Gain a Deeper Understanding of Your Environment

Chances are, your IT environment has developed gradually. Over time, problems can emerge, including performance gaps, redundancies, inefficiencies, and unintended information silos. Eventually, it can be difficult to determine what is and isn’t working. Without the proper perspective, it can be difficult to know where to invest your IT resources.

What is an IT Assessment?

An IT Assessment is a comprehensive and thorough review of a company’s environment and technology systems. AVSANT developed a comprehensive, no-nonsense Information Technology Assessment (ITA) to conduct a thorough, in-depth review of all critical technology areas, and evaluate it against best practices, and provide a road map to better leverage IT as a competitive advantage.

Our IT Assessments employ a unique scoring system called the AVSANT IT Health Index, an easy to understand metric that measures each critical IT function. The index makes it simple to identify your IT strengths and weaknesses so you can invest more wisely.

Our ITA analyzes an expansive range of IT functional areas, including:

• Data Storage: SAN, Permissions, Performance, Accessibility, Availability
• Server Infrastructure: Warranty, Performance, Capability, Virtualization, & OS
• Network Infrastructure: Power, Environment Controls, UPS, Warranty/Support
• Carrier Services: ISP, Network Switching, Wireless, Cabling and Connectivity
• LAN/WAN: Warranty/Support
• Cloud Services: Compliance, Availability, Accessibility, Service  Delivery
• Business Services: Collaboration and Messaging, Financial Management
• Systems: CRM, Active Directory/Directory Services, BI, File/Print Sharing
• Disaster Recover/Business Continuity: RTO, RPO, Readiness, Impact
• Network Security: Policies, Anti-virus, Anti-spam, Firewall, Content Filtering
• Telephony: All Aspects of Your Telephony Solution
• Risk: Risk Identification, Risk Analysis

Upon completion of the assessment, you receive a detailed report and in-person presentation that outlines the current state of your technology and offers detailed recommendations for improvement.

1 in 5 of Your Customers Is a Person with Disabilities

Digital communications are increasingly important resources in many aspects of life: education, employment, government, commerce, health care, recreation, and more. It is essential that your digital communications be accessible in order to provide equal access and equal opportunity to people with diverse abilities. Access to information and communications technologies, is defined as a basic human right in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD).

Digital communications offers the possibility of unprecedented access to information and interaction for many people with disabilities. That is, the accessibility barriers to print, audio, and visual media can be easily overcome through technologies.

Our team of experts can help you make your website accessible, and show you how to design your next project with digital accessibility in mind. At AVSANT, we provide the full suite of digital accessibility consulting services, including design, development, user testing and remediation guidance.

• Risk Review and Gap Analysis: Receive a high-level assessment to gage the current state of your product’s accessibility.
• Accessibility Audit: Website, application, document or mobile accessibility evaluation and QA for Section 508 compliance and WCAG 2.0 compliance.
• Mobile Accessibility Audit: Ensure that your mobile applications for websites comply with the accessibility standards.
• Assistive technology compatibility testing: Ensure that your product works with the tools and programs that people with disabilities use.
• Legal Compliance Audit: Understand the ADA and Section 508 legal requirements to reduce risk and ensure compliance.

Ensure That You Are Prepared for Anything

With guidance from AVSANT disaster recovery specialists, your customized disaster recovery plan helps you avoid significant loss so your business stays connected and running smoothly.

Studies have shown that for companies that experience a “major loss” of computer records, 43 percent never reopened, 51 percent closed within two years of the loss, and only 6 percent survived over the long-term. Having a well-crafted IT disaster recovery strategy grounded in a robust data backup and recovery solution is essential.

Loss of data could mean lost emails, accounting data, patient or client files, company records, or client records. It also means potential loss of revenue.

The AVSANT Disaster Recovery Consulting Team ensures our clients have a near bulletproof IT Disaster Recovery Plan in places, so they can have peace of mind that critical systems and processes are safe, and/ can recover from any potential data loss situation with as little (if any) downtime.

Ensure Your Business Stays in Business

Along with an IT Disaster Recovery Plan, a Business Continuity Plan is the blueprint for how businesses plan to survive everything from local equipment failure to global disaster. Data-oriented BCP is an indispensable component of business planning that poses challenges for businesses of all sizes. Most organizations, both public and private, lack the in-house IT resources to achieve these demanding planning, technical and process requirements.

Therefore, many organizations either neglect to implement any data-oriented business continuity plan or approach data backup and recovery in a sporadic, rudimentary fashion that fails to conform to the best practices of BCP. The AVSANT Business Continuity Consulting Team is ready to create a plan of action for any size organization. To learn more, please contact a representative in our BC group, today.

The Art of Doing More with Less

The operational efficiency of organizations is often plagued by variance in performance. Organizations typically look to materials, machinery, and work methods to limit the variance. If that fails, they form teams to tweak and re-tweak their processes. While process refinement certainly can help, more often than not organizations overlook reducing variance in human performance. All processes, work methods, and procedures rely on the behavior of people to implement or support desired outcomes. Assessing variance in human performance is critical to making and sustaining gains in operational efficiency.

AVSANT identifies and then helps organizations reduce that variance in human performance. We not only narrow the spread in performance by promoting consistent performance in individuals, we elevate the overall performance level by tapping into the discretionary effort of their workforce. Knowing that the rate of performance improvement is directly related to the amount of positive reinforcement for that improvement, AVSANT helps leaders consistently recognize and reinforce incremental improvements in performance.

When you earn the discretionary effort of the men and women in your organization, you will reduce the variance in human performance and elevate your organization’s overall performance level.

Contact us for a free consultation with your organization.

Half of All IT Projects Fail Before Completion

With years of experience, our staff has the capabilities and expertise to take your Projects to the next level in operational excellence. At AVSANT, we combine our PMO insights and skills to transform your processes and strategies, and in turn, your projects.

AVSANT offers project assessments across the entire spectrum from infrastructure management to complete application design through the implementation of complex program management.

AVSANT consultants have spent many years accumulating the strategic solutions to transform today’s projects to meet corporate requirements.