June, 2011
Excellis Business Consulting (excellis.biz) further expands its advisory services portfolio
with the launch of the CloudAdvice™ service.
CloudAdvice™ – a holistic advisory service
CloudAdvice™ is Excellis' strategy-to-implementation advisory service for organisations of all sizes and sectors –
from large multinational corporations, public sector organisations, to small- and medium-sized (SMEs) and micro enterprises.
For not-for-profit and social enterprises, Excellis also undertakes to deliver significant portions of its
CloudAdvice
™ services on a pro-bono basis†.
With our background and pioneering work in
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) domains,
Excellis has strong credentials for providing
independent technical expertise and unbiased commercial advice on Cloud Computing.
Given the level of hype, peer pressure, ambiguity and a significant number of unknowns still surrounding Cloud Computing,
Excellis believes that it is important and timely that enterprises should receive independent, objective, trustworthy and 100% impartial
advice.
Hence, we are putting our customers interests before the quarterly revenue/profit goals
that drive many of the Cloud Computing vendors and consultancies.
Excellis' distinguishing credentials also assure our client CEOs and CIOs that we are offering them
the
best value for money. We also have the skill and ability to circumvent internal and personal agendas,
as well as any conflict of interest with the Cloud vendors and/or technology integrators.
The experience of 'dotcom' and 'credit-crunch' eras have repeatedly shown that organisations are often persuaded to
make large investments in new technology. Many of these organisations also tended to pursue the conventional
procurement practices that favoured large technology consultancies and integrators to provide strategic advice and/or solutions.
The resulting deficit of independence between advice and selected solution meant that
their total expenditure on technology was often significantly higher than normal.
Nowadays, organisations have better and more cost-effective alternatives for ensuring that
there is no conflict of commercial interest between advisors and technology implementors/integrators or
service providers.
One option is to ensure that they source unbiased
advice from independent experts such as Excellis Business Consulting,
and therefore safeguard their long-term investment in technology and infrastructure provisioning, whilst
also making significant savings in short-term professional services fees.
† Subject to quota and qualifying criteria (available on request).