As companies transform their business through Servitization they need to enhance, adapt and evolve their service delivery functions. This often involves developing new expertise and can be daunting while 'normal business' still has to be delivered. In many cases it makes sense to bring in a specialist delivery partner to augment the existing team either as part of the transition process or as part of a longer term strategy.

We have established relationships with the following partner organisations who have particular expertise and industry credibility in this area:

Scio Consulting is a consulting and software product development company specializing in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and On-Demand business models. Scio is devoted to helping independent software vendors (ISVs) and Internet-based businesses bring their applications to market faster, with higher reliability and better quality. Scio's experience spans many industries with a range of clients, from startups and entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 companies. By combining tailored Agile project management and full-lifecycle software product development experience Scio provides its clients with cost efficiencies, complete project transparency, and exceptional results.

For more information visit Scio's website at: http://www.sciodev.com

Cranfield University is one of the worlds leading research institutes into the emerging field of servitization or product-service systems (PSS). Cranfield Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre (IMRC) has invested over £4 million to develop five major themes of PSS research, a PSS Futures Lab and a PSS Industry Club. As one of the leading consulting practices focused on servitization, Servitizer collaborates with Cranfield to ensure the latest research influences our approach and methodologies whilst providing Cranfield with insight into current industry activities and trends on servitization.

To learn more about Cranfield University and its innovate research in this area, please visit the IMRC homepage at http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/imrc or click on the Cranfield logo above.

OpSource™ delivers Web applications and software-as-a-service for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand, the leading platform for Web application delivery, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource as their Web application delivery partner, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure and services necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling their applications and services. OpSource On-Demand is suitable for companies at any stage of growth, with any type of on-demand application. OpSource is the only company to offer Success-Based Pricing, a unit-based pricing model that allows businesses to begin with a modest minimum commitment and scale expenses as revenues increase.

Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA , OpSource has Web application delivery centers in Virginia, London and Bangalore. For more information about OpSource, visit www.opsource.net or call 1-800-664-9973.

NuaTel provides professional services and mobility lifestyle applications for next generation IT and telecommunications. By leveraging many years of experience of Service Delivery and Product Development across different areas of fixed and mobile telecommunications, NuaTel are ideally placed to enable client companies efficiently grow incremental revenues around existing products, services or operations. Specific areas of expertise include professional services delivery, complex network management and end-to-end solutions architecture.

Aspiracon deliver superior integrated project management solutions. With a strong track record in project management and delivery of large complex projects Aspiracon have leveraged this knowledge to become experts in the implementation of medium to large scale Enterprise Project Management Solutions  (EPMS) from the market leading enterprise providers.

Maidsfield Associates provide expertise to established globally focussed technology companies to help meet growth aspirations through channel partnership and strategic business development.

With a strong track record in Global Customer Support and Customer Care, Asuresoft bring specific expertise in Quality & Process implementation including development of methodology around new technology introduction.

Quantum Business Solutions provide financial analysis expertise which can be applied to any type of business. With a strong background in Management Accounting in both multi-national and small-medium business environments, Quantum help businesses focus on profitability analysis, revenue & margin growth strategy and cost management, in line with the key objectives of the business.