INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
IT CONSULTING AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
AZOLA IT Consulting specializes in enabling organisations to deliver change within their IT environment. Our clients approach Azola to deliver projects typically brought about by significant events such as Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate Real Estate Investment, Data Centre Enhancement and Technology Investment.
- IT strategy and policy
- Site selection and due diligence
- Program and Project Management
- IT infrastructure integration services
- IT infrastructure integration services
- Data Centre strategy and outsourcing
- Server consolidation and virtualization
- Vendor management and due diligence
MANAGED SERVICES
Azola provides highly skilled and experienced resources for our clients’ projects and IT functions. Depending upon our client’s procurement needs, Azola provides Fixed Priced Outsourced Services, project-based team and individual temporary consultants.
- Help-desk Services
- Network Solutions
- Project Management
- Data Centre Operation
- IT Infrastructure Services
- Virtualization Engineering
- Audio and Visual Support
- Unified Communications Solutions
TALENT SOURCING (Permanent and Contract Placement)
AZOLA adopts a technology driven approach to search for the right candidate by using Recruit AI, a self-learning AI software which matches job description to candidates’ profiles within seconds. AZOLA’s candidate pool has more than 100,000+ candidates in Africa and will connect you to the right candidate. In order to cater for client’s recruitment needs, AZOLA offers both Permanent and Contract placement.
- Voice and Network
- Information Security
- IT Infrastructure Services
- IT Program and Project Management
- Trading Infrastructure and Market Data
- End User Computing and Desktop support
- Program and Application Development and Support
IT SUPPORT
AZOLA is committed to providing high quality and SLA based managed services. Our services are designed to support you in short or long term initiatives to reduce costs and improve performance levels. Our IT professionals act as an extension to your technical teams by providing remote support, help-desk support, office set up and IMAC services or as required to meet your changing needs.
- Local Desktop Service
- Regional Office Setup
- IMAC Local Specific Service
- Regional Remote Support
WINDOWS 10 MIGRATION
AZOLA Group has extensive experience with Windows 10 migration on a global scale for renowned financial institutions and SMEs in the regions. We can provide the expertise to help you execute this migration while lowering costs, improving efficiencies, reducing risk and bring about a competitive advantage.
- Application Testing
- Inventory Management
- Governance and Framework
- Hardware Consolidations and Refresh
APP DEVELOPMENT AND OFF-SHORING ADVISORY
AZOLA provides Application Development Services, Programming Resources and Outsourcing to Global Companies across the African Region.
From niche, one-off application development projects to ongoing development, integration and enhancement services we work across multiple sectors.
- Application Development outsourcing
- Off-shoring advisory and transition services
- Front and back office platform development
- In-house software consulting and resourcing
- Application Support and Management services
IT REGULATORY ADVISORY SERVICES
AZOLA Group has extensive experience with Windows 10 migration on a global scale for renowned financial institutions and SMEs in the regions. We can provide the expertise to help you execute this migration while lowering costs, improving efficiencies, reducing risk and bring about a competitive advantage.
- Application Testing
- Inventory Management
- Governance and Framework
- Hardware Consolidations and Refresh
AZOLA Group Unified Communication Solutions
AZOLA provides professional managed service for communication solutions, partnering with Speakerbus iSeries. ITCS unified communication solutions are tailored to each clients’ business needs and market requirements.
- 24hrs x 7 days a week support
- Housekeeping and database management
- Moves, Adds, Changes and Deletions (MACD)
- Proactive system management via remote access
- 24hrs x 5 days a week system monitoring, management and administration
- Centralised management of the communications server and any complimentary VR or UC analytics application
Information Security Management System Diagnosis Service
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We design feasible roadmap of security measurement by diagnosing process, system, technical measures, and formulating the measurement from the result of the diagnosis.
Companies operate in an environment that is increasingly digitized. This poses information security issues. Information leaks escalating into a major business-threatening crisis are no longer a rare occurrence. Managing information assets properly to establish and maintain information management systems is essential for business continuity.
