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IT Assessments
IT Assessments help organizations like yours, no matter how large or small, gain a better understanding of their current IT environment to better align to key business goals and objectives.
Our Business-Aligned Information Technology Assessment (BA-ITA) is designed to evaluate the objectives and operational requirements of your organization as well as the technology infrastructure, applications, and support resources that serve your employees, clients, and partners.
The BA-ITA looks at how your organization leverages technology, how it integrates with your business processes, and how it is managed and governed. Once we gain a deep understanding of your objectives and challenges, we develop a plan to improve business outcomes by aligning your business with current and emerging technologies.
As one of the leading IT assessment companies, Dataprise will develop a customized technology roadmap that will help you navigate and prioritize future strategic indicatives that can help your organization:
- Grow RevenueBy analyzing technology in the context of your business, we can uncover ways to improve a customer experience, maintain existing business, and ultimately grow revenue.
- Control CostsDuplicated efforts within your business drivers and technology can be detrimental to your organization’s budget, so we look for opportunities to consolidate or leverage new technologies to streamline processes and control costs.
- Control RiskThere are inherent risks in any organization, but there are also risks that can be mitigated or eliminated; we uncover those risks and provide recommendations to reduce their potential impact.
Information Technology Assessment (ITA)
Designed to provide an in-depth overview of your current infrastructure and technology, our Information Technology Assessment (ITA) evaluates the technology solutions you have in place and how they support your business functions and objectives.
Our ITA analyzes an expansive range of IT functional areas, including:
- Data Storage –SAN, permissions, performance, accessibility, availability
- Server Infrastructure –Warranty/support, performance, capability planning, virtualization, and operating systems
- Network Infrastructure –Power, environment controls, UPS, and warranty/support
- Networking Infrastructure/Carrier Services –ISP, network switching, wireless, cabling and connectivity, LAN/WAN, and warranty/support
- Cloud Services –Compliance, availability, accessibility, and service delivery model
- Business Services/Applications –Collaboration and messaging, financial management, CRM, Active Directory/directory services, business intelligence, and file/print sharing
- IT Disaster Recover/Business Continuity –Recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO), disaster recovery (DR) planning/readiness, business and impact analysis, and backups
- Network Security –RTO Password policies, anti-virus, anti-spam, firewall, content filtering, and physical security
- Telephony –All aspects of your telephony solution
- Risk –Risk identification and risk analysis
IT Organizational Assessments
Our IT Organizational Assessment analyzes how IT services are delivered throughout your organization. This includes the assessment of the current IT organizational structure, available resources, required functions, and existing roles that help meet delivery needs. This assessment incorporates industry best practices and business requirements to identify gaps in your delivery model, including such areas as training and development, succession planning, and workforce planning.
Our recommendations will identify the effective sourcing strategies to ensure that your IT organization can provide optimal service delivery for your business needs.
Financial IT Assessments
Our Financial IT Assessments evaluate your current IT expenses and the areas to which funds are allocated. This helps us understand the drivers for your IT spend and how they align with your business activity.
We assess your IT spend in relation to company size, industry sector, revenue generation, and support, and then compare these results to industry benchmarks and IT financial models. Additionally, we assess the budgeting process, spend authority, and decision policies to help you better understand how IT financial controls are applied.
Our financial IT assessments evaluate spend in the following areas:
- Cloud management
- Service delivery and resourcing
- Information security
- Vendor management
- Infrastructure
- Software and applications
- Supporting services
After our analysis is complete, we provide a comprehensive report outlining your current IT financial state, alignment to best practice and industry benchmarks, and potential areas to optimize your budget and IT spend.
usiness Continuity Plan & Disaster Recovery Maturity and Readiness Assessments
Having a well-crafted IT disaster recovery and business continuity strategy grounded in a robust data backup and recovery solution is essential. To ensure your business is prepared, we offer assessments for:
- We evaluate and provide recommendations for your current business continuity plan to ensure your plan helps protect against everything, from local equipment failure to global disaster.
- We analyze and score your current program based on risk level and recovery likelihood, providing key recommendations to improve your disaster recovery program.
Security Assessments
To help ensure your business is protected against the latest threats, we offer IT security assessments that provide the transparency your business needs to determine your current security baseline with key, actionable recommendations to harden your security posture.
Custom Assessments
Not seeing an assessment that fits your needs? We can work with you to provide a custom assessment to meet your business goals. We have conducted a variety of point-specific assessments, including on organizations’ IT governance maturity, data governance, help desk delivery model (IT sourcing) and IT risk management. Contact us to discuss your specific assessment needs.
Gain a Deeper Understanding of Your Environment and Better Leverage IT with our IT Assessments
Based on industry best practices, our comprehensive approach to information technology assessments helps give you the transparency you need to win with IT.
Chances are, your IT environment has developed gradually. Over time, problems can emerge, including performance gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, and unintended information silos. Eventually, it can be difficult to determine what is and is not working or know where to invest your IT resources.
That's where Dataprise IT Assessments come in. Designed to give your business in-depth insights into your current IT environment, our IT Assessments help your business determine your current state and find areas to grow and improve so that you can strategically align IT with your business goals.
