Dear Ms Tsonou

Your request for information ref. SOT71579

Thank you for your request for information about the council's intranet. 
Your request was received by the Information Rights Team on 24 August
2018.  This is being dealt with under the terms of the appropriate
Information Rights legislation.

In some circumstances we may charge for information.  If there is a charge
we will let you know, as you will have to pay it before we deal with your
request.

Some information does not have to be released under this legislation.  We
will check the information you have asked for and send you as much as
possible.  If another person or organisation is named in the information,
we may have to ask their opinion before we decide what we can give you.

You should expect to receive a response to your request on or before 24
September 2018 in line with the legislation's 20 working day statutory
deadline.

For your information we may publish the response to your request on our
City Council's website, which can be found at the following address:
[1]www.stoke.gov.uk.

If you have any queries about this email please do not hesitate to contact
us.

You can find details of how we handle your personal information by
visiting [2]www.stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

Information Rights

Floor 2 Civic Centre Glebe Street

Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1HH

City of Stoke-on-Trent 

t 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

e [3][Stoke on Trent City Council request email]

 
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Dear Ms Tsonou

Your request for information ref. SOT71579 about the council's intranet.

We have now considered your request and a copy of the information is
enclosed below.

The information supplied may be used for domestic or journalistic
purposes.  Its use for commercial gain including issuing to the public,
social media or computer blogs may be subject to the issue of a licence
under the Reuse of Public Sector Information Regulations 2015.

1)     How many employees are working in the council?

Response:

Headcount – 5101

FTE – 4601.63

2)     What is your annual IT budget? 

Response: £5.7m

3)     What is your annual Intranet budget?

Response: Zero

4)     What is your current Intranet solution and how long has it been in
use?

Response: APLAWS content management system. This has been in use since
2006.

5)     Do you use Open Source applications, such as Drupal or Wordpress?

Response: No, although APLAWS is technically open source.

6)     Who is responsible for managing your Intranet?

Response: Karen Steel – Digital Manager

7)     Who is responsible for the procurement of your Intranet?

Response: John Bowler – Strategic Manager ICT

8) Who is responsible for managing your IT Team?

Response: Neil Mason – Assistant Director – ICT, Libraries and Customer
Services

9) Do you use any other SaaS (Software as a service) applications?

Response: Yes

10) Who are your main software vendors?

Response: Jadu

11) Do you use Azure / Amazon Web Services or Office365?

Response: No

12) Do you have a digital workplace strategy?

Response: No

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your
request and wish to make a complaint or request a review of our decision,
you should write to: The Information Rights Manager, Information Rights
Team, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Floor 2, Civic Centre, Glebe Street,
ST4 1HH, or email [1][Stoke on Trent City Council request email].

If, after contacting us, you are not content with the outcome, you may ask
the Information Commissioner for a decision.  Before doing this, please
see the following link for guidance from the Information Commissioner
relating to how to use your information rights responsibly and
effectively, to enable you to gain the best outcome from the process -
[2]http://ico.org.uk/for_the_public.

Generally, the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you
have already used our internal review procedure. The Information
Commissioner can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office,
Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, tel: 0303 123
1113 or you can visit their website at [3]www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx.

You can find details of how we handle your personal information by
visiting [4]www.stoke.gov.uk/dataprotection.

Yours sincerely

Information Rights Team

Information Rights

City of Stoke-on-Trent

Floor 2  Civic Centre  Glebe Street  Stoke-on-Trent  ST4 1HH

T: 01782 232853, 01782 233020, 01782 233732, 01782 235965

E: [5][Stoke on Trent City Council request email]

Request

Dear Stoke on Trent City Council,

Under the freedom of information act 2000, I'm writing to obtain the
following information:

1) How many employees are working in the council?
2) What is your annual IT budget?
3) What is your annual Intranet budget?
4) What is your current Intranet solution and how long has it been in use?
5) Do you use Open Source applications, such as Drupal or Wordpress?
6) Who is responsible for managing your Intranet?
7) Who is responsible for the procurement of your Intranet?
8) Who is responsible for managing your IT Team?
9) Do you use any other SaaS (Software as a service) applications?
10) Who are your main software vendors?
11) Do you use Azure / Amazon Web Services or Office365?
12) Do you have a digital workplace strategy?

Yours faithfully,

Joanna Tsonou

 
There’s so much to see and do across the city this summer. [6]Click
here for more information about what’s on offer .

Keep up-to-date with events in the city, job vacancies, news from the city
council and details about services which can help you by signing up to our
email updates at [7]www.stoke.gov.uk/stayconnected

Save time, go online; pay your council tax, manage your benefits, book a
housing repair and report a pothole at a time and place that’s convenient
for you at www.stoke.gov.uk 

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7. http://www.stoke.gov.uk/stayconnected