Oxford University Press (OUP) had its
origins in the information technology
revolution of the late fifteenth century,
which began with the invention of printing
from movable type. The first book was
printed in Oxford in 1478, only two years
after Caxton set up the first printing press
in England.
OUP is now a department of the University of
Oxford. It furthers the University's
objective of excellence in research,
scholarship, and education by publishing
worldwide. As the world's largest university
press,it publishes more than 4,500 new books
a year, has a presence in over fifty
countries, and employs some 4,800 people
worldwide. It has become familiar to
millions through a diverse publishing
programme that includes scholarly works in
all academic disciplines, bibles, music,
school and college textbooks, children's
books, materials for teaching English as a
foreign language, business books,
dictionaries and reference books, and
journals.
OUP placed its
original order to integrate its approach to Quality Assurance
across its Corby sites and buildings covering approximately
300 staff. The system is used to address broad quality issues beyond simple
certification to ISO 9001:2000.
The success of
the solution has inspired OUP to extend its licence to cover its two Oxford
sites and help standardise the businesses' human resource
processes. The company has a distributed, and mobile workforce
who need access to the system while not at their primary
locations.
As part of the
deal, Qualsys Ltd will build a range of Active Forms to
automate a number of the organisation's human resource
processes. This will eliminate a lot of paper, speed
up processing and reduce the risk of error. |
