brightsolid and Aberdeen joined forces for the 2016 CIPFA Scotland Conference to share the story of their recent partnership.

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To the Cloud through Collaboration in 6 weeks!

2. The next 40 minutes
Simon Haston, ACC & Richard Higgs
present:
 The situation and needs of
Aberdeen City Council
 Collaborating with brightsolid
 Aberdeen City Council: Where we
are now
 Enabling technology that will
make a difference to your budget

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Aberdeen City Council

4. Technical Innovation with Personal Service
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Aberdeen City Council Citizen Base
 A population of
approximately 200,000
 4200 systems users
 No bypass yet!

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The situation in
2015…

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Budget cuts…

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Part of a weakening relationship…

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Old fashioned contracts

9. Needing to upgrade technology…

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Time for a change…

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brightsolid

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A Scottish Government Framework
Supplier…

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The potential to save money
Now and in the future…

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“To achieve great
things, two things are
needed; a plan, and
not quite enough
time”
- Leonard Bernstein

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Working against the clock…

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How?Critical Attributes, Choices, Outcomes

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Technical Innovation with Personal Service
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Key Milestones
Task Name Duration Start Finish
ACC project 38 days Mon 27/11/15 Wed 6/01/16
DR phase 1 to Aberdeen 4 days Fri 27/11/15 Mon 30/12/15
Prod phase 1 to Aberdeen 5 days Thur 03/12/15 Mon 7/12/16
Prod Phase 2 to Aberdeen 5 days Thu 10/12/15 Mon 14/12/15
Prod phase 3 to Aberdeen 5 days Thu 17/12/15 Mon 21/12/15
Resolution of VDE issues with ACC 2 days Sun 20/12/15 Mon 21/5/15
Prod phase 4 to Aberdeen 8 days Wed 23/12/15 Thu 31/12/15
DR phase 2 to Aberdeen / Dundee 1.5 days Tue 05/01/16 Wed 06/01/16
38 days for 30.5 days of duration & 107 days of effort

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National data
centres and
clouds
Price
matched to
Azure
With added
value
Exceeding criteria…

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Ecofris PUE sub 1.25
25 Kw per
rack
Cooling the price of high density IT

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Storage that works…

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Connectivity diversity

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Secure Communications

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Amplified DDoS
as standard

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Backup may be boring, but essential
…….and is included in our price

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So is support………….

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Made possible through joint
collaboration

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Things are different in 2016…

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£350kof tangible savings per year and…

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24 roles removed from budget!

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A National SME supplier

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Faster infrastructure

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A dynamic partnership…

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We are seeing change!

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“In brightsolid, we have found a partner with whom we can
innovatively work as we digitally transform our council
services whilst also reducing our operational costs.”
Aberdeen City Council Finance
Policy and Resources Convenor Councillor
Willie Young
Technical Innovation with Personal Service

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Emerging 2020 trends that we like
Predictive
Analytics
Shared
Services
Machine
Learning
Free
Apps

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Free applications and infinite
development opportunities
In micro services in open
source application layers

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Community Cloud

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Microsoft Office 365
 Increased
collaboration
 Compatibility
 Reliability
 Security
 Reduced cost
Make your first step toward the cloud…

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A bit about us

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Awards and Accreditations
Security is at the heart of everything we do

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Enough about us, we want to
hear from you
getintouch@brightsolid.com