The Advisory Council - Network Rapid Review Assessment

Network Rapid Review Assessment
The enterprise network is a fundamental component of the IT environment supporting a business's critical information and applications. While many organizations have a sizable investment in this area, few have reached the full potential of their investments. Many enterprises are still underutilizing their network, not taking advantage of available cost-saving technology, or not managing their service contracts to take advantage of their network service provider's capabilities.

This is due to a number of factors, which we address in our Network Rapid Review Assessment service.

This affordable, fixed-price offering gives clients — whether planning upgrades, experiencing service delivery challenges, or planning a consolidation — valuable insights that are instrumental in keeping the project on-track and achieving desired goals. Our objective is to assist our clients in implementing the desired changes successfully, and in leveraging the new capabilities for the benefit of the overall organization.

Description

Our Network Rapid Review Assessment offering provides a fast and efficient assessment and analysis of a client’s current networking environment and process maturity capabilities. It delivers:

An assessment and evaluation of the current networking environment, capabilities, and alignment with best practices where possible
A gap analysis comparing the current networking solutions to business needs and to applicable best practices
Recommendations for improvement

Our Experts have experience in working with large and small organizations to help them identify and achieve maximum benefits for the organization. We have assisted our clients in building business cases for implementing cost-saving changes, and for sourcing most efficiently their networking infrastructure and services. Our team also has experience in performing process maturity assessments using IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) guidelines, developing actionable IT strategies, developing architectural plans, and improving network performance.

We team with our clients to develop an assessment based on their goals and business requirements, and to educate their team in the process. We believe that this is important so our clients can take ownership for the recommendations, and are capable of making continual adjustments to the optimization plan as changing business needs demand. We stress that the plan is not just a report, but a process which positively impacts and positions how IT delivers value to the business, and most importantly how this is affected by the network.

Deliverables

Standard

Our offering delivers the following results:

An assessment and evaluation of the current networking environment
- We review technologies, architecture, design, infrastructure, service providers, organization and processes to provide an overall view of the enterprise network and its capabilities
A gap analysis comparing current networking solutions to business needs and to applicable best practices
Recommendations for improvement
- Recommendations will be prioritized based on client-defined criteria
- Recommendations will be summarized in a road map that will highlight visually task duration and dependencies

Work effort may be conducted on-site or off-site as follows:

Work effort is limited to two days for data gathering and assessment, and one day for an interactive presentation of findings and recommendations.
TAC assumes client has readily available inventory, prices, and costs for all areas, and will send to TAC within two business days upon request.
We also assume that selected IT and user staff are available for completing our assessment survey, and for interviews.
TAC will deliver a report of findings and recommendations within seven business days after receipt of all information/data from the client, and present to the client’s management team.

Optional

In addition to the deliverables listed above, we can also assist our clients in a more detailed full network assessment, and subsequently help implement the approved initiatives.

Target Audience

IT and business executives who are responsible for the enterprise network.

About TAC (The Advisory Council)

Founded in 2002, TAC provides IT organizations with enterprise-wide access to objective, actionable advice for resolving IT challenges and issues. Through its suite of services, products and workshops, TAC helps IT organizations make decisions more quickly and cost effectively. TAC’s Expert Network consists of hundreds of Experts, covering the full range of IT subjects. Clients include Fortune 1000 and midsize companies, government, and educational institutions.