Going Beyond Delivery with DWP

Going Beyond Delivery

Service-focused, strategic improvements

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FOREWORD

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PARTNERING FOR SUCCESS WITH DWP

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Mastering cloud costs: FinOps tagging

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FREDA migration, from stalled to success

OUR PUBLIC SECTOR EXPERTISE National Highways Companies House Cafcass

Large UK Government Department 10 VERSION 1 AT A GLANCE Our partners

13 Recognition

14 VERSION 1 CAPABILITIES

17 Range of areas and capabilities Sectors we serve

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Foreword Since 2018, Version 1 has been a dedicated partner to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) supporting you to innovate with purpose, driving innovation with exceptional service delivery and strategic improvements.

Our values align with yours: we care, we

We’ve partnered with you to assess and

cloud, or modernising and transforming your

measure DevOps and data skills, migrate on-prem applications to the cloud, and prepare you for your data and cloud migration

deliver, we adapt, we work together, and we value everyone. These values underpin our approach to work as part of the Department’s rainbow teams and seamlessly align with your culture and ways of working.

Whether you are moving away from costly legacy infrastructure, unlocking the value of your data, migrating your applications to the services, Version 1 is here to ensure that the choices you make deliver positive change for the Department and your citizens.

journeys, always focused on accelerating and unlocking value for the Department at every opportunity.

Our teams understand how your technology works. We pride ourselves on our honesty and integrity, customer-first approach, and personal commitment to success. We are aligned with the Department’s vision to improve people’s quality of life both now and in the future, and our success is interlinked with yours.

Richard Holbert RICHARD HOLBERT

Director - Public Sector

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Partnering for success with DWP FREDA migration, from stalled to success DWP encountered challenges with the stalled migration of the FREDA application from on-premises to AWS, initially handled by another supplier.

The application also required modernisation to improve its performance, reliability, and scalability. DWP engaged Version 1 to

Our primary goal was to reduce your total cost of ownership, improve uptime, enhance recoverability, and introduce modern development and deployment practices.

We designed a robust infrastructure, tailored to your unique requirements.

It leveraged the following AWS services:

take over both the stalled migration and modernisation.

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Multi-Availability Zone Services

AutoScaling Groups

Application Load Balancer

Network Load Balancer

VPC Endpoints

AWS Directory Services

The team have been excellent working in an uncertain, complex and changing project – as we discover the user needs and what can be solved.

Damien Corbishley, DWP

The migration was performed seamlessly, ensuring minimal disruption to your end users. The solution included redesigning release pipelines with GitLab, implementing a highly available architecture, and adopting a robust and scalable 3-tier datacentre.

We also provided comprehensive training to DWP staff on using CI/CD pipelines, ensuring best practices through the AWS Partnership and the AWS Migration Acceleration Program (MAP).

The project delivered a 10% reduction in the total cost of ownership, improved uptime with 99.9% availability, and enhanced RTO and RPO to within a 2-hour window.

Moreover, the migration fostered a cultural shift towards embracing cloud-first principles and continuous learning, providing significant long-term benefits to DWP. By partnering with Version 1, DWP overcame the challenges of the stalled migration and positioned itself for future success with a modern, scalable, and reliable infrastructure.

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Mastering cloud costs: FinOps tagging DWP recently completed a large-scale migration to AWS, primarily using ‘Rehosting’ and ‘Replatforming’ due to tight deadlines. Post-migration, the focus shifted to managing the AWS estate, as cloud costs were rising significantly, estimated between £1.2 – £1.4 million per month.

cloud costs across business units, teams, and applications, increasing accountability and cost awareness. The FinOps team could also identify and terminate noncompliant resources more easily, significantly decreasing cloud costs and improving visibility, accountability, and traceability.

To address this, we were tasked with improving tag compliance across your AWS estate without disrupting existing production services. We developed a unified retrospective tagging approach to maximise compliance with minimal operational disruption.

Our team rapidly prototyped and iterated a solution, conducting limited manual rollouts in controlled environments. This powerful retrospective tag compliance solution empowered developers to fix tag compliance for their products consistently and without impacting production environments. The solution was integrated into the client’s GitLab compliance framework, ensuring compliance across approximately 10,000 repositories.

The solution led to increased tag compliance, providing your FinOps team with comprehensive data for true insight into cloud costs. This allowed for better categorisation and comparison of

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Decreased cloud costs, improved visibility, accountability and traceability

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Our Public Sector expertise National Highways

Companies House

National Highways teamed up with Version 1

As the chosen digital transformation partner

to drive their digital transformation journey.

for Companies House, we propel their digital

This collaboration delivers sustainable

transformation through a landmark initiative,

transformation and boosts public safety

unlocking significant value through expertise

and road user experience by modernising

in modernisation and automation.

infrastructure and enhancing traffic flow,

while effectively managing risks.

making England’s roads safer and more efficient.

