Agilisys Ltd

Data Platform as a Service

Data Platform as a Service enables organizations to exploit the full potential of their data with a seamless cloud experience for data and data infrastructure from edge to cloud. This service helps you realise the value of your data, respond with agility to challenges and enable rapid innovation.

Features

• Support for Synapse data Pipelines and data ingestion
• Support for storage services via Azure Data Lake storage
• PowerBI service-based reporting
• Multi-layered security with built in controls and threat intelligence
• Data Lake and Warehouse with dedicated SQL warehouse pools
• Reporting and visualisation
• Azure Synapse/Databricks based Analytics
• Monitoring & Alerting tools
• Azure Logical Apps provide data ingress and egress
• Security and Governance services

Benefits

• Powerful, easy to use platform driving insights into your data
• Comprehensive onboarding and support, designed to ensure smooth operation
• Reduces financial burden, frees up licenses and resources for re-use
• High quality support, provided by Agilisys expert data professionals
• Data Platform migrations for IaaS and PaaS services
• PowerBI reporting insight based on the data marts/views
• Customer liason management, ensuring ongoing relationship
• Monitoring and Alerting tools to provide critical support to services

£281 to £2,070 a unit a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  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 info@agilisys.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

448430723854450

Contact

Gemma Teagle
07792 169644
info@agilisys.co.uk

Service scope

• Service constraints: None.
• System requirements: Administration privileges for data services

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Our response times can be tailored to your requirements, these range between 15 minutes and 36 hours depending on the priority.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 A
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 A
• Web chat accessibility testing: Standard web chat testing is carried out.
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: The level of support will be tailored to the customer requirements. Please see the Service Definition for more detail on the levels of support we offer
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Online training and user documentation during onboarding of services.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats:
  • HTML
  • PDF
  • Other
• Other documentation formats: Office 365 file formats
• End-of-contract data extraction: Data services are migrated as required and agreed during contract.
• End-of-contract process: It is the customer's responsibility to contact Agilisys to cancel the service. The price of the data extraction is included, however, should further services be required to support off-boarding, these will be available at the rate detailed in the SFIA Rate Card.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: No
• API: No
• Command line interface: No

Scaling

• Scaling available: No
• Independence of resources: Leverage scalability from the cloud provider resources for dedicated performance optimisation scenarios (auto scale, elasticity, load balancing, high availability)
• Usage notifications: Yes
• Usage reporting:
  • Email
  • Other
• Other usage reporting: Customer contact (telephone, email, instant message). Will be agreed during transition.

Analytics

• Infrastructure or application metrics: Yes
• Metrics types:
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • HTTP request and response status
  • Memory
  • Network
  • Number of active instances
  • Other
• Other metrics:
  • SQL Audits
  • Cloud service resources
  • Data Marts
• Reporting types:
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Security Clearance (SC)

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: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Supplier-defined controls
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Data sanitisation type:
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
  • Hardware containing data is completely destroyed
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process

Backup and recovery

• Backup and recovery: Yes
• What’s backed up:
  • IaaS services
  • PaaS services
  • On-Premises infrastructure
• Backup controls: PaaS service schedules can be configured for specific cloud services. Support tickets can be raised via Service Now for backups of data services such as databases, storage accounts.
• Datacentre setup: Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
• Scheduling backups: Users contact the support team to schedule backups
• Backup recovery: Users contact the support team

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
• Data protection within supplier network:
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • Other
• Other protection within supplier network: Multi-layered security using cloud service controls (encryption by default for all relevant services)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Composite SLA as per cloud vendor SLA guarantees
• Approach to resilience: Adhere to cloud provider's Well-Architected Framework. This covers reliability, security, performance efficiency, cost optimisation and operational excellence. By leveraging the cloud providers platform important infrastructure reliability such as network and datacentres are their responsibility. Furthermore, High Availability, Disaster Recovery and Backup/Restores are managed through availability sets, redundant storage options, site recovery services (AWS DRS, ASR), IaaS and PaaS backup services which are backed up by the providers SLA guarantees.
• Outage reporting: Cloud provider Health Dashboards and email alerting

Identity and authentication

• User authentication:
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Management access is granted only to UK based engineers that hold current Security Check (SC) Clearances. Two factor authentication, and strict segregation of administrative privileges is used to further control access.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
• Devices users manage the service through:
  • Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
  • Dedicated device over multiple services or networks
  • Any device but through a bastion host (a bastion host is a server that provides access to a private network from an external network such as the internet)
  • Directly from any device which may also be used for normal business (for example web browsing or viewing external email)

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users contact the support team to get audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 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: Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: LRQA
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 11/03/2024
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: The scope of this approval is applicable to: The Information Security Management System of Agilisys Ltd, including business support services, contracted Managed IT Services and Cloud Services delivered to our clients in accordance with Statement of Applicability.
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

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: We have an InfoSec catalogue. ; Information Security - information security policy, IT device policy, information management policy, encryption policy, access control policy and vulnerability and threat management policy. ; Data Protection - data protection policy, data protection impact assessment, subject access request. ; Secure by Design Standards - physical security, secure development. ; Process and Procedures - Starter, mover, leaver procedure, working in secure areas, internal audit. ; User Guides - MFA and SSPR.

