Tags: G-Cloud

Full Steam Ahead With The G-Cloud!

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As we now know, if you’re a public sector ICT buyer you are now expected to look at the G-Cloud – the rapidly-expanding catalogue of useful, cost-effective ICT goods and services – as your first port of call for any new systems you are thinking of purchasing .

I’ve recently discussed  our work in G-Cloud with our exciting project with QinetiQ to build a great new reservoir management system for the Environment Agency . But, I’d like to discuss another side of this key topic – what specifically we are offering that public sector ICT buyer through the programme.

In June this year we are very proud to be able to announce we had been awarded G-Cloud iii supplier status in the ‘CloudStore’s’ Infrastructure and Software as a Service categories, as well in the Specialist Cloud. Specifically, we are now listed for our document capture, document management and case management solutions there, in partnership with secure cloud infrastructure specialist Skyscape.

This is in addition to other Cloud services we can offer public sector customers, such as Cloud-based content backup or our extensive range of consultancy, implementation and support services.

The core of our offering is our EMC Documentum-based enterprise content and document management platform, SynApps Documentum Document Management in the Cloud. As a leading EMC partner, we implement and add lots of value to this top tier business suite.

Another G-Cloud solution is our Intelligent Document Capture in the Cloud product. This helps public sector customers capture all their key paper-based documents using a wide variety of scanners and multi-function peripherals, index and store them in a secure cloud-based repository. That turns them into a resource which is then much more easily accessible, online, in a controlled, secure environment. That’s based not on Documentum, but another great EMC product, its Captiva line.

SynApps is also providing innovative case management solutions in the shape of our Case Management in the Cloud offering, based on EMC’s xCP case management technologies; that offers the basis for a range of specialist case-based applications, such as Investigative Case Management in the Cloud, a piece of technology that lets the Police efficiently register and view the status of a crime online, and which allows all case-related documentation can be stored securely.

‘Securely’ is a very important concept in public sector ICT, of course. Indeed, fear that Cloud is less than convincing in this regard has been holding too many organisations back in this area. The great news is that the government has worked out a way to dispel this concern. Earlier, I mentioned our link with Skyscape. What that means in practical terms is that all our G-Cloud solutions will be hosted in highly resilient UK data centres via our partner’s Cloud Service infrastructure, which is officially certified to support all levels of data from Impact Level 0 (IL0) to Impact Level 3 (IL3).

As Skyscape has no less a set of clients than the MoD and HMRC, I think we can take that as a sign of its expertise in safety and privacy in the Cloud.

I know that some sceptics say that the G-Cloud programme is all talk and no big projects yet, but that’s wrong; it’s moving a head at a tremendous pace.

And from where we sit, our work in the G-Cloud is going tremendously well – and that real savings and benefits to the public are starting to be realised as a result.

This is one to mark up as a real success for Britain, we believe; do you agree?

 

Our Precious National Reservoir Resource Being Managed Through The Cloud

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We recently talked about the importance of G-Cloud (‘G-Cloud Matters To All Of Us’), the government’s targeted push to radically simplify and cheapen the provisioning of ICT for the public sector. And I am delighted to be able to discuss a specific example of this kind of straightforward, value for money contracting that we have been a part of.

We have just been signed up to provide the back end technology for a new system the Environment Agency   is deploying to better manage English reservoirs – a vital national resource, especially in this era of strange weather we are having.

The application’s based on the proven Documentum enterprise content management system, as extended by SynApps – and in fact, what’s exciting is that the project is the first ever cross-Whitehall accredited implementation of that platform. We are working with our strategic partner QinetiQ on the security side of all this.

Not only did the the Environment Agency purchase the solution through the G-Cloud procurement framework, it also will be delivered through the Cloud. And another notable feature, the project will be bedded in to the Agency’s environment using the government-backed Agile project management approach.

Civil servants using the software tell us it’s not only going to help significantly improve admin and management of the reservoirs – it will also be able to offer much better service to the public, as information can at last be centralised and routed around much better.

We are 100% committed to ensuring the benefits of Agile, Cloud and the G-Cloud buying process get realised with this project. That means our investment as taxpayers will get properly looked after in government ICT.

That’s got to be a very promising start to our work in the G-Cloud? We’ll be bringing you updates on progress – probably around the end of the year, when we expect the first phase to be fully live.

