Business IT Consulting Services
Let AHEAD financial and technical experts become your trusted advisors for custom IT strategies and roadmaps that drive digital transformation and positive business outcomes for your organization.
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- AHEAD finance and technology teams work together to create a bottom-up, enterprise-wide financial model for your organization. We shine a light on all present and future committed costs in your enterprise cloud over the next 3-5 years, then model different scenarios for reducing and repurposing that spend.
- Want to focus on a single initiative? Our Lite Financial Consulting offering helps determine the financial viability of any digital transformation project.
- Want to control cloud spend? Our FinOps-as-a-Service offering tracks cloud spending across your business, eliminates costs through rightsizing and automation, and devises the right governance and chargeback models to contain runaway spending.
- AHEAD conducts deep dive assessments across your organization to fully understand the scope of your data and help you define new data policies, procedures, and standards that sanitize your data and ensure quality.
- According to Gartner, by 2025, 70% of enterprises will deploy at least one enterprise-wide GenAI application, but less than 10% will realize the expected ROI. AHEAD AI workshops help you set a course of action to understand viable and revenue-generating use cases for AI and machine learning in your organization.
- Our frameworks for AI strategy and execution accelerate your organization’s ability to navigate enterprise AI, improve confidence in its use, and see faster time to value. We map AI use cases to expected business impact, policy and compliance factors, and metrics to gauge progress and ROI.
- We don’t simply pick new products and solutions for your infrastructure. We are always looking to modernize your infrastructure, evaluating your investments and operating model and making custom recommendations that drive innovation and competitive advantages.
- Whether you are making decisions about the future of VMware in your organization or investing in platform engineering, we always aim to upgrade your infrastructure for scalability, governance, and cost optimization. Even with basic lift and shift migrations, we look for ways to improve applications and underlying platforms.
- There are many architectural, financial, and operational impacts to consider as you adjust your IT strategy. We collect relevant environment data as it is needed to make decisions for where and how to run your enterprise workloads.
- A solid network strategy should align components to maximize user experience, minimize costs, and secure critical business apps. It should automate network operations, monitor holistically with machine learning, and lead to sustainable and reliable network designs.
- Network and network security infrastructure must adapt significantly to support workload migrations to public cloud. AHEAD network consultants deliver custom, prioritized roadmaps of recommended cloud readiness initiatives, including people, process, and tools recommendations.
- Whether you have one location or one thousand, AHEAD can help you refresh your entire network simultaneously. From greenfield hospitals to offices to active data centers in international environments, we have designed and deployed hundreds of complex network deployments from the ground up.
AHEAD can create a baseline financial analysis of spending across your entire IT portfolio, including people, existing trends, and your current IT roadmap. Through this improved IT spend transparency, we help you optimize your spending across all technology areas, from your data center to your service management platform. Then we future-proof your cost savings through strategic impact analyses and budget forecasts for new solutions and technologies.
Our Accelerator program offers more than 400 APIs, customized offerings, and frameworks that integrate multiple platforms. From introducing automation into your infrastructure, to creating data sandboxes to help you explore machine learning and AI, to enabling your teams to function in full Agile Methodology in just a few short weeks, our Accelerators are proven frameworks that serve to drive digital transformation your organization.
Our consultants work with you face to face for every project. Through facilitated workshops, interviews, and data analysis, both your current-state capability and future-state objectives are evaluated to identify strengths and opportunities for improvement. In tandem with our technical experts, we develop a high-level technology strategy that captures both business and technology requirements, and then delivers a prioritized list of follow-up actions to achieve it.
