How have we done?Professor David Maguire, Jisc chair and vice-chancellor, University of Greenwich

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• Sectors-owned organisation for shared digital infrastructure, services, content and expertise• Established 1993 to

provide: national vision and leadership on networking and specialist information services

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Jisc in Numbers

•Work with 969 education organisations•National network infrastructure £18m users•50% of all UK library spend on e-resources•Over 400 digital content agreements•Sectors save £203m annually

How have we done?

Of the sector, for the sector: we do 3 main things for you

Shared digital

infrastructure and

services

Current examples:

Janet network, shared data

centre, eduroam wireless,

geospatial services

Future examples:

Learner analytics,

research data management,

FE college in a box

Sector wide deals with IT vendors and commercial publishers

Current examples:

Microsoft 365 email, Amazon web services,

e-journals, FE e-books

Future examples: Prevent web

filtering, Tableau, new models for

digital publishing

Expert and trusted

advice and practical

assistance

Current examples:

Open Access, Financial x-ray, cloud advice, cyber security

Future examples:

FE area reviews, national

monograph strategy

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Expenditure 2014-15

How have we done?

Value realisation (15.7m)

Futures (8.1m)

Governance cost (1.1m)

Jisc commercial costs (0.4m) Unrestricted reserves (8.6m)

Digital infrastruc-ture (60.1m)

Digital resources – other (19.0m)

Digital resources – licensing (24.5m)

Restricted reserves (0.4m)

£137.9m

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Savings achieved with no service reduction

How have we done?

•Average annual reduction over £11m

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Revenue Savings

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Shared services – Data Centre

• State of the art facility• Saving institutions up to

80% of costs of commercial provision• Highly secure

environment – connected to heart of the Janet network

• Liverpool City College• First FE user• Expects to save £48k per

annumHow have we done?

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Sector deals – some highlights• Cloud purchasing frameworks and special terms with

Amazon, Microsoft 365, and Google: save users +£7.5m a year • One institution using Microsoft 365 saving £30k per year

outsourcing email • Constraining the costs of Open Access, e.g. new

agreement with Springer • Jisc collections £90m of sector agreements, out of a total

sector spend of £190m on electronic content: saving organisations £70m• eBooks service used by 84% of FE colleges, £7.18m value

to the college sectorHow have we done?

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Advice and practical assistance – some highlights

How have we done?

Heart of Worcestershire College

“Jisc are an excellent partner to work with. They have a wealth of knowledge that we can call upon”

Royal Conservatoire of Scotland“…we rely heavily on Jisc for advice and guidance on issues like copyright, data protection, FOI – and that has undoubtedly saved us a lot of money.”

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Advice and practical assistance – some highlights

How have we done?

Financial x-ray• University of Huddersfield• Easier to see where investment

is needed• Benchmark with other

organisations (as per Diamond Review)

• University of Wolverhampton• “It is the foundation of a

revised/refreshed approach to capital planning for ICT…it has give us confidence that we are investing appropriately in the student experience”.

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Jiscom – exploit assets to reduce institutions’ Jisc costs

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Goonhilly Earth Station – connectivity for enterprise and innovation in the South West

Dimension Data – connecting customers to cloud solutions

BBC– connectivity to drive 21st Century technology research

Jiscom 15/16 forecastBooked revenue : £1.2mContribution to Jisc:£0.5m

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Jisc in 2015

How have we done?

• Reduced costs• Continued delivery of critical

services • Launched new products &

services• cloud data services• financial x-ray cost-capturing

service• Revitalised customer services

team • Co-design to decide and shape

the future• Made the case for Jisc

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Janet Network Traffic

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Thank You!

How have we done?