Consultancy

Overview

The IT industry is a vast and complicated sector with its rapid changes and constantly evolving technologies and trends. Clients often feel overwhelmed by the many standards, opportunities and risks that are presented to them and therefore feel helpless when forced to make decisions.

The problem escalates when clients seek advice and are presented with basic solutions that are often overpriced, only cover a portion of the problem, are not scalable for long term implementation and do not fit into the company’s overall strategy. These are very real issues the people are constantly faced with and due to the lack of knowledge and help, people often end up worse off than when they started.

Realmdigital understands that it is often not cost effective or necessary for companies to employ skilled IT personnel to ensure the IT aspect of the business functions correctly and smoothly.  People outside of the IT industry however do need a reliable source of advice when issues arise or decisions need to be made. Realmdigital’s Consultancy service provides companies with a trustworthy and capable team of highly skilled system architects and business analysts to identify, plan, implement and project manage all aspects of the business’s IT infrastructure.

Core Consultancy Areas

Realmdigital’s consultancy service is able to benefit your company by offering a constant resource of technical expertise, advice and decision-making without disturbing any current business structures.

The consultancy service covers a wide range of IT areas and e-commerce functions that contribute to the business operating at an optimal level.

Realmdigital offers consultancy services for the following key business areas:


Technical Business Analysis

  • Assess business functions to identify risks, opportunities and ensure best practices are followed.

  • Analyze the business IT infrastructure to identify risks and requirements.

  • Identify infrastructural overspending with regards to hosting and web development


Project Management

  • General project management encompassing:

    • Creation and preparation of project documentation.

    • Project Resource management.

    • Project schedule management.

    • Management and mediation of project related meetings.


Documentation

  • Preparation of the project foundational analysis including use case diagrams and entity analysis.


Website design and development

  • Conduct personal client workshops to identify the key website requirements.

  • Formulate website design and layouts using technical wireframes.

  • Provide expert advice and information on industry best practices and trends.


Technical Consultant

  • Realmdigital’s technical consultants attend technical supplier meetings with or for the client to ensure all the correct questions are asked and all requirements are clearly explained to the supplier.

  • Consultants are available to assist with any technical issues or questions that might arise.

Benefits

Realmdigital prides itself in building long-term relationships with clients. Since our expertise covers a large scope of business and technical domains it helps to build strong relations and a clear understanding of what each business entails. This allows the consultants to provide the best advice, guidance and support and structure it around the long term strategic goals of the business.  

Consultancy benefits include:

  • Early involvement in the decision making process allows Realmdigital to ensure the client makes the best decisions that suits the company’s goals and long term strategy.

  • Realmdigital consultants ensure that the proposed solutions meet the projects technical requirements.

  • Realmdigital consultants ensure the project meets all client budget requirements and provides helpful suggestions to get the most return on investment.

  • Realmdigital has 10 years of experience in the IT industry which allows us to ensure the “best of breed” suppliers are utilized for each solution.

  • Realmdigital consultants constantly monitor your project to ensure the quality of the solution, code and service the client receives is of the highest quality.

  • Realmdigital ensures that all projects are planned, implemented and tested according to the latest best practices.

Consultancy Retainer Packages

Each package is quoted for a minimum of 6 months and is based on the amount of hours required on a monthly basis.

Additional hours can be purchased should they be required.

The following packages are available:

Starter

Hours

Cost

Monthly charge for consultancy services

10

R 7,500.00

Cost per additional hour

1

R 750.00

 

 

 

Standard

Hours

Cost

Monthly charge for consultancy services

20

R 14,250.00

Cost per additional hour

1

R 712.50

 

 

 

Comprehensive

Hours

Cost

Monthly charge for consultancy services

30

R 20,250.00

Cost per additional hour

1

R 675.00

 

Please contact us if you would like to hear more regarding our consulting service.