Informed Solutions is very pleased to announce that the Department for Communities and Local Government’s pivotal Geography Publishing Service (GPS) has been launched in the Cloud.
With Cloud computing cited by the new Government ICT strategy as a key means by which some £3.2bn of savings will be achieved, the new GPS represents one of the first successful launches of a key government service within the Cloud.
In line with the “more for less” agenda, the migration of the GPS by Informed Solutions to a fully managed, Cloud-hosted service is expected to realise savings in the region of 40% in the first year alone for DCLG.
Phil Francis, Informed Solutions’ Lead Consultant for the GPS, said: “We are always looking for new ways to innovate and deliver efficiencies to our clients. Our expert groups have invested a lot of effort into designing Cloud-based hosting services which are agile, secure, resilient, highly responsive, and deliver significant cost savings compared to traditional hosting models. We are delighted that we have had the opportunity to demonstrate our effectiveness and capability in shaping and implementing a highly successful Cloud based service for the GPS at DCLG.”
The GPS delivers mapping and gazetteer functionality to a range of web-based applications, including the award-winning Places solution and the business critical, national Fire Incident Recording System. The service integrates leading-edge open source components alongside ESRI GIS technology on the Amazon Web Services Cloud computing platform and delivers a cost effective and optimised, yet highly flexible and scalable service architecture. It is also a consumer of the OS OnDemand data service, which delivers background contextual mapping for the GPS platform; providing comprehensive and up-to-date data whilst eliminating the burden of managing and maintaining large on-site data stores.
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