Computacenter - Microsoft PowerApps (Power Platform)
Increase agility across organisations by rapidly building low-code apps that modernise processes and solve tough challenges. Power Apps is a service for building and using custom business apps that connect to your data and work across the web and mobile - without the time and expense of custom software development
Features
- Build and launch apps right away using prebuilt templates.
- Drag-and-drop simplicity, and quick deployment.
- Roll out continuous improvements as needed.
Benefits
- Speed of app creation
- Low-code and no-code
- Business process automation
- Low cost of app ownership
- Cross-platform access and ease of deployment
Pricing
£39.84 a licence a year
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 13
Service ID
5 0 3 7 6 1 2 9 8 4 9 8 0 2 7
Contact
Computacenter (UK) Ltd
Karen Baldock
Telephone: +44 (0) 1707 631000
Email: government@computacenter.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- Yes, but can also be used as a standalone service
- What software services is the service an extension to
- Microsoft Office 365, Dynamics 365
- Cloud deployment model
-
- Public cloud
- Private cloud
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- N/A
- System requirements
- N/a
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
-
Response times will be
defined in alignment with
custimer requirements,
as an example
Computacenter can offer
a 4 hours response time
during working hours.
Weekend response times
will be defined at point of
contract - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Onsite support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support levels
-
As defined by agreed
SLAs - Support available to third parties
- No
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
-
As a reseller, Computacenter will facilitate the order of the service, subsequently help and support will be provided by the vendor. Computacenter provide a
one off vendor baseline or
a monthly reconciled
licence position for
selected software
vendors deemed as in
scope - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- End-of-contract data extraction
- N/A
- End-of-contract process
-
At the end of the contract
between Computacenter
and the customer where
the customer does not
wish to renew or extend the existing agreement,
then the customer will be
returned all data in either
XLS or CSV format.
Should the customer wish
to migrate the data onto a
locally installed software
asset management
solution, then
Computacenter can
provide additional project
services as a chargeable
option.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- No
- Application to install
- Yes
- Compatible operating systems
-
- MacOS
- Windows
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- N/A
- Service interface
- No
- User support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
- N/A
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller (no extras)
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Microsoft
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
-
- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- 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
- ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
- Protecting data at rest
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- N/A
- Data export formats
- Other
- Other data export formats
- N/A
- Data import formats
- Other
- Other data import formats
- N/A
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
- As defined by agreed SLA
- Approach to resilience
- As defined by agreed SLA
- Outage reporting
- N/A
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- No
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
-
When a user is set up, they
are assigned a role. You
can use system default
roles or create bespoke
roles. Each role then has a
specific set of activities
that they can perform.
This is controlled by our
Administrator of which
there are normally 2. A
formal approved request
is required prior to any
changes being
implemented - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
- Username or password
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
- User-defined
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- User-defined
- How long system logs are stored for
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- Bsi
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 28/04/2019
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Our ISO/IEC 27001 certification relates to the information security management system and not the products or services of the certified organisation
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
- Gemserv Ltd
- PCI DSS accreditation date
- 22/09/2021
- What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
- As per section 2a of the PCI-DSS certificate, there are no areas that were marked as ‘Not Included’. We therefore confirm we are compliant across all relevant requirements for our services as a Hosting Provider, Managed Services and Payment Processing.
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- No
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
- N/A
- Information security policies and processes
- N/A
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
-
Our Group Change
Management service is
based on ITIL best
practice and has the
primary objective of
protecting the client
production services from
outage and disruption
resulting from change.
