PretaCloud - the consolidated web platform for Government 2.0
From the US to the UK to Australia governments are turning to Gov 2.0 technology to deliver more services for less money, with the added promise of engagement with their governments at unprecedented levels.
The challenge here is managing scalability, security and performance within a reasonable cost.
Introducing PretaCloud, an ICT industry award winning solution from PretaWeb.
PretaCloud is an out of the box consolidated web services solution. It allows a super department, or IT services organisation to offer cost effective multiple Government 2.0 websites. PretaCloud is an end to end solution with comprehensive support including a 24x7 helpdesk, server monitoring, regular maintenance schedule and reports. Pretaweb manages security, deployment, performance and scalability, so you don't have to. Importantly, the solution runs in a Government or private cloud, so the data is secure.
PretaCloud is built on Plone, a powerful, mature and secure open source enterprise content management technology. Plone is preferred by many governments and organisations around the world due to its scalability and impressive security record. Most notably, the CIA and FBI utilise Plone technology for these reasons.
PretaCloud allows government to reuse assets, avoid duplication of effort, share investments and implement best practice. This platform is cost effective while offering rapid deployment of websites, intranets and portals to many different agencies. How is this possible? Because there are no licence fees, no vendor lock-in restrictions and platform management services are shared.
No license fees means simple, cost effective scaling of the solution to hundreds more users. Combined with a global network of independent Plone development companies and PretaWeb’s open deployment policy, agencies can obtain competitive quotes for development work, safe in the knowledge that PretaWeb will deploy and support another vendor’s code on the shared platform. In addition, a shared platform model will significantly lower the total cost of ownership and reduce management time of the systems across the whole of government.
Benefits:
- Reduced support and maintenance costs via a shared services model.
- Deployment and support of other vendor’s code.
- Data is owned and controlled by the government agencies, not the service provider.
- Open source makes open data projects rapid and cheap.
- No licence fees nor vendor lock-in.
- Rapid deployment.
- Scales cost effectively.
What is included:
- Setup and configuration of a server cluster.
- High grade data centre hosting or management of your preferred hoster be it in-house or external.
- Comprehensive 1st and 2nd level support services including priority one, 24 x 7 coverage.
- Commercial maintenance covering resource monitoring, cache tuning, security patching and performance analysis.
- Installation, support and maintenance of the open source platform stack including: Linux Apache, Zope and Plone.
- Compliance with W3C accessibility standards.
