Technology Assessments & Strategic Planning
Helping you get the most out of your IT investment
Experience has shown companies that objective, third-party technology assessments have proven to be instrumental in identifying weaknesses or breaches in their environments before they adversely impact their business. The goal of Pinnacle's Technology Assessments and Strategic Planning offering is to identify areas within IT that can benefit from consolidation or outsourcing and deliver a roadmap with justifiable return on investment over the life of the plan. Companies often discover that it costs more to maintain an older environment than it does to replace it with current technology. Ultimately, the goal is to insure that an IT organization is delivering value to the various business units it supports.
Consolidation strategies across the entire IT landscape will often deliver technological improvements combined with significant cost advantages. This is just one area that Pinnacle's Custom Assessment Offering can help. We can also assess the way your company utilizes technology and delivers service and support, in order to make recommendations for costs savings and service level improvements. Our assessment offerings detail the impact of recommended changes, taking into account your technical and business strategies for the future. Ultimately, our analysis will determine whether proposed changes can be cost-justified. Then, we help you make choices on how to proceed confidently with the proposed plan. Our executive-level and technical consultants work with you to inventory and document your existing IT environment and detail the associated costs. Our people are not only specialists in interpreting the assessment results and applying them to your specific environment; they are also specialists in determining which cost factors are most significant for a quick return on investment.
The Pinnacle Approach
When performing a formal assessment, we employ a proven 5-step methodology to accurately assess the existing environment and make the necessary changes to transform and maintain a new environment long term.
Focus Areas
Pinnacle's assessment methodologies are designed to encompass the entire IT landscape and can be directed to any subset of the following areas based on customer preference:
. Server & Storage
. Service & Support
. Application Portfolio
. Governance, Standards & Security
. Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
The Results
Upon completion of a formal assessment, Pinnacle will present findings and recommendations in a written executive report:
. Summary of goals, objectives and findings
. Description, illustration and cost of operation of the existing and proposed environments
. Detailed return on investment (ROI) and total cost of ownership analysis
. Recommendations for staffing and training
. Technology roadmap
The Benefits
. Identifies the true cost of operation
. Ensures IT plans are strategically aligned with the objectives of the business
. Assists in ROI calculation and project payback timeline
. Helps to determine if recommended changes are justified
. Helps to determine which cost factors are most significant for particular technologies