Gravity 9
Advisory and Architecture
gravity9 offers enterprise architecture advisory services, empowering new product capabilities through deep domain exploration. We modernize legacy digital systems by modeling existing systems, designing target architectures, and creating migration plans for the transition state. Our approach includes modern workshop techniques like event storming and user storytelling for quality results.
Features
- Preparing and planning modernization for legacy systems
- Technical dependency mapping, thorough analysis, and enhancement recommendations
- Enabling event-driven architecture in existing synchronous systems
- Adapting existing architecture to meet business needs
- Exploration of business domain and processes within an organisation
- Modeling business processes and creating architecture aligned with it
- Product road mapping through product and software lifecycle
- Defining software architecture strategy and roadmap, setting clear directions
- Creating cloud and database migration solutions
- Technical and business-oriented workshops lead by senior consultants and architects
Benefits
- Offers cost-effective access to specialized resources, enhancing resilience and agility.
- Promotes service improvements and cost efficiencies driven by client needs.
- Facilitates definition and achievement of organizational goals.
- Aligns solutions with strategic objectives and business requirements.
- Mitigates risks related to digital operations, security, and compliance.
- Provides scalable, on-demand enterprise architecture support.
- Available for project-specific or continuous 'as a service' engagement.
- Advises on leveraging services and platforms effectively.
- Reduces project expenditure by offering specialized technical advice.
- Expertise in technical migration across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments.
Pricing
£2,000 a unit
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
8 3 0 8 1 3 8 8 6 5 3 7 7 5 2
Contact
Gravity 9
Allan Hudson
Telephone: 07882691167
Email: allan.hudson@gravity9.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Our service offering is designed to streamline the implementation of cloud software, ensuring that it aligns with your company's strategic objectives. We begin by facilitating the definition of organizational goals, followed by a comprehensive analysis of technical dependencies. This allows us to provide tailored recommendations for enhancements. By modeling business processes, we create an architecture that supports and enhances your operational workflows. Our product road mapping encompasses the entire product and software lifecycle, ensuring a clear path for development and deployment. Additionally, we offer specialized workshops led by our senior consultants and architects, blending technical expertise with business acumen to empower your team with the knowledge needed for a successful cloud software adoption.
- Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- On-Premise
- Azure
- AWS
- GCP
- MongoDB Atlas Cloud
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
- Our service specializes in facilitating a seamless transition for businesses looking to modernize their legacy systems and migrate to the cloud. We offer comprehensive planning and modernization strategies tailored to prepare your systems for the future. Our approach includes detailed technical dependency mapping, thorough analysis, and actionable enhancement recommendations to ensure a smooth and efficient migration process. We also focus on enabling event-driven architecture within existing synchronous systems, allowing for more scalable and responsive operations. Our expertise extends to creating robust cloud and database migration solutions, ensuring your data is transferred securely and business is set up for success in the cloud environment.
- 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 offering includes a comprehensive approach to quality assurance and performance testing, ensuring that software architecture is robust and reliable. Collaboratively, our architects and development teams craft a strategic plan for quality attribute testing, which is essential for validating the software's performance characteristics. We establish clear thresholds and load capacities that the software is expected to manage, guaranteeing that it performs optimally under various conditions. Additionally, we design automated test plans tailored to the selected architecture, streamlining the testing process and enhancing efficiency.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
- Other
- Other security services
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- Security static code analysis
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) scanning
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- N/a
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- N/A
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
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
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
gravity9 has an environmental policy designed to limit and reduce the environmental impacts of our internal activities. We are in the process of creating a new Carbon Reduction Plan which will allow us to calculate and later publish our carbon emissions, along with the creation of initiatives and targets for carbon reductions and a target date for achieving net zero.
As a company we do not own our won offices using shared, serviced units instead. These units are owned by companies with strong environmental policies and initiatives in place to reduce carbon. Our staff work fully remotely, using offices only where necessary and use only modern IT equipment conforming to standards of low carbon emissions generation. Travel is minimised in favour of remote teleworking/conferencing and technology is used wherever possible to create efficiencies. Initial calculations suggest that our carbon footprint is very low compared to industry standards.
