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Netcel

Episerver Best Practice

As a full service agency with over 20 years' extensive experience in delivering digital requirements, we develop enterprise-class .NET CMS solutions on the Episerver platform. Using Episerver best practise, we help our clients streamline and enhance their Web and content practices to achieve business goals quickly and efficiently.

Features

  • Digital consultancy to implement best practise
  • An enhanced CMS user experience
  • Desktop, mobile and tablet optimised
  • Powerful personalisation capabilities
  • Advanced security features
  • Workflow enabled with multi-site capabilities
  • Marketing automation integration
  • Digital asset management
  • Cloud-based hosting solutions

Benefits

  • 20 years+ knowledge with highly experienced team
  • Extensive knowledge of Microsoft .NET
  • Improve maintainability for future solution
  • Improve compatibility with upgrade path
  • Fully secure and easy to maintain
  • Both scalable and flexible
  • Performance optimisation
  • Enhanced user experience Inc. personalisation
  • Tried and tested delivery processes
  • Build by a certified team of Episerver developers

Pricing

£693 to £1,232 a person a day

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 11

Service ID

1 9 8 1 1 6 6 3 4 5 2 2 6 4 1

Contact

Netcel Sam Barrow
Telephone: 020 3743 0100
Email: sam.barrow@netcel.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Private cloud
Service constraints
None
System requirements
  • Software licence for relevant CMS platform
  • Multi deployment environments - Deployment, test, staging and production
  • SSL certificate
  • Content delivery network - CDN
  • Web application firewall
  • Anti-virus software
  • High availability infrastructure

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
We offer four priority support levels (P1, P2, P3 & P4). Priority One is assigned to system down or significant-loss-of-business events, with a response time of up to 1 hour and 4-hour fix time. Priority Two issues carry a response time of up to 4 hours and a fix target of 2 business days. Under the standard support agreement, Netcel’s support desk is manned 8am-6pm UK time, Monday-Friday, excluding public holidays. We can potentially offer a 24/7 support service.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Within our two main services – Priority Support & Continuous Improvement – we have 5 different support levels. Priority Support covers Priority One and Two defects defined as; Priority One - Response is up to 1 hour (catastrophic & functional critical); Priority Two - Response is up to 4 hours (functional critical). Priority One or Two levels are dealt with as a matter of urgency based on the SLA response and fix times. Typically, these are deployed as hot fixes due to the nature of the issues, hence the name ‘Priority Support’. Defects that fall outside of Priority Support definitions are delivered via the Continuous Improvement programme, i.e. Priority Three, Four and Maintenance issues. Where there isn’t an immediate need to resolve the issue, greater efficiencies can be leveraged by combining tickets into regular deployment windows (typically monthly) in a Continuous Improvement programme. This is a managed process with the involvement of a BA / PM to identify and review the requirements for the next release. A member of the support triage team is responsible for resolution of each support ticket.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
All users are provided with a range of resources required to ensure they get the most out of the service. This includes:

- Trainings Needs Analysis
- Vendor training
- Train the trainer
- Exercise books
- Bespoke user manual
- Training Videos
- Facilitation days and workshops
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Any solution data held within the hosting service will be made (securely) available at the end of the contract. If transferring to another similar solution configuration the data can be provided in the standard Episerver format of SQL database backups. If transferring to a different solution and the standard SQL database backups will not suffice, any solution data can be extracted and provided in common formats such as CSV or XML as required.
End-of-contract process
The Contract will be effective from the date of the agreement and continues to be in force for a period of twelve months after which the Contract may be terminated by either party at any time by providing one month’s prior written notice.

The supply of Goods and Services and Price are subject to the terms and conditions set out in the Contract Agreement.

A full set of Schedules and Appendices to the Contract Agreement with any documents referred to in them, form an integral part of the Contract and any reference to the Contract means this agreement in writing as may subsequently be agreed between the parties.

The Price detailed in the Contract are exclusive of VAT, which shall be charged to and be payable by the Client pursuant to the relevant invoice for the same.

Any Goods or Services not expressly provided for in the Contract, yet agreed to by the Parties will be documented and be delivered by Netcel hereunder, will be chargeable on a time and materials basis in accordance with the Billing Rates.

Using the service

Web browser interface
No
Application to install
No
Designed for use on mobile devices
Yes
Differences between the mobile and desktop service
None
Service interface
No
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
The Service API is a service layer available for system integrators to update and retrieve information from their CMS, ensuring a seamless integration with external systems such as PIM, DAM and ERP.

The Service API provides a programming interface for performing operations like:
- Import and export of data files;
- Import and export forms data;
- Bulk import and export of media and catalog data in Commerce;
- Bulk asset linking between media and catalog content in Commerce;
- 'RESTful' CRUD operations for managing individual catalogs, nodes, entries, and warehouses in Commerce;
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
The Episerver CMS platform is extremely customisable, from both a frontend and backend perspective. It can be customised by editors, developers and system architects. The various customised elements include:

- Develop custom properties and introduce editor functionality
- Develop custom on page editing
- Quick navigation menu
- Global menu selection
- Add image and logo on the log in page
- Manually render a page or block using .NET
- Create content icons
- Render custom HTML for CMS properties
- Custom icons for specific page types
- Content approval system
- A/B Testing
- Personalisation

Scaling

Independence of resources
Through differing levels of performance, load and stress testing we ensure that the service itself is resilient to high loads. Both the applications we architect and deliver and the infrastructure upon which they reside are built appropriately for the anticipated load and, within reason, and more. Our services are designed to scale appropriately.