Discover more in the video:

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Cafcass Cafcass collaborated with Version 1 to seamlessly migrate its case management system to the cloud, delivering sustainable digital transformation and maintenance with

70%

reduction in release times for faster software iterations

an ongoing managed service by Version 1. This initiative unlocked considerable operational efficiencies and financial savings of approximately 40%, ensuring system availability and compliance with legislative deadlines. By reallocating budget to frontline services, Cafcass can now focus on its core mission.

80%

reduction in manual test effort

Large UK Government Department A major UK government department partnered with Version 1 to migrate over 40 Oracle databases to the cloud, achieving substantial cost savings and operational efficiencies. Provisioning time was reduced by approximately 99.5% and post-deployment checks were reduced to 1/12 of the original time.

This strategic initiative ensured robust data security, providing a resilient and secure cloud solution that unlocked substantial value while effectively managing risks.

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Version 1 at a glance UK and Ireland Dublin Belfast Cork London

USA New York

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Edinburgh Newcastle Birmingham

Europe

India

Malaga, Spain Ljubljana, Slovenia

Bangalore Pune

28 years of experience

3400+ people

13 global locations

6 strategic technology partners

Australia Sydney

12 years as a great place to work

98% customer retention rate

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Recognition Global leaders in Generative AI as ranked by ISG Leaders in AWS Professional Services, AWS Managed Services, and AWS Data Analytics, AI and ML as ranked by ISG Named Finalist in 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award – Inclusion Changemaker Named Global Microsoft Modernising Applications Partner of the Year Award 2023 Named AWS Collaboration Partner of the Year – EMEA 2023 Named Microsoft Ireland Partner of the Year 2023 Winner – Social Impact Named Innovation Partner of the Year Winner - 2023 Oracle EMEA Partner Awards Named AWS Migration Partner of the Year – EMEA 2022

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Version 1 capabilities Cloud Transformation

Application Modernisation and Integration

Data x AI

Adopting, optimising and

Accelerating the

Becoming an intelligent,

leveraging Cloud to unlock

modernisation of

data driven organisation

new or enhanced business

applications embracing

needs quality data x AI to

value and innovation.

sustainable engineering and

make better decisions and

AI-assisted development.

processes.

Legacy systems

Data strategy and

modernisation

architecture

Continuous modernisation

Data engineering

Next Gen Apps

Data analytics and

Industry specific cloud Readiness and enablement Migration and transformation Operate and optimise

visualisation Integrated Apps

Specialist services

Data modernisation Portfolio modernisation Data governance AI co-creation services

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Experience Design and Development

Enterprise Applications

ASPIRE Managed Services

Designing, shaping and

Optimising the core of your

building products and

business with deep functional

Reduce time, cost and

solutions that deliver

and technical expertise in

fantastic people and

Finance, People, Customer

societal experiences.

and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM).

risk by leveraging our VLA approach to run and optimise traditional and Cloud services to improve business agility and accelerate innovation.

Digital strategy and

Reshaping finance

innovation

for the future

Product management and

Elevating HR and

roadmaps

people operations

Behavioural research, analysis

Enhancing supply chain

and journey mapping

management

Creative design and

Amplifying customer

UX services

touchpoints

managed service

Product development and AI

Realising value with

accelerated engineering

Data insights and AI

Application management

Envisioning and innovation workshops

Cloud management and optimisation Oracle app management and optimisation Database and infrastructure management EBS and JDE

and optimisation Digital workspace and service management

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At Version 1, we don’t just deliver transformation; we empower you to define the future. Our comprehensive range of services ensures that we can meet the diverse needs of our clients across various sectors.

Cloud and data migration Version 1 has a proven track record in cloud and data migration. Our approach is designed to reduce cost, risk, and time to deploy, ensuring a smooth transition to the cloud.

We have successfully migrated complex application estates, such as the Legal Aid systems and secure policing systems, to AWS and Azure.

Artificial intelligence (AI) Our dedicated AI Labs & Innovation team is at the forefront of leveraging cuttingedge technologies such as generative AI, computer vision, and conversational AI. We help businesses implement AI-related technologies, develop enterprise-ready productivity apps, and drive business success through AI innovation.

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Range of areas and capabilities

Application modernisation and integration

Data x AI

Could transformation

Enterprise applications

Evolve - Business transformation framework

ASPIRE managed services

Experience design & development

Sectors we serve Financial services Transport Energy & utilities

Public sector Manufacturing Healthcare & life sciences 17

For more information, please visit: Delivering for the Public Sector

Or email: richard.holbert@version1.com

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