The IT Production side of I.T. can sometimes be forgotten, or treated as a fixed cost overhead. At the same time, the IT Production teams face increasing challenges:

• Increasing demands on Storage, Processing and Networking infrastructure
• How to Manage Costs for a growing portfolio of IT infrastructure,
• How to make Costs Transparent
• Justifying Investment in Infrastructures
• Integration of divergent infrastructure technologies
• Ongoing relationship management and keeping up-to-date with New Technologies

Do you need Key Stage Consultancy ?

The best use of Consultancy Services is during Key Stages of the business transition. For example,

• A new programme of projects are being proposed,
• Reviewing corporate IT strategy,
• Defining a new Road Map for future growth.
• Architecture Reviews as part of a merger, takeover, or management buy-out.

Each of these stages has a number of characteristics. They are defining moments in the company's history. Decisions taken at this time will impact the future technology direction of the company for some time. At such a critical time, it is essential that the company invests in research and investigation, to ensure that the decisions are taken with the maximum visibility of the risks and issues. For this reason, it makes sense to bring in external consultants who :

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News: Does Outsourcing really Pay
(unless you are the Outsourcer) ?

More than one person has made the comment that if you Outsource your IT to a Commerical organisation, how can you expect to pay less for it?

Now, to add fuel to the fire, none other than Gartner have finally got out the pocket calculator, and decided that " outsourcing, and even offshore outsourcing, does not generally deliver overall cost-reduction ". I could have told them that years ago...

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