 

 

The G-Cloud Matters To All Of Us

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Why do you need to be excited about the G-Cloud, especially the latest incarnation Giii, the third version of its core procurement framework?

Simple. It provides a game changer in IT procurement – by which I mean something SMEs can get involved in, providing cloud based services to the public sector.

Let’s put this in context. You may have come across us  SynApps in the context of our work in the NHS, where we are helping Trusts extend their existing imaging databases to become the foundation for something equivalent to the long-awaited electronic patient records.

But that’s only part of what we offer the UK public sector with our involvement in the G-Cloud. In specific terms, what you could get from us buying our services this way is the Public Sector IT buyer, a range of cloud-based business solutions covering document capture, document management, case management and records management. To find out more, we are listed under IaaS, SaaS and Specialist Cloud Services, with our three most prominent partners: secure cloud infrastructure specialist Skyscape, EMC and Alfresco. Our customers tell us that one of the major benefits of contracting with SynApps is our agility and focus – we are 100% focussed on delivering ECM solutions to the UK marketplace.

We believe that there is a strong momentum for cloud services in government right now, and across the board. The programme is geared up to connect SMEs into one of the biggest and most important of all British ICT marketplaces. This is in stark contrast to what it has been for years, which is a playground for the large Systems Integrators.

They are still going to play a role of course with this customer base, especially for big systems work; but some doors have genuinely been opened for companies of our size. This is great for the taxpayer, as speed of procurement will be much shorter for a cloud solution than for an on-premise one.

This is a great development for us as a supplier, for our partners, customers and for the UK too.

SynApps Enterprise Content Management Solutions Listed on G-Cloud III, Paving the Way for Dynamic Document, Records and Case Management across the Public Sector

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Through a strategic alliance with secure cloud infrastructure provider Skyscape, SynApps is bringing cloud-based business solutions based around digital content capture, document and case management, to UK government organisations and public services

Maidenhead, UK – June 10th , 2013 – SynApps Solutions, the content management solutions company, has announced its acceptance onto the latest iteration of the UK Government’s G-Cloud cloud services procurement framework. This makes it easy for the public sector to peruse and buy approved cloud-based technology and application services.

SynApps, which has a strong track record for delivering secure, hosted and cloud-based content management services to the public sector, has been awarded G-Cloud III supplier status for a wide range of IaaS, SaaS and Specialist Cloud Services under Lots 1, 3 and 4. SynApps offers three families of cloud-based business solutions under the GCloud III framework – document capture, document management and case management – in partnership with secure cloud infrastructure specialist Skyscape. This is in addition to a series of basic services such as cloud-based content backup, and a full range of consultancy, implementation and support services that are packaged and priced separately.

SynApps provides cloud services using the market-leading Documentum EDM/EDRM platform from EMC, in the form of SynApps Documentum Document Management in the Cloud. SynApps, a leading EMC partner, implements and adds value to the full EMC enterprise content management product suite.

Another G-Cloud III offering is SynApps Intelligent Document Capture in the Cloud. This enables users to capture key paper-based documents using a wide variety of scanners and multi-function peripherals, index and store them in a secure cloud-based repository. These documents are then accessible online in a controlled, secure environment. The Intelligent Document Capture service is based on EMC’s industry-leading Captiva product suite.

SynApps is also providing innovative case management solutions via the cloud. The core solution, SynApps Case Management in the Cloud, is based on EMC’s xCP case management technologies and provides the foundation for a range of specialist case-based applications. These include SynApps Investigative Case Management in the Cloud; enabling police forces to register and view the status of a crime online, where all case-related documentation can be stored securely.

SynApps is a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and associated consultancy, implementation and support services. As well as on-premise systems, SynApps provides cloud-based ECM solutions to customers ranging from Hampshire Constabulary to organisations in the life sciences industry.

Thanks to SynApps’ strategic partnership with Skyscape, its G-Cloud solutions will be hosted in highly resilient UK data centres. Skyscape’s Cloud Service infrastructure is certified to support all levels of data sensitivity through the G-Cloud programme, from Impact Level 0 (IL0) to Impact Level 3 (IL3). Skyscape has been a G-Cloud provider since its first iteration in February 2012 and counts the Ministry of Defence and HMRC among its clients.

