Business Auditing and Consulting
Through its many years of experience, AVTech clearly understands that no two businesses are the same and each has their own unique set of integrated application systems. AVTech is committed to understanding clients’ ICT challenges of developing, implementing and supporting a range of user and server solutions. This includes application delivery, consolidation, virtualisation and having a well integrated standard operating environment that is consistent and easy to support.
AVTech is here to assist organisations maximise their investments and to utilise existing ICT infrastructure where possible. Our clients benefit from our close working partnerships with top tier vendors to support an integrated environment.
Virtualisation
Virtualisation can help improve the utilisation, efficiency and costs of owning and running data centres, by consolidating and simplifying server farms and data storage, through use of virtual server and storage rather than physical hardware. Because virtualisation can make greater use of fewer servers, it helps fight server sprawl, which in itself can reduce power usage and greenhouse emissions.
Server and storage virtualisation can also help deliver other benefits. These include reducing physical space, which is usually required to house servers, reducing the hardware costs associated with purchasing additional servers, the ability to deploy new systems at a faster rate, and the simplification of hardware maintenance tasks. Virtualisation can also improve your business continuity process. While disasters and unplanned downtime get the major headlines, planned downtime for hardware maintenance and backups is the cause of most service interruptions. With the virtualisation of servers, desktops and applications you can begin to eliminate planned downtime, ensure data protection, deliver high availability and be better prepared for disaster recovery.
Virtualisation of your data centre will make it easier to deploy:
• Data Protection, including non-disruptive automated backup and restore process.
• High Availability through reduced planned and unplanned downtime.
• Disaster Recovery with hardware independent recovery.
AVTech’s virtualisation specialists can assess your data centre and storage structures and advise how virtualisation and consolidation can help your business.
Directory Services
A directory service is simply the software system that stores, organises and provides access to information in the directory.
AVTech implements Directory Services for two key reasons – Simplifies management by providing a single, consistent point of management for users, applications and devices and; Strengthens security by providing users with a single sign-on to network resources and provides administrators with powerful and consistent tools to manage security services for internal desktop users, remote dial-up users and external e-commerce customers.
Messaging and Collaboration
Managing messaging systems across large organisations, geographic locations and differing time zones is a challenge to ICT professionals. Any issues with these systems can create critical communication and business problems including return on investment.
AVTech can assist with the design and streamlining of your messaging systems such as email, calendar, resource management and workflow to help you move forward with reduced complexity. We can design, build, integrate and manage messaging and collaboration solutions.
Centralised Applications
As the delivery and usage of applications grows within an organisation, especially one that is diverse in its physical locations, so does the need for Application Management. AVTech can centralise an organisations applications to maximise usage, minimize risks and administration of applications and ensure ROI of applications is met while still ensuring its diversity and scalability to grow.
Application Optimisation
Many organisations implement applications that never get used to their full potential, and therefore don't maximise the return on investment. AVTech's expertise, combined with its wealth of experience in both hardware and software technology, means AVTech is able to help organisations gain the most out of their critical business applications whilst benefiting the users, system administrators and the applications ROI.
Standard Operating Environment
AVTech has extensive experience in consulting and implementing Standard Operating Environments (SOE). An SOE implementation needs to ensure that the operational function of the servers and workstations are as similar to one another as possible. Benefits of this include significantly reduced administration and support while increasing the user productivity through minimising down time.
AVTech’s project delivery of an SOE is done in a cost effective way and ensures that scalability is possible as the organisation grows.
Knowledge Management
AVTech’s experience has shown that many organisations seem to be forever reinventing the wheel as relevant information is scattered throughout the business – in documents, emails, whiteboards, post-it notes, conversations, the Internet or just in employee’s heads. Using applications such as Enterprise Content Management (ECM) AVTech is focused on creating seamless and easy to manage document management, workflow and collaboration systems that manage the organisations information and in turn converts it into valuable and easily accessible knowledge.