Accreditations

Cyber Essentials is a scheme introduced by the National Cyber Security Centre to help organisations reassure their clients that cyber security is taken seriously and that we are committed to having security measures in place.

We have retained our Cyber Essentials accreditation year on year, continually demonstrating our commitment and compliance with best practice industry standards for cyber security.

The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a globally recognised best practice methodology for IT service management, ensuring that a business’s IT services support goals and facilitate business growth.

ITIL describes processes, procedures, tasks, and checklists which are not technology or organisation specific, but can be applied by businesses and IT service management providers to deliver value and maintain competency and measure continual improvement.

Our Application Managed Services team members are ITIL-accredited, and all our Application Managed Services are based on the ITIL framework of best practice IT service management. By having team members ITIL accredited, and the service provision holistically based upon the framework of ITIL, this helps ensure that we deliver business value for our clients, and ensure we meet, and wherever possible exceed, service management standards globally.

The tools and best practice processes underpinning the accreditation and our compliance with it set the environmental standards by which we will operate and how we will provide effective action for the positive impact of our environment.

Achieved in 2021, the ISO14001 standard is more relevant than ever, with a focus globally on taking positive steps to improve the climate and ensure that we act in a sustainable and eco-ethically way. Across the globe, we are all responsible for and tasked with making significant and real changes to our lifestyles and businesses in order to meet and resolve the environmental challenges we face today.

By becoming ISO14001 accredited, we are showing that we have taken steps on that journey, and we will commit to act in an environmentally sustainable way, with appropriate management of our environmental systems and impact underpinning our operations day to day.

We all need to be on the road to Net Zero. We’ve started our journey, and we’re happy to support others as they achieve their local and global goals for a better environment.

Social Enterprise UK (‘SEUK’) is the leading global authority on social enterprise. It is the biggest network of social enterprises in the UK and the strategic partner to 6 government departments, leading public policy on social enterprise for over 15 years. SEUK has unrivalled business relationships, working with some of the biggest companies in the UK, to support social enterprise through their supply chains, people, and networks.

SEUK has a membership network that includes all the leading lights of the UK social enterprise movement. Embridge Consulting is proud to be a Supporting Member of the Social Enterprise UK, partnering with and supporting social enterprise and increased social value in local and national communities across the UK.

We are a Disability Confident Employer. As a Disability Confident business, we are committed to challenging attitudes towards disabled people in employment. This means that we are committed to challenging attitudes towards disability, we provide inclusive and accessible recruitment to all, and support existing employees who have or develop disabilities during their careers.

We are proud to be #DisabilityConfident and support fair and equal treatment, overcoming inequality and helping to bridge the gaps and allow people opportunity to realise their full potential.

In 2020, Unit4 launched its Global Partnership Programme where all Partners globally were assessed, and we were delighted to be awarded Elite Partnership Status in recognition of our experience, success of our relationship and customer satisfaction. Year on year, we have retained consistently the status of Elite Partner since its inception.

Embridge Consulting was the first Elite Partner within the UK & Ireland, and was awarded Global Number One Partner of the Year at the Global Partner Forum in 2021. In the following year, 2022, we were awarded Global Service Delivery Partner of the Year. We are confident this is down to the way we manage our relationship with Unit4 and how we collaborate successfully in representing and delivering solutions to our customers.

As part of our Elite Partner status, we commit to, and ensure delivery of, a level of accreditation within our expert Consultants. We are proud to say we have the highest number of U4 ERP accreditations in the UK within our Professional Services team. And we don’t stop there – we will continue to add to our accreditations within the team, and ensure that we are the right partner for any U4 implementation, assuring and providing our clients with accredited expertise to guide, support, and deliver sustainable digital transformation. Please see our Partner Page for more information on our strategic and collaborative partnership with Unit4.

We are a Crown Commercial Supplier, registered on the GCloud Government Framework, and on the Digital Outcome and Specialists Framework as a Digital Outcome and Specialist Supplier.

The GCloud Government Framework in the UK enables UK government organisations access to cloud software, suppliers, and hosting without the need to issue lengthy tender processes. Embridge Consulting is proud of its inclusion in this framework as a supplier to GCloud cloud hosting, software, and services since 2016, retaining our status on this framework year on year.

The Digital Outcome and Specialists Framework is a dynamic-style framework with the specific aim of helping the public sector buy, design, build and deliver digital outcomes using an agile approach, by procuring the appropriate specialist resource to deliver agile software development. Embridge Consulting became a Digital Outcome and Specialist Supplier on the framework in 2016, having seen a substantial increase in demand for our services within the Central, Local, and other Government Agencies. Therefore, to help simplify the procurement process for our clients, this was an essential step for us to take.