Phil Dawson, CEO of Skyscape, said “Skyscape is very proud to be working with SynApps, and that SynApps has chosen to sell Skyscape’s highly-secure, resilient and agile services through G-iii, many of which have Pan Government Accreditation (PGA) to IL 3 and IL 2.  We fully expect G-iii to be an exciting, highly-competitive and rapidly maturing market, presenting opportunities for buyers and vendors alike”

Previously, SynApps had submitted a single application for inclusion on G-Cloud II – a cloud-service based document management platform and, in a short space of time, it has seen an ever-growing demand for such services. Commenting on the potential of G-Cloud, Jim Whitelaw, Managing Director of SynApps, said, “We have found it to be a powerful vehicle for bringing high-quality solutions to the public sector in the shortest possible time and at best value. Given that enterprise content management is our sole focus, we believe SynApps can add enormous value to the public sector through our cloud services, accelerating organisations’ speed to market with dynamic content-sharing applications based on a choice of market-leading platforms.”

SynApps Open Source Enterprise Content Management Solutions Listed on G-Cloud III, Paving the Way for Dynamic Collaboration across the Public Sector

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Through a strategic alliance with secure cloud infrastructure provider Skyscape, SynApps is bringing cloud-based, open source business solutions based around digital content capture, document and case management, to UK government organisations and public services

Maidenhead, UK – June 10th,  2013 – SynApps Solutions, the content management solutions company, has announced its acceptance onto the latest iteration of the UK Government’s G-Cloud cloud services procurement framework. This makes it easy for the public sector to peruse and buy approved cloud-based technology and application services.

SynApps, which has a strong track record for delivering secure, hosted and cloud-based open source content management services to the public sector, has been awarded G-Cloud III supplier status for a wide range of IaaS, SaaS and Specialist Cloud Services under Lots 1, 3 and 4. SynApps offers three families of cloud-based business solutions under the GCloud III framework – document capture, document management and case management – in partnership with secure cloud infrastructure specialist Skyscape. This is in addition to a series of basic services such as cloud-based content backup, and a full range of consultancy, implementation and support services that are packaged and priced separately.

Among SynApps’ core offerings through G-Cloud III are Alfresco Document Management in the Cloud, and Alfresco Document & Records Management in the Cloud, enabling organisations to rapidly and affordably deploy highly scalable, subscription-based best-of-breed EDM and EDRM applications. Alfresco is a leading open source enterprise content management (ECM) platform. The associated SynApps cloud services provide pre-configured EDM and EDRM applications on demand, which can be integrated with an organisation’s processes and line-of-business applications.

SynApps is a leading provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions and associated consultancy, implementation and support services. As well as on-premise systems, SynApps provides cloud-based ECM solutions to customers ranging from Hampshire Constabulary to organisations in the life sciences industry.

Thanks to SynApps’ strategic partnership with Skyscape, its G-Cloud solutions will be hosted in highly resilient UK data centres. Skyscape’s Cloud Service infrastructure is certified to support all levels of data sensitivity through the G-Cloud programme, from Impact Level 0 (IL0) to Impact Level 3 (IL3). Skyscape has been a G-Cloud provider since its first iteration in February 2012 and counts the Ministry of Defence and HMRC among its clients.

Phil Dawson, CEO of Skyscape, said “Skyscape is very proud to be working with Synapps, and that Synapps has chosen to sell Skyscape’s highly-secure, resilient and agile services through G-iii, many of which have Pan Government Accreditation (PGA) to IL 3 and IL 2.  We fully expect G-iii to be an exciting, highly-competitive and rapidly maturing market, presenting opportunities for buyers and vendors alike”

Previously, SynApps had submitted a single application for inclusion on G-Cloud II – a cloud-service based document management platform and, in a short space of time, it has seen an ever-growing demand for such services. Commenting on the potential of G-Cloud, Jim Whitelaw, Managing Director of SynApps, said, “We have found it to be a powerful vehicle for bringing high-quality solutions to the public sector in the shortest possible time and at best value. Given that enterprise content management is our sole focus, we believe SynApps can add enormous value to the public sector through our cloud services, accelerating organisations’ speed to market with dynamic content-sharing applications based on a choice of market-leading platforms.”