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BC Networks Solution Framework

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The Networking Dilemma

The Perils of Partnership

The costs and risks of managing business IT networks are especially challenging for small and mid-sized companies. Even in large companies, with extensive IT skills, the challenges are daunting:

50% OF IT PROJECTS FAIL OUTRIGHT
40% BECOME EXPENSIVE SALVAGE OPERATIONS
% OF COMPANIES HAVE SERIOUS SECURITY RISKS
90% EXPERIENCE:

SIGNIFICANT COST OVERRUNS

DELAYS

DEGRADED PERFORMANCE

The reasons are predictable: poorly defined requirements, unmanaged risks, unanticipated complexity, inadequate planning, and undisciplined execution.

While the Fortune 500 and Global 1000 have deep internal IT skills and have access to top talent from global consulting companies, partnering for IT solutions for small and mid-sized businesses has had a problematic track record. The typical IT consultancy providing services to small and mid-sized companies presents both technology and business risk.

Usually they focus on selling hardware and software and not on delivering solutions. Lacking real system architecture skills, with many designs that are unstable and insecure.

Weak methodology means technical and business requirements are ill-defined, risks go unmanaged, implementations are poorly planned, and documentation is unacceptably meager.

Further, all too many of these small IT consultancies are under-capitalized and short-lived – the average lifespan is less than two years.

The fact is that, for most small and mid-sized companies, while IT is a fundamental “can’t-run-without-it” business necessity, it is not a core competency and, in many cases, they really can’t afford to make it one. This is the Network Dilemma facing small and mid-sized companies.

The Power of Partnership

Founded in 1989 to help small and mid-sized companies succeed with information technologies, BC Networks has a long track record of delivering high performance solutions affordably and reliably.

We work very closely with our customers to set them on a clearly marked course where IT systems truly support their business objectives - if introduced to a customer at a moment of crisis, we work first to resolve the immediate issues and stabilize current systems.

Our Solutions Framework methodology distills over a century of collective experience in delivering successful IT solutions, into an integrated Best Practices approach combining a Knowledgebase and a Project Management software platform to deliver affordable, ultra-reliable, high-performance IT solutions, at greatly reduced risk.

Building upon the Solution Framework, BC Networks works with its clients to build comprehensive technology plans, to integrate technology into business planning.

(Complexity)ⁿ

Each separate domain has its own layers of complexity, with multiple possible inter-relations. The domains, in turn, inter-relate to one another creating an “n-Dimension” challenge … upon which your business runs.

The Vision

We believe that by coupling our Solution Framework approach with Technology Planning, we can dramatically improve the predictability of: network performance, security, and reliability, thereby improving productivity and competitiveness, while simultaneously achieving dramatic reductions in technology risk and overall network costs.

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