Is your head in the clouds?
...is very important. Consider how long it takes to buy a new server, build it and deploy it into the estate. Hours, days, weeks, or even months... We wanted to...
Technology
Service Integration and Management - SIAM 3 months in
In a previous blog we explained that we have moved away from large IT contracts, handled by a single outsourcer, to a “tower model”. In this model separate IT components are supplied by different companies, and Service Integration and Management …
Supply chain transformation - procurement lessons learnt
...service contracts where possible, to save us having to do our own procurement (share first) Then, use the G-cloud, an online marketplace where suppliers offer their cloud-based services to the...
The challenge of untangling project siloes
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Chris Thompson, Posted on:
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Projects, Solution Design and Innovation, Technology
...promoting the use of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This approach champions the building of components that are designed to be integrated with. These new ‘services’ are based around open-standards, are technology...
Moving legacy services to the cloud
Historically the SFA has provisioned traditional hosting services to run our ICT Services. This has resulted in us owning a significant amount of aging physical infrastructure which is costly to...
Moving from a 'monolithic' supplier to a multi-vendor environment
2014 has been an important year for the Agency. We've moved from a 'monolithic' supplier to a new tower model with Service Integration and Management (SIAM) and a Service desk...
Work is something we do, it doesn't have to be a place we go to!
...needs senior management buy in. At the Agency, we have a committed group of senior leaders who are embracing the change and are seeing this as not only a business...