Projects
Charing Cross Housing Association – Migrating On-Premise to the Cloud
Charing Cross Housing Association engaged Bridgeall to help them modernise their on-premise IT infrastructure. Bridgeall helped migrate key applications to the cloud and make a raft of security improvements across their IT infrastructure to better support hybrid working employees.
Link Group – Enhanced Productivity with O365
One of the largest social landlords in Scotland, Link Group is a group of award-winning social enterprise companies serving over 15,000 customers.
In order to take advantage of the full potential of the O365 portfolio of services Link made the decision to migrate from Google G-Suite.
Bridgeall were appointed to help Link Housing Group move from the Google G-Suite cloud solution and onto the Office 365 platform. This involved the migration of all mailboxes, user and team data stores.Bridgeall established a migration farm hosted in Azure for the duration of the project where data was initially transferred and converted from Google to Microsoft format. All mailboxes for users and shared resources containing email, calendars and contacts were migrated in O365 exchange online. It was completed as a cutover migration for the entire organisation with around 800 users going live across a single weekend.
REMT – Enabling Remote Working Supported by Azure Virtual Desktop
With the rapid move to home working required as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic the organisation need a solution that would allow staff to access key business systems and continue to operate on a business as usual basis.
A Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) solution was delivered to the REMT management & sales teams to facilitate remote working during the Covid-19 pandemic. AVD delivered a low risk, predictable and rapid desktop migration enabling a BYOD strategy and use of cost-efficient staff devices.
Cumbria County Council – SharePoint Document Management for the Public Sector
Cumbria County Council, headquartered in Carlisle, employs over 10,000 staff and delivers a range of strategic services to the people of the county.
The Council wished to take advantage of a move to new premises by digitising physical mail they received. By ascertaining which departments received the most mail, the metrics would enable the Council to help digitise public services, resulting in more efficient and cost effective range delivery.
Bridgeall utilised the Council’s existing on-premise SharePoint 2013 Enterprise Farm to deliver a digital delivery document management solution which combined out-of-the-box SharePoint components with custom development covering the more complex requirements.
Age Scotland – Power Platform Quickstart Case Study
Age Scotland, a leading charity, identified Microsoft’s Power Platform as a technology solution that they wanted to roll out across the business. The team were looking for support on the best way to do this and engaged Bridgeall. To help with this process, we delivered our Power Apps and Power Automate Quickstart package to help develop a framework for success and get the team delivering solutions.
SIA – M365 Migration & Adoption for the Security Industry Authority
Bridgeall worked in partnership with SIA to migrate them to Microsoft 365. Bridgeall migrated all services to Microsoft 365 with minimum disruption to SIA.
Forest Research – A Modern Intranet Supporting Sustainable Forestry
Forest Research is the UK’s principal organisation for forestry and tree-related research, internationally renowned for the provision of evidence and scientific services in support of sustainable forestry. The organisation had an urgent requirement for a new Intranet to support its digital transformation journey.
Bridgeall successfully engaged with the internal Forest Research management team to deliver a Modern SharePoint Intranet including design, build, CMS, collaborative spaces, document management, governance, migration plan and post-launch support.
Bridgeall has subsequently provided governance and guidance around Office 365, Teams and SharePoint usage within the organisation.
Link Group – A Power Apps Health & Safety Risk Assessment Solution
One of the largest social landlords in Scotland, Link Group is a group of award-winning social enterprise companies serving over 15,000 customers.
As part of an on-going relationship with Link, supporting the Group on its journey to becoming a Modern Intelligent Workplace, Bridgeall delivered a new Risk Assessment solution using Power Apps. The new solution delivered cost and productivity improvements by streamlining the process of raising actions, reviewing and approving Risk assessments before they are finally published for use.
Consequently, Risk Assessments are now worked through to an approved state producing a final Risk Assessment document for organisation-wide use.
Castle Water – Water Supplier Billing Solution for High-Value Customers
Castle Water is the leading independent water supplier to businesses and organisations across the UK. In common with all suppliers, their customers with trade effluent (TE) are, proportionately, their highest value customers. Trade effluent billing is complex and unnoticed data issues cause substantial revenue loss. Castle had a clear and obvious need for a highly accurate billing solution.
Building from our experience of developing market settlement solutions for the English and Scottish markets we designed our trevi Billing solution and implemented and manage for Castle Water in Microsoft Azure using SQL Azure and .NET. The solution bills all services for TE customers, automatically generates adjusted bills and includes consolidated (group) billing. It is the most accurate and re-active TE billing solution available and bills every penny on-time.
Castle Water is recognised as a market leader in trade effluent billing and in making the process simple for their customers.
Natural Power – A Bat Smart Curtailment System (BSCS)
NP, a leading independent renewable energy consultancy operating globally, required a system for the curtailment of wind turbines when a high risk of bat fatality is present on windfarms. In the US, the current blanket curtailment approach in response to high wind speed minimises bat fatalities (an endangered mammal) but at a significant economic cost to operators even when there are no bats in the area. Estimates suggest that 25% to 75% of curtailment hours may be unnecessary.
Working closely with NP and Elekon AG (a Swiss-based supplier of Batlogger equipment for recording and analysing the location of bats), Bridgeall custom developed the software underpinning a Bat Smart Curtailment System to minimise these economic costs. The system removes the need for blanket curtailment by monitoring bat activity in real-time, curtailing turbines only when relative risk value has reached a certain level.
NHS GGC – Effective Project Management for NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
The NHS GGC were looking for a PMO solution to help them manage 100s of projects. Utilising SharePoint Online and Power BI, Microsoft’s data visualisation platform, the Bridgeall solution delivered a cost-effective way of standardising processes and documentation to support all stages of the project management lifecycle, reducing the need for less efficient processes.
REMT – Comprehensive Email Security for the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
Bridgell implemented an email security solution to provide the business with effective cyber resilience capabilities.The solution increases REMT’s cyber resilience capabilities thereby preventing potential ransomware incidents, eliminating the impact of email outages, preventing data loss and protecting against malicious web activity all supported by staff cyber security awareness training.
Heineken – Streamlining Business Processes
Following a strategic decision to re-develop and standardise on Microsoft technologies, Bridgeall was selected from a competitive tender as one of Heineken UK’s SharePoint .NET and core ASP.NET preferred development partners based on our deep .NET experience, SharePoint know-how, agile development approach and rigorous software engineering discipline.
With the aim of delivering immediate improvements in business processes, the first project was to transition an Out of Hours Support Manager application from a variety of disparate departmental solutions, both Lotus Notes applications and spreadsheets, into a single application that streamlined the process for the business. This initial application would lay much of the framework for standardising subsequent applications. To ensure seamless integration, Bridgeall took a wider and longer-term view, developing a set of re-usable components and design elements that could be easily incorporated across the full programme.
Link and Weslo Housing Management – Office 365 Tenant Migration
Link Group, one of Bridgeall’s long standing customers, were selected by Welso Housing Management to be the preferred partner for the transfer of all homes and services. This meant that Link Group had two separate IT infrastructures that they were looking to merge to support greater collaboration and integration of the new business. Bridgeall were invited to work with Link and Weslo IT teams to assist the transition and Office 365 tenant migration works to complete the Weslo technical integration.
Ofsted – Securing Devices with Azure Virtual Desktop
With an increasing number of remote staff, Ofsted wanted
WICS – Migration of Email and Shared Drive Content to the Cloud
Bridgeall implemented Office 365 for email and and migrate all file content from the on-premise shared drives into SharePoint Online in a structured manner. Consequently all versions of Office applications were upgraded and compliance ensured with Microsoft licensing.