Strategic Consulting

Delivering Business Value

At Proact we believe that IT provision should meet the needs of your organisation - its vision, goals and plans. To deliver on this ethos requires a defined strategy and architecture for the development of IT systems. Our aim is to help our customers align their IT investment and technology selection with their business requirements.

Proact believe a well-developed IT strategy and architecture has the following components:

Baseline Architecture

The ‘As Is’ picture of the organisation which provides the starting point for any IT investment decisions, including challenges and constraints
Business Requirements

The current and future business needs of the organisation
Target Architecture

Identified options for technologies and processes that would meet those business needs
Migration Plan

Phased, prioritised plan to evolve towards the target architecture

Our guiding principle when engaging with our customers are to:

Provide a clearly understood foundation for the adoption of future technology and processes
Enable agility and flexibility in response to future changes in business direction
Ensure the technology changes proposed fit with the internal structure of the business and the external challenges facing it
Facilitate the adoption of the most appropriate current technology and best practices
Support the delivery of business focused services rather than IT functions or applications
Provide a baseline for investment cost justification
Allow you to plan for and build internal resource capability – technology, process and people
Allow you to speedily and flexibly react to changing business need, whether to exploit opportunity or mitigate risk

Proact’s experienced architects are able to provide assistance with or take responsibility for all aspects of infrastructure strategy and architecture development. The impact of changes to the core architecture on the bigger picture of the IT strategy and the existing infrastructure will always be considered.