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Secure Graduation Documents for UK Higher Education Cloud

Jonathan Dempsey, CEO Digitary

Invent based company Digitary has secured funding from the United Kingdom government to build a secure document Shared Service for universities.

The initiative, which is part of a £12.5 million investment under the UK government's Universities Modernisation Fund, will be the first service to go live in the UK's Higher Education Cloud which aims to bring the benefits of Cloud computing to universities that have traditionally implemented standalone systems on-campus.

Digitary counts all Irish Institutes of Technology, most Irish universities as well as universities in Portugal and Australia among its customers. In the UK, it is already used by leading UK universities, including the London School of Economics, University of Cambridge and University of Manchester. Universities use the system to replace paper documents with digitally signed electronic documents and to replace manual processes with automated processes. This makes graduation documents more secure and saves money.

Seven Universities are due to be live on the new service by the end of March. These Universities are new to using Digitary and represent a cross section of UK universities by size and type.

Jonathan Dempsey, Digitary's CEO, says "We are delighted to get official approval and we are in discussions with a large number of institutions that are interested in the new service".

For further information visit www.digitary.net