Strike Force Solution Suites

STRATEGY (Plan it)

Strike240

• Reduce Total Cost of Ownership by up to 70%
• Pass audits 100% through compliance Pre-Audit

The Strike240 Solutions Suite is a methodology, set of templates, and a weighted scoring system which drives a deep dive due diligence assessment. This assessment focuses on a 240 point inspection of all aspects of an operational system to quantify its value and the gap between the current state and the intended business requirements.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 10 Online Brokerage Firm
• Top 5 Ecommerce Retailer
  

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StrikeAnalysis

• Decrease project development, testing and long term operational costs up to 90%
• Increase system quality by 90%, before the testing phase

The StrikeAnalysis Solutions Suite is a set of dynamic tools and related framework training for documenting a company’s functional and non-functional needs. The framework gathers system requirements, documenting needs, and writes testable requirements and test cases. Certified project managers, business systems analysts, and testers with over 20 years of practical information technology experience developed StrikeAnalysis and its templates and processes based on industry standards. Our principals have successfully implemented the framework around the globe. Most importantly, it can be applied to any application, written in any language, and run on any technology, including embedded systems, PC, Linux, client/server, web based, mainframe, and others. The framework is based on IEEE standards and eliminates the cost of poor requirement remediation in later project stages. StrikeAnalysis provides clear, concise, and complete requirements and business analysis system diagrams and test cases. The result is cutting project development, testing and long term operational costs by up to 90%.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 3 Financial Services Firm
• Top 10 Manufacturing ERP Vendor
  

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StrikeGov

• Decrease IT project spending by up to 50%
• Improved project efficiencies by up to 85%

The StrikeGov Solutions Suite is an enterprise governance and portfolio rationalization platform that enables the maximum return on IT spending. StrikeGov’s proprietary governance processes, tools, policies, and portfolio management techniques have generate efficiencies of up to 85%. StrikeGov ensures the accountability of individuals in an organization through mechanisms which reduce or eliminate the principal-agent problem. It also maximizes shareholder value by analyzing the direct impact of corporate project decisions on the company's income statement and balance sheet.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 3 Financial Services Firm
• Top 5 Ecommerce Retailer
  

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StrikeSource

• Save up to 50% of operational time and cost
• Increase productivity, consistency and throughput of work by up to 30%

The StrikeSource Solutions Suite is a set of tools and methodology to assess and successfully implement the appropriate sourcing (shared services, in-sourcing, out-sourcing, off-shoring) model for a company’s functional areas. The assessment identifies in detail the functional areas of the company which are candidates for sourcing change. It then maps them to the correct approach, whether Shared Services, Out-Sourcing, In-Sourcing or Off-shoring. Changing the sourcing model within an organization, while avoiding unintended consequences, is a difficult strategy to execute. Many lessons have been learned on how to and how not to do it. Experienced companies consider the total cost of ownership rather than just a reduced hourly rate. The desired benefits do not always materialize as additional management overhead is incurred along with communication gaps and quality issues thereby diminishing anticipated cost savings. StrikeSource can certify an organization to confidently move through the muddy waters of selecting appropriate sourcing models and thereby providing the maximum return on investment for the enterprise.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 10 Manufacturing ERP Vendor
• Leading Global Communications Firm

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EXECUTION (Build it)

StrikeSDLC

• Decrease total cost of system ownership by up to 75%
• Generate up to 95% improvement in organizational efficiencies

The System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is the process of creating or altering systems and the end-to-end methodologies for developing these systems. The StrikeSDLC Solutions Suite is a framework for planning and controlling system creation and its development process. It encompasses how business systems analysts gather requirements, document them, and build test cases (StrikeAnalysis), how project managers manage the project, its budget and milestones (StrikeGov), how developers manage the development change and size it (the SDLC methodology), the testing of the system changes (StrikeTest), and the overall management of the changes and components (StrikeCM). StrikeSDLC also encompasses the information technology elements of SAS70 and SOX404 compliance (StrikeAudit). A StrikeSDLC certified organization can effectively handle the core Information technology trouble areas of compliance, project management, business analysis, testing, configuration management, and software development.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 3 Financial Services Firm
• Top 10 Manufacturing ERP Vendor
  

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StrikeCloud

• Save up to 70% of datacenter and operational support overhead
• Increase uptime to 99.999% with inter-cloud real-time synchronization

The StrikeCloud Solution Suite is a suite of tools and methodology to leverage the power of global cloud computing and virtualization of hardware. This Suite enables the user to safely assess the benefits and compatibility of their systems and implement a plan to safely migrate their systems to a cloud infrastructure. Ongoing administration solutions for the cloud, including vertical and horizontal expansion and contraction, reduce costs to a point of paying only for what computing resources the enterprise uses. The result is order of magnitude cost reductions.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 5 Ecommerce Retailer
• Global Consulting Firm
  

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StrikeGlobal

• Enable your product as local for over 250 national markets at 60X ROI
• Increase speed to market by up to 75%

