Technology Performance Assessments

BTA provides a wide variety of technology performance assessment and evaluation checks aimed at auditing your business’s technological workflow, with the goal of identifying areas where efficiency can be improved.

These technology health checks can be as simple or as in-depth as you need them to be. Some businesses may only need a few minor changes to achieve an ideal workflow, while some might require a comprehensive overhaul at the foundational level.

Our architects use proven techniques to quickly identify current pain points and inefficiencies, as well as areas that have the potential to cause future issues. We also take pride in staying on top of new and developing technology and techniques to help our clients get every advantage over their competition.

Purpose of Technology Performance Assessments

There are a variety of reasons to undergo a technology performance assessment and of course, the most common one is to diagnose or resolve an ongoing issue. However, even if there isn’t a major issue holding you back, there are still great benefits to having a professional assessment done.

For example, in an age where costly data breaches are commonplace even among Fortune 500 companies, it’s important to protect yourself as well as your customers by following current best practices regarding security as well as Cisco recommendations. Similarly, some businesses may have additional assessment and evaluation requirements and regular performance assessments may be required for compliance, depending on your industry.

And of course, in terms of general efficiency, there are always new and improving technologies out there to take advantage of to give yourself every edge possible against your competition and to provide the best service to your customers.

Consequences of Neglecting Data Center or Network Performance

Aside from required compliance issues, the most common—and most critical—consequence of failing to take care of network or data center health is downtime. Fortunately, being proactive about technology health checks and validating procedures helps prevent this. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention beats a pound of cure. Addressing potential issues before they cause real-world problems is unquestionably good business practice and is certainly the most effective way to handle your IT workflow. Constant monitoring and assessment of your technology infrastructure assessment is critical to avoid downtime and the lost revenue it brings with it.

BTA Technology Performance Assessment Process

Our assessment process is designed to be as simple and frustration-free as possible for our clients. The assessment begins with an initial data gathering package that is used to run scripts to capture a backup of existing data, as well as to look at live data as it is generated and added to your system.

This information is then pulled into a custom tool that helps us analyze information handling, data flow, and output. This is a holistic way of looking at a technology workflow to identify areas that need to be restructured.

The final deliverable you receive will then include a best practice checklist, recommendations based on our analysis of your data workflow, a light training assessment, and custom-tailored solutions to help prevent downtime and data center blackouts, all in an easily-digestible report.

Infrastructure Performance Assessment Use Cases

A professional infrastructure performance assessments can help with a variety of operational issues. For example, personnel transitions, mergers, and new acquisitions of infrastructure can create major disruptions if run books and operational procedures aren’t available and well-documented. Integrations like this are a great opportunity to take stock and identify any potential issues.

Failing to perform assessments regularly can lead to building architecture on an unstable foundation, which can lead to the need for a more involved (and expensive) rework down the road. Regular evaluations of best practices and procedures eliminate the risk of needing a major rebuild of key systems later.

An assessment can also be used to create documentation for managing new or existing systems to make it easier for your current personnel to run things. Complex policies that are difficult to troubleshoot can become overwhelming if they aren’t pruned back and streamlined from time to time.

Finally, infrastructure performance assessments can be great at identifying opportunities for automation. Our technology architects can assist with implementing new procedures to automate a range of processes.

Why Choose BTA for Technology Performance Assessments

BTA provides a top-down overview of your current data workflow, as well as a detailed summary of how things can be improved through better infrastructure, updated policies, and additional training in key areas. Our goal is to help every client adopt new strategies to make their organization more flexible and efficient in a rapidly-evolving market. We help define use cases for data flows and implement foundational procedures and policies to ensure streamlined growth in the future. Our expert assessments, advisory and optimization services, and full management provisions are a great option for any business looking to improve its technological ROI and fluency.

Optimization & Managed Services

Integrating new technology into your existing business can be an arduous and time-consuming process. We understand this and offer our clients managed services that offload the management of new technologies from your team, freeing them up to pursue other initiatives.

Our dedicated team of developers, managers, and analysts can ensure your business is taking full advantage of your existing technology infrastructure while also identifying key areas for improvement. We provide in-depth evaluations through automated tools that quickly identify ways to increase efficiency.

We’ll then work closely with your personnel to remediate any identified issues and provide solutions to avoid future problems before they have a meaningful impact on productivity.

Datacenter networks are complex. Over time configuration and software changes put performance and security at risk. Join us for a conversation with BTA CEO Ken Fee, and learn how our Cisco Nexus 9000 data center assessment can optimize your network. And Cisco is sponsoring the assessments, which means no charge for existing Cisco customers! In this video, we will cover:

An overview of the BTA data center assessment
Consequences of out-of-date or misconfigured networks
What you get in the assessment and report, including an introduction to Cisco Nexus Dashboard
Anonymized findings from an assessment BTA performed

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