RFD has deep technology roots that has uniquely positioned us to better assist our clients across a wide variety of architectures and technologies. This depth has proven valuable for many of our clients as they take on the challenges of migrating from legacy applications to the advantages offered through open architectures and Web-based solutions.

Information Technology Services

• Application Security
  

• Policies, Legal/Contractual Issues
• Administration
• Authentication, Identity Federation, Single Signon
• Resource Authorization and Roles
• Auditing

• Custom Software Development

• What is the best, most modern yet cost-effective solution to solve business problems

• Data Services

• Data Base Design, Warehouse, Mart, Extract-Transform-Load,
• Analysis, Purification, XML mapping, Exchanges with trading partners

• Performance Tuning, Capacity Planning

• Measure and establish a baseline for future comparisons
• Determine business drivers, metrics
• Measurement, performance database
• Reporting, Alert management
• Functionality and Load Testing

• Legacy Systems Integration

• Distributed Site connectivity
• Web enablement for legacy processes/interfaces

• Networked Storage Advisor Assessment

• Characterize your storage usage so you can decide and plan intelligently

• Project planning / project management

• Understanding business objectives and the marketplace
• Characterizing human and facilities resources
• Staff Augmentation, TeamBuilding

• Technical Architecture Design

• Understanding and adopting modern best practices
  • Service Oriented Architecture
  • Web Services
  • Infrastructure Modernization / Coexistence

Since the 1980's RFD staff has been acknowledged industry experts in strategic assessment of legacy resources, including hardware platform, infrastructure support, operations, capacity/performance, and effectiveness of IT in serving business functionality needs.

RFD strategy for Legacy Resource Assessment includes:

• meeting with your staff to gain a level-set objectively - taking into account your business objectives, IT resources, areas of responsibility, existing design, plans, and available documentation
• inventorying and characterizing your areas of strength or weakness, and assessing how well-positioned your IT technology portfolio is to meet future needs
  
• analyzing how well your organization is meeting your business goals
  
• providing tactical, detailed recommendations for practical action to move you toward meeting your enterprise goals and allow you to make your IT the star of the organization
  
• developing a plan for future measurement, tracking, and managing your resources and goals for success

We have found the adage - “You can't manage what you can't measure” - to be true for enterprise IT. This importance of accurate and complete measurement is at the foundation of our strategic assessment work.