Our Consulting Services at a glance

Converis GmbH is your partner during the strategic objectives development till the organizational and technological implementation. The accompaniment during the whole process is of essential interest. Our IT strategy consulting is mainly but not exclusively focused on IT/Business Alignment, IT Strategy, CIO/CTO Services, IT Evaluations and Procurement as well as Methodology and Information Security with the goal of achieving qualitative performance optimization.

We support you gathering your requirements and creating formal RFI’s, RFP’s and RFQ’s for public tenders. Afterwards we investigate, assess and measure supplier’s offerings in order to elaborate a consistent vendor selection. The procurement of hardware, software and above all services is a highly demanding task for today's managers and decision makers. There are many influencing factors to be considered and good decisions for the longer term future to be made. Even after a decision for a specific provider has been made, we support you in monitoring, measuring and evaluating the performance of the provider. 

Official studies prove that more than 70% of failed projects were unsuccessful due to a wrong or not correctly defined project setup. With our more than 30 years experience in preparing, planning and setting up projects will help you to have successful projects from the beginning. We attach importance to the combination of clearly structured, methodical procedures and practical, sometimes pragmatic practical experience. We support you in identifying and reconciling factors such as reality, probability of success, risks and success factors, mitigation options and consequences of your planning.

We coach, support and guide you through the project management cycles in organizational or technological projects. Due to our long-term experience we are able to identify and emphasize critical risks and substantial success factors. Due to our many years of experience in program and project management with different methodologies as well as the background of GRC, information security, personnel management and communication, we are companions and coaches at eye level for your program and project managers. 

We provide advisory services in all technical and organizational data protection and data security topics. In a joint collaboration we analyze, verify and modify your data protection organization in order to comply with current legal requirements. Our expertise in Information Security supports the implementation of all defined measures within your organization. We offer assistance in protecting information technology and data. The support is always based on the concrete need under economically reasonable aspects. By regularly reviewing the established security measures and the information security process, statements can be made about their effective implementation, topicality, completeness and appropriateness and thus about the current state of information security.

No organization, no process without area for improvement and performance optimization. Our assessments focus on multiple areas in your organization. We are specialized in driving TCO (Total Cost of Ownership), TVO (Total Value of Opportunity) and REJ (Rapid Economic Justification) studies and assessments. We work closely together with Gartner Group. Without any finger pointing we help you identify substantial potential and areas for improvement within your organization. We help you analyzing the root causes and taking measures for immediate change. Traditional methods and tools help us to achieve the objectives in an efficient manner.

Vendor Selection is the “buzz word” of the last 4 and the next 5 years. Efficient organizations maintain a proactive vendor management with strict measurements. Understanding the ecosystem of different suppliers, products, services and value / benefit aspects is an essential part of an efficient vendor selection and management program. We do not only address ideal license agreements, SLA’s and cost drivers but many more economical aspects with will influence the results and success substantially. Our knowledge and experience will be of essential value to you.

Multiple challenges in many Businesses and IT related processes and topics lead to a more complex enterprise structure. Making well-thought decision is quite difficult for today’s decision makers. Very often these decision makers “feel lonely” and have no neutral partners to discuss their challenges and issues regarding strategy, processes and organization. We provide sparring services to be a long-term oriented neutral partner and trusted advisor for executives and managers. Acting as a coach for few hours per week may help to address issues from a different standpoint that form inside the organization. With these services we provide new ideas, tough questions or sometimes just confirmation of already existing ideas, solutions and answers.