Early in 2022 the Hollins was asked to partner with iQuila, a software company, to develop a safe way for pupils to access their school folders when working from home.
This work, led by David Hazari, the LET Education Trust IT Strategy Lead, took a number of months to complete but eventually, the school ended up with an end-to-end encrypted system for every child who wanted access to their work stored in the data centre. This meant that accessing the school system was totally safe and because all the school filtering and security software was part of this, pupils were kept safe while online. This system is now implemented in two of our LET school with the third and fourth about to come onboard and has been hugely beneficial in terms of accessibility, online safety and security for pupils.
This work led to iQuila being nominated for the Digital Transformation Company of the Year, for the project at the Hollins, at the SDC awards in London. The SDC Awards are a long-standing award ceremony focused on the achievements of organisations of all sizes across Storage, Digitization and Cloud. Some of the companies nominated were Global enterprises and others, rising SMEs. iQuila were runners-up in the Digital Transformation Company of the Year category but also went on to win the Software-as-a-Service Innovation of the Year.
