Reply Limited
Low code application development on Outsystems
Provision of experienced citizen developers to develop applications, using the low code application platform, provided by our partnership with Outsystems, to be implemented in the organisation
Features
- Development of applications using low code application platform
- Project Management
- User Story Definition
Benefits
- Faster development
- Increase of Development Capacity
Pricing
£550 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
5 8 6 5 8 9 9 2 8 5 8 4 2 4 4
Contact
Reply Limited
Chris Wright
Telephone: 0207 730 6000
Email: glue.frameworks@reply.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Reply has extensive experience of planning for low code application development. Starting with Business Analysis we capture requirements maintaining a focus on the Business Objectives and develop supporting functional requirements. Within the Business and Enterprise (Future State), Application and Solution, Information and Data, Integration and Service, Technical, Infrastructure, Cloud and Security Architecture(s) we develop transition and migration states and roadmaps to include to ensure the business and its customers face as little disruption as possible, ensuring disruption is positive. We can provide experienced Scrum masters to manage transition, evolution and migration at Programme, Project/Scrum and Work Package levels, building in compliance with ITIL and GDPR. We are experts in Agile working and partner with leading Low Code application platform vendor such as Mendix and OutSystems so we understand their products and technologies to ensure effective and efficient integration and data flows.
- Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- Outsystems
- Mendix
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- We will provide training to users on the solutions that we have developed so that the Customer is able to operate and update them as part of the handover. The training can be formal instructor lead, via workshops, 1-2-1, webex, webinar and onsite mentoring. We also run labcamps and hackathons which can be opened to clients in some cases. Instructors are mainly hands on architects, designers and developers with experience of implementation, integration and management. We can provide labcamps and hackathons for clients in some circumstances.
- Training is tied to specific services
- Yes
- Services the training service works with
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- Outsystems
- Mendix
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
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Reply is a dedicated low code specialist and has an established Sales/Delivery Partnership with OutSystems since 2019. Reply have won the Best Solution Partner Award from OutSystems In-Step event in 2023 and Partner of the Year 2022.
Reply can provide the transition an application written in programmation language and host in the cloud to an application written in low code on a cloud low code application platform as a manager service, allowing us to evolve the capabilities and plan the critical people change and communication aspects. Reply can train and mentor your staff , upskilling and transferring knowledge to enable and upgrade local capability. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- Yes
- List of supported services
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- Mendix
- Outsystems
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
- Reply are ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus accredited, ICO Registered - Z 6411412 Open Group members and British Computer Society. Applying our ISO9001 processes, we work in highly regulated domains (NHS, Home Office, Banking and Financial Services, Energy and utilities) and apply the IP we develop in one domain, where it is Best Practice to others. This includes Data Protection and Privacy. We actively monitor quality of output which includes mutli-parties internal review of documents and artefacts for accuracy but also plain English and grammar. We provide all types of Testing and automation. Testers, Test Leads and Test Strategy resources include Integration, Performance, Automaton and SIT testers/testing and provide Test Driven Development. We have found that ensuring that the Test Approach (in the Test Strategy) is well developed and understood prior to any Agile project is crucial, along with Configuration Management. Testers are often provided with specific skills such testing of Mendix and OutSystems applications, and also with mobile platforms across iOS, Android and Windows.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
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- GBEST
- CHECK
- CREST
- Tigerscheme
- Cyber Scheme
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- Yes
- Types of service supported
- Hosting or software provided by your organisation
- How the support service works
- We provide technical support on applications that we have developed. This is typically 3rd level support on applications, whereby a customer's service desk will provide any support tickets to the assigned customer success manager from Reply, for that account, to review and resolve the issue. The customer success manager will typically be available during business hours in a working week on a 8x5 support model.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- As a policy we do not hold or access client data, unless appointed as a data Processor or Sub processor specifically. Where we are not appointed as a processor or sub processor we would not be responsible for customer or user data held within the customers systems hosted in the Cloud, which includes its quality. Where we have to use client data, we seek to only use client provided infrastructure which can include Citrix servers and VMs.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Response times will be agreed as part of a service level agreement with the client.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 A
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- Yes, at an extra cost
- Web chat support availability
- 24 hours, 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 A
- Web chat accessibility testing
- Web chat testing protocol will be agreed with the client as part of our service design process.
