Rostering and Workforce Management Solutions
Nextrasoft are a leading edge provider of Next Generation Workforce Management Solutions to both the public and private sector for over 15 years. We have successfully implemented rostering, time and attendance, absence management and scheduling systems within a number of industry sectors through direct sales, partnerships and reseller agreements.
Features
- Demand Driven Rostering
- Resource Planning
- Time and Attendance
- Employee Self Service
- Absence Management
- Shortfall Resolution
- Agency / Bank Staff Manageent
- Expenses Management
- Contract Management and Invoicing
- Realtime Reporting
Benefits
- Reduced and easily identified labour costs
- Reduction in under utilisation of labour
- Massively reduced time spent planning and scheduling
- Rapid Resolution cover for absence via SMS and email messaging
- Greater visibility and fairness in shift, day and role allocation
- Ensured compliance with WTD rules
- Much earlier notification of published rosters
- Automatic and transparent implementation of union agreed rules
Pricing
£45,000 to £195,000 a unit a year
Service documents
Request an accessible format
Framework
G-Cloud 9
Service ID
8 6 0 3 9 4 3 3 9 9 1 1 8 8 7
Contact
PDMS Limited (Professional Data Management Services Limited)
Catriona Watt
Telephone: +44 (0) 1624 664000
Email: saasenquiries@pdms.com
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Hybrid cloud
- Service constraints
- No
- System requirements
- WIndows7 or above PCs
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
- 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays. (24/7 and public holidays can be agreed).
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.0 AA or EN 301 549
- 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
- Support availability 09:00 to 17:00 Monday to Friday, excluding UK public holidays. (24/7 and public holidays can be agreed). A response to a support request can be expected to be received within 4 (four) Working Hours of the support call being raised. A resolution, or work-around, can, in most cases, be expected to be received within 7.5 (seven and a half) Working Hours of the support call being raised for Priority 1 incidents. Further information is available within our Service Definition document.
- Support available to third parties
- No
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
- Super-users are fully trained via on-site training and a comprehensive personalised 150+ page user guide. End-users are generally trained through a train-the-trainer approach, although direct training is also available where required.
- Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
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- Other
- Other documentation formats
- Microsoft Word
- End-of-contract data extraction
- Data Extracts can be agreed and provided via the Web-Service API, or alternatively via CSV download. Another option is also for direct database data extraction using the provided database schema.
- End-of-contract process
-
If the Service is terminated either by the Customer or by PDMS, PDMS will contact the Customer to establish your off-boarding requirements.
PDMS will supply your data to you on Termination as described below;
▪ A standard extract of data in a delimited form to facilitate uploading to an alternative service. This will include suitable definitions of the extracted files and delimited fields.
▪ Relationships between entities will also be retained/supported through the use of appropriate keys
▪ Bespoke data extract requirements can also be provided on request, but would form part of a service request.
The cost of this is not included in the subscription to the service.
Other mechanisms are available and can be requested by Contacting PDMS (either at Take-up or at Termination). Use of another mechanism may incur an additional service charge.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
-
- Internet Explorer 10+
- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- Solution runs as standard on any web enabled modern smartphone browser and is fully compliant with iOS, Android and Windows devices.
- Accessibility standards
- WCAG 2.0 A
- Accessibility testing
- No specific interface testing with assistive technology has been undertaken, however the product also supports a wide range of personalisation options to accommodate specific accessibility requirements if needed.
- API
- Yes
- What users can and can't do using the API
- The API is provided as standard via Web Services. Bespoke options for direct database integration are also available. The API fully supports upload and download of data. The method for setting up the API is to visit a 'discovery' URL that will provide the details of the supported methods. Once this has been configured, data can be sent and received from the API. There are no limits to the numbers of users using the API.
- API documentation
- Yes
- API documentation formats
- API sandbox or test environment
- Yes
- Customisation available
- Yes
- Description of customisation
- The whole product is designed from the ground up to be extensible. Every screen, function and process can be bespoked if required. Configuration is carried out using a mixture of built in tools and external SQL Management Tools. Users can attend a series of training courses in order to learn the necessary skills for customization.
Scaling
- Independence of resources
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PDMS can either host on a highly resilient infrastructure using multiple storage, memory and processing units across multiple locales or on premise if requested by the customer.
Each instance of the product is allocated dedicated resources which are not impacted by other users.
