Advisory & Consulting Services
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The journey to transform your business, modernize your IT infrastructure, and transfer workloads to the cloud and hosted platforms can be complex.
From platform choice to solution design, migration planning to ongoing optimization, the need for expertise has never been greater.
If you are undertaking a complex build, migration or upgrade, take advantage of the experienced IT project management services available to ensure you deliver your initiatives on time and on budget while reducing the management burden on your team.
- Assess, consult, evaluate
- Skilled, qualified solution engineers on hand to help you map out requirements and make the best platform and service choices to achieve your business goals. Services include:
- Cloud readiness assessment: evaluate the complexity and investment required to migrate your different applications to cloud environments
- Compliance Audit Consultation: access expert support for your compliance audits, answering auditors’ questions, providing evidence as required and escorting auditors on data center tours
- Database Review: comprehensive database reviews carried out by our skilled DBAs to identify opportunities to improve performance
- Design and build
- Solution architects and engineers will work with you on detailed cloud and hosting solution designs, taking a holistic approach to build in network management and security. Once deployed, a rigorous testing phase is carried out before handover.
- Migrate
- Meticulously planned and executed migrations to move your critical data and applications efficiently and securely to cloud or hosted platforms with an absolute minimum impact on your day-to-day operations.
- Optimize
- Lean on the insight and experience of our teams to help you fine tune your solutions as your business changes and evolves. Services include:
- Database management: let our expert DBAs manage and fine tune your critical databases to ensure the applications that rely on them perform at their peak. Flexible plans available so you can benefit from ongoing database optimization
- Load Testing: ensure your solution keeps pace with anticipated demand with carefully planned tests to define load parameters and advise on real time capacity
- Vulnerability Scans: analysis of public IP addresses for web applications to produce a detailed report on any risks incurred by the solution and possible remediations
- Project management
- If you are undertaking a complex build, migration, or upgrade, take advantage of the experienced IT project management services available to ensure you deliver your initiatives on time and on budget while reducing the management burden on your team.
Specialist teams include Cloud Architects, Solution Engineers, Technical Account Managers, Database Administrators and Network Engineers. - Flexible billing
- Choose from discrete, per-project fees for standalone initiatives or benefit from the efficiencies of a recurring monthly package of hours that you can choose to deploy across regularly required tasks.
Advisory & Consulting Practice
Aptum will guide you on a journey that begins with Discovery, followed by Advisory, Adoption, and Delivery capabilities that are designed to drive continuous improvements and optimization to your environments.
Advisory
Advisory

Define Strategy
- Define business justification and expected outcomes
- Understand your business motivations and desired outcomes, and identify financial and technical considerations
Plan
- Align actionable cloud adoption plan to business outcomes
- Guide to ensure technical efforts are aligned to your business strategy to convert your aspirational goals into an actionable plan
Adoption
Adoption

Ready
- Prepare people, processes and the environment for change
- Create landing zones and estimates for your build and deployment, along with a broader cloud adoption proposal
Adopt
- Implement desired changes across IT and business processes
- Migrate workloads that can easily be moved to the cloud and innovate to unlock new technical skills and expanded business capabilities for other workloads
Delivery
Delivery

Govern
- Comply, control and secure
- Governance benchmarking of the ‘here and now’ and creation of a governance foundation to build upon as you progress cloud adoption
Manage
- Operate and optimize
- Solid planning for ongoing operation of reliable and well-managed workloads
Ready to take the first step to something great?