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Assessment Services Overview

Small and medium businesses are continuing to scrutinize IT budgets. Service quality demands are at an all-time high and the Internet has revolutionized how organizations operate, which makes the “old-world” IT service delivery models ineffective at delivering an Information Technology platform that is in synch with business objectives.

BC Networks Assessment Services provide a process through which a business and technical analysis is performed upon your IT Systems. These systems are critical to the organization and are intended to be used as a tool to support various data-centric operations. As new technologies emerge, businesses are becoming increasingly dependant on these systems and their service organizations to facilitate communications as mission critical business services. As a result these technologies are often deployed without a formal business and engineering process plan, typically lack adequate documentation and usually result in a system with negligible return on investment (ROI).

BC Networks formalizes this technology deployment process through applying a highly predictable methodology which provides you with a ‘Roadmap’ to meet your business requirements and at the same time provide a level of documentation required to achieve accountability and visibility into all of the planning, budgeting and scheduling activity required to achieve results.

Technology Needs Assessment

Methodology


Technology Platform Review

Network Infrastructure		Firewalls & Security Vulnerabilities
Computing Platform Hardware		Data Storage
Software Applications & Services		Email & Wireless Messaging
Anti-Virus		System Monitoring
Backup Systems		Disaster Recovery


The result of our assessment are distilled into a technology roadmap, which will help identify, prioritize, and propose potential solutions that guide the expenditure of capital funds intended to remedy discovered problems. Without a well defined plan you run the risk of executing on individual IT decisions without regard for an overall strategy or direction. This Roadmap should be reviewed and aligned on an annual basis ensuring consistent alignment with business objectives. Our Assessment services program addresses your business pain, by obtaining business requirements in some of the following areas:
Performance & Availability		ITIL service management
Capacity Planning		Minimize downtime/lost productivity
Informed IT purchasing/ budgeting


	Requirements Gathering BC Networks will facilitate the gathering of requirements by interviewing key stakeholders in identifying and documenting both general and specific system requirements.

	Discover Risks An inspection will be performed to discover whether or not the current system meets the desired requirements and then document each of the findings.

	Findings The findings and corrective actions will be documented identifying each associated risk. This will help you obtain a clear understanding the weaknesses within your system.

	Recommendations Recommendations will be made for each finding along with an explanation of the associated risks with a rationale for each determination.

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