IT Consulting

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a holistic management process that identifies potential impacts that threaten an organization, and provides a framework for building resilience and capabilities that safeguard the interests of its key stakeholders, reputation, brand and value. Business Continuity includes many technical areas such as disaster recovery, business recovery, crisis management, incident management, emergency management, product recall, contingency planning and can be summed up as the business’s ‘plan B’.

Disaster Recovery Planning (DRP) is a comprehensive statement of consistent actions and procedures to be taken before, during, and after a disaster. It refers to a coordinated strategy involving plans, procedures, and technical measures that enable the recovery of IT systems, operations, and data after a disruption.

By implementing Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery plans your business will increase its recovery capabilities dramatically. This means you can make the right decisions quickly, cut down time and minimize financial impact. Preparedness is the key; it gives confidence. Having BC in place demonstrates a duty of care to your customers and suppliers.

BC and DR are particularly relevant for those organizations that operate in high risk environments such as finance, telecom, transportation and the public or government sectors, where the ability to continue operating is essential, both for the organization itself, as well as its customers and stakeholders. It is never too early to begin business continuity planning, but clearly there are times when it is too late. As a result, sitting down and beginning your plan today is good business.

Fusion eSolutions consultants work with business and technical people to plan, develop, and deploy end-to-end solutions and plans for protecting critical business processes through leading edge services and technologies.

Fusion eSolutions offers a full array of IT Infrastructure Consulting Services to quantify and qualify short and long term improvement of the customers’ IT infrastructure environments. Our Assessment Design and Fusion eSolutionstion services include development and documentation tailored to the technology, data, and applications that are tailored to meet your business needs and requirements. Fusion eSolutions covers the following areas in IT infrastructure Fusion eSolutionstion or Simplification services:

• Consolidation – Concentrating systems and resources into locations with fewer, but more powerful, helping also to increase IT efficiency and simplify the infrastructure. Additionally, centralized system management tools can help improve scalability, availability, and disaster tolerance.
• Virtualization – Virtualization helps in making complexity nearly transparent while offering a composite view of the IT assets. This may help reduce capital and administrative costs, while giving users better service and availability. Our Virtualization services are designed to help make the IT infrastructure more responsive, scalable and available.

• Integration – Integrated systems environments simplify system management tasks and improve security. When all servers for instance have secure access to all data, your infrastructure will be able to respond better to your users’ information needs.

• Automation – Choosing IT infrastructure components with autonomic capabilities can improve availability and responsiveness and help protect data as storage needs grow. As soon as day-to-day tasks are automated, systems administrators will be able to spend more time on critical, higher-level tasks unique to a company’s business mission.

Enterprise Architecture (EA) is a conceptual blueprint that defines the structure and operation of an organization. The intent of EA is to determine how an organization can most effectively achieve its current and future objectives. EA contains four key perspectives;

• Business Perspective – It defines the processes and standards by which the business    operates on a day-to-day basis.
• Application Perspective – It defines the interactions among the processes and standards used by the organization.
• Information Perspective – It defines and classifies the raw data (such as document files, databases, images, presentations, and spreadsheets) that the organization requires in order to efficiently operate.
• Technology Perspective – It defines the hardware, operating systems, programming, and networking solutions used by the organization.

Purported advantages of having an EA include improved decision making, improved adaptability to changing demands or market conditions, elimination of inefficient and redundant processes, Fusion eSolutionstion of the use of organizational assets and minimization of employee turnover.

Fusion eSolutions Enterprise Architects work with stakeholders, both leadership and subject matter experts, to build a holistic view of the organization's strategy, processes, information, and information technology assets. Their role is to take this knowledge and ensure that your business and IT are in alignment properly. They link the business mission, strategy, and processes of an organization to its IT strategy, and documents this using multiple architectural models or views that show how the current and future needs of an organization will be met in an efficient, sustainable, agile, and adaptable manner.

There are architecture frameworks that encapsulate best-practice, which are applied by Fusion eSolutions Enterprise Architects as guidance in achieving successful EA projects. These include the Zachman Framework (ZIFA), the Open Group Architectural Framework (TOGAF), Microsoft Framework (MOF) and others.

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) – Today, more and more companies understand the need for SOA, drawn primarily by the promise of interoperability in an increasingly global and heterogeneous business world, SOA framework allows firms to better align their business needs and IT infrastructure, lower development costs, encourage sharing of services, complete integration faster and build industry best practices.

SOA is becoming the architectural style of choice in many enterprises. It has seen explosive growth over the last years. It can be applied throughout the EA, but is usually applied to the organization of the software that supports the enterprise's business operations. With SOA, this software is organized as a set of loosely-coupled software services. The services are supported by an infrastructure that, together with the services, enables information to flow freely within the enterprise and between the enterprise and external organizations.

A major benefit of SOA is it delivers enterprise agility, by enabling rapid development and modification of the software services. The infrastructure can support this by including facilities such as business-oriented scripting languages and model-driven implementation tools. These facilities support not only the creation of new software services, but also the modification and replacement of existing ones; in fact the whole service lifecycle. They are used via human-computer interfaces by development staff.

Relying on its accumulative experience across private and public sectors, Fusion eSolutions will enhance your IT plan in the favor of your business. To achieve this objective, Fusion eSolutions has built a pool of highly skilled and experienced IT professionals with a business focus to help your organization benefit from IT for the better of your business. We choose technologies that make your business workflow run faster, less expensively and more reliably and also leverage your general business.

Fusion eSolutions applies governance to IT investments, change projects and service delivery. It extends governance to include the systems themselves that can give the management tool the customer needs to overcome many persistent problems in IT.

IT Governance is used to describe the processes for deciding how money should be spent. It includes prioritization and justification of investments. It includes controls on spending such as budgets and authorization levels. It is used to describe many different aspects of IT change. It is sometimes used to describe project management and control and to describe the management and controls of a portfolio of projects. It is used to make sure that IT change processes comply with regulatory requirements. Sometimes it covers the deployment of IT staff. Simply speaking Governance is used to align IT change and expenditure to business change and expenditure.

Fusion eSolutions Information Security consultants enable you to prove the effectiveness of the your IT defenses, identify weaknesses before they can be exploited, locate gaps against industry standards, expose and resolve areas of vulnerability, monitor security against new threats, improve network and system reliability, enhance protection against internal and external threats and provide documented proof of the effectiveness of your security defenses. Fusion eSolutions offers the following information security services:

• Services for People:
  Fusion eSolutions offers security training, security awareness program, social engineering and organizational structuring.
• Services for Process:
  Fusion eSolutions offers information security policies, business continuity planning, and international standards (Basel II, ISO 27001, PCI, Risk Management, and Compliance Auditing).
• Services for Technology:
  Fusion eSolutions offers vulnerability assessment, network and application penetration testing, architecture review and design, and digital and computer forensics.
• Managed Security Services (MSS):
  This type of service offering is designed to provide small, medium and large organizations the ability to leverage 24x7x365 security monitoring and management in order to respond more efficiently to incidents and become more proactive.
  More and more organizations are turning to Fusion eSolutions for a range of security services to reduce costs and to access skilled staff whose full-time job is security. Such services may include:
• Network boundary protection:
  including managed security services for firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs), and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Security monitoring, Incident management: including Emergency Response and Forensic Analysis, Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing, Anti-virus and Content Filtering Services and Information Security Risk Assessments.

Fusion eSolutions offers a variety of IT Compliance services as separate services for all of the above consulting service packages such as but not limited to (BS25999, ISO27001, PCI, TIA 942, BASEL II, etc) that cover the Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) areas for different IT organizations and entities.