Flax & Teal Limited

OurRagingPlanet (open source GIS analysis and simulation)

OurRagingPlanet is a platform for performing reports, training and analysis on geographic areas and features, at fixed time or showing events unfolding. There is a subscriber side for preparing simulations, reports or scenarios, and a shareable, easy-to-use map-based view with timeline.

OurRagingPlanet is open source and driven by open data.

Features

• Open source GIS analysis and reporting tool
• Build static or time-based scenarios
• Timeline-based map-view sequences for training or presentation
• Simulate and perform quantitative analysis based on open spatial data
• Easy-to-use, shareable scenario viewing interface
• Entire product released under open licenses
• Simple summary reporting on geographic features and analysis
• Compatible with Python for static/time-series data analysis
• Tablet and desktop compatible
• Can be deployed as a per-customer managed stack

Benefits

• Handles unfolding map-based events and static views
• Power of Python for complex analysis/simulation at a click
• Use open data to analyse geographic markets, field locations
• Shareable map view designed for simplicity and ease-of-use
• Open license leaves option to independently in-house as required
• Economical, straightforward approach

£200 to £1,100 a licence a month

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

587820929451063

Contact

Phil Weir
+4475262214774
admin@flaxandteal.co.uk

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: No
• Cloud deployment model:
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
• Service constraints: Simulation queue scheduling may mean that, at peak times, simulation jobs may experience longer delays than at off-peak times. Where possible, notification of upcoming maintenance outages will be made 48h in advance. While recent, standard browsers will work on mobile, user experience may be significantly diminished on small screens.
• System requirements: Standards compliant browser on desktop/tablet, e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Safari

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support response times: Within 2 working days (as basic support)
• 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: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: Basic email support is available.; Additional levels are currently offered, from £400-£1700/m (see pricing document), although levels including specific on-going agreements providing shorter turnaround times, on-site support and engineer support may be established on demand.
• Support available to third parties: Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: User documentation is built into the application. On-site training and online training may be requested separately.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: All data associated with a user is attached to their subscribing institution/body, and may be provided on request within 5 working days (in-interface export to standard compressed formats is an incoming feature)
• End-of-contract process: Log-in access to the service is suspended, as well as shareable links to view user-owned scenarios. A complete archive of user-owned data at the time of termination will be provided on request, as a free service, for up to 60 working days after termination.

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: Limited scope for small screens. On larger tablets, no functionality differences, minimal layout differences to adapt to screen size.
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: None or don’t know
• Description of service interface: The interface allows web users to view simulations, geographic information and planning data. Administrative users can manage payments, create analyses, manage data and run simulations.
• Accessibility standards: None or don’t know
• Description of accessibility: Most administrative and end-user functionality is available using standard, commonly used accessible components, although accessibility of map-driven functionality is subject to incremental improvement. Limited use is made of non-text media to ensure practicality of automatic use by assistive technologies.
• Accessibility testing: Currently limited, although further work in this area is planned.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Add new geographic locations within existing regions, simulate based on those location choices and feature choices. Most or all functionality available through the web-based interface is also available through the API.
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: Open API (also known as Swagger)
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Buyers can submit their own Python-based algorithms (subject to security and resource-usage checks) to run their own sandboxed geographical simulations for rendering through the service, with available datasets. This may be subject to additional costs, based on resource consumption and checks.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: On-going measuring of service load. Services are designed from the ground up using scalable technologies on a redeployable architecture.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Number of simulations executed under an institution/body subscription
• Reporting types: Real-time dashboards

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• 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
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
• Penetration testing frequency: Less than once a year
• Penetration testing approach: In-house
• Protecting data at rest: Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
• Data sanitisation process: No
• Equipment disposal approach: In-house destruction process

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: All data may be extracted via the API. Additional bulk export methods are planned (including GeoJSON)
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: JSON
• Data import formats:
  • CSV
  • Other
• Other data import formats: GeoJSON

