Facility CMIS Licence Renewal

[Michael]

Bromcom (I can confirm), is a product we're already looking at Edited March 18, 2016 by elsiegee40

[Bromcom-PR]

Bromcom (I can confirm), is a product we're already looking at

 

Yes, you are not alone. A good number of Birmingham schools are also exactly doing the same.

Edited March 18, 2016 by elsiegee40

[dhm83]

I have spoken to Advanced Learning and they are telling me that they have done a new deal with Link2ICT to allow Link to sell the Licenses for CMIS and Progresso again, but the support will be directly with Advanced Learning who are moving their technical team up to the Mailbox to support us. They told me that Link had agreed licenses and behalf of a whole list of schools including mine. When I queried and said well what if I don't want to buy the license and support through Link and want to buy direct through Advanced? They told me that the deal with Link was done and that we were expected to just agree with purchasing everything through Link as before but the support desk would be with Advanced. Like a whole load of other Bham schools I got a direct quotation from Advanced to match what support I was having from Link, and I found that Advanced's direct pricing was a lot more competitive than Link's price. The Advanced rep could not believe I was paying over £2.5k a year for support alone. So I am now going to email the MD of Advanced to see if I can go direct and save the school £1.5k for the same license and support. I have got a copy of the letter from Advanced to Link customers if people want to see it. There should be a copy in the post to most schools on the way.

[Michael]

This is why if all schools (not just in Birmingham) look at the open market, then in summary, you're not going to be subjected to these 'deals'.

[sharonk]

Yes please - can you share the letter as I would love to be able to compare details?

[dhm83]

Here is the letter from Advanced Learning:

 

 

 

[-Link2ICT-]

A joint statement from Link2ICT and Advanced Learning: