Technology - USA (2021-03)

276 March 2021

COMPUTACENTER

WRITTEN BY:

WILLIAM SMITH

PRODUCED BY:

BEN MALTBY

Jonathan Stern,

Public Sector Director

at IT services firm

Computacenter, on

how the company

is providing crucial

hardware to counter

the pandemic

I

think one of the best things about working

with the public sector is that it really

evokes a sense of mission,” says Jonathan

Stern, Public Sector Director at IT services

firm Computacenter. The necessity of

that mission has only been reinforced by

the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which

has refocused the public’s attention on

the value of the public sector, in the form

of the NHS and initiatives such as the Job

Retention Scheme.

The pandemic, and the shift to remote

working it has caused, has resulted in

Computacenter scaling up its offering.

“There’s been some pretty Herculean

efforts to go from being in the middle of

a Windows 10 deployment, to suddenly

needing to transform the way in which we

deliver service to the user and pivot towards

delivering to individuals in their homes.

The hours that were worked and the effort

that was put in was quite remarkable.”

Stern estimates that there are 300,000 key

workers making use of its managed services,

with over half a million critical national

TECHNOLOGY

TRANSFORMATION

PUBLIC SECTOR