Mydex Data Services Community Interest Company

Web App Generator as a Service WAGaaS

The Web Application Generator enables non-technical people to capture service requirements and journeys, map the different actors and data involved into a storyboard and from there generate web applications that delivery dramatically improved user journeys that meet all UK Government service design manual guidelines and Digital First Service Standards.

Features

• Web based for non technical users to develop web apps
• Secure project storage
• Co-Design support for mapping existing and new journeys
• Theme builder for non technical users creating accessible designs
• Person-centred approach to identity management
• All personal data sent to personal data store
• Can be integrated and embedded into existing services and journeys
• Projects can be saved as templates and rused
• Pre-Integrated in Mydex platform
• All web apps generated free to use and deploy

Benefits

• Easy to use little or no training record
• Can be used by citizens and front line staff
• Work collaboratively across organisational boundaries
• Easy preview and review process
• Brings together service design, web design and web development
• Delivers secure standards compliant web apps
• Extensible
• Privacy protecting
• Supports interoperability across disparate back-end systems
• No programming required

£1,000 a user a year

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

• Modern Slavery statement

  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 david@mydex.org. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

187934494851388

Contact

David E Alexander
+442032396245
david@mydex.org

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: The Mydex platform also available on G-Cloud
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: None.
• System requirements:
  • User access: any device with supported browser (see list below)
  • Ability to deploy web apps onto a AWS or Azure

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Support response times within 24 hrs
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: No
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: We can provide on-site support if booked and scheduled in advance through our cloud support services.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: We provide getting started guides along with a set of cloud support services to help with planning, roadmapping, etc.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: Users hold their own data and can export in a number of open standard formats directly.
• End-of-contract process: Service is disabled at their request, archive held for a period of six months which is then deleted after providing notification of impending deletion. All data is encrypted in this archive with no access available either internally or externally.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Fully responsive environment for resulting web apps generated
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Description of service interface: We provide web based documentation that can be accessed with normal accessibility tools We provide API based developer helper functions that allow for automation of access to key specification information
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Accessibility testing: We have tested our platform with normal off-the-shelf tools and text help service
• API: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: The whole purpose is the creation of customised web applications

Scaling

• Independence of resources: We have a true autoscaling and auto-healing platform environment that allows us to automatically increase capacity on demand, this powered by Amazon Web Services.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: No

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

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: No
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with another standard
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type: Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: As above, users hold their own data and can export in a number of open standard formats directly.
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats:
  • XML
  • JSON
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats:
  • XML
  • JSON

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection between networks: We use a combination of TLS (Version 1.2 or above) and PKI for secure two-way data exchange.
• Data protection within supplier network: IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: 99%
• Approach to resilience: Amazon Web Services offer us a true 'auto-scale' platform. We can also manually scale-up e.g if expecting a big surge in traffic. ; ; We have Resilience Self-Healing: as well as 'scaling', the platform indirectly improves business continuity because it 'self-heals', replacing failed app servers with healthy ones without any human interaction. We use 'multi-availability zones': our platform is spread across geographically-separate datacentres in Amazon's eu-west-1 region, reducing dependency on one physical location, giving us proper high-availability.; ; Management and automation has always been a strength of our platform and approach. Using AWS Terraform as an infrastructure management tool, we control all changes to the infrastructure, virtualisation-level through code, making it fully auditable, better open to peer-reviews, and are able to easily 'undo' any mistakes not found in testing by enforcing the last known 'good' configuration. ; ; Terraform also automates the provisioning of new infrastructure, reducing margin for user-error, something we have done for our core code for many years but can now do at infrastructure layer.; ; We have snapshot and backup technologies, enhanced at AWS, allowing faster, flexible options for disaster recovery, in addition to our own offsite-DR at Rackspace as triple protection.; ; Increased flexibility and expansion support thanks to constant AWS innovation.
• Outage reporting: We use statuspage.io for reporting any service scheduled or unplanned outages.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: All management interfaces are behind our VPN and individuals have specific access profiles within the VPN environment.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • 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: At least 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• 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: British Standards Institute (BSi)
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 28/02/2017
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Nothing.
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • FairData certification
  • FairData Enabler
  • ISO270018 compliant for management of personal data in the cloud

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: All Mydex work is conducted in accordance with a set of policies and processes which make up the ISMS.

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: All changes to the Mydex Platform are subject to approval by the Head of Development Programmes, in accordance with the IT infrastructure management policy, a key component of the ISMS. Any proposed changes are defined in the PivotalTracker tool, approved by the Head of Development Programmes, developed and tested in an isolated environment, before final pre-deployment testing much of which is automated and controlled by tools such as the Jenkins continuous integration and Puppet CM systems. Deployment to the operational environment is dependent on approval by the Head of Development Programmes, recorded on PivotalTracker.
• Vulnerability management type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Vulnerability management approach: Security vulnerabilities are managed in accordance with processes defined in the ISMS independently certified under ISO27001:2013. These include: prompt application of system software updates as issued by suppliers, subject to the change management processes above; membership of security alert distribution lists; use of tools such as the OSSEC monitoring tool.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Protective monitoring of the Mydex Platform is conducted as defined in the ISMS and ensures that only authorised users are granted access, that all access activity is recorded and any unusual activity reported via realtime alerts. This is achieved via an integrated set of tools including OSSEC, Nagios and Munin.
• 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: Incidents are managed in accordance with Mydex's incident management procedure which requires any incident to be reported and recorded on the PivotalTracker system and promptly actioned according to the severity. Corrective actions not only address the incident and the immediate consequences but also investigate and eliminate the root cause.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

  Mydex platform services are designed to remove friction, effort, risk and cost for citizens and subscribers. This comes in many forms including removing duplication of effort, unnecessary travel, the use of paper and with each of these savings there is a reduction in energy consumption and any related emissions that can impact climate
• Covid-19 recovery:

  Covid-19 recovery

  The Web App Generator is enabling the digitisation of the last remaing paper based services and in so doing is removing friction, effort, risk and cost for citizens and subscribers. Making services easier to access remotely in a faster, more efficient manner reduces the cost and improves the overall capacity and productivity of public services and streamlines citizens' experience.
• Tackling economic inequality:

  Tackling economic inequality

  Mydex platform services are designed to remove friction, effort, risk and cost for citizens and subscribers. Making services easier to access remotely in a faster more efficient manner reduces the cost and improves the overall capacity and productivity of public services and streamlines citizens experience and overcoming inequality of access through the provision of essential information and resources needed in a personalised manner
• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  Mydex platform services are designed to remove friction, effort, risk and cost for citizens and subscribers. They are designed to afford all with an equal opportunity to access the information they need to get things done
• Wellbeing:

  Wellbeing

  Wellbeing is undermined through stress and complexity. Mydex removes friction, effort, risk and cost the duplication of effort that can create significant stress and complexity for citizens and service providers. Enabling safe, easy and secure access to the right information at the right time creates a sense of empowerment and coherence that leads to improved well being as well as productivity

Pricing

• Price: £1,000 a user a year
• Discount for educational organisations: No
• Free trial available: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

• Modern Slavery statement

  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 david@mydex.org. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.