The Results
Andy Ross again approached Gamma whose CloudUCX solution looked ideal. Provided as a cloud-based service, it met the college’s declared cloud-first strategy which aims to move out of on-site data centres entirely and into the cloud. It also met the organisation’s overarching digital strategy which allows its people to use whichever device they want, in whichever way they choose, from wherever they are.
“From the outset we had a good working relationship with Gamma,” says Andy Ross. “It was the confidence factor of them working with so many Public Sector organisations. They’d been through the same process with lots of other organisations like ourselves.”
Gamma’s CloudUCX is a set of cloud solutions, delivered as a service, which enhance the standard Microsoft Teams solution. Crucially CloudUCX adds the all-important ability to make and receive PSTN calls without the extra complication and greater costs and overheads of Microsoft Calling Plan licenses and on-premise equipment.
The Gamma solution has ticked a lot of boxes at Dundee and Angus College as Andy Ross recognises: “There are many organisational objectives that the project with Gamma has helped us meet,” he says. “At the top level we have an activity-based working strategy that we’ve been building towards for some time, and that is all about allowing people to work in the location and the setting which best suits what they’re going to be doing.”
By being entirely cloud-based and with no dependency on premises hardware, the solution also meets the college’s cloud-first strategy which will see it migrate entirely away from data centres by 2025. This in turn will support the college’s cyber security commitments by increasing resilience through distributing systems and services into the cloud.
