ICT Planning and IT Strategy Services

IT vision and strategy services

If you are looking to establish a vision and strategy for IT, or are looking to review an existing IT strategy in light of opportunities such as Open Source Software, Software as a Service and Cloud Computing, then this option is for you. This offering will help you to consider alternative options and initiatives to help reduce your IT costs. Typical outputs will include:

• IT vision and strategy statement
• Recommendations
• Business case

Applications assessment

If you are looking to review your applications portfolio and would like to understand what opportunities exist to lower your IT costs or to reduce your ongoing operating costs through better use of IT, for example using Open Source and Software as a Service, then this option is for you. This offering follows a well known architectural approach to support you in conducting your applications assessment. Typical outputs include:

• As-is assessment of your current applications
• To-be assessment of your future applications
• Decommissioning planning
• Transformation Roadmap which provides a step-by-step plan for delivering the change

Infrastructure assessment

If you are looking to achieve cost savings in your use of hardware and infrastructure, this option is for you. This offering will match up cost effective software solutions such as Open Source applications with flexible, pay per use infrastructure services that are accessible via the "cloud". This means that you only pay for what you use, with no up-front expenses and no long-term commitments. Typical infrastructure services which can be accessed via the "cloud" include:

• Computing Power
• Hosting
• Backup and Archiving
• Storage
• Database
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