- Support levels
- We adapt our support to the needs of the users and can offer most support levels requested by clients. We have provided all combinations of first, second, and third line support to our clients; we have provided all combinations of UK business hours, UK extended business hours and 24/7 support facilities to our clients except for 3rd level support that remains business hours. We have provided both real-time telephone support, email support, and on-call support. The costs of each of these models is tailored to the specific needs of our clients to ensure the right level of support is provided to the service in question. In all of our client engagements there will be a dedicated account manager – and typically a cloud support engineer or technical account manager depending on the needs of the client.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Outsystems
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- QMS International
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 23/06/2017
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Our ISO Covers: IT and Business Consultancy
- 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
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
Our commitment to social value is integral to our values as a business built on an ethical approach demonstrating Glue Reply’s reliability, transparency and honesty.
We can support the buyer to deliver against the Social Value Model Theme of Fighting Climate Change through delivering additional environmental benefits enabling effective stewardship of the environment.
We are ISO14001:2015 certified and since 2012 we have reported our environmental credentials to the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP.net). We have committed to being Carbon Neutral as a whole business by 2025 and Net Zero GHG emissions by 2030. We have a clear set of policies and action plan towards these targets.
Our certified environmental sustainability programme includes annual measurement and reporting of document printing, materials recycling, energy saving, energy efficiency, transport and energy consumption. Our KWH consumption per employee is calculated and our transition to renewables including percentage of renewables as a proportion of our total kWH consumption is reported. We complete an annual environmental policy and assessment for our supply chain partners. All our core systems are run in green cloud environments managed by certified providers.
Our cloud services are provided in a carbon-neutral manner including our direct supply chain. A proportion of this is achieved through carbon offsetting and we provide measurements on emissions that demonstrate offsetting ensures our contracts are carbon positive. Our preferred scheme is Forest Carbon (https://www.forestcarbon.co.uk).
At the start of the engagement we will agree the initiatives to implement, incorporate the agreed social value milestones into the wider programme and manage them alongside all other deliverables. A detailed project plan will be prepared and key performance measurements agreed to monitor the progress of the social value initiatives. We incorporate social value implementation and monitoring into the role of the Client Director.Covid-19 recovery
Our commitment to social value is integral to our values as a business built on an ethical approach demonstrating Glue Reply’s reliability, transparency and honesty.
We can support the buyer to deliver against the Social Value Model Theme of COVID-19 recovery through provision of employment opportunities and implementation of people health initiatives to help local communities manage and recover from COVID-19.
We have implemented initiatives to promote opportunities for those who face barriers to employment;
- Enrolled into the Nuffield Research Placement scheme (funded by Nuffield Foundation) to provide placements to disadvantaged and deprived year 12 students providing research opportunities. Individuals who perform well are offered a Degree Apprenticeship place.
- Run a Degree Apprenticeship scheme where we use Generation (a not-for-profit) to cross-train individuals from deprived backgrounds, without necessarily STEM backgrounds in technology. We partnered with Google who commit to provide engineering engagements and training and development on Google Cloud Platform related technologies.
As a responsible employer we have implemented the 6 standards of the Mental Health at Work Commitment, we support our employees no matter what situation they face and have appropriate structures for them to speak to neutral experts 24x7. Both employees and managers are trained on mental health. Post-COVID we actively promote physical activities and have revised working practices to inspire each employee to make their own choices to find their ideal work-life balance.
At the start of the engagement we will agree the initiatives to implement, incorporate the agreed social value milestones into the wider programme and manage them alongside all other deliverables. A detailed project plan will be prepared and key performance measurements agreed to monitor the progress of the social value initiatives. We incorporate social value implementation and monitoring into the role of the Client Director.Tackling economic inequality
Our commitment to social value is integral to our values as a business built on an ethical approach demonstrating Glue Reply’s reliability, transparency and honesty.
We can support the buyer to deliver against the Social Value Model Theme of Tackling Economic Inequality through provision of new business, new jobs and skills and incresaing supply chain resilience and capacity.
