6 POINT 6

DataOps Cloud Strategy & Architecture Service

Our Service provides a comprehensive approach to cloud-based DataOps strategy and architecture to realise value from your data. Our next-generation architectures enable insight and intelligence by making information transparent and on demand to your business, providing a framework for innovation and data-driven transformation to achieve real, large scale results.

Features

• DataOps strategy, including data-driven culture and governance
• Next-gen bDataops architecture
• Scoping, contextualisation and constraint identification
• Cloud-based DataOps platform roadmap, transition and migration
• Data insight and discovery design
• Sophisticated analytics design
• Machine learning and AI enablement
• Dependencies, costs & benefits
• Structured approach to enable agile delivery
• Make best use of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities

Benefits

• Innovative strategic approach for DataOps
• A more efficient, DataOps business operation
• Intelligence led operations with AI and machine learning
• Identify opportunities, detect anomalies and monitor trends
• Improved forecasting, ability to scale and react to demand
• Enable precisely tailored digital products or services
• Transition of vast data estates into elegant, low cost solutions
• Utilisation of commodity cloud services, open standards and open source
• Regulatory adherence and secure data
• Proven specialist business and big data knowledge

£690 to £2,100 a unit a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

• Modern Slavery statement

  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 sholto.vaughan@6point6.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

751344256799263

Contact

Sholto Vaughan
020 3038 8999
sholto.vaughan@6point6.co.uk

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: • Defining the DataOps roadmap, the supporting implementation and migration plan; • Coordinating the implementation and migration plan with the enterprise's approach to managing and implementing change; • Ensuring that the business value, cost of work packages and transition architectures are understood by key stakeholders; • Plan and approach for utilising commodity cloud services, open standards and open source to enable data insight; • Plan and approach for making best use of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: • Cloud migration, including adoption of IaaS, PaaS and SaaS capabilities; • Data migration and acquisition; • Detailed work planning complete with migration steps, data readiness findings, data acquisition sources, data transformation and load recommendations; • A migration risk assessment and the projected resources needed to implement
• 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: Our service includes:; - Delivery of DataOps strategy and architecture; - Delivery of strategies for DataOps performance tuning, providing valuable metrics and clear guidance to maximise performance and scale on-demand; - Delivery of strategies for DataOps system and integration testing; - Delivery of strategies for DataOps cloud migration testing

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security testing
  • Security incident management
  • Security audit services
• Certified security testers: Yes
• Security testing certifications: CREST

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported:
  • Buyer hosting or software
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
• How the support service works: Our service provides a dedicated support service to support your DataOps implementation. Our goal is to ensure your strategy and architecture is successful. As part of the DataOps delivery lifecycle, we provide a specialist architecture team with a range of service levels tailored to meet your needs. Coupled with simple and efficient framework, we provide Architects with in-depth expertise in a range of Data technologies, enabling us to ensure issues are resolved quickly and effectively. We are committed to ensuring your platform is sustainable and manageable. We have significant experience of working in a multi-supplier environment and are able to integrate with existing support processes and teams, offering detailed knowledge transfer and transition when needed.

Service scope

• Service constraints: None

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: We offer multiple support levels dependent upon the type of support required. The cost for each service is based on specific Customer requirements. A Technical Account Manager is provided as standard for each client.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: Yes
• Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001: The British Assessment Bureau
• ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date: 21/04/2018
• What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover: N/A
• 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

• Fighting climate change:

  Fighting climate change

  We are committed to the reduction of our energy usage and carbon emissions. Our carbon reduction plan identified that our emissions are mainly from home energy consumption (remote working, 160 tCO2e); 10 tCO2e from our London office and a much lower 1.5 tCO2e from commuting to work. We have already identified opportunities to remove/reduce negative environmental impacts of the contract including: Moving staff home energy consumption to renewable electricity and phasing out fossil fuel for heating using government grants. Minimising unnecessary business travel and where needed prioritising the use of public transport, promoting ‘cycle to work’ and introducing a company electric vehicle leasing scheme to allow staff to phase out petrol and diesel. Promote these actions through our Sustainability Employee Resource Group and throughout our supply chain.
• Covid-19 recovery:

