ZEST CONSULT LTD
Zest Digital Transformation
We provide strategic and other support and advice to organisations who are moving services to the cloud as part of their Digital Transformation.
Digital transformation is the integration of digital technology into all areas of your business, fundamentally changing how you operate and deliver services and value to your customers.
Features
- Help choosing systems & vendors
- Understanding security implications and risks
- System design and assurance
- Help to understand cloud costs and support requirements
- Understand GDPR impact
Benefits
- Reduces business risk and costs
- Ensure you are compliant for security & GDPR
- Allowing your service to scale seamlessly
Pricing
£589 to £1,666 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
8 4 4 5 6 9 6 0 0 8 3 9 4 9 3
Contact
ZEST CONSULT LTD
Geoff Hoyle
Telephone: 07887991973
Email: enquiries@zestconsult.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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Our experts understand what is needed to move an existing service or design a brand-new service to the cloud. We can help you understand the difference between cloud ready and cloud native.
We will work with you on the business analysis to understand what you want to run in the cloud and why, making sure that going to the cloud is the right option.
We work with you on the design process and things like security risk assessments.
We will work with you pick a cloud vendor and understand the difference between the different vendors and ensure you get the best value.
At all times we will work collaboratively with you so that the end services meet your needs and solves your challenges. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
-
We create or oversee testing strategies and plans for new cloud services ensuring they meet the performance, capacity, security, and other business requirements for the new service. This could for example test the service desk response time to an incident.
We will work on behalf of the client to oversee and assure testing by vendors. Our ITIL certified staff understand what is needed to design, manage, and operate a good service and we will bring that knowledge into the assurance process.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
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
-
As our organisation is primarily concerned with the early part of the cloud journey i.e. business analysis, quality assurance etc and not the day-to-day running of the service we do not provide operational support.
Our staff are available to discuss aby or all ongoing issues with the new cloud service and vendor to help the client with any issues they may be having.
Unless a specific SLA is required this extra support cost will be as per our standard rates. If an SLA and ongoing support contract is required then this will be discussed at the time of engagement.
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
- No
- 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
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
The Zest Consult team are committed to protecting the environment, preventing pollution, and continually improving our Environmental Management System to minimize our carbon footprint. We conduct activities in an environmentally responsible way, encouraging our clients, associates, and subcontractors to do the same.
We have identified the most significant environmental impacts of our activities to be carbon emissions, associated with travel, waste, supply chain, and our ability to influence our clients’ environmental performance. We operate on a carbon-neutral basis and minimize our carbon footprint, identifying ways to offset any remaining emissions, detailed below.
As an office-based organisation we do not own a fleet of vehicles and make conscious decisions to reduce our carbon footprint. We encourage the use of public transport and working from home, with remote attendance for almost all meetings.
We follow our Sustainable Procurement Code when making purchases to minimize our environmental impact by ensuring that products and services are sourced and produced under a set of internationally acceptable environmental, social, and ethical guidelines and standards. We maximize the use of materials with reused and recycled content that can be subsequently reused or recycled. We seek to maximize resource use and energy efficiency to minimize environmental impact: whilst ensuring appropriate substances and materials minimize impact on human health and the environment.
We work with clients to inform their own environmental improvements and carbon reduction. The government’s initial drive for BIM through its Construction Strategy focused on the reduction of carbon by 20% and we see our expertise in the digital consultancy space as a significant client enabler to meeting these targets.
We reduce paper waste using electronic repositories for data capture and storage.
We seek and develop fully green solutions when collaborating on the development of technology that uses alternative energy sources.Covid-19 recovery
The Zest Consult, Ltd. team addresses the challenge to resume business and bring employees back to a safe workplace and still enable the flexible expansion and contraction via the following activities that support successful COVID-19 recovery efforts:
Zest Consult, Ltd. created a new role within the company and welcomed a new employee displaced by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Improved workplace conditions to address health and safety of employees which include the following -
Effective social distancing, remote working, and sustainable travel solutions.
Continue to promote good hygiene practices (e.g., frequent hand washing and -- at least 20 seconds each time, with warm water and vigorous rubbing -- and use of hand sanitizer with at least 60% alcohol).
When meetings are necessary, conduct virtual meetings (i.e., Microsoft Teams).
Employees avoid close contact by keeping a separation of at least 6 feet between workstations, where necessary, use of face masks, and assure that there is proper ventilation in the office.
Advising employees when they are feeling ill or exhibiting symptoms of COVID-19, they are to contact their supervisor and isolate themselves at home. They are then advised to stay at home and self-monitor for 10 days and return after confirmation they are testing negative two days in a row and symptom free.Tackling economic inequality
Zest Consult, Ltd. values education and provide our employees with the support they need for educational/training opportunities to help them expand their skills and grow professionally that result in recognized qualifications.
Additionally, Zest Consult, Ltd. values the apprenticeship program and understands that Apprenticeships are one of the few indisputably effective tools of social mobility currently available to the government. The benefits they confer on workplace learners include enhanced career earnings, continued education, and richer, more fulfilled working lives.
Finally, Zest Consult, Ltd. endeavours in our business dealings to uphold the key principles of the Armed Forces Covenant, which are:
No member of the Armed Forces Community should face disadvantage in the provision of public and commercial services compared to any other citizen.
Special treatment, in some circumstances, may be appropriate especially for the injured or bereaved.
Veterans: supporting the employment of veterans, recognizing military skills and qualifications in our recruitment and selection process; working with the Career Transition Partnership (CTP) to support the employment of Service leavers.Equal opportunity
At Zest Consult, Ltd. we have adopted an Equal Opportunities policy to ensure no job applicant or employee is discriminated against either directly or indirectly on the grounds of race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religious belief, political opinion or affiliation, sex, marital status, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, age of disability:
The recruitment and selection process is crucially important to any equal opportunities policy. We will endeavour through appropriate training to ensure that employees making selection and recruitment decisions will not discriminate, whether consciously or unconsciously, in making these decisions.
Promotion and advancement will be made on merit and all decisions relating to this will be made within the overall framework and principles of this policy.
Job descriptions, where used, will be revised to ensure that they are in line with our equal opportunities policy. Job requirements will be reflected accurately in any personal specifications.
We will not confine our recruitment to areas or medial sources, which provide only, or mainly, applicants of a particular group.
All applicants who apply for jobs with us will receive fair treatment and will be considered solely on their ability to do the job.
All employees involved in the recruitment process will periodically review their selection criteria to ensure that they are related to the job requirements and do not unlawfully discriminate.
Interview questions will be related to the requirements of the job and will not be of a discriminatory nature.
We will not disqualify any applicant because they are unable to complete an application form unassisted unless personal completion of the form is a valid test of the standard of English required for the safe and effective performance of the job.
Selection decisions will not be influence by any perceived prejudices of other staff.Wellbeing
At Zest Consult, Ltd., we commit to an integrated approach to staff wellbeing that creates:
A sense of belonging.
An environment and culture based on shared values and trust.
An environment where staff wellbeing is integrated into day-to-day practices.
An environment that recognises skills and encourages personal development.
Activities that support the wellbeing of employees at Zest Consult, Ltd. include:
Creating a culture that where problems arise, they are quickly identified, and solutions considered against an individual’s needs.
Improving working lives through employment policies such as flexible working, absence management and dignity at work.
Creating a safe place to work through health and safety policy.
Career development through Personal and Professional Development (PPD).
Risk assessing work stress and implementing necessary control measures to prevent harmful stress and consider the necessary support mechanisms at work.
Implementing and monitoring workload in relation to health and work.
Pricing
- Price
- £589 to £1,666 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
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