BBD Software Ltd

SEAMLESS KUBERNETES SOLUTIONS

BBD brings in-house accelerators and innovative architecture that rapidly enable microservice deployment on containerised platforms. Our event-driven microservice framework and accelerators are custom-built to run and leverage Kubernetes, Docker and streaming. We provide DevOps support for containerisation services on Azure (Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure Container Instances) and AWS (ECS, EKS).

Features

• Deployment to containerised platforms including design and execution
• Migrate existing applications to Kubernetes / cloud services
• Systems Design and Assurance in line with business process requirements
• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) pipelines
• DevOps Automation and implementation of devops frameworks
• Kubernetes cluster bootstrapping and production readiness
• Kubernetes based cloud-native solutions (hybrid cloud available too)
• Devops best practice implementation and team set up
• Optimisation of solution to best suit business & security needs
• Seamlessly scale on-premise infrastructure to public cloud to handle overflow

Benefits

• Increase Quality of Solution
• Reduces Deployment Times
• Reduces Business Risk and Cost
• Increased Speed to Market by applying plans for accelerators
• Lowered cost of implementation
• Increased probability of full scale adoption
• Easy to understand architecture
• Predefined engineering patterns allow for accelerated delivery
• Highly skilled senior resources with experience in multiple contexts
• Quick start toolkits

£160.00 to £1,250.00 a unit a day

• Education pricing available

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 sylvie@bbdsoftware.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

775144005292324

Contact

Sylvie Cotton
07775638325
sylvie@bbdsoftware.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: BBD provides a range of services to ensure an agile and sustainable move to the cloud. Planning services include well-honed strategies to prioritise business, operational and technical planning to maximise impact. BBD helps to define the Cloud strategy; Application Migration Assessment and Infrastructure Assessment and Planning. BBD assists in determining the most appropriate architecture, migration type as well as the most applicable target platform. We provide a structured approach to evaluate the current capabilities and compare those against industry best practices. Our process includes workshops, discussions and reviews of documents in order to assess the existing technical landscape, applications, infrastructure, and processes.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: BBD's approach to training is based on creating an embedded team to build a hands-on learning experience for the user and client teams. This learning includes peer learning, formal training, and informal sharing sessions. Our goal is to transfer and embed our knowledge of technology and process innovation into the core team at our clients. Our experts are skilled at helping to create long-running, sustainable, agile teams and we tailor the training needs based on the unique situation of each client. Our engineers are grounded in the hands-on learning approach and experienced in creating peer learning and team learning environments, they can thus nurture this environment for our clients.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: BBD can assist with the full cloud migration journey. This includes modernising applications, transforming architecture, initial set-up, and creating new operating model and team cultures. We have developed a set of in-house accelerators to tackle common use cases faced in microservice deployments on containerised platforms. The set includes a boilerplate chassis for common concerns based on open-source frameworks and tools, and a fully-fledged event-driven microservice framework. Each accelerator is custom-built to run and leverage container-based platforms.; These accelerators have been battle-tested at many of our clients. As part of our service package, our accelerators are provided at no cost to you, allowing development teams to focus on the business value while ramping up delivery and adoption.; The use of accelerators is in our experience the best means of deployment success, but in some cases delivery and adoption will require a very bespoke solution. We use our deep experience in building bespoke software solutions to ensure that the migration is optimal for each project and suits the needs of each individual client
• 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 solution is tested with the buyer/client to ensure that performance and automation are in line with expectations as set in the project design.; Testing and approval are included in the deployment process and both the client team and the engineering team have input into ensuring that delivery is of the highest standard including performance testing, continuous integration and delivery into production environments at scale. We are happy to work with a clients existing quality management system (QMS) where appropriate.

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: Yes
• Types of service supported: Hosting or software provided by your organisation
• How the support service works: For software designed by BBD we offer full after implementation service. Our client relationship and dedicated engineering teams are available to answer queries by phone or email as well as to address any software issues that may arise post implementation. We ensure quality support by implementing continuous service improvements at each stage of the project. Our Mserv team offers support capability for Cloud Hosting and our Managed platform Services team can provide dedicated SRE support

Service scope

• Service constraints: We have staff based locally and internationally so some members of the team may be remote.

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: Support services are agreed upfront in the service agreement depending on the specific client needs.
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: No
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: Support is agreed upfront with the buyer/client depending on the installation or project. Technical support and relationship managers are available to all our clients.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Other security clearance
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

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
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  At BBD, we recognize the importance of environmental sustainability and are committed to minimizing our impact on the environment. We are committed to responsible environmental stewardship, resource conservation, and pollution prevention. We continuously strive to minimise any negative impact on the environment with a grassroots approach. We believe real environmental change comes from action and from instilling a sense of responsibility through strong internal environmental systems in all stakeholders including employees, management, clients, and suppliers. ; ; We will actively promote sustainable resource management throughout our operations. This includes sourcing environmentally friendly materials and products, favouring suppliers with strong environmental credentials, and encouraging the use of renewable and recyclable resources.; ; We will strive to improve energy efficiency across our facilities, processes, and transportation. This includes implementing energy-saving measures, investing in energy-efficient technologies, and promoting awareness among employees to encourage responsible energy usage.; ; We are committed to addressing climate change and reducing our greenhouse gas emissions. We will set targets for emissions reduction, regularly monitor our carbon footprint, and implement measures to increase energy efficiency and transition to low-carbon alternatives. We will also explore opportunities to contribute to carbon offset projects and support renewable energy initiatives.; ; We will collaborate with stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, and the local community, to promote environmental sustainability. We will engage in open dialogue, share knowledge and best practices, and encourage the adoption of sustainable behaviours and technologies.; ; We are committed to continuously improving our environmental performance. We will set measurable goals, monitor our progress, and regularly review and update this policy to reflect advances in technology, changes in environmental risks, and emerging best practices.; ; We will communicate our environmental commitments and progress to our stakeholders through regular reporting and transparency. We will strive to provide accessible and accurate information about our environmental performance, initiatives, and achievements.

