iO Consulting’s current state assessment services are typically one of the key immediate requirements for many of our other business and technical consulting services, and a core component for the discovery phase in order to rationalize for immediate gain.

During this discovery phase, we focus on understanding the IT landscape in order to plan for achieving immediate gains from the following IT assets:

• People

  • What is available versus what is required

• Process

  • Determining if the processes are supportive of the business requirements

• Technology

  • Understanding the current investments and technology landscape versus what is required

• Skills

  • Reviewing skills gaps and utilization and realigning investment

• Usage

  • Reviewing the effectiveness of the technology usage

• Asset Management

  • IT asset inventory analysis and redeployment

iO Consulting base line services are typically conducted in conjunction with our current state assessment services, and followed up with our solution design and architecture services.

Our base line services is a core component of optimizing the existing infrastructure, based on an in depth understanding of the existing infrastructure and application performance and behaviour, compared to international and vendor standards, best practices and recommendations.

Benchmarking services consist of the analysis of the current infrastructure, or a specific application or component of the infrastructure, with an in depth assessment of the performance and operational characteristics.

The results are compared to international and vendor best practices and recommendations, with the end result an in depth report and proposal on the recommended next steps.

In the face of overwhelming infrastructure complexity and the need for efficiency, control and choice in IT solutions, many of our customers has introduced solution that achieved considerable savings in the process. But challenges often emerge as these customers’ attempts to take their infrastructure to the next level.

iO Consulting’s strategy and operations services helps our customers overcome strategic, planning and operational roadblocks so they can realize the full value of their infrastructure. From identifying necessary skill sets and process changes to establishing centers of excellence we help our customers build a foundation for long-term infrastructure success.

Our strategy and operations services provides strategy, operational and planning services that deliver value to executive management in the form of benchmarks, plans, business justifications, process implementation roadmaps and prioritized list of actions. We also facilitate knowledge transfer, advocate best practices, conduct proof of concepts, and hold interactive workshops and demonstrations.

iO Consulting’s solution design and verification services are available as either separate to, or in conjunction with our advanced implementation services for end to end infrastructure solutions on a wide range of hardware and software solutions according to international and vendor best practices and guidance.

All our consultants are high qualified, certified and experienced with typically more than 12 years of relevant IT experience.

iO Consulting provides advanced implementation services for the end to end infrastructure requirements of our customers on a wide range of hardware and software solutions according to international and vendor best practices and guidance.

All our consultants are high qualified, certified and experienced with typically more than 12 years of relevant IT experience.

iO Consulting’s quality assurance services allows us to review and quality assure existing infrastructure technology components, including people, process and technology against recognized international and vendor best practices, recommendations and standards.

As an authorized consulting partner for many of our vendor alliances, it allows us to provide our customers with an in depth report and proposal of the existing current state versus the recommended future state, as well as a roadmap with regards to any potential remediation steps.

Detailed and up to date documentation is a critical and often overlooked asset for any IT organization.  However more often than not we find that our customer’s documentation is missing or badly out of date.

iO Consulting provides in depth infrastructure documentation services, including:

·         Design documents

·         ‘As-is’ configuration documents

·         Operational manuals