Computacenter - ServiceNow Licenses
Computacenter are an Elite ServiceNow Reseller, Consult and Implement, Technology and Services partner. Computacenter provide a one-stop shop for all ServiceNow Licencing requirements for Government and Public Sector organisations.
Our accredited ServiceNow Sales professionals have the experience and knowledge to truly provide a value add resell service.
Features
- Elite partner reseller status enabling competitive discounts
- Value Add Reseller services relating to ServiceNow deployments
- License SKU advice and guidance relating to business outcomes/strategies
- License pricing advice and guidance relating to business outcomes/strategies
- ServiceNow License Advisory Services
Benefits
- Time to value with defined and mature license procurement process
- Ensure right license type is procured against business requirements
- Reduced cost and mitigate risk of overspend
- Licence Purchasing and delivery under one contract
- Licence negotiation managed by Computacenter
- Annual renewal management advice, guidance and fulfilment
Pricing
£1.52 to £722 a licence a month
- Education pricing available
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
1 2 6 8 6 4 8 4 4 3 2 5 8 3 5
Contact
Computacenter (UK) Ltd
Karen Baldock
Telephone: +44 (0) 1707 631000
Email: government@computacenter.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
- ServiceNow
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- None
- System requirements
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- Browser: https://bit.ly/2IuBcyl
- Mobile: https://bit.ly/2IwRUNv
- MID Server: https://bit.ly/2wys873
- Internet: Any standard network that supports a browser connection
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
- Computacenter can offer bespoke support solutions through a variety of channels, including flexible Resource-on-Demand based support either on-site or remotely, hyper-care periods of intense support post implementation of a solution or longer term formal managed service support contracts depending on each customers unique requirements from 24x7x365 to UK business hours. This can be discussed according to customer need.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
- Computacenter can offer bespoke support solutions through a variety of channels, including flexible Resource-on-Demand based support either on-site or remotely, hyper-care periods of intense support post implementation of a solution or longer term formal managed service support contracts depending on each customers unique requirements.This can be discussed according to customer need.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Computacenter can provide organisations with the required training on the specific modules purchased, to enable users and System Administrators to use ServiceNow, which can take form of classroom training, knowledge transfer, and user documentation.
In addition to the formal training and documentation, Computacenter can provide interactive guided tours for end users and platform processes. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- HTML
- ODF
- End-of-contract data extraction
- The process for the return of data follows: 1) ServiceNow exports the entire database in a MySQL format. 2) ServiceNow provides the customer a set of instructions on how to import the data on the customer's side. 3) The customer can FTP the files from ServiceNow to their site. Customers are permitted to store data hosted within ServiceNow for the duration of their service subscription with ServiceNow. Under this model, the customer can purge or retain data according to their own retention policy. ServiceNow retains customer data for up to 45 days from the end of a contract. Within the 45 days, the customer can request their data to be sent to them in a standard database export format. After 45 days, all data from the customer instances is removed from ServiceNow servers
- End-of-contract process
- ServiceNow has several options for an exit management plan. At least thirty (30) days prior to either the expiration of the Subscription Term (where the customer elects not to renew) or in connection with the termination by the customer of the Subscription Service in accordance with ServiceNow's General Terms and Conditions, the customer may purchase the following services: (i) one (1) extension of the Subscription Service for up to six (6) months (""Transition Subscription Service""); and (ii) Professional Services. The customer pays in advance for the Transition Subscription Service at the monthly subscription fee rate charged to the customer in the expiring Order Form plus an additional ten percent (10%). The customer pre-pays for any Professional Services ordered during the transition period plus verifiable travel and expenses. The parties sign a mutually agreed upon Order Form setting forth the fees and purchased Subscription Service and Professional Services prior to the commencement of any Transition Subscription Service or Professional Services. ServiceNow can provide customer data in its standard database export format.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Internet Explorer 11
- Microsoft Edge
- Chrome
- Safari
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- You can access your ServiceNow instance from a web browser on your desktop or mobile device or from the native mobile app. The mobile UI varies depending on your device, whether you are accessing your instance from the native app or from a mobile browser, and depending on the way your administrator configured the mobile UI for your company. Most of the functionality is available as per the desktop browser, but some of the graphics will be available.
