UK University Relies on Funnelback
July 25, 2013
Search solution firm Funnelback has achieved a spot on the U.K. government’s list of cloudy vendors, we learn from the Sales Information at the HM Government G-Cloud site. Commitments to savings and transparency prompted the agency to publish this list of cloud-services vendors, which includes cost information. The introduction explains:
“As part of G-Cloud’s commitment to make central government savings by encouraging a shift to cloud computing commodity services, and our equal commitment to transparency, we publish details of all public sector spend through the G-Cloud frameworks. Details of the projected savings enabled by the Programme can be found here.
“All suppliers on the G-Cloud frameworks are obliged to provide monthly reports of invoiced sales to the Government Procurement Service (GPS). Once the data has been validated, we then publish updated figures on to this page on a monthly basis.”
We have taken interest in Funnelback before, and were happy to spot it in the list (its platform was used at the University of Surrey.) The Australian enterprise-search provider grew from technology developed by scientific research agency CSIRO. Funnelback was established in 2005, and was bought by U.K. content management outfit Squiz in 2009. Their memorable moniker combines the names of two Australian spiders, the funnel-web and the redback.
Cynthia Murrell, July 25, 2013
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