Strategic Business Alignment
Build a portfolio strategy that aligns with your business goals. Onboard with little to no knowledge transfer.
IBM i priorities have evolved. Has your IT strategy?
Why Use Strategic Advisory Services?
A well-crafted and executed IBM i management and modernization strategy can help you harness the power of IBM i while leveraging modern technologies to streamline your application portfolio. A detailed analysis, strategy, and planning process can help you meet changing user demand, reduce maintenance costs, mitigate compliance risks, and eliminate redundancy.
Increase Agility
Address skills shortages, improve integration of systems, and leverage modern technology to futureproof your IT.
Modernization Roadmap
Establish a direction with tailored options: UI, service-oriented architecture, transformation, or reporting & analytics.
Take a Customized Approach
- Obtain a thorough analysis of your IBM i environment using X-Analysis, a leading graphical documentation tool for IBM i.
- Identify suitable and pragmatic IBM i modernization and management options to align IT with business.
- Establish project plans with budget and staffing estimates.
- Outline a development, support, and innovation strategy for the applications required to run the business.
Align Business Improvement Outcomes with Modernization Strategy
- Create a roadmap tailored to achieving your modernization goals and objectives.
- Determine the best modernization option for you: GUI, mobile and web enablement, service-oriented architecture, application and database conversion, and support enhancement.
- Define a phased-approach timeframe that includes quick wins to prove ROI.
- Establish a modern target reference architecture and align IT projects so they fully support business-value creation.
- Enhance productivity throughout the organization.
Analyze the current state of your IBM i
- Conduct an IT Health Check, a metrics-based assessment with in-depth code and data analysis that brings key stakeholders to the table and evaluates administrative, development, and operational processes, as well as skillsets and security procedures.
- Assess the size, state, and complexity of the applications and databases running in the IBM i environment.
- Evaluate the state of governance and processes used to manage the development, operations, and administration of the system, applications, and data.
- Get a high-level review of your resources & their ability to support your IBM i applications with recommendations and options to modernize the environment.