Technology Advice and Services

Make your business more efficient, more collaborative, more transparent and capable. Our team will help you to make the right technology decisions with sector specific advice and services.

BENEFITS FOR YOUR BUSINESS

TCO Challenge

Challenge us to reduce your IT spend.

We will review your current technology estate and reporting processes, turning over stones to expose common areas of known wastage.

Complementing and focusing your IT Strategy
Reducing the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Trend & Legislation Awareness

Cyber Security

GDPR

Transition to Cloud (Oracle, Amazon Web Services)

Data security

PAS2080 Carbon Reduction

ISO19650 Information Management

- We provide sector specific advice on changing legislation and how your policies should adapt to protect your business, your clients and your employees.
- Comply with public sector IT security best practice. Support to get accreditation.
- Adapt confidently and proportionately to new policies
- Securely handling your data to required standards.
- Lower your risk of GDPR breach and financial and reputational damage
Note: Security of data and systems is one of the main concerns of the business. With GDPR now in place, security of data is paramount if reputational and financial damage is to be avoided. Our service will help you understand your current risks and implement ways to mitigate them

Digital Operating Model

Planning your best digital operating model

System Architecture

Data Architecture

Tool analysis and selection

Implementing new software can be expensive, especially if done twice! We can help design the long-term design and ensure investments along the way are ultimately compatible and scalable.
Our data architecture service will deliver the models, policies, rules or standards that govern which data is collected and how it is stored, arranged, integrated, and put to use in data systems and in your organisation. We will work with you to determine the optimum architecture to meet your objectives.
Let us help you define expected outcomes and requirements before supporting a market appraisal for the optimal solution that fits your business.

Accreditation

Cyber Essentials

IS0 27001

Guidance through the process, help to recognise and fill any gaps, avoiding pitfalls.

IT Strategy

IT Strategy – Architecture and technical Service

Our architecture service is about supporting your capabilities to deliver a strategic IT framework within which projects and programmes can be delivered.
Our approach ensures you have both the right people and processes in place and the right architectures to deliver your IT strategic vision.
Features
- Architecture operating model and governance documented and agreed
- TDA and TDA processes documented, agreed and implemented
- Architecture and cloud principles documented and agreed
- Architecture and cloud framework documented and agreed
- Strategic architecture designed, documented and agreed
- In-house architecture capability implemented and resources up-skilled
- Uses experienced architects, technology and cloud experts
- Architecture approach compliant to GDS best practice
- Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices

Benefits

Comprehensive architecture approach lowers project delivery costs
Robust architecture principles reduces technology diversification
Up-skilling in-house resources ensures architecture benefits are sustainable
Lower delivery risk
Lower TCO of technology
Lowers legacy of footprint
Minimises business impact of legacy

Data Architecture

Technical – Data Architecture Service

Understanding data flows is key for the effective design of your processes and enables you to maximise the benefits from your data assets. How your data maps to entities (people etc) and how that data flows through your organisation (processes and systems) is mapped as part of this service.

Features

Data flows mapped, documented and agreed
Full understanding of your data assets and cloud data
Full understanding of your entities
Full understanding of data to system relationships
Full understanding of data security and privacy position
Uses experienced data mapping experts
Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices
Cloud based approach to data

Benefits

Improved data quality
Lower cost of system implementation through improved data understanding
Improved decision making

Data Flow Mapping

Data Flow Mapping Service

Features

Data flows mapped, documented and agreed
Full understanding of your data assets and cloud data
Full understanding of your entities
Full understanding of data to system relationships
Full understanding of data security and privacy position
Uses experienced data mapping experts
Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices
Cloud based approach to data

Benefits

Improved data quality
Lower cost of system implementation through improved data understanding
Improved decision making
Improved customer services
Lower costs of data management

IT Strategy

Assessment of existing IT strategy or the creation of one

IT strategy is critical to show how your IT demonstrably enables and delivers your business vision and outcomes and ensures you have an adequate roadmap and vision to base investment decisions on. Our service will assess your existing strategy and create the strategy needed to deliver your business objectives.

Features

Customers at heart of strategy
Clearly articulated IT Strategy, documented and agreed
IT strategy aligned to business, data and digital strategies
Demonstrably aligned to deliver business outcomes
Full end-to-end link from business objectives to tech decisions
Clear roadmap of IT and cloud activity over strategic period
Delivered by experienced IT and cloud strategists
Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices
Cloud first strategy approach

Benefits

Reduced business risk through clear strategic data direction
Aligns to Data, Digital and Business strategies
Lowers risk of IT and Digital delivery
Demonstrably delivers business outcomes – IT as an enabler
Supports longer term investment decisions and thinking
Reduces TCO of IT estate
Improves investment decision making
Clear 5-year programme of IT change – business certainty
Aligns to GDS best practice – lowers compliance risk

Requirements Specification

Getting your requirements right can be the difference between success and failure for any IT project. Our requirements service will work with you to create the complete (functional and non-functional) requirements in any form you need (Agile user stories or traditional requirements capture).

Features

All applicable stakeholders engaged
User stories fully captured and documented in the cloud
Entities fully captured and documented
MoSCoW requirements (if applicable) captured and documented
Non-functional requirements fully captured and documented
Requirements governance process implemented and followed
Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices
Cloud-based approach and implementation

Benefits

Uses experienced user story or requirement experts
Clearly articulated, comprehensive requirements lowers delivery risk
Prioritised requirements leads to optimised time to market
User engagement in requirement capture improves customer outcomes
Improved requirements process leads to high quality product
High quality products and services leads to improved customer satisfaction

IT Business Case

IT Business Case, cost benefit and options analysis

Business cases are the foundations of good decision making. Our service can help you improve both your business case processes and approach, as well as helping you with specific business cases. When important decisions are needed, our service will help you get the case right

Features

Clearly articulated and evidenced business case
Greenbook cases if needed, lighter weight cases available
Strategic, outline and full business cases
Agile business cases for digital
Cloud business cases for your business
Business case review processes
- Business case governance
- Stakeholder engagement
- Uses experienced business case experts
- Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices Benefits

Benefits

Improved investment decision making
Lowers delivery risk and cost
Improves stakeholder buy-in
Clear audit and evidence trail for all decisions
Aligns to IT, Data, Digital and business strategies
Clear affordability and benefits case to improve ROI

IT Security and risk management

Security of data and systems is one of the main concerns of the business. With GDPR now in place, security of data is paramount if reputational and financial damage is to be avoided. Our service will help you understand your current risks and implement ways to mitigate them.

Features

IT and cloud secured to required standards
Data secured to required standards and GDPR
Cloud security key. Compliant to standards
Identifies, builds and strengthens organisations’ core operational practices
Processes, reporting, performance KPI, Governance and risk management
Accreditation document sets
CESG best practice aligned
Uses experienced IT and data security experts
End to end security view including suppliers and subcontractors
Contracts and procurements supported

Benefits

Reduces risk of GDPR breach and financial and reputational damage
Reduces risk of IT/cloud security breach and reputational damage
Board level visibility of IT security lowers business risk
Effective and efficient security processes lowers costs of compliance
Full audit trail of security matters and decisions
Lowers risk to business
Improved TCO of IT through optimum security configurations
Compliant to public sector IT security best practice

Cloud implementation/Migration

Whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) Azure or Private Cloud, our cloud migration service will support the end-to-end migration of your IT to any cloud platform and can cover all aspects of a migration and transformation.

Features