Intranet queries
Dear British Tourist Authority (VisitBritain),
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to make a request for all the information to which I am entitled under Freedom of Information Act 2000. My requests are outlined below as specifically as possible to help you retrieve the information required. However, if any of the below is unclear, I would appreciate if you could contact me as I understand that under the act, you are required to assist requesters.
Please could you provide the following information:
1) How many employees are working for your organisation, including full-time, part-time, and contracted staff?
2) What is your annual intranet budget?
3) What is your current intranet solution? (e.g. Invotra, Sharepoint, Kahootz, Umbraco)
4) How long have you been using this solution, and when does your contract expire?
5) Do you work with an external partner to supply your intranet? If not, do you develop your intranet internally?
6) Which team/individual is responsible for managing your intranet internally?
7) Which other organisations have access to your intranet?
8) Do you share IT services with other organisations?
9) Are you using the Office 365 suite? If so, which applications from the suite are in use?
10) Who is responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the organisation?
11) Do you use Microsoft’s Active Directory to manage your people data? If so, is your Active Directory (AD) managed on-premise or in the cloud?
12) Do you use any other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications? (e.g. Atlassian/Jira, Slack, Trello, Xero)
If possible, please could you present the information via a Microsoft Word or Excel document, sent to me via email. I understand that under the act, I should be entitled to a response within 20 days and therefore I would appreciate if you could confirm receipt of my request.
Yours faithfully,
Miller Yuraszek
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Dear Miller Yuraszek
We write in reference to FOI Requests #2303275 and #2303276 both of which
were received from you on 8 November 2019.
Please note that we are the British Tourist Authority t/a
VisitBritain/VisitEngland and our Response to your FOI Requests is a joint
one due to the fact that VisitBritain and VisitEngland share the same
intranet website.
We have provided a full Response to your FOI Requests by listing our
answers next to each numbered question. Kindly scroll down to view the
Response.
We trust this answers your queries.
Yours Sincerely
Information Governance Team
British Tourist Authority t/a
VisitBritain/VisitEngland,151 Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1W 9SZ.
08/11/2019 11:03 - Miller Yuraszek1 wrote:
Dear British Tourist Authority (VisitBritain),
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am writing to make a request for all the information to which I am
entitled
under Freedom of Information Act 2000. My requests are outlined below as
specifically as possible to help you retrieve the information required.
However,
if any of the below is unclear, I would appreciate if you could contact me
as I
understand that under the act, you are required to assist requesters.
Please could you provide the following information:
1) How many employees are working for your organisation, including
full-time,
part-time, and contracted staff? 322.
2) What is your annual intranet budget? No budget, hosted in-house. FOC
at this time.
3) What is your current intranet solution? (e.g. Invotra, Sharepoint,
Kahootz,
Umbraco) WordPress FOC.
4) How long have you been using this solution, and when does your contract
expire?– 18 months and as it is a free solution there is no contract.
5) Do you work with an external partner to supply your intranet? No. If
not, do you
develop your intranet internally? Yes, developed by the IT Dept.
originally and now supported by the Strategy & Communications Dept.
6) Which team/individual is responsible for managing your intranet
internally? The IT Dept. supports the hardware infrastructure, whereas
the content is managed by the Strategy & Communications Dept.
7) Which other organisations have access to your intranet? None, it is an
internal system.
8) Do you share IT services with other organisations? No.
9) Are you using the Office 365 suite? No. If so, which applications from
the suite
are in use? N/A.
10) Who is responsible for your intranet’s procurement within the
organisation? N/A. It is configured, deployed and supported in-house
using open source freeware.
11) Do you use Microsoft’s Active Directory to manage your people data?
Yes. If so, is
your Active Directory (AD) managed on-premise or in the cloud? On
Premise.
12) Do you use any other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications? (e.g.
Atlassian/Jira, Slack, Trello, Xero) No.
If possible, please could you present the information via a Microsoft Word
or
Excel document, sent to me via email. I understand that under the act, I
should be
entitled to a response within 20 days and therefore I would appreciate if
you
could confirm receipt of my request.
Yours faithfully,
Miller Yuraszek
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