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Operational Maturity Assessment

An operational maturity assessment that shows where your IT team’s time goes, and what it costs

When a small IT team runs everything, maintenance, patching and late-night call-outs take over the week, leaving little time for the projects the business is waiting on. Our Operational Maturity Assessment measures what your current operating model really costs and shows what your team could do with that time back.

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Why assess?

Find out what running your own infrastructure really costs your team

Infrastructure that needs constant attention has a cost that rarely shows up on an invoice: staff time, burnout and projects that never get started. An assessment puts numbers on it, so you can decide what to change.

You’ll see how much time goes on reactive work, where your single points of failure are, and what it costs to run things yourself compared with a managed service. Whatever you decide, you’ll be deciding with real numbers.

How much of your team's week goes on reactive work?

Who gets the call when something breaks at 2am, and what happens next?

Do you hear about outages from your monitoring, or from your customers?

Does patching happen on a schedule, or when someone gets to it?

What does managing it yourself cost compared with a managed service?

Our assessment takes the guesswork out, bringing you data, analysis, and expertise to guide the way.

The process

What does the assessment cover?

We look at people, process and tooling together, and base our recommendations on how your team runs things today.

01

Discovery and team interviews

We discuss with your IT and Operations team how they manage the infrastructure, their workload and what slows them down.  We also collect all relevant documentation and other data for review.

02

Operational model review

We map functional roles across your environment, critical operational processes, and where the gaps and single points of failure are.

03

Incident and process analysis

Using your tickets and logs, we look at incident patterns, response times, and how monitoring, patching and escalation work today.

04

Staffing and cost analysis

We work out how much staff time and cost goes on operations rather than core business work, and compare the TCO of managing it yourself with a managed services model.

05

Recommendations & roadmap

Based on our analysis, we will recommend what to change and what to preserve. If managed services make sense for you, we'll set out a phased plan for getting there.

Depending on scope, you'll get an operational model review, incident pattern analysis, a cost comparison of self-managed and managed services, a staffing analysis, a process assessment and a transition roadmap. The largest engagements add maturity scoring, an ROI model and runbooks.

Use cases

When does an operational maturity assessment make the most impact?

A small team running everything

When two or three people look after all your infrastructure, one sick day or resignation can leave gaps nobody else can cover.

Burnout and hiring pressure

If you can't hire fast enough to keep up, the assessment shows where the time goes and what could come off your team's plate.

No monitoring or incident process

If you find out about problems when users call, you're always reacting. We'll show you what a structured process would look like for your team.

Weighing up managed services

Get the numbers on your current model before you decide whether to change it. The assessment doesn't commit you to anything.

Why Aptum?

We can be your infrastructure team

Aptum has managed infrastructure for customers since 1996. If the assessment shows managed services would make sense for you, the same team can take on patching, monitoring and day-to-day support, with individuals who know your environment.

If a previous provider let you down, we'll look at what went wrong and plan the move around it. And if the numbers say keep it in-house, we'll tell you that too.

Start with a conversation

Let's find out where your team's time is going

Tell us a little about your team and your environment, and we'll be in touch to scope the assessment with you.

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