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easyJet
easyJet chose Sopra Group to work on their new self check-in kiosk application, and are now responsible for all related development and support.  The new kiosks allow passengers to check-in and print their boarding cards, as well as baggage tags for their hold luggage.

Global Fund Management Company
Sopra Group provides a full time application support team and related software development services to a major Global Fund Management Company's Group Business Systems division.

Leading Life Assurance & Pensions Company
Sopra Group provided its unique onshore/offshore development and support service to assist the IT department in a leading Life Assurance Company to enhance a number of core systems.

Major High Street Bank - Application Management
Sopra Group has partnered with one of the world's largest banks for over 25 years, providing a comprehensive range of IT Services.  We have established a reputation in The Bank for the overall quality and cost-effectiveness of our services and the consistent quality of our personnel. 

McDonald's
Sopra Group has carried out award winning work with McDonald's UK MIS team and the Payroll department to support and enhance the existing payroll solution to provide a more time-efficient and cost-effective system.  With an average of 45,000 staff being paid every fortnight, it is essential to maintain a robust and flexible payroll system that continues to ensure payment in a correct and timely fashion.

North Lanarkshire Council
Sopra Group supply onsite technical service and support for one of the country's largest local authorities.

Specialist Travel Agent
A Specialist Travel Agent chose Sopra Group to support its key applications.  Using Sopra Group the Specialist Travel Agency was able to increase the reliability of support for its users and free up their internal IT resources to be more business focused.

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Drinking Water Quality Unit (DWQU)
Sopra Group advised on the strategic options for the provision of a drinking water quality data warehouse.  The DWQU is part of the Scottish Government and is responsible for providing information on the quality of water in Scotland to key stakeholders, including members of the public, the Regulator of Water Quality, and the Scottish Government.

Her Majesty's Inspectorate Of Education
Sopra Group enables delivery of performance information to schools via the Web.  HM Inspectorate of Education (HMIE) in Scotland is an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government.

Lafarge
Sopra Group developed a dimensional data mart that is populated automatically on a daily basis for Lafarge.  The data mart pulls together relevant pricing and discount information from a number of disparate sources across the business.

Lifestyle Protection Company
Recognising the importance of 'risk management' and the need to ensure it had robust IT systems in place on the 'go live' date, a brand new Lifestyle Protection Company chose Sopra Group as its partner to provide information security, testing and business intelligence services.

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East Lothian Council - Community Housing And Property Management Department
Sopra Group has given the Community Housing and Property Management Division a realistic roadmap which will enable them to deliver more efficient and effective services to the people of East Lothian while maintaining compliance with guidance and legislation.

East Lothian Council - Security Strategy
Sopra Group was asked to provide consulting services that would allow the council to deploy internet-based services in a secure manner.

National Museums Scotland
We worked with National Museums Scotland to develop a robust IT strategy that would complement their goals and deliver an efficient and joined up IT/IS operational structure within each division and department.

One Of The Largest English Local Authorities
Sopra Group carried out Freedom of Information Compliance Consultancy and implemented an information management system.

UK Fisheries Department
Sopra Group delivered a cross Departmental strategic programme of Information System initiatives that would help improve efficiency and joint working arrangements between the UK Fisheries Departments.

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East Lothian Council - Security Strategy
Through Sopra Group's existing relationship with East Lothian Council, working on projects as diverse as content management system selection and business process reengineering, Sopra Group was asked to provide consulting services that would allow the council to deploy Internet based services in a secure manner.

Large UK Public Sector Body
Sopra Group's security division acts as the sole provider of CESG IT Health Check services to a UK-wide Public Sector Body.  These services are provided under a security services framework and provide the organisation with assurance over the effectiveness of their security controls.

Leading European Insurer
Sopra Group was engaged by one of Europe's leading multi-line general insurance companies to conduct an application security open system review against their B2C website.

Lifestyle Protection Company
Recognising the importance of 'risk management' and the need to ensure it had robust IT systems in place on the 'go live' date, a brand new Lifestyle Protection Company chose Sopra Group as its partner to provide information security, testing and business intelligence services.

Scottish Borders Council
Sopra Group designed and built a secure web architecture that was capable of supporting the current and future requirements of Scottish Borders Council.  Virtually every area of the council's activity, from collecting local taxes through to housing benefit, social services and payroll, requires mission critical applications so it was essential to ensure they ran on highly resilient hardware.

Two Factor Sign-on Solution For Local Government
With many key business systems providing critical services to local residents and dealing with a wide range of personal and financial information, this Council recognised the need for a secure method of controlling and auditing access to these systems.

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BAA
To increase efficiency and allow the effective targeting of areas most in need of improvement, BAA engaged Sopra Group to help develop an intelligent baggage handling system.

Counter Fraud Services (NHS National Services Scotland)
Sopra Group assisted Counter Fraud Services to combat fraud by Family Health Service contractors and patients against NHS Scotland.

Crown Office And Procurator Fiscal Service
To combat the problem with the existing system of the Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer, COPFS employed Sopra Group to design and implement a fully integrated and robust information management system that caters for all their business processes and requirements.

