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Consulting

Are questions about your IT environment keeping you up at night? We'd love to put your mind at rest by helping you make the right IT decisions for your business.

We offer a series of discrete, fixed price time-boxed consulting offerings that are designed to help you make informed IT investment decisions with greater confidence and lower risk. This could mean deciding to do less rather than more, to adjust rather than replace your existing investments. Or, if the time is right and opportunity beckons, it could mean building afresh.

Our independent experts give you the facts and the peace of mind you need when you're investing in technology. You'll spend only what you need to while knowing your resources are focused on the projects that really improve the way your business operates.

How we work with you

We live our commitment to providing you with top quality consulting by consistently investing in the best people and the best processes. We demonstrate this by:

  • Ensuring that only experienced consultants with the specialised skills you would expect are assigned to your engagement
  • Providing an environment for our consultants to research and develop their specialised areas of knowledge
  • Leveraging off an extensive internal knowledgebase of approaches, technologies and past engagements
  • Applying a best practice quality process to ensure that all consulting content and recommendations are reviewed and quality assessed before they're delivered to you

We've designed our consulting offerings to simply and directly address the biggest questions facing businesses like yours.

Architecture

  • What's the best technology platform to support our web presence now and into the future?
  • My business has made a significant investment in middleware. How can I best leverage this to maximise ROI?
  • How do I ensure the applications I build now will scale as my business changes?
  • How can I reuse the infrastructure that I have, and still get the performance to support my requirements?
  • How can I ensure that I don't need to replace my hardware with bigger hardware to meet future demand? Can virtualisation help me?
  • What business value will I gain by moving my applications into the cloud or deploying to mobile technologies? And how do I do this while ensuring security, reliability and performance?

How we can help:

The underlying architecture is a critical element in the success of any technical solution you implement, so it's worth getting an independent evaluation before you proceed - a small investment now can result in big savings later on. Optimation provides a consulting services with well-defined outcomes for evaluating technical architectures to ensure they will meet the needs of your business now and into the future.

Agility

  • Why weren't our past attempts to run agile projects successful?
  • I've heard of agile project management and like the sound of it, but how do I get started?
  • How do I go about transitioning my IT department to a more agile way of working?

How we can help:

Optimation specialises in delivering rapid business results using agile development methodologies, and we've had successful projects up and running for large New Zealand companies within 30 days. Our Consulting team offers a fixed price service to create an Agile Plan and timeline for your next development opportunity. Armed with our experienced independent opinion on budgets, deliverables and timeframes, you'll be able to avoid costly false starts.

Security

  • Is my customer information safe?
  • Are our security policies stifling business productivity and efficiency?
  • What measures do I have in place to ensure the safety of our sensitive data?
  • Do we have documented security standards?

How we can help:

A security audit gives you peace of mind that your online presence will remain secure and well-performing in the face of increasing demands and ever-evolving threats. Too often, the easy yet expensive answer is more boxes and more licences. By contrast, our approach is designed to maximise the use of your existing resources and minimise the need to deploy additional equipment and capacity by ensuring your solutions are appropriately configured.

Technical Knowledge Management

  • Do our technical people complain that technical knowledge has been lost?
  • Does it feel like all the knowledge we gained from the last project we ran is inaccessible or difficult to reuse?
  • Do our technical people complain they don't know which version of the 'truth' to believe?
  • Do we have visibility of how our business is related to our IT investment?

How we can help:

Harnessing crucial technical information every time you make an IT investment brings enduring benefits, including lower costs and risk. However, this information is rarely kept and consequently, every time a new IT project starts up, you have to do the expensive architecture work all over again. You can stop this cycle of repeated work and lost investment with our simple tool set that enables you to codify your architecture artefacts and leverage that vast sunk investment on an on-going basis.