- Service interface
- Yes
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Description of service interface
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ServiceNow® provides a modern service management solution in the cloud. Our single system of action allows you to consolidate tools, transform the way you deliver services, and improve customer experience. With ServiceNow, you can automate workflows, gain real-time visibility, and improve IT productivity.
With ServiceNow, you can accelerate your digital transformation and elevate your service experience by providing consistent end-user services anytime, anywhere, and through any channel, using virtual agents. Your IT productivity will improve with structured machine learning to automate routine tasks. Plus, you will receive the insights you need to continuously improve. - Accessibility standards
- None or don’t know
- Description of accessibility
- Service is accessible via web based portal, email or telephone
- Accessibility testing
- The ServiceNow UX team has based much of their analysis on customer feedback and on best practices. To ensure usability, there have been external audits carried out by our customers, and we have personally gone on site to view some customers.The ServiceNow UX team conducted 8 separate site visits in the past year to watch how customers use the ServiceNow system and incorporate learning into work requests and SCRUM stories. One recent trip included a visit to an accessibility lab at a public educational institution.Our development team worked specifically with a blind user to help accessibility design.Here are some of the resources for the current experience:Wiki - how to use ServiceNowhttp://wiki.servicenow.com/index.php?title=Use_ServiceNowApplication development guidelineshttps://hi.service-now.com/kb_view.do?sys_kb_id=1e20c24d4a36231e008ab18d81257
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- Inbound web services, such as the REST API, allow you to interact with ServiceNow instance data using web service requests. ServiceNow outbound REST functionality allows you to retrieve, create, update, or delete data on a web services server that supports the REST architecture. ServiceNow integrates with many third-party applications and data sources. A variety of techniques can be used, most notably Web Services, JDBC, LDAP, Excel, CSV, and Email, as well as any industry-standard technologies that use REST, SOAP or WSDL. With the correct permissions users can use these API's to bring data in and out of ServiceNow. Users who create these tend to be power users or Admin users.
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- HTML
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- Users with the appropriate roles can configure various aspects of lists or forms. Configuration changes apply to all users.With list configuration, you can add, remove, and reorder list columns. You can configure calculations to appear under columns. You can also hide controls and define access conditions by role for existing list controls. Users can also personalise lists which will not effect what other see. Users can create their own reports and dashboards also with the correct permissions.Forms can be configured as well, this includes the ability to configure a form to show or hide fields from a view. You can even create new fields on the table that is associated with the form, and put business rules, UI policies around them as well as define the data dictionary for the fields. With a runtime license you also have the ability to create new business applications in ServiceNow.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- The ServiceNow Cloud is deployed on an advanced, multi-instance architecture that provides separate application nodes and database processes for each customer. This means there is no co-mingling of customer data in a shared database that would exists in a multi-tenant architecture. ServiceNow deploy instances on a per-customer basis, allowing the multi-instance cloud to scale horizontally to meet each customer’s performance needs.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
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The System Usage modules track usage for ServiceNow applications and for ServiceNow Store apps.The usage analytics process collects data on all your instances and regularly updates the reports in the Usage Overview and ServiceNow Store Usage Overview modules. Application usage data is collected whenever an application is opened, and counts on tables are collected once a day.
Data collected:
Number of active users
Hardware CIs discovered (for instances using Discovery)
Number of cloud management service catalog items available to users (for instances using Cloud-Management)
All users with the admin role can view Usage Overview and ServiceNow Store Usage Overview reports - Reporting types
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- Real-time dashboards
- Regular reports
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- ServiceNow
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
- United Kingdom
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- Another external penetration testing organisation
- Protecting data at rest
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
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Column encryption of customer added fields and attachments: Provides data encryption using AES128/256 or 3DES symmetric key encryption. The customer provides the keys for this encryption. Data stored in these fields cannot be searched or reported on.
