IT Consulting

Zombie Data offers a number of specialized IT Consulting engagements. Most companies need to perform these type reviews on a periodic basis but rarely have the time to because of day to day operations, projects, etc. With Resources possessing over 25 years of individual experience in IT we can work with your firm to discuss and document plans for your IT Organization. Several examples are outlined below such as:

IT Architecture Audit

Call it Step 1 in moving to your ideal Future State model. The first step in executing a plan towards a Future State IT Architecture plan is finding out where you are. In today's world of mergers and acquisitions, it is nigh impossible to find a company running on a single set of architecture platforms. Let us work with your firm to do a complete evaluation of your infrastructure (servers, networking, database and other system software, etc.), dicuss alternatives for your firm's future state model and give you our best recommendations for moving towards that future state model.

IT Server Compliancy/Warranty Audit

Are your various software and database packages in compliance? Are the versions all still under active support by the software companies? Do you know when the software and database packages go out of support? Are your servers all under warranty? Does the vendor still support them or have they reached 'End of Life'?Some companies have a 3 or 5 year refresh policy on their servers? Let our firm work with you to document your environment and complete a plan to update as appropriate.

IT Department Maturity Review

IT is a service organization and as firms grow they want more from their IT organizations.  For instance - Change Management.  How often do you change either hardware, software or networking pieces?  What is the process to review and approve said pieces?  Communications to the user base that this is going to occur?  If there are problems whom should they contact?  How are these changes tracked?  What is the success rate of your organization for implementing these changes without incident?  Let us review your firm's IT Organization and compare to the basics of a modern mature IT organization.  By providing you insight into options available to you it may just simplify your IT life.