Systems Integration

Synchronise New Digital Service with Mainframe Legacy System

published on Friday, March 8th, 2019

Our consultants engaged at HMRC to: Design a system to provide two-way synchronisation of Tariff, Quota and Payment data between a new Digital Service being built on a ESB/MicroService-architecture and an existing legacy mainframe system. Setup a CI/CD process to manage the integration, testing & deployment of new code. Provide file movement and manipulation, as […]

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Filed under: Solutions, Systems Integration

Demonstrable experience and track record of providing cloud-based hosting and support services for digital products

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

HMRC required the Customs-Declaration-Service(CDS)-development/delivery-mechanism migrating from Fujitsu-Private-Cloud to AWS. Our consultants developed an implementation-plan, conducted Proof-Of-Concepts(POC), then migrated the CDS-CI/CD-processes, automated-testing/mocking-framework, environments and existing Integration-Services to AWS. We added RedHat/WSO2 upgrades and completed everything in four-weeks; without any disruption to CDS-delivery-schedule. We subsequently added features including: S3, RDS, EC2, EBS, clustering, Availability-Zones and Virtual-Private-Clouds; providing […]

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Experience of having delivered data management frameworks, including practical strategies and policies, for the management of data – its use and quality

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Ford required a new data-management-framework to allow a store-once/use-multiple-times-policy for technical information across all of Ford’s vehicle-models. Our consultant managed the development/support of an XML-based system: •New data-types (Tags) managed through Global-Governance-process. •Tag/Attribute/Element structure allows feature-rich for consuming-systems. •Content separate to presentation to flexibly-feed disparate-systems. •Elements/Attributes allow regionalised-versions. •Consistent data-entry enforced through defined fields/XML-schemas. •Data-model […]

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Filed under: Solutions, Systems Integration

Have experience in delivering a management information dashboard service to be used by multiple organisations or business units

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Our consultants engaged at Ford to: •Design/Develop a Data-Warehouse for all country teams across EMEA & APAC. •Ensure the integrity of the data from the mainframe/database systems. •Extract/Transform/Load data using DataStage into a TeraData database. •Display the management information on a dashboard using WebFocus. In addition, our consultants: •Controlled the update of data via Autosys. […]

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Worked on a project with multiple (client) partners

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Our consultants were instrumental in HMRC’s discovery & Alpha on the Brexit-Critical Border-Systems-Programme. We worked closely with 8 separate business-partner teams to identify overlapping functional areas; consolidating 8 separate Backlogs & reducing Features by 23%. This led to a consolidated infrastructure requirement; reducing licensing by 30%, Development by 20% & support/maintenance by 12%. We worked […]

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Share their work freely and openly with the partner organisations and the wider community

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Our consultants established a new Integration-development centre at HMRC with a remit for providing reusable services for other project development teams. We established a library of integration patterns with reference implementations; ensuring appropriate documentation was in place for the wider community; including HMRC in-house teams & other suppliers. The team created a Test-Framework for functional/non-functional […]

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Demonstrate experience designing services for a wide range of digital skills and confidence

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Ford’s Content-Management-System was being used inefficiently by non-technical-users. Our consultant evaluated-the-system/its use; concluding: •User-Groups spread globally/using system in different-ways •High-turnover of users-knowledge not retained •Lack-of-understanding leading to incorrect reporting-of-defects/wasting IT-team’s time. Our consultant improved effectiveness by: •Fortnightly review-sessions for heavily-used-features – added to training knowledge-base. •Video-Product-Demos for new-development; ensuring clear-instructions available. •Trained key-users across regions […]

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Have experience of working to the GDS service design manual

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

Our consultants engaged at HMRC to: •Establish a new Development-Centre that adhered to the principles of the Technology-Code-of-Practice. •Set-up a Fujitsu-Private-Cloud-based, open-source(WSO2)/open-standards(Java), Continuous-Integration/Delivery-system that embedded/enforced the Digital-Service-Standards. •Utilised a defense-in-depth security-policy, ensuring data remained private but was available for multi-system reuse; reducing Total-Cost-of-Ownership and meeting the security requirements of HMRC & OGD’s (including DEFRA, DIT […]

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Provide a multi-disciplinary team, including user research, service design, and delivery management

