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Function 10 Consulting empowers organisations with future-ready IT foundations through our Architectural Roadmap & Design, and Assurance service. By aligning business goals with robust, scalable architectures, we deliver strategic blueprints and governance frameworks that drive agility, performance, and compliance. From roadmap development to continuous assurance, we ensure your technology ecosystem evolves securely and intelligently.
Our Services
Our Architectural Roadmap & Design, and Assurance service empowers organisations to strategically plan, build, and maintain resilient, future-ready IT architectures. This service bridges business objectives with robust technical execution, ensuring your technology infrastructure evolves seamlessly and securely.
Architectural Roadmap & Design
We start by working closely with your stakeholders to understand your business goals, current IT ecosystem, and long-term vision. Based on this, we craft a strategic architectural roadmap that guides the evolution of your technology environment.
- Strategic Planning: Aligning IT direction with business priorities to chart a clear, future-focused technology trajectory.
- Blueprint Development: Delivering detailed architectural blueprints that define system structures, integrations, and transformation pathways.
- Technology Alignment: Recommending technologies and platforms that are fit-for-purpose, scalable, and compatible with your existing systems.
- Design Best Practices: Embedding principles of scalability, security, interoperability, and compliance into every architectural layer.
Assurance
We provide continuous oversight and validation to ensure your IT architecture performs optimally, adheres to regulatory standards, and evolves with agility.
- Compliance & Governance: Ongoing assessments to ensure architectural compliance with industry regulations and internal governance.
- Risk Management: Identifying architectural risks—such as integration challenges or security gaps—and providing targeted mitigation strategies.
- Quality Assurance: Implementing rigorous validation processes to confirm architectural integrity, performance, and reliability under real-world conditions.
- Continuous Improvement: Offering post-implementation support to adapt and refine your architecture as business needs and technologies evolve.
Assurance
- Strategic Alignment: Ensures IT architecture directly supports business growth and operational goals.
- Resilience & Risk Reduction: Proactively addresses vulnerabilities and enhances architectural robustness.
- Performance Optimisation: Delivers efficient, scalable systems designed for long-term success.
- Regulatory Confidence: Maintains full compliance with legal, regulatory, and industry standards.
This service is ideal for organisations seeking to modernise their IT landscape, improve agility, and maximise return on their technology investments.
Optimise Your Business Operations for Success
Our Target Operating Model (TOM) Definition service helps organisations design and implement a future-ready operational framework that aligns with strategic goals. With a focus on improving efficiency, governance, and agility, TOM provides a blueprint for transforming processes, technology, data, and people to meet long-term business objectives.
Key Phases of the Service:
1.
Assessment of Current State
- Comprehensive evaluation of current processes, structure, technology, and workforce capabilities.
- SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
- Reports provided clear insights into sensor health and domain controller coverage
2.
Strategic Alignment
- Aligning the future operating model with your business goals and market positioning.
- Ensuring the TOM supports the organisation’s long-term vision.
3.
Gap Analysis
- Identifying key gaps between the current and desired state.
- Highlighting areas for transformation, including technology upgrades and process re-engineering.
4.
Design of the Target Operating Model
- Defining ideal processes, organisational structure, governance frameworks, technology architecture, and data management practices.
- Tailoring the design to your organisation’s unique needs and industry.
5.
Implementation Roadmap
- Detailed roadmap with timelines, milestones, and resource requirements.
- Risk management strategies and change management plans for smooth implementation.
6.
Change Management Support
- Offering training, communication plans, and stakeholder engagement to ensure a sustainable transition.
- Helping your workforce adapt to the new operating model.
6.
Monitoring and Continuous Improvement
- Post-implementation support with performance monitoring, KPIs, and recommendations for continuous improvement.
Key Benefits:
- Enhanced Efficiency: Optimised processes for greater operational performance.
- Strategic Focus: Aligning operations with strategic goals to support business success.
- Cost Savings: Streamlining operations to reduce costs.
- Agility: Enabling rapid response to market changes and opportunities.
- Improved Governance: Clearer roles and processes for better risk management and compliance.
Ideal for organisations undergoing transformation, mergers, or aiming to improve operational performance to stay competitive.
Transform your operations with a well-defined Target Operating Model – the blueprint for your business’s future success.
