brightsolid online innovation Ltd.

Brightsolid Consult: Cloud Strategy

Brightsolid's Cloud Strategy service supports organisations in defining how to use the right cloud at the right time in order to achieve optimal business benefits. We'll help you to create a strategy/transformation roadmap contextualised specifically to your needs, ensuring your cloud initiatives and recommendations complement your organisations overall strategic needs.

Features

• Various engagement models including workshops, on-site and remote working
• Tailored outcomes aligned to your specific needs
• Detailed evaluation of your organisation's cloud maturity
• Defined operating baseline
• Definition of desired cloud models and best fit
• Creation of a target state blueprint
• A defined high-level transformation roadmap
• Ownership, accountability and financial processes assessed for PAYG model suitability
• Delivered by highly experienced cloud enablement consultants
• Skillset review regarding deployment, operation and consumption of cloud

Benefits

• Targeted and contextualised consulting services aligned to your specific needs
• Tangible defined outcomes and deliverables, agreed at outset of engagement
• Clarity around your strategy/ transformation roadmap
• Direct relationship articulated between cloud and business strategy
• Proven toolkits and approaches supporting successful delivery
• Alignment of cloud vision and strategy to execution roadmap

£0 to £1,500 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  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 alan.gardiner@brightsolid.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

505869908224319

Contact

Alan Gardiner
07932710727
alan.gardiner@brightsolid.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: A successful plan defining the cloud models you'll use to host your services, whether private cloud or public cloud models (AWS, Azure, Google,etc) and the services you'll consume from them (whether IaaS, PaaS or SaaS) begins with a clear strategy aligned to achieving your business goals. Identifying where you are and tailoring your plan specifically to navigate from where you are today to achieving your business goals will ensure your plan is focussed, lean and ultimately successful. Access to proven toolkits and approaches will enable you to take a best practice approach and avoid lengthy or complex re-work. Brightsolid expert strategy consultants have over 15 years experience of implementing cloud hosting and software and have built clear frameworks to support successful implementation.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Brightsolid's Cloud Strategy service will ensure your cloud migrations are successful by ensuring your execution roadmap is aligned to your cloud and business vision and strategy. Defining your current cloud maturity and operating baseline, defining cloud models and their best fit and creating a clear migration plan based on industry best practices and 15 years worth of implementation experience will ensure successfully migrations for your solutions.
• 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 your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: During the professional service engagement, users will be supported by Brightsolid's named consultant throughout the engagement, with access to wider Brightsolid Service Management capability, including the Brightsolid Service desk.

Service scope

• Service constraints: Cloud Strategy workshops must be pre-booked in advance and are subject to consultant availability. Brightsolid are based in Scotland and seek to provide a trusted, personal service to customers.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Brightsolid respond to customer questions with 24 hours, Monday to Friday
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: During the professional service engagement, users will be supported by Brightsolid's named consultant throughout the engagement, with access to wider Brightsolid Service Management capability, including the Brightsolid Service Desk.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: British Assessment Bureau
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 12/12/23
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications:
  • ISO22301
  • ISO9001
  • ISO14001

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Tackling economic inequality

  Tackling economic inequality

  Tackling economic inequality; ; We provide a hugely discounted Community Cloud via our two Scottish data centres; Dundee and Aberdeen, to local community-based organisations. Benefits of the service include: ; ; Cost savings and predictable billing for organisations ; ; Significant reduction in energy costs ; ; Cap-Ex free computing Increased agility, and the ability to deliver projects more quickly ; ; The ability to foster and drive innovation ; ; The ability to scale as required, in order to drive economic growth and meet customer needs Improved resource utilisation ; ; Simplified maintenance and lower associated costs ; ; Resiliency and redundancy to provide reassurance around continuity of service ; ; We support Dundee Bairns, a local charity that has provided over 300,000 meals in the past year to the area’s most vulnerable children. We undertake a range of fundraising activities throughout the year and whatever money staff raise is matched by the organisation.

Pricing

• Price: £0 to £1,500 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  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 alan.gardiner@brightsolid.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.