Our Group Change
Management team acts
as the primary interface
for the client to control
changes to IT
Infrastructure. The
process is applied and
governed to ensure that
changes are recorded,
evaluated, prioritised,
planned, tested,
authorised, implemented,
documented and
reviewed in a controlled
manner with minimal or
no disruptio - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
-
We have in-house
vulnerability
management processes
to cover scheduled and
ad-hoc scanning,
identification,
notification, remediation
and reporting. Customer
specific programs are
also deployed. - Protective monitoring type
- Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
- Protective monitoring approach
-
Our protective
monitoring processes are
based and run in
accordance with the
service and customer
requirements. - Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
-
Our incident
management processes
are based on the
requirements of each
service and interface with
our customer, as required
by the contract
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)
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
-
Fighting climate change
Computacenter ensures that our business practices deliver effective stewardship of the environment in line with the Social Value Model. We are establishing a Science Based Target (SBT) for carbon emission reductions. Our Net Zero Journey Group Emissions is now just 16% of 2015 levels as outlined in our carbon reduction plan to achieve ‘Net Zero’ carbon emissions by 2050. The 2050 target has been brought forward to 2040.
Business travel is necessary, both for our customer requirements and for our staff. We have materially reduced business travel, ensuring all business trips are necessary, helping reduce carbon emissions. We are investing in technology to allow greater use of existing communication platforms as part of our ‘hybrid working’ strategy. One of the key benefits we believe this will help us realise is reducing emissions from business travel by 35 per cent by 2025 (compared to 2019). For G-Cloud services this means that we will drive the use of virtual, technology-enabled meetings as much as possible for all internal and external sessions, including those with our wider supply chain.
Further to this we can provide customer advisory services which include guidance and recommendations on how to improve their sustainability performance to help inform customer decision making whilst achieving the desired commercial and technical outcomes through the services being provided.
As of 2019, Computacenter introduced incentives to encourage the replacement of the existing Fleet with Ultra Low Emission Vehicles. We have 44 electric charging points across 2 of our locations to encourage the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles, either through our company car scheme or privately. For this framework specifically, this means that our consultants, project managers and engineering resource will have access to a ULEV vehicle via our company car scheme and the ability to charge a vehicle at Computacenter office locations. - Covid-19 recovery
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Covid-19 recovery
Throughout the pandemic we have closely followed and implemented government guidance relating to the workplace and COVID-19. We created a COVID-19 risk assessment to enable us to understand the improvements that need to be made to our workplace conditions in line with the Government COVID-19 secure workplace guidelines and the business advice that is now current. It looks at the risks of COVID-19 in the workplace, such as hygiene, & cleaning and then states what we must put in place to mitigate these risks.
As we enter the recovery phase of the pandemic, we have introduced hybrid working for our employees. This will allow most employees including those delivering G-Cloud services increased flexibility in how and where they work ensuring that we still deliver the best service to our customers whilst looking after our people.
Our COVID-19 steering committee is there to identify activities that will improve workplace conditions then plan, build and regularly monitor various programmes focused on supporting the COVID-19 recovery effort. At these meetings, chaired by our Chief People Officer (‘CPO’) Sarah Long, our CIO Mark Slaven and Services operations, the steering committee discuss changes that need to be implemented, identify areas of improvement, and review our roadmap of new activities.
Throughout the life of the contract, we will use our existing activities (as well as those that are in development in due course) to continue to improve workplace conditions in support of the COVID-19 recovery effort.
Questions relating to travel were included in the COVID-19 surveys that were issued through the pandemic. The assessment highlighted concerns people had about public transport. To help all employees; managers were coached and given guidance about being flexible with start/finish times. We continue to adapt our approach based on feedback received through the steering committee and employee surveys. - Tackling economic inequality
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Tackling economic inequality
As a diverse and inclusive organisation with a strong focus on equality within the workplace and driving in-work progression, our approach to recruitment and employment is aligned to recognised industry best practices such as the 5 principles of quality work as set out in the Good Work Plan.
Our Employee Impact Groups for disadvantaged or minority groups provide representation, support, and community engagement on behalf of our workforce, feeding into our People Panel ensuring all voices are heard, underpinning our wider ambition of building a sustainable business for the long term.
