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Harnessing the Power of the Cloud
With the funding challenges facing the charity sector,
cloud computing appears to offer the benefits of
improved service delivery and increased business
agility with lower costs. So why is uptake so slow,
where are the pitfalls and what are the critical success
factors when undertaking a journey to the cloud?
Ivan Harris, Business Manager – Cloud Services
25th March 2014

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Eduserv Introduction
• IT Solutions Provider to the public and third
sectors
• We’re a not-for-profit organisation and a
registered charity
• Shared services provider to HE since 1988
• Spun out of the University of Bath 15-years ago
• Initially served the education sector exclusively
• First government customer 20-years ago
• First charity customer 10-years ago
• Our focus is on large organisations where we
build long term trusted relationships

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Charity Sector Challenges
Front
Line
Services
Funding
Security
Fragmentation
/ Consolidation
Volunteer
Churn
BYOD
New Revenue
Streams

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Cloud Benefits
• Convert Capex to Opex
• Only pay for what you useFinance
• On-demand
• Collaboration & innovationOperations
• ISO 27001, IL0/IL2/IL3 accreditation
• CSP economies of scaleSecurity
• Any device/anytime/anywhere
• Elastic capacityServices

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So why haven’t we all gone
Cloudy?
Inertia Lack of cloud technology knowledge?
No belief in cloud benefits?
Failed pilot projects?
Not suitable for complex requirements?
Job preservation?
No bandwidth?
It’s easier to not change!

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Critical Success Factors
Success Have a transformation plan
Treat as a business driver, not an IT project
Have clear alignment to business priorities
Prioritise according to ROI
Don’t forget change management!
Not all systems are ready for the cloud
Like any journey, it’s not all plain sailing!

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Public Sector and the Cloud
• G-Cloud procurement framework and
CloudStore marketplace
• Vetted organisations and services
• IaaS, PaaS, SaaS and Specialist Cloud
Services categories
• 50% of new government IT spending to move
to cloud computing services by 2015
• 25% of spend with SMEs
• Cloud first, Agile project management, lean
procurement
• Pre-accredited services (IL2 & IL3)
• Some charities can procure off the
framework:
http://gps.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/sites/default/files/attachments/
2013-04-15%20Customer%20URN%20List.xlsx

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Thank You!
Ivan Harris
Business Manager – Cloud Services
Email: ivan.harris@eduserv.org.uk
Phone: 01225 474311