IT Consulting Assessments
Designed to increase the velocity and comprehensiveness of your IT efforts and investments, Consonus offers IT Business Consulting Assessments to firms of any size. Whether you need a large-scale analysis of your present and future IT needs, or a rapid yet robust evaluation, you can count on Consonus to deliver the best possible insights and advice.
Consonus IT Business Consulting Assessments are available in two configurations:
- Consonus IT Business Consulting Assessments: a comprehensive, in-depth, and customized portfolio of professional services that ultimately identify and prioritize your business requirements, map IT technologies and processes to business drivers, and deliver actionable recommendations for improvement.
- Consonus IT Consulting Workshops: short-duration projects encompassing a half-day requirements IT workshop and data collection and analysis that result in quantified data and insights coupled with actionable recommendations.
Consonus IT Business Consulting Assessments include:
- Cost-effective strategic planning
- Effective asset utilization through consolidation, virtualization and manageability strategies
- Converting Business Impact Analysis (BIA) into actionable Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity plans
- IT remediation and risk reduction through gap analysis and recommendation development
- Improved strategic vision and technology selection through Return On Investment (ROI) and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analyses
- Facilitation of the adoption of new IT process models for improved efficiencies
- Risk-mitigated transition to new IT services, such as Consonus managed services
Think of these assessments as the architectural engineering and planning undertaken prior to building or renovating a home: a 5% to 10% up-front investment saves many times that amount in waste, delays, and cost overruns.
For firms that want or need an accelerated path to improved performance, Consonus offers the IT Consulting Workshops, which include:
- Half-day session to understand key issues, overall configuration and to plan the installation of the data collection and reporting tool
- Installation of analytics tools to collect data and intelligence about the environment. Data analysis including report generation of the top 10 to 20 key metrics and observations
- Briefing to customer of findings, reports, and recommendations
Consonus IT Business Consulting Assessments are available for four different IT assessment disciplines:
- Data Protection: Resolving current data protection problems or to effectively craft a data protection strategy requires a detailed understanding of the current data protection environment and must also consider a company’s strategic goals, both technical and business. Consonus Data Protection Assessment techniques help you understand key data protection pains, and provide a full IT risk assessment to measure the health and key metrics of your current data protection implementation. Then we identify and quantify the key gaps or risks in data protection, and recommend actions for improvement
- Virtualization: Consonus Virtualization Assessments combine a quantifiable assessment of the current server, storage, network and application state with forward-looking definitions of business and service requirements. Utilizing capacity planning tools to collect performance and utilization metrics in the environment to generate technical consolidation scenarios, the result is a well-defined action plan ready for immediate implementation.
- Disaster Recovery: Consonus Disaster Recovery Assessments enable you to build an effective Disaster Recovery Plan that addresses the data, hardware, software, IT personnel, IT assessment facilities and IT recovery procedures that enable you to restore critical IT services in the event of natural or human-created disaster.
- Business Impact Assessment: The Consonus Business Impact Analysis (BIA), is an information-gathering exercise designed to methodically identify the processes performed by an organization, the resources required to support each process performed, and the possibilities and impact of process failures on business operations.
- ITIL: Consonus consulting for the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) promote operational efficiencies in the IT organization and result in better service delivery and support functions to IT’s customers. Our ITIL consulting assessment help organizations quantify their current IT maturity and establish baselines for improvements. We also help develop and stabilize process improvements in your organization and help facilitate and manage the cultural shifts during their adoption.
