Executive Summary

Introduction

Founded in 2003 as an IBM Business Partner, Maywood Solutions quickly achieved premier status whilst establishing a strong reputation for delivering quality and service excellence to its customers across the portfolio of IBM software products.

Recognising the change in direction of the enterprise infrastructure and business requirements, Maywood Solutions now also concentrates on two additional solution areas to address this new way of thinking. The first focusing on virtual infrastructures based on the leading vendors’ solutions, in software, storage and servers, and secondly Professional Services to package and deliver these solutions.

Today, Maywood Solutions has grown to a £10m revenue (FY09) company delivering best of breed products and consulting skills to organisations based around  our core technologies; IBM Software and Virtual Infrastructures, all delivering on the Maywood promise of saving our customers time and money. 

The Maywood Solutions team, lead by Managing Director Adrian Keeling, has a wealth of experience, over one hundred man years in all, delivering enterprise class software and hardware solutions.  The Maywood ethos is very much team focused around delivering a complete solution to the customer, managing the risk and ultimately delivering upon the Maywood promise of saving organisations time and money on their IT infrastructure.

The account management team at Maywood Solutions, lead by Sales Director Wayne Reed, draw upon their experience and high levels of product certification in taking direct ownership of their customers. Working in partnership with our clients helps the team to gain a valuable insight and understanding of our customers business. This “trusted advisor” status allows us to assist our customers to maximise their IT investment.

By also bringing together a competent team of highly skilled and experienced technical professionals, each one vendor accredited and an expert in their chosen field of expertise, Maywood Solutions offers customers a unique approach in consulting, designing, planning and delivering enterprise class solutions.

Maywood Solutions is one of the most highly certified IBM Premier Business Partners in Europe currently certified in all eleven product groups within the new IBM Software Value Plus Business Partner Program.  This means that for our customers we can continue to supply you with the complete IBM software product portfolio.

Building upon this expertise, not only can Maywood Solutions provide IBM software products, but also extensive knowledge and experience on delivering virtual infrastructure projects; both using software and hardware from the leading tier-one vendors within this technology arena.  Virtually anything is possible!

The Maywood Solutions structured approach has delivered product and professional services time and time again.  On a daily basis the typical customers we deal with read like a who’s who of household names in High Street Banking, government, retail, global insurance companies, and other significant Fortune 500 companies and organisations. With the quality and experience of Maywood Solutions Professional Services Consultants, we are directly utilised by IBM to deliver their services commitments to customers throughout the EMEA region.

Our key differentiator is not with individual skills, but the ability to bring together an entire team empowered to present and deliver complete solutions that are both optimised technically and cost effective to manage. We can deliver products, software and service engagements that span the complete project life cycle using our tried and trusted engagement methodology understanding the impact to the business in enabling new technologies.

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