Information security risks facing companies
The actions a company takes during an information security incident have the potential to damage the company’s credibility significantly. The wrong moves could make recovery from the crisis enormously costly. Such costs alone could lead to a business-threatening crisis. This is why managers view information security measures as part of their key strategic efforts to safeguard company assets.
The Value AZOLA Consulting offers
In order to formulate appropriate risk-mitigation measures, it is important to assess possible risks from three critical perspectives: process (operations), personnel/organization (operational framework), and technology. AZOLA Consulting’s information security management system diagnosis service provides appropriate diagnosis which suitable for clients needs; we identify security risks, and diagnose the preparedness of company’s information security management system against risks.
Our approach
Information security measures are implemented in two phases: planning phase and implementation phase. Our information security management system diagnosis service focus on the planning phase. We visualize the company’s current status of information securities, plan the measures against security issues, and draw up implementation plan.
What makes our service special
AZOLA Consulting assists clients in realizing essential security measures, by industry-based, flexible, and well-balanced methods. Our solution complies with ISO27001, the standards of information security management system.
We conduct a survey of your current status with the results of security diagnosis survey forms, and interview with your management. Then we quantify and visualize the maturity of your security measures. Checking the result, we sort them out to extract the points of issues, sort them out, and identify the real causes of risks and their degrees of importance.
We support considering security measures, taking account of combinations of security risk s on which clients put importance and weaknesses based on the result of security diagnosis. Then we assist in making decision, which measures to implement, from the dimension of importance, effectiveness and costs.
We support prioritize on security measures and formulate feasible plan, considering task volume, schedule, and viability. We write up the result in security measurement plan.
Assisting in comprehending IT merger risks and providing most suitable IT merger, for success of M&A
In recent business activities, IT is essential as infrastructure in operation.
However, if company does not conduct IT Due Diligence (ITDD), Post Merger Integration (PMI) based on the result of ITDD, and IT merger at M&A or restructuring, the merger often results in serious consequences which shake the foundation of business itself : close-down / no synergies from M&A or merger / unexpected cash-out.
AZOLA Consulting supports client’s M&A and maximizing values from restructuring, by utilizing our sophisticated expert knowledge based on an abundance of project accomplishments as a full service consultancy, and conducting IT assessment and formulating IT merger plan based on assessment results.
Increase corporate value with appropriate security investment and responses to the latest threats
Security effectiveness assessment contributes to corporate value. It delivers effective cyber-security to keep business sustainable, while also improving your corporate defense capabilities with effective IT investment.
These days, companies employ IT as a tool for directly changing their business and its significance is growing substantially. As IT becomes more important, there is a strong demand for commitment to accountability, and to results, in IT investment. A survey conducted by AZOLA Research between October and December 2003, entitled “Managing IT Investment for Success: Best Practices of IT Investment Management” revealed that, while companies retain their enthusiasm for IT investment, they are dissatisfied with the results of their IT investing.
In this environment, devising a mechanism for delivering results is a pressing task.
Quick Assessment Service for IT Investment Management -Impact*- is a service that quickly assesses the status of a company’s IT management and delivers proposals for making it effective.
Table of contents
– Quick Assessment Approach
– Assessment Content
IT Solutions Linked to Business Management
Despite the fact that IT has become far more significant in business management than in the past, very few companies can successfully explain the relationship between IT and business management. For companies that are able to explain this relationship, further importance is placed on the usage of IT as a solution for management issues. As a result, there is increased accountability for the effects of IT.
AZOLA Consulting’s IT Management Service aims to realize IT services that are linked with business management and comprehensively supports activities associated with the provision of IT services required by companies.
Table of contents
– Overview of IT Services Required by Companies
– Support for Managing “Change” that Affects the Business
– Support to develop Overall Architecture that can respond to Change
– Support to develop Software Architecture that can respond to Change