Technology ecosystem
The vendors, and what each one is for.
A line card is not a strategy. Each of these is here because it answers a specific requirement well, and because we have deployed it often enough to know where it stops being the right answer.
Hardware
Workplace and data-centre hardware, specified for the job.
Open the full domainCompute and end-user devices
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Lenovo
ThinkPad and ThinkSystem, the default fleet and rack-server line across most of our deployments.
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HP
Desktops, workstations and A3 print in mixed estates, and where an existing standard already sits here.
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Dell
PowerEdge and Precision, typically where the client’s standard build and support contract are already Dell.
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Huawei
Compute and storage for cost-sensitive data-centre builds with a UAE support presence.
Storage and backup targets
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QNAP
Departmental and branch NAS, and backup targets sized for a single site.
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Synology
NAS with a management interface a two-person IT team can genuinely run day to day.
Print and document capture
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Epson
Business printing and high-volume document scanning into the workflow rather than into a share.
Network
Networks built from edge to core.
Open the full domainActive networking
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Ruijie
Access and aggregation switching with controller-based wireless at campus scale, at a price that survives a tender.
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Cisco
Where an existing estate, a written standard or a compliance requirement calls for it.
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Huawei
Campus switching and enterprise wireless, particularly on larger single-vendor builds.
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Netgear
Small-site switching, PoE edge and AV-over-IP where a full campus platform would be over-specified.
Passive infrastructure
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Norden
Structured copper and fibre, racks, patch panels and containment: the passive plant we certify.
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Opterna
Fibre infrastructure, splicing and termination components for backbone and riser work.
Software
Software that simplifies collaboration, communication and content.
Open the full domainBusiness communications
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3CX
Business phone systems and contact centre: call flows, queues, recording and supervisor reporting.
Productivity and content
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Microsoft
365 tenancies, licensing and identity, including the migrations nobody wants to run twice.
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Adobe
Creative and document workflow licensing for marketing, design and document-heavy teams.
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Exclaimer
Centrally governed email signatures, so a rebrand is one change rather than four hundred.
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AutoCAD
Design and drafting for engineering, architecture and the internal teams who produce our own drawings.
Virtualisation and continuity
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Veeam
Backup and recovery with restores tested on a schedule and retention matched to the policy.
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Proxmox
Virtualisation where an open platform fits the workload better than the next licence tier up.
Security
Physical and logical security operate as one risk posture.
Open the full domainVideo and physical security
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Hikvision
IP cameras and recording across most site types, from a single floor to a multi-building campus.
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Dahua
Cameras and NVR estates, frequently where an existing installation is being extended rather than replaced.
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Digifort
Video management for multi-site estates and integration-heavy deployments with access control and alarm.
Endpoint and network security
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Kaspersky
Endpoint protection with central management that a small team can actually operate.
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Fortinet
Firewalling, segmentation, secure remote access and the reporting that has to accompany them.
Artificial Intelligence
AI becomes valuable when it is grounded in secure infrastructure.
Open the full domainNo AI line card, and we are not going to draw one
UBM does not resell an AI product and does not hold an AI vendor authorisation. What we build in this domain runs on the same infrastructure listed elsewhere on this page: servers and storage, virtualisation, backup, network and endpoint controls, and, where computer vision is in scope, the camera estate already on the site.
The model itself is selected per engagement, against the data-residency position the client has to work within and the sensitivity of what the system will be allowed to read. That choice, and where it is hosted, belongs in the proposal in writing rather than in a badge on a website.
So this group is a capability, not a logo wall. Everything below is either work our own engineers do or a platform that already appears on this page under the domain it belongs to.
What UBM does in this domain
- Readiness and use-case advisory
- Where AI would pay for itself in your environment, where it would not, and what has to be true about your data and your access control before anything starts.
- Secure AI infrastructure and data foundations
- The compute, storage, segmentation and identity an AI workload has to sit inside before it is allowed anywhere near real records.
- Enterprise knowledge assistants
- An assistant grounded in your own documents and systems, answering only from what it has been approved to see, with every answer traceable to its source.
- Document intelligence and workflow automation
- Reading, classifying and routing what still arrives as PDFs and scans, so a person handles the exception instead of the queue.
- Computer-vision analytics
- Analytics on cameras that are already installed, limited to the security use cases the client has approved in writing.
The platforms it is built on
Every name below already appears on this page under its own domain. It is repeated here because it is what an AI workload actually runs on, not because a separate AI authorisation exists for it.
Compute, storage and virtualisation
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Lenovo
ThinkSystem servers sized for the indexing and inference load rather than for a benchmark score.
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Huawei
Compute and storage for on-premise builds where the data is not permitted to leave the country.
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QNAP
Departmental storage for the document sets an assistant is allowed to index.
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Synology
Site storage with a management interface the client’s own team can audit without us in the room.
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Proxmox
Virtualisation that keeps the workload in its own tenancy, on hardware the client owns.
Identity, data and continuity
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Microsoft
365 identity and permissions, so an assistant inherits the access rules that already exist.
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Veeam
Backup and tested restore for the data the answers are grounded in.
Controls around the workload
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Fortinet
Segmentation, egress control and secure remote access around the workload.
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Kaspersky
Endpoint protection on the machines that reach it.
What computer vision reads from
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Hikvision
The installed camera estate vision analytics reads from, where one is already in place.
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Dahua
Existing camera and recorder estates, extended rather than replaced when analytics is added.
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Digifort
Video management that exposes the streams and events analytics needs, with access recorded.
One domain with no vendor list
Services carries no third-party line card. All six lifecycle stages, planning through disposal, are delivered by our own engineers against whatever the client already owns. It is not a product we resell, which is why it has no group above.
On authorisation and trademarks
Product and company names shown on this page are the trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners, used here to describe the technologies UBM works with.
UBM holds reseller or partner authorisation with a number of these vendors. The level of authorisation varies by vendor, by product line and by territory, and it changes as programmes are revised, so it is confirmed in writing at the point of quotation rather than claimed in a grid on a website.
Appearing on this list does not by itself constitute a claim of certification for a specific product, nor an exclusive arrangement. If a vendor authorisation is material to your procurement, ask for it explicitly and we will provide the current documentation.
Which of these should you actually be buying?
That depends on the estate you already have. Start with an assessment and the shortlist writes itself.