1. AoC Technology
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AoC Technology seeks to enable staff and
students in Colleges to participate in the
development, use and implementation
of technology in the management of
colleges and in learning and teaching.

2. Why Cloud?
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•Political drivers: security, resilience, ‘G cloud’,
shared services, funding streams;
•Financial drivers: cost reduction, estates, Carbon
Reduction Commitment;
•Organisational drivers: changes to core business
processes, quality improvement;
•Technological drivers: the network can deliver,
infrastructure is difficult to manage ,
unresponsive and expensive.

3. AoC & Cloud
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•The Collaboration and Shared Services Board (BIS) allocated
£1m for cloud projects from the Shared Services Grant Fund,
managed by AoC;
•Colleges were invited to bid for individual projects by
completing an Invitation to Tender (ITT) that had been written
by AoC and other partners in the Shared Services project;
•A total of 36 bids were selected covering a range of projects
involving Colleges and commercial suppliers. The projects are
now running and are being managed by the AoC Shared
Services project management team.

4. Sceptical?
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‘Why do so many organisations seem to rush lemming
like to each new innovation, only to abandon it when it
falls short on initial expectations?’
‘As with every other computing trend, the skill lies in
harnessing the technology in an appropriate, safe,
rational and timely manner, and everyone’s journey will
necessarily reflect a bespoke mix of factors’.