Simple Innovation Associates
System Setup, Upgrades and Migration into Azure/Office365
Setup of Microsoft Azure App Services for Web based applications and migration of existing program software codebases from on-premises Microsoft .NET architectures into Azure technology stack.
Migration of content and accomapnying metadata from on-premise architectures and File System Storage) Microsoft Azure / SQL Azure environment and SharePoint/Office365.
Features
- Code migration from on premise to software as a service
- Migration of content, preserving metadata
- User migration planning
- Comparison of cloud options to ensure lower ongoing costs
- Automated continous deployment
- Staff Training and handover
- Establish cloud based best practice in your environment
Benefits
- Optimisation of services to lower transaction based cost
- Consolidation of monitoring into a single interface
- Ensure adequate resources for performance and resilience
- Assured migration of content
- Move your users into the cloud with minimal disruption
- Communicate business change easily to stakeholders
Pricing
£450 to £1,500 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 5 6 2 0 0 1 8 9 0 6 5 5 8 2
Contact
Simple Innovation Associates
Gina Holden
Telephone: 07976 358140
Email: sales@simpleinnovation.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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We work with you to define requirements, set the strategy and shape your project. We can provide resources or work with your in-house team to move a variety of on premise data stores into the cloud. We often help clients by creating their strategy and business case for the project.
We work with ASP.NET, MVC, Angular, PowerShell, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JQuery, WPF, REACT, Node and all Office365 APIs and can both use existing tooling and scripting to transfer content and data into Azure or Cloud SharePoint (Office365).
Additionally, we can help with product selection and procurement, system design and customisations. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- We work with technical staff to ensure they understand their new environment and carry our handover services on conclusion of the work.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
-
We have worked with various clients and organisations in both the legal and public sectors to implement new or enhanced solutions using a range of software and plan their migration of users and content into Office365. We have also upgraded applications including OpenText and SQL applications.
An initial meeting would be held to assess the needs and define the way forward within timescales and budget. We would then work with the client to define the scope of the project. Generally, this would include any or all of the following:
• Assessing business requirements & formulating / implementing strategic plans to deliver operational efficiencies & cost rationalisation;
• Development of employee engagement plans & communication programmes; and managing disparate stakeholder agendas.
• Roll out processes agreed to ensure content and data is transferred safely, with expected security and sign-off from data owners.
• Development of an overall plan utilising waterfall and agile methods as appropriate to define resources and timescales.
• Configuration and development of the platform would be carried out as agreed in the scoping exercise.
• Developing technical capability & operational infrastructure in line with plans;
• Embedding change to drive through critical business objectives. - 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 work with your project to establish, as part of the delivery or development process, a standard or testing and benchmarking at the beginning of the process. We work with both Agile and Waterfall approaches. This will normally include:
- Test scenarios and scripts
- Smoke, Unit, Integration and Confidence testing
- Work with the project for User Acceptance Testing
- Benchmark testing with third party tools as appropriate
- Best practices and Governance established at the beginning of the project to ensure system signoff.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
-
- Security risk management
- Security audit services
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- Not applicable
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
-
All support is at additional cost.
Second Line UK support Hours: 9-17:30 Monday to Friday. 4 hour initial response, fault logging and tracking for up to 2 nominated individuals within the organization.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Staff screening not performed
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
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
- No
- 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
We have actively supplied training to our staff and encourage all our teams to engage with good practice, including being aware of our carbon footprint and making steps to change. We work remotely where possible, keeping our carbon footprint due to travel to a minimum. Company cars are 100% electric. We no longer have server farms but have adopted cloud computing as a shared resource for all our work.Covid-19 recovery
We understand that budgets have been tight following Covid-19 in the public sector, therefore we endeavour to work with departments to ensure that we can work in pragmatic ways to keep costs lower. We prefer to work remotely and expect this to be the case with most projects, unless there is a particular need to be on site, to ensure that expenses are lower and work collaboratively as far as possible to work with your own in-house teams rather than supply duplicate resource. We support staff who are recovering from Covid-19, allowing them to work remotely if they can, or providing support if they are not well enough.Tackling economic inequality
We endeavour to employ suitably qualified young people to train with us and this currently constitutes 10% of our workforce, with plans to grow proportionally with our growth over the next 18 months. Our remote working policy has also meant that staff do not have to be in London to work with our primarily London based customer base and we now have consultants based in York, Newcastle and other areas of the UK.Equal opportunity
We are committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating unlawful discrimination. The aim is for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. We are also committed against unlawful discrimination of customers or the public. We provide equality, fairness and respect for all regardless of gender, race, nationality, disability or religion in terms of both respect, terms and conditions and pay. We always take seriously complaints of bullying, harassment, victimisation and unlawful discrimination by fellow employees, customers, suppliers, visitors, the public and any others in the course of the organisation's work activities.Wellbeing
We do not expect any of our employees to work long hours and expect them to maintain a work/life balance. Although some projects do demand out of hours working, we do have policies in place to ensure staff do not do this regularly and get adequate days out to make up for this. Overtime is shared among everyone. All are encouraged to take lunch and holidays and we take our duty of care to the people who work with us seriously. We try to get regular “face to face” events in the year to ensure the team works together happily and feels important to the company.
Pricing
- Price
- £450 to £1,500 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
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 sales@simpleinnovation.co.uk.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.