Datavault

Migrate your Data Warehouse to the Cloud (AWS / Azure / GCP / Databricks)

We help clients create cost-effective, scaleable cloud solutions to analytics, data science and business intelligence requirements. Our services help migrate complex legacy Data Warehouse environments to the cloud using our proprietary migration framework. We use agile, low-risk delivery methods that demonstrate value to users quickly.

Features

• Define a migration strategy underpinned by business objectives
• Use a migration framework (built using Data Warehouse specific expertise)
• Create a practical, realistic and achievable migration plan
• Deliver using agile methods to manage the delivery
• Actively manage project risk (scope and budget)
• Maintain team cohesion: avoid splitting team between new and old
• Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Reconcilation and data integrity presumed
• End-to-end data pipeline engineering from source to data consumer
• Embrace automation tools to maximise efficiency and cost-effectiveness

Benefits

• User orientated approach to migration - keeping users on-board
• Business outcome orientated project
• Achieve long-term cost reductions
• Improve the Data Service provided to users
• Create a future ready architecture
• Deliver to budget
• Skills transfer to in-house team
• Enable your data science (AI and machine learning)
• Embed a modern data engineering culture
• Facilitate real-time data pipelines for faster reporting

£495 a unit a day

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 samantha.cole@data-vault.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

560269202813046

Contact

Samatha Cole
023 92 637171
samantha.cole@data-vault.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: We can help you develop a compelling business case and implementation plans to migrate to the cloud. Our unique Migration Framework provides a proven and practical approach to the challenge of data service migration. We can help your planning in the following areas:; • Requirements management and scope definition; • Build a business case; • Identify and quantify benefits; • Conduct proof of concepts; • Plan an Agile migration programme and projects ; • Develop test strategies; • Incorporate governance.; A clear focus on desired outcomes helps you understand how to transition to cloud-based services without abandoning existing investments and to justify investment returns to senior executives.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: We provide Data Vault 2.0 certification training and developer Data Vault familarisation courses.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: We can help you set up and migrate your Data Warehouse and Data Services to the cloud. Our unique Migration Framework provides a proven and practical approach to the challenge of data service migration. We can help you in the following areas:; • data analysis, modelling and mapping; • architectural design; • implementation of a secure cloud-based data centre architecture; • coach your team to develop an in-house capability to build and support a cloud-based data warehouse or data service; • provide advice and assistance in the implementation of Agile practices, DevOps, test driven development and continuous integration; • assist in the planning and migration of data from legacy systems across to the new solution.
• 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: We offer quality assurance reviews of Data Warehouse implementation projects underway - in support of Gateway reviews, mid or post implementation reviews and project autopsies.

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: Service constraints are identified in a service engagement document and discussed with a client prior to placing an order. Constraints are framed in the context of a particular client's requirements to ensure outcome expectations are aligned at the beginning of the engagement.

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 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: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  Datavault supports the move to de-carbonise the economy and is committed to achieving Net Zero by 2050. We have a Carbon Reduction Plan completed in accordance with PPN 06/21 and associated guidance. This commitment is signed off by our CEO and is published on our website. We encourage our employees to cycle to work. We have fitted a cycle rack at our offices and employees have access to the cycle to work scheme. We further encourage the use public transport instead of driving and when driving to carshare whenever possible. We have implemented hybrid working enabling our employees and contractors to work from home. Our entire IT infrastructure, apart from desktop PCs/laptops is hosted in the cloud. Our desk booking system to ensure limited office capacity is used optimally while providing the opportunity to work flexibility in hygienic working conditions. We have no plastic coffee cups and plastic bottles in the office all are reusable China. We focus on using local suppliers where appropriate to minimise the environmental impact. The use of paper and printing is limited with staff being encouraged to think before printing anything. Increasingly documents are being signed and kept electronically where possible. We believe our initiatives, even small ones, are supporting to fight against climate change.; We have made reasonable adjustments to working hours for team members to support their use of public transport, therefore reducing car emissions. We have employed staff in the US in order to manage client engagements there, reducing requirements for team members to travel to the USA. Overnight accommodation is made available to staff who may travel very long journeys to reduce the number of commutes.; We have a cloud first strategy aimed at using innovative technologies improve productivity, allow our business to scale easily and minimise our carbon footprint.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Datavault recognises its responsibility to support people and communities to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19, both directly through work for clients and through interactions with the wider community.; Initiatives include:; - Using local suppliers where possible to support the local economy.; - Supporting staff requiring time off to have flu or COVID-19 vaccinations. ; - Continued use of hand sanitiser, signage and cleaning products.; - Flexible working and encouraging staff that are not well to stay away from the office.; - Support hybrid working through a defined model that allows staff the benefits of both home-based and office-based working, while meeting client needs. ; - Lockdowns have affected different people in different ways, it is only normal for some staff to feel uncertain and apprehensive about going back to the workplace. The company has tasked managers with ensuring that practical support is given to the return to normal working models.; Our benefits package has a wealth of health and well being services, including life support and bereavement assistance.

