Premium Membership: An NCC Membership service for larger 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.

Wherever you are on the IT adoption curve, whatever sector you are in, we can help.

Premium 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 are owned by and 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 independent.

Premium Membership – the benefits

• Maximise your IT investments with expert and independent advice from a trusted source
   
• Be prepared to respond to the latest developments before they impact your business
   
• 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
   
• Reduce time and cost spent running your own procurement processes
   
• Drive your performance throughevaluation against NCC's annual industry benchmarks
   
• Access a network of independent expertise get an expert second opinion, or validate your own IT strategies
   
• Great value for money We negotiate discounts on third party services such as IT training and publications for members benefit. We offer a 10% discount on our advisory services and member discounts on our IT Department Accreditation Scheme.
   

What is included in NCC Premium Membership

Premium Membership offers a deeper and richer level of content and access than our standard Membership – ideal for IT decision-makers and their teams in medium to large sized organisations. NCC Premium Membership features:

• Access to the Advisory Centre
  Access to our network of independent expertise; if you have an IT query or question, contact us and we will put you in touch with subject experts who can advise across a broad range of IT and management issues. We can also ask the wider membership on your behalf for a peer group perspective. We can facilitate follow-on advisory work for an additional fee (Member discounts apply).
   
• IT Adviser - our Members' journal
  Quarterly updates on the people, process and technological issues that IT decision-makers need to be aware of.
   
• Guidelines for IT Management
  Concise yet thorough independent reports published ten 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 legal issues is a major concern for IT professionals and with legislation changing frequently; it can be difficult to stay ahead of your obligations. Legal Guidelines provide an independent update of legislation and its implications for your organisation.
   
• Access to selected Butler Group Research
  Premium Level members have access to Butler Group's Opinionwire, TechWatch, White Papers and Management Summaries selected by NCC.
   
• Best Practice Guides
  The NCC captures and defines best practice across topical areas and publishes detailed practical guidance to help organisations successfully implement best practice. Recent topics include Information Security, Realising a Return on IT Investment, Programme and Project Management and Outsourcing.
   
• Conspectus
  The NCC captures and defines best practice across topical areas and publishes detailed practical guidance to help organisations successfully implement best practice. Recent topics include Information Security, Realising a Return on IT Investment, Programme and Project Management and Outsourcing.
   
• National IT Benchmarks – full access
  Evaluate the performance of your IT function against peers in your sector, or the wider IT industry with NCC's Benchmark Reports and Rapid Surveys. Annual Benchmarks of IT Strategy, Spending and Salaries & Employment Trends will help you optimise your competitive position. Premium Membership provides you with full editions of Benchmark surveys and other reports.
   
• Seminar and Events
  We run a comprehensive programme to enable you to engage and network with experts and peers tackling the same issues. Our One and Two day Workshops will get you up-to-speed with latest technologies, the benefits and the implications - all from an independent and unbiased position. Seminars and Round Tables are free to attend, discounts apply to Workshops.
   
• Free Annual Conference Place
  One free place at our annual, national members conference
   
• 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.
   
• Newswires
  You can subscribe to our daily and weekly newswires which will keep you informed of relevant stories that can have an impact on your organisation. We identify the latest news and research so you don't have to.
   
• A seat on NCC's Members Advisory Board
  Premium Membership entitles your organisation to a seat at our prestigious Members' Advisory Board which meets quarterly to discuss issues of interest and concern at the highest level, and to help steer NCC's research agenda.
   
• Access the NCC Members' website
  The NCC website contains a wealth of material and is also the repository for our extensive catalogue of publications.
   
• Worthwhile Discounts on other NCC Services including:
  1. Discounts on a full portfolio of accredited IT training
  2. Discounts on bespoke advisory work
  3. Discounts on NCC IT Department Accreditation

 The additional benefits of Premium Membership, over Membership are shown below

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

In addition, the Prime Premium Membership contact at your organisation will receive hard copies of all the publications.

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

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

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.

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