Our Technical Strategy Development and Review service helps organisations align their technology landscape with business objectives, enabling innovation, operational efficiency, and sustained competitive advantage. Whether you’re building a new
strategy or refining an existing one, we deliver expert insight and practical guidance tailored to your goals.
Service Components
Current Technology Assessment
We begin with a detailed evaluation of your existing IT environment—covering infrastructure, software, networks, data management, and security frameworks. This analysis identifies current strengths, pain points, and strategic gaps in your technology setup.
Alignment with Business Objectives
We work closely with stakeholders to ensure your technology strategy supports both short- and long-term business aims. By aligning IT investments with organisational priorities, we create a cohesive roadmap that delivers measurable outcomes and business value.
Strategic Roadmap Development
Based on our assessment and alignment efforts, we develop a tailored, actionable roadmap that outlines key initiatives, timelines, resource allocation, and dependencies. This may include areas such as digital transformation, cloud strategy, cybersecurity, data analytics, and innovation through emerging technologies.
Technology Selection & Implementation Advisory
We provide guidance on selecting the most suitable technologies, platforms, and vendors. Our recommendations focus on scalability, compatibility, cost-effectiveness, and future-proofing—ensuring your investments are robust and aligned with your long-term vision.
Strategy Review & Optimisation
For organisations with an existing strategy, we offer a critical review to validate its effectiveness. We assess progress against objectives, highlight improvement areas, and refine your approach to maintain relevance in a dynamic technology landscape.
Stakeholder Engagement & Training
We ensure that all key stakeholders understand and support the strategy. Our approach includes workshops, presentations, and communication plans, as well as training programmes to equip teams with the skills necessary for successful implementation and sustained success.
Ongoing Monitoring & Adaptation
We offer continuous monitoring and periodic reviews of your strategy, enabling agile
adaptation in response to technological advancements, market shifts, and emerging
business requirements.
Key Benefits
- Operational Efficiency: Streamlined technology planning and use for improved productivity.
- Strategic Agility: Responsive strategy that adapts to change and drives innovation.
- Risk Reduction: Proactive identification and mitigation of technology-related risks.
- Cost Optimisation: Smarter technology spending aligned with businesspriorities.
- Scalable Growth: A future-ready foundation that supports organisational expansion and evolution.
Our Technical Strategy Development & Review service equips your organisation with a clear, executable plan that connects technology to value—ensuring you’re prepared to lead in a rapidly evolving digital world.
Our Cloud Migration Planning Services are designed to help organisations transition their IT infrastructure, applications, and data from on-premises systems to the cloud in a secure, efficient, and strategic manner. We provide a structured, end-to-end approach—from assessment and planning to execution and post-migration optimisation—ensuring a smooth transformation aligned with business objectives.
Service Components
Assessment & Discovery
We begin with a detailed evaluation of your current IT landscape, including infrastructure, applications, data, and network dependencies.
- Current State Analysis: Gain clarity on what needs to be migrated and identify interdependencies.
- Cost-Benefit Evaluation: Understand the financial and performance advantages of cloud adoption.
- Risk Assessment: Identify and mitigate potential challenges, such as downtime, data loss, or regulatory concerns.
Strategic Planning
Our experts craft a tailored migration strategy based on your organisation’s unique requirements.
- Cloud Readiness Assessment: Determine your preparedness for cloud adoption and address capability gaps.
- Platform Selection: Recommend the most suitable cloud provider—AWS,Azure, Google Cloud—based on performance, security, and budget considerations.
- Migration Strategy: Develop a phased approach, whether it’s lift-and-shift, re-architecting, or hybrid migration, with clear timelines and resource plans.
Migration Execution
We ensure a secure, controlled, and low-risk transition to the cloud.
- Pilot Testing: Validate your migration strategy through small-scale trials before full deployment.
- Data & Application Migration: Orchestrated migration of all critical assets with minimal disruption to operations.
- Integration & Optimisation: Seamless integration with existing systems and performance tuning for the cloud environment.
Post-Migration Support
Ongoing support ensures the long-term success of your cloud adoption.
- Monitoring & Management: Continuous performance monitoring, issue resolution, and system health checks.
- Resource Optimisation: Fine-tuning of cloud usage through auto-scaling, cost monitoring, and architectural improvements.
