Professional Consultancy Services (Digital, ICT & People Change)
Entec Si provide consultancy services to organisations across the not-for-profit and public sectors. With over 25 years’ experience, we enable our clients to realise business wide benefits of transformational change, embracing IT, digital and cloud technologies. We specialise in consultancy, project and programme management, business analysis and change management services.
Features
- Programme management, project management, change management and project recovery.
- Business analysis and systems reviews, supporting change and digital presence.
- Strategic business case development, including options appraisals.
- ICT and digital strategy development, planning and implementation.
- Delivery of traditional waterfall and agile IT and business projects.
- Cloud Enterprise Content, Cloud hosting and cloud software solutions delivery.
- Significant experience in delivering mainstream ERP systems.
- Project implementations for CRM and Web-platforms using common supplier solutions.
- ICT Transformations including data centre/Cloud migrations and infrastructure refresh.
- Major projects delivered covering software as a service (SaaS).
Benefits
- Robust and effective business cases with strong return on investment.
- Successful outcomes through well managed, coordinated projects and programmes.
- Reduced costs through consolidation of applications and migration to cloud.
- Process reengineering to improve productivity, quality and business efficiencies.
- Defined benefits realisation plans for all transformation programmes.
- Foster better staff engagement through improved communications and collaboration.
- Provide thorough options appraisals as part of selection processes.
- Market insight and knowledge sharing of solutions.
- Improve collaboration and co-working across multiple teams and removing silos.
- Support and help drive culture change to achieve business objectives.
Pricing
£630 to £1,890 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
4 6 0 4 5 6 3 3 6 8 5 6 2 9 2
Contact
Entec Si Ltd
David Fisher
Telephone: 0845 222 0548
Email: david.fisher@entecsi.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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By applying a structured and proactive approach, Entec Si can support clients at every stage of their cloud migration; from project planning, solutions design, engagement with suppliers and implementation.
Initially, we work with our clients to help define their vision and cloud strategy. We help them to understand the drivers and anticipated benefits behind the change, leading to a key set of goals and objectives. At this stage we typically also assess the client's readiness for cloud migration in terms of both the IT systems and internal organisational setup. We apply our understanding of cloud delivery options, maturity levels and the readiness of supplier systems for cloud migration.
The next stage is to undertake a requirement gathering exercise of both functional and non-functional requirements. This includes a more detailed IT discovery assessment to help understand the "as is" and to define and shape the outcomes or outputs needed.
This typically leads to either an options appraisal or a tender exercise/process to assess the appropriate solutions to achieve the client's objectives. This is usually followed by a selection process and leading into an implementation project or programme. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
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Our overall approach to cloud-based training is to assess the full end to end training and support requirements of the client. Aligning this with the supplier's provisioning of cloud solutions, we are able to identify the "best fit" for internal training needs for cloud usage and BAU support.
As every client will have their own solutions that are suitable for their organisation, our preferred method of training is to combine people, process, and systems to develop a bespoke training programme for each implementation.
We start by undertaking a gap analysis of the current staff skill sets and what is needed in the future, review the new processes and solutions, and develop a tailored training programme. One of our key strengths is skills transfer to client staff and we usually work very closely with selected members of the client team to deliver the training to the organisation. This allows the retention of the knowledge and expertise with the client.
We will engage third party suppliers where required with specialist skills and facilitate joined up training to staff at all levels where appropriate.
We always aim to facilitate a transitional handover to the client to ensure sustainability of training. - Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
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We apply our prior experience of successful cloud migrations to establish a robust, well-designed programme and projects delivery approach. For complex multi-system migrations and new cloud implementations we bring a programme-based approach to manage key dependencies along with tight 3rd party supplier management.
We typically work together with the client's own staff as well as third party suppliers to build a "blended team" with the right skills and experiences to ensure a successful delivery. Any project of this nature is likely to involve a level of process change, technical complexity as well as organisational change. Our blended team approach enables the client's staff to take on the ownership and responsibility for the delivery of the change but with proactive support, issue, and risk management. In essence, we work to facilitate and support the process, including active hands-on work as needed. Stakeholder engagement at all levels is critical for the success of the delivery; we take pride in ensuring that stakeholder management and engagement is fundamental to our approach.
We always bring in a high level of rigour and strong co-ordination with clear stages defined for the migrations, including strategy, design, transition, testing, go-live and stabilisation. - 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
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We have consistently provided quality assurance across all previous cloud migrations to ensure that quality criteria are applied at each stage in the migration project. For cloud migrations, performance testing is highly critical given the level of dependencies across the end-to-end connections between client devices and cloud-based systems.
Our business analysis services ensure that the client's requirements are well captured and documented at the start of the process to assist with the shaping of testing scenarios. This enables us to develop a thorough set of testing plans and test scripts that are needed during the testing phase. We have experience of both the standard waterfall approach and agile developments where testing is applied in a more iterative manner with performance testing at a component and overarching level.
Furthermore, we often facilitate and manage all aspects of testing in any project's lifecycle, including the commissioning, planning and execution of performance testing, which is typically undertaken by specialist third party organisations. All aspects of testing in any implementation will be subject to a set of predefined quality criteria that are documented at the outset. Our systemic, well designed quality standards are applied across the performance testing stage with client sign-off.
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Not applicable.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Not applicable.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
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
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Covid-19 recovery
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Covid-19 recovery
Entec Si has developed and provided a COVID recovery framework with guidance across a number of areas for public sector organisations.
Key aspects of this include the people impact of hybrid working, technology changes to support COVID impacts, building related people and process transformation, corporate governance, communications, financial investment/savings and future proofing the organisation's operational running with respect to future pandemics.Equal opportunity
Entec Si Limited is committed to promoting equal opportunities in employment. All job applicants receive equal treatment regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation (Protected Characteristics). Entec Si's Equal Opportunity policy sets out our approach to equal opportunities and the avoidance of discrimination at work. It applies to all aspects of employment with us, including recruitment, pay and conditions, training, appraisals, promotion and conduct at work.Wellbeing
Entec Si Ltd is committed to protecting the health, safety and wellbeing of our staff. We recognise the importance of identifying and tackling the causes of work-related stress. We also recognise that personal stress, while unrelated to the workplace, can adversely affect the wellbeing of staff at work. We support the mental wellbeing of all our staff and provide appropriate support for staff who are suffering from stress or mental ill health, on a confidential basis where appropriate, regardless of its source. Entec Si has a Stress and Mental Wellbeing at Work Policy document, which is available on request.
Pricing
- Price
- £630 to £1,890 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes