Our Proven Approach to Problem Solving
As an essentially business-minded solution partner, Aspire Technology Partners has honed a highly effective approach to solution design and delivery that both resolves current issues and prepares your enterprise for future challenges.
The first item on our agenda when engaging with clients is determining your key business requirements and objectives. This business problem-solving orientation is the foundation of our approach because we understand that technology is best leveraged as an enabler of business processes and goals, rather than an end in itself. Therefore, our priority is to clearly define those requirements and objectives, and then internalize them in all ongoing solution identification, design and implementation efforts. In this way we become trusted advisors to our clients, helping them establish a vision, clarify their goals and translate them into an actionable strategy.
ATP: Experts in Information Security
Once a project’s objectives are clear, we plan and design a solution based on another of our core tenets – the imperative of creating what we call the “security enabled infrastructure.” We believe security is foundational, collaborative, adaptive and fully integrated. Aspire possesses a deep and proven expertise in the information security arena, and has become widely recognized for this intensive specialization.
During professional engagements, we work together as an extension of both your top management and your internal technology teams. Having worked with both of these functional areas to achieve consensus on the objectives for an engagement, we can often be the bridge between your management and technical teams in ensuring those objectives truly comprise the foundation for optimal solution design and rollout.
Methodology – The Key to Project Success
Every successful IT initiative requires a proven methodology to ensure its efficiency and success. Aspire has adopted a proven methodology known as PPDIOO – Prepare, Plan, Design, Implement, Operate and Optimize. These logical steps are executed in measurable ways to drive the desired project outcomes.
- Prepare – After an initial meeting, the Aspire team begins by developing the business case and an initial solution architecture that covers business and technology requirements.
- Plan – The planning phase is critical to deployments that are on time and on budget, so Aspire begins with a thorough assessment, then creates a project plan and site survey to move forward with.
- Design – After client sign-off on the initial plans, Aspire crafts detailed solution designs, including the equipment list, network diagrams and traffic flows that meet the client's previously determined determined needs.
- Implement – Aspire strives for the smoothest possible implementation with minimal disruption to staff and security. The implementation phase includes the installation, configuration and testing of all equipment.
- Operate – To make sure the solution performs to its utmost, Aspire provides management and monitoring services as well as assistance in developing processes and plans for future growth.
- Optimize – Because business needs are ever changing, Aspire conducts performance audits, upgrades and improvements that keep your systems running at peak performance.
Following this lifecycle approach to solution engagements has proven consistently successful for our clients, enabling us to achieve the defined objectives and deliver outstanding results, on schedule and on budget.