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''' Equiniti ICS Ltd ''' Equiniti ICS Ltd, part of the Equiniti Group is an IT services and business process services (BPS) company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom. It also has offices in Newbury, Manchester and Chennai in India. With over 300 employees, Equiniti ICS has clients in both the private and public sector.

''' History '''

Founded in 1966 the company was originally Independent Computer Services which was formed as an outsourced facility from the Harland & Wolff shipyard. In 1980, it changed its name to ICS Computing Ltd1. In 2009, the company was acquired by Equiniti Group Ltd2.

''' Operations '''

Equiniti ICS works across a number of markets including financial services, utilities, telecoms, central government and health. Examples include the provision of a fully managed service and customised rate collection system for Land and Property Services in Northern Ireland3, case management solutions to large financial service organisations, complaint handling solutions to some of the most highly regulated organisations in the UK as well and IT services including hosting and infrastructure services to many private and public sector organisations. The company is also an official supplier to the UK government G-Cloud Framework programme4.

Equiniti ICS’ operations also extend to HR and payroll services. The company works across both the private and public sectors, but their primary focus is the NHS market paying over 50,000 healthcare staff.

''' References '''

1 Equiniti ICS timeline: http://www.equiniti-ics.com/history.html

2 Equiniti Group: http://www.equiniti.com/contactus/Pages/Default.aspx

3 Land and Property Services case study: http://www.equiniti-ics.com/download-form.php?f=lpsrates

4 G Cloud news: http://www.equiniti-ics.com/news-events-gcloud-framework.html

 External Links 

Company website (http://www.equiniti-ics.com)

Group website (http://www.equiniti.com)