Membership for smaller IT departments and businesses

Essential, independent expertise to help you to maximise your IT investments

The National Computing Centre’s mission is to help you to continuously increase the effectiveness of your IT investments. Our independent information, advisory, and experience sharing services help IT decision-makers to make the right investments, reduce costs and maximise performance.

Membership of the National Computing Centre supports you through the IT investment lifecycle, from raising awareness of issues before they impact your business to creating and promoting best practice to tackle them, from identifying appropriate suppliers to providing expertise and bespoke solutions across the spectrum of IT management issues.

What makes us different is that we can connect you to powerful network of independent experts, end users and, if appropriate, vendors – the National Computing Centre community – who can deliver the answers and insight you need.

The National Computing Centre is the UK’s leading membership organisation for IT decision-makers. We run for the benefit of our members – IT decision-makers like you, and because our interests are mutual we exist solely to help you. We are independent and impartial, so our advice is always unbiased.

Membership – the benefits

• Maximise your IT investments with expert and independent advice from a trusted source
   
• Access to proven expertise in IT standards, security, governance, strategy and accreditation
   
• Save time and money otherwise spent on research and getting answers. Let NCC be your one-stop shop for IT answers and solutions
   
• Learn from the experiences of others, get the early adopter advantage whilst minimising risk
   
• Drive your performance through evaluation against NCC’s annual industry benchmarks
   
• Access a network of independent expertise get an expert second opinion, or validate your own IT strategies
   
• Reduce time and cost spent running your own procurement processes
   
• Worthwhile discounts get discounts on publications, events, accredited IT training, advisory work and NCC's IT Department Accreditation Scheme

What is included in Membership:

• Access to trusted intelligence, awareness and analysis
  Membership provides you with access to our IT Helpdesk where you can get answers to your IT queries. Contact us and we will put you in touch with subject experts and peers who can advise across a broad range of IT and management issues. If required we can also facilitate follow-on advisory work for an additional fee (Members benefit from a 10% discount).
   
• ITAdviser
  Our Members' journal provides a quarterly update on the latest people, process and technological issues.
   
• Guidelines for IT Management
  Concise yet thorough independent reports published 10 times a year, each edition dedicated to a particular technology or issue of importance. Topics are driven by the wider NCC membership community.
   
• Legal Guidelines
  Compliance with legislation is a major concern for IT professionals. Legal Guidelines provide an independent update of legislation and its impact for your organisation.
   
• Conspectus
  Provides an independent and expert overview of enterprise applications, enabling IT decision-makers to select the right applications for their needs.
   
• National IT Benchmarks
  Evaluate the performance of your IT function against peers in your sector with NCC's annual Benchmarks of IT Spending, Strategy, and Salaries and Employment Trends. Executive Summaries are included in Membership, with discounts applying to full reports.
   
• Seminar and Events Programme
  We run a comprehensive programme to enable you to engage and network with experts and peers tackling the same issues - all from an independent and unbiased platform. Seminars and Round Tables are free to attend, Member discounts apply to other types of event.
   
• Access to The Evaluation Centre
  A unique on-line resource designed to facilitate communications between buyers and vendors of enterprise applications. We provide advice and guidance through each step of the procurement process enabling you to make the right choices. As an NCC Member, we keep your identity private until you choose to engage with specific vendors.
   
• Access the NCC Members' website
  The NCC website contains a wealth of relevant material and is also the repository for our extensive catalogue of publications
   
• Discounts on other NCC Products and Services
  NCC best practice publications, accredited IT training, advisory and Healthcheck services and on NCC's IT Department Accreditation Scheme.

NCC Membership provides one contact within your organisation with access to the above services. Colleagues at your organisation will benefit from discounts on publications, events and other services.

Other levels of Membership which offer increased access to content and inclusive access to additional bespoke services available:

Premium Membership

Offers a greater portfolio of research and services suitable for larger IT Departments and businesses

Corporate Advisory Service (CAS)

All the benefits of Premium Membership available to an unlimited number of contacts, plus inclusive advisory time. There are a number of CAS offerings available.

Download the NCC Membership Flyer

Please contact us to discuss the membership that will best suit your needs.