Ultima Business Solutions Ltd
Ultima Microsoft Azure Consultancy Services
Ultima provide a range of Microsoft Azure packaged services, as well as traditional consultancy to help make the most of your Public Cloud investments. As accredited Microsoft partners, Ultima are expert Azure service providers. Associated technologies supported within scope of Azure professional services include Veeam, VMware, Citrix, Cisco, Netapp, Mimecast.
Features
- Comprised of strategic, tactical packaged services and Azure-specific consultancy
- Backed by straightforward four and eight stage project methodologies
- Identify candidates for consolidation or migration to Azure PaaS/SaaS/IaaS
- Develop new Public and Hybrid-cloud designs, following vendor best practice
- Define architectural blueprints that deliver required functional and non-functional requirements
- Migration activities from Current to a new Target Operating Model
- Health checks that produce actionable recommendations to take next steps
- Learn how to extend your existing on-premise environment into Azure
- Associated technologies include Veeam, VMware, Citrix, Cisco, Check Point, Mimecast.
Benefits
- Ultima are a 13 x Microsoft Gold Competency Partner
- Engagements delivered by our certified Modern Datacentre Architects and Consultants
- Complement existing teams, providing access to additional Azure specialists
- Additional technical capacity helps de-risk projects and enable organisational agility
- Pre-packaged tactical services e.g. health checks and performance analysis
- Help facilitate decision making through technical forums and workshops
- Up-skill existing teams through shadowing and knowledge transfer
- Flexible engagement models (skills, frequency and duration) at competitive rates
- Access to extensive technical IP, including Ultima project collateral
Pricing
£600 to £1,450 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
1 8 7 1 2 2 3 5 5 0 9 3 2 5 0
Contact
Ultima Business Solutions Ltd
Ultima Bid Office
Telephone: +44333 0158000
Email: publicsectorbids@ultima.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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In additional to transitional architectural design and transformational consultancy services, Ultima maintan a wide range of tactical and strategic advisory services. These are reference in the Service Definition and include but are not limited to;
Azure Readiness Assessment, Azure Security Health Check, IaaS Health Check and T12 Engagement, Citrix on Azure, Extending On-Premise to Azure (Disaster Recovery with ASR, Azure Backup, Dev and Test Environments, Power BI Gateway, Stretched Databases in Azure, SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups, SQL Backups to Azure, Autonomous Cloud for Azure (sold separately as part of Cloud Hosting under G-Cloud 12) - Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
- Microsoft Azure
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
-
Architectural Services - Our principle goal is to help clients maximise their ROI and solve real business challenges using IT, support business imperatives and become a trusted cloud technology advisor. By fostering an understanding of business drivers and strategic direction, we can facilitate the decision-making process through evidence-based assessments, stakeholder engagement, outcome analysis and market and technology insights. They help drive business transformation effectively including solution evaluation, strategic planning, design, integration, execution / migration, and operations.
Consultancy - Our consultancy team are able to provide the experience and processes necessary to deliver an extensive range of on-trend Microsoft Azure solutions, transforming your organisation’s IT infrastructure and delivering efficiencies and cost savings across the board, so that your company can realise its full potential. As a Microsoft Gold Partner for Cloud, our consultants hold top tier accreditations and can demonstrate extensive design and deployment experience, helping to expedite and de-risk delivery - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- Yes
- List of supported services
- Microsoft Azure
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
- Customers can procure Security and IaaS health checks as well as Microsoft Azure readiness assessments as part of this service.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security audit services
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- IT teams often maintain a variety of skills and capabilities, and may want different outcomes. By taking a flexible approach to managed cloud, we provide access to two tiers; Advanced and Ultimate, with each providing an increased level of ownership and accountability across CSP and Azure.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- While the scope of the services have been described in the Service Definition, they are subject to change in line with developments from Microsoft over the Azure platform. At the point of enquiry, Ultima will work with Buyers to capture exacting requirements.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- As a consultancy-based engagement, there are no SLAs applicable to this particular service. In order to ensure that key deliverables and specific business outcomes are met, Ultima will draw up a Statement of Works with Client stakeholders, and deliver the project or service in line with a defined plan or schedule of activities, and our performance will be measured accordingly.
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
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Lloyd's Register
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 23/08/2021
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- The certificate covers all areas relevant to this service.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
Fighting climate change
Fighting climate change
Specific targets will be agreed with each customer at contract commencement, such as dedicated hours to a cause, green consultancy, or activities in the local area. However, at a broader level Ultima will deliver wider benefits. Our services are carried out remotely, wherever possible, reducing carbon emissions. Public transport will be encouraged for any mandatory travel. This ensures that customers working with us will have low supply chain carbon emissions. The services provided will also enable our customers to reduce their carbon emissions. For example, reduction of hardware and datacentre reliance through hosting and management. Resources used will be maximised through replicated use, reducing overall impact on the environment. Additionally, for every new member of staff hired, Ultima will plant one tree to offset their carbon footprint. Therefore, through working with Ultima, customers are reducing carbon emissions through a greener supply chain, and through reduction of their own infrastructure.Covid-19 recovery
Covid-19 recovery
Specific targets will be agreed with each customer at contract commencement, such as dedicated hours to CV/interview training, work placement targets, or retraining. However, at a broader level Ultima will deliver wider benefits. Working with Ultima will enable cloud services, and therefore, flexibility to effective and reliable remote working for customers. Therefore, those most vulnerable will have better access to IT services and allow efficient social distancing. Furthermore, Ultima is committed to the mental health of those working with us. Support will be offered to anyone working on each customer contract.Tackling economic inequality
Tackling economic inequality
Specific targets will be agreed with each customer at contract commencement, such as percentage of SME supply chain, work placement targets, or apprenticeships. However, at a broader level Ultima will deliver wider benefits. By working with Ultima, customers will be spending with an organisation with the flexibility to work directly with SMEs, and can offer this as a choice. Ultima work with SMEs as part of the supply chain. Therefore, customers are supporting SMEs through working with Ultima.Equal opportunity
Equal opportunity
Specific targets will be agreed with each customer at contract commencement, such as targeted training, work placement targets, or apprenticeships. However, at a broader level Ultima will deliver wider benefits. Ultima are committed to ending modern slavery. This is demonstrated through the actions outlined in the modern slavery statement. Therefore, by working with Ultima, customers are actively reducing risks associated to modern slavery via their supply chain.
Pricing
- Price
- £600 to £1,450 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
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 publicsectorbids@ultima.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.