Logica helps The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) increase efficiency
“The project was a great success. It delivered and surpassed its objectives”. Katy Shrimplin Deputy Director Legal: Prosecutions South
About the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS )
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) supports sustained growth and higher skills across the UK economy. It does everything possible to drive growth - from investing in skills to making markets more dynamic and reducing regulation, and from promoting trade to boosting innovation and helping people start and grow a business.
The challenge
The business had changed since the first Hermes system was implemented and the Directorate was faced with a system that was aging, inflexible and expensive to adapt to support the evolving business requirements. The original Hermes system was also developed by Logica, going live in 2003. It was a Windows based application, hosted from the Logica Bridgend data centre and supported by the Logica Applications Management Service in Stevenage. By 2009, BIS felt the need for a different system that would not only match their current requirements but also provide business efficiencies and provide flexibility for the future.
Our answer
At the core of the project was a redevelopment of the Hermes I system in today’s technology, bearing in mind future technology. We also changed and developed new functionality within the system that matched a changing business environment. We achieved BIS’ aim of delivering a new management information module that provided their management with better control of the business. BIS realised the need for new and high performing infrastructure; something we delivered for them, adding resilience and improved security to the mix.
A success story
Hermes II is a faster, more intuitive, up to date, future proof system than the users had before. It allows more control over business process, provides higher levels of automation and better management information. The users of the system required very little training and the implementation process from the beginning to end was very straightforward, with no disruption to business activities.
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