The Benefits Of IT Assessments
An IT assessment can provide a clear picture of your current IT infrastructure and operations. Whether you want to boost efficiency, update infrastructure or develop better IT strategy, an assessment report can provide a necessary foundation for improvements. The assessments can also help organizations validate what’s working and identify gaps. This allows teams to prioritize IT projects, quickly remediate risks and proactively manage their IT environment.
We provide comprehensive assessments of IT infrastructure and operations. The assessments evaluate key areas and provide recommendations for improvements. To make sure you only invest in what you need, we tailor each IT assessment to fit your unique requirements. For example, you may need an in-depth view into areas such as IT security, or you may require insight to facilitate strategic shifts and new initiatives. When completing an assessment, we involve highly experienced project managers and subject matter experts. We also use a hybrid-agile methodology, which includes upfront planning and agile techniques for execution.
Our Diverse Experience
Our comprehensive assessments can evaluate all technical, strategic and organizational components of your IT environment. We focus on comparing IT infrastructure and processes to industry best practices and can help you formulate a strategy to repair or modernize your organization’s information system.
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We review all technical components, including networks, servers, storage, security, end-user devices, UC/telecom and application profiles. Assessments for IT infrastructure components focus on comparing IT infrastructure to industry-best practices.
We perform a detailed analysis of overall business processes, procedures, plans and finances, including long-range and strategic IT plans, capital and operational budgets, and the IT governance structure.
We evaluate employee management and processes in the IT ecosystem, including the IT organizational structure and staffing, departmental functions and acquisition, implementation processes, and IT technical and support services.
Verity Health System
Verity Health System needed to upgrade their six-hospital, 1,700-bed health system’s IT environment. We helped by identifying major IT risk areas and providing prioritized recommendations on which systems required optimization, including networks, security, wireless, UC/telecom, data centers, servers and storage. After the assessment provided a roadmap, we moved forward on a plan to modernize their whole IT ecosystem. View press release
Stanford Health Care
Stanford Health Care (SHC) needed an IT assessment for its new ValleyCare system. We reviewed ValleyCare’s IT environment, highlighted gaps against industry-best practices, and provided short-term fixes and a long-term risk mitigation strategy. The assessment aided an IT infrastructure transition that helped SHC manage its health system and prepare for an EHR migration to Epic. View client spotlight | Download client spotlight
Mesa Water District
Mesa Water District needed to transform its IT environment. We evaluated their IT business strategy and provided a comprehensive assessment of its infrastructure, including their network, computers and backup environment. After identifying risks and providing a remediation strategy, we managed an organization-wide remediation of Mesa Water District’s IT environment. View client spotlight | Download client spotlight