Consulting Services
Overview
- Software Engineering Consulting
- Project management Consulting services
- Call Center .
- IT Security & Audit,
- IT Infrastructure Management
- Web Engineering
- Building Enterprise Solutions using .Net or J2EE, VC++, C++
- Data Management,
- Business Intelligence
- Business Process Re-engineering,
- BCP (Business Continuity Planning)
- PLM ,Portfolio Strategy / Product and solution strategy
- LINUX Consulting
- Unix & Solaris
- Software Engineering Consulting
Software Process Improvement, Software Defect Management has been the key areas were our experts have conducted number of consulting assignments designed to address the needs of the senior management as well as the technical teams to help them adopt industry best practices and to provide handholding support to implement these practices.
We stand firmly on vendor neutral consulting practices, in those cases where these programs are designed around a particular tool we try to give a fair picture about the extent to which clients needs are going to be met using the particular tool in the particular context.
Our consultants are top software engineering industry experts who are available to focus on your specific issues and needs. Each one of them is recognized in the industry for their years of hands-on experience.
We assure you credibility and leadership to your organization’s quality efforts while maintaining the ability to work side-by-side with your staff to implement practical solutions to your software quality challenges
Besides Security Awareness for senior, middle and other levels of organization structure based on BS 7799 / IS 17799 standards, we also conduct implementation of Security Management & Risk Management and Auditing Infrastructure and Applications.
We conduct :
RISK ASSESSMENT
GAP ANALYSIS
SECOND PARTY ISMS ASSESSMENT
INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM CERTIFICATION – through authorized and approved certification bodies
- IT Infrastructure Management
ITIL™, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library, is the most widely accepted IT-process management framework in the world. It is owned by the OGC (Office of Government Commerce), formerly known as CCTA, which is an UK government department, and was developed during the late 80s.
ITIL used to be a set of about 40 books. Recently the individual processes have been combined into 7 major publications i.e. books or CD-ROMs.
Each publication describes a set of vital IT Service Management processes. ITIL describes the processes needed to manage the IT infrastructure efficiently and effectively in order to guarantee the service levels agreed upon by the IT organization and its customers.
Our business associates who are certified ITIL consultants can conduct awareness programs as well as help in implementing ITIL framework.
- Building Enterprise Solutions using .Net or J2EE, VC++, C++
Addressing industry needs and familiarizing clients with industry best practices in areas like Data Modeling, Dimensional Modeling, and Data Quality, Manag em ent Reporting.
Concepts, components, approaches, comparative study of available options and financial implications of a BI solution
Identifying areas within organization that can leverage benefits of BI and initial gap analysis report.
Technical Writing & Instructional Designing
- Consultancy for developing processes
- Document Conversion
- Onsite Support when required
- Fixed Cost & Material Contracts/projects – onsite and offshore
Project Management Consulting Services
The real world project management experience of our consultants distinguishes them form others in root cause analysis to solve PM problems very effectively. Our project management services ranges from helping organizations to strategically select, plan, staff, execute and deliver mission-critical projects efficiently and effectively.
In today’s competitive business environment a strategic approach to managing projects has become absolute necessity for organization’s success.
Effective project management methods and processes provides a strong competitive advantage over others as using these techniques helps reduce the costs considerably as well results in controlling and closing the project more effectively and efficiently.
Project Mentoring
Depending upon criticality of the project an appropriately selected project expert is assigned by us to pilot your project either on full time or on call basis, his major responsibilities will be to review and modify the project plans, project reports as well to facilitate your team in arriving at a optimum solution to project issues time to time in initiating, scoping, scheduling & prioritizing etc.
Project Management Health Assessments
- Assessment of current project managers competency
- Assessment to select prospective project managers with in organization
- Assisting in conducting training needs analysis (TNA)
- Conduct an organization-wide competency assessment to ensure that the most skilled project managers are assigned to the most critical projects.
Our consultants are experts at auditing projects and determining the true progress, status, forecast and risks. Our team will provide you with a complete and detailed assessment of your project’s health, efficiency, gaps and risks.
Implementing PM Frame-work for your organization
Our consultants can help your Project management team in the development / improvement of current project management processes or procedures to best fit your organization’s needs.
Typically this involves following steps.
Stage I. Process Understanding with submission of white paper.
Stage II. Process Analysis with re-engineering/ set-up
mapping; iterations and discussions to move towards implementation.
