Outsourcing Professional Services
Bull Professional Services has the experience to assist you in bridging the gap between your business needs and today's newest technologies. Whether you need to integrate, expand, or build a new infrastructure, Bull Services can help you succeed.
Bull Services brings the technical expertise to all your IT projects using the Bull Services approach to consulting services. Bull Services has developed a repeatable methodology that is a four-phase lifecycle for technology projects - Define, Design, Deploy, Manage (DDDM).
The Bull Services approach - DDDM:
Define - During the Definition phase, Bull Services works with the management and technical teams within an organization to identify business requirements that drive a technology project. This phase also includes Discovery, during which unanticipated requirements or constraints are identified. Critical Success Factors are identified that are used to validate design decisions made later in the project lifecycle. Alternatives are identified, and solutions recommended to best meet the needs of the organization.
Design - During the Design phase, Bull Services assumes a design engineer role, using the requirements developed during the Definition phase as the underlying framework for architecting a solution. The results of this phase may be a list of technical or RFP specifications, or a complete technical design, depending on the project.
Deploy - During the Deployment phase, Bull Services can assist with complicated deployments as technical consultants, project managers, or as the actual integrator. In any case, Integris will see that resources are properly coordinated and scheduled to bring your project in on time, and on budget.
Manage - Once technology is in service, it enters the operational phase during which ongoing maintenance and management is required to provide reliable operation. Bull Services can assist with the development of network management and monitoring tools and processes to allow proactive control of technology resources.
Bull Services can work with you in the following areas:
IT Infrastructure Security Planning and Design |
- Network vulnerability scanning/assessments which include business needs and requirements definition, assessment of current security environment, develop security recommendations, threat assessment and review and development of policies and procedures, and project management.
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- Firewall and VPN requirements definition, design and testing.
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- AAA - Authentication, Authorization and Accounting, and
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- Hosted or non-hosted Proactive Remote Information Security Monitoring, firewall auditing, SLA monitoring and account management.
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IT Disaster Recovery |
- Disaster recovery assessments,
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- Disaster recovery plan creation, and
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- Hot and cold site provisioning.
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Servers |
- NT and Windows audits/assessments of current server environment that include business needs and requirements definition, operational processes analysis, disaster recoverability, best practices strategies, evaluate technology alternatives, and gap analysis,
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- Design services that include active directory planning, server hardening and optimization, and BackOffice Design and Planning,
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- Deployment services that include project management, Windows 2000 Active Directory implementation/migration, desktop image/software rollout, Citrix implementation, Exchange 2000 implementation/migration and enterprise backup/restore implementation; and
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- Managed hosting with 24 x 7 x 365 day operations support available at two commercially hardened data center facilities.
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Network |
- Network Infrastructure Assessments - findings, analysis and recommendations dealing with utilization, configuration, design, errors, collisions, cabling and deficiencies and routing. Assessments include analysis documentation and a recommendation report that identifies actions that can be taken for immediate improvement ('Quick Wins") and general recommendations.
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- Network design services including LAN switching, WAN and WAN Switching, Quality of Service/differentiated services, Fault tolerance/redundancy, basic IP Services, IP addressing design, routing infrastructure, VPN's and dial services.
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- Monitoring and diagnostic services which include network performance tuning and diagnosis, and Quality of Service analysis.
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