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Gulp Digital

Contomic: SaaS/PaaS Content Management System

Contomic is a headless CMS designed and nuanced specifically for public sector organisations. An easy-to-use authoring interface for content teams, it simplifies and streamlines the management and delivery of content across all digital platforms, allowing you to create/review/approve/reuse content based on your users’ needs all within an intuitive platform.

Features

  • Headless CMS, content is reusable and untethered to the main
  • Encourages microservice architecture
  • API first: Built from ground up with integration in mind
  • Custom content models; define/shape your content based on needs
  • Global reach; content delivery network with global footprint
  • Full revision history; keep on top of changes and revisions
  • Roles, groups and permissions; decide who get access
  • Multi-language; work in your language of choice
  • Full integration; use our API to integrate with your systems
  • Content accessible via a RESTful API

Benefits

  • Scalable service that delivers content through a well-considered user experience
  • Create content based on your users’ needs
  • Content in one place; simple workflow integrates with websites/apps/social media
  • No website migrations, pragmatic/iterative delivery, abstracting content from rendering layer
  • Hosted on accredited global infrastructure, scalable for business goals/users needs
  • Dedicated infrastructure with customisable networking ensures policy adherence and security
  • Easily adapted to your needs
  • Easy content management at the core of your service
  • Intuitive user interface for increased user efficiency

Pricing

£25,000 an instance a year

  • Education pricing available
  • Free trial available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 11

Service ID

6 2 7 4 7 5 2 7 1 4 0 2 1 9 7

Contact

Gulp Digital Onkar Chiroma
Telephone: 05603855482
Email: info@gulpdigital.com

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
N/A - whilst our core product is deployed on public cloud, our solution can be deployed on a private, hybrid or community cloud based on your needs.
System requirements
API-first platform requires RESTful-based integration

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Gulp Digital provides support and management for the service 09:00 to 17:00, Monday to Friday, excluding holidays.

Urgent support enquiries which are within Gulp Digital’s control that prevent system usage will be responded to within 24 hours and addressed immediately.

Non-urgent support enquiries which are within Gulp Digital’s control that do not prevent system usage, will be responded to within 48 hours and where appropriate added to the product backlog, prioritised and scheduled for resolution.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
No
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
From proactive support services through to reactive emergency support, we offer tailored support packages based on your needs. Our support costs are calculated based on our rate card, the type of support services your require, the support level you require and the systems / teams / infrastructure that require support. We can provide technical account managers, cloud support engineers and other support personnel including, content, design, development and delivery specialists.
Support available to third parties
No

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Based on your user requirements and needs, we can provide onsite training, online training, or user documentation.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
HTML
End-of-contract data extraction
Users can extract their data anytime via API, including upon contract end/termination.
End-of-contract process
Much like our onboarding process, we will work collaboratively with you as part of the data extraction process and handover.

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
Whilst the service is fully responsive and has been designed to work on mobile devices, we have restricted the mobile support to tablets only.
Service interface
No
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
As an API-first platform, all features and functionality accessible via the user interface can be interacted with via API. Examples include: managing users, groups and roles; managing projects; managing content models; editing, updating and publishing content.
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
HTML
API sandbox or test environment
Yes
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
The memory, processor, storage, backups and data transfer (monthly quotas) can all be customised.

Additionally, customisable networking is available and ensures policy adherence and security for your peace of mind.

Scaling

Independence of resources
We provide scalable resilience, hosted on accredited global infrastructure that can scale based on your business goals and users needs. Each instance is on dedicated infrastructure, therefore external user demand does not impact on your service availability.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
We provide usage metrics against the defined monthly usage quotas.
Reporting types
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
In-house
Protecting data at rest
Other
Other data at rest protection approach
Our platform is hosted on Amazon Web Services EC2 or LightSail servers. As part of this, all data at rest is encrypted using keys and is physically secure/protected using as part of AWS' regulatory compliance.
Data sanitisation process
No
Equipment disposal approach
A third-party destruction service

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
Users can extract their data anytime via API, including upon contract end/termination.
Data export formats
Other
Other data export formats
JSON via API
Data import formats
Other
Other data import formats
  • JSON via API
  • Manually via UI

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
99.9% availability based on monthly uptime, not including planned maintenance and planned downtime.
Approach to resilience
Our platform is designed for scalable resilience, hosted on an AWS accredited global infrastructure, it can scale based on your business goals and users needs. The dedicated infrastructure offers customisable networking ensuring policy adherence and security.
Outage reporting
Email alerts

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Access in management channels is restricted via fully-configurable roles and groups. Support channels are accessed directly via email, and are therefore validated and authenticated.
Access restriction testing frequency
Never
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
No audit information available
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
Yes
Any other security certifications
Cyber Essentials

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
No
Security governance approach
Cloud security is our highest priority. We use AWS infrastructure meaning our customers will benefit from a data centre and network architecture built to meet the requirements of the most security-sensitive organizations.
Information security policies and processes
Our base content platform is not designed to store personally identifiable data. Gulp Digital recognises how critical information security is for all clients, and public sector organisations in particular. We take information security seriously, and underpin our service delivery model with comprehensive internal information security policies and processes. Our policies dictate how we work with you and your data. Should you have a need to store sensitive data, our consultants will work with you to establish that the appropriate security mechanisms are in place. In addition, all relevant members of the organisation are cleared up to SC level.

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
As a SaaS product, any future changes and configurations planned for Contomic are based on our defined product roadmap. These changes will continue to be driven by ongoing user research and defined user needs following an iterative process. Changes are underpinned by a robust source-controlled development pipeline. Any changes will undergo rigorous testing and quality assurance prior to deployment.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
We continuously monitor potential threats to our service via horizon- scanning for risks, as well as leveraging third-party vulnerability scanning tools. Following threat identification, we will apply fixes in a sanitised environment to ensure there is no degradation to service prior to patch release. We will endeavor to fix, patch and release immediately following issue identification.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
We continuously monitor potential compromises to our service via horizon- scanning for risks, as well as leveraging third-party vulnerability scanning tools. Following threat identification, we will apply fixes in a sanitised environment to ensure there is no degradation to service prior to patch release. We will endeavor to fix, patch and release immediately following identification of potential compromise.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Users can report incidents via their dedicated Contomic support email address. Reported incidents trigger our defined incident management and escalation processes and procedures. Our process comprises the following steps: validate the incident, prioritise the incident and schedule incident mitigation. Regarding scheduling, the timescales of the mitigation process will be scaled up or down depending on the severity of the incident. Incident reports will be communicated through the dedicated Contomic support email address.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Pricing

Price
£25,000 an instance a year
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
A one-month free trial which can be used for testing activities. Should you wish to trial Contomic, we will set-up a trial environment specifically for you.

Service documents

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