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HILARY SIMPSON OF LONDON BOROUGH OF CAMDEN SHORTLISTED FOR PUBLIC SECTOR DEPLOYMENT OF THE YEAR – WOMEN IN IT AWARDS

Hilary Simpson, Head of ICT Business Partnering, Service Integration and Multi Agency Working for the London Borough of Camden, has been shortlisted for the Public Sector Deployment of the Year for the Women in IT Awards.

The Awards have been organised by Information Age, the business technology magazine and will be attended by hundreds of the UK’s leading IT innovators. Across 12 categories, there have been more than 100 nominations for the Awards, which will take place at London’s Grosvenor House Ballroom, Park Lane, on 29 January 2015.

The Public Sector Deployment of the Year award recognises public sector ICT deployments over the last 18 months where a woman was instrumental to its success. The project must demonstrate innovation, best practice, alignment to business goals, impact on the business and ROI.

Hilary Simpson has been shortlisted for leading the implementation of IBM InfoSphere MDM to obtain a cross-council view of the citizen at Camden, in collaboration with IBM and Entity Group, a specialist Information Management Consultancy. In 2014, the project won the UK Government Computing Transformation Award.

With continued pressure on local government to cut costs while maintaining service levels, Camden realised the only way to sustain savings was to harness its data to drive smarter decision-making.

Within just three months, Hilary led the development of a “Residents’ Index”, uniting information from multiple services to create a single, consistent view of residents across the borough and the council services that they receive. The solution prevents and detects fraud ensuring the Council allocates its resources fairly, improves collaboration, enhances data quality, and enables a “right first time” service. It identifies which services residents are engaging with, so Camden can provide a better, more joined-up service to them, and make more informed strategic decisions by looking at service patterns as a whole.

It is an example of the type of outstanding innovation that is being achieved by women across the IT industry, a fact that will be celebrated at The Women in IT Awards later this month.

For more information:

To learn more about IBM InfoSphere MDM solutions, visit: www.ibm.com/software/data/infosphere

To learn more about information management solutions from Entity Group, visit: www.entity.co.uk

About Entity Group

Entity Group is one of Europe’s leading Enterprise Information Management specialists, assisting clients with strategic consultancy, analysis, solution implementation, Big Data, data modelling, integration, MDM and analytics. Entity’s data management expertise, developed over 25 years of exemplary service delivery within the information management domain, is often called upon to solve highly challenging business data issues – for enterprise clients and on behalf of global IT services companies and software vendors.

Entity GroupSam ThomsettEntity Marketing Manager01795 415828sam.thomsett@entity.co.uk