London – December 11, 2012 – Attenda Limited, the Business Critical IT company, today announced that its client Malvern Instruments has added further mission critical applications to its strategic hosted platform, including the Malvern Instruments global web presence, the Product Lifecycle Management system, and a Global Web Acceleration capability.

The contract extension reflects Malvern Instruments strong relationship with Attenda following a successful transition of its SAP platform to Attenda in early 2012. This outsourced model has supported Malvern Instruments rapid business growth both in the UK and overseas, including a 24x7x365 operational support model and a business focused, rather than technology focused, SLA.

Malvern Instruments provides analytical instrumentation that is used in the characterisation of a wide variety of materials, from industrial bulk powders to the latest nanomaterials and delicate macromolecules. The company’s solutions are proven in sectors as diverse as cement production and pharmaceutical drug discovery. Headquartered in Malvern, UK, Malvern Instruments has subsidiary organisations in all major European markets, North America, China, Korea and Japan, a joint venture in India, a global distribution network and applications laboratories around the world.

Rob Prestidge, Finance and Systems Director, Malvern Instruments explains, “We needed a long term partner that could support our global growth plans, and Attenda clearly demonstrated a proven Business Critical IT capability.”

The Attenda solution comprises an enterprise grade private Cloud infrastructure, with integrated Disaster Recovery capability, providing Malvern Instruments with a cost effective, agile and scalable strategic platform for the future. The partnership with Attenda has enabled Malvern Instruments to remove the burden of operational IT, enabling the internal IT team to focus on activities that deliver high priority business projects. Attenda has also provided additional support to Malvern during the transition period, to ensure that the business experiences a smooth migration across to the Attenda fully managed service.

Prestidge concludes, “Attenda showed us that they had both the capability and the desire to become our long term partner for our Business Critical IT, they conducted the project with real technical leadership, challenging the solution design, and providing a dedicated resource team from bid through to project implementation. We look forward to a healthy and long term relationship with them.”

About Attenda Limited
Attenda (www.attenda.net), is the UK‘s leading managed service and cloud platform provider, specialising in running business critical applications. It has a Business Critical IT approach that combines business outcome focus with a structured engagement methodology and supporting services and infrastructure. 

Through its structured Define, Design & Verify engagement methodology, Attenda helps to uncover hidden opportunities, offers straightforward advice and facilitates the right choices for its Clients; leveraging modular, scalable and secure platforms that Deliver agility and reliability.

This proven operational foundation ensures better business outcomes, whilst supporting innovation and optimisation. This enables clients to focus on strategy and their business, making them more competitive.

Attenda has built up a commanding market reputation, with the industry's leading accreditations and an unrivalled portfolio of UK enterprise Clients including bmi, Christian Aid, Microsoft, NHS, Nisa-Today’s, Princes, Regus, St. James’s Place and Travelodge.

Attenda is ISO9001, ISO27001 and ISO20000 accredited, is a Microsoft Gold Hosting Partner, VMware Premier Service Provider, a SAP Partner, SAP Certified in Cloud Services and a G-Cloud certified service provider.

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About Malvern Instruments
Malvern Instruments is a market leader in measuring performance controlling material properties. These include particle size, particle shape, zeta potential, molecular weight, size and conformation, rheological properties and chemical identification. Malvern delivers the systems, support and expertise that ensure the analytical integrity and productivity needed to drive research, development and manufacturing.

Malvern’s measurement solutions for scientists, technologists and engineers advance continually through customer collaboration. Complementary materials characterization systems deliver inter-related measurements that reflect the complexities of particulates and disperse systems, nanomaterials and macromolecules. Combining intelligently implemented technologies with in-depth industry applications knowledge and support, Malvern provides customers with the competitive advantage they demand.

Headquartered in Malvern, UK, Malvern Instruments has subsidiary organizations in all major European markets, North America, China, Japan and Korea, a joint venture in India, a global distributor network and applications laboratories around the world. www.malvern.com

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