We put specific measures in place to provide opportunities to under-represented groups or those who face barriers to employment, including comprehensive outreach programmes for schools and universities, as well as partnerships with several non-profit organisations within our communities. We will continue to focus on reaching harder to reach groups and people who are underrepresented in our sector by working with charities and schools in the local community to offer career talks and work experience opportunities. Our School outreach programme has over 130 volunteers dedicating over 2,600 hours running activities for employability and life skills in schools, colleges and universities.
Computacenter is one of the 9 founding members of ‘Technology Community for Racial Equality’ (‘TC4RE’), a group set up to drive racial equality throughout the technology industry, with which we are delivering a half-day virtual event on ‘Enabling Ethnic Diversity’ featuring a series of expert keynotes, live panel discussions and interactive workshops with representation from across the UK technology community.
Furthermore, Computacenter has signed the Armed Forces Covenant, our programme provides the opportunity to attain a degree and Service Now certification whilst receiving full salary. This programme is the first of many programmes we intend on running to help ex-forces personal transition back into the workplace and the IT industry. - Equal opportunity
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Equal opportunity
Computacenter is committed to providing equal opportunities to all through fair recruitment practices and employment conditions across our organisation.
We are a Disability Confident ‘Committed’ employer, committed to making lasting changes to our business creating a diverse talent pool. We work with partners through our community outreach activities who are specialists in disability. An example is our work with Knightsfield School in Welwyn Garden City, a specialist school for deaf children. We run at least 3 ‘get work ready’ events with them, as well as offer up to 4 work experience opportunities and onsite visits every year.
For this contract, we will use existing initiatives (as well as others that are in development) to provide career opportunities for individuals from under-represented groups to address requirements for specific skills or roles with a focus on increasing skillsets through the life of the contract. This will include apprenticeships aligned to security and cloud/infrastructure departments, as well as industrial placements and graduate schemes for our ServiceNow Center of Excellence, with specific focus on delivering cloud-based services to our customers.
Our workforce for services delivered under this framework will have access to existing initiatives aimed at supporting in-work progression and development for those from disadvantaged/minority groups. For example, our gender diversity initiatives include our Growing Together programme, which 52 women have been through so far, of which over one-third have been promoted or taken a new role within a year following the mentoring and coaching provided.
We are also committed to driving racial equality across our business and the wider technology industry. We are a founding member of ‘Technology Community for Racial Equality’ which recently delivered a half-day virtual event on ‘Enabling Ethnic Diversity’ featuring a series of expert keynotes, live panel discussions and interactive workshops with representation from across the UK technology community. - Wellbeing
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Wellbeing
We understand how important employee Wellbeing is for a sustainable business model, therefore we are committed to creating a sustainable supply chain. Ensuring the wellbeing of our employees are looked after will positively affect productivity, recruitment, and retention rates.
In November 2021, a designated UK wellbeing manager was appointed and has since launched our wellbeing strategy, which aligns with the Social Value Model and the 6 standards of the Mental Health at Work Commitment, signed in July 2021. We are actively implementing the enhanced mental health standards as recommended through the ‘Thriving at Work’ review, and NICE mental health at work guidelines, as part of our Wellbeing strategy. The strategy encompasses four pillars of wellbeing, mental, physical, financial, and social. We are a Menopause friendly organisation and have created a support network for those in need.
We have 109 Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) accredited staff in the UK, trained by Mind, who act as Wellbeing Champions providing mental health first aid support and promoting our wellbeing services which those delivering G-Cloud service provisions will have access to. These champions are from every business area and from different seniority. We hold events throughout the year organised by our UK wellbeing manager and Champions, which have included celebrating World Mental Health days, Menopause awareness, financial wellbeing webinars and sponsored events to raise money for our mental health charity partners.
2021 also saw the launch of our new groupwide app-based programme ‘Be Well’ which gives our people access to over 3,000 fitness, nutrition, health and wellbeing courses through Humanoo. Through this app we have launched an extremely popular groupwide step challenge and has encouraged our people to be more active, with over 35% of our workforce now using the app and covering over 1.8bn steps so far.
Pricing
- Price
- £39.84 a licence a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No