  Tackling economic inequality

  Datavault is committed to tackling economic inequality by offering job opportunities to young people from a range of backgrounds. The company is headquartered in a borough, Havant, ranked within the most deprived 25% of local authorities in England in terms of the education, skills and training indicator. Our commitment to helping to tackling economic inequality from the root level comes from supporting education and skills locally. ; We have created new roles for apprentices, fresh graduates and re-trainers, to diversify our talent pool and support growth in the local economy. Datavault is committed to help our staff to develop their skills. We will also seek to create corporate social value in recruiting staff with a view to developing their skills. Activities facilitating training and skills development include:; - Supporting or sponsoring relevant formal education (through financial contribution and/or study leave); - Graduate recruitment and development; - Providing internships and placements for students in higher education; - Supporting or sponsoring product or industry specific training and certifications; - Data Vault 2.0 certification for all technical employees within two years of starting; - Internal training platform with dedicated content author, currently over 45 classes developed for use by staff.; In 2022 we introduced Level 3 and 4 apprenticeship programmes to help and to support our drive to tackle economic inequality by providing opportunities particularly for the next generation and improving skills. ; We are cognitive of ensuring Diversity and Inclusion issues in our employment and recruitment practises. This includes skills-based assessments, structured interviews, transparent promotions to senior positions by ensuring roles, with full job descriptions are advertised internally.

  Equal opportunity

  Datavault is committed to help our staff to develop their skills. We will also seek to create corporate social value in recruiting staff with a view to developing their skills. Activities facilitating training and skills development include:; Supporting or sponsoring relevant formal education (through financial contribution and/or study leave); Graduate recruitment and development; Providing internships and placements for students in higher education; Supporting or sponsoring product or industry specific training ; Data Vault 2.0 certification for all technical employees within two years of starting; Internal training platform with dedicated content author, currently over 45 classes developed for use by staff and evolving; Product training, for example, on Erwin Data Intelligence, Data Modeller, dbt and Snowflake; We have demonstrated our commitment through the following activities:; Sponsorship of an Open University degree in business and computing; Sponsorship of a professional HR qualification ; 8-week placements for students under the Sepnet programme ; Employing graduates for their first job; Member of a university employers’ liaison group ; Guest lecturing on a university MBA course; Two apprenticeships in digital marketing; One software development apprenticeship; Wherever we seek suppliers that align with our social value and equal opportunities policies, their supply chain partners also need to reflect these values and maintain appropriate cyber security standards.; All new technical appointments engage in our ‘Datavault bootcamp’ which is designed to equip new staff with the necessary skills, knowledge, and confidence to seamlessly integrate into our project teams. Mentoring is in place to support the transition from academia to a business environment. ; We implement a fair recruitment strategy for external and internal posts and have thorough interview processes that are transparent.; We attend university open days as employer representatives and engage in careers fairs in order to provide opportunities for all university students to understand about careers in the our industry.

  Wellbeing

  Datavault recognises that our strength comes from our people whether they be staff, associates or subcontractors. We want staff to stay with us for the long term and believe that they will stay if we take good care of them and offer training and development opportunities. Therefore, we always seek to support them and be sensitive to their broader family lives. Also: ; We help them to enhance their knowledge and career/professional development with training and support to get certifications.; Team leaders have been trained to be aware of and sensitive to mental health, diversity and inclusion issues.; We hold daily stand-up meetings for core teams to share knowledge and experiences, solve problems. ; We hold podcasts and monthly hackathons as strategies to encourage engagement across the company in learning activities to build knowledge and collaboration.; Our line managers regularly hold “keeping-in-touch” hold meetings with their team members allowing them to ask for support, not only with work-related issues but also their personal issues.; Staff are encouraged to participate in community volunteering or charity projects (examples include being a school governor and guest lecturing at a university).; We support home-working with office equipment if needed to ensure ergonomically sound working environments.; We have hybrid and flexible working to account for varied staff circumstances.; Mental health is taken seriously, and staff are encouraged to consider the mental health of colleagues and are provided with mental health learning resources. ; Employees have access to a range of health and wellbeing options that include an employee assistance programme, a free counselling service provided by fully qualified professionals. ; Our HR system allows the rewarding of “Thanks”, which is open to all employees and is a standing agenda item on company days. Company seeks to celebrate work anniversaries, exam results, certifications etc.

Pricing

• Price: £495 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

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 samantha.cole@data-vault.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.