The StrikeGlobal Solutions Suite is an enterprise globalization platform, enabling a company to increase its addressable market by up to 150% and speed to market by up to 75%. Globalization is the process by which a company transforms its products transformed (internationalized) in a manner where they will appear local in foreign commercial markets (localization). This includes the product adopting the local language, currency, date format, images, and business processes to enable it to be supported around the world. StrikeGlobal also includes the solutions and tools to globalize marketing and sales operations. Traditional globalization approaches create corporate replica-companies in each foreign market, resulting in escalating costs and more importantly delayed product launches when products and offerings are updated or add. By avoiding the traditional model, StrikeGlobal has increased speed to market and reduces cost by up to 75%.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 3 Database Provider
• Top 10 Manufacturing ERP Vendor
  

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StrikeStaff

• Save up to 200% of operational time and cost losses from people misaligned with the organization
• Decrease the cost of interviewing, screening, and locating “right-fit” candidates by 45%

The StrikeStaff Solutions Suite is a set of tools and methodology to evaluate the value of Staff within or being recruited by the organization. Staffing a technical project appropriately with the right people and structure from the CTO/CIO all the way down to the Network Administrators is a difficult task and often performed by non technical staff. StrikeStaff has the ability to professionally drill down to critical areas of functional expertise on the resume and provide on the spot, real world scenarios to test candidate’s problem solving abilities and knowledge in areas which are critical to the position. StrikeStaff helps you effectively source and staff extremely qualified technical resources and then combine them with the organizational culture to be successful.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 10 Manufacturing ERP Vendor
• Leading Global Communications Firm
  

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QUALITY & RISK (Maintain it)

StrikeTest

• Increase system uptime to 99.99%
• Decrease total cost of system ownership up to 75%

The StrikeTest Solutions Suite is an enterprise quality assurance platform, enabling a company to achieve up to 70% higher integrity and uptime levels from their systems and software solutions. As important, company systems can now deliver a higher quality experience to their end users. The organization can become Strike Force Certified for testing quality assurance and risk mitigation.

Example Case Studies:

• FTSE 100 Internet and Banking Security Firm
• Top 3 Database Provider
  

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StrikeMon

• Eliminate up to 50% of operational time and cost losses due to outages
• Diagnostic and recovery times increased up to 300%

The StrikeMon Solutions Suite is a set of tools and methodologies that assists in implementing the critical functions of your organization. These include automatically monitoring your systems 24x7x365 and alerting the appropriate resources to unauthorized or unexpected system changes or access. In most systems, developers as an afterthought design instrumentation, monitoring, alerts, thresholds, logs and diagnostic tools. Companies now realize that their systems are in maintenance mode most of the time. The lack of visibility to vital metrics is exceptionally expensive, in addition to increasing overall security risk. StrikeMon can assist in eliminating outages, slow downs, archive failures, security breaches, and other costly and disruptive surprises. A StrikeMon certified organization has direct and comprehensive guidance in the development of appropriate system alerts, monitoring tools, and other core maintenance tools. The result for the enterprise is up to a 50% decrease in overall resource support cost.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 3 Financial Services Firm
• Top 5 Ecommerce Retailer
  

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StrikeAudit

• Decrease audit spending by up to 57%
• Decrease audit findings by up to 80% in the first year

The StrikeAudit Solutions Suite is a set of tools and related compliance team training on how to use the framework to identify gaps in a company’s information technology, SAS70, SOX or other required audit preparedness. StrikeAudit is based on industry standards and all templates and processes were developed by certified information systems auditors with over 22 years of practical information technology experience. This framework has been successfully implemented around the globe and most importantly has taken companies formerly facing a qualified opinion to near perfect compliance. StrikeAudit enables a company with the assurance that compliance risks are identified upfront and remediated prior to an external auditor identifying them.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 3 Financial Services Firm
• Top 3 Federal Telecommunications Company
  

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StrikeCM

• Save up to 50% of operational overhead and system downtime
• Reduce tool and licensing costs by up to 30%

The StrikeCM Solutions Suite is a set of tools, templates, and methodology to perform advanced Change and Configuration Management (CM). CM is among the most underestimated and misunderstood development disciplines today, yet having this discipline in place avoids unplanned outages and pays the largest dividends in cost and time savings. Change and Configuration Management (CM) is the process of identifying and defining system components, controlling the change of these items throughout their lifecycle, identifying the status of each detailed item and change request, and then verifying the completeness and correctness of each component. CM manages changes made to hardware, software, and documentation through a series of controls to minimize risk during testing, deployment, rollback, and recovery. A StrikeCM certified organization effectively performs configurations and change management to world class standards.

Example Case Studies:

• Leading Global Communications Firm
• Top 3 Financial Services Firm
  

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StrikeDR

• Gap analysis and remediation plan for the current technology recovery plan
• Validation that a company complies with all applicable disaster recovery regulatory requirements

“70% of all firms that experience a major data loss go out of business within a year.” Price Waterhouse Coopers 2007. On average 10% of a company’s income can be lost when a data, system, or business disaster event occurs. The StrikeDR Solutions Suite identifies gaps in your information technology disaster recovery preparedness and provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks. The framework has been successfully implemented around the globe and has passed prior client SAS70 and SOX audits. StrikeDR enables a company’s management and board of directors the security of knowing their information technology disaster recovery plan truly limits the company’s losses and potential shareholder liability.

Example Case Studies:

• Top 5 Ecommerce Retailer
• Top 3 Federal Telecommunications Company

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