Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2023/05/10/capgemini_uk_border_contract/
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The French outsourcing and IT services biz has won the deal "to build, run and monitor applications" on the DevOps platform for the UK Border Agency.
The applications will be "used to transact with the Home Office." Capgemini is expected to offer "strong architecture; engineering leadership capability; infrastructure integration; driving ongoing tooling/ process innovation, continuously exploring industry improvements; making operational efficiencies and reduce costs; secure network boundary controls; integration with third parties," according to [1]a procurement notice published recently .
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The Home Office will be hoping the service can come back from its past failures. In 2020, the National Audit Office (NAO) said that between 2014 and 2019, the department did not achieve value for money against its plans to deliver the Digital Services at the Border program.
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"As a result of both internal and external factors, the Department did not deliver the programme by its original timetable of March 2019, with only one of the programme's planned three systems (Border Crossing) in live operation at that point. These difficulties meant that the Department had to continue using legacy systems which are increasingly expensive and difficult to maintain and delayed its objective of giving UK Border Force officers better information with which to make decisions about people crossing the border," the UK public spending watchdog said.
However, the Home Office's decision to reset the program in 2019 gave it "a clearer focus… and offers a more realistic delivery plan." Governance, leadership and delivery capability had been strengthened, [5]the NAO said , even if the three-year program extension cost the taxpayer £173 million ($218 million).
[6]BAE Systems handed £38m Border Force intelligence contract
[7]IBM doesn't think Brexit is such a bad thing these days
[8]UK immigration systems delayed by extra Ukraine visa work
[9]Capgemini wins £30m deal to work on UK customs
With its new deal, Capgemini is set to work on the borders and immigration platform, Environment Build Support Administration (EBSA). In September 2020, the Home Office lauded the DevOps approach on the platform.
Using the platform, "our technical staff can rapidly start work and improve their productivity without having to develop bespoke environments," said Home Office head of software engineering [10]Will McGeehin .
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"The platforms are forming a key component in our DevOps future. They also provide a focal point for the domains of Dev and Ops to collaborate."
DevOps may have been the big thing in software development for more than 10 years, but perhaps its moment is beginning to pass.
As an [12]Amazon case study from Prime Video showed , its team saved money by moving from a microservices architecture to a monolith, avoiding costly services such as AWS Step Functions and Lambda serverless functions. ®
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[1] https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/60bdc74e-f7d8-47bf-9c4d-e3feb7ecb888
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[5] https://www.nao.org.uk/reports/digital-services-at-the-border/
[6] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/bae_systems_get_38_million/
[7] https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/24/ibm_uturn_brexit/
[8] https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/26/home_office_immigration_systems_delays/
[9] https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/07/capgemini_uk_customs/
[10] https://hodigital.blog.gov.uk/2020/09/15/what-are-we-doing-in-devops-at-the-home-office/
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'Capgemini is expected to offer "strong architecture; engineering leadership capability; infrastructure integration; driving ongoing tooling/ process innovation, continuously exploring industry improvements; making operational efficiencies and reduce costs; secure network boundary controls; integration with third parties," according to a procurement notice published recently.'
Capgemini is not expected to deliver that shit, obv. We're stupid, but not that stupid, eh?
So what?
If a foreign firm can provide the best product then we should be buying it. It's only dishonest federalists that pretend that Brexit was about not doing business with European countries.
Such a shame that El Reg has joined the establishment. "Biting the hand that feeds IT" my backside.
You're quite right. Brexit really was about not doing business with European countries, given the amount of hoops UK businesses have to go through in order to keep the same level of trade with EU countries - let alone improve them.
Still, didn't the Royals look lovely on Saturday? That's the sort of stuff you need to keep your eye on sir, not the real world.
Somebody with nothing to say replies with a non sequitur. What a surprise.
I thought it was about your level. I'm sorry if I over estimated that.
Check who is speaking
Lindsay Clark said very little. Most of the article is quotes. If you ignore who is speaking, most of the words are pro-government and pro-Brexit. If you pay attention to where the words come from, most of the words are from sources with a vested interest and are completely incredible (as in: so implausible as to elicit disbelief). My irony meter was maxed out and tripping the sarcasm alarm. Try re-reading, but with a big /S at the start.
"dishonest federalists"
You been reading The Daily Telegraph again, haven't you?
DingDingDing
..."strong architecture; engineering leadership capability; infrastructure integration; driving ongoing tooling/ process innovation, continuously exploring industry improvements; making operational efficiencies and reduce costs; secure network boundary controls; integration with third parties,"...
Stop it! My bullshit bingo card just overflowed!
To make decisions about people crossing the border
white true { print "computer says 'no'" }
Re: To make decisions about people crossing the border
That's what we get for trusting to automated systems: one autocorrect later and we've reversed the Party Policy!
Vive la revolution mecanique!
DevOps
from the article...
"DevOps may have been the big thing in software development for more than 10 years, but perhaps its moment is beginning to pass."
How on earth did you make that assertion? DevOps is pretty much how things are done everywhere nowadays. It's just standard practice in tech, unless you work for the local council or some SME who might be still rolling things by hand. Really odd comment.
And then the next paragraph...
"As an Amazon case study from Prime Video showed, its team saved money by moving from a microservices architecture to a monolith, avoiding costly services such as AWS Step Functions and Lambda serverless functions."
Yes, I can see that happening. Some workloads are excellent for microservices, others not so much.
Are you conflating DevOps and microservices? Was this whole article written by an AI?
Yes we have taken control and farmed it out.