Intranet queries

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Miller Yuraszek1
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Dear Architects Registration Board,

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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Architects Registration Board

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Simon Howard, Architects Registration Board

Dear Miller Yurasek

 

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act 200, which we received on 3 December 2019. The information
is embedded below your individual requests.

 

 

1) How many employees are working for your organisation, including
full-time, part-time, and contracted staff?

Variable, but approximately 40

 

2) What is your annual intranet budget?

ARB does not have an intranet budget but spends approximately £3,400 on
operational supports costs for its intranet

 

3) What is your current intranet solution? (e.g. Invotra, Sharepoint,
Kahootz, Umbraco) 

ARB uses a bespoke intranet solution

 

4) How long have you been using this solution, and when does your contract
expire? 

Since circa. 2006; the support contract is a rolling contract with no
fixed end date

 

5) Do you work with an external partner to supply your intranet? Yes

If not, do you develop your intranet internally? n/a

 

 

6) Which team/individual is responsible for managing your intranet
internally?

Emma Matthews, Head of Qualifications

 

7) Which other organisations have access to your intranet?  

None

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?

Emma Matthews, Head of Qualifications

 

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 Premises

 

12) Do you use any other Software as a Service (SaaS) applications? (e.g.
Atlassian/Jira, Slack, Trello, Xero)   

Yes

 

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Simon Howard

Head of Professional Standards

Architects Registration Board

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