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Press / 2004 / 14^th May

InfoBasis provides platform for the British Computer Society’s Skills Manager™

London, UK, 12th May 2004 – InfoBasis Limited, a leading provider of skills management business solutions, today announced that the InfoBasis Enterprise Skills Infrastructure (ESI) platform has been used to underpin the British Computer Society’s (BCS) innovative new solution, BCS Skills Manager™. The solution, which is due to be launched in May, is set to change the face of IT resourcing, allowing organisations to identify and effectively manage IT skills. Skills Manager was developed in partnership with InfoBasis and is to become the industry standard for professionally managed IT departments.

The leading professional body for the IT industry, the BCS believes Skills Manager will enable users to identify skills gaps within their teams, as well as find ways of bridging those gaps.

BCS Product Development Director, Malcolm Sillars, said: “This powerful software solution enables organisations to more effectively manage their in-house IT skills, and allows practitioners to maintain professional experience records and identify where they can develop their skills further. With this valuable data, users can demonstrate where their skills are strong or need developing and in turn organisations can benefit from effective project resourcing, readiness analysis and greater staff satisfaction. For example, a good IT practitioner might have the right IT skills but if he or she hasn’t got the right management skills, IT projects can result in disaster. Skills Manager can help organisations diagnose these types of problems.”

One critical component of Skills Manager is that it is based on a new skills framework – SFIAplus – which combines recognised standards from the Skills Framework for the Information Age (SFIA) and the BCS Industry Structure Model (ISM), bringing together several years’ expertise into the single framework. SFIAplus is a comprehensive tool that enables organisations to classify and benchmark their IT skills, as well as train and develop their team to meet their IT skills requirements.

Ashley Wheaton, CEO of InfoBasis, stated: “Successful IT projects are only as good as the people employed to get the job done, who in turn only thrive in the right position, with effective direction and management. BCS Skills Manager enables organisations to define their skills set and provide factual evidence – to the board if necessary – on where improvements in resourcing are required, allowing managers to prepare and plan for the long-term and deliver successful projects on time and within budget.”

Skills Manager is available as a hosted or intranet solution, and can also be integrated with existing in-house applications.