- Training & Documentation: Equip your teams with the knowledge to manage the new environment confidently, supported by clear, comprehensive documentation.
Compliance & Security
Security and regulatory alignment are embedded throughout the migration process.
- Security Review: Implement cloud-native security features like encryption and identity management.
- Compliance Assurance: Ensure adherence to regulations such as GDPR, ISO standards, and sector-specific requirements.
Key Benefits
- Minimised Downtime: Detailed planning reduces business disruption during the migration.
- Cost Efficiency: Improved resource allocation to eliminate waste and manage costs.
- Scalability: Flexible infrastructure that grows with your organisation’s needs.
- Enhanced Security: Strengthened security posture through modern cloud technologies.
- Future-Ready Infrastructure: A scalable, adaptable foundation to support innovation and growth.
Our Cloud Migration Planning Services are designed to help organisations transition their IT infrastructure, applications, and data from on-premises systems to the cloud in a secure, efficient, and strategic manner. We provide a structured, end-to-end approach—from assessment and planning to execution and post-migration optimisation—ensuring a smooth transformation aligned with business objectives.
Our Security Posture Assessment service is designed to provide a comprehensive evaluation of your organisation’s current security resilience and identify opportunities for strategic improvement. This service is structured around three core components:
Business Impact Analysis
We help you understand how potential security threats could affect your critical business functions. By identifying key assets, evaluating associated risks, and assessing the potential impact of breaches, we provide actionable insights to prioritise and protect your most valuable operations. This ensures that your security investments align with business-critical priorities.
Communications Assessment
Clear and efficient communication is vital during a security event. We assess your organisation’s communication protocols—especially under incident conditions—to ensure fast, accurate, and coordinated information flow. This includes evaluating internal team coordination as well as interactions with stakeholders and external entities, with tailored recommendations to strengthen your crisis communication framework.
Team Design Evaluation
A capable, well-structured security team is essential to maintaining a strong security posture. We analyse your current team’s structure, roles, staffing levels, and skill sets. Our assessment identifies any gaps and provides guidance on restructuring, training, or tooling—ensuring your team is prepared to anticipate, respond to, and mitigate evolving threats.
By combining these three focus areas, our Security Posture Assessment delivers a holistic view of your organisation’s security health. It empowers you to reduce vulnerabilities, strengthen key defenses, and improve your ability to detect, respond to, and recover from security incidents with confidence.
Our Technology Change, Business Impact, and Readiness Assessments service supports organisations in navigating complex technology transformations with confidence. By taking a holistic view of technical, operational, and cultural readiness, we help ensure your digital evolution drives meaningful business outcomes with minimal disruption.
Service Components
Technology Change Assessment
We assess the technical implications of proposed technology changes—whether implementing new systems, upgrading platforms, or undertaking digital transformation.
- Gap Analysis: Identify differences between your current technology environment and desired future state.
- Risk Identification: Highlight potential technical risks and define mitigation strategies.
- Implementation Roadmap: Provide a practical, phased plan for rollout and adoption.
Business Impact Assessment
Understanding how change will affect your wider business operations is essential to achieving a successful transformation.
- Operational Impact: Analyse the effects on day-to-day processes, workflows, and service delivery.
- Financial Evaluation: Assess the return on investment (ROI) and long-term value of the change.
- Stakeholder Implications: Identify the impact on staff, customers, partners, and other stakeholders.
Readiness Assessment
We evaluate your organisation’s preparedness to adopt and sustain new technologies. This includes skills, infrastructure, and cultural considerations.
- Skills Assessment: Identify capability gaps and recommend tailored training programmes.
- Cultural Readiness: Understand organisational attitudes towards change and identify areas requiring support.
- Infrastructure Review: Assess whether your current IT environment can support new systems.
Why Choose This Service?
- Comprehensive Coverage: We address technology, people, and business impact—ensuring a balanced approach.
- Industry Expertise: Our consultants bring experience across multiple sectors and technology platforms.
- Actionable Insights: We deliver practical, prioritised recommendations to guide your transformation journey.
Key Benefits
- Reduced Risk: Identify and address potential challenges before implementation.
- Improved Alignment: Ensure that technology changes support strategic business goals.
- Greater Engagement: Foster stakeholder buy-in through clear communication and readiness planning.
