Professional Services

ConcurTec Professional Services team uses a three-phase process:

Develop, build and run.

Your business and technology have a symbiotic reliance on each other. Our Professional Services team can help you get the most out of your IT investment. Developing an IT infrastructure is an investment that every organisation needs to take into consideration.

The integration of Inobits into our team in 2019 brought a wealth of additional talent to ConcurTec . Our team studies each client across their entire organisation and addresses their needs in a holistic way.

We think comprehensively and believe that cross-functional engagement and discussion is what continues to provide the most value for our customers. Taking time to understand your specific needs and challenges is the foundation to a successful engagement.



On-Prem workloads to O365
and Azure

Consulting services

IT consulting and cloud computing services at ConcurTec  starts with our team taking your business goals and objectives as seriously as you do. Embedded in our process is strategic thinking supported by practical knowledge and years of experience. We work closely with clients across many industry sectors and, in every instance, we will learn the business in a way that we ensure you get the
highest level of value for your technology investment.

Quite simply, our mission is to maximise the ROI on your IT.

From long-term strategic planning and budgeting to network migrations and cloud
computing, our consultants will find the right technology tools to help your business thrive.

Microsoft Experts

In 2019, Inobits, one of the world’s leading Microsoft consulting and training companies,
merged with ConcurTec to become our Professional Services team. Inobits was founded in
2019 as a specialised Microsoft consulting and training team. Today, our Professional
Services team is a leader in the corporate and enterprise market, providing customised
professional services, focused on Microsoft and related products and technologies to
clients around the globe.

Project management office

The ConcurTec Project Management Office (PMO) is committed to applying a comprehensive project governance framework to ensure the success of our projects. We follow the PRINCE2 project management methodology, which enables us to divide projects into manageable stages and deliver them effectively. Our team consists of certified PRINCE2 Practitioners, PRINCE2 Agile Practitioners, and PMI-ACP Agile Communications Practitioners, demonstrating our expertise in project management.

Since we work with a diverse range of clients, each with their own project governance practices, our PMO strives to align with their approaches while providing valuable input to ensure governance goals are achieved. Our primary focus lies in managing Microsoft PaaS and IaaS projects, as well as data centre projects. These projects often involve transitions, such as Azure migration projects, O365 implementation projects (including MFA, Teams, Mail, MIM, etc.), Advanced Threat Analytics, and mail migrations. As managed services are a key offering at ConcurTec, our PMO frequently handles transition projects to smoothly transition our services into support and operations. To achieve this, we leverage a hybrid approach combining waterfall and agile practices, which has proven successful in our service transitions.

Cloud productivity

With cloud computing services, you can expand the efficiency of your IT investment while typically cutting costs at the same time—but only if you do it right. Vendors like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon all have offerings for you to ‘easily’ enter the world of the cloud, but you need someone who has deep expertise in the technology and understands your business to help you make it work for you.

ConcurTec a leading Microsoft 365 partner and our professional services team can help you design a customised cloud computing services solution platform for your organisation.

VMware

SECURE PRODUCTIVE WORKPLACE

Today’s typical workplace has e-mail, calendaring, instant messaging, video conferencing and telephony, with mobile devices introducing a multitude of platforms on which these services are consumed, with variables such as versioning, collaboration, intellectual property, security and compliance.

Then add the fact that these technologies stretch to home, office, cars and hotel rooms around the world, there is more need than ever for a secure, seamless, co-ordinated, end-to-end workplace management solution.

Harnessing the power of Microsoft 365, which consists of the latest Microsoft Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and Windows 10 Enterprise, our team of experts will formulate a plan that is perfect for you.

One that provides the latest innovations in enterprise security, management, collaboration and business analytics, implemented and maintained by us and backed by world-class service


SECURE YOUR DEVICES

Mobile devices have become the primary way we connect, communicate and collaborate. In business, it has become common practise for users to access services from a wide variety of devices, many of which are not owned or managed by the organisation. This creates challenges with security, governance, management and service provisioning.

With the ever-increasing and constantly evolving threat of ransomware, malware and network intrusion in today’s connected world, it’s never been more important to implement tools and processes that ensure device-agnostic security across your entire workplace.

ConcurTec’ s team of experts will work with you to create a customised plan to implement the tools and processes that will allow you to effectively manage and secure all your company devices, while minimising any chance of disruption to your business operations.


