BYTES SOFTWARE SERVICES LIMITED

AvePoint Opus

As advanced persistent threats (APTs), ransomware, insider threats, and zero-day vulnerabilities become more sophisticated, companies across the globe struggle to stay a step ahead of bad actors. AvePoint helps customers go beyond traditional data security with a single platform, delivering data protection & ensuring resilience for third party SaaS apps.

Features

• Multi‑cloud Support: Monday.com, Docusign, Okta, GitHub, Confluence, Jira, ServiceNow
• Granular, workload‑aware restore for items, permissions, and configurations.
• Ransomware protection with unusual activity detection reporting.
• Flexible retention policies based on containers and business rules.
• Centralised dashboards for monitoring, reporting, and auditing.

Benefits

• Reduce downtime with rapid, granular restores across critical workloads.
• Recover quickly from ransomware and user errors to maintain productivity.
• Preserve essential records to support compliant, efficient operations.
• Improve decision‑making with clear visibility of protected data.
• Sustain business continuity with assured data retention and recovery.
• Enhance user confidence with reliable, always‑available backup services.
• Strengthen compliance by maintaining protected, verifiable data states.
• Support seamless collaboration by safeguarding data across all SaaS apps.

• Education pricing available
• Free trial available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

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Framework

G-Cloud 15

Service ID

608094809713545

Contact

Richard Read
01372 418 500
tenders@bytes.co.uk

About your service

• Service categories:

  Applications

  Enterprise resource management

  • Asset life-cycle management
• Multi cloud support: Yes

Service scope

• Software add-on or extension: Yes
• What software services is the service an extension to: Requires a tenant of SaaS Applications such as; Confluence, Monday.com, Jira, GitHub, Smartsheets, ServiceNow, Octa, DocuSign, BitBucket and more.
• Cloud deployment model: Public cloud
• Service constraints: No
• System requirements: Requires tenant of SaaS Applications such as-Confluence-Monday.com-Jira-GitHub-Smartsheets ect

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Yes
• Support response times: Telephone requests are immediate, other methods will be within 2 hours or more dependant on the severity of the request. For more information https://avepoint.com/products/support.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 A
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support: Yes
• Web chat support availability: 24 hours, 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 A
• Web chat accessibility testing: This is available through https://www.avepoint.com/products/support
• Onsite support: Yes, at extra cost
• Support levels: We provide - Low, Medium, High and Very High levels, more information can be found at https://www.avepoint.com/products/support
• Support available to third parties: Yes
• AI chatbot: No

Onboarding and offboarding

• Getting started: Administrators can customise the backup frequency, the scope of data to be included in backup, access levels for users, and restore abilities for end users.
• Service documentation: Yes
• Documentation formats: HTML
• End-of-contract data extraction: Data Export feature is initiated from the user interface. Conditions apply on data volumes.
• End-of-contract process: The functionality will stop working and the customers obligations will end. Where applicable customer data can be exported.
• Documentation accessibility standard: WCAG 2.2 A

Using the service

• Web browser interface: Yes
• Supported browsers:
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Chrome
  • Safari
• Application to install: No
• Designed for use on mobile devices: Yes
• Differences between the mobile and desktop service: None
• Service interface: Yes
• User support accessibility: WCAG 2.2 A
• Description of service interface: Users access services via http://www.avepointonlineservices.com/login. Users have access to available functions through our GUI based on their permissions or role.
• Accessibility standards: WCAG 2.2 A
• Accessibility testing: AvePoint complies with common accessibility guidelines. In addition, extensive Quality Assurance testing is performed before any release. Customers can optionally subscribe to "Insider Releases" to gain early access to updates, and provide feedback.
• API: Yes
• What users can and can't do using the API: Configure backups, export data, fetch audit information and integrate with SIEM services
• API documentation: Yes
• API documentation formats: HTML
• API sandbox or test environment: No
• Customisation available: Yes
• Description of customisation: Administrators can customise the backup frequency, the scope of data to be included in backup, access levels for users, and restore abilities for end users.

Scaling

• Independence of resources: Using AvePoint you can generate and download reports for the completed backup, restore, or export jobs to view the job summary, job settings, and the failed or skipped objects. In the reports for the restore jobs, the source and destination information can also be seen. AvePoint's Confidence Platform provides detailed service metrics including alert counts, affected data sources, remediation timelines, and user activity anomalies, enabling administrators to monitor, investigate, and respond to potential threats quickly and effectively.

