Drupal Development and Consultancy

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1 G- Cloud service Drupal Development and Consultancy 2013 Page 1

2 Table of contents 1 About Axis Overview of our G- Cloud Service Pricing Training Support and Hosting About Drupal Methodologies and approach Contact us... 6 Page 2

3 1 About Axis12 We have a track record of delivering and hosting some of the most technically challenging Drupal integrations in the UK Axis12 design, build, host and support complex web based applications based on Drupal, SOLR and other 3rd party systems. We are particularly known throughout the community as experts in difficult integrations, migrations and for enterprise search. Acquia USA the largest Drupal company in the world - recently engaged us to development a secure messaging service for the US Department of Defence. Our approach centres on our determination to deliver high quality, usable and accessible web applications. We work closely with our clients at all stages of delivery and beyond to help them maintain what we ve put in place. Our approach will ensure you get a product that you are proud of and that your staff, clients or customers enjoy using. We have a wealth of experience of working with clients who are based in the public, private and third sectors around the world. We are trusted to deliver by several Government clients including the Department of Health, Department for Education, the Home Office, Northern Ireland s Business Development Agency and HS2. We led the design and rebuild effort of the Tate Gallery s website a huge undertaking and one that is receiving accolade s around the world. More recently we designed and rebuilt the Kew Gardens website and intranet. We are currently leading the technical delivery of the Care Quality Commission s drive towards achieving their Digital by Default targets through the use of online registrations and form submissions. We ve built solid partnerships with leading players in the industry and have a reciprocal partnership agreement with Volacci, the community s experts in SEO for Drupal sites. Axis12 has been a member of the Drupal Association since the company s inception. Collectively, the management team at Axis12 Ltd has over 70 years experience in the Internet technology sector, and over 25 years experience with Drupal. We currently have a total of 26 staff all based in our central London office and continue to actively recruit. Our dedication to Drupal and our size makes us one of the largest specialist Drupal companies in the UK. We are very active in the open source community for both Drupal and SOLR and were platinum sponsors at Drupalcon London in Axis12 also offer a number of powerful opensource products and services: Find provides SaaS enterprise quality search, which leverages the power of SOLR (an open source Enterprise search platform) to provide high speed, high availability search on any Drupal site with plug- and- play setup, and no need for capital expenditure on equipment, or lengthy lead- in times. Find is currently used by some of the largest Drupal sites in the UK. Secure Digital Publisher reduces the complexities of Cross- Platform Publishing, while increasing productivity, production quality and business agility. You no longer need multiple applications and service suppliers when you use Secure Digital Publisher. It comes complete with all the tools you need to instantly create multiple formats (PDF, epub, Kindle, Mobi, XML etc) from a single, controlled XHTML5 source file. Flexible Online Forms is an enterprise data collection platform with customisable labels, help text and rules, and secure storage capabilities to IL2/3. It allows for quick and easy creation of structured multi- step, conditional, validated forms that are accessible to W2AA standards. Flexible API capability facilitates data collection and transfer to any backend office system. Flexible Online Forms has been successfully integrated with all major databases and CRM s including Seibel/Oracle. Page 3

4 2 Overview of our G- Cloud Service Specialist cloud based Drupal consultancy that ensures you can make the most Drupal's powerful features and the flexibility of the cloud. Our consultancy covers all aspects of Drupal development, including specification, design, development, testing, release and support. Helping you find your way on the web With unrivalled experience in the public sector, we work hard to understand your needs and culture. Our team has worked across the world on everything from leading Government websites, to supporting clients in broadcast media, entertainment and publishing. We love helping organisations transform, working with you to bring vision and knowledge together online. The process is centred on you, seeking to understand your objectives, products and services, while looking at what you want to achieve. Experienced consultants, amazing solutions Do you want to realise an idea for a website or web project? Do you need advice on taking your website to the next level? Running into problems with a difficult integration or migration? Having trouble coping with unexpected spikes in traffic levels? Need some security guidance? Our consultancy services can be delivered as a one off project, or we can give you on- going support, for both specific and general web based projects. We can work with your team on site or remotely. Either way, we will use our experience and skills from big, challenging projects to deliver sensible, efficient, and cost effective solutions. For examples of how we have helped organisations transform, check out our portfolio. What we can help you with Our experience means we can help you across cloud, Drupal and all your other web projects. Here is just some of what we can do for you: Architecture specification and implementation Site specification and design Developing responsive and engaging themes Integration with external systems through SSO s and API s Functional, user acceptance and usability testing Project management and coordination Agile development and Scrum mastering Site resilience, performance and security Release management Page 4

5 3 Pricing Our consultancy prices range from 250 to 850 (ex VAT) per day. Our full rate card can be found at production.govstore.service.gov.uk/giii%20attachments/axis12%20ltd/bids/ratecard_search_consultancy.pdf Please use these rates as a guide for this particular type of consultancy. If you would like to engage us, once we know more about your requirements we can provide more specific costs. 4 Training We train and work with clients' resources to help maintain what we've put in place. We can also help you maximise the potential of your existing websites. Our team has a deep understanding of technology coupled with experience of the challenges that face organisations that need to stay on top of their market. 5 Support and Hosting We offer a comprehensive support service for Drupal application support and hosting. Further details about our support offer can be found at cloud- hosting- application- management- and- support 6 About Drupal One of the reasons we are fanatical about Drupal is because of the size and enthusiasm of the community behind it. The huge community means a huge repository of features and functionality has already been written, and even more importantly is always being improved by others that are using it on their websites. Our starting point therefore in delivering functionality to our client is to ask has this been done before? The answer is invariably yes and by reusing a piece of contributed functionality - as it is or with only slight modifications, we save you time and money. We deliver on time and budget, and have the assistance of many thousands of other Drupal folk in ensuring the code we are using is kept secure, bug free and up to date. Our main area of focus is the delivery of high quality, enterprise websites that use the latest web technology. All members of our staff are truly 'hands on' when it comes to creation and build. We are also strong advocates of cloud computing and the use of Software as a Service (SaaS). Our own systems are built on these principles and provide us with levels of flexibility, agility and resilience far beyond those provided by traditional platforms. 7 Methodologies and approach We have consultants experienced in PRINCE2 and AGILE project management. We have learnt through experience that AGILE is an extremely effective methodology for web development projects, as it secures quality delivery through regular releases, which have specific quality criteria. However we appreciate that not all stakeholders have the time to engage in the deliverables at a detailed level, so we have successfully merged the AGILE and PRINCE2 methodologies together to allow stakeholders to monitor progress via traditional high- level project plans and Gantt charts, at the same time as keeping rapid, high quality delivery. This customised approach links very well with Drupal. The modular make up of Drupal means that major functional elements can be implemented, configured and released within one sprint. Agile is also very good at exposing delivery problems very Page 5

6 early, as the regular (ideally fortnightly) releases can be assessed and tested every few weeks, rather than months, when there often isn t enough time remaining to resolve any major problems. Our project delivery is supported by specific systems that manage the detailed specifications, including acceptance criteria user stories, and results from functional and non- functional testing. These systems are made available to our clients, and ensure clear specifications are available to everyone involved in delivery. 8 Contact us We re a friendly bunch too, so get in touch via at info@axistwelve.com, or call us on We look forward to getting to know you. Page 6