BOCC professional partnerships and memberships

Professional memberships

Adobe Solution Partner (Bronze)

As an Adobe Solution Partner, BOCC keeps up-to-date about the latest updates and upgrades to the programming technologies we utilise everyday, such as ColdFusion, Flex and Flash. Staff attend regular ‘forum’ meetings, so that they can share knowledge and discuss and resolve development issues. These can then be reported back to other staff and utilised to great effect internally.
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/partnerportal/

 Official Comodo SSL Partner

As a Comodo partner BOCC is able to conduct the entire application, issuance and installation process of secure server certificates on behalf of our clients. This ensures that security is kept at the forefront of any transactional website and our clients have the peace of mind that renewals are managed on their behalf.
http://www.comodo.com/

Microsoft Authorised Educational Reseller

BOCC fulfilled the licensing exam requirements in order to become a Microsoft Authorised Education reseller (AER.) This allows the sale of substantially discounted licensing to organisations, such as registered charities, museums, universities and colleges.

Full Voting Member of Nominet

Nominet is the official registry for ‘.uk’ Internet names. Nominet is based in the nearby Oxford Science Park in Oxford. BOCC can directly register ‘.co.uk’ and ‘.org.uk’ domain names and others such as .com and other national registries. BOCC also has specialist knowledge of ‘.ac.uk’ and ‘.gov.uk’ domain name application procedures.
http://www.nominet.com/

Member of the UK Web Design Association

The UK Web Design Association (UKWDA) is the Web Standards Organisation in the UK. The organisation was set-up to encourage and promote industry standards within the British web design and new media sector, which BOCC adheres to.
http://www.ukwda.org/

BOCC staff accreditations

Members of the BOCC team also belong to the following organisations:

• Members of the British Computer Society
• Fellowship of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce (RSA)
• Member of the Chartered Society of Designers
• Adobe Certified Expert (ACE) Developers
• Members of the ColdFusion User Group

These memberships allow our key staff to be kept up-to-date and informed about the latest technologies and discussions around ‘hot topics’ within these arenas. Attendance at various talks and conferences means that we can all benefit from knowledge that can be disseminated throughout the company.

Professional partners and suppliers

Alfresco

BOCC is a qualified Systems Integrator for Alfresco. We're are able to provide expert consulting, integration and migration services for the Alfresco content management solutions.
http://www.alfresco.com/

Critchleys Chartered Accountants

Critchleys are a local Oxford based chartered accountancy firm that BOCC has been working with for over 10 years.
http://www.critchleys.co.uk/

Digipress Limited

Digipress Limited is a local digital printing agency, based in Didcot. They specialise in digital printing, design and graphics. They have recently attained full FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) accreditation. This means that they can use the FSC logo on all jobs and the Waterless logo for Litho print - making people aware of their environmental credentials.

Foundation Network Limited (FNL)

FNL provide partner management tools to sales and marketing professional to enable them to better manage their channel partner sales, marketing and associated business operations activities.
http://www.foundation-network.com/

Northwood Reid

Northwood Reid is a niche legal practice, based in Oxford on the Magdalen Science Park. The firm specialises in advising the commercial, research and academic sectors. Providing advise on transactions, collaborations, joint ventures, disputes that involve intellectual property, and on a wide-range of contractual and corporate matters.
http://www.northwoodreid.com/

Riverbank IT Management

Riverbank helps growing companies by taking responsibility for all aspects of their IT. Over 100 businesses depend on Riverbank as their outsourced IT department. They benefit from fixed IT costs, a help desk, and monitoring of their vital IT infrastructure. They have the security of working with a trusted partner.
http://www.riverbank.co.uk/

The Remotest Idea

The Remotest Idea provides a unique approach to effective advertising, marketing, web design and copywriting. Located in the wilds of remotest Northumberland, but connected to the entire world.
http://www.theremotestidea.co.uk/

Watson Hall Ltd

Watson Hall helps organisations with their website information security requirements. They work with your business and information systems staff, partners and suppliers, including professional advisors such as accountants, auditors, insurers and solicitors. Watson Hall guides, assists and builds security and skills to reduce security risk.
http://www.watsonhall.com/