Rowden Technologies Ltd
Dev Tools
The Rowden Software Development Environment (SDE) is a cloud hosted collaborative working environment which provides software developers access to industry leading software development, testing and deployment tools. The SDE is flexible and built to specification service conforming to NCSC guidelines for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE data that can be accessed worldwide.
Features
- Agile-based techniques and methods as standard
- Code Analysis Tools with continuous code inspection
- Source Code Repository provided by cloud hosted GitLab
- Nexus Package Repository: Single source of truth
- Mattermost: flexible, open source messaging platform
- Highly scalable, fault tolerant UK cloud hosted environment
- User access to data at any point
- Customisable VPN scalable from single applications to system wide
- Encryption Key management is provided as a core service
Benefits
- Tailored Agile-based development
- Accredited Cloud infrastructure in UK data centres
- End-to-end secure managed solution
- Fully managed NCSC Cloud Security Principles
- Autoscaling, fault tolerant service by design
- Automatic failover utilising high end clustering technology
- Continuous Code analysis reduces errors later in production
- Mixed Waterfall / Agile approaches are supported
Pricing
£14,100.00 an instance
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Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
3 6 3 2 0 7 9 6 5 6 9 9 2 5 9
Contact
Rowden Technologies Ltd
Sales Team
Telephone: +44 (0) 117 4285759
Email: sales@rowdentech.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Rowden believe that no two problems are the same, our planning for both cloud hosted and software services focuses on identification of specific client problems rather than asking for a requirement set. This allows us to priorities and adjust delivery objectives in and agile manner. A buyer will be invited to multiple workshops conducted both on-site and at Rowden to understand the problem. Prototype solutions and capability demonstrators will be used to increase the buyers awareness of the solution space before delivery of a final solution is suggested.
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- We deliver training in various forms during the entire process from requirement capture through to migration and ongoing service delivery. This includes in-person and virtual courses to users in the UK and overseas. We also deliver train-the-trainer courses to allow MOD to conduct further training themselves without continued dependence on us.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- Rowden have both automated and specialist migrations services that are used to ensure efficient and cost effect migration between cloud services is achieved. In all cases Rowden will conduct scoping activity to confirm the buyers requirements before setting up pre-production runs. Where possible migration between cloud services or environments will not impact the end users as service uptime will be maintained, where this is not possible the migration activity may be carried out in quiet periods or out of core hours. Rowden will often provide a roll back service where the migration is expected to be significantly challenging to ensure business activity remains un-effected.
- 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
- Performance testing and quality assurance are conducted during relevant stages of the build or migration. A bespoke quality assurance and test plan is developed in conjunction with the buyer to ensure all areas of the capability or migration are tested and assured. Examples of performance tests that may be conducted are: Load test, Stress test, Browser test, Latency test, Targeted infrastructure test, Failover test, Capacity test, Soak test.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
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- Buyer hosting or software
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- Rowden are able to support a variety of hosting and software services including, GitHub, Jira, OwnCloud, as well as bespoke situational awareness capabilities. Rowden will provide on-prem hosting at List-X if required services cannot be fully migrated to the cloud.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- There are no specific constraints applied to the service. The buyer will be consulted with any constraints that arise from the requirements capture.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Response times are dependent on service level agreements as agreed with the buyer. Flexible response times can be provided allowing users to ensure support is available when needed, including for operational deployments.
- 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
- Support levels
- All support is coordinated by each dedicated customer technical account manager and levels are agreed on a customer-by-customer basis. We only charge a premium for 24/7 support and this at 200% of normal hours rates.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
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
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
- Ethical Hacker V8
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
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Fighting climate change
Rowden Technologies Ltd is committed to achieving Net Zero emissions by 2050 or sooner. Rowden uses spend analysis to understand its carbon footprint. Spend analysis applies carbon intensity factors to procurement categories (such as postage, accommodation, electricity, travel, etc.) to estimate a carbon footprint. This approach is widely used and is recognised by the GHG Protocol. Rowden uses Spherics carbon accounting software to assess its emissions. Rowden’s target is to reduce its emissions by 25% based on per head calculations by 2030. Rowden operates two carbon offsetting schemes. Over the past 14 months Rowden has worked with its partner Ecologi to plant 7300 trees and offset 533.37 tons of CO2. Rowden has supported climate projects across the globe, including peatland restoration and conservation in Indonesia, generating clean electricity from hydropower in India and onshore wind energy generation in Taiwan. Our progress can be viewed here: https://ecologi.com/rowdentechnologiesltd As part of Rowden’s commitment to being a next generation systems integrator, we take managing our environmental impact very seriously. The following initiatives demonstrate some of our key carbon reduction or offsetting initiatives that are currently. Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Rowden has built Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging infrastructure at its Bristol HQ. While Rowden currently does not own any vehicles, EVs will be prioritised as part of any vehicle procurement initiatives. Rowden encourages active travel to work through cycle to work schemes and cycling infrastructure. Reducing the impact of our HQ site Rowden’s sustainability champions run campaigns focused on reducing energy use at Rowden HQ, including reducing evening and weekend energy consumption. The office has been designed with sustainability in mind, including using automatically controlled lighting and energy efficient evaporative air-cooling systems. Recycling is prioritised and measured. - Wellbeing
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Wellbeing
Rowden has numerous policies and practices that specifically encourage health and wellbeing in the workplace. A selection of these are outlined below: Board-level commitment to the importance of health and wellbeing at work. Good physical workplace conditions, including on-site gym and ‘wellness room’. Mental health resources, such as ‘wellness action plans’ and access to employee assistance programs. Health-focused benefits such as company sick pay, a cash plan for routine health expenses and income protection insurance. Financial wellbeing platform, with one on one financial coaching Open communication about mental health – e.g. training for line managers, embedding mental health and wellbeing questions into 121s, sharing resources with employees, signposting additional support, etc. Commitment to inclusion in the workplace, outlined in an Equality, Diversity and Inclusion strategy. Cycle-to-work scheme and facilities for active travel to work. Hybrid working and flexibility with office hours. Healthy lunch and snacks provided for all employees every day. Strong focus on culture and cooperative team behaviours, as well as a focus on dealing with conflict maturely and respectfully, and supporting one another. Implementation of employee voice mechanisms, allowing employees to have feedback on issues related to their employment. Strong Covid-19 response – with an emphasis focus on communication, employee feedback and mental health considerations.
Pricing
- Price
- £14,100.00 an instance
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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