Consulting

Strategic Consulting Service

IT4Automation delivers high standard reliable innovative bespoke engineering services to our customer needs. A collaboration that looks into the architectural and business drivers for change. The outcome is a well defined scope with accompanying reference design. A full scope will consider

• Determination of need
• Audit of what exists
• Gap analysis
• Risk treatment plan
• Basis of design
• Documentation set
• Test planning
• Integration & commissioning plan
• Live migration plan
• Post implementation support plan
• Maintenance plan
• Training requirements

Technical Consulting Service

Planning a significant future investment without first understanding the present status results in uncertainty. Leaving early design assumptions untested introduces a risk that can scupper the best laid plans and budgets. Preliminary investigations into areas of risk can provide a degree of confidence and a source of reference for years to come. Going into a review or embarking on a new project asks questions of what exists, for example: We need to…..

• Understand exactly what assets (devices and systems) are connected to the network and why.
• Determine the quality and availability of existing fibre/copper infrastructure, cleaning where needed.
• Assess whether existing network infrastructure (switches routers etc) can be reused or need to be replaced. If the latter why?
• Identify and remove any network bottlenecks that impact many devices and wider system performance.
• Assess the security position of the existing infrastructure.
• Understand what is determining ultimate performance – the network or the devices that use it.

It is IT4A’s experience that enables these questions to be answered with all the supporting evidence and analysis.