  Tackling economic inequality

  During our 40 years in business, we have been involved in various initiatives and spearheaded outreach programmes that includes setting up computer labs at schools in rural areas, donating to charities and NGOs / NPOs, contributed to learnerships, given lectures for budding yet previously disadvantaged youths, hosted workshops, and helped equipped educators with the skills necessary to teach the world-changers of tomorrow; From a supply chain perspective, we provide opportunities for small businesses and start-ups to establish themselves, grow and compete with larger players in the market through our Enterprise and Supplier Development (ESD) initiatives to enable us to foster a diverse supply chain and an inclusive marketplace to ultimately contribute to a growing economy. This programme provides support ranging from access to integration opportunities to work on BBD projects, to development loans to facilitate operational cashflow, preferential payment, short-term payment periods, business incubation guidance and access to office space.; ; Our community outreach includes donations and support to NPOs such as Afrika Tikkun, Girls & Boys Town and KidzHub, as well as various schools in far-flung and often rural areas across South Africa. We are also invested in tackling the gender divide prominent in the tech landscape by supporting and facilitating various learning programmes and workshops run by GirlCode, and are a founding partner of WeThinkCode_ (WTC), a tuition-free programme educating the next generation of software engineers. Additionally, we offer a bursary programme aimed at supporting and growing talented students working towards a career in selected IT fields by offering access to the financial means necessary to compete their studies. To encourage more females to enter the industry, and help promote gender equality in the tech space, BBD has partnered with the likes of GirlCode, Pink Codrs Africa and Umuzi, running workshops, offering learnerships and providing bursaries.

  Equal opportunity

  BBD creates a culture that celebrates, encourages and supports the promotion of talented and passionate people regardless of who they are and where they come from. We are proud to be highlighting the vital conversation with a recent #BreaktheBias and #EmbraceEquity programme, themes which highlight the importance of challenging biases and misconceptions in the interest of creating a more inclusive, equal and gender-equal world. We would champion these values throughout the duration of this contract.; ; From equal hiring practices to grassroot initiatives geared at widening the skills pool, we are proud to be doing our part to ensure an inclusive and sustainable future for the industry. We believe that talent can come from anywhere. Alongside our community initiatives, BBD seeks to meet talented young students at critical junctures in their skills development journey, offering training, real-world working experience, financial support where needed and exposure to our wealth of industry knowledge. ; ; For the past two years we have sponsored learnership programmes with Dynamic DNA, catering for both disabled and able-bodied students. These learnerships have seen at least 20 students from each group each year. The goal of the programme is to expose more students to the possibility of a career in technology, no matter their physical limitations. In this way we are encouraging a more inclusive future for the software industry. ; ; To address the shortage of skilled female coders, we offer a learnership in partnership with charities that focus on supporting un- and under-employed young women to become junior full-stack engineers. To do our part to create an inclusive environment that extends beyond our ranks and into the technology sector at large, we are committed to fair and equal hiring practices, grassroot initiatives geared at widening the skills pool, and other community programmes that seek to find and nurture talented individuals.

  Wellbeing

  The well-being of our employees is paramount to BBD and having navigated the pandemic, this confirmed the realisation that both and physical and mental health plays a huge part in maintaining a healthy balanced workforce. ; ; Evidence of this can be seen during the pandemic where we made available various online resources and sessions to boost mental health and wellness including yoga classes, social gatherings and quiz nights to help those in isolated situations to feel connected and also teachings from a chiropractor on good physical health and speaker slots from those with experience navigating tough situations. BBD scored 93.2% and was awarded a Best Company Platinum Seal in Deloitte’s 2022 Best Company survey. ; ; BBD champions physical activities whether that be access to sports teams and encouraging participation in community-run company leagues, chess teams, or cycling teams – all are encouraged. This spring, all our employees are encouraged to participate in the Wings for life race that supports Spinal Cord research. ; ; Working from home and the hybrid model that we promote, when possible, means that close attention must be paid to the well-being of our employees. We encourage informal communication lines with managers and with peers and then our more structured mentorship is key to ensuring our staff are being supported, listened to, and that their needs around growth, training and their aspirations for advancement are being considered. ; ; Through the demonstration of our social responsibility, we encourage employees to get involved and give back. With the people and projects we choose to support whether that be students or entrepreneurs, we always have our employees at the heart of these decisions and our choice of involvement always has our people in mind. Working with the charities Techshecan.com and the sunninghilltrust.org, we demonstrate our commitment to education and the relief of hardship.

Pricing

• Price: £160.00 to £1,250.00 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

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 sylvie@bbdsoftware.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.