Consulting

The term consulting is thrown around without thinking and generally has very little actual meaning in today’s buzzword filled business landscape. When we say consulting, we mean it. Specific, objective, and actionable advisement based on data and experience — not jargon filled generalities with little to no follow through. Unlike most “consultants”, we hang around through the execution of our recommendations to ensure ironclad accountability.

CIO Consulting

Brightwater’s CIO Advisory Services improve the effectiveness of the technology organization through alignment with your business goals and priorities, strategic planning and delivery road maps. Composed of former CIOs/executives with significant business experience, Brightwater’s CIO Advisory Services provide recommendations and implements solutions for Best in Class technology performance. Are your technology goals aligned with the business? Are your technology processes consistent across all disciplines? Is the organization structured for future success? Would an outside assessment help direction?

Cloud Consulting

Brightwater’s Cloud Migration Services include assessments of your current environment with recommendations on which applications are Cloud ready, determines which Cloud provider is best suited for each application, and provides a delivery road map that is scalable and sustainable. Our cloud experience includes companies in multiple industries such as: manufacturing, marketing and financial services.

Technology Infrastructure and Information/Cyber Security Consulting

Brightwater’s Infrastructure Services include assessments of your current environment with recommendations for improved efficiencies, scalability and sustainability across all deployment options, including consolidation, visualization, cloud and hybrid. Our multi-disciplined technology infrastructure assessment includes recommendations to get a better ROI on your IT spend, and confidently move your business into the future. This includes: data center, NOC and WAN consolidations and support; implementation of WAN/LAN technologies; virtualization; cloud; and data storage, analysis and reporting technologies.

Big Data Consulting

At Brightwater we speak “Big Data”! Whether it be SAP S4 Hana, Hadoop, Informatica, Teradata, etc., we are the experts on data, data analysis, predictive analytics, master data management, business intelligence, data lake design and implementations, etc.

Applications Consulting

Brightwater provides Application Development Services across multiple technologies and platforms. These services also include mobile application development for both iOS and Android devices. In addition, we provide both Application Rationalization and Application Modernization Services. If you have legacy applications in older technologies, or if you have multiple applications providing similar functionality, let us help “reduce the clutter” by rationalizing and modernizing those applications for you.

Compliance Standards and Regulations Consulting

Brightwater prepares clients to implement processes, documentation, etc. so that they can become compliant with standards and regulations. These include Healthcare standards and regulations (HIPAA, Meaningful Use, Homeland Security – Emergency Management), Financial standards and regulations (OCC / SEC, FFIEC) and Industry standards and frameworks (ISO27001, GDPR, SOC2, NIST, NFPA 1600, COBIT).

Program & Project Management Consulting

Brightwater’s Program Management Services include strategy alignment, governance disciplines, tools and techniques to guide proactive risk management and strategic decision making around programs and projects. Do you have limited visibility into project performance? Are limited resources and capacity planning an issue? Do your projects come in late and/or over budget? Do you have a consistent methodology for project delivery? We provide real-world agile based, hands-on experience by senior level consultants.