Benefits of a Winning IT Assessment:
- Identifies your IT strengths and potential areas to grow and improve
- Identifies that may not have been known and mitigation strategies to minimize or eliminate these risks
- Assists in providing a pathway forward for technology that is aligned to your business goals and objectives
- Highlights opportunities for cost optimization
Frameworks to Help You Succeed
Dataprise offers tailored IT framework services, including IT governance, IT compliance and IT risk management. As business needs change and grow, more focus is needed to ensure that technical delivery functions and IT services are designed, implemented, managed and controlled in a consistent manner. When IT infrastructure and service management decisions are made, ensuring they follow a clear and well documented framework leads to the successful alignment of IT and business strategy.
Dataprise works with organizations in the service management, IT governance, and IT compliance arenas, providing a wide range of services to assess, plan, implement, and manage programs and frameworks. We work closely with all business stakeholders to assist with the linkage between IT and business strategy to ensure IT decisions are based on business requirements.
We aim to serve as a long-term strategic partner with our clients. We encourage them to leverage our experience and knowledge in industry best practices and proven service management and governance frameworks to help ensure their long-term success.
IT Governance
IT Governance provides a structure for aligning Iwith business strategy. A formal IT framework allows organizations to produce measurable results toward achieving their strategies and goals while considering stakeholder needs.
Implementing a formal IT Governance framework is an integral to a part of overall corporate governance, which assists in providing:
- Alignment between IT strategy with the business strategy
- Cascading strategy and goals down into the organization
- IT organizational structures that facilitate the implementation of strategy and goals
- An IT control framework that needs to be adopted and implemented
- Measurement of IT's performance
Dataprise can assist in the development of an IT governance framework that addresses strategic alignment, performance measurement, risk management, value delivery, and resource management.
IT Risk
While many organizations identify the potential advantages that technology can generate, the key to truly leveraging technology is understanding and managing the risks associated with implementing and managing these technologies. All organizations have IT risk, though most lack a structured mechanism and process to identify, evaluate, prioritize, track, and mitigate the risks.
Our Strategic Consultants can help develop a formalized IT Risk Management program to assist in not only increasing visibility to risk, but also provide a charter of process to manage the application of resources. Our IT risk management services can effectively minimize, monitor, and control the realization of these risks.
An IT Risk Management program will:
- Establish a comprehensive IT Risk Management program that assists in exposing risks
- Develop consensus on organizational IT risk appetite
- Establish a framework and metrics for acceptable IT risk tolerance
- Create a strategy for managing and mitigating IT risks to meet the risk appetite
- Quantify IT risk exposure in meaningful financial terms
- Align business and IT risk management objectives
- Enable the business to make informed investments when managing risks
IT Compliance
Many organizations are bound by regulatory compliance or standards (e.g. FISMA, Sarbanes–Oxley, HIPAA, FINRA, SSAE 16, various ISO standards). Dataprise Strategic Consulting services can assist in managing your organizations IT controls that assist in achieving compliance.
Organizations need assistance to navigate the different compliance requirements, as there is often overlap, dependency or competing requirements. We can assist with helping your organization meet state and federal compliance standards.
We can help you reach IT compliance with:
- Compliance readiness IT assessments
- Compliance identification and requirements assessment
IT Strategy and Planning
IT Strategy and Planning to Help Your Business Look to the Future
Dataprise’s IT strategy consulting services help businesses develop highly effective IT plans, programs and solutions. One of the biggest challenges that a business faces today is ensuring that it has a well-developed IT program that supports business objectives. The infrastructure and technology decisions made today can have a dramatic effect on the future of your organization from a financial, performance, and competitive standpoint.
As one of the top IT consulting firms, Dataprise provides a comprehensive range of strategic IT services to assist any business in making these decisions. Our team of dedicated, professional Strategic Consultants can help develop complete strategies or look at specific areas of concern.
Our approach is simple yet effective. We work with your organization and key stakeholders to ensure infrastructure and technology decisions are assessed based on your specific needs. Using proven methodologies and frameworks, our IT strategy consulting services help your business make the right short-, mid-, and long-term infrastructure and technology decisions. Our strategic IT services help you develop an IT plan to consolidate, optimize, expand, migrate, or implement to help you achieve your goals.
We offer various consulting engagements in all of our technology practice areas, from infrastructure management to security to strategic IT planning to fit your business needs.
Benefits of IT Strategy Consulting and Planning with Dataprise
Dedicated ResourcesOur IT strategy consultants are focused solely on helping you achieve business objectives
Unparalleled ExpertiseOur IT strategy consultants leverage real-world experience and an unbiased view of best practices ensure your organization is more efficient and productive
Proven Methodology and FrameworksOur team of certified ITIL, Project Management Professional (PMP), and Cobit consultants adhere to industry best-practices
Results-Based Strategic Consulting
This is a best-fit consulting engagement for when your business is looking for a desired outcome at the end of the strategic consulting service.
Example engagements include:
- IT Roadmap
- IT Budgeting and Financial Cost Modeling
- RFP Development, Management and Respondent Selection Assistance
- Policy Writing
- IT Governance and Service Management Framework Development and Implementation
- IT Due Diligence Analysis
- Organizational Change Management
- IT Organizational Design