We consult on turning IT into a major contributor to a business performance increase with a A value-driving business-IT strategy & A plan on IT service delivery optimization.

We power up IT’s role for your business by:

• Defining how to position and manage the IT function in your company: business-oriented KPIs, goals, optimal organizational structure.
• Preparing business cases for IT initiatives with ROI in focus.
• Building an IT roadmap on making modern technologies work for business outcomes.

We create a strategy that would bring together a diversified IT landscape and make it work towards supporting existing business processes and driving new business initiatives, IT strategy includes :

• A business-IT alignment plan to reinforce business processes with IT and introduce new digital business models, if needed.
• A more mature IT operating model to improve operational efficiency.
• An IT sourcing plan to cover skill gaps at an optimal cost. We segment your IT needs and determine which functions are better to be implemented in-house or outsourced to a single or multiple providers.
• An application integration plan to expand end-to-end automation, avoid functionality duplication and introduce changes at speed required by the business needs.
• A plan on improving IT service reliability and application performance management.
• A plan on enhancing data quality in business-critical IT systems.
• A plan on ensuring IT security and compliance.

We analyze your business needs and help you make strategic decisions on the fast and successful implementation of business-critical solutions.

Solution concepts :

• Feature management and prioritization.
• How to integrate a solution into the existing IT landscape to avoid functionality duplication, optimize implementation and operational costs.
• How to ensure outstanding UX and user adoption.
• How to organize further solution support and evolution.

Solution architectures :

• Choosing between a product, a platform-based or a custom application.
• Selecting components: applications, platforms, online services, and hardware.
• Selecting future-proof architecture: cloud-native, serverless; microservices; service-oriented; others.
• Achieving application reliability: resilient architecture, APM, performance testing.
• Ensuring security and compliance.

Solution implementation :

• Choosing an optimal implementation methodology (Agile or Waterfall), assessing the need for CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensuring quality: correct translation of business needs to software features, code quality, test coverage, manual and automated testing ratio.
• Choosing an optimal sourcing model: in-house, completely outsourced or mixed (dedicated team or staff augmentation).
• Recommendations on project management to deliver a solution on time and budget.

We analyze the existing state of the technology area of your interest and assist in its steady evolution to make it play a more prominent role in your business growth.

Technology areas we consult on :

• Cloud consulting : implementing cloud technologies to achieve a higher speed of IT evolution and reduce costs and migrating to the cloud.
• Digital workplace consulting : planning organization of digital workplaces for better employee productivity.
• Application reliability consulting : combining fast application evolution with high reliability.
• AI consulting : using AI to upgrade operational processes and solve AI-tied tasks.
• Data quality consulting : ensuring a high quality of data from ERP, CRM, SMC, and other business-critical systems.
• Computer vision consulting : helping build image analysis solutions for object detection, recognition, and identification.