Fox IT

Date of acquisition 2000 and 2004
Acquisition EV � 11 million
Sector IT Service Management Consultant

Fox IT is a leader in IT service management consultancy, training and software services to major corporates and leading technology companies worldwide.  Fox IT is acknowledged as one of the leading independent consultancies in service management, having helped develop industry standards such as ITIL, COBIT, ISO20000 and others.

The company is headquartered in the UK, and has subsidiaries or partners in the US, Scandinavia, Japan, Middle East, Brazil, Mexico and Canada.  Fox IT works with its clients to enhance IT efficiency, improve compliance and mitigate and manage potential IT or related business risks.

In November 2004, Fox IT merged its Managed Services division with Digica to create a leading supplier of outsourced services to local Government bodies and mid-market organisations in the commercial sector. Lyceum retains a substantial ownership interest in the enlarged Digica.

Digica is a leading provider of outsourced and managed IT services specialising in midrange and desktop technologies and includes Midrange Server Management, Desktop & Network Management, SAP Managed Services, Applications Management and Help Desk Services. Digica also offers ASP Hosting Services to software vendors.

Digica operates purpose-built data centres at Nottingham and Leeds in the UK, and in Cape Town, South Africa. Data Centre facilities in New Jersey, USA are provided by its affiliate Digica Inc. Each data centre features 24-hour site security and highly resilient power, communications and environmental controls.

Digica was sold to Computacenter in January 2007.

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