On Demand Solution Helps U.K. Land Registry Manage Costs

LONDON - 19th March 2004 - Morse Group Ltd. has been honoured with a 2004 IBM PartnerWorld(r) Beacon Award for “Best zSeries™ on Demand Solution” by successfully implementing cost-effective on demand solutions for clients.

The IBM PartnerWorld Beacon Awards recognise IBM Business Partners that have excelled in providing quality e-business solutions and services to customers based on IBM technologies. Twenty eight winners were announced at an IBM Beacon Awards ceremony on 1st March at PartnerWorld 2004 in Las Vegas. The Best zSeries on Demand Solution award recognises the Business Partner that has achieved the greatest results in providing an on demand business solution to their customers. The winning company has successfully migrated multiple clients to IBM eServer zSeries with z/OS® and z/VM® and demonstrated year-to-year growth in the midmarket.

Morse developed a solution to help Her Majesty’s Land Registry, the government department responsible for keeping and maintaining the Land Register of England and Wales, cost-effectively manage its highly variable workloads that are driven by the cyclical nature of house and land transactions. The solution, based on the IBM eServer zSeries z990 Processors with on/off capacity, allows the customer to provide extra capacity on demand. Morse also has implemented the z/OS and DB2® Parallel Sysplex® data sharing to provide 24x7 availability, as well as WebSphere® Application Server.

In addition to the zSeries keeping costs in line with demand, the Registry utilises Workload License Charging, which provides a variable cost base for software dependent upon demand. Since the Registry’s budget is directly proportional to the number of transactions it handles, an on demand solution keeps cost closely aligned with budget. The zSeries implementation has driven a significant return on investment that has enabled the continued growth of the project.

“Beacon judges selected Morse for the Best zSeries On Demand Solution award because this implementation is an excellent example of how capacity on demand can help companies that experience large fluctuations in transaction volumes manage IT costs more effectively,” said Mike Borman, general manager, IBM Global Business Partners. “This award serves as a demonstration of the superior on demand solutions Morse provides to customers.”

For more details about the winning solutions and award finalists, please visit http://www.ibm.com/partnerworld/pwhome.nsf/weblook/pw2004_beacon.html

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About Morse
Morse is a technology integrator. It helps Europe’s leading businesses to achieve more from less through business aligned IT. It does this through a framework developed by Morse and by drawing on its resources and service capabilities, its strong partnerships, with leading technology vendors and its experience of over 20 years of business critical computing. Its capabilities include information and application integration, smart sourcing, infrastructure efficiency, service management and project management. It is headquartered in London and employs 1,200 staff across 30 locations in Europe. Nearly half Europe’s top companies are Morse customers. More information about Morse is available at www.morse.com.
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Julie Kidd
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