More details available on request
Full disk encryption: Provided via self-encrypting hard drives with AES256 bit encryption. This encryption capability is only available through the purchase of dedicated ServiceNow hardware at an additional cost. This delivers “at-rest” protection only and is focused solely on preventing data exposure through the loss or theft of hard disks holding customer data - Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
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ServiceNow offers a variety of ways for administrators and users to export data:
Form export
List export
Scheduled export with reports
Direct URL access
Web services/SOAP - Data export formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
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- XML
- Data import formats
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- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- XML
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- Other
- Other protection between networks
- Database encryption encryptscustomer data at rest in the database with no impact to functionality. Utilising native capabilities of the database engine to encrypt data as is written to the database and decrypt as is read from the database using AES256 encryption. This technology, often called “tablespace encryption” or “transparent data encryption”, is fully transparent to customer and to the application. ServiceNow applications as well as custom applications can operate seamlessly without any changes necessary because the application always has access to the data it needs in the clear. When using database encryption, data is encrypted, including attachments, logs, and backups.
- Data protection within supplier network
- Other
- Other protection within supplier network
- An additional cost feature which provides encryption for data at-rest only, via self-encrypting hard drives. AES256 bit encryption is implemented in these devices and in the key storage appliances that support them. This capability also requires the purchase of dedicated ServiceNow hardware at further additional cost. It is solely intended to mitigate data exposure through the loss or theft of storage devices used for customer data. Wherever possible, ServiceNow leverages FIPS 140-2 certified technologies in its federal environment.
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- ServiceNow provides 99.8% availability (calculated monthly) for production instances. This design includes redundancy and fault tolerance of the entire ServiceNow application and platform stack, including electrical, cooling, network, security, and server infrastructure. Over the last 3 years (2015-2017), we have averaged 99.995% availability and have not fallen below 99.8% (contract SLA) in any quarter. In 2016 we averaged 99.996% and did not fall below 99.8% in any quarter.
- Approach to resilience
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ServiceNow’s data centers are arranged in pairs. All customer production data is stored in both data centers and kept in sync using asynchronous database replication. Both data centers are active at all times, each with the ability to support the combined production load of the pair. A production instance from one customer may be operating out of one data center in the pair and a production instance of another customer from the other.
More details available on request
ServiceNow maintains continuous, asynchronous replication from the database in the current primary data center (read-write) to the secondary data center (read-only). To transfer a customer instance from a primary data center to a secondary, ServiceNow designates the secondary to be the primary and the primary to be the secondary if it still exists.
ServiceNow’s data centers and cloud-based infrastructure have been designed to be highly available. All servers and network devices have redundant components and multiple diverse network paths to avoid single points of failure. - Outage reporting
- ServiceNow has a customer portal where all requests, changes and incidents can be logged. Customers also now have complete transparency into the real availability of their production and non-production instances. Users can view the impact severity of issues and even drill into incident records to view details for problems. It is this level of transparency that further sets ServiceNow apart.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
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By User Access control lists and Groups and user roles.
All ServiceNow staff are placed into Groups and have a user role, these groups and roles have access rights attached to them. Any person that will try to access an interface will have their group membership and user role checked and if they do not belong to the user role and group that is required to access that particular interface then access will be denied. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Limited access network (for example PSN)
- Dedicated link (for example VPN)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users have access to real-time audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- BSI
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 28/4/2022
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Our ISO/IEC 27001 certification relates to the information security management system and not the products or services of the certified organisation
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
- GemServ Ltd
- PCI DSS accreditation date
- 22/09/2021
- What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
- As per section 2a of the PCI-DSS certificate, there are no areas that were marked as ‘Not Included’. We therefore confirm we are compliant across all relevant requirements for our services as a Hosting Provider, Managed Services and Payment Processing.
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- ServiceNow’s security framework is based on ISO/IEC 27002:2013. As an ISO/IEC 27001 certified organization there is a high level of integration between the ISO/ IEC 27002:2013 code of practice and the ServiceNow Information Security Management System (ISMS). ServiceNow has been an ISO 27001 certified organization since 2012 and is also ISO/IEC 27017:2015 and 27018:2014 certified.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Configuration and change management approach
- ServiceNow has a formally documented change management process that uses an internal ServiceNow instance to track change requests and approvals. All changes to production environments must go through the change management process. Change requests must include the change procedure, risk, and back out plans. Change requests are reviewed and approved by the Change Advisory Board (CAB). All assets are tagged and tracked though the ServiceNow CMDB.