PDMS holds ISO 27001:2013 Information Security Management System standard certification and Cyber Essentials.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- Yes
- Metrics types
- Service usage metrics can be provided to include user logins, data transfer and session login time. These are usually configured to specific client requirements however as required.
- Reporting types
-
- API access
- Real-time dashboards
- Reports on request
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Reseller providing extra features and support
- Organisation whose services are being resold
- Nextrasoft
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
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
- 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
- Other
- Other data at rest protection approach
-
Secure Tier 3 Data centres, Secure containers, racks or cages, Physical access control Encryption of Physical media, Safe destruction of physical media.
Database data is securely encrypted at database level
On premise installations/access agreed with client. - Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
-
- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- A third-party destruction service
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- The product has built in reports that can be viewed on screen, sent straight to a printer or converted to PDF or CSV. Key reports will also be provided via the Web-Service API in XML format for analysis using 3rd product analysis tools.
- Data export formats
-
- CSV
- Other
- Other data export formats
- XML via the Web-Service API
- Data import formats
-
- CSV
- Other
- Other data import formats
- Demand Data etc. can be uploaded for certain functions.
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- Private network or public sector network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Data protection within supplier network
-
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
-
Service Availability is set at 99.9%.
SLA's are typically;
P1 - A consultant will start to address the problem no later than 4 working hours from the time of the call being logged.
SLAs can be tailored to meet the needs of each individual customer.
Refunds are managed on a case-by-case basis and pre-agreed at contract stage - Approach to resilience
- Available on request.
- Outage reporting
- Email alerts inform PDMS of any unplanned outage. Planned outages are communicated to customers via email and telephone well in advance of the outage. Mobile or locally installed copies of the system can operate whilst the central system is offline.
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
-
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Other
- Other user authentication
- The user is authenticated against a recorded username and password. The passwords are not stored as plain text, but are compared to a password hash that is stored against each account. If required access can also be allowed only from white-listed IP addresses.
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
- All management interfaces and support channels require users to login with a username and password. Access is restricted to the items / area that are relevant to the user.
- Access restriction testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Management access authentication
-
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Username or password
- Other
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
- User-defined
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- LRQA
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 02/09/2016
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- Nothing - All areas of the business and our services are in scope.
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security accreditations
- Yes
- Any other security accreditations
- Cyber Essentials
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance accreditation
- Yes
- Security governance standards
- ISO/IEC 27001
- Information security policies and processes
- As part of its ISMS, PDMS have the following policies and processes; Information Security Policy, Secure Development Process, Acceptable Use Policy, Change Control Policy, Data Classification and Handling Policy, Data Protection Policy, Business Continuity Policy and an Incident Management Process, all of which are governed, managed and audited through our ISO certifications. All policies are owned and regularly reviewed by the relevant departmental manager. It is the responsibility of each departmental manager to ensure that all of their staff follow the information security policies and processes, however compliance is audited by the Quality and Standards Manager, with any issues identified reported to the relevant manager, for rectification. Operationally, Information Security is managed by the Chief Technical Officer who reports directly to the Managing Director and has overall ownership at Board Level for Security, allowing issues that require immediate escalation to be reported to the Directors. Operational Issues that do not require immediate escalation are discussed at the monthly management meetings, where it is a standing issue. All issues discussed during these meetings that require escalation are reported upwards to Board of Directors for it to be discussed, where appropriate.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
-
All software released to test machines/environments for customer sign off prior to promotion to live environments.
Online web changes can be subject to 3rd party penetration testing at additional cost. - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
-
Constant reviews of supported software versions and patches available will determine the frequency they are applied to customer test and then live environments.
Info received from 3rd party software provider and anti virus providers. - Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
- Available on request
- Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
- PDMS allow all staff the ability to report security incidents through a number of methods, including email, telephone, and system based forms. Ultimately all reported incidents are managed by the Chief Technical Officer, who follows the Incident Management Process, which identifies how the incident should be managed, including when to provide updates to any customers that may be affected. Customer Incident Reports are normally provided in a written document. All incidents are reviewed following their satisfactory conclusion, in order to determine what lessons can be learned, in order to improve the process or prevent future occurrences.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Supplier-defined process
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £45,000 to £195,000 a unit a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
- Free trial available
- No
Documents
- Pricing document
- Pricing document
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card
- Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card
- Terms and conditions document
- Terms and conditions document