Advocate Consulting helps organizations accelerate business decisions by providing strategic advisory services focused on cloud, mobility, communications, and collaboration technologies. They work with clients to assess current IT infrastructure challenges, benchmark against industry best practices, and develop a roadmap to optimize operations and maximize the benefits of these technologies. Advocate's experienced consultants then help with executing the strategy through activities like optimizing solutions, sourcing vendors, implementing technologies, and managing projects to ensure goals are met. The goal is to simplify IT strategies and leverage these technologies to create competitive advantages for clients.

1. Cloud computing technologies
Accelerate Your Business Decisions and services are increasingly
Cloud becoming a valuable resource
for IT departments looking to
accelerate productivity and
decrease costs. Advocate
Consultants will work with your IT leaders to assess
and identify opportunities for efficiency and productivity
gains while maintaining security associated with public,
private and hybrid cloud migration.
Consumerization of the enterprise
means that mobile phone and
Mobility tablet users are changing the way
enterprise IT operates. Through
Advocate Consulting is your trusted advisor, accelerating business decisions focused on the our mobile enablement services,
delivery of strategy and execution for cloud services, mobility, communications and collaboration. we help you evaluate the
We leverage people, processes and technology to transform your enterprise communications and IT applications, security, privacy, management, and data
challenges into a strategic advantage. access concerns stemming from company-issued or
BYOD mobile devices.
Today’s communications and IT infrastructure must be secure, agile, reliable and cost effective
to support strategic business objectives. Organizations are challenged to utilize technology in a Our expert knowledge in global
way that increases productivity and neutralizes excess costs; are you addressing the following telecommunications services
challenges at the enterprise level? Communications and infrastructure (IP, voice, data,
video, and wireless), together with
Network Scalability and Security
contracts and industry benchmark
Mobile Enablement and Management costs, gives organizations the
Cost Containment and Visibility ability to identify and execute business objectives while
delivering cost-effective networks.
Productivity and Synergy
Maximize the power of your
Advocate Consulting helps your organization meet these business challenges head on, simplifying
communications by integrating
and clarifying enterprise IT strategy and execution with a comprehensive, tried-and-true methodology Collaboration your IT systems with collaboration
for maximizing cloud, mobile, communications, and collaboration technology.
tools to create meaningful
connections between colleagues
around the globe. Promoting
communication, enabling resource sharing, and
facilitating natural interactions between co-workers
can result in faster transfer of knowledge and quicker
feedback on ideas and solutions. We’ll show you how.
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2. The Advocate Way “We were very impressed with the depth of the global assessment and
Global business intelligence and expert systems knowledge are Advocate comparative industry analysis for our global hosting facilities and operational
Consulting hallmarks. Our professionals will provide the insights you need processes. Advocate Consulting’s lead IT practitioners were thorough and
most, exactly where they are needed within your enterprise technology systems, relevant aided by solid communications in working with our leadership team.”
and accelerate your business objectives to meet your goals. - Sr. Director of Global IT Infrastructure, AGCO
Strategy: Execution:
Assess | Benchmark | Roadmap | Business Case Optimize | Source | Implement | Manage
Our end-to-end strategic process examines your current business performance With a well-informed enterprise business strategy in place, our team of experts
and provides expert guidance that will create leverage and a competitive will drive execution to meet your goals and objectives:
advantage for your organization:
Optimize: By leveraging best practices and market intelligence, we
Assess: How are you utilizing your communications and IT network will work with your team to optimize the planned solutions for short
today and what are the challenges you face? and long-term efficiency.
Benchmark: What operational, financial and technical practices Source: We will assist in RFI/RFP development as well as contract
will bring your communications and IT infrastructure to best-in-class negotiations, to fully evaluate communication and network platforms
performance? with managed services available from leading network and cloud
Roadmap: Which strategic goals and objectives will have the service providers.
greatest influence on your business and how will they be Implement: During the technology and process migration phase, our
implemented? consultants are available to support and oversee the completion of
Business Case: Where will implementing a strategic communications the engagement, and provide essential project management.
and IT roadmap positively impact your business, your competitive Manage: To ensure the complete delivery of a successful project,
stance and your bottom line? our certified PMP associates have the experience and expertise to
maintain an on-time, on-budget program.
Communications Lifecycle Management (CLM):
TEM | Business Intelligence | MDM | Provisioning
Advocate Consulting incorporates global business intelligence and smart workflow management to promote additional efficiencies in your deployed mobile and fixed
communications services. Our team delivers expert business process outsourcing with low risk to you, helping you further reduce, contain and recover both fixed and
variable costs. CLM provides a measurable ROI, driving out costs through our expertise, delivery, analysis and reporting.
How Can We Help You? Accelerate your business decisions with
From evaluating disparate internal systems to planning network and cloud Advocate Consulting. Contact us today to learn
technology migrations to future state analysis, Advocate Consulting experts how our expert consulting and managed services
maximize your enterprise cloud services, mobile, communications, and can leverage your people, processes and
collaboration technology. technology to deliver outstanding results.
678.987.5900 www.advocateconsulting.com
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