Market Partnerships across the Group

Companies within the Fretwell-Downing Group work closely with a wide variety of organisations, both customer and otherwise

This includes collaborative development work not only in the context of funded projects, but also in specific special interest groups and ‘early adopter’ consortia. The Group’s companies also operate a partnership model for tailoring products to enhance specific customer business process scenarios and for ongoing system implementation and support.

Partnerships have been forged in the:

• education sector
• hospitality industry
• library and information provider sector
• cultural and media industries

Examples of RTD partner organisations include:

• B.H.Blackwell
• BLDSC (British Library)
• CERLIM (University of Central Lancashire)
• CNIDR (Coalition for Networked Information Discovery & Retrieval), USA
• EDINA, Edinburgh University
• Elsevier Science, Netherlands
• JISC, Higher Education Funding Council
• LASER
• Manchester College of Arts & Technology
• SmithKline Beecham
• Southampton Oceanography Centre
• Technical University of Denmark
• The Irish Library Council
• The Sheffield College
• Trinity College Dublin
• UK Office for Library Networking (UKOLN)
• University of the Aegean
• University of Highlands and Islands
• University of Naples
• University of Sheffield
• Waterford Institute of Technology
• Yorkshire & Humberside Universities Association