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Help needed: test our OGEL registration service

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 19 June 2017 - Categories: Licensing & Permissions
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We haven’t blogged for a few weeks because of the election. But progress on the new licensing service to replace SPIRE has carried on throughout, not least on the open general export licence (OGEL) registration process. Registration, not application OGELs …

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Application management: not a dashboard

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 11 April 2017 - Categories: Government Platform

Our design team have just started looking at another strand of the new licensing service. For the last few months we’ve been colloquially calling this a ‘dashboard’, but the idea of a simple page of buttons and levers doesn’t do …

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Looking for volunteers for our private beta

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 24 March 2017 - Categories: Government Platform
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We’re expanding our private beta. We’ve been testing our new licence-checking service with a small group of exporters for the last couple of months, but it’s now time to widen the net. We’re looking for volunteers to run through what …

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All about SIELs

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 10 February 2017 - Categories: Agile Working, Licensing & Permissions
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One of the most used areas of SPIRE is, unsurprisingly, the SIEL application form. Finding out which licence might apply to an export isn’t much use if you can’t then get your hands on that licence. Fair to say if …

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Why microservices?

Posted by: Ben Basson, Posted on: 17 January 2017 - Categories: Agile Working, Government Platform
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Before you read any further: this will be a technology-heavy blog post. If you're not interested in the cogs whirring away inside an online platform like this one, we'll forgive you for giving this one a miss. Justin previously gave an …

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What we're doing in 2017

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 4 January 2017 - Categories: Agile Working, Licensing & Permissions
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Followers of this blog will know that the team working on the SPIRE replacement made excellent progress during 2016. And thankfully, most traders we’ve spoken to seem happy with what we’ve done so far. But of course, the service is …

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The other end of end-user undertakings

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 28 November 2016 - Categories: Licensing & Permissions
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As we strive to move end-user undertakings from a paper-based system to a digital one, we've come into contact with numerous exporters with excellent ideas about how we can improve and speed up the process. The amount of information required, …

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Exporting software and technical information

Posted by: Laura John, Posted on: 14 October 2016 - Categories: Government Platform, Licensing & Permissions
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When they think about exporting, many people believe it only refers to selling physical goods to people or companies in other countries. They often don’t realise that software and technical information may also be subject to export controls, even if …

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Digitising the end-user undertaking

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 24 August 2016 - Categories: Government Platform
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One of an exporter’s more onerous tasks is the completion of an end-user undertaking. These are commonplace across the export control community and usually come in the form of paper documents that an exporter has to get their customers to …

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Semi-retiring the prototype

Posted by: Chris Lockie, Posted on: 12 August 2016 - Categories: Government Platform, Licensing & Permissions
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Followers of this blog might be wondering what’s been going on with our prototype. Our faithful friend has been with us since the distant days of our discovery phase. We’ve pushed out three or four major iterations of this prototype and …

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