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: SLAs incorporating availability are available, with billing discounts for uptime below 99% and 99.9%. Individually negotiated agreements may incorporate higher percentage uptime and analysis-completion times.
• Approach to resilience: In addition to the standard provisions of the AWS infrastructure used, the service has been designed to be rapidly deployable onto new infrastructure, with infrastructure definitions and code held on a separate service to the production deployment.
• Outage reporting: As part of a negotiated SLA, high priority (or automatic) email notification may be agreed - otherwise by email and website updates.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication:
  • Username or password
  • Other
• Other user authentication: Subscribed users are verified by username and password. Identity federation may be added.; ; Shared link users (viewing only) may use a unique link provided to them by subscribed users.
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: Only subscribed users have access to the subscriber-side (management interface). This limits access to content created only by that user. Viewable, shareable links are available for front-end viewing, and are provided only to the users creating the content (although they can provide these links to other individuals). Support is via direct email. Access to support back-end or management interfaces of the production system is restricted to only essential team members, with strict username/password-based access limitations.
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least once a year
• Management access authentication:
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

• Access to user activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long user audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
• Access to supplier activity audit information: Users have access to real-time audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: No
• Cyber essentials plus: No
• Other security certifications: No

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: No
• Security governance approach: Assigned person within the organization registered with ICO and responsible for adherence to DPA legislation and other security best practices. Required sensitive information is kept extremely limited, to minimize liability.
• Information security policies and processes: The director, acting as CISO, is directly responsible for acting on reported security issues and initiating remedial work. Others involved in performing work on the system do not require, and will not be provided with, access to live sensitive data, except in exceptional circumstances, with appropriate policy precautions

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Supplier-defined controls
• Configuration and change management approach: All components of the service are tracked using industry standard distributed version control. Build versions of compiled components are tracked through container image hashes. Infrastructure is defined in code and tracked using industry standard version control.; ; Changes are assessed for security impact through peer-reviewed merge requests by experienced practitioners.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: Potential threats are primarily assessed through exploration by experienced members of the team who file security issues. Services will be patched as soon as appropriate: where risk and impact of a vulnerability allows, additional investigation time will be provided to ensure new security measures do not lead to regressions or overall security degradation. Threat information is primarily gathered through industry links
• Protective monitoring type: Undisclosed
• Protective monitoring approach: Compromises are identified primarily through unusual traffic or access attempts. Improvements to automation of compromise analysis is part of this process. All affected users will be notified of the scale and impact of any compromise as initial analysis is complete.
• Incident management type: Undisclosed
• Incident management approach: Serious incidents are escalated to the director immediately, who is directly responsible for setting strategy and overseeing response. For certain standard events, such as denial of service attacks, use may be restricted to subscribed users or, in extreme cases, further based on SLA conditions; high availability ingresses will be scaled up and, if necessary, new infrastructure deployed. In general, all affected users will be notified of the incident and outcome and, where appropriate, information will be made public via the website.

Secure development

• Approach to secure software development best practice: Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  Tackling economic inequality

  Tackling economic inequality

  A key principle of open source is universal access to the underlying technology of any product or service. This is not only important for transparency, but is a key enabler of entry into the industry - open source, being both free and widely relevant, allows underrepresented global communities access to the same software tools, languages and skill development that technology leaders have. By hiring for these skillsets, rather than degrees, skills or certifications in proprietary software that can be exploitatively expensive to obtain, companies using and producing open source create a fairer and more open industry, and by extension improve the inclusivity of the global economy. Open source forms the basis of many social inclusion initiatives, particularly in technology, teaching Python or Javascript (fundamental technologies in our work) to children from underprivileged backgrounds and UN Least Developed Countries. By embedding open source in the way we work, we help ensure there are always pathways into the international technology job market.

Pricing

• Price: £200 to £1,100 a licence a month
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: All functionality, within limits minimizing impact on existing users, may be arranged on request for up to one month.

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 admin@flaxandteal.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.