There are many reasons why you might need us. Below are just some of the areas we cover.

Service definitions we offer

Strategy services

• Strategic planning: We offer IT strategy as a service to help clients assess IT needs and formulate plans for implementation.

• Business transformation: There are many reasons a business wants to transform. Athencis offer a framework of services to address most requirements. 

• Business strategy: Our Business Strategy service addresses the challenges presented by globalisation, technological change, and growing economic interconnections. We provide specific services for developing corporate strategy, business unit strategy, strategic planning and business model innovation.

• Mergers, acquisitions and divestments: The M&A Service combines enterprise architecture with business management consulting techniques to undertake a rapid but comprehensive study of a proposed structural change (merger, acquisition, divestment or non-commercial integration or separation).

• IT strategy: This service defines an IT strategy that will specify the strategic drivers, vision and principles, capability improvements, technology investments, roadmap and delivery plan. The primary purpose of the IT Strategy is to align IT capabilities with the business strategy and requirements.

Digital services

• Digital strategy: This service helps clients to rapidly establish a Digital Strategy and associated implementation roadmaps using our enterprise architecture capability development (EACD) practice signature product. 

• Digital assessment: Digital Assessment helps clients understand how well prepared they are for digital transformation. This service follows the same structured approach as the IT Portfolio Assessment service but brings in additional analysis of process and organisation.

• IT and Cyber operating model: Athencis information technology (IT) operating model development service helps clients to design their IT operating model, so it is fit for the evolving needs of their business and plan a transformation of the organisation, processes and technology to achieve it.

• Cloud migration and adoption: A detailed assessment is carried out to identify the scope and options available and presented to the client for acceptance. 

Cybersecurity services

• Risk assessment: We provide a risk assessment service to determine where effectiveness, maturity and gaps in a client’s cybersecurity.

• Risk remediation: We provide a detailed report with actions to remediate the risks found during assessment

• Security architecture and design: This service defined the processes and controls to provide a cybersecurity posture, roadmap and high-level effort and cost.

• Security strategy: This service develops a coherent, holistic, risk-based and proportionate security strategy, supported by effective governance structures.

• Information Security Management System (ISMS): This service helps clients design, implement and adopt an ISMS framework and its upkeep.

• Identity and Access Management: This service is an end to end selection, procurement, delivery, adoption and upkeep of Identity & Access Management and/or Privileged Access Management systems into a corporate client environment.

• Compliance and GDPR: This service addresses global compliance requirements, assessment and gap remediation.

Delivery services

• Software programme & project delivery: This service is where we take responsibility and manage the software delivery life cycle from procurement to acceptance on behalf of a client.

Architecture services

• Application architecture: Our enterprise architecture consultancy practice provides application architecture and design services that help clients with specific enterprise or programme business application areas, applying domain expertise in application and software architecture. Athencis are experts in open source application architecture, enterprise application integration, service-oriented architectures (SOA), Software as a Service (SaaS) and cloud-based enterprise applications.

• Data architecture: This service provides a client with a data architecture for understanding and shaping its business data landscape and to govern its lifecycle and utility.

• Data governance: Data governance service provides a holistic analysis and recommendations to bring about data governance for people, processes and associated tools and technology required for planning, supervising and controlling the enterprise’s data landscape. The blueprint, standards and benchmarks against which the governance is to be driven is provided by the target data architecture which includes data principles and standards.

• Robotics, AI and IoT: With Athencis’s expertise in strategy, enterprise architecture, data and technology; we are able to help shape the right holistic strategy, roadmap and solution options best suited to your context and business to take advantage of these disruptive technologies without disrupting your business.

• MI, analytics and big data: This service unlocks the hidden value in data and seeks to maximise its value. Unlocking the hidden value in your data estate requires all data in whatever structured and unstructured form to be farmed and mined. This requires a big data strategy with a platform capable of consolidating internal and external data (structured/unstructured) from across the enterprise in real time.

• Selection and procurement: This service addresses the needs of the client for IT product and partner selection. There are four main phases: Procurement Strategy, Requirements and Success Criteria, Options Assessment and Bidder Competition and Supplier Selection and Award. We lead and manage all phases and develop the RFI/RFP.

• Technical review: This technical assessment and review service can be applied to any client project or situation to provide an independent external review of an IT change.

• EA tooling:  If your serious about architecture then you need a repository and to know how to manage this. We can advise you on the best EA tooling in the marketplace and help you get the best deal and train you how to use it.

• Sustainability: Energy efficient hardware, virtualisation, cooling efficiency, green cloud providers, resource optimisation, data center location, efficient coding, green software engineering practices, e-waste considerations, remote work, paperless office and carbon offsetting are some of the ways we can help you reduce your carbon footprint while achieving your transformation.