- Enhanced Agility: Build a flexible foundation capable of adapting to future change.
Our assessments equip your organisation with the insight, structure, and confidence needed to successfully manage technology change. By aligning people, processes, and platforms, we help ensure that your transformation delivers measurable value and sustainable growth.
Seamlessly migrate your IT infrastructure, applications, and data to the cloud withend-to-end support. Our Cloud Transition Execution service ensures a secure, efficient, and tailored transition that meets your business goals and maximises cloud benefits.
Key Phases:
1.
Assessment & Planning
- Current State Analysis: Thorough evaluation of your existing IT environment.
- Cloud Readiness Evaluation: Identifying challenges and opportunities for migration.
- Custom Cloud Strategy: A tailored migration plan aligned with your business needs, budget, and timeline.
2.
Design & Architecture
- Cloud Architecture Design: Performance, security, and scalability- focused cloud infrastructure design.
- Solution Blueprinting: Detailed plans for migrating applications, data, and services.
- Compliance & Security Planning: Ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements.
3.
Migration Execution
- Data Migration: Secure data transfer with minimal downtime.
- Application Migration: Rehosting, refactoring, or rearchitecting apps for cloud optimisation.
- Infrastructure Migration: Transitioning servers and resources to the cloud environment.
4.
Testing & Validation
- Performance Testing: Ensuring optimal cloud performance.
- Security Testing: Identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities.
- Compliance Auditing: Verifying regulatory compliance.
5.
Optimisation & Support
- Performance Optimisation: Continuous monitoring for cost-efficiency and scalability.
- Ongoing Support: 24/7 support and maintenance for seamless cloud operations.
- Training & Documentation: Empowering your team with the knowledge to manage the cloud environment effectively.
6.
Change Management Support
- Stakeholder Communication: Ensuring alignment across all parties.
- Employee Training: Preparing your workforce for cloud-based tools and processes.
- Post-Migration Review: Assessing the transition’s success and resolving remaining issues.
Key Benefits:
- Reduced Downtime: Minimal disruption to your business during the migration.
- Enhanced Security: Safe and protected data and application migration.
- Scalability: Flexible IT resources, scaled according to demand.
- Cost Efficiency: Optimised cloud usage for cost-effective performance.
- Future-Proofing: Ready for technological advancements and growth.
Maximise the benefits of cloud computing while minimising risks—our service ensures a smooth, secure, and efficient cloud transition.
Our Hybrid Cloud Integration service is designed to seamlessly connect on-premises infrastructure with public and private cloud environments, empowering businesses to optimise performance, enhance flexibility, and maintain security across their entire IT landscape. This solution enables unified operations and smarter resource utilisation in today’s complex digital environments.
Service Highlights
Centralised Management
Gain complete visibility and control through a unified management console. Monitor system performance, enforce policies, manage resources, and ensure compliance across all hybrid platforms from a single interface.
Seamless Data Integration
Enable real-time synchronisation of data between on-premises systems and cloud services. Our integration tools ensure data consistency, integrity, and availability—supporting accurate decision-making and uninterrupted operations.
Application Interoperability
Achieve smooth interaction between applications running in different environments. Through APIs, middleware, and containerisation, we ensure systems communicate efficiently, eliminating silos and enabling agile application workflows.
Robust Security & Compliance
Our service incorporates end-to-end security features including encryption, access controls, and regular compliance assessments. You can operate confidently knowing your data is protected and compliant, regardless of location or regulatory landscape.
Flexible Scalability
Adapt quickly to changing business needs. Whether scaling up cloud resources or optimising on-premises capacity, our hybrid solutions support growth and cost control without compromising performance.
Automation & Efficiency
We leverage automation to simplify operations—from data transfers and backups to patch management and system updates. Reduce manual workload, eliminate errors, and boost overall operational efficiency.
Business Benefits
- Cost Optimisation: Reduce infrastructure redundancy, streamline resource allocation, and lower total cost of ownership.
- Increased Agility: Rapidly respond to market shifts while maintaining core systems and data sovereignty.
- Enhanced Security: Maintain consistent protection and compliance across all environments.
- Resilience & Continuity: Support disaster recovery strategies with reliable replication and backup across hybrid platforms.
