Intranet queries

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Dear Horsham District 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

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Regulations (EIR) 2004 / Data Protection Act (DPA) 2018

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Yours sincerely,

Information Governance Team

Joe.Parker, Horsham District Council

Dear Ms Tsonou

 

Freedom of Information Act 2000 Response

 

As you know we have dealt with your request in accordance with ‘your right
to know’ under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA),
which entitles you to be provided with a copy of any information ‘held’ by
a public authority, unless an appropriate exemption applies.

 

In your email of 23^rd July 2018 you asked:

 

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?

 

Please find answers to your enquiry below

 

1) We have 462 employees working in the council.

2) Our annual IT budget for this year (2018) is £1,330,582.00

3) Our intranet budget is included in our main budget for website
hosting. 

4) Our current intranet solution is CMS Squiz which has been used since
2014.  

5) We do have some WordPress sites but not on our intranet.

6) The communications team is responsible for managing are intranet.

7) The communications and technology services team are responsible for the
procurement of our intranet.

8) Andrea Curson Head of technology services is responsible for managing
the IT team.

9) The SaaS applications that we use are Adelante, Office 365, PSS, Si
Dem, Jigsaw, Inovem, Squiz and Booking Live.

10) Our main software vendors are Unify enterprise and Phoenix software
(by revenue).

11) We use Office365 and Azure.

12) We do not have a digital workplace strategy.

 

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Kind Regards

 

 

Joe Parker
First Line Support Operator 
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1RL
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Chief Executive: Glen Chipp

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