Rather than a service, with us you buy a result in either the form of an outcome or an output. We tailor our outputs to fit the outcomes needed. Our core business is focused on working in partnership with you for the long-term, although we can help you in the short-term if you need a position covered or an interim team while you recruit your own.
Strategy:
Strategy production areas of focus include determining business and technology alignment for corporate objectives.
Modus operandi:
We begin by understanding your vision in terms of what success looks like to you, then determine your baseline starting point before preparing a strategy. Once you are happy with this, we outline a roadmap and provide portfolio, program and project plans to the level of detail required using either Axelos (PRINCE2, MSP, ITIL, etc.) or agile formats (DSDM or SAFe).
Applications:
Advice and guidance on approaches to interoperability and integration (including the adoption of microservices architectures) in the context of greenfield applications or managing the phased decommissioning/upgrade of legacy applications.
Advice and guidance on where it does and does not make sense to use blockchain (bypassing the hype-cycle)
Advice and guidance on the development and upgrade of applications.
Advice on selection and configuration of automated deployment tools.
Advice and hands on assistance with general deployment and management approaches for your environment.
Configuring infrastructure (virtual and physical) and applications for high-availability, disaster recovery and business continuity, this includes Software Defined Networking (SDN) approaches.
Identity and Access Management Solutions including federated identity management.
Cloud:
Transition and transformation strategies to public, private and hybrid including Azure and AWS.
Architecture design and hands on implementation for AWS.
Public/private cloud audits.
Determining cost-efficient cloud design patterns.
Guidance on ensuring Australian Privacy Principles have been considered and security implications understood.
Data:
Advice and guidance on the selection of appropriate database technologies including NoSQL solutions.
Deployment and configuration of Microsoft SQL Server.
Modelling, cleansing and quality assessment.
Integrity and interoperability assessments.
Recruitment support:
Identifying role requirements and writing meaningful technical job descriptions.
Shortlisting candidates for interview from CIO/CTO to level 1 helpdesk roles.
Designing technical tests for candidates.
Sitting as technical members of requirement panels.
Through our networks, we can also help you build, replenish or replace your teams.
Testing:
Advice and guidance on testing approaches for infrastructure and applications (physical and virtual).
Advice and guidance on the adoption and embedding of Test Driven Development (TDD) in your organisation.
Procurement:
Researching and writing RFT, RFQ and EOI documents.
We can also help manage your vendor briefings, provide technical evaluations of vendor responses, highlight probity considerations as well as assist with the transition between service providers.
We will also check that you have taken steps to protect your intellectual property as part of your market engagement.
Portfolio/Program/Project Support:
Requirements gathering and analysis based on compliance, risk and value.
Benchmarking, modelling and tracking benefits realisation.
Portfolio, program and project governance reviews against the AgilePM and Axelos global best practice frameworks.
Setting up supporting tools such as Atlassian's Jira, Trello and Confluence.
Undertaking portfolio, program and project set up and end-to-end management (including business case production).