Hybrid Cloud Integration is key for businesses aiming to modernise IT infrastructure without sacrificing control, security, or performance. Let us help you build a flexible, connected environment that grows with your business.
Our Platform Migration Services provide organisations with a structured, low-risk transition from legacy systems to modern technology platforms. Whether you’re upgrading to a more scalable solution, consolidating systems, or integrating new technologies, we ensure a seamless migration process that preserves operational continuity and data integrity.
Service Components
Assessment & Planning
We start with a comprehensive analysis of your current platform and future requirements.
- Current State Evaluation: Understand the existing infrastructure and operational dependencies.
- Target Platform Analysis: Identify the capabilities and benefits of the new platform.
- Migration Roadmap: Develop a detailed migration strategy, including resource planning, timelines, and risk mitigation.
Data Migration
Ensure the secure and accurate transfer of critical information.
- Data Transfer: Migrate databases, user data, and business files with precision.
- Validation Processes: Verify data completeness and integrity post-migration to ensure consistency.
Application Migration
Adapt your software ecosystem to the new platform without compromise.
- Application Re-engineering: Modify or reconfigure applications for compatibility.
- Testing & Validation: Conduct thorough testing to confirm applications function as expected on the new platform.
System Integration
Facilitate seamless communication between the new platform and existing systems.
- Integration Services: Align your new platform with internal systems and third-party software.
- API Development: Build custom APIs if needed for full interoperability and automation.
Testing & Quality Assurance
Ensure the new platform meets your performance, security, and reliability requirements.
- Performance Testing: Validate system load handling and functionality.
- Issue Resolution: Address and fix any issues before go-live to minimise disruptions.
User Training & Post-Migration Support
Empower your team and maintain operational momentum.
- Training Sessions: Equip users with the knowledge to navigate the new platform confidently.
- Ongoing Support: Dedicated assistance post-migration to handle queries and maintain stability.
Post-Migration Optimisation
Maximise the value of your new platform through continual enhancement.
- Monitoring & Tuning: Track performance and apply optimisations for efficiency and user satisfaction.
- Long-Term Support: Recommend improvements to align with evolving business needs.
Key Benefits
- Enhanced Performance: Leverage faster processing and improved system responsiveness.
- Scalability: Scale with ease as your business grows, without being constrained by outdated systems.
- Cost Savings: Reduce long-term costs through operational efficiency and improved resource usage.
- Stronger Security: Benefit from modern security features that protect sensitive data and reduce risk.
- Future-Readiness: Position your business to adopt emerging technologies and remain competitive.
Our Platform Migration Services are ideal for organisations aiming to modernise, simplify operations, and future-proof their technology environment—without compromising business continuity.
Our Post-Implementation Audits and Project Health-Checks service is designed to evaluate the effectiveness of projects—whether completed or still in progress. We provide objective insights that help organisations measure success, address issues proactively, and refine project management practices for future improvement.
Service Components
Post-Implementation Audits
Following project completion, we conduct a structured review to assess overall performance and outcomes.
- Objective Evaluation: Determine whether the project met its original goals and delivered on its intended benefits.
- Performance Analysis: Assess delivery against key metrics such as time, cost, quality, and scope.
- Stakeholder Feedback: Gather input from stakeholders to measure satisfaction with the project’s outcomes.
- Lessons Learned: Identify best practices and areas for improvement to inform future initiatives.
- Compliance Check: Ensure adherence to internal governance frameworks, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Project Health-Checks
During the project lifecycle, we conduct health-checks to identify risks early and optimise delivery performance.
- Ongoing Assessments: Periodically evaluate project status to detect emerging risks or issues.
- Risk Review: Analyse the effectiveness of risk management strategies and recommend enhancements.
- Resource Analysis: Evaluate resource allocation—time, budget, staffing—and suggest optimisations.
- Stakeholder Monitoring: Ensure continuous stakeholder engagement and alignment with project goals.
- Corrective Actions: Provide timely recommendations to resolve issues and keep the project on track.
Key Benefits
- Higher Success Rates: Improve project outcomes by identifying and resolving issues early.
- Cost Control: Reduce unnecessary spend through proactive risk and resource management.
- Stakeholder Assurance: Build confidence by demonstrating transparent and effective project oversight.
- Continuous Improvement: Foster a learning culture by capