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Oberneuhofstr 5, CH- 6340 Baar

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+41 79 528 18 58

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Information Technology Consulting

With IT consulting services, you revamp your IT environment to make it go in hand with your business needs. Leveraging more than 34-years experience in IT, Swiss Consulting offers consultancy on holistic, fast, and cost-effective optimization of IT systems and processes to ensure tangible business outcomes.
 

Strategy consulting
  • A business-IT alignment plan to reinforce business processes with IT and introduce new digital business models, if needed.
  • A more mature IT operating model to improve operational efficiency.
  • An IT sourcing plan to cover skill gaps at an optimal cost. We segment your IT needs and determine which functions are better to be implemented in-house or outsourced to a single or multiple providers.
  • An application integration plan to expand end-to-end automation, avoid functionality duplication and introduce changes at speed required by the business needs.
  • A plan on improving IT service reliability and application performance management.
  • A plan on enhancing data quality in business-critical IT systems.
  • A plan on ensuring IT security and compliance.
Solution consulting

We analyze your business needs and help you make strategic decisions on the fast and successful implementation of business-critical solutions.

 

Solution concept:

  • Feature management and prioritization.
  • How to integrate a solution into the existing IT landscape to avoid functionality duplication, optimize implementation and operational costs.
  • How to maximize ROI.
  • How to ensure outstanding UX and user adoption.
  • How to organize further solution support and evolution.

Solution architecture:

  • Choosing between a product, a platform-based or a custom application.
  • Selecting components: applications, platforms, online services, and hardware.
  • Selecting future-proof architecture: cloud-native, serverless; microservices; service-oriented; others.
  • Achieving application reliability: resilient architecture, APM, performance testing.
  • Ensuring security and compliance.
  • Planning PoC to verify ambiguous solution design aspects.

Solution implementation:

  • Choosing an optimal implementation methodology (Agile or Waterfall), assessing the need for CI/CD pipeline.
  • Ensuring quality: correct translation of business needs to software features, code quality, test coverage, manual and automated testing ratio.
  • Choosing an optimal sourcing model: in-house, completely outsourced or mixed (dedicated team or staff augmentation).
  • Recommendations on project management to deliver a solution on time and budget.

ScienceSoft also provides related services:

  • Business analysis and requirement specification.
  • UX services.
  • Outsourced project management.
  • Training and knowledge transfer.
  • Continuous consulting support in the course of the solution’s evolution.
Technology consulting

We analyze the existing state of the technology area of your interest and assist in its steady evolution to make it play a more prominent role in your business growth.

Technology areas we consult on:

  • Cloud consulting: implementing cloud technologies to achieve a higher speed of IT evolution and reduce costs and migrating to the cloud.
  • Digital workplace consulting: planning organization of digital workplaces for better employee productivity.
  • Application reliability consulting: combining fast application evolution with high reliability.
  • AI consulting: using AI to upgrade operational processes and solve AI-tied tasks.
  • IoT consulting: optimizing business management with IoT.
  • Data quality consulting: ensuring a high quality of data from ERP, CRM, SMC, and other business-critical systems.
  • Computer vision consulting: helping build image analysis solutions for object detection, recognition, and identification.