Information Technology Consulting

We power up IT’s role for your business by:

• Defining how to position and manage the IT function in your company: business-oriented KPIs, goals, optimal organizational structure.
• Preparing business cases for IT initiatives with ROI in focus.
• Building an IT roadmap on making modern technologies work for business outcomes.

The results you can expect:

• +10% .. +200% to revenue from new digital sales channels.
• +15% .. 30% increase in sales via marketing and sales automation.
• +3% .. 10% to ROA via equipment utilization optimization, asset tracking, and predictive maintenance.
• +15% .. 50% to employee productivity via convenient user experience and collaboration tools.

Transform my IT

IT strategy includes:

• A business-IT alignment plan to reinforce business processes with IT and introduce new digital business models, if needed.
• A more mature IT operating model to improve operational efficiency.
• An IT sourcing plan to cover skill gaps at an optimal cost. We segment your IT needs and determine which functions are better to be implemented in-house or outsourced to a single or multiple providers.
• An application integration plan to expand end-to-end automation, avoid functionality duplication and introduce changes at speed required by the business needs.
• A plan on improving IT service reliability and application performance management.
• A plan on enhancing data quality in business-critical IT systems.
• A plan on ensuring IT security and compliance.

Build my IT strategy

Solution concept:

• Feature management and prioritization.
• How to integrate a solution into the existing IT landscape to avoid functionality duplication, optimize implementation and operational costs.
• How to maximize ROI.
• How to ensure outstanding UX and user adoption.
• How to organize further solution support and evolution.

Solution architecture:

• Choosing between a product, a platform-based or a custom application.
• Selecting components: applications, platforms, online services, and hardware.
• Selecting future-proof architecture: cloud-native, serverless; microservices; service-oriented; others.
• Achieving application reliability: resilient architecture, APM, performance testing.
• Ensuring security and compliance.
• Planning PoC to verify ambiguous solution design aspects.

Solution implementation:

• Choosing an optimal implementation methodology (Agile or Waterfall), assessing the need for CI/CD pipeline.
• Ensuring quality: correct translation of business needs to software features, code quality, test coverage, manual and automated testing ratio.
• Choosing an optimal sourcing model: in-house, completely outsourced or mixed (dedicated team or staff augmentation).
• Recommendations on project management to deliver a solution on time and budget.

ScienceSoft also provides related services:

• Business analysis and requirement specification.
• UX services.
• Outsourced project management.
• Training and knowledge transfer.
• Continuous consulting support in the course of the solution’s evolution.

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DT areas we consult on:

• Digital customer experience.
• Connected products.
• Digital HR.
• Remote work enablement.

Consult on DT

Technology areas we consult on:

• Cloud consulting: implementing cloud technologies to achieve a higher speed of IT evolution and reduce costs and migrating to the cloud.
• Digital workplace consulting: planning organization of digital workplaces for better employee productivity.
• Application reliability consulting: combining fast application evolution with high reliability.
• AI consulting: using AI to upgrade operational processes and solve AI-tied tasks.
• IoT consulting: optimizing business management with IoT.
• Data quality consulting: ensuring a high quality of data from ERP, CRM, SMC, and other business-critical systems.
• Computer vision consulting: helping build image analysis solutions for object detection, recognition, and identification. 

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