Epimorphics Ltd
Data Architecture and Strategy
Data and information architecture strategy, design and delivery using cloud / hybrid cloud approaches. Complements our data platform services. Data discovery and analysis. Structured and unstructured data. Conceptual, logical and physical modelling of data systems. Data visualisation. Data transformation approach design and delivery using the latest data technologies.
Features
- Create, develop or refresh data strategy, using cloud technologies
- Develop data transformation vision, charter, visualisation, roadmap and plans
- Data discovery and visualisation, user experience and design
- Information and data architecture strategy development and review
- Data, ontology, vocabulary, reference data and standard design and modelling
- Data management, maturity and data capabilities assessment
- Data flow and data pipeline analysis
- Data architecture and technology appraisal
- Data discovery and analysis alongside integration with AI and science
- Data architecture, governance and compliance, data engineering and integration
Benefits
- Collaborative approach, working with users and stakeholders
- Maximise your enterprise data architecture
- Align with Government ICT, departmental and organisational strategy
- Proven repeatable cloud architecture patterns/solutions experience
- Experience in rapid design/deployment of private/public/community/hybrid cloud
- Develop strategies aligned with the vision, and organisational context
- Focus on increased return on investment and reducing IT risk/overspend
- Ensure your data complies with the FAIR principles
- Independent assessment of progress/risks/issues and improved control
- Develop strategies for integrating data with AI, data-science, or operational-systems
Pricing
£600 to £1,750 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
8 8 5 7 0 1 7 5 2 0 3 5 5 5 0
Contact
Epimorphics Ltd
Alex Coley
Telephone: 0127 5399069
Email: gcloud@epimorphics.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- We can help you: scope out a project - identify suitable datasets for publication and produce a complete project plan; model your data, selecting existing ontologies to use whenever appropriate and developing new ontologies if needed; design suitable URIsets, and data cubes complying with international and UK Government best practice; identify reference data that can provide a point of connection between multiple datasets; help you to design your data to meet user needs; transform your data into graph data using these models and URIsets; build data flows for ingesting, mapping and integrating data; review data architectures and make recommendations; design and configure data APIs that support internal and external users and applications. With this we provide data design or information / data architecture review and support that helps you make your data valuable, usable, useful and interoperable. All a key part of meeting your data strategy and organisational goals, supporting you in making best use of your data assets and becoming a data-driven organisation.
- Planning service works with specific services
- Yes
- Hosting or software services the planning service works with
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- Epimorphics Data Integration & Publishing Platform
- Epimorphics Linked Data Publishing Platform
- Epimorphics Reference Data Management Platform (Registry)
- Other Linked Data, Semantic Web and Graph data solutions
Training
- Training service provided
- Yes
- How the training service works
- Epimorphics offers a range of specific training courses to support people and organisations wishing to design, publish or use their data on the web as linked data - see our training service offerings. These courses, combined with our mentoring and expertise, can also help build skills in good data design, common practices, developing data strategies, designing reference data, using and defining identifiers and using data architecture for strategic improvement and standards.
- Training is tied to specific services
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
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
- We provide additional support options for users of our Platforms. See Service Definition documents for full details.
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- Dependent upon specific implementation. Generally within 4 hours during support hours (08:30-17:00, Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays). See Service Definition documents for full details.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- None or don’t know
- Phone support
- No
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
- Customers can use this service to provide additional support days for our Data Integration and Publishing Platform or other platforms. Support levels are agreed during the set-up of the services and costed using our SFIA rate card.
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
- No
- 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
We're committed to adopting good sustainability practices. We recognise that through our business activities and operations we inevitably impact on the environment. We aim throughout our business activities to enhance our positive and reduce our negative environmental impacts.
Our values promote support for the environment in all aspects of our work. We evaluate contracts before bidding to assess if a successful outcome will have a beneficial effect on the environment. Many of our past projects have been about publishing environmental data, with direct and indirect benefits to sustainability outcomes.
We assess our ESG risk and compliance, and manage our corporate sustainability goals, using the Ecovadis platform. We report our emissions on our website and a published Carbon Reduction Plan (in line with PPN 06/21).
We've assessed and are audited for our Scope 1 to 3 emissions since 2021, reducing where possible and considering offsetting where not. We are on a path to have reduced our Scope 1 and 2 emissions to near zero by the Autumn of 2024. However, we recognise that our main impact is through our Scope 3 emissions. We've actively made choices to reduce these emissions but are also working towards more formalised SBTi through the SME route, as the new cloud-hosting assessments are published.
We have transitioned to formal remote working, actively reducing employee commuting and the emissions associated with a large office space. We've a project to assess and measure our scope 3 home-working emissions.