Our work is focused on modernisation of IT systems for our clients, producing results that minimise energy use through increased productivity and development of communications solutions as part of these systems. We embed technologies like Slack in systems wherever possible to encourage teleworking. Gravity9 also supports clients in developing AI-driven applications that can analyse and predict energy usage patterns, leading to more sustainable practices. By facilitating smarter decision-making and resource management, this service helps to reduce carbon footprints and promote environmental sustainability. The overarching aim is to assist public sector bodies in achieving their green targets by integrating advanced, eco-friendly technologies into their operations, thereby making a significant positive impact on the environment.Covid-19 recovery
Through Data and AI Platform Design service, public sector entities can leverage artificial intelligence and data analytics to optimise resource allocation, streamline services, and improve decision-making. This includes managing public health data, tracking resource needs, and forecasting future outbreaks or impacts. By improving operational efficiency and ensuring continuity of essential services, this service plays a crucial role in helping the public sector navigate and recover from the challenges posed by COVID-19.Tackling economic inequality
gravity9 was founded in Birmingham, retaining a key presence there. As a company in a high growth sector (IT) with known skills shortages (Forbes’ IT Skills Gap Report 2023 contains a figure of 93% of business surveyed believing that they lacked IT skills), we upskill client teams, run skills workshops and we recruit in deprived areas.
Overall deprivation in the West Midlands is high (34.5% of local areas in the most deprived in the country). 41% of Birmingham’s neighbourhoods are in the UK’s 10% most-deprived.
As a modernisation company, gravity9 build new systems for organisations which enable teams to operate more efficiently and achieve more.
This often leads to job safeguarding and creation:
We created a new “Customer Hub” application for British Telecom (BT) to help them provide unified customer service across their brand offerings. This allowed BT to hire new developers to maintain the application long-term, creating skilled employment opportunities. For American Homes for Rent (AMH) we created a “Let Yourself In” product automating locks, which enabled AMH to employ a new lock maintenance team. We created a system for Venetian Casinos that automated sales promotions which allowed Venetian to expand their sales teams.
Our regular skills workshops tackle technological challenges with skills building and talent identification in mind. Our AI workshops, for example, are educational in nature with a flavour of the skillsets needed to enhance employability. This gives young IT professionals an opportunity to network with peers, gain insight into commercial approaches/methods and contribute wisdom to the debate. These regular skills workshops are educational and employability-focused, allowing participants to network with peers, gain insight into commercial approaches/methods and contribute wisdom. Gravity9 can aid the public sector in tackling economic inequality by providing advanced data analytics and AI tools that enable targeted social programs and efficient resource distribution.Equal opportunity
At gravity9 we research why people struggle with a challenge then offer accessible solutions. Starting with design we add WCAG standards and use accessibility libraries. Our Accessibility practice promotes adoption and responsibility in all product aspects. We make accessibility easy to understand and translate into easy guides for all company members or non-English speakers. We are exploring new areas of neurodiversity in product design standards of “Perceivable, Operable, Understandable and Robust”. We have created an accessibility review to put this into practice.
Our QA specialists, besides the regular accessibility testing, offer to provide organisations with an advanced accessibility audit, which will check how their product meets the accessibility standards.
We deliver high-quality software with fewer defects and faster time-to-market to enable private sector organisations to gain a competitive edge and reduce delays in public sector organisations. Quality Assurance plays a crucial role in achieving this by ensuring that the software meets quality standards and is delivered on time. Our team of experts work closely with our client’s organisations to provide accessibility that is tailored to their specific needs. Our AI practice can also enhance equal opportunity within the public sector by leveraging data analytics and AI to identify and address disparities in service delivery and employment; facilitate the development of recruitment and training programs aimed at diversifying the public sector workforce and automate and optimise recruitment and service delivery processes.Wellbeing
Gravity9 supports societal wellbeing by enabling the public sector to deploy AI and data analytics for improved health, safety, and social services. By analysing health data, our services can help predict and manage public health issues, facilitating proactive interventions. It also assists in optimising emergency response services and public safety measures through efficient resource allocation and response planning. Additionally, by enhancing accessibility to public services through digital transformation, it ensures that more individuals can receive timely and effective support, contributing significantly to overall societal wellbeing.
Pricing
- Price
- £2,000 a unit
- 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 allan.hudson@gravity9.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.