- Vulnerability management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Vulnerability management approach
- ServiceNow's Infrastructure stack is customised at each layer to specifically support the only application residing in the ServiceNow private cloud. With each published patch, ServiceNow follows a risk-based approach to determine if the patch is to be deployed. Once it is determined that a patch needs to be deployed, the process then follows the Change Management process to identify the assets, the risk and potential impact to the environment, the testing process as well as the timeline for deployment. ServiceNow leverages the Advanced High Availability architecture to transfer customers' production instances to the other data center when performing maintenance.
- Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
- ServiceNow has an implementation of Sourefire for IDS and Splunk for SIEM. The IDS system monitors inbound traffic in the DMZ. Splunk does log collection on network devices, IDS and servers used to support customer information. These systems are monitored with both proactive alerting and regular log files reviews. Events are responded to within 24 hours
- Incident management type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Incident management approach
- ServiceNow has a formal documented Security Incident Response policy, process and workflow which aligns with NIST 800-61. ServiceNow Incident Response process includes event discovery, triage, escalation, notification (including customer notification) remediation, and post-mortem review.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Computacenter ensures that our business practices deliver effective stewardship of the environment in line with the Social Value Model. Computacenter's science-based emissions reductions targets are approved with the SBTi. Our Net Zero Journey Group Emissions is now just 16% of 2015 levels as outlined in our carbon reduction plan to achieve ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions by 2040.
Business travel is necessary, both for our customer requirements and for our staff. We have materially reduced business travel, ensuring all business trips are necessary, helping reduce carbon emissions. We are investing in technology to allow greater use of existing communication platforms as part of our ‘hybrid working’ strategy. One of the key benefits we believe this will help us realise is reducing emissions from business travel by 35 per cent by 2025 (compared to 2019). For G-Cloud services this means that we will drive the use of virtual, technology-enabled meetings as much as possible for all internal and external sessions, including those with our wider supply chain.
Further to this we can provide customer advisory services which include guidance and recommendations on how to improve their sustainability performance to help inform customer decision making whilst achieving the desired commercial and technical outcomes through the services being provided.
Computacenter has introduced incentives to encourage the replacement of the existing Fleet with Ultra Low Emission Vehicles. We have 44 electric charging points across 2 of our locations to encourage the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles, either through our company car scheme or privately. For this framework specifically, this means that our consultants, project managers and engineering resource will have access to a ULEV vehicle via our company car scheme and the ability to charge a vehicle at Computacenter office locations.Covid-19 recovery
Throughout the pandemic we have closely followed and implemented government guidance relating to the workplace and COVID-19. We created a COVID-19 risk assessment to enable us to understand the improvements that need to be made to our workplace conditions in line with the Government COVID-19 secure workplace guidelines and the business advice that is now current. It looks at the risks of COVID-19 in the workplace, such as hygiene, & cleaning and then states what we must put in place to mitigate these risks.
As we enter the recovery phase of the pandemic, we have introduced hybrid working for our employees. This will allow most employees including those delivering G-Cloud services increased flexibility in how and where they work ensuring that we still deliver the best service to our customers whilst looking after our people.
Our COVID-19 steering committee is there to identify activities that will improve workplace conditions then plan, build and regularly monitor various programmes focused on supporting the COVID-19 recovery effort. At these meetings, chaired by our Chief People Officer (‘CPO’) Sarah Long, our CIO John Gibbs and Services operations, the steering committee discuss changes that need to be implemented, identify areas of improvement, and review our roadmap of new activities.
Throughout the life of the contract, we will use our existing activities (as well as those that are in development in due course) to continue to improve workplace conditions in support of the COVID-19 recovery effort.
Questions relating to travel were included in the COVID-19 surveys that were issued through the pandemic. The assessment highlighted concerns people had about public transport. To help all employees; managers were coached and given guidance about being flexible with start/finish times. We continue to adapt our approach based on feedback received through the steering committee and employee surveys.Tackling economic inequality
As a diverse and inclusive organisation with a strong focus on equality and driving in-work progression, our approach to recruitment and employment is aligned to recognised industry best practices such as the 5 principles of quality work as set out in the Good Work Plan.
Our Employee Impact Groups for disadvantaged or minority groups provide representation, support, and community engagement, feeding into our People Panel ensuring all voices are heard, underpinning our wider ambition of building a sustainable business for the long term.
