Telecommunications & Networking Projects
Step #1: Perception Assessment
We gain understanding of how you value your telecom and IT assets and how they fit into your business objectives and business continuity/disaster recovery plans.
Step #2: Policy Assessment
We review your documented policies and compare them against best-practice standards.
Step #3: Asset Inventory Assessment
We review your asset inventory documentation and compare it best-practice standards.
Step #4: Practice Assessment
We compare your plan, policy, and inventory documents against current practices within your organization, making note of deviations and their potential impact.
Step #5: Report Findings
We summarize our analysis of your situation in a written "IT/Telecommunications Health Report."
Step #6: Design Improvements
We take the gaps identified in your Health Report and engineer solutions, noting costs, benefits, and interdependencies.
Step #7: Win Approval & Implement Improvements
We work with you to gain needed buy-in from your stakeholders and use that leverage to complete successful projects.
Step #8: Measure & Quantify Impact
We don't just talk about the benefits you will gain from our solutions, we back them up with real data collected pre- and post-implementation.
Step #9: Monitor & Audit
We continue to watch over your systems, ensuring the goals you entrusted to us are realized and your investment fruitful.
Step #10: Renew & Begin Again
As business, technology, and standards change, so do your telecommunications and IT systems. We'll work with you to stay ahead of the curve.
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Server Consolidation Projects
Step #1: Needs Analysis
We gain understanding of your business needs and long-term goals.
Step #2: Environment Analysis
We gather your current server location and inventory data and identify server consolidation candidate environments.
Step #3: Preliminary Report
We document suggested approaches to consolidation and their potential ROI.
Step #4: Detailed Server and Network Analysis
We capture server function and performance data, survey network topology and constraints, and review security and backup practices.
Step #5: Recommendation Report
We develop a written Consolidation Recommendation, complete with costs, benefits, and ROI.
Step #6: Detailed Application and Data Analysis
We develop application and data profiles by gaining understanding of software architectures, operational characteristics, and plans for growth from application owners.
Step #7: Consolidation Solution
We describe the complete solution, migration plan, operational support needs, implementation costs, expected TCO, and the ROI.
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