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Transform the citizen experience through innovation

The world is changing. So are government agencies. Red Hat’s open source technologies help national and local departments achieve their mission to serve citizens, respond to crises, and build public trust. We provide the support you need to deliver higher quality services faster—while improving the security, stability, and privacy of your systems.

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Transport

Transport

The transport ecosystem is constantly changing and is highly sensitive to external pressures such as shifting commuter patterns and consumer expectations.

Being able to continuously adapt and respond to this change is critical, and Red Hat believes the solution lies not just in better technology but in an open and collaborative approach. Enabling organisations to embrace and adopt change at pace. 

Road

The Road Investment Strategy (2020) provides a vision for the future of the strategic road network, highlighting that more than half of the RIS2 budget is allocated to enhancements with a strong focus on Digital, Data and Technology.

Red Hat is a strategic supplier to the transportation and automotive industries with solutions focussed around digitally enabled design, digital rehearsals and digital twins.

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Rail

Recommendations from the Williams-Shapps plan combined with unprecedented challenges posed by Covid 19 are driving rail reform. Customer service, decarbonisation and industry growth are all key aspects. Simplification of timetables, ticketing and a move to passenger service contracts (PSC) will drive improved customer experience - encouraging passengers back to the railway. With proven approaches of reducing service delivery costs, increasing customer satisfaction, providing  modern application practices and reducing time and cost, Red Hat can support PSC operators.

Air

The NR23 business plan sets out key areas of investment and risk mitigation for the air industry. With continued collaboration of iTEC, development of DSESAR and addressing the rising cyber security risks, there are opportunities for organisations to automate, achieve regulatory accreditation and take advantage of the benefits the cloud has to offer.

With the airline industry particularly being sensitive to industry restrictions, this can often be reflected in cost reduction activities. Red Hat can support organisations to further reduce service delivery costs whilst increasing customer satisfaction.

Central Government

Central Government

The growing need for citizen focused government services

Government departments are facing increasing reliance from UK citizens, creating resource and budget constraints. There has been a rapid acceleration of digital adoption since 2020, because of an ever-growing expectation for efficient online services. Public sector organisations now need to deliver omnichannel experiences for end-to-end services that anticipates citizen needs, yet this level of innovation is easier said than done, given the unique challenges faced.

Challenges / Goal

Reliance on data centres

There are varying levels of maturity and modernisation across technical estates. While some organisations have made significant progress migrating to the cloud, others are at an earlier stage of adoption. Legacy systems present higher levels of risk, inefficiencies, complexities and limitations to interoperability and collaboration.

Process inefficiencies

In a person’s lifetime, they have multiple touch points with the government, creating a wealth of sensitive data. The reliance on people-managed, often paper-based processes results in a risk to security and error. These, often siloed, processes take time and resource to deliver, creating a need to ensure data management and sharing is improved.

IT skills gap

People are core to delivering government services, so a lack of IT capability and confidence serves to hold back progress. IT skills gaps exists across the board, acting as a top barrier to achieving digital transformation goals.

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Solutions to get started on the road ahead

To answer these three key challenges, there are ways to make progress.

And Red Hat is here to help.

Modernisation of the estate

Cloud adoption can feel like a big step, especially when the data is as important as yours. Whatever your criteria, your technology and your challenge. The Open Source, operating system Red Hat Linux gives you the confidence and freedom to create a consistent foundation across any cloud deployment.

Serving and meeting the expectations of, modern-day citizens depends on delivering new capabilities through software applications. Whether you're building new applications or modernising existing ones, our comprehensive portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift, can help you build and deploy applications at scale in public, private, or hybrid cloud. The industry leading hybrid cloud application platform technology brings together tested and trusted services to reduce the friction of developing, deploying and managing applications.

Automation

Some tasks are easily automated, allowing teams to redeploy resources. However, keeping up with automation processes can also cause complexity.

Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform not only provides a framework for building and operating IT automation at scale, from hybrid cloud to the edge, it also enables users to consistently automate any and all IT operations, providing a secure and stable foundation for deploying end-to-end automation.

Enablement

Allow your digital transformation goals to become a reality sooner. Ensure your teams have the skills and confidence needed to implement and use new technology. Our teams offer comprehensive and cost-effective courses that get your teams trained and certified in a format that suits you and them. All skill levels can benefit from continuous training with outcome driven courses, hands on labs and performance-based exams.


Use Red Hat's skills assessment tool to discover what training your organisation may benefit from.

Health

Health

Revolutionising healthcare through digital transformation

With the increasing pressure on healthcare systems, IT innovation is crucial in easing the pressure front line teams face whilst preparing for the unexpected needs of the future.

Challenges / Goal

Technical barriers to delivering health services

While healthcare organisation’s challenges vary on a national strategic and local implementation level, there are some commonalities.

Three universal, key areas where improvements could be made:

Technical debt

Healthcare instiatutions often experience technical debt. Systems have often been ‘good enough’ and in place for some years, but now in a digital era have become outdated and complex. Vital innovation is needed to streamline processes, protect sensitive data and enable smoother and quicker sharing of information.

Lack of standardisation

Due to the siloed and autonomous nature of healthcare departments, there are varying levels of maturity and modernisation in technical estates.

Lack of standardisation and reliance on monolith legacy systems are resulting in complications, causing delays to delivering effective and efficient clinical pathways for patients.

Data agility and interoperability

Patients are often dealing with multiple departments for their care. Lack of data interoperability between care teams means that handoffs between the different stages (such as reception, diagnostics, care, treatments and discharge) is much slower and more complicated than it could be.

Data agility and connectivity helps make sure patients are not only seen quicker, but also be seen differently - ultimately improving care and patient outcomes.

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Digital solutions to aid quicker and more effective clinical pathways

Delivering a standard operating environment

Standardising tech estates create a predictable, repeatable IT infrastructure. Systems can be deployed faster and with fewer errors.

Whatever hardware runs your critical infrastructure and whatever cloud you want to deploy your modern applications to, one technology works everywhere: Linux. This is why the open source operating system has revolutionised datacenter operations, enables all the major public clouds, and continues to power new cloud-native initiatives.

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Container and replatforming applications

Your ability to provide modern, world-class, effective healthcare relies on efficient data sharing and interoperability through software applications. Whether you're building new applications or modernising existing ones, our comprehensive portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift, can help you create and run innovative apps on any public, private, or hybrid cloud.

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Automation and digitisation

Whether it’s inputting data, completing forms, or issuing correspondence – some tasks are no longer required to be completed ‘by hand’. Automation of processes, frees up costly resources and creates the opportunity to redeploy, adding more operational value in healthcare.

Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform provides a framework for building and operating IT automation at scale, from hybrid cloud to the edge. It enables users across an organisation to create, share, and manage automation, providing a secure and stable foundation for deploying end-to-end automation.

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Defence

Defence

Strengthening our country’s defence through digital

The exponential growth of digital is changing everything about our society – including how we defend it. Threats to our security have evolved with technological advances, and so how our armed forces operate also evolve. The defence and security ecosystem relies on effective communication and intelligence sharing. Digital transformation creates an opportunity for this to be quicker, easier, and more accurate – ultimately helping make sure interests are protected and our operations are up to date, efficient and effective.

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Challenges / Goal

Current challenges and barriers to achieving a digital transformation

Legacy applications and development

Much of the existing technology which is used lacks the opportunity for much needed connectivity.

With the many different organisations responsible for defence that work together, there are often competing, legacy applications in use. Modernisation is needed to help streamline processes, protect important and sensitive data and enable smoother and quicker sharing of information.

Lack of automation

An effective defence & security ecosystem relies on quality, real time data and intelligence but processes which are currently people-managed are susceptible to error and can take longer than is necessary.

Legacy processes, which often rely on large amounts of resources to implement, can also be left exposed to higher levels of risk. Automation of these processes would not only help to streamline and improve the way information is processed, but also make it more secure.

Skills shortage

We know that as technology advances, the people who work with it need to be upskilled too. But a shortage of the appropriate skills means that technology is not advancing as quickly as it can or should. We also know how important it is to be able to do more with less, and find efficiencies while ensuring that operational activities are not impacted.

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Digital solutions to deliver a more secure future

To answer these three key challenges, there are ways to make progress.

And Red Hat is here to help.

Container and re-platforming applications

Whether you're building new applications or modernising existing ones, our comprehensive portfolio, including Red Hat OpenShift, can help you create and run innovative, differentiated apps on any public, private, hybrid cloud or Bare Metal to the Edge.

The industry leading hybrid cloud application platform technology of OpenShift Data Foundation brings together tested and trusted services to reduce the friction of developing, modernising, deploying, running, and managing applications, helping teams develop and deploy applications quickly and efficiently across clouds.

Automating processes

Ensuring those processes which can be automated are automated,, frees up costly resources and creates the opportunity to redeploy people to focus on tasks which will add more operational impact.

Red Hat’s Ansible Automation Platform provides a framework for building and operating IT automation at scale, from hybrid cloud to the edge. It enables users across an organisation to create, share, and manage automation, providing a secure and stable foundation for deploying end-to-end automation.

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Enablement

By ensuring that you and those around you have the competence and confidence needed to implement and use new programmes will help make sure reaching your technical future becomes a reality, even quicker.

Our teams can set up learning and training options for you and your team. Whether via video learning or face-to-face, our training makes sure those who come into contact with new technologies have the skills and understanding they need to be able to make the most of it.

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Why Red Hat

Open Source has transformed global software development over the last 25 years. Red Hat is the pioneer of open source, bringing cultural change to global software development communities.

We provide industry-leading Open Source platform technologies that are ready for the Enterprise including  Automation, Containerisation, MicroServices, Integration and Hybrid Cloud

Our aim is twofold; provide a consistent, automated and secure IT experience bridging private and public clouds, and instil the transformational open source methodologies that have revolutionised the software industry to our clients.

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