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Appetite for Business Ltd

Microsoft 365 Compliance and Security

With an ever-changing regulatory landscape, there’s no room for risk. We can help you increase awareness of security risks and how to mitigate them creating more robust information governance through the tools in Microsoft 365.

The result will be a high-level design for implementation of M365 E3/E5 security tools

Features

  • Data Loss protection
  • Security labelling
  • Microsoft Information Protection
  • Analysis and recommendations report
  • Compliance
  • Licensing
  • Device Management
  • Azure AD
  • Cloud App security
  • GDPR

Benefits

  • Reduction in Business risk
  • Simplify Compliance
  • Protect against accidental data loss or malicious behaviour
  • Compliance monitoring in line with regulations
  • Increase knowledge of Microsoft Security tools
  • Develop a road map for adoption and deployment

Pricing

£500 to £1,600 a unit a day

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

9 7 7 9 3 1 0 3 0 1 7 4 0 8 1

Contact

Appetite for Business Ltd Sheryl Newman
Telephone: 01224-824111
Email: snewman@appetite.business

Planning

Planning service
Yes
How the planning service works
Appetite implementation methodology starts with planning. A discovery session allows us to engage with your key stakeholders and design the implementation. Tailoring it to fit your engagement, planning will incorporate some or all of the following:

-Business: business case formulation/appraisal; definition of drivers and business objectives; business analysis; formulation of a change management strategy and business change plan.

-Technology: cloud readiness assessment / technology readiness assessment to identify any gaps which require attention to enable the implementation; defining the ‘route to Production’ as a controlled process for deploying changes to your cloud environment and the process for assessing/enabling new workloads; security architecture; solution architecture.

-Solution: scoping the solution; establishing a roadmap, where the implementation is to be phased; promoting an iterative, agile implementation where appropriate; Proof of Concept (PoC) or prototype work; developing an implementation plan; defining key dependencies and customer inputs required.

-Users: establishing user needs mapping user journeys; user experience ; production of an Adoption Plan (incorporating Training and Communication Plans); identification of senior stakeholders, early adopters and ‘champion’ communities as in-house advocates and visible promoters of change.
Planning service works with specific services
Yes
Hosting or software services the planning service works with
Microsoft 365

Training

Training service provided
Yes
How the training service works
Appetite provides comprehensive user training for cloud services to promote successful user adoption. It is a cornerstone of our Adoption & Change Management (ACM) service, It promotes Knowledge and Ability to lead users through the behavioural change required for a successful implementation. Services include formal training sessions for users and admins, guides, videos, documentation, drop-in sessions, floorwalking and lunch and learns. We also offer knowledge transfer and train-the-trainer services where customers have an objective to become self-sufficient. Given the frequently evolving of Microsoft cloud services, our training services provide a basis for continued revisiting, refresh and refinement, with top-up training available to Reinforce change. We focus on keeping our training service pragmatic, and scenario-based . We find that this promotes user engagement and adoption more effectively than theoretical and document-heavy supporting information.
Training is tied to specific services
Yes
Services the training service works with
Microsoft 365

Setup and migration

Setup or migration service available
Yes
How the setup or migration service works
Appetite have a comprehensive migration service which enables the best use of your existing content and applications in your M365 Digital Workplace. Working with both the business (key stakeholders) and IT departments we create a targeted Migration Strategy, backed by Application and Assessments of content that enable informed migration.

The Migration Strategy ensures that the workloads that are a business priority are respected and that Information Governance and Security are considered right at the beginning of migration. Appetite can migrate whichever M365 workloads you need, such as email or documents and will configure O365 to best match your new ways of working. Appetite considers user adoption as a crucial to a successful migration and apply the ADKAR model throughout the process. We offer customisable training for how your organisation will work with M365 ensuring users are clear on the migration roadmap and what to use what tool and in which circumstance.
Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
Yes
List of supported services
Microsoft 365

Quality assurance and performance testing

Quality assurance and performance testing service
Yes
How the quality assurance and performance testing works
Our extensive planning, migration and end user engagement practices are designed to ensure a proportionate response to quality assurance and performance an in line with our ISO 27:001 and 9001 accredidations.

Security testing

Security services
Yes
Security services type
  • Security strategy
  • Security testing
  • Security audit services
Certified security testers
No

Ongoing support

Ongoing support service
Yes
Types of service supported
  • Hosting or software provided by your organisation
  • Hosting or software provided by a third-party organisation
How the support service works
Our Managed Services includes: Hosting Services include - proactive management of Office 365 tenant, tenant health monitoring, capacity management and advice and maintenance of the deployed platform. Software User Administration. Roadmap advice and feature updates, workload management and end user services and support.

Service scope

Service constraints
Support is available remotely.

