KAIASM LTD

OntoKai

OntoKai supports the data scientist, the system architect, the data builder and ontologist as well as ordinary business users in the entity and relationship extraction, exploration, engineering, modelling, and visualisation of:
Common conceptual data models;
Ontology;
Taxonomy;
Knowledge graphs; and
Other complex semantic models.

Features

  • SaaS tool to make existing data structures AI-ready and interoperable
  • Visualisation of data assets, flows and relationships, internally and externally
  • Ontologies to make data and data structures accessible to generalists
  • Illustration of organisational demand (satisfied, frustrated and unmet) for data
  • Data condition assessment and tracking of change
  • Audit of data ownership, governance and absent accountabilities
  • Identification and resolution of data gaps and overlaps across agencies
  • EU AI quality and transparency compliance for high-risk systems
  • Data pre-processing, normalization and transformation
  • Data selection by complex criteria from multiple data sources

Benefits

  • Easier data integration between numerous, heterogeneous sources
  • Reduced information rework from more accessible data and files
  • Value driven data adaption, extension, quality assurance and quality controls
  • Reduced friction when exchanging information between contracting parties
  • Increased efficiency, risk-reduction from joining datasets and applying AI.
  • Insight into knowledge held in separate silos, networks and agencies
  • Increased understanding between mutually dependent but unconnected systems
  • A common visual language for non-technical and technical data users
  • Increasing participation in improving the underlying infrastructure of AI
  • Identification of valid, novel, useful and explainable patterns in data

Pricing

£24,628 to £4,981,400 a unit

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

7 9 9 2 3 9 6 1 7 8 5 4 0 5 9

Contact

KAIASM LTD Steve Johnston
Telephone: 0330 223 1164
Email: info@kaiasm.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
  • Public cloud
  • Private cloud
  • Community cloud
  • Hybrid cloud
Service constraints
None
System requirements
SVG-capable web browser (any modern browser)

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
UK operational hours (Monday to Friday, 9-5, excluding bank holidays), unless the SoW between the client and supplier specifically includes provisions for out of hours support.

SLA response time within 2 hrs to within 16 hrs depending on trouble.
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
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Support levels and pricing agreed on a per contract basis.
Ranges from no support required through to extensive consultancy support.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
We provide
- onsite training
- offsite training
- user documentation
- in-application help
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
HTML
End-of-contract data extraction
A user may download their data, as a whole or in part, at any point, as JSON or CSV (or OWL, if required).
End-of-contract process
Client may opt to continue the service at a different service level, or cancel the service.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari
  • Opera
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
Mobile version version of the desktop service cut down as appropriate to the smaller screen size.
Service interface
Yes
User support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Description of service interface
Web client
Accessibility standards
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Accessibility testing
UAT with Voiceover (sight impariments)
UAT without mouse (mobility impariments)
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
Custom entity and relationship attributes can be defined for particular use cases
Data validation rules can be defined for particular use cases
Test, warn and task rules can be defined for particular use cases

Scaling

Independence of resources
Service is typically deployed either within AWS (in which case standard AWS SLAs apply), or within a clients own cloud tenancy.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
The web application is instrumented for Google Analytics (this can be removed on request for secure environments)
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Supplier-defined controls
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with another standard
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Physical access controls as per https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-center/controls/

Additionally, if the client requests it, all data held on AWS cloud instances may be encrypted.
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Via a download option within the application.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • JSON
  • OWL (if required)
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
Other data import formats
  • JSON
  • OWL
  • XML
  • Excel
  • Log files
  • Any other data format by request (additional cost)

Data-in-transit protection

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

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
If the service is hosted by Kaiasm, then uptime of covered services is guaranteed to a certain percentage of time within UK office hours, which is 9am-5pm Mon-Fri excluding bank holidays (the services will normally also be available outside these hours). The level of guaranteed uptime ranges from 95% to 99%, depending on the priority level of the service.

