IT Assessments

Key Service Features:

Assess IT's Proven Three Phase Process:

1) Pre-Site Visit Activities

2) On-Site Assessment

3) Analysis And Reporting

Fixed Fee, Deliverable-Based Arrangement

7-10 Business Days Start To Finish Span Time

Each Assessment is engineered for your business objectives. Typical Client objectives for IT assessments include:

Determination of Business

Risk Due to IT

Quantify IT Capability

Develop Initial Strategy

for Post-Acquisition

Develop IT Expense

Reduction Plan

Final Report includes

Assess IT's Scorecard

Detailed findings by

Scorecard Line Item

Recommendation High-

Level IT Strategy

Detailed Corrective Actions

for all "Marginal" or

"Inadequate" Scores

IT Assessments

Service Overview

Assess IT provides rapid, business-focused assessments and audits of an IT organization, initiative, or project using the same best practice techniques deployed by IT Outsourcing Firms to evaluate business risk and performance potential.

Key to our Assessments is the use of our innovative IT Assessment Framework that determines adequacy of a companies' technology management capabilities based on the business use of Technology:

More advanced Technology Management capability is required as a business increasingly uses or depends upon technology for revenue producing products and services. Our technology management capability index vs. business use of technology framework evaluates a Company's capability vs. this band of adequate and affordable performance.

Our IT Assessment Reports regularly receive high client praise for our clear, top-down approach to presenting business-focused evaluations of complex technology situations.

The scope of our IT Assessments is comprehensive and covers all facets of an IT organization, project or initiative:

	IT Governance, Business Alignment, and Strategy
	Technology Architecture Appropriateness and Risk
	Application Development and Maintenance Capability
	Infrastructure Process (Data center, distributed, and desktop) Adequacy
	Network Engineering and Management Capability
	Project Management Capability
	Information Security Management Practices
	Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM)
	Disaster Recovery Capability
	IT Budget Analysis vs. "Best of Breed" Cost Ratios

We assess the capabilities of an IT organization against our extensive Knowledge Base of Industry Best Practices. We perform specific comparative audits to generally accepted standards such ISO 17799 (Security) and the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

Our recommendations and findings are designed to be business-oriented and guide our clients to the best practices represented in our Knowledge Base and generally accepted industry standards.

Service Highlights

Final Reports built around Assess IT's unique scorecard system:

	Comprehensive
	Top Down
	Business-Focused

Detailed Findings using Assess IT's industry best-practice knowledge base.

	Positives
	Areas of Concern
	IT Process Existence, Adequacy, and Compliance
	Recommendations

Scoring based on Assess IT's parameters of:

	Business Fit
	Technology Risk
	IT Process Maturity
	Cost Efficiency

Recommendations that are hard hitting, clear, and prioritized to address:

	Areas of Concern
	Sponsor Objectives
	Cost Issues
	Business Acceleration

Best Practices Comparative Analysis drives evaluation and recommendations using Assess IT's industry Best Practices Data Base.

CIO and Outsourcing Institutes
Technology Architecture Best Practices
Tier One IT Outsourcer Service Processes
Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Methodology
Project Management Institute (PMI) Methodology
Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)
Infrastructure Operational Excellence Practices
IT Financial Performance Cost Ratios