Novell Consulting: Strategy and Planning
Given the pressures of managing complex technical environments, it's often difficult for IT organizations to step back and look at the big picture. With our strategy offerings, Novell can help you set directions and build roadmaps to leverage your technology assets.
Who we are
Within the Americas consulting organization, Novell's strategy practice works on direction setting engagements with clients in identity management and open source.
What we do
We help clients make decisions about the allocation of IT resources based on a structured, business-driven process.
Our approach
Our approach starts with an assessment of your current IT organizationâs direction. We examine your business and IT challenges, then work with you to build an IT strategy that supports your business goals. With a clearly defined strategy, you can embark on system upgrades and solution deployments that address your challenges and align with business goals..
How we work
We work with you in the following areas:
- Engage, educate and align key executives and other stakeholders
- Identify and analyze high-priority business requirements and challenges
- Identify and prioritize IT initiatives based on business requirements
- Leverage our broad cross-industry experiences and best practices
- Develop a future-state architecture
- Create a roadmap for implementing the best solution for your business
Novell recognizes that businesses change over time, so we give you the methods and tools you need to regularly update your roadmap.
Our offerings
Strategy projects range from two week Fast Tracks to more thorough and detailed engagements spanning five to six weeks. The actual scope, deliverables and time frames are tailored to your organization's specific needs.
We deliver strategy projects in our areas of specialization:
- Security and Identity: Novell has a proven history as a market leader in developing identity-management solutions. We offer a broad range of direction-setting engagements to address serious business challenges such as regulatory compliance, security, operational efficiency and business process improvement.
- Linux and Open Source: Because Novell is committed to Linux and open source software, our IT strategy services focus on developing plans to migrate from proprietary data center and desktop systems to faster, more secure, less-expensive open source systems with the least disruption to your business.
Our solutions not only save you money, but also enable your business to provide higher value solutions to your workforce and customers. Novellâs consulting offerings are designed to help you during any phase of your technology adoption.
Typical outputs
The strategy services we deliver via our strategy and planning workshops typically include:
An implementation Roadmap addressing technology, business process and organization changes, both near- and long-term Value justification summarizing return on investment Benefit and risk analysis IT consolidation and efficiency improvements Architectural gap analysis Future-state architectural design
Conclusion
At Novell, our consultants look forward to tailoring our proven strategy engagements to meet your business needs.