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Portability
How easy and costly is exit?
36 out of 100 · Dependent
Average of 411 scored findings; 0 findings carry no evidence on this dimension and are not counted.
1. By sector
- Schools 67
- BBC 59
- Higher Education 44
- Central Government 37
- NHS 34
- Defence 34
- Devolved Governments 33
- Local Government 29
- Policing 19
2. How findings split
- Exposed 163
- Dependent 26
- Partly sovereign 151
- Sovereign 71
How we score it
Each finding is scored 0 (exposed) to 3 (sovereign) from the evidence fields below; the page index is the average, scaled to 100.
- portability
- Easy 3
- Moderate 1.5
- Hard 0
- switching cost
- Low 3
- Medium 1.5
- High 0
3. Most exposed
- AWS – national services (Spine 36 services, NHS login, e-RS, 111 DoS, MESH) 0 NHS · NHS – National · Amazon Web Services (NHS England Digital, 2023)
- Microsoft Azure – NHSmail shared tenant, Copilot, NHSE analytics; ICB/trust Azure subscriptions 0 NHS · NHS – National · Microsoft (Find a Tender Service, 2025; Microsoft, n.d.)
- Palantir Foundry SaaS hosting for Federated Data Platform 0 NHS · NHS – National · Palantir (on hyperscaler cloud) (NHS England, 2026; The Register, n.d.)
- Microsoft Windows 10/11 Enterprise desktops (licensed via national Microsoft agreement) 0 NHS · NHS – National · Microsoft (TechRadar, 2025)
- Oracle Database / E-Business Suite under ESR and NHSBSA systems 0 NHS · NHS – National · Oracle (Find a Tender Service, 2022)
4. Most sovereign
- Atlassian user-support tooling for ScotAccount 100 Devolved Governments · Scottish Government (Digital Identity Scotland) · Atlassian (Mygov, 2026)
- Regional HSC Learning Management System 100 Devolved Governments · HSC Northern Ireland (BSO) · Civica (Qub, 2023; Blackstone, n.d.)
- Drupal open-source CMS professional services 100 Devolved Governments · NICS (Department of Finance) · Drupal (community) - contractor not named (Find a Tender Service, 2021)
- Support for the DE&S Security Operations Centre 100 Defence · DE&S · Accenture (Contracts Finder, 2025)
- Access to Microsoft Threat Analysis Centre (MTAC) nation-state threat intelligence 100 Defence · Defence Digital · Microsoft (Ukdefencejournal, 2026)
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