The net output of the architecture, implementation and infrastructure we deliver is a service where high traffic will not affect other users of the service.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
Configuration, management and reporting via Google Analytics or in-application dashboards. Gives instant access to analytics and trends within your working website context, allowing you to take immediate actions to improve conversions and optimise traffic.
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Episerver, Sitecore and Kentico

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
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
  • European Economic Area (EEA)
  • EU-US Privacy Shield agreement locations
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Supplier-defined controls
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
Physical access control, complying with another standard
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Clients can export data from their CMS solution directly to ODF, CSV, Excel or alternatively directly to a similar CMS. This is particularly helpful when working across several environments that sit across the same infrastructure. This function is widely used by developers building new functionality in a test or development environment. When work is completed, and the information is ready for the production environment, you can simply use the export features to transfer the data between websites.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • ODF
  • Other
Other data export formats
Excel
Data import formats
  • CSV
  • ODF

Data-in-transit protection

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

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
For a period of 12 months from acceptance, the service will be free of viruses, trojan horses, logic bombs and other deleterious materials except where any such materials have been introduced to the service by the Client or any third party appointed by the Client; and

It shall use all reasonable skill and care in the provision of the Project to the Client, using at all times appropriately qualified and skilled personnel in the delivery thereof; and will not infringe the intellectual Property Rights of any third party.
Approach to resilience
All infrastructure provided to our clients has the option for complete resilience either within a single datacentre, across multiple datacentres in a single region (such as the UK) or across multiple datacentres geographically.

This configuration allows for the worst case loss of an entire physical datacentre with services remaining fully operational.

Methods such as load balancing, mirroring and the more traditional failover are utilised to provide such resilience.
Outage reporting
Outages can be reported via different channels subject to the specific requirements either in real-time or delayed until the next working business day.

Our services can provide access for service outages to a private, client specific, dashboard. Email alerts can also be provided alongside a more personal phone call should a service outage occur.

We are also able to hook in to different channels such as API alerts should these be required.

Outages for maintenance include: Emergency maintenance - we aim to notify you of this outage as soon as practicably possible. Planned maintenance - we shall use reasonable endeavors to provide you with a minimum of seven days’ notice and shall in any event give you as much notice as practicably possible. Scheduled maintenance - our standard scheduled maintenance window is every day between 12am-3am UK time. In this case, we shall, where practical, provide notice of such. All clients will be notified via email, phone and dashboard as appropriate.

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Limited access network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
At a minimum, access to management interfaces are restricted with a username/password and SSL encryption.

Where permitted by the infrastructure configuration, management interfaces are entirely removed from public access and accessible only via a secure channel.

Multi-factor authentication or integration with a client (service) specific authentication source is feasible.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
Other
Description of management access authentication
Depends on client solution.

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
User-defined
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
No
Security governance approach
Monitoring is deployed within our network to audit access to data both as the individual and the device. Our network contains both application security and threat analytics via industry standard monitoring solutions helping to enforce our policies.
Information security policies and processes
Netcel follow a standard information security policy in context of modern cyber security classified as "a formal set of rules by which those people who are given access to company technology and information assets must abide."

Our policy covers hardware, software, communications and data throughout. Information is classified in to categories based on the confidentiality of the data.

Monitoring is deployed within our network to audit access to data both as the individual and the device. Our network contains both application security and threat analytics via industry standard monitoring solutions helping to enforce our policies.

Violation, either automatically detected or manually detected, must be reported to the IT department immediately from where the issue will be escalated accordingly.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
Netcel hold a change log for aspects of the solution that are infrastructure related. Only Microsoft approved patches are deployed. Third party drivers or such are not permitted.

Any security vulnerabilities identified by third parties are addressed in accordance with the industry standard recommendations as a priority.

Where possible, environment configurations are fully automated and controlled with all configuration and change operated through auditable source control.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
In accordance with our cyber security policy, access to our networks is monitored through automated solutions to detect, as close to the perimeter as possible, any initial threat.

Infrastructure, both internal and that which we provide as part of a service, is patched at least on a monthly cycle in accordance with Microsoft best practice recommendations.

Information regarding potential threats is obtained from our automated solutions and specialist security partners.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
In accordance with our cyber security policy, access to our networks is monitored through automated solutions to detect, as close to the perimeter as possible, any initial threat.

If a potential compromise is detected this is addressed through the security software that we have deployed either blocking the compromise automatically or manually.

Where a potential compromise is being attempted automated escalation of security risks are undertaken and approaches such as multi-factor authentication are instigated to protect the network and data within.

Responses to incidents are on a priority basis and attended to immediately where feasible.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Users are, subject to the specific incident type, generally required to escalate incidents to the IT department upon discovery from where the incident will be triaged and further escalated accordingly.

Netcel have in place standard processes for dealing with any incident occurrences. Initial incident reports are provided within the next working business day and further developed if required.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Pricing

Price
£693 to £1,232 a person a day
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
No

Service documents

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at sam.barrow@netcel.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.