Enterprise Architecture Consulting | Storage Architecture Consulting and Integration | IT Transformation Consulting

Enterprise Architecture Consulting

Enabling organizations to translate strategy into effective change.

Over the past decade, the strategic application of technology has become critical to almost every business. As technology continuous to evolve, it is essential that businesses are able to effectively apply and align technology to their business objectives in order to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. Unfortunately, many organizations find it difficult to align their business strategy with the execution of resulting technology projects. It is rare to find an organization these days that has a technology strategy that maps right into the business strategy. Today’s leaders require a holistic view that combines business strategy, business architecture, technology and information.

At Progressive Leadership, we help bridge that gap between business strategy and technology strategy. We provide technology expertise combined with business knowledge to help you develop and evolve your enterprise architecture that leads to measurable results with higher productivity, reduced risks, improved service levels and reduced cost structure. Ultimately a mature Enterprise Architecture will help to realize agility, allowing larger organizations to compete more effectively. We follow closely the TOGAF Enterprise Architecture and ITIL frameworks to deliver a full range of services to help your organization deliver high performance by providing expertise in:

• Service Capability Maturity assessments based on CMMI and ITIL frameworks
• Strategy and Governance based on ISACA’s Cobit methodology
• Enterprise Architecture and Infrastructure Strategy based on TOGAF framework
• IT Service Delivery and Support process design based on ITIL framework

Some of the benefits delivered through our services are:

• Reduction of cost structure and cost avoidance
• Reduction in business risks and improved business continuity
• Readiness to handle organizational changes

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Storage Architecture Consulting and Integration

Progressive Leadership provides cutting edge enterprise storage solutions that meet the unique business and technology requirements of clients. From developing a comprehensive storage strategy, to designing the enterprise Storage Services Catalog, and defining the storage reference architecture for all service areas including operational recovery, disaster recovery and archival management; we help clients develop and execute their storage strategy and storage management optimization programs to drive their cost structure down, increase productivity, and reduce risks in their environment. Our key service areas are:

• Enterprise storage strategy and management plan
• Storage services catalog, reference architecture and related solution tools
• Application alignment processes and programs
• Storage consolidation and virtualization programs
• Business continuity strategies and plans
• Storage process design and operational plans

Some of the benefits delivered through our services are:

• Cost effective tiered storage infrastructure including backup and recovery solutions
• Vendor independent storage solutions that align to business requirements
• Better management of technology and service vendors through defined KPIs and metrics

Our team of storage architects have extensive expertise across the best of breed storage technologies from multiple vendors. This allows us to articulate the differences between storage technologies and to interpret their use in a customer's environment.

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IT Transformation Consulting

IT Transformation Consulting is designed to enable you to optimize the value you get from your technology investments during and after transformations.

Our key service areas are:

• CIO Advisory Services: working with you to develop and implement the IT strategy, Enterprise Architecture, IT organizational structure and shared services model that optimizes the value of information technology to the business.
• IT Service Management: helping you adopt the ITIL framework in your enterprise in an effective approach that delivers measurable improvements and results in a defined timeframe.
• Technology Assessments: helping you evaluate your current technology environment, focus on technology priorities and plan for future technology needs.

Our comprehensive assessments cover:

• Enterprise Maturity in each of the Information and Communication Technologies (network, server, storage, etc.) assessing the three key capability components (People, Process, Technology) for each of the 10 ITIL process areas.
• Based on the CMMI scale, the report provides a score from 0-5 for each component, process and technology helping the CTO identify inconsistencies across technology groups and focus on key areas requiring improvement.

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