Case Study: Pendle Education Trust achieves cloud-based learning and collaboration with BCN Group

Cloud transformation for Pendle Education Trust

Pendle Education Trust, a multi-academy trust with five schools and over 2,000 users, faced significant challenges with its outdated and fragmented IT infrastructure. The onset of the COVID-19 lockdowns magnified these issues, as the trust urgently needed to modernize its systems and rapidly adopt cloud-based collaboration tools to enable remote teaching. The trust engaged BCN Group for consultancy and support to address these obstacles.

BCN Group worked alongside the trust's IT team to consolidate multiple Microsoft tenancies into a single, central system and migrate all data. They supplied new servers, upgraded all users to the same version of Microsoft 365, and provided comprehensive training on Microsoft Teams. This transformation, delivered by BCN, enabled seamless collaboration across all schools, streamlined management reporting, and provided a secure, centralized platform essential for continuing education during the pandemic.

Pendle Education Trust

Pendle Education Trust

Finance Director