Fifosys Limited

Cloud Consultancy services

Fifosys provide cloud consultancy services. This can be delivered on either short term or long term basis. We often engage in a detailed audit of the existing IT estate. The objective is to aid the transformation by avoiding unnecessary risk and address challenges around security, compliance, business continuity, and architecture.

Features

• Help align the solution to the service requirements
• Help identify the correct vendors
• Cost analysis of different solutions
• System design
• Help identify current risks and mitigating actions
• Cloud architecture design and migration considerations
• Identify unknown risks associated with the existing IT estate
• Audit services
• IT strategy and planning
• Innovation and how to approach

Benefits

• Avoid unecessary exposure to technological risk
• Save valuable resources
• Ensure technology is an enabler, facilitator and stable foundation
• Reduce business costs
• Increase the confidence in IT decision making
• Ensure short, medium and long term limitations are considered
• Increase the accuracy of IT budgeting
• knowingly accept risks and limitations associated with transformation
• Assist in securing funds and preparing business case
• Increase transformation success

£500 to £850 a person a day

• Education pricing available

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 m.patel@fifosys.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

520365424745114

Contact

Mitesh Patel
02076442610
m.patel@fifosys.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: The planning starts with an exploratory meeting to understand how the organisation uses technology to deliver the operations of the business. With any potential cloud solution there are many factors to consider and appreciate. We go through these points early in the planning process as its not just about the cloud stack but about what is going to change from a user perspective. ; To help buyers plan how they’ll implement cloud hosting or software services we ideally recommend an IT Audit across their IT estate to understand what encompasses the existing IT infrastructure and determine the long term infrastructure architecture design options for the buyer. We ensure we gain complete clarity and insight into their current infrastructure, systems, data and user experience. It allows us to plan exactly the best way to implement cloud hosting or software systems to maximise their resources, minimise disruptions and ensure a smooth on-boarding process for the buyer. We design and share the on-boarding plan via a sit down meeting with everyone involved to discuss our report and recommendations with buyers to manage their expectations and allow them input into their requirements and highlight any concerns and questions they may have regarding the transition.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: We want to make sure you get the most benefit from any system we deploy. To this end, we develop documentation and training courses to help your staff get up to speed on any new processes as quickly as possible. ; When creating documentation and training plans we also consider the best learning method for your staff (classroom, workshop, written, video, webinars etc); More specifically we also provide free weekly Office 365 training sessions for all our clients to attend. They are practical sessions where open discussion is encouraged amongst our clients. We also offer tailored training sessions for our clients around specific features or apps within the Microsoft Office 365 suite. Office 365 is more than just email. It offers a powerful set of applications to improve both productivity and communications.; We enjoy helping our customers get the most from their IT investments and so we offer free Office 365 workshops to all our customers. ; The workshop is delivered by one of our in-house Office 365 experts and includes information and real-life advice on the following: Email, Skype for business, OneDrive, Teams, SharePoint, Delve, Yammer, and Flow.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: The first step before migrating to the cloud is to understand the current environment and the requirements. We offer a number of services such as a cloud preparation audit that enables us to accurately define the current infrastructure. We gather information such as workload, compute requirements, storage requirements, application requirements and dependencies. We can also analyse the environment over a several week period to factor in peaks and troughs in demand.; ; Once we know what the buyer currently has and where they want to be we can provide consultancy on how to get there.; ; Our team of engineers and technical architects can help design the solution and plan the migration. We have partnerships with a number of cloud providers including Microsoft, Amazon and Google and due to our partner level with these providers can obtain extra pre-sales and consultancy if required. Once the correct solution has been identified we will run the migration as a project ensuring the risks, dependencies and timelines are managed in-line with expectations. The migration can often be staged to reduce the risks and limit user impact. ; ; We can also draw on our extensive internal experience of running our own private cloud for over 9 years.
• 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: Underlining Fifosys’ commitment to quality in all we do, we sought and achieved our ISO9001 accreditation in 2010 and still maintain these standards by upholding effective processes that are consistently monitored and improved.; ; A number of quality and performance tests are undertaken upon migration including System Acceptance Testing where the environment as a whole will tested to ensure it is delivering the service required. User Acceptance testing where we will look for sign off from the user that the service is being delivered as expected.; ; Additional testing that takes place includes:; ; Performance test: To check the stability, scalability, performance and throughput.; Capacity test: To identify how many users the application or service can handle until the performance and stability levels are altered.; Load test: This involves imposing a load in order to see and measure the outcome.; Stress test: This has the sole purpose of pushing the application or service and making it perform under the worst conditions, helping determine which components are more prone to fail first and how this can be mitigated.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
  • Other
• Other security services: Cyber Security Social Engineering Awareness Training
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications:
  • CHECK
  • Tigerscheme

