CRIMSON LIMITED

Crimson Azure Data Platform

Crimson offers a suite of services for design, implementation, and support, helping customer collect, store, process, analyse, and visualize data using the Azure platform. With expertise in Azure Synapse Analytics and Power BI, Crimson equips organisations with the necessary tools and knowledge to extract meaningful insights from their data.

Features

• Agile working to support rapid and continuous delivery
• Multiple data source options, including cloud and on-premise
• Use of Azure Data Warehouse, Data Lake, Synapse, Data Factory
• Real-time analytics that provide business-value driven insight
• Azure Data Platform Support & Management
• Scalable platform ensures data is available to users when needed
• Real-time analytics providing business-value driven insight

Benefits

• Faster business insights to understand data within your organisation
• Robust platform with appropriate and agreed governance
• Extensive, interactive and immersive dashboards in Power BI
• Consolidate various data sources into a centralised data repository.
• A Scalable and adaptable platform
• Secure, cloud-based service with management controls, including auditing

£650 to £1,450 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at ciara.mcmillan@crimson.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

130425537878454

Contact

Ciara Clare McMillan
+447887690504
ciara.mcmillan@crimson.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Crimson provides a comprehensive suite of services to facilitate and support planning, strategic advice, adoption, transition, and implementation, all aimed at helping clients identify and utilise technologies in the most effective ways. These services include:; ; Solution Architecture and Strategic Consulting: Helps clients identify and select the best technologies to support their organisational strategies.; Requirements Analysis and Solution Design: Assists clients in defining the requirements for their systems, creating detailed and scalable designs to achieve desired business outcomes.; Customisation, Development, Testing, and Deployment: Offers services to customise and implement products, develop bespoke functionalities using up-to-date and supported techniques, and conduct thorough testing of the configured solutions.; Project Management Services: Utilises Crimson’s extensive experience in successfully delivering projects using established methodologies such as Agile and PRINCE2.; Service Transition: Ensures that services are operating effectively post-deployment.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: We provide train the trainer sessions on admin users; We can provide bespoke trainer to meet the user's needs
• Training is tied to specific services: Yes
• Services the training service works with:
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Microsoft Power Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft 365

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: We draw on our broad experience across various environments and with multiple vendors in on-premise, cloud-based, and hybrid settings to offer our services related to cloud migrations. This encompasses transferring data from legacy systems to new platforms.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: We maintain a formal Quality Management System complete with defined processes that all our employees are trained on and adhere to as part of our thorough induction process.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security design
  • Security testing
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications: Cyber Scheme

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Crimson offer a range of Microsoft Applications/Platform and Azure Support Services from Essentials (break fix) through to Premier, our fully managed Business Application Service. We offer variants on SLA’s, hours of support, levels of support and items in support (multiple technologies), and other complimentary value-added services (including upgrade management and small enhancements)

Service scope

• Service constraints: The service is dependent on the Microsoft support, upgrade and maintenance policy and service which is included in the Microsoft licence fees

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: This will depend on the customer's support plan and associated SLA's. We offer three levels of support Essentials, Advantage and Premiere each has specific SLA's. We also can work with customers on bespoke support packages which meet their specific needs.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AAA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: We provide three levels of support:; Essentials, Advantage & Premiere. We will also tailor support levels to meet customer's requirements.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Crimson is committed to maintaining and continuously improving community sustainability, augmenting and expanding new and existing initiatives to drive measurable social, economic and environmental value.; ; By moving to cloud servers, we have reduced our IT energy usage. The move to cloud hosting is being completed across all regions in 2022. Printing has been dramatically reduced and is actively discouraged where appropriate. We are optimising the operation of building cooling and heating systems and introducing low energy lighting wherever appropriate and feasible. In most of our offices we have moved to a majority of energy-saving LED light fittings. This will be expanded further in 2022. Our Belgian offices have solar panels for electricity production, reducing the use of electricity generated from coal-fired power stations. We will be moving towards renewables in other parts of the Group in 2022 and beyond. Used IT equipment is disposed of responsibly using suppliers that operate according to our Supplier Code of Conduct. IT equipment is also donated to charities where possible.; ; Examples of initiatives we can support or run-in collaboration with clients include:; ; • Volunteering Days: Crimson can commit to volunteering days at regular intervals throughout the service period to raise awareness of environmental impact across Manchester communities, including taking part in community conservation days to improve local biodiversity. ; • Green Space Development: Crimson will commit to maintaining and enhancing green spaces to support biodiversity and health and wellbeing across local client communities. Our teams can support green space maintenance and development including donating trees or plants to enhance communal green spaces within underprivileged areas, or general maintenance of these areas.

  Covid-19 recovery

  To support Covid-19 recovery, Crimson delivers career advice/workshops to employment agencies, colleges and community partners aimed at decreasing long-term unemployment (which rose to 13% amongst youths during 2020). We attend career-fairs and promote employment/training schemes (including live careers events) to enhance understanding of the employment market. We help people develop LinkedIn profiles through 1:1 coaching/mentoring. We encourage support for and participation in local and national outreach and skills development events - partnering with schools, colleges, community partners and prisons to provide advice on Tech careers. We will consult with clients to advise on events we can deliver, as well as opportunities for individuals across all demographics to upskill or retrain to support focused career mobility as part of a future talent pipeline.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Crimson as part of the Crimson is partnered with Working Links Justice, School of Hard Knocks, Even Break, BERA Race, Ethnicity & Equality Network, and The Race Ratio (to name just a few), demonstrating that social value, fair and equal access to opportunity and professional ethics are at the heart of our organisation. ; ; Examples of initiatives we have delivered include mentoring days (Working Links Justice) and CV workshops and presentations through EvenBreak and School of Hard Knocks. Our consultants aim to instil confidence in individuals returning to work and will engage with Clients to agree the most appropriate initiatives and community partners to support employability.

  Equal opportunity

  Crimson has been delivering Tech Talk Podcasts to a targeted Technology and IT audience since 2008, regularly featuring in iTunes Top 20 charts. Leveraging podcast capability, we provide regular releases of Diversity and Equality Toolkits - a series of podcasts with chairman, CEOs and directors sharing their tips and success secrets on driving diversity and inclusion in their businesses. This provides opportunity for viewers to develop an understanding of shaping culture, the importance of tenacity, learning from mistakes, passion, compassion and, even, courage. Businesses of all shapes, sizes and sectors can take ideas, guidance, and inspiration from these stories as they set out on their own narrative of discovery. The toolkit forms part of internal initiative Inspire's, 'Simple Acts' campaign to change the way the UK does business. Tech Talks podcasts can be leveraged to support increased equality and awareness for clients and their teams, as well as local SMEs, MSMEs and VCSEs.

  Wellbeing

  A happy workforce is a productive workforce. Following the pandemic, we have seen a massive increase in the need to ensure talent, both temporary and permanent, achieve work / life balance, reduce burnout and improve retention. We support mental wellness across our global business, offering clients and candidates access to Crimson’s Wellness Hub - a digital toolkit which promotes personal and professional development, access to training and upskilling advice, resources and opportunities, advice on managing stress and increasing personal and professional wellness, interactive sessions with wellness and fitness gurus and meditation and nutrition advice.

Pricing

• Price: £650 to £1,450 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at ciara.mcmillan@crimson.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.