The bank is the UK’s most successful supermarket bank with more than six million customer accounts, currently across 28 products and services. It is the sixth largest credit card provider in the UK with 2.4 million cards in circulation.

Andy Hamilton, Managing Director of Company Net commented: “The sales process has been pretty rigorous, but we’ve fought off heavyweight opposition from Avanade, Fujitsu, Content & Code and from the bank’s in-house resource. We’ll be working with Quorum and Line Digital, on infrastructure and design respectively. Both are partners we’ve introduced into the project, and we’re looking forward to working with them to deliver this exciting project.”

There is a perception within IT and creative circles that Sharepoint cannot be branded or designed, and so has to look like more or like as it does out of the box. Company Net is a leading Sharepoint consultancy and was one of the very first to create a fully branded, design-lead website using Sharepoint.

Since then we have worked with several creative agencies to create highly branded and graphically interesting intranets and extranets built on Sharepoint, whilst retaining the flexibility and collaboration features of the platform.

The event will show how organisations can re-enforce their identity and brand guidelines by having their internal intranets and customer extranets match the look and feel of the website and corporate brochures, whilst retaining their ease of use features, and how Company Net can bring the ethos of usability and design common to external websites, to internal sites to maximise their usability and effectiveness.

Event details here: http://tiny.cc/llgf1

Matter Management is the IT system that Steve devised and Company Net built. It provides a central portal for In House legal teams to manage legal matters, control costs and risks. It comprises a full document management facility; a management dashboard for reporting; and a graphical search interface. The system is built on Microsoft SharePoint. You can find further details here: http://www.lawscot.org.uk/update/event.aspx?e=512

Come and hear Steve provide his insights on how it has transformed the in-house team with effective, management solutions. We hope to see you there.

……..then please get them to join this group and send an email with their CV, current availability and a daily rate to careers@company-net.com.

Hosted by Head Resourcing and Carlyle Associates, this exclusive networking event brought together business people from a number of industry sectors.

Highlight of the evening was an enlightening and engaging talk from Will King, founder of King of Shaves, who expounded on how he took the company from a loss making venture to the world’s third largest producer of men’s facial products. It was good to hear Will’s firm belief in the power of Social Media, and interesting to debate how Social Media plays its part in B to B business. A fascinating evening and a great opportunity to meet new people.

Andy Hamilton, MD Company Net commented “We are very pleased to participate in this well organised event and thank Head Resourcing and Carlyle Associates for their organisation, we look forward to the next one”

Microsoft has launched the event with the statement: “Come with your business challenges and ideas. Leave with solutions and connections.”

The WPC Guest Speaker will be Bill Clinton, Founder of the William J. Clinton Foundation and 42nd President of the United States on Wednesday July 14. He will discuss ‘Embracing our Common Humanity.’

During the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2010, over 10,000 Microsoft partners and employees will convene in Washington, D.C. to hear from Microsoft key executives and presidents, as well as brainstorm innovative solutions in the IT sector to boost global economy and connectivity. This year, they will have the unique opportunity to be inspired by President Bill Clinton.

President Bill Clinton served the United States of America for eight years during a time of unprecedented prosperity and change.  Now, President Clinton is a powerful voice for progress as he shares his unique insights and observations with audiences around the world.  President Clinton’s public speeches describe the challenge of globalisation, emphasise our growing interdependence, and point the way toward a common future based on shared goals and values.

Andy Hamilton commented: “This five-day partner event offers Company Net the opportunity to learn about Microsoft’s roadmap and best practices for the year, gain exclusive access to Microsoft executives and other partners, and to explore the infinite opportunities with Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy.”

The Axcentro team are proven industry experts and CRM, .NET and CMS specialists in Germany, Switzerland and in India, and develop new, sophisticated customer relationship management solutions, connected Web Sites and integration of social communities.

With an extensive network of leading specialists and in close cooperation with their customers, Axcentro are creating future-oriented solutions for customer relationship management.

Highest quality standards, the use of leading technologies, client focus and creativity are the maxims of their commitment – excellent services through simplified, networked and dynamic workflows in offices, organisations, associations and companies is their focus.

The CRM Vision Group is the leading team of experts for Microsoft Dynamics CRM in Europe. The cooperative was established in 2008 with the aim of a European network of the best Microsoft Dynamics CRM solution providers to realise multi-national CRM projects of the highest quality.

Registration is at 18:15, the event will start at 18:45 and finish at 20:45.

Location: Microsoft

2-4 Waterloo Place

Edinburgh, EH1 3EG GB

Equates to 1.5 CPD hours for CIM members

For further updates follow: http://www.cim.co.uk/events/ukRegions/sco/home.aspx

The audience, traditionally made up of marketing students up to marketing directors across a range of vertical sectors, will hear how Company Net is working with organisations to develop mission-critical technology solutions for marketing executives based on Microsoft technology platforms, such as Sharepoint. More details to follow on the Chartered Institute of Marketing’s events section of their site: http://www.cim.co.uk/events/ukRegions/sco/home.aspx