Centralis Analysis and Design Services Matching a solution to customer requirement means understanding the customer's existing investments and infrastructure as well as their immediate and longer-term goals.  Building from a structured requirements analysis to a documented design ensures that the built environment is resilient, strategic and fit for purpose.

Centralis Analysis and Design Services

	Selected Centralis Case Studies
	BUPA Securely delivering applications to non-managed PCs. Standard Life Analysis and design combine to deliver flexible working and a global access solution.
	Business Issues
	Strategy: Aligning a technology roadmap with your business strategy means that you invest in the right functionality and capacity at the right time Flexibility: Solutions need to be based on practical, real world experience, and designs must scalable, and built with change in mind Compliance: Proving that standard have been set and met is time consuming and costly.  Structured reports and documented best practice designs can help Business Continuity: High availability, failover,  resilience and disaster recovery are key components of every design

At Centralis we take analysis and design very seriously, because experience tells us that solutions deployed without proper analysis and without a documented design fail more often and more quickly.

Why?  Because your solution needs to take into consideration the key business drivers and challenges facing your organisation.  These may include business continuity, flexible working, mobility, growth plans, acquisitions and security. 

It is also important to review what infrastructure is already in place, including networks, printing, connectivity and systems management.

Of course the true success of any solution is determined by how well it meets the requirements of the users, so the way they work, the peripherals they use and the locations they connect from must also be considered.

Centralis' structured approach to analysis and design gathers large amounts of data very quickly and organises it into documents which can be easily read and agreed by customer sponsors.  The resulting designs are to vendor best practice - instantly recognisable as quality documents suitable for external audit.

Centralis Analysis Services

The two key components of our Analysis Service are outlined below.  Please note that for health checks and technical analysis (including QA / Audit / Compliance etc) please see our Audit, Upgrade and Optimisation section:

Requirements Analysis

The Requirements Analysis (R.A.) analyses the high-level project together with the technical and business requirements, concluding with the recommended next steps. It typically includes the following elements:

• Overview & Executive Summary
• Agreed Requirements
• Outstanding Business Questions 
• Outstanding Technical Questions
• Infrastructure Conceptual Design

Overall, the requirements analysis provides a high-level understanding of the customer's aims and objectives, together with a conceptual design of the entire infrastructure solution to match the projects characteristics and requirements.

Infrastructure Assessment

The initial phase of the Centralis Analysis Service typically involves qualifying the customer’s current infrastructure and requirements against established best practice and design principles.  The Infrastructure Assessment (or I.A.) concludes with a written report and presentation to the customer sponsor covering some or all of the following elements:

• Existing application delivery methodology & environment
• Directory Environment
• Printing & Peripherals
• Network Architecture
• Clients / Workstations & Servers
• Testing / U.A.T. Environment and processes
• Systems Management / Change Control
• Support Structure
• Security
• Backup / Continuity / Disaster Recovery
• Data Storage
• Training & Communication

 Overall, the infrastructure assessment determines the readiness of the customers environment for the planned deployment and collects relevant information for the Design Service.

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Centralis Design Services

On completion of the detailed Analysis, Centralis undertake a solution design.  The Design Service creates a detailed Architecture document, which is used to plan and commission the subsequent Build & Test work, in which the production applications are deployed and the overall design is subjected to extensive testing to prove suitability for production deployment.  Key components of our Design Service are:

• Client Delivery Architecture
• Application Packaging & Delivery
• Configuration Management
• Load Balancing / Load Evaluators
• User personalisation / Profile management
• Application Integration
• Directory Integration
• Printing Architecture
• Hardware Architecture
• O/S Configuration and Lockdown

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Centralis Deployment Services

On completion of the detailed Design, Centralis build, test, capacity plan and then deploy the solution. The Deployment Service builds from the Design to create a fully working, best practice compliant environment.  Key components of our Deployment Service are:

• Server & VDI desktop o/s centralisation using Provisioning Server
• Application integration testing / application isolation & streaming
• Load testing and capacity planning
• Pilot deployment for U.A.T. (user acceptance testing)
• Patch and update management
• Training of customer staff / development of management procedures

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