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IT review to July 2011 and programme of work

IT review to July 2011 and programme of work. David Wells – Head of IT - August 2011. Review after Infrastructure refresh. After the Infrastructure refresh 2008-2011 Detailed analysis and discussions of before and after costs resulting in: - Reduction of a little under £2k/month

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IT review to July 2011 and programme of work

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  1. IT review to July 2011 and programme of work David Wells – Head of IT - August 2011

  2. Review after Infrastructure refresh • After the Infrastructure refresh 2008-2011 • Detailed analysis and discussions of before and after costs resulting in: • - Reduction of a little under £2k/month • - Refund of ~ £25k • Number of calls to service desk down 50% • against an increase in staff ~33% • and greater functionality • Calls average about 1.1/user/month industry average is 1.5

  3. Activities so far this financial year • ICO led ICE project – Making good progress • Regional office moves • Let down by C&W / BT – delays at all 3 offices • Considerable effort, coordination, multiple visits • Difficult supplier to manage – but no alternative • Support for homeworker expansion • Making the register available on DVD • XP SP3 upgrade • Add FOI knowledge base on to website • Contract changes for new services ~38 in the 4 years of the contract

  4. IT Programme of work – to July 2013 • Major projects • Replacement of DUIS and Finance • To keep systems in support • Windows 7 and Office 2010 upgrade • Plus a raft of updates on minor products • Bring new business benefits • Knowledge management -IDOL pilot • VoIP (softphones for homeworkers/ integration of regional offices • Secure email • Move ICON to use sharepoint 2010

  5. IT Programme of work (cont • Others • Potential to move Video conferencing to use the GSi WAN • Improvements to phone help lines. Gather stats on call flows. • Building on the CRM product for ‘single view of data controller’ • Improved staging/training environments. Ongoing work to replicate live

  6. IT Programme of work (cont • Future (2011/12 work) • Review Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery environments • Review WAN links, GSi and GSi services • Essential upgrades • VMWare upgrade and improved functionality, Servers to 2008 • Improve resilience for Remote worker

  7. Windows 7 and Office 2010 • Substantial piece of work • Need to complete work and for systems to be stable at end of Capita (extended) contract. Target go live Feb/Mar 2012 – pilot users ahead of that. • New delivery mechanism for Virtual desktops – True ‘Gold image’ with additional software added as ‘tick boxes’ • Changes required to CMEH, Printall, Kofax scanning

  8. Windows 7 and Office 2010 (cont • Will impact all users • Some training will be required (although many people use Windows 7, office 2007/10 at home) • ICE will be designed to take advantage of new functionality • Many potential benefits/opportunities including improved sharing/collaborative working

  9. Sundry work • Reviewing software portfolio – do we have the right products at the right price and do people use what is provided? • Review Blackberry/Laptop/3G dongle allocation.

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