We deliver support and host software on cloud services, chosen in-part for their carbon-reduction plans. We select data centre locations that optimise those reductions. We recognise the residual impact of the design choices we make and aim to design efficiently. We deliberately scale services to meet the need, not adding additional resources that increase costs and energy use.Covid-19 recovery
Workplace conditions for our teams and those of our customers are vital to their physical and mental wellbeing. Since the wide-ranging impacts of the Covid19 pandemic we have changed the way we work to support recovery by strengthening our flexible working practices and providing support to staff. In addition, our innovative work on building a web of open data supports new employment opportunities and new ways of working in the technology industry.
Our actions since the easing of pandemic restrictions have involved moving to formal home working for all staff, with technology that supports mobile and home working and online collaboration with customers.
We recognise that there is still a place for face to face meetings and co-working and when we do so we follow government guidelines to ensure the safety of our team and customers. We do this with an aim to keep travel to a minimum, so that is sustainable but also flexible to employee and evolving team needs.
In recognition of the mental wellbeing impact of the pandemic and ensuing changes we have an active project refreshing our wellbeing policy. This has led to the implementation of an Employee Assistance Programme and will strengthen further as we implement other recommendations from the six standards in the Mental Health at Work Commitment.Tackling economic inequality
As a growing, 100% employee owned SME we look to provide flexible opportunities directly to our staff and indirectly through the data services we provide via GCloud.
We work in an innovative, disruptive, evolving sector. We have strong research and development investment and are growing our technology product base as we scale-up and evolve.
Through our GCloud contracts we have helped publish many open datasets, including in ways that help to promote new and innovative businesses using that data to drive their own growth. For instance by helping to publish the Land Registry's UK House Price Index and associated price paid data we support the real estate industry and others.
We help local communities and promote a resilient supply chain when we select subcontractors by favouring those that share our ethos and use local and not-for-profit organisations. Examples include: a local design company for branding and design support (who we provided with a guaranteed level of income through the first year of the Covid pandemic), and a not-for-profit data consultancy.
We further promote a resilient supply chain as a Prompt Payment Code signatory, working in collaboration with other businesses, and by promoting SMEs wherever possible.
We support local university students by running summer internship programmes. These have helped 15 students develop their careers. Some have taken up employment at Epimorphics after finishing their studies, others have found high value jobs elsewhere in the tech sector.
We invest in community building. For example we have sponsored a number of initiatives such as local data technology meetups, technology summer school / boot camps and Open Data Camps, in part to support access to networking, and knowledge sharing with a diverse, wider community. We annually pick a number of initiatives as a focus or priority.Equal opportunity
We are a Tech Talent Charter Signatory - a commitment to work together in the industry to increase the inclusion and diversity of the tech workforce in the UK in a measurable way. We are committed to achieving greater inclusion and diversity in our team, providing equal opportunity for all.
As an SME we recognise that we have an existing disparity of our diversity across the company. We have strived to identify gaps and improve representation through our recruitment practices. We measure representation across all levels and pay quartiles for: gender, ethnicity, socio-economic background, sexuality, age, disability and caring responsibilities. We have looked to enhance our policies across priority areas.
As a growing SME, we have recruitment practices that work with others to support our inclusion commitments. The original motivation for our flexible working policy was to ensure that we provided equal opportunities for disabled people. We continue to ensure that there are no barriers to hiring disabled people.
We work with recruitment partners to actively remove biases from our recruitment adverts, in particular to increase the reach of adverts and to help attract more diverse talent from non-traditional routes.
As a company, we've had high levels of staff retention, above average for Tech Sector SMEs. We have and maintain an understanding of how pay relates to our key representation, and assure that there is no pay disparity.Wellbeing
We're an employee-owned, people centred business and believe that the health and wellbeing of our team, and customers is important. We also evaluate contracts before bidding to see if a successful outcome will have a beneficial effect on communities. Many of our past projects have been about publishing environmental data, with direct and indirect benefits to health and community cohesion outcomes.
We improve community integration by collaborating with digital service users in user experience design and testing. This ensures that the services we design are user-centred and meet the needs of the communities they are aimed at.
We've always provided a flexible working environment, allowing our employees to work from home or in co-working environments. We supply the right technology to allow our team to work with our customers remotely to keep commuting to a minimum and increasing opportunities for recreation time for all. Since Covid we've moved to a home-working set up and monitor the wellbeing of our staff to ensure they have the right blend of flexibility and face-to-face time so that working contributes to their wellbeing, rather than detracting from it.
We've an active project refreshing our wellbeing policy. This has led to the implementation of an Employee Assistance Programme and will strengthen further as we implement other recommendations from the six standards in the Mental Health at Work Commitment.
Managers regularly check-in with their staff on a one-to-one basis, and flag challenges for discussion. We operate an open supportive model for the whole team, but recognise that we may miss issues. We're exploring the use of surveys to measure, quantify and track employee wellbeing with an aim to explore any improvements that can be made on an ongoing basis.
A portion of our profits from this and other contracts are used to support our local community.
Pricing
- Price
- £600 to £1,750 a unit a day
- 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 gcloud@epimorphics.com.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.