Analytics

• Service usage metrics: Yes
• Metrics types: Using AvePoint you can generate and download reports for the completed backup, restore, or export jobs to view the job summary, job settings, and the failed or skipped objects. In the reports for the restore jobs, the source and destination information can also be seen. AvePoint's Confidence Platform provides detailed service metrics including alert counts, affected data sources, remediation timelines, and user activity anomalies, enabling administrators to monitor, investigate, and respond to potential threats quickly and effectively.
• Reporting types:
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request
• Resource tagging: Yes
• FOCUS resource tagging: Yes

Resellers

• Supplier type: Reseller providing extra support
• Organisation whose services are being resold: Avepoint

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

• Knowledge of data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Data storage and processing locations:
  • United Kingdom
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • Other locations
• User control over data storage and processing locations: Yes
• Datacentre security standards: Managed by a third party
• Penetration testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Penetration testing approach: Another external penetration testing organisation
• Protecting data at rest:
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
• Data sanitisation process: Yes
• Equipment disposal approach: Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001
• Data sanitisation type: Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation / Secure Erase

Data importing and exporting

• Data export approach: The functionality will stop working and the customers obligations will end. Where applicable customer data can be exported.
• Data export formats: Other
• Other data export formats: Not Applicable
• Data import formats: Other
• Other data import formats: Not Applicable

Data-in-transit protection

• Data protection between buyer and supplier networks:
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
• Data protection within supplier network: TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

• Guaranteed availability: Availability is set within the SLA
• Approach to resilience: AvePoint leverages Microsoft Azure for hosting it's cloud service, which has a number of data centers for HA.
• Outage reporting: Portal notifications with additional direct communication when appropriate.

Identity and authentication

• User authentication needed: Yes
• User authentication: Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
• Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels: All authentication is carried out against Microsoft Azure or any supported Azure authentication method
• Access restriction testing frequency: At least every 6 months
• Management access authentication: Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)

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 contact the support team to get audit information
• How long supplier audit data is stored for: At least 12 months
• How long system logs are stored for: At least 12 months

Security governance

• Named board-level person responsible for service security: Yes
• Security governance certified: Yes
• Security governance standards: ISO/IEC 27001
• Information security policies and processes: SOC II, iRAP, FedRAMP, CSA
• Software Security Code of Practice: No

Operational security

• Configuration and change management standard: Complies with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v4.0 or SSAE-18 / ISAE 3402
• Configuration and change management approach: Change Management is documented, requested, reviewed, approved, tested, and finally rolled out during off hours in order to have minimal effect on customers.
• Vulnerability management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Vulnerability management approach: We subscribe to security bulletins and stay abreast of recent 0 day vulnerabilities as well as maintaining an active patch cycle.
• Protective monitoring type: Supplier-defined controls
• Protective monitoring approach: Please refer to Azure documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/best-practices-network-security
• Incident management type: Supplier-defined controls
• Incident management approach: Long standing experienced helpdesk available 24x7, breach mgmt procedures.
• Post-quantum cryptography secure: No

Secure development

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

Public sector networks

• Connection to public sector networks: No

Pricing

• Discount for educational organisations: Yes
• Free trial available: Yes
• Description of free trial: It is possible to trial the product for a 30 day period at no cost online. Please contact SalesUK@avepoint.com to initiate a trial.
• Link to free trial: https://www.avepointonlineservices.com/services

Discount percentage by annual call-off contract value (excluding VAT)

• Less than £250,000: 5%
• Between £250,000 and £500,000: 5%
• Between £500,001 and £1,000,000: 5%
• Between £1,000,001 and £2,500,000: 5%
• Between £2,500,001 and £5,000,000: 5%
• Over £5,000,001: 5%

Non-mandatory Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: Citation ISO Certification Ltd
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: Wednesday 5 March 2025
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• ISO 28000:2022 certification: No
• ISO 9001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO 9001 certification: Peers Quality Assurance Ltd
• ISO 9001 accreditation date: Wednesday 1 November 2023
• What the ISO 9001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• Quality management systems (QMS): Yes
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: Yes
• Who accredited the PCI DSS certification: SecurityMetrics
• PCI DSS accreditation date: Thursday 23 October 2025
• What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover: N/A
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Certificate Number: 3990f676-b304-42c4-9776-0869f2d32229
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Please provide your Cyber Essentials Plus Certificate Number: 21e94cf4-cda7-4d3a-8343-71e6363aef69
• Other security certifications: Yes
• Any other security certifications: IASME Cyber Assurance L2