Uptime is calculated to the nearest minute, based on the number of minutes in the given month within the scope of the SLA. If uptime for any item drops below the relevant threshold, a penalty will be applied in the form of a credit for the client. The following month’s fee payable for the named service will be reduced on a sliding scale, or additional time will be added to the end of the contract, at the client's discretion.

Penalties range from 1% to 5% of the covered service per hour of downtime, depending on the priority of service. Uptime penalties in any month are capped at 100% of the total monthly fee of the covered service. Uptime measurements exclude periods of routine maintenance. These must be agreed between the supplier and client in advance.
Approach to resilience
Information on resilience is available on request.
Outage reporting
Email alerts.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
As per user authentication plus, optionally:
- IP Whitelist/Firewall
- VPN
- Role based permission control
Access restriction testing frequency
At least once a year
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • 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
At least 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

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

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
Other
Other security governance standards
Cyber Essentials
Information security policies and processes
Information security policies are available on request and include
- Firewalls
- Secure configuration
- User access control
- Malware protections
- Patch management

General infosec policies include
- Use and misuse
- Working Remotely
- Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) & Working from Home
- Information classification
- Backups
- Access control, including administrator access policy
- Password policy
- Cryptographic controls
- Social media & Personal Devices
- Whitelisted Apps

Policy compliance ensured via Cyber Essentials certification, as well as internal controls (managed on an ongoing basis, including weekly patch scanning, and an annual compliance audit).

As we are a small company, reporting structure would be directly from IT or ops engineer to a member of senior managment.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Status, location and configuration of service components (both hardware and software) are tracked throughout their lifetime.

Changes to the service are assessed for potential security impact. Then managed and tracked through to completion.

We are currently updating our configuration and change management procedures to align with the ITIL framework (currently ITIL V3, moving to ITIL V4). Priority is being given to the change management process itself, but improvements are also being made across the configuration and asset management spaces too.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Cybersec risk/threat assessment performed annually as per Cyber Essentials.

Patching timescales as per Cyber Essentials:
- If evidence suggests a vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild, mitigation to be put in place immediately.
- ‘Critical’ patches deployed within hours
- ‘Important’ patches deployed within 2 weeks of a patch becoming available
- ‘Other’ patches deployed within 8 weeks of a patch becoming available

Information on potential threats sourced from
- Desktop Central patch scanning
- NCSC Early Warning service
- Mailing lists (various)
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
The system supports extensive event auditing.
Further details on protective monitoring approach available on request.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Pre-planned incident management processes in place.
Detailed incident management approach available on request.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

The OntoKai service generates new ways of valuing using visual weighting by frequency of expressed human need, carbon embodiment, whole life cost and social value.
Covid-19 recovery

Covid-19 recovery

OntoKai allows users who are not knowledge professionals to engage in the creation of complex knowledge structures that form the foundation of the new economy. Its ontology production and consultancy support services are designed to be delivered in such a way that fits around family commitments. This creates employment, re-training and other return to work opportunities in this high-growth sector for those left unemployed by COVID-19.
Tackling economic inequality

Tackling economic inequality

Marginalised/under-privileged areas are disproportionately affected by low-quality/poorly maintained infrastructure.
OntoKai provides government with a cost-efficient, effective tool to build smart, interoperable, people-focused infrastructure, allowing for levelling-up and beyond.
OntoKai can help infrastructure companies move past simple efficiency or profit optimisation, and to begin creating equitable infrastructures to sustain high-quality conditions for human flourishing.
Equal opportunity

Equal opportunity

The OntoKai UI is also designed to be highly accessible (W3C AA and some AAA guidelines and UX testing with assistive software for users with vision and mobility impairments) - this helps towards reducing the disability employment gap.
Wellbeing

Wellbeing

The OntoKai interface is designed to increase joy in its users.

For OntoKai production or consultancy support staff, a health and wellbeing focus is a core company value and a company differentiator.

Pricing

Price
£24,628 to £4,981,400 a unit
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
There is a version of the service, OntoKai Free, that allows users to view and explore a single ontology made available by an existing client. It removes write, edit, merge and download capabilities.

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