Our members are driving the mainframe ecosystem: our mission is to Guide and Share. If you want to know what’s happening in the industry right now and what’s coming down the line, join us.
GS UK is an international non-profit association of companies, organisations and individuals involved in technology using mainframe architectures. 100% independent, we are led and staffed by dedicated volunteers.
We encourage people to share their knowledge and experience. This not only helps their employers to work smarter and adopt new approaches in software, hardware and communications, it also means we can have a say in product and service development by vendors, and influence European standards in IT and communications in the interests of our members.
“It’s a community coming together to help and support each other, in an environment that’s not driven by sales. It’s all about education, and learning more about what’s driving this industry. You are hearing from leading experts in their field.”
‘Give and Take’
The GS UK approach is founded on collaboration and information sharing for mutual benefit.
GIVE:
- Guidance – sharing knowledge between members and between vendors and members to help implement and operate IT solutions.
- Information – influencing the providers of products, solutions and services offered to members and ensuring vendors and other IT-related bodies act in our best interests.
- Vision – helping our members to understand and contribute to how IT is developing.
- Education – providing easy access exceptional teaching and training from a variety of sources, including vendors, other members and educational bodies.
TAKE:
- Technology – helping industry players on all sides to interact, discussing new and emerging technologies and the best ways to implement them.
- Advantage – gaining new insights to help your own organization to optimize IT and have an impact on total cost of ownership.
- Knowledge – tapping into a ‘hive mind’ of exceptional knowledge, including IBM R&D and other globally renowned experts, to drive maximum business value from IT investments.
- Experience – sharing experiences, ideas and business values with GSE members to help you to implement new technologies and ensure best practice in your own environment.
Our Working Groups focus on detailed issues in specific product and business areas. This work often includes IBM representatives.
Within GS UK, active marketing by any vendor or member is absolutely prohibited. This prohibition also includes the hiring of new employees. This ‘golden rule’ provides our members with peace of mind that other member organisations will not approach and recruit their staff at meetings, conferences and other GS UK-related activities.
GS UK
GS UK covers the UK, Ireland and some Middle Eastern countries, and is managed by the GS UK Board. More than 40 companies and organisations are already active in GS UK, with 500+ managers, technical and professional personal regularly involved.
GS UK has over 12 Working Groups (WG) each with its own Steering Committee elected by the group’s members. Each group consists of representatives from member organisations. You can find more information on their individual pages linked from the Working Groups page. Meetings are also published on our Events page.
The GS UK Board and Working Group Chairs are responsible for organising our annual regional conference. Ideas for the conference agenda are developed from made by previous participants and from working groups, and may be triggered by news and developments from IBM and other vendors.
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Watch this space for GS UK membership options