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

At HMRC we provide a multi-disciplinary-Agile-teams (User-Research/Analysis/Service-Design/Development/Delivery/Support/Maintenance) working on 14 concurrent-Programmes/Release-Trains/Projects and providing 80+ Services. We utilise Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/Lean-techniques to deliver from simple changes to a workflow to enterprise-wide-programmes; embedding user-research/feedback throughout service design & delivery. Our Scrum-Teams apply agile-best-practises; including: •TDD •Continuous-build/integration •Automated-testing (functional/non-functional) •Continuous-deployment •Processes/procedures built-up with extensive experience in Digital-Transformation-Programmes. We work collaboratively […]

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Have experience working with a range of xAAS products / providers

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

HMRC required a new development-centre that embraced an xAAS-approach. Our consultants leveraged the existing IaaS Fujitsu-Private-Cloud and Cap-Gemini’s Integration/Deployment platform (PaaS) for deploying/hosting Digital-Services. Once HMRC had developed an in-house AWS-Cloud-platform (PaaS) we migrated all existing services, service-development/testing/deployment & environments across in four-weeks. We then extended the in-house PaaS to take advantages of AWS’s other […]

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Have experience successfully executing legacy system / cloud migration projects

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

HMRC-MDG required the CDS-development/delivery-mechanism migrating from Fujitsu-Private-Cloud to AWS. Our consultants developed an implementation-plan, conducted Proof-Of-Concepts(POC), then migrated the CDS-CI/CD-processes, automated-testing & mocking-framework, environments and existing Integration-Services to AWS. We added RedHat/WSO2 upgrades and completed everything in four-weeks; without any disruption to CDS-delivery-schedule. We subsequently added features including: clustering, Availability-Zones and Virtual-Private-Clouds; providing value-for-money/resilient-infrastructure. We […]

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Have experience working to principles described in the Technology Code of Practice

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

HMRC-MDG required a new Development-Centre that adhered to the principles of the Technology-Code-of-Practice. Our consultants setup a Fujitsu-Private-Cloud-based, open-source(WSO2)/open-standards(Java), Continuous-Integration/Delivery-system that embedded/enforced the Digital-Service-Standards. The system utilised a defense-in-depth security-policy, ensuring data remained private but was available for multi-system reuse; reducing Total-Cost-of-Ownership. The SOA-type Middleware/MicroServices-system integrated legacy/COTS-systems; providing accessible Digital-Services based on User-Needs. The migration […]

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Have experience advising on design of modern system architectures

published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019

HMRC required European-Union data in legacy-systems. Our consultants designed, developed, deployed & supported a Cloud-agnostic, Open-Source, MicroServices-architecture solution delivering Distributed Business Processes. We embraced-Containerisation through Docker & Kubernetes; giving vertical-scalability, self-healing, resilience & high-availability. We utilised Vault for Secrets-Management, created an automated-Continuous-Integration/Deployment-system using Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, GitLab, SonarQube, SOAPUI & JMeter. We created a Guaranteed-Delivery […]

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Experience of managing successful delivery alongside other suppliers

published on Monday, July 16th, 2018

Problem: HMRC required an Integration-team to work alongside other suppliers. Our team: Discovery -Agreed goal/problem-definition with stakeholders. -Assessed user-journeys/personas; in-collaboration-with other teams (Cap-Gemini/Accenture/Equal-Experts/In-house). -Identified client-constraints; conducting cross-team-workshops; identifying overlaps/gaps across 4 value-streams in SAFe-programme/improvements/cost-savings. -Agreed cross-team Alpha-backlog with success-measures; ensuring cost-effective, viable-service. Alpha -Adopted risk-based-prioritisation; selecting high-risk integrations with Digital-Frontend/Rules-engine/finance-system/DataStore. -Focused on end-to-end journeys (with […]

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Filed under: HMRC, Solutions, Systems Integration

Delivering complex transformation at HMRC

published on Friday, June 16th, 2017

Our SC-cleared team has 25+ years delivery-management experience of solving complex transformation-problems; including at HMRC: -Development/Delivery Leadership for new business transformation; growing new Systems-Integration team comprising 200+ Architects, Analysts, Developers, Testers, DevOps, Delivery-Managers and Scrum-Masters; adapting to evolving requirements in a continually changing environment. -Implemented Cloud-based IaaS/PaaS/SaaS providing resilient/reusable technical and business services to internal […]

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Filed under: Agile Delivery, HMRC, Solutions, Systems Integration, Transformation