Legacy IT is not a ‘flashy’ topic, but the reality is that it will be your existing systems that your officers and support staff rely on every day. Wholesale moving away from existing systems can be onerously disruptive and expensive. We can offer services to audit and review your existing IT systems, ensuring they are performant and secure for the future. For example:

• helping to identify the root cause of a performance issue
• analysing database queries to help optimise performance
• assessing current licence costs and alternatives

Planning Ahead

Ensuring that your systems will continue to work in the future – with perhaps increased data volumes, users and network traffic – is a key part of managing business continuity. We can offer a review of existing systems to help you understand their eventual limits, so you can plan ahead to avoid future problems. All solutions have a theoretical ‘ceiling’ which, if exceeded, can produce a compounding degradation in performance.

Security Audit

IT security is always a concern for police organisations, ensuring the right data is available to those who need it and restricted from those who are not authorised. So it is critical to ensure that your database and applications do not exhibit security weaknesses. We can audit these and provide you with a detailed report with recommendations for where you can tighten up security, including identifying potential impact points and giving you an idea of costs.

Key Features

• Assessment of AI adoption – including integration with major cloud providers (e.g. Microsoft’s Fabric, CoPilot and Power BI)
• Assessment of security – of applications, services and databases…
• Assessment of performance – and potential root cause issues…
• Assessment of infrastructure – server, operating systems, cloud providers vs ‘on prem’…
• Assessment of licence costs…

Wherever you are on your IT journey, we offer an objective view of your choices, irrespective of whether or not you choose us as an IT supplier.