We have implemented initiatives to promote opportunities for those who face barriers to employment;
- Enrolled into the Nuffield Research Placement scheme (funded by Nuffield Foundation) to provide placements to disadvantaged and deprived year 12 students providing research opportunities. Individuals who perform well are offered a Degree Apprenticeship place.
- Run a Degree Apprenticeship scheme where we use Generation (a not-for-profit) to cross-train individuals from deprived backgrounds, without necessarily STEM backgrounds in technology. We partnered with Google who commit to provide engineering engagements and training and development on Google Cloud Platform related technologies.
- Run a Code for Kids initiative where we work with schools to teach over 3,000 children across a broad range of schools how to program.
We have a Supplier Code of Conduct and all our suppliers must comply in the areas of labour law and human rights, worker safety and environmental sustainability. Reply operates as set of SME type companies and we understand the benefits that this these organisations can bring and we often select SME’s as part of our supply chain
At the start of the engagement we will agree the initiatives to implement, incorporate the agreed social value milestones into the wider programme and manage them alongside all other deliverables. A detailed project plan will be prepared and key performance measurements agreed to monitor the progress of the social value initiatives. We incorporate social value implementation and monitoring into the role of the Client Director.Equal opportunity
Our commitment to social value is integral to our values as a business built on an ethical approach demonstrating Glue Reply’s reliability, transparency and honesty.
We can support the buyer to deliver against the Social Value Model Theme of Equal Opportunity through tackling workforce inequality, identifying and managing the risks of modern slavery and increasing representation of disabled people.
Glue Reply is committed to promoting equality and diversity and promoting a culture where we actively value difference and recognise people from different backgrounds and experiences bring valuable workplace insights and enhance the way we work. Making everyone feel equally involved and supported results in rewarding work experiences and fuels innovation.
We make employment decisions based on merit, qualifications and competence. Our workforce has high cultural diversity, above industry standards, and has higher levels of gender diversity than industry averages. We have a strong equality ethos and run a genuine meritocracy where individuals are assessed solely on their performance and how their contribution has helped further the organisation.
We are committed to preventing modern slavery in our corporate activities and supply chains.
We have implemented initiatives to promote opportunities to identify and tackle inequality in employment, skills and pay in the workforce.;
• Founding signatory of the Tech Talent Charter
• Women in Technology social network organises events and has an active community.
• Donated some of our BCS Corporate Membership places to Coding Black Females
At the start of the engagement we will agree the initiatives to implement, incorporate the agreed social value milestones into the wider programme and manage them alongside all other deliverables. A detailed project plan will be prepared and key performance measurements agreed to monitor the progress of the social value initiatives. We incorporate social value implementation and monitoring into the role of the Client Director.Wellbeing
Our commitment to social value is integral to our values as a business built on an ethical approach demonstrating Glue Reply’s reliability, transparency and honesty.
We can support the buyer to deliver against the Social Value Model Theme of Wellbeing through supporting the physical and mental health of the rowkforce and community.
As a responsible employer we have implemented the 6 standards of the Mental Health at Work Commitment, we support our employees no matter what situation they face and have appropriate structures for them to speak to neutral experts 24x7. Both employees and managers are trained on mental health.
We perform assessments on wellbeing regularly and our significant annual report on this covers a wide range of dimensions across the business. We present the findings to all employees whilst keeping individual information 100% confidential. We then have our focus group working on these results to drive a culture of continuous improvement
Post-COVID we actively promote physical activities and have revised working practices to inspire each employee to make their own choices to find their ideal work-life balance.
• Our active challenge on Strava rewards employees for taking breaks. For every mile they walk or run we give £1 to charity, with an extra £5 every time during work hours. #WorkLifeBalance has driven an active work-life balance culture with >70% peak uptake.
• Our staff also have access to on-line yoga and fitness programmes.
At the start of the engagement we will agree the initiatives to implement, incorporate the agreed social value milestones into the wider programme and manage them alongside all other deliverables. A detailed project plan will be prepared and key performance measurements agreed to monitor the progress of the social value initiatives. We incorporate social value implementation and monitoring into the role of the Client Director.
Pricing
- Price
- £550 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
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