As a vendor agnostic professional services organisation with both extensive experience within the ICT industry and a diverse professional resource base, Cumulus is well positioned to assist clients in the areas of:
- IT Strategic Planning: - We review your overall business strategy, inclusive of exploring opportunities for IT to enhance this strategy. We provide unbiased recommendations on how IT can be incorporated into the overall business strategies.
- Systems selection and review: - Cumulus New Zealand and Australia maintains a true position of independence from all IT vendors. Being Vendor agnostic has allowed us to develop a unique set of capabilities that incorporate global best practice, delivering high quality results. By developing an in depth understanding of critical business requirements, strategy, and organisational constraints we are able to assist clients in the process of making robust solution evaluation and selection decisions.
- Best practice assessment: - We offer an initial baseline of your people, processes and technology. This information is then measured and rated against best practice framework (e.g. ITIL, ISCA) and similar organisations. Within the report, the identified areas of weakness are explained and a high-level road map identifying remedial changes required to resolve is defined.
- Fit for purpose investigations: - We offer our clients fit for purpose investigations. This assessment is an invaluable resource when used as part of the due diligence applied to a; selection of service providers, software/hardware solutions, or when used to examine solutions and vendors that do not appear to be functioning at a level that meet your expectations.
- Business process re-engineering: - We offer a comprehensive analysis and design of workflows and processes within and between an organisations business units and IT teams, assisting clients in achieving realignment of IT to business requirements.