Hitachi Consulting: Helping IT departments function cost effectively and meet client demands efficiently

IT

Dependence and reliance on IT systems, solutions and support has reached mission critical levels. More and more departments cannot function without their IT systems. Within this increasingly tense and high-pressure environment, IT leaders are wrestling with challenges and opportunities and striving to find answers to common questions, such as:

• How can IT maximize the value from existing technology investments?
• Are the enterprise security policies and procedures adequately protecting corporate data and networks?
• How should IT leverage new technologies like SOA across the enterprise?
• What does Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) mean for IT and how should we address the SOX aftermath?

Hitachi Consulting can help leaders answer these and related questions to optimize IT departments so they function more cost effectively and meet internal client demands rapidly and efficiently. Our Strategic IT Services include:

• Strategic Information Systems Planning and Enterprise Architecture
  Deliver the high quality IT solutions your business clients value and need, quickly and cost effectively. Our proven and effective methodologies and tools can help you align IT with business strategy, develop effective enterprise architectures to keep development and maintenance costs to a minimum, and provide IT with the solid foundation upon which to grow. Hitachi Consulting helps companies prioritize and plan initiatives to meet their objectives and goals, and successfully deliver practical solutions that drive measurable value.
  
  
• IT Operational Effectiveness
  Despite the growing dependence on IT solutions, services and systems, many IT departments are challenged to reduce costs and improve efficiency, effectiveness and scalability with decreased budgets. Improve your IT operation effectiveness, reduce IT costs, and enhance your working relationships with business clients by leveraging our proven and mature best practices and approaches like ITIL, RUP, Agile, and CMM. We can help you develop and implement new methodologies and processes that enable your IT department to operate more cost effectively and efficiently, conduct briefing sessions on new technologies and trends to help you separate hype from reality, and assess existing projects, architectures, organizations and operations to determine if and where improvements can be made and efficiencies gained.
  
  
• Software and Technology Selection
  Selecting a new technology, software solution or service provider is time consuming and complicated. Determining key differentiators between close competitors and identifying what is really important for your business has become increasingly difficult and the implications, impacts and costs of making the wrong decision are larger, and potentially more catastrophic, than ever. Hitachi Consulting offers independent, unbiased software and technology selection services to help you make these decisions more quickly and with confidence. Leverage our proven, mature and flexible methodology to identify and short-list key contenders and select the best solution or partner for your business.

Learn about our knowledge and success with Strategic IT Services.