SECURE YOUR IDENTITIES

As services evolve, access to a range of user information is required, including contact details, preferences and address books. With so much of this information being private or confidential, it is essential to implement a system of access control to protect your users from identity theft.

ConcurTecSecure ID protects your users’ identities, data and services and enables automated user lifecycle management across HR systems both on-premise and in the cloud. It also implements functionality in EMS to enhance user administration and secure access to data and services.

This helps minimise the attack surface, break exploitation techniques, contain damage & prevent persistence and limit the window of exposure to threats

SECURE YOUR INFORMATION

While cloud computing comes with numerous advantages, companies that use it to store data can never be too sure how secure it is, particularly when stored in a public cloud.

ConcurTec Secure Data mitigates any threats by implementing effective and proven defence measures to ensure your data is always protected and never finds its way into the wrong hands or is seen by the wrong eye

Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive set of cloud computing services created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying and managing IT applications and services. It provides infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools and frameworks, including both Microsoft specific and third-party software and systems.

Today hundreds of thousands of companies and governments around the world, and no less than 90% of Fortune 500 businesses, run on Azure

PUBLIC AND HYBRID CLOUD

A lot of thought needs to be given to the specific cloud strategy that is best suited for a given customer. In enterprise customer’s the decision is usually a hybrid cloud strategy with some workloads deployed in the customers private cloud (their own datacentre) and some workloads in a public cloud like Microsoft Azure. At ConcurTec we have the expertise to advise on that but also ensure that the hybrid / public cloud workloads are managed and secured properly. In some instances, this will require the deployment of Azure Stack with integration into Azure, alternatively using the Microsoft System Centre tools to ensure seamless management, whether the virtualization technology in use is Hyper-V or VMWare

BUSINESS CONTINUITY AND DISASTER RECOVERY

How long would it take for your business to recover from a disaster in which all your data disappeared? ConcurTec’s strategic backup and disaster recovery plans can ensure the safety of your data, your people’s identities, your business, and your reputation. Together, we can design a business continuity and disaster recovery plan for your business that will allow you to sleep peacefully at night, knowing you’re protected. With CITC Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery Plans you can:

  • Alleviate fears of losing data with regularly scheduled backups
  • Replace antiquated systems with modern technology that keeps your data up to date and secure
  • Protect against losing critical customer data and reduce potential liabilities
  • Ensure you are back in business quickly in the event of natural and other disasters
  • Defend your bottom line with Netsurit’s assurance that your email, systems, and more are protected and ready for a quick recovery

Data centre

At ConcurTec we have deep technical skills on the two most widely used virtualisation platforms, namely Hyper-V and VMware. Our virtualisation and datacentre experience include projects at some of the largest banks in South Africa.

HYPER V

Microsoft’s virtual machine capability. Introduced in Windows Server 2008, it enables multiple instances of Windows, Linux and other operating systems to run simultaneously. It uses the paravirtualsation method, which requires the operating system be modified to run as a virtual machine. As server virtualisation becomes more important to businesses as a cost-saving and security solution, and as Hyper-V becomes a major player in the virtualisation space.

Hypervisor technology is software on which multiple virtual machines can run, with the hypervisor layer controlling the hardware and allocating resources to each VM operating system. Hyper-V is the virtualisation platform that is included in Microsoft Windows Server.

Systems management and operations

Through Microsoft System Centre we can deliver a simplified cloud and datacentre management experience that will keep you in control – whether on-premises, in the cloud computing services or across platforms. We use System Centre to increase efficiency through automated processes and self-service.

System Centre Suite of Products

The System Canter suite of products covers critical aspects of infrastructure management and DevOps for resource provisioning, configuration, monitoring, automation, service management, endpoint protection and backup and recovery.

VMWARE

To minimize the impact of any disruption, VMware delivers a comprehensive, integrated portfolio of business continuity and disaster recovery (BC/DR) solutions. VMware BC/DR solutions increase the availability of your workloads and your data, and, in case your primary data centre fails, replicate your data to a secondary site and orchestrate recovery quickly and reliably.


Migration services

Many companies promise ‘easy’ migration to the cloud, but very few actually have a deep understanding of the cloud computing services technology and how it can assist you with your unique needs. ConcurTec’s is a leading Microsoft Azure partner with a dedicated services team who can custom-make solutions specifically for your organisation, all at a surprisingly affordable price.

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