the Research for lesson purposes (Media, humanities, technology and business studies)