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: Our Change Advisory Board is managed to ITIL Standards (assessed within the scope of ISO27001).
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Agilisys engages accredited third parties to regularly conduct IT health checks and other testing of IaaS and client environment. Timeframes for implementing fixes and patches are detailed in our Agilisys Patching Policy.
• Protective monitoring type: Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Protective monitoring approach: Agilisys has comprehensive incident Management Processes and Security Operating Procedures in place.
• 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: Our Incident Management process is aligned to the ITIL Standard and has been audited and approved by external auditors as part of our ISO27001 certification.

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)

Separation between users

• Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart: Yes
• Who implements virtualisation: Supplier
• Virtualisation technologies used: Other
• Other virtualisation technology used: VMWare and Hyper-V
• How shared infrastructure is kept separate: Cloud resources such as subscriptions and resource groups allow for policies to be applied and enforce necessary RBAC and IAM security model to create boundaries for only the necessary users to access those resources and services.

Energy efficiency

• Energy-efficient datacentres: Yes
• Description of energy efficient datacentres: We use Microsoft Azure.

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

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

  Fighting climate change

  Agilisys’ Environmental Management System is ISO140001:2015 certified, we understand the critical importance of addressing climate change and have committed to reducing our own carbon footprint while helping our customers to reduce theirs. Through our current initiatives, we have already reduced our GHG emissions by ~13% from our initial baseline, set in FY2021/22. In tackling climate change, we have both client facing and internal objectives to lessen Agilisys’ impact on the environment. Our client focussed objectives include - Providing timely Emissions information; Ensuring that all clients are informed of their GHG emissions on a regular basis as part of standard service reporting; Provide advice and guidance on reducing emissions; Provide information of optimising and efficient utilisation of services to reduce GHG emissions. Our internal objectives have been set to address the mix of emissions that we have across all three scopes and are summarised as - Improving awareness - Ensuring that all employees are informed about Agilisys' net-zero targets, environmental policies, principles, and procedures; Reducing business mileage - business mileage should be within 10% of the 71,611 miles travelled in 2022-23 now that COVID restrictions have been fully lifted; Improved Baselining - We're improving our data collection to create a thorough baseline for tracking all emissions, including non-mandatory aspects. Agilisys is committed to sustainability, through baselining, targeted emission reduction initiatives, and transparent reporting practices and we are continually improving our Environmental Management System. This benefits our clients through - Demonstrable Environmental Impact - our approach ensures a demonstrable reduction in environmental impact through rigorous baseline measurement and optimisation initiatives; A responsible track record - Our EMS is ISO14001:2015 certified and has already delivered a ~13% reduction in tCO2e and our reporting and management are being continually improved; Transparent Reporting - We publish environmental reporting annually, measuring ourselves against our environmental commitments.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Agilisys’ passion and commitment to supporting the recovery from COVID-19 is demonstrated by our co-founder, Manoj Badale, holding a role as Commissioner of the COVID Recovery Commission. The following examples evidence the scale of our commitments and proven approach and ability to deliver exceptional outcomes with our customers: North Lanarkshire Council – Agilisys has designed and developed a series of online modules, in playbook format, to be used by senior phase pupils and modern apprentices. The modules are designed to increase young people’s awareness, motivation, resilience and persistence and include activities and practical exercises to assist them in writing a personal statement or CV, preparing for interview and ultimately tips to help them adjust to the workplace. Helping Hands – In response to the pandemic, Agilisys designed and built a contact management solution that is designed to track both outreach contacts with vulnerable people and identify their specific needs. This solution was deployed on an ’at cost’ basis to thirteen authorities in 2020. Agilisys understands the profound consequences that COVID-19 has had on communities across the UK and has a deep understanding of how to make a positive impact to help stimulate recovery across key areas. Agilisys is operating in the highest growth sector in the UK economy. As a technology and Digital transformation company, we continue to work with our customers in successfully building Digital Skills within communities across the UK. For this reason, we believe Digital Skills is the best and most effective way for us to deliver best value and tangible benefits. In developing the focus of our social value offer we have concentrated on the creation of employment opportunities and the enablement activities of sponsoring and supporting re-training of young people – one of the most impacted generations of our community impacted by COVID-19.

  Tackling economic inequality

  We recognise the problem of workplace inequality and its pernicious impact. Agilisys is committed to ethical behaviour, transparency, and accountability, ensuring trust with clients and partners as part of our core value of Integrity. We are committed to fair working practices for workers in our sphere of influence, including everyone engaged in the delivery of our services. Our approach to tackling workforce inequality is multifaceted, integrating ethical considerations, compliance measures, and committing to fair working practices. We believe that being inclusive is fundamental to project and service delivery, and fair practices are an essential component of workplace wellbeing. Our Chief Executive Officer is responsible for compliance with our workforce inequality policy, which he also sponsors, this is reviewed annually. Under this policy, Agilisys has taken the following steps in relation to slavery and human trafficking: Expanding our whistleblowing policy to cover concerns about slavery or human trafficking; Ensuring practices for checking that all employees are paid at least the minimum wage and have the right to work in the UK; Updating template commercial agreements to include an obligation that suppliers will comply with the Modern Slavery Act, corresponding local legislation or, where no such legislation exists, the spirit of the Modern Slavery Act; Identifying and prioritising high-risk areas in the supply chain. Agilisys is committed to fair working practices for all, and takes rigorous steps at policy and operational levels to tackle workplace inequality. Ethical Framework - Our commitment to an ethical framework ensures the identification and mitigation of modern slavery and human trafficking risks. Legal Compliance - Our rigorous processes manage compliance with all applicable employment laws ensuring legally sound and responsible service delivery. Positive Outcomes - Our regular staff surveys show that our employees value Agilisys’ commitment to workplace equality and making the world a better place.

  Equal opportunity

  We have an active Diversity and Inclusion strategy with initiatives across Agilisys, ensuring that we are a truly welcoming place to work, actively promoting diversity and inclusion. Initiatives include: Reach Network - Agilisys is committed to consistently improving the level of ethnic diversity within the company. The company conducts itself with the following principles in mind: Zero tolerance of Racism and prejudice; Encourage education about racial inequalities; Support for staff is always available. Our Diversity & Inclusion committee drives the notion of a level playing field forward Agilisys has made diversity and inclusion central to its policies. Women in IT - Agilisys actively recruits and develops in-house female talent. Below are some of the initiatives implemented to address gender inequality: Work Shadowing to encourage girls to start their careers in technical roles. Partnering with ADA academy to hire female BAME and LGBTQ+ early tech talent. Embrace & Enable - This network aims to bring together members of the Agilisys community with a physical or mental impairment, developmental condition, or other condition covered by disability legislation in an informal and relaxed way. Through this network, we want to empower Agilisys to be more disability confident, leverage diversity of thought, and create a collaborative, supportive working space where our people can flourish, everyone feels comfortable and safe in the workplace. LGBTQ+ network- This network provides a platform to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community, to challenge prejudice, and to help shape Agilisys into a place where everyone feels safe and comfortable to be their true selves. People don’t need to identify as LGBTQ+ to be involved - the network is for anyone who has an interest in creating a support network, raising awareness, and keeping the business honest in providing equal opportunities as a diverse and inclusive place of work.

  Wellbeing

  Confidently Digital - Invest in new technology to improve people's health, lives and digital services; The rapid pace in the development of ‘Gen-Tech’ such as ChatGPT provides huge potential to improve people’s health, lives, and digital services. Examples of initiatives include: Development of software products that predict frailty amongst the elderly, enabling proactive intervention by Adult Services to help keep people living independently in their own homes for longer, delivering a better quality of life and reducing expenditure on care homes; Gen-Tech powered solutions that can propose optimized care packages for care workers to review/amend/approve, freeing up time to focus on interventions and driving better outcomes; Our RPA, Data and IoT capabilities can, we believe, support our clients in effectively harnessing the future digitally aspirational workforce, and enable deliver of better services at lower cost. Agilisys uses the following approach to ensure our Social Impact commitments on our contracts deliver significant value and maximum impact for the communities, staff, customers and patients that they are intended for. Step 1: Defining Outcomes is a process of agreeing the outcomes with our clients. Step 2: Is the process of agreeing the priorities and cycle of activities. Step 3: Involves a detailed schedule of stakeholder engagements to ensure we communicate and gain buy in to the Social Value Plan and where appropriate sponsors are in place to guide and lead the approach and communications in their localities. We have over 70 local authority partners across the UK. Step 4: Is the Implementation Phase. We will ensure that the plan is well resourced and clear governance is in place to maintain momentum and ensure decisions and activities are kept on track.

Pricing

• Price: £281 to £2,070 a unit a day
• 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

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 info@agilisys.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.