Environment and Agriculture Solutions

Sopra Steria, and our joint venture Shared Services Connected Limited (SSCL) have a long standing history supporting BPO services and outsourced scheme administration across Europe where we deliver some of the most complex and important schemes for end users, and government clients which include; Citizen Facing Services, Grants & Levy management, Finance & Accounting, Human Resources and Payroll.

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In the new age of IT, there is an increased focus, and growing risk for all organisations due to ageing IT services and infrastructure that present risks associated with service disruption and outage, security risks and data compliance.

We have developed a number of core capabilities to support you to address these legacy risks and transition to a better supported and secure set of systems. 

Data is a valuable resource across industry, one of the biggest challenges we see is harnessing this data to derive optimal value through analytics and insight to enable business and operational improvements, and more informed decision making. 

We support our customers to put the foundations in place to be able to harness their data through our enterprise data model (EDM) where we consider the full end-to-end data lifecycle and put in place new processes to uplift and improve data quality and accuracy while supporting you to put the controls in place to make a long term use of data.

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Demand for digital systems continues to grow from users and departments need to provide these services for their citizens.

Sopra Steria have a rich history designing, developing and supporting digital systems for government and have taken countless systems through GDS assessments and into live service.

Sopra Steria provide a complete range of Consulting services to support both business and technical initiatives, helping solve complex challenges and identifying appropriate solutions. These services include: Strategic Advisory, Benefits Identification and Realisation Management, Business Case Development, Target Operating Model (TOM) Design, Hypothesis Led Solution Design, Technical Advisory and Feasibility Assessments, Digital Discovery and Service Design, Transition and Transformation planning and delivery (covering people, process, systems and technology) and Business Change.

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For more than ten years, Sopra Steria has been a vital part of the Rural Payments Agency's (RPA) important work, making sure cattle inspections and payment schemes run smoothly. We collaborate closely with the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, helping the RPA tackle challenges like keeping up service levels, cutting costs, and managing knowledge effectively.

Sopra Steria stepped in with a comprehensive solution. We provided essential support services, from fixing issues to solving problems, ensuring the stability of older applications. Our shared resources model allowed the RPA to flexibly bring in skilled help, reducing overall ownership costs. This not only helped the RPA but also had a direct positive impact on the rural economy by keeping operations going smoothly and setting the stage for modernisation. Our commitment shows in the low number of calls, high customer satisfaction scores, and consistent service level achievements, highlighting our dedication to supporting rural communities.

After a 25-year collaborative partnership, Sopra Steria was chosen to deliver a crucial strategic project, the migration of the Agriculture and Rural Economy’s (ARE) Livestock Inspection System (LIS) to the new middleware platform. This marks the first existing application moved into a new environment and is the result of many years of work on strategy, business cases and architecture consultancy, and delivery by ARE in collaboration with Sopra Steria and other key suppliers.

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