Social value

• Section B - Commitment for Future: Delivery:

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 1: Fair work: That offers fair wages and good working conditions. Help people get a job, stay in work, and progress in their careers, with good employment opportunities across the country. Notes: Where there is a large proportion of labour costs in the contract, commercial teams should consider MAC in Outcome 1 as a priority

    • New or retained jobs on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b, 1c and 1d
    • New apprenticeships on the contract workforce in the relevant area that meet the criteria set out in MAC 1b
    • Providing opportunities for, and measuring and monitoring of, staff workforce conditions over time, including employee engagement, involvement in decision-making and satisfaction and adapting to any changes in the results, with clear processes for acting on issues identified
    • Plans to engage the contract workforce in deciding the most important workplace issues to address
    • Monitoring of employee engagement rates (by protected characteristic) and, where necessary, the development of actions to ensure all voices are heard across the diversity of the workforce
    • Payment of more than the National Minimum Wage or National Living Wage (as appropriate) to the contract workforce
    • Monitoring and reporting of gender and ethnicity pay gaps and plans to address them where necessary
    • Understanding of in-work progression issues affecting the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Measures to support in-work progression to help people in the contract workforce, to move into higher paid work by developing new skills relevant to the contract
    • Support for educational attainment relevant to the contract, including training schemes that address skills gaps and result in recognised qualifications
    • Volunteering opportunities for staff
    • Understanding of the modern slavery risks and issues affecting the market, industry, sector or country (of origin or of source) relevant to the contract, and the workforce in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key subcontractors

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 2: Skills for growth: Supporting growth sectors and addressing skills gaps.

    • Understanding of employment and relevant skills issues, and of the education and training issues relating to the contract. Illustrative examples: demographics, skills shortages, new opportunities in high growth sectors, geographic/local community and skills/employment challenges

  • Mission: Kick start economic growth. To secure the highest sustained growth in the G7 - with good jobs and productivity growth in every part of the country making everyone, not just a few, better off.

    Policy Outcome 3: Resilient, innovative and flexible supply chains: Support economic growth through enabling resilient businesses, opportunities for small businesses and voluntary, community and social enterprises

    • Understanding of the types of businesses in the market and the level of participation by new businesses, entrepreneurs, start-ups, SMEs, VCSEs and mutuals

  • Mission: Make Britain a clean energy superpower: To cut bills, create jobs and deliver security with cheaper, zero-carbon electricity by 2030, accelerating to net zero

    Policy Outcome 4: Sustainable procurement practices: Reducing carbon footprints, minimising waste, and promoting the use of clean energy and green technologies.

    • Understanding of opportunities for additional environmental benefits delivery in the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Delivery of additional environmental benefits through the performance of the contract, including working towards net zero carbon emissions and use of clean energy and green technologies
    • Understanding of how to influence staff, suppliers, customers, communities and/or any other appropriate stakeholders through the delivery of the contract to support climate and nature protection and improvement

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 6: Employment and training: For those who face barriers to employment

    • Understanding of employment and skills issues, and of the skills and employment shortages of high growth sectors relating to the contract
    • Understanding of the issues affecting the representation of disabled people in the workforce in the market, industry or sector relevant to the contract, and in the supplier’s own organisation and those of its key sub-contractors
    • Inclusive and accessible development practices, including guidance for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing people with a disability or health condition

  • Mission: Break down barriers to opportunity: By reforming our childcare and education systems, to make sure there is no class ceiling on the ambitions of young people in Britain

    Policy Outcome 7: Creating a pipeline of opportunities: For the contract workforce, reducing barriers to entry for under-represented groups.

    • Understanding of the issues affecting the development of new skills by target cohort
    • Understanding of issues relating to entering the contract workforce

  • Mission: Build an NHS fit for the future: That is there when people need it; with fewer lives lost to the biggest killers; in a fairer Britain, where everyone lives well for longer.

    Policy Outcome 8: Increasing productivity through physical and mental wellbeing: In the supply chain and communities in the relevant area.

    • Understanding of issues relating to health and wellbeing, including physical and mental health, in the contract workforce
    • Understanding barriers to access to health and social care services or employment opportunities e.g. digital inclusion
    • Inclusive and accessible recruitment practices, development practices and retention policies that support-focused activities including those provided in the Guide for line managers on recruiting, managing and developing which support people with a disability or health condition
    • Actions to invest in the physical and mental health and wellbeing of the contract workforce

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