We put specific measures in place to provide opportunities to under-represented groups or those who face barriers to employment, including comprehensive outreach programmes for schools and universities, as well as partnerships with non-profit organisations within our communities. We continue focus on reaching harder to reach groups and people who are underrepresented in our sector by working with charities and schools in the local community to offer career talks and work experience opportunities. Our school outreach programme has over 130 volunteers dedicating over 2,600 hours running activities for employability and life skills in schools, colleges, and universities.
Computacenter is one of the 9 founding members of ‘Technology Community for Racial Equality’ (‘TC4RE’), a group set up to drive racial equality throughout the technology industry, with which we are delivering a half-day virtual event on ‘Enabling Ethnic Diversity’ featuring a series of expert keynotes, live panel discussions and interactive workshops with representation from across the UK technology community.
Furthermore, Computacenter are a silver level partner in the Armed Forces Covenant and has introduced a programme that provides the opportunity to attain a degree and ServiceNow certification whilst receiving full salary for armed forces leavers. This programme is the first of many programmes we intend on running to help ex-forces personal transition back into the workplace and the IT industry.Equal opportunity
Computacenter is committed to providing equal opportunities to all through fair recruitment practices and employment conditions across our organisation.
We are a Disability Confident ‘Committed’ employer, committed to making lasting changes to our business creating a diverse talent pool. We work with partners through our community outreach, who are specialists in disability. An example is our work with Knightsfield School in Welwyn Garden City, a specialist school for deaf children. We run at least 3 ‘get work ready’ events with them, as well as offer up to 4 work experience opportunities and onsite visits every year.
For this contract, we will use existing initiatives (as well as others that are in development) to provide career opportunities for individuals from under-represented groups to address requirements for specific skills or roles with a focus on increasing skillsets through the life of the contract. This will include apprenticeships aligned to security and cloud/infrastructure departments, as well as industrial placements and graduate schemes for our ServiceNow Centre of Excellence, with specific focus on delivering cloud-based services to our customers.
Our workforce for services delivered under this framework will have access to existing initiatives aimed at supporting in-work progression and development for those from disadvantaged/minority groups. For example, our gender diversity initiatives include our Growing Together programme, which over 150 women have been through so far, of which over one-third have been promoted or taken a new role within a year following the mentoring and coaching provided.
We are also committed to driving racial equality across our business and the wider technology industry. We are a founding member of ‘Technology Community for Racial Equality’ which recently delivered a half-day virtual event on ‘Enabling Ethnic Diversity’ featuring a series of expert keynotes, live panel discussions and interactive workshops with representation from across the UK technology community.Wellbeing
We understand how important employee Wellbeing is for a sustainable business model, therefore we are committed to creating a sustainable supply chain. Ensuring the wellbeing of our employees are looked after will positively affect productivity, recruitment, and retention rates.
In November 2021, a designated UK wellbeing manager was appointed and has since launched our wellbeing strategy, which aligns with the Social Value Model and the 6 standards of the Mental Health at Work Commitment, signed in July 2021. We are actively implementing the enhanced mental health standards as recommended through the ‘Thriving at Work’ review, and NICE mental health at work guidelines, as part of our Wellbeing strategy. The strategy encompasses four pillars of wellbeing, mental, physical, financial, and social. We are a Menopause friendly organisation and have created a support network for those in need.
We have 109 Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) accredited staff in the UK, trained by Mind, who act as Wellbeing Champions providing mental health first aid support and promoting our wellbeing services which those delivering G-Cloud service provisions will have access to. These champions are from every business area and from different seniority. We hold events throughout the year organised by our UK wellbeing manager and Champions, which have included celebrating World Mental Health days, Menopause awareness, financial wellbeing webinars and sponsored events to raise money for our mental health charity partners.
2021 also saw the launch of our new groupwide app-based programme ‘Be Well’ which gives our people access to over 3,000 fitness, nutrition, health and wellbeing courses through Humanoo. Through this app we have launched an extremely popular groupwide step challenge and has encouraged our people to be more active, with over 35% of our workforce now using the app and covering over 1.8bn steps so far.
Pricing
- Price
- £1.52 to £722 a licence a month
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- No