Profile
The Department provides Consultancy, Advice and Guidance, Training, Technical Support, Placement Students, Knowledge Transfer, Business System Verification and support.

Business Support

We can provide a wide range of expert consultants who can provide independent assistance to businesses.

Currently our main focus is:

Web Accessibility
Open Source Systems
Information Strategy
System Verification
eCommerce
Mobile computing
Project management
Database design and management
Internet systems
Information management
Information systems
Software engineering
Business analysis
Network design
Organisational analysis
Co-operative working
Knowledge based systems
Intelligent systems
Digitisation

Consultants can provide independant advice and guidance to industry and use the resources of the University to provide up-to-date information

Many organisations using in-house or external services need to be able to check that their strategies and developments are appropriate. We can provide independent experts to assess many aspects of IT provision and its impact on the organisation in order to ensure that the approach taken can be fully justified. Audit reports can be produced for a range of business and IT activities. There is growing concern that web sites need to meet legal requirements for accessibility and to meet distance-selling legislation. Sites can be verified and advice provided on appropriate development strategies.

Technical support for Windows (Server and Workstation), Linux (Redhat), Security and backup and Oracle can also be provided.

Accreditations held by UCE Birmingham Department of Computing
The UCE Birmingham Department of Computing currently has academic membership of the following groups:
Oracle Academic Initiative
Microsoft Academic Alliance
IBM Scholars Program.
Altova Academic Partner
Staff are members of the British Computer Society, Institute of Learning and Teaching.
Red Hat certification is held.