BCS GLOBAL NETWORKS LIMITED

Video Interview and Recruitment Management delivered by Pinnaca

Our Recruitment solution is currently utilised by the NHS and enables clients to identify, screen and interview prospective employees from any where in the world, much quicker, more accurately and for less money. Clients using this service experience up to a 50% reduction in their recruitment costs.

Features

  • Online Video & Telephone Interview capability
  • Recording of both Video/Audio feeds & configuration of recordings
  • Marketing Videos can be added to job adverts
  • Upload & storage of Recruitment documents
  • Review & Rating online interviews
  • Booking & Scheduling of Interviews
  • Reporting; User Activity, Management Reports, Full Systems Reports
  • Auto Transcription - Machine Learning based.
  • Built in Workflows and Messaging
  • Highly secure UK Home Office ITHC approved access.

Benefits

  • Video/Telephone interviews Recorded for Assessment, & Compliance
  • Secure Booking & Scheduling negates the need for insecure emails
  • Share recorded interviews with numerous colleagues for added due diligence
  • Auto Transcription saves the need for physical transcribers
  • Video/Telephone interviews save time, removed need for F2F interviews
  • Flabba reduces the cost and time of recruitment by 50%.
  • Flabba prevents wasted F2F interviews.
  • Through Flabba you get to see the candidate before F2Fs

Pricing

£50.00 to £500.00 a licence

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

Framework

G-Cloud 12

Service ID

1 7 5 9 9 1 1 5 3 0 7 1 5 8 7

Contact

BCS GLOBAL NETWORKS LIMITED Andy Peters
Telephone: 07814224649
Email: apeters@pinnaca.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
None
System requirements
  • Minimum broadband 350kb/s download & 350kb/s upload for stable video
  • We recommend opening UDP ports 1025 - 65535.
  • White lists (wildcard) *.flabba.co.uk, *flabbadevelopement.com
  • Enable Proxy Authentication -NTLM Authentication
  • We recommend users Open TCP port 443

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Response times; Urgent;15 minutes,High; 30 minutes, Normal;2 hours, Low; 1 day.This is for normal hours Monday - Friday 0830-1730. Same support is offered outside those houses and at weekends for an additional cost
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 A
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
4 levels of support;URGENT An incident causing an extremely serious impact to the business as a result of the system/service affected and/or the number of people affected by the incident e.g a complete loss of the customer's service or impacted business function is halted completely. HIGH;An incident causing significant impact to the business as a result the system/service affected and/or the number of people affected by the incident e.g a significant loss of customer's service but the impacted business function is not stopped. NORMAL; An incident which affects the customer's service but has a small impact to the business e.g. single user or component affected but the trouble can be circumvented. LOW; Incidents that have a negligible impact to the business, requests or enquiries for information purposes only. We provide a Technical Account Manager and full support team. The pricing is bought in bundles; 20 concurrent licences; £7,000 per month, 40 Licences; £10,000 per month, support for more than 40 licences negotiated separately. Onsite support is charged at an hourly rate of £100 plus expenses. Enterprise support packages can be bought to ensure economies of scale can be applied.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
We provide both onsite training and also digital, hard copy and video training materials.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
All customer data remains the property of the customer.All data will be extracted into Excel/CSV format. Extraction of data maybe subject to an additional fee at our usual day rates.
End-of-contract process
Included in the price is access to the platform for 1 month post contract end, to enable client to copy/extract data to their own end point. Extra costs will be charged if mass data extraction is required. This is charged at our usual day rates

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari 9+
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
Flabba's SaaS is written in HTML5 so it is mobile compatible. All features remain but we recommend Flabba is accessed via Chrome from any mobile device
Service interface
Yes
Description of service interface
Each user has a Flabba Dashboard which is accessed from a web browser. Each User's Dashboard is configured according to their user permissions. Access to the dashboard is through secure user name and password authentication.
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
Our service is accessible through a simple web browser internet connection. There is secure user name and password authentication. All User's dashboards are configured according to their user permissions.
Accessibility testing
None at the time of writing but we are planning on carrying out some testing and implementation of Accessibility features in 2020.
API
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
We are a software development company and can customise all features and business processes and also create new features as required. We have a great track record of doing so and can provide outstanding references from the UK Home Office, for whom we entirely customised a service. Users can also customise;Drop Down Fields on the platform, they can customise auto messaging & email templates, they can also customise marketing videos and also all core operational features

Scaling

Independence of resources
We have a fully scaleable infrastructure set up. We use AWS Elastic Beanstalk EC2 Server Infrastructure. All UK based

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
We have a large reporting feature from which a large array of service usage metrics can be drawn; number of interviews; video telephony; number of auto transcriptions, recruitment metrics.
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Not a reseller

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2012
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
‘IT Health Check’ performed by a CHECK service provider
Protecting data at rest
Physical access control, complying with another standard
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
We have an extensive Reports feature from which users can create and run reports and export them into PDF format.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
PDF
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data import formats
PDF

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Data protection within supplier network
TLS (version 1.2 or above)

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
Flabba is deployed on cloud based high availability Zones with an uptime SLA of 99.99%
Approach to resilience
Our database if provided by AWS and full details are available on request
Outage reporting
Via public dashboards and email alerts

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Username or password
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
At least 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
Qualitas Veritas by CDL Group
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
24th April 2019
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
N/A
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • Cyber Essentials
  • Home Office ITHC - CREST

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
ISO/IEC 27001
Information security policies and processes
We are ISO27001 accredited. All policies are managed and signed off by our Information Security Manager and all new members of staff are given training on our information security policies and how to follow them.We also have regular review and refresh training for members of staff to ensure that policies are understood and followed.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
From a systems and code perspective we utilise AWS Code Pipeline to process all changes to our core platform. Regarding our change management processes we abide by our ISO27001 processes specifically section 12.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Our vulnerability management processes are governed by our ISO27001 processes specifically section 12.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
Our processes around Protective Monitoring are defined through our ISO27001 accreditation with particular reference to section 16
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
Our processes in relation to incident management are set out within our ISO27001 accreditation specifically section 16

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Pricing

Price
£50.00 to £500.00 a licence
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
Full access to the service for 1 month with a restricted number of UserLicences subject to agreement

Service documents