SOFTWAREONE UK LIMITED
SoftwareOne Cloud Managed Service for Azure
SoftwareOne Cloud Managed Service for Azure delivers end-to-end cloud operations, from design and onboarding to 24/7 incident and service request management. We monitor performance, apply patching and backups, enforce governance and compliance, and optimise costs with spend analytics and anomaly alerts. Flexible service tiers support selected accounts or entire estates.
Features
- 24/7 incident and service request management for Azure workloads globally
- Spend anomaly detection alerts identify unexpected Azure cost spikes early
- Spend management dashboards provide visibility by subscription, tag, and budget
- Cost optimisation actions for reservations, sizing, and right-tuning resources ongoing
- Governance and compliance controls for policies, tagging, and access management
- Infrastructure monitoring across VMs, databases, networks, and Kubernetes services continuously
- Patch management for virtual machines and Windows applications in-scope securely
- Backup management for Azure VMs, storage, and supported databases included
- Landing Zone management with Infrastructure as Code and best practices
Benefits
- Improve reliability by reducing downtime through proactive monitoring and support
- Control costs using anomaly alerts and continual optimisation recommendations built-in
- Reduce risk with governance, compliance, and secure landing zone foundations
- Free internal teams to focus on innovation, not operations tasks
- Standardise processes with ITIL-aligned incident and change management for Azure
- Gain clear visibility into performance, costs, and service metrics monthly
- Accelerate onboarding with defined service tiers and tagging controls quickly
- Maintain security with patching, backups, and controlled access management consistently
- Scale support across selected accounts or whole Azure estate flexibly
- Access specialised cloud experts without hiring, training, or retention overheads
Pricing
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 15
Service ID
4 0 6 3 6 7 0 1 3 2 9 4 2 9 4
Contact
SOFTWAREONE UK LIMITED
Tom Hook
Telephone: +44 203 005 0238
Email: technology-products.uk@softwareone.com
About your service
- Service categories
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Cloud Support Services
Managed Cloud
Managed Public cloud
- Managed Public IaaS
- Managed Public SaaS/PaaS
Service scope
- Service constraints
- N/A
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes
- Support response times
- 4 hours
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.2 AAA
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- SoftwareOne’s ITSM services operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Customers are able to raise Service requests manually through telephone, email or web portal. All Service Requests are managed through strict Service Level Agreements based on Request priority: • Severity A – 30m response • Severity B – 2h response • Severity C – 4h response. We offer one level of support for all customers. A Service Success Manager and Technical Advisor are assigned to each customer, offering regular Service Reviews as well as escalation management for issues as required.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google , Alibaba + 70,000
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Developed Vetting (DV)
Pricing
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Architecture roles
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Trainee business architect | £1,500.00 | £650.00 |
| Associate business architect | £1,700.00 | £800.00 |
| Business architect | £1,850.00 | £950.00 |
| Lead business architect | £2,100.00 | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Data architect | £1,700.00 | £800.00 |
| Senior data architect | £1,850.00 | £950.00 |
| Chief data architect | £2,100.00 | £1,150.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise architect | £1,700.00 | £800.00 |
| Senior enterprise architect | £1,850.00 | £950.00 |
| Lead enterprise architect | £2,100.00 | £1,150.00 |
| Principal enterprise architect | £2,400.00 | £1,400.00 |
| Role level | UK Rate | Offshore Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Associate solution architect | £1,700.00 | £800.00 |
| Solution architect | £1,850.00 | £950.00 |
| Senior solution architect | £2,100.00 | £1,150.00 |
| Lead solution architect | £2,400.00 | £1,300.00 |
| Principal solution architect | £2,600.00 | £1,500.00 |
Non-mandatory Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- TUV Sud
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- Thursday 16 October 2025
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- All services are in scope of the certification
- ISO 28000:2022 certification
- No
- ISO 9001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification
- TUV Sud
- ISO 9001 accreditation date
- Monday 5 May 2025
- What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover
- All services are in scope of this certification
- Quality management systems (QMS)
- Yes
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number
- 15cbc1cf-ea0b-47d9-a290-c9a7bad9b9ed
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Cyber Essentials Alternative
- In relation to the services you do not have a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate which has been awarded by one of the government approved Cyber Essentials accreditation bodies but you are working towards gaining it, and will be in a position to confirm that you have been awarded a current and valid Cyber Essentials Plus certificate by one of the government approved accreditation bodies within 12 months of the date of award.
- Other security certifications
- Yes
- Any other security certifications
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- ISO27701
- ISO27017
- SOC2 Type 2 Report
- SOC3 Report
Social value
- Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery
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Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero
Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.
- Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
- Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement
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Service documents
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