G-Cloud
14 December 2012
Mark Craddock
Socitm South West Regional Meeting
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G-Cloud in 60 seconds!
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The case for change
Tough
Economic
Landscape
Lack of REAL
competition
Stuck in large
contracts
Difficult to
iterate /
reuse
80% of
Central Gov IT
delivered by 6
companies
High system
& running
costs
The G-Cloud Programme
• G-Cloud is the UK Government Programme to
adopt cloud-based services
• G-Cloud covers the processes of buying,
managing and using cloud services
• We are about:
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Creating a marketplace
Encouraging innovation
Simplifying how we buy and deliver services
Changing the culture across the Public Sector
What we’ve achieved
We’ve developed a
competitive and transparent
marketplace for Cloud
commodity services
G-Cloud Reality
14
IL2/3 Accredited (many more coming)
71
461
Suppliers
2814
New Services
3185
Total Services
New PaaS
292
New SaaS
1189
New IaaS
G-Cloud Reality
Commercial Principles
Create an open market
Run a successful market
Make changing providers
simple and easy to achieve
Encourage & enable re-use
Make pricing open &
transparent
Provide a mechanism to
manage the process
Make it quick, simple &
compliant to buy
Encourage compliance
Create an open market for
each category
Clear commercial roadmap
for transition
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G-Cloud benefits
Easy to buy
• No long procurements
• No tenders, no competitions
Transparent
• Drives competition
• Greater choice
Significant
Savings
• Capital and operational
• Elastic pay-as-you-go models
Friction Free
• Easy in and Easy out
• Many services available to try
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Who’s using G-Cloud?
What are our challenges?
• Cultural and behaviour change:
– FUD factor: is it legal? Is it a scam? It doesn’t “fit” with internal
processes; Can I just buy the cheapest? Is it anti-competitive?
• How to encourage adoption:
– Nearly 30,000 public sector bodies who can buy from G-Cloud
– Buyer readiness: technical and business
• Driving the market:
– Guidance for suppliers to help them use the framework, obtain
accreditation, bring on new services, competitive pricing
• The big S’s:
– Security, Service Management, Systems Integration
Immediate focus
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Policy & Promotion
2
Develop the vision
3
Address barriers
4
Self-service market
Get the
message
out
Address
skills
gaps
Set clear
policies
What
Next?
Shorten
the
adoption
cycle
Make
the
market
work
Improve
Guidance
Respond
to
feedback
Propagation, Propagation, Propagation
• Raise awareness:
– Events, Twitter, conferences, BuyCamps, eNewsletters – tell
us your ideas on how to engage with 30,000 bodies!
• Encourage adoption:
– Innovation and experimentation with cloud services
– Learning and adaption, take an iterative approach
• Remove barriers:
– Consultation, surveys, feedback
– Join in our communities! Take a lead!
Contacts
http://gcloud.civilservice.gov.uk
enquiries@gcloud.cabinet-office.gov.uk
@G_Cloud_UK
#GCloudJoinIn
#CloudStore