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Dear Ashford Borough 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

FOI Requests, Ashford Borough Council

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Our Ref:FOI-6267 Date:9 July 2018 Dear Joanna Tsonou Thank you for your
email of 29 June 2018 asking various questions about the councils IT
Solutions. The information you requested is enclosed. 1) How many
employees are working in the council ? ~400 2) What is your annual IT
budget ? Budgets controlled / attributed directly by IT total
approximately £1,753,000.00 3) What is your annual Intranet budget ? No
formal budget set for this. 4) What is your current Intranet solution and
how long has it been in use ? In-house developed and supported using the
Joomla CMS. 5) Do you use Open Source applications, such as Drupal or
Wordpress? Yes(see above). 6) Who is responsible for managing your
Intranet ? Mr Adam Bagnall 7) Who is responsible for the procurement of
your Intranet ? No one is formally identified for this role currently. 8)
Who is responsible for managing your IT Team ? Mr Robin Jones 9) Do you
use any other SaaS (Software as a service) applications ? Yes 10) Who are
your main software vendors ? Phoenix (Microsoft Enterprise Agreement), NPS
Ltd (Revs&Bens; and Env Services) , Orchard Systems (Housing), Idox (DMS
&; Planning), Advanced (Efinancials) 11) Do you use Azure / Amazon Web
Services or Office365 ? Yes 12) Do you have a digital workplace strategy?
Yes Yours sincerely Tom Swain Corporate Policy Economic Development and
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