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Operational Services
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Key Statistics

  • Cyber Crime

    44% of SMBs hit by cyber crime. (Ten percent stopped production)

    41% Hit by Viruses, Spyware 26%

    29% of SMBs still have no anti-spam, 16% no firewalls, 39% still need to be threat trained
  • IT Projects

    31.1% of IT projects are abandoned before completion

    Only 16.2% of Software projects are completed on time and on budget

    70% of all IT projects fail in some respect

    52.7% of IT projects will cost over 189% of their original estimates
  • Poorly designed operational processes

    Over 74% of companies stated that they could improve productivity by over 35% by redesigning workflows

    Surveyed, 41% of companies stated that morale is strongly impacted by overly lengthy workflows and procedures

    On average, Operating Costs could be reduced by 26% by process re-engineering

Case Study

  • To support a long-term health support campaign in North Africa, a Washington, D.C. based NGO sought to create a global communications network with the following objectives . . .
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One of the major problems any organization faces is the day-to-day management of an over complex operational set up marred further by a poor technological fit. Drawn out work flows and convoluted processes and procedures provide an instant formula for lower efficiency, increased operating cost and reduced morale through employee confusion and exhaustion.

Operational Caveats
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Operating your organization with a solid IT platform built for capability, reliability, security and future expansion is key for both day-to-day operations, but more importantly, a support for strategic planning and growth.

Many organizations now face inherent operational dangers including ownership of out of date technology inadequate to meet both current and future needs and ‘barnacled’ software systems leading to incompatible software interfacing resulting in 'stand-still' system conflicts.

Combined with over complex administrative workflows, this leads to an overworked and under efficient operations framework.

Security
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With over 44% of small and medium sized businesses falling victim to cyber crime, resulting in reduced if not full operational stop, the need for heightened security is simply imperative for going concern purposes.

With increasingly lower barriers of technology entry for organizations, AOP provides both holistic and deep-dive assessment and solution services of your Operational, Informational and IT systems to achieve the optimum balance of Workflows, Technology and Security to ensure your current and future safeguards.

 

  • Process management
  • Workflow mapping and evaluation
  • Process re-engineering
  • Technology efficiency adaption
  • System recommendation and vendor selection
  • RFP, RFI and RFQ preparation and vendor evaluation
  • Business & IT service continuity management
  • Compliance management services
  • Information archiving and retention management
  • Systems auditing

IT Security Services
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  • Process management
  • Workflow mapping and evaluation
  • Process re-engineering
  • Technology efficiency adaption
  • System recommendation and vendor selection
  • RFP, RFI and RFQ preparation and vendor evaluation
  • Business & IT service continuity management
  • Compliance management services
  • Information archiving and retention management
  • Systems auditing

Information Network Services
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  • Communication network assessments
  • Network design and re-engineering
  • Local and global scale network design
  • IT and Operations harmonization strategies
  • Data storage optimization
  • Information lifecycle management