Innovation as a Service
Devsultants can help you accelerate innovation within your organisation. Our team have experience in every aspect from generating and developing ideas, through to rapid prototyping, developing business cases in line with HMT guidance, and agile development and business change methodologies to make your ideas a reality.
Service Features
- Setting up and running an innovation facility
- Working with cloud, hosted, and hybrid capabilities
- Efficient, agile ways of working
- Accelerated innovation and research process
- Idea exploration and evaluation
- Rapid prototyping support
- Business case development
- Agile, iterative development methodologies
- Communication and presentation of mature ideas
Service Benefits
- Customer centric approach focused on outcomes, helping you work better
- Independent team with no affiliations to specific technology vendors
- Quickly showcase the user experience to stakeholders
- Early user engagement and buy-in, reducing future impacts
- Develop what you need, quicker to maximise through-life benefits
- Continuously improve, iterate, adding additional benefits over time
- DV and SC resources, so fewer delays waiting for clearances
Credentials
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UK Government Client
Our team rapidly developed a user interface with sample data for senior stakeholder demonstrations of new capabilities to support the introduction of new legislation. The ability to show in real terms what the legislation would provide to end users helped create a shared understanding of the value it would create, ultimately leading to the beneficial legislation being introduced.
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Secure Government Client
The team helped the client to set up and scale a new innovation facility to research and trial new concepts before passing the learnings, and prototype designs and outputs to a delivery function for national rollout. Having only limited funding initially, the innovation facility was built up using minimal infrastructure, and open source technologies, but was able to demonstrate such value that additional funding was provided to scale the facility and take on new projects. This facility is still running today, with full technology stack integration, and a rainbow team on site to build and trial new capabilities for a range of partner organisations. This facility has enabled partners to save millions in costs by de-risking delivery and identifying the optimal solutions which users can actually try before major rollouts.
Data Enrichment Service
Devsultants can help you unlock the full potential of your data by normalising and enriching it with additional information from various sources. Our data enrichment service can enhance the quality and usability of your data, helping you transform your raw data into valuable insights. Whether you have structured, semi-structured, or unstructured data, we can enrich it with additional information, context, and features that enhance its quality, value, and make it more valuable for your business objectives and decision making.
Service Features
- Data cleansing and validation
- Data integration and transformation
- Data augmentation and annotation
- Bespoke reference data enrichment
- Merging data from multiple sources
- Audio transcription and translation
- Unstructured data extraction
- Semantic search
- Efficient, agile ways of working
Service Benefits
- Customer centric approach focused on organisational outcomes
- Discover new patterns, trends, and opportunities from your data
- Make your data more accessible, understandable, and actionable
- Facilitate your data-driven decision making and problem solving
- Leverage our expertise and experience in data science and engineering
- Independent team with no affiliations to specific technology vendors
- Able to build solutions on or offsite to expedite process
- DV and SC resources, so fewer delays waiting for clearances
Credentials
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UK Government Client
Devsultants created and deployed a range of bespoke containerised API-driven enrichment services alongside an orchestration framework, enabling data to be augmented prior to ingest into a data analysis platform, significantly improving the speed of analysis for the client teams, and leading to improved organisational outcomes.
Operational Efficiency Optimisation
Devsultants can help your organisation become more efficient through the effective use of technology. We can support you in everything from baselining current cloud and hosted services, and comparing against industry benchmarks, through to identification and analysis of savings opportunities, and even delivering the initiatives required to realise those savings.
Service Features
- Development of technology cost baseline
- Benchmarking against industry and sector
- Focused service and technology review
- Targeted analysis of cost and benefit
- Team workshops and interviews to gather requisite detail
- Identification of opportunities for increased efficiency
- Opportunity presentation and communication support
- Advisory support in supplier interactions
Service Benefits
- Quickly identify areas of overspend compared to similar organisations
- Apply lean and six sigma principles to become more efficient
- Detailed, evidence-based assessments of current services
- Apply latest knowledge to fully utilise cloud technologies
- Portfolio of opportunities which can be delivered to realise savings
- DV and SC resources available, reducing project lead times
Credentials
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National Policing Client
Members of the Devsultants team provided support to a national policing organisation to help them reduce ongoing operational costs, freeing up funds to develop new capabilities to help reduce crime and save lives. Our team quickly integrated with the organisation’s own resources and within a short period of time were able to baseline costs and conduct benchmark comparisons against other similar organisations - in both the public and private sector. This identified large category areas of overspend which could then be examined and optimised, with the result being millions of pounds of savings identified with no reduction in existing capabilities. In taking on this work, our team also up-skilled the organisation’s own team so that they could continuously monitor and improve the operational services for lasting benefit. This function is still running today, and members of that team have subsequently seen accelerated career progression by using the skills gained during that work. Client CIO: “The team demonstrated superb intellect and brought a much needed analytical approach to the work.”
Technology Business Case Development
Devsultants can help you develop compliant business cases to secure approvals for major technology transformation programmes. We have extensive experience creating financial models and benefits cases; and with our knowledge of commercials and technical project management, you can minimise time spent writing, and maximise your project delivery and benefits realisation.
