Performance Expert Services
Performance is money. Whether you are running reports out of a data warehouse, processing real-time transactions, or simply serving content to impatient users. IT performance impacts the effectiveness and productivity of your business. When performance problems happen, chasing them is one of the most difficult, most draining activities there is. We have experience in identifying and solving performance problems in enterprise IT infrastructure through our work with performance sensitive clients in banking, telecomms, dotcom and biotech sectors. Our consultants are there for when performance problems defeat your IT team's efforts, and are beyond the scope of vendor patches and support contracts. Read more as HTML or PDF.
Vendor Evaluation & Benchmarking
Enterprise architects and procurement staff alike are faced with a wide and sometimes confusing choice of systems, storage, networking, toolchains and packaged software. Truly independant advice is hard to come-by. Vendor's materials are inherently biased and resellers only recommend a solution from their pricebook. 360is are a vendor independant professional services company and we are paid solely for our expertise. As such we are better placed to act as your advocate. Our clients use us when they need independant advice but cannot spare the time, or do not have staff with the right skills and experience to critically assess what is being offered. Benchmarking is not easy, and involves many iterative rounds in order to arrive at predictable, useful conclusions. Interpretation of benchmarking data is also extraordinarily difficult when results must be set in a broad context of CAPEX, OPEX, IRR, and project risk. Read More