Stage III. Implementation – Pilot Prototype
Stage IV. Review Services – ongoing review of process/application utilization
Stage V Complete Implementation for the entire IT Department
Stage VI Steady State Review Services
Project Management Software Expertise
Specific to organizations needs we help clients in selecting PM tool or application available in the market off the shelf as well as in customizing the tools / application to gel with your organization’s methodology, environment and specific business needs as well as hand holding support to the managers and users.
Multiple Projects Management
Industries in the growing economies are always prone to increasing complexities due to multiple projects being handled by the same team or the staff, the size, the criticality and the limitations of budget, other resources and human capital which makes it mandatory for managers to get optimum results while operating with the limitations, hence the need for professionally managing the projects and adhering to the industry accepted principals and methodologies.
Managers are often encountered with many or more than one projects at one time, these projects ranges from small to medium to large as well as from simple to complex. Our consult ants use various methodologies and approach in conjunction with appropriately selected PM tools to enable project managers manage different projects simultaneously.
Product Life Cycle Management - is a business approach for delivering maximum benefit from product data during the entire life of the product. The need for PLM approach and software products has arisen due to prevalent business challenges like mass customization, globalization, shrinking product life cycles due to increasing competition.
- Portfolio Strategy /Product and Solution Strategy
Success of the business strategies of a company or business unit are dependent on the portfolio or ‘bunches’ of markets, applications, products, solutions and technologies/capabilities which can be delivered and supported.
This means that a robust and clear Market and Product Portfolio Strategy which deals with inter-relationships and priorities is a necessity for implementing business strategies across the business and functions.
This allows you to steer and prioritize your future efforts, resources, investment and innovation initiatives to achieve success.
We refer to Portfolio Strategy as the generation and update of a future view of current and new markets, customers, products and solutions. In some cases Portfolio Strategy also incorporates technologies/capabilities.
Whilst improvements to the process and management of Product Development means that the product development folks can get the products available in time – that does not always ensure product success. Sometimes the updated or newly developed products may not be appropriately positioned in the marketplace. In other words, the product strategy and planning may be wrong.
We refer to Product Strategy as the generation and update of a future view of current and new products which includes creativity and innovative thinking. The term 'Product' as used here means "Whole Product or Solution" or " Whole Product Range " including both the intangible as well as the tangible elements which make up the total product, service and brand benefits which customers buy
Linux Training and Support services - Many companies have already started realizing the importance of Linux as a choice for their computing environment.
Linux has come a long way and has been adopted the world over as a stable and reliable environment of choice for mission-critical and multi-tier applications. As a server environment, it has proven its worth as an internet backbone with Apache web servers running on it. However, on the desktop, people are increasingly beginning to adopt Linux as a choice. Services of our Linux support team can be summarized as:
- Setting up LINUX based Mail Server internal & external.
- Setting up LINUX based (Squid & IPTables) Firewall, Proxy, etc.
- Setting up LINUX based Internet sharing (for dial-up and ADSL) capabilities using Web Caching and authentication (NCSA Apache).
- Setting up LINUX based (Samba) File & Print Servers.
- Setting up LINUX based (Apache) Web Servers for sharing documents on the intranet.
- Configuring LINUX based RDBMS like MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc.
- Contracting IT professionals with Linux skill sets.
We believe that defining the right architecture for the web services project is the heart of the successful web solution.
Any enterprise web portals main objective may be to increase interactivity across divisions, better client / customer communication, improved communication interface with the partners etc, but more important in each case is to first define where the web services should not apply which will vary from one organization to other and might alter the entire architecture of the web portal. This also includes how and which data set is accessible by which interest group.
We not only define the right architecture, also select the appropriate tools, and implement operational model whereby your organization leverage benefits of web technologies in the real sense by providing web services to your partners.
Enhancing visibility of your existing web site
Visibility of a site of your web site depends upon :
- The ease with which potential customers can find it.
- Obtaining the highest possible number of wanted visitors
- Directing the visitors to the most appropriate pages on the site.
Challenges in obtaining web visibility
- Designing Effective web visibility strategy
1 Outlining unique objectives, distinguishing features, etc. of the specific business,
2 Web’s sociological and technical constraints.
- Lack of efficient method to acquire and deploy the strategy hence its tedious and time consuming
Isidus belives that each client is unique and so is there needs depending upon the requirements for effectively deploying the strategy in a particular set of conditions we implement some of the methods suggested below for enhancing visibility:
1. Search engine submission and registration.
2. Search engine optimization
3. Entries and their placement in online/web directories
4. Web based publicity campaigns
5. Content syndication
6. Using online communities
7. Creating online communities
8. Cross-linking campaigns
9. Offline web site promotion
