CMS Group announce Goodwood account win

July 21, 2010 - PRLog -- IT INFRASTRUCTURE services specialist CMS Group has been appointed as the Outsourced IT Service Desk for The Goodwood Estate in West Sussex.

The first in a line of account wins soon to be announced, the company is now responsible for delivering Goodwood’s outsourced IT requirements as the company continues to growth.

Specialists within business and hospitality IT solutions, the contract, worth over £450,000, will see CMS deliver improvements to Goodwood’s complex infrastructure over the next 12 months.

Famous for its horse racing and motorsport heritage, Goodwood hosts numerous annual events such as the Festival of Speed, Goodwood Revival, Vintage and Glorious Goodwood which CMS will also support during these key periods.

Based in West Sussex and owned by Lord March, the estate also includes a hotel, three restaurants, Private Members Club, Two Golf Courses, Aviation and Europe’s largest lowland Organic Farm.

Alex Williamson, CFO for The Goodwood Estate, comments; “Goodwood boasts a huge array of leisure and hospitality services which demanded a company that could streamline our IT requirements, save us money and provide first class on demand support.

“CMS Group is experienced within our sector and understands the complexity of the entire estate with many individual businesses operating under the Goodwood umbrella. To meet our own goals and objectives in terms of rapid growth and expansion, a stable IT infrastructure is vital and we’re confident that this can be achieved through outsourcing it to CMS.”

Martin Young, Sales & Marketing Director for CMS Group further comments; “It is a real privilege to be providing the outsourced IT for one of the UK’s most famous and historic entertainment venues.

“Servicing the entire Goodwood Estate is no easy challenge, simply due to the size and variety of the organisation. Having researched each business aspect, we’ve compiled a package which not only addresses these individual needs, but the requirements of the entire Goodwood portfolio.”

CMS Group Ltd is an independent provider of outsourced IT infrastructure services to both small, medium and large corporate organisations.

Opened in 1990 by the firm’s current Chairman and owner, Andrew Coop, CMS has been consulting and guiding businesses on a whole range of IT issues and challenges for over 20 years.

Based in Blackburn, Lancashire, with offices and data centre facilities in Manchester and London, the privately owned company employs 45 individuals.


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NOTES TO EDITOR:
-   Outsourcing specialists within business and hospitality IT, CMS’ clients include Elite Hotels, ELE Advanced Technologies, Regal Precision Engineering, ACME and its largest account to date, the Alternative Hotel Group (AHG) – a contract worth upwards of £3M alone.
-   In 2009 the business repositioned itself and developed an application delivery platform to begin actively selling managed services. This forward thinking meant that CMS Group Ltd stayed one step ahead of its competitors and managed services now account for 70% of all turnover
-   CMS’ sole mission is to be the preferred IT consultancy, technology partner and service provider whilst delivering demonstrable return on investment for customers
-   Having invested heavily over recent years, the company boasts an extensive portfolio of products and services meaning that client IT departments can be solely outsourced and managed in its entirety by CMS

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CMS are an independent provider of IT infrastructure services to both small medium and large corporate organisations.