  Covid-19 recovery

  "We will support employment, retraining and return to work by recruiting from the widest possible talent pool.; We partner with Tech Talent, AWS Restart and Tech Vets to ensure that our employment and training opportunities are available to those that face barriers. This has included employing prison leavers, people from deprived areas, disabled people, veterans and refugees. ; We are growing our own talent by rolling out an innovative Technical Architect training programme. Targeting restarters, the programme will accelerate talent development and reduce delivery cost and improve productivity for our clients.; We will continue to focus on the health and well-being of our people thereby reducing the demand on health and public services. For example our employees benefit from a £600 per year wellbeing allowance. Delivered through the Heka platform, it provides a wide range of physical and mental health wellbeing options that can be accessed anywhere.; ; We will maintain working conditions that support the COVID-19 recovery effort.; We have embedded remote and hybrid working environments which support social distancing when necessary and we are planning to open an office outside of London.; We will continue to measure conditions of the contract workforce through formal channels like our people survey and town halls as well as more informal grass roots methods such as our employee led Well-being Champions group."
• Tackling economic inequality:

  Tackling economic inequality

  "As a sector with skills shortages, we will attract, retain and develop people from the widest possible talent pool.; We partner with Tech Talent, AWS Restart and Tech Vets to ensure that our employment and training opportunities are available to those that face barriers. This has included employing prison leavers, people from deprived areas, disabled people, veterans and refugees. ; Cloud first, we onboard staff remotely - we have onboarded 168 new staff though the pandemic.; Our six employee resource groups (ERGs) lead many activities from grassroots up, including Wellbeing Champions, Women in Tech, Green team and Diversity and Inclusion champions. Our Giving Back employee network undertakes careers outreach in schools for example.; We will pay particular attention to driving greater gender diversity by raising awareness, attracting more women candidates and making 6point6 a great place to work for women.; We will create training opportunities that lead to recognised qualifications for the digital sector.; We will increase your supply chain’s resilience and capacity; As an SME, 100% of the work we do will positively impact your supply chain diversity.; Our specialist talent acquisition companies include one startup, 55 Exec Search, and one VCSE, Tech Vets, who help us recruit service leavers.; In terms of supply chain selection and management, we share all procurement details for transparency and select partners based on quality, value for money and capacity, underpinned by our ISO9001 processes.; We will innovate. For example through our Technical Architect training programme to accelerate talent development and reduce cost of delivery and improve productivity for our clients.; We are an accredited ISO27001, ISO9001 and Cyber Essentials Plus business and are committed to NCSC best practice standards, including the 10 Steps to Cyber security and the NCSC Cloud Security guidance."
• Equal opportunity:

  Equal opportunity

  "We will promote equal opportunity by further developing our open and inclusive culture where employees are motivated to drive change because they have voice, autonomy and understand the importance of diversity for high performing teams. We are a Disability Confident Committed employer able to offer guaranteed interviews, job shadowing and work placements.; We monitor our performance and take action to improve, supporting our staff in Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) for Equality, Diversity & Inclusion and Gender. Our Code of Conduct training raises awareness of diversity and inclusion while the ERGs support the development of staff and motivate teams to accept and promote diversity. Currently circa 40% of staff are BAME but we are under-represented at 20% women. Improving the proportion of women is a key corporate objective which is backed and monitored at board level. ; ; Examples of how we are living the principles set out in the Good Work Plan include:; - In Feb 2022 we appointed an independent specialist to review our compensation and benefits policy and practice which included an equal pay audit. We have implemented the findings in April 2022; - We give employees voice through round tables, Town Halls and employee surveys. We use digital tools like Slido and WorkTango to improve employee participation ; - Our six employee resource groups (ERGs) lead many activities from grassroots up, including Wellbeing Champions, Women in Tech, Green team and Diversity and Inclusion champions ; - Our Giving Back employee network undertakes careers outreach in schools for example"
• Wellbeing:

  Wellbeing

  As a high growth, high human capital business, our people are paramount so we bring a deep understanding of and commitment to their health and wellbeing. We support both the physical and mental health of our employees through an annual wellness allowance of up to £600. We have introduced the Heka platform to drive an increase in take up which last year was at 65%. Our in-house psychologist and life coach provides one-to-one support which we turned into an on demand service during the pandemic. We also deploy other tools and initiatives such as Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs), an independent Employee Assistance provider, Wellbeing month, counselling and crisis support services provided by our corporate health insurance policy. All of this is backed by a robust set of policies and procedures such as our grievance mechanisms and our timesheet and resource planning system which looks at employee work life balance on a weekly basis.

Pricing

• Price: £690 to £2,100 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

• Modern Slavery statement

  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 sholto.vaughan@6point6.co.uk. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.