Government Justice Department
This Government Justice Department awarded Sopra Group the contract to build a secure website to provide small Specialist Reporting Agencies with the ability to submit the relevant case details online.

High Security Hospital
Sopra Group has been working closely with a high security psychiatric hospital designing a bespoke application for patient administration.

Historic Scotland
In a competitive tender, Sopra Group won the contract to design and build a bespoke Listed Building Control and Workflow System.

Housing Corporation
Sopra Group was chosen in a competitive tender to update the Housing Corporation's existing Investment Management System to help streamline the National Affordable Housing Corporation's bidding process.

Matsushita - Events Management System
Sopra Group helped Matsushita by creating and designing a new events management system.  Matsushita now have an easy-to-use, browser-based system which helps them manage their large events portfolio efficiently and successfully.

Matsushita - Oracle Training Portal
Sopra Group built a training portal for Matsushita Electric's staff worldwide.  The new self-service training portal cuts administration time by 50%.  In a multinational organisation, keeping your staff well trained and well versed in the latest methodologies is business critical.  For Matsushita Electric, an industry leader in the provision of consumer electronic products, this is a business imperative.

Motor Insurers' Bureau - Content Management System
Sopra Group developed a new content management server system for MIB, based on Microsoft's world-class content management server (MCMS).

Motor Insurers' Bureau - Police Helpline
Sopra Group developed a new Police Helpline system to replace the existing method of recording call data, which had a number of limitations, and wasn't equipped to respond to the Police Helpline's long-term needs.

Northumbria Partnership
Sopra Group provided the Northumbria Partnership with a fully hosted secure internet-based 101 Information System and supporting services.

Origo - Digital Certificates
Sopra Group assists Origo to create UNIPASS, the first standard digital certificate.  There has been a seismic shift towards e-commerce over the last few years, specifically in the business-to-business arena with the development of Extranets.

Origo - Extranet Development
Origo wanted to develop an Extranet to allow their Standards Holders to have greater access to Origo's Standards online.  Sopra Group developed a bespoke solution, which gave Origo control of the content management of the site.

Rural Payments And Inspections Directorate (RPID)
Sopra Group developed a Geographic Information System that allows RPID (formerly SEERAD) to control its business process and data in real-time.  Since its implementation the average time taken to digitise field changes has been drastically reduced from an average of 60 days before the introduction of the new approach to an impressive three days.

Scottish Borders Council
Sopra Group assists organisations that require robust IT systems for their survival, few are more dependent on technology than modern local authorities.  Virtually every area of a council's activity, from collecting local taxes through to housing benefit, social services and payroll, requires mission critical applications running on highly resilient hardware.

Scottish National Criminal Justice Board
Sopra Group was chosen to deliver a scorecard-based management information system to Scotland's National Criminal Justice Board and the eleven Local Boards which make up the partnership.

Scottish Prison Service
Sopra Group designed and built a comprehensive Management Information System for The Scottish Prison Service (SPS).  We delivered the user-friendly system on time, and to the required multi-million budget, within tight timescales, including the migration of 7.3 million records from the old system and the development and implementation of a comprehensive five year support contract.

Transport Scotland
We worked with Transport Scotland, to design and build a flexible website solution to help deliver the Scottish Government's vision for transport.

Worldwide Insurance Provider
Sopra Group was selected by an Insurance Provider to develop a unique Secure Extranet to allow clients and staff to share information electronically 24 hours a day.

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Investment Division of Major Life & Pensions Company
Sopra Group was approached to provide specialist End-User Business Test Management expertise to drive a global re-development programme across a range of business functions and technologies.

Key Energy Provider
Sopra Group was chosen as the Energy Provider's testing partner, due to the extensive range of testing services we offer, and our experience within the Utilities marketplace.

Leading International Financial Services Business
Sopra Group worked with a Leading International Financial Services business and carried out a range of testing projects assisting with the seamless integration of a major acquisition.

Lifestyle Protection Company
Recognising the importance of 'risk management' and the need to ensure it had robust IT systems in place on the 'go live' date, a brand new Lifestyle Protection Company chose Sopra Group as its partner to provide information security, testing and business intelligence services.

Major High Street Bank - Requirements Testing
As the Bank's primary testing partner, Sopra Group manages and delivers testing services on a number of different projects across the full range of business areas and platforms.

Major High Street Bank - Scaling Of Mortgage Book
Sopra Group was assigned to test the scaling and integration of the mortgage book of a newly merged Bank.

Major Telco Organisation
Sopra Group has been working with this telcommunications company since February 2003.  During this time, as part of a Test Optimisation Programme (TOP), we have helped them, amongst other things, to realise extensive cost savings and quality gains through a requirements testing approach.

Orange - Testing Services
We have been working with Orange since February 2003 and, during this time, have amongst other things developed a risk-based testing approach for the operator.  In addition, Sopra Group has provided a flexible team of test managers, analysts and engineers that Orange can use to assist with projects, as and when required.

Orange Wednesday
Orange asked its testing partner, Sopra Group, who was already working in-house, to manage the testing process for Orange Wednesday and ensure the third party developed the application strictly to Orange standards.

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