User support

Email or online ticketing support
No
Phone support
No
Web chat support
No
Support levels
Between the hours of 8.30am - 5pm and operating Mon - Fri, except public holidays.
We can offer a full array of support for our cloud software and cloud support services
We offer 1st, 2nd and 3rd line escalation services all backed by a responsive SLA.
Support costs as typically priced on an effort x rate basis, as per our published rate card
Customers can purchase as little or as much support as they think necessary

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Microsoft; AquaForest; FlowForma; Microsoft Dynamics

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
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
NQA
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
14th April 2021
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
NA
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

Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

Fighting climate change

Appetite are a BCorp Certified organisation, our responsibility goes beyond the day job. As a business and individuals, we care deeply and are driven by meaningful action. We seek out opportunities to make a positive difference from reporting and reducing our carbon footprint to delivering long-term value and sustainable solutions for our customers. We also measured our carbon impact and are now managing our actions against our own internal reduction and supporting our customers with free education events. Climate change is an all-encompassing issue, and as such, it demands collaboration and collective action. In addition to We expect our suppliers to act in line with our values and to comply with our ethical, social, and environmental requirements. There are three noteworthy steps that we have taken to fight climate change: 1. Sessions are delivered remotely where possible, reducing our carbon emissions on delivering workshops. 2. For every project won we donate to a global cause in line with our Sustainable Development goals in the area of sustainability. 3. We provide Free education events that promote the use of digitalisation and reducing paper.

Covid-19 recovery

We have taken positive steps post pandemic and maintain these going forward. We promote a positive culture of health and wellbeing in the workplace and ensure that employees are able to the take time to recover from Covid-19, in addition we made allowances for those who suffer from long Covid, by offering support when required. For those who work in the office we continue to operate some measures, with screens between desks, appropriate spacing and also strict hygiene in place. We have implemented wellbeing sessions and have an open channel of communication in addition to other touchpoints to allow home workers to come together in an effort to combat loneliness.

Tackling economic inequality

We have always been committed to tackling economic inequality as a business since day one. We provide Microsoft training sessions to charities, to disadvantaged groups those from low socio-economic households and small local businesses and donate funding to support girls in countries who would otherwise not have access to and education or digital skills. These sessions focus on improving digital literacy to help the people in these communities develop vital digital skills.

Equal opportunity

With a female founder who has a disability its no surprise that uniqueness and diversity are a huge part of who we are at Appetite. We ensure that we provide a digitally and physically inclusive and accessible working environment both when working at home or in the office. Our Recruitment strategy and campaigns follow our Equal opportunities and Ethics policies, ensuring we remove any potential for discrimination through inclusive language and equal treatment practices. We have a number of accreditations to support this, (e.g. Disability Confident Employer, Microsoft Business Pledge, Living Wage accreditation and Social Pledge), promoting accessibility internally and externally. We actively promote our employee referral scheme to encourage our diverse talent pool to recommend peers within their personal network. Our Hiring Team undergo relevant training on our Policies and Practices which are electronically signed to evidence their understanding and respect of diversity and inclusion. This training is also integrated our induction process. We have skill-based interviews to remove any chance of bias which could lead to discrimination. As part of our advertising, we promote our flexible-working culture to support both men and women. Our ads are also provided in a way that can accommodate accessibility needs. Hiring based on skills and company values. We are active promoters of Accessibility and Digital Inclusion, specifically around the use of technology to level the playing field for colleagues who have disabilities and we have a set of Belonging Policies which are regularly reviewed and through employee surveys have a quarterly action plan at our management meetings. This ensures everyone is happy, respected, supported and valued. We have an equal gender split in the business across all levels of seniority, We hire based on skills and company values.

Wellbeing

Appetite has made significant investment in our ongoing commitment to encouraging positive wellbeing and good mental health throughout our workforce. We recognise that balancing everyday life with the requirements of work and home can create increasing pressures for all. With advances in technological developments to support remote working, we recognise that it is vital within Sword that we ensure that there's a productive, healthy environment for our staff and contractors that is conducive to a healthy and balanced lifestyle. We have dedicated policies to ensure we formalise and take a pro-active approach in support of positive mental wellbeing. We also have various initiatives to support the physical and well being of our team including mental health supportive. We also have an Employee Asssitance Programme which provides advice guidance in addition to counselling services and access to wellbeing apps we offer discounts on gyms and other initiatives designed to positively support the challenges faced by many trying to balance the pressures of work and demands of home life. We have monthly 1-1s in addition to other informal weekly and daily check ins as controls to support employee wellbeing.

Pricing

Price
£500 to £1,600 a unit a day
Discount for educational organisations
Yes

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 snewman@appetite.business. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.