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Where possible we will install our monitoring agent Nable on the platform to assist us in providing support. This is possible on IaaS services such as servers in Azure or AWS but not always possible for other cloud services. Where we don't have full access we will require administrative access and authorisation from the user to contact the hosting provider. We can then provide support using our standard model. For our private cloud services we provide the full end to end responsibility for NOC and service desk as all areas are within our control. For business specific applications we will escalate the incidents directly to the relevant third party but still manage all communications till the incident is resolved. ; ; We currently support:; ; 1) Azure; 2) Office 365; 3) AWS; 4) Google Apps; 5) Sage; 6) Xero; 7) Online backup from Datto, Asigra, Retrospect, Veeam; 8) Citrix; 9) Hosted email, Cobweb, Google Mail

Service scope

• Service constraints: We must be given authorisation to log calls with 3rd party cloud providers on the clients behalf and where possible have the ability to install our agent to provide support.; We can still support the business in managing the third party providers SLAs under their existing agreement as we offer a single point of contact.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: The Fifosys service desk is available 24/7/365 days of the year. This service provides a fully manned operation with engineers sitting in front of screen, taking calls, responding to emails and monitoring systems. Fifosys respond to incidents much faster than our SLA. We maintain a response and resolution time of 20 minutes for 86% of incidents to our desk. Our SLA is 1 hour for a priority 2 & 3 and 20 minutes for a priority 1. But we average 8 minutes response times to email support requests. These response times do not vary at weekends.
• 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: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Fifosys provide 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support 24/7/365. Our Network Operations Centre (NOC) proactively monitor, maintain and remediate clients systems. This is all standard service as part of our pricing model. We provide a team which includes an IT Manager who manages the Service team (NOC & Support), an Account Manager who is responsible for day to day management of the account from a sales perspective, and Technical architects who are responsible for discussing and identifying the right technical solutions for our clients.; ; We encourage clients to make use of tools we provide giving full visibility of what we do, including access to a service portal to view Service Desk activity. Our incident reports and status reports give clients the information needed if anything does not meet expectations we will be open in our resolution. This forms the basis of agreed KPIs to help gain trust and sustain long professional relationships. ; ; This data is a central focus of Service Reviews and is invaluable in identifying training needs, potential problems or areas where systems aren’t delivering what the organisation needs. This detail has been noted in external quality audits and by vendors specialising in managed service applications and CRM systems.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: BSI
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 14/12/2019
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: Our ISO27001 covers the delivery of consultancy under this service so nothing is not covered
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Fighting climate change; Fighting climate change As a part of our Environmental policy we are committed to continual improvement throughout our business operations to lessen our impact on the local and global environment by conserving energy, water and other natural resources. Our Environmental Initiatives include: • Reducing energy and fuel consumption. • Incorporating sustainability considerations into our supply chain. • Saving energy by using energy efficient lighting and equipment • Encouraging flexible working and reducing the need for face to face meetings through the use of technology such as Teams. • We adopt a “cloud first” approach to technology

  Covid-19 recovery

  Covid-19 recovery; Covid 19 Recovery Fifosys have taken a number of steps to aid Covid 19 recovery for both employees and customers such as: For employees - Hybrid working model with dedicated work from home time each week. Improved workplace conditions such as sanitising stations and social distancing. For organisations - Applying discounts to allow businesses to recover financially. Changing the underlying architecture to allow users to work from home more effectively. Introducing new communications solutions to allow better collaboration and communication. We have created significant employment opportunities by bringing some of our offshore services back to the UK.

  Equal opportunity

  Equal opportunity; Equal opportunity We are committed to providing equality of opportunity in our employment practices and procedures, and to avoiding unlawful discrimination being suffered by our employees, job applicants, clients or customers. We will not discriminate directly or indirectly in recruitment or employment because of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, pregnancy, maternity, race (which includes colour, nationality and ethnic or national origins), sexual orientation, religion or belief, or because someone is married or in a civil partnership. These are known as "protected characteristics”. We will not discriminate unlawfully against customers, contractors, suppliers or visitors using or attempting to use the goods, facilities and services that we provide. This aim of this policy is to assist us in putting this commitment into practice to ensure all our employees are treated fairly, respectfully and without prejudice, so that you are able to maximise your full potential, and do not commit and/or are not subjected to unacceptable and unlawful acts of discrimination. Our policy is implemented in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 and all other appropriate statutory requirements and has been compiled after consideration of all available guidance and relevant Codes of Practice. We will strive to ensure that our work environment remains positive, free from harassment and bullying, and that everyone is treated with dignity and respect at all times in maintaining and sustaining equal opportunities in employment.

  Wellbeing

  Wellbeing; We promote a healthy work environment through our employee corporate wellbeing policy, initiatives include: • Adopting a hybrid work environment for all employees • Free fresh fruit deliveries • Regular Mindfulness and wellbeing sessions • Health insurance • A culture of support and celebration of achievements

Pricing

• Price: £500 to £850 a person a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

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 m.patel@fifosys.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.