Service Features
- Development of technology business cases
- Development of cost models, including financial treatments and optimism bias
- Alignment with HMT guidelines
- High level plan creation, with indicative timeframes
- Development of initial backlog or work breakdown structure
- Options and recommendations for strategic, outline, and full business cases
- Support with strategic business alignment
Service Benefits
- Minimise time spent developing successful business cases to secure funding
- Maximise time spent on delivery and realisation of benefits
- Independent team with no affiliations to specific technology vendors
- Early engagement to ensure full stakeholder support
- Experienced professionals who can help guide your team
- DV and SC resources available, reducing project lead times
Credentials
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Central Government Client
Our team worked with the client to develop a business case for a major transformation of one of its organisations. Having engaged with stakeholders and drawn on the information available, the team were able to quickly produce an Outline Business Case to secure funding for the necessary work. Having secured the funding, our team also set up the PMO functions to allow the delivery team to hit the ground running and ultimately complete the transformation successfully.
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Central Government Client
Our team provided tailored support to the development of the financial case for a complex multi-billion pound programme of work. Having designed and built a new tool to capture the relevant detail, our team engaged with the client teams to identify and set out spending profiles over the period - helping them to prioritise and map dependencies, and also to identify and mitigate optimism bias. The work on this financial case was crucial for the development of the overall business case, and led to the client successfully securing the required funding for the programme.
Cloud Strategy and Architecture
Devsultants can help you create a strategy and architecture for a successful cloud solution that meets the needs of your organisation. In determining the strategy and architecture for you we will consider both industry best practice, and also what will work for your organisation, to maximise the benefits for you.
Service Features
- Development of technology business cases
- Development of cost models, including financial treatments and optimism bias
- Alignment with HMT guidelines
- High level plan creation, with indicative timeframes
- Development of initial backlog or work breakdown structure
- Options and recommendations for strategic, outline, and full business cases
- Support with strategic business alignment
Service Benefits
- Minimise time spent developing successful business cases to secure funding
- Maximise time spent on delivery and realisation of benefits
- Independent team with no affiliations to specific technology vendors
- Early engagement to ensure full stakeholder support
- Experienced professionals who can help guide your team
- DV and SC resources available, reducing project lead times
Credentials
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Central Government Client
Our team worked with the client to develop a business case for a major transformation of one of its organisations. Having engaged with stakeholders and drawn on the information available, the team were able to quickly produce an Outline Business Case to secure funding for the necessary work. Having secured the funding, our team also set up the PMO functions to allow the delivery team to hit the ground running and ultimately complete the transformation successfully.
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Central Government Client
Our team provided tailored support to the development of the financial case for a complex multi-billion pound programme of work. Having designed and built a new tool to capture the relevant detail, our team engaged with the client teams to identify and set out spending profiles over the period - "helping them to prioritise and map dependencies, and also to identify and mitigate optimism bias. The work on this financial case was crucial for the development of the overall business case, and led to the client successfully securing the required funding for the programme. Client Senior Leader: "“The main advisor to the finance team, in a challenging and frequently difficult environment, kept focus and delivered to plan with high quality.”
Data Analysis Service
Devsultants can help you analyse your big data sets rapidly to generate valuable business intelligence and secure operational outcomes. Our team can provide a range of support, from strategic level advice, through to conducting bespoke data analysis, and developing custom ETL pipelines and data workflows (all on or off-site).
Service Features
- Bespoke data analysis
- Turn business questions into data queries
- Custom data workflow design and development
- Efficient, agile ways of working
- On / off-site using 3rd party or hosted capabilities
- Containerised solutions
- Familiar with a range of analysis tools
- Communication and presentation of outputs
- Support and training provided to organisational teams
Service Benefits
- Customer centric approach focused on organisational outcomes
- Get the answers you need from your data, quicker
- Independent team with no affiliations to specific technology vendors
- Able to build solutions on or offsite to expedite process
- Showcase analysis and intelligence outputs to organisational stakeholders
- Continuously improve, and iterate, adding additional benefits over time
- DV and SC resources, so fewer delays waiting for clearances
Credentials
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UK Government Client
Working as part of a rainbow team with other suppliers, Devsultants helped the client develop a functional specification for a new data set, and subsequently supported the team in the design and creation a data pipeline for that new data. This also involved quickly assessing outputs using tools including Pandas and Modin to generate lessons learned for the development of longer term solutions.
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UK Government Client
Devsultants helped an operational team getting started with the use of Elastic and Kibana to analyse data; building bespoke visualisations and dashboards, and providing on-site support with data analysis and turning business questions into viable data queries and answers which could then be presented to senior stakeholders.
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UK Government Client
Prior to the start of a data warehouse project, the Devsultants team supported the client in data sizing and investigation of available technologies which could be used to best meet the storage and access requirements. Subsequent work involved estimations of throughlife data growth, and whole life costings to enable the development of a suitable business case for the new capability.