Why Novell Consulting?
Implementing a business solution is more than simply applying technology to a particular business problem. Building cost-effective, reliable and secure business solutions that help you meet your business priorities requires a team of both astute business strategists and technical experts with broad industry experience.
In addition, we provide proven consulting methodologies backed by a global services organization. Novell offers strategy roadmapping and implementation services to help identify and implement solutions that enable you to increase business-critical capabilities, achieve tangible results, create competitive advantage and realize a return on your investment within realistic time frames.
Global Integrated Services Organization
Companies are grappling on multiple fronts with business challenges: uncertain industry environments, lack of future visibility, increased global competition, technological change, government regulations, security issues and pricing pressure. With deep industry expertise, a global integrated services team and an extended team of partners, Novell can rapidly mobilize the right people, skills and technologies to help solve your business problems. Globalization and the move to offshore resources are squeezing profit margins. Open source technologies are changing the makeup of the business environment. These shifting market dynamics—combined with ongoing pressure to "do more with less"—create uncertainty, contributing to many organizations' reluctance to make information technology (IT) investments.
The Novell Consulting team is comprised of experts in technology-related fields:
- Strategy and architectures
- Solution design and deployment
- Training-needs assessment and skills development
- Solution support
Novell provides the right mix of capabilities and experience to deliver business-critical technology solutions. We help by first assessing your existing IT investments in the context of your most pressing business challenges and then work with you collaboratively to identify, prioritize and justify future technology investments and help implement the appropriate business solutions. While we focus on implementing solutions that address specific business problems, we also deliver world-class support and training services to provide the resources you need to realize the maximum benefit from your IT investments.
Business-problem Solutions
Novell consultants combine business savvy with deep technical expertise to deliver world-class business solutions that are based on an innovative approach to solving business problems. Novell consulting capabilities are particularly useful to organizations seeking to improve security and to those that want to reduce the cost of technology investments generally.
Unlike other consulting firms, Novell does not believe in endless IT projects. Our consultants deliver projects in stages, with clearly defined deliverables and immediately observable results for each stage. You can opt out at the end of any phase and proceed independently with the confidence that you have a solid, well-justified, business-oriented plan.
We focus on solving your business problems rather than pushing a particular technology. Our consultants understand that third-party software may be needed to augment Novell software products to provide a comprehensive solution to your business problem. Moreover, we have established a comprehensive partner ecosystem to ensure rapid, successful and cost-effective implementation and support for the business solution.
Innovative Business Solutions
Novell combines a practical approach with innovation to develop new solutions and deliver value. Novell offers both horizontal solutions and industry-specific business solutions.
One example of a horizontal solution is our commitment to secure Web services. As Web services technology has evolved, companies have rushed to deploy Web services-based applications. But at Novell, we combine secure identity services with Web services so your organization can capture the full benefit—without exposing sensitive information to unauthorized access.
On the other hand, our clinical workstation solution for the healthcare industry is an industry-specific business solution. This portal provides physicians, nurses, and other healthcare providers with customized access to patient data, while meeting the latest security and HIPAA requirements.
Strategy and Implementation Experience
Novell integrated services teams provide clients with a more robust set of services and choices than ever before. Clients tell us we are easy to work with because we focus on solving their problems, not on pushing a particular technology. Our consulting approach is based on a strong commitment to open standards, interoperability and the right blend of technologies from Novell and other leading vendors. Our training and technical support deliverables allow you to implement, maintain and optimize your enterprise IT investments.
Our teams are flexible. We deliver services ranging from one-day discovery workshops to strategy roadmaps and solution implementations, all using a consistent, well-defined methodology. We ensure that you will capture the maximum benefit from your investment as each phase is complete by providing follow-up training and technical support options. These services help your IT staff stay current with implemented solutions, allowing you to focus on achieving your business goals.
Comprehensive Partner Ecosystem
Novell has established a comprehensive partner ecosystem that includes a broad range of independent hardware vendors, independent software vendors and consulting and systems integrators. This extensive partner ecosystem helps us focus on solving your problems to deliver a cost-effective solution in a rapid manner, not on pushing a particular technology. Our objective consulting approach is based on a strong commitment to open standards, interoperability and the right blend of technology from Novell and other leading vendors. We focus on enhancing and adding value to the solutions and systems you already have in place—not on replacing them.