IT Consulting and Advisory Services

This practice area houses our management consulting and IT advisory professionals. We are well positioned to perform the following types of engagements for our clients:

• Enterprise Architecture assessments
• Business process re-engineering projects
• Business case development
• IT portfolio assessment and optimization
• Benchmarking studies
• Application and tool selection
• IT sourcing strategy development
• Value engineering studies
• Software validation and verification (IV&V)
• Security compliance and audit (NIST compliance/FISMA C&A process support)
• CIO advisory services

Our IT Consulting and Advisory Services practice is structured and staffed to support the management consulting needs of Chief Information Officers, Technology Directors, and other senior IT/IS professionals. There is no single framework by which our consulting projects are delivered. Each engagement is designed in collaboration with our client to provide maximum value, whether we are asked to perform an independent assessment of competing toolsets/applications or we are developing a business case to support the introduction of new system capability.

In the government market, we maintain specialized teams for conducting IV&V work and NIST/FISMA related infrastructure assurance engagements (infrastructure assurance and information security). In the commercial market, we are positioned to provide insights and guidance to senior IT officers on effective sourcing strategies, including the development of strategic sourcing plans and practices.

All Pyramid consulting and advisory engagements are documented from project inception through formal engagement close-out. Specific deliverables are determined with our client, based on the scope and purpose of the consulting assignment. The Pyramid differentiation is our ability to bring to a client situation experts in the appropriate areas of management consulting and IT architecture and software consulting.