Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Packaging - Desktop Subscription Licensing
The subscription licensing required to deploy Cloudhouse Alchemy to desktops. Cloudhouse Alchemy Packages migrates legacy desktop applications reliant on unsupported Windows Operating Systems (eg Windows XP, 7 & 8) so that they can be deployed to Windows 10/11/AVD without touching the source code or impacting on end user experience.
Features
- Leverage the improved security of modern Windows platforms
- Leverage the improved security
- No additional infrastructure required
- Evergreen - abstracts the application from the OS
- Scalable delivery service
Benefits
- Remove reliance on unsupported Windows platforms (XP, 7 & 8)
- Migrate legacy and incompatible applications to Windows 10 & 11
- Removes technical debt - no application left behind
- No media required
- No need to refactor, recode or upgrade legacy applications
- Migrate legacy applications to supported and secure platforms
Pricing
£98 to £115 a user a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
4 5 6 5 4 8 5 4 9 5 6 4 4 4 5
Contact
Cloudhouse Limited
Alex Turner
Telephone: +44 (0)7801 323 540
Email: alex.turner@cloudhouse.com
Planning
- Planning service
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
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Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Packaging helps buyers migrate to virtual desktops in the cloud by providing a means to move applications that are incompatible with modern Windows platforms such as Windows XP, 7 & 8 to Windows 10 or 11, without touching the source code or impacting on end-user experience. Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Packages are proven on Citrix, VMWare, Azure Virtual Desktop, AWS Workspaces, AWS AppStream and Google Cloud.
NOTE: see 'Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Packaging - Professional Services' listing for the professional services required to create Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Packages. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
- Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
- How the support service works
- Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Package Subscription Licensing includes support for the Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Package (not the application contained in the Cloudhouse package). Hosting options include Azure Virtual Desktop, AWS Workspaces, and other VDI services running on Cloud environments.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Cloudhouse Alchemy Compatibility Packaging has a lower success rate with 16-bit applications.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Sameday
- 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
- Alchemy Compatibility Packages are fully supported under SLA's while the buyer subscribes to the service. An engagement manager will be provided providing a single point of contact.
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
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- No
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Covid-19 recovery
In response to Covid-19 we created a fully remote working model for the Company. To do this we significantly increased investment in supporting our workforce. This includes:
purchase of specialist equipment and technologies for supporting home working, desks, chairs, monitors, headsets, etc.
Provided local managed offices (aka Regis) for staff who were unable to work at home or preferred a local office service
Fully flexible day working model for all staff, not tied to standard operating hours
Absence categories for supporting family and friends which do not materially impact an employee
Daily in lockdown, now twice weekly employee ‘Huddles’ bringing all staff together to foster a paternal and collaborative culture.
Currently we fully support a hybrid working model, with circa 2 days per week return to the office
Continuing to monitor the overall pandemic situation across the workforce
We have significantly improved our workplace environment during the pandemic, moving to a new facility with better air-flow and a more standardised facilities.
All staff have access to our Employee Assistance Program - offering confidential advice across a broad range of subjects.Tackling economic inequality
As a small business we employ apprentices to establish a model for training and developing careers against our skills base. Firstly, in software development and secondly in Data/Business intelligence.
This permits us to provide employment and train staff in areas where we can foresee a skills and competency shortage whilst providing educational attainment for our staff.
Our apprentices are fully integrated into the Company and work within their specialist teams on both their own projects and company directed tasks. They have direct mentoring from their colleagues, which operates within our hybrid working model.Equal opportunity
We have created a diversity and inclusivity program for all staff across the Company.
The objectives of this are to demonstrate that Cloudhouse supports the diversity and inclusion of everyone in the workplace, in everything we do, for the benefit of:
•Workplace satisfaction and engagement
•Workplace performance
•Candidate attraction
•Client attraction
For all staff this includes unconscious bias training for personal awareness and development.
We promote and support diversity in the workplace, valuing everyone in the organisation as an individual. We realise that to reap the benefits of a diverse workforce it’s vital to have an inclusive environment where everyone feels able to participate and achieve their potential. Our inclusion and diversity commitments go beyond legal compliance and seek to add value by driving towards a Company environment where everyone is empowered to thrive. Our considerations of the diversity and inclusivity in our workplace start with the recruitment process and continue throughout all aspects of daily work, wellbeing and engagementWellbeing
Work/life balance
We have a number of employee policies designed to allow the employee to find their work-life balance and different types of leave and enhanced leave employees can take advantage of. These are:
• Hybrid Working Policy
This policy allows our employees to work from home for the majority of the workweek if they choose to. We provide all the IT equipment and software to allow employees to do this and we will also contribute to home-office set-up if requested.
Employees can also work from our office as much as they choose, so that they may have face-to-face time with colleagues and managers. The office is well equipped for hotdesking, meeting space and stocks free snacks.
• Enhanced Family Leave
Employees taking maternity, adoption or shared parental leave will receive 3 months of full pay and three months of half-pay during their 12 months of leave. Employees taking paternity leave may take 2 months of leave with full pay.
• Annual Leave
We provide employees with 23 days of holiday (plus bank holidays) upon joining the company and increase this annually to a maximum of 28 days of holiday (plus bank holidays). All employees can also take a paid day off work on their birthday (or day as close as possible to their birthday).
When more support is needed
Cloudhouse takes the ongoing support of its employees very seriously and offers a variety of means for employees to communicate with their managers, be supported and seek further help.
• 1:1s and Career Conversations
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Private Healthcare
• Occupational Health
Pricing
- Price
- £98 to £115 a user a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No