Highlander Direct - Sales Division

“We have been impressed by Highlander's ability to approach the supply of product and services from a different perspective. Rather than competing on commonplace items, such as Desktops, Notebooks and printers - they have addressed our needs outside these product area's and are only to happy to provide products and services that we struggle to obtain from other mainstream resellers. This provides us with a supply route that is very complimentary to our supply needs” - I.T Manager, Local Government Authority, UK

Highlander Direct is committed to providing high quality IT solutions tailored to meet the needs of many types of public sector organisations. From our experience we understand that carefully considered, sustainable IT solutions play a key role in assisting in the delivery of services, reducing environmental impact and building a better global society. IT expenditure accounts for an ever increasing percentage of an organisation's budget, adds to energy costs and the responsibilities to the environment. Highlander offers solutions that balance these responsibilities, by looking at actual product needs, manufacturing methods and practices, packaging, power consumption, recycled materials, product lifecycles and retirement. We have realised that our business activities, as well as those of our customers, have an impact on our global society and environment.

Corporate Social Responsibility

Public sector organisations are making serious commitments and positive changes incorporating green I.T principle’s that take into account what has been called the triple bottom line of economic viability, social responsibility, and environmental impact.

Our principles for product selection are:

Avoid - Is the product needed? Does the need outweigh the hidden costs of manufacture, use and disposal?

Re-Use - Can existing equipment be re-used to fulfil the new objective? Can the product be re-used when it comes to the end of its lifecycle?

Re-Cycle - Can parts and materials be recycled and reclaimed for re-use? How is this done?

Highlander are a key leader in corporate social responsibility and our written polices and procedures have been introduced to ensure we go further than just shipping a retired I.T product to a Landfill site or just Incinerating it at the end of it’s life.

If you would like to find out more on how we can work with you to help us meet our responsibilities together, contact us for further information.

Government

Customers within the Government arena have specific needs that differ significantly between each sector; consequently there is a need for a solution provider to be able to look objectively at the needs and objectives and work in partnership with the customer to develop systems that will deliver the services required. Highlander’s strategic vendor relationships enable us to this - deliver market leading solutions, tailored to the individual project needs and in line with Government purchasing policies, frameworks and objectives.
Healthcare

Highlander recognises the problems that health organisations face, we have developed a detailed understanding of both the structure of the NHS and the many challenges it faces. We understand that the problems range from simple supply chain issues, right up to complex, high availability data storage and retrieval, ideal for medical imaging and EPR systems. Our experts have worked with numerous NHS trusts to solve the simple and the complex problems. In all cases we have preferred to play devils advocate and challenge the decisions made by the customer, to refine and ensure that the solution arrived at is both suitable and sustainable.
Emergency Services

Highlander recognises the pressures of delivering services where reliability and availability is the number one priority. We work with leading manufacturers, designing and implementing robust, reliable systems to manage critical data, and make it available where and when it is needed. Having the right data at the right time reduces the pressures on the officer on the ground allowing them to confidently deal with the incident at hand. Our specialisations range from high availability, data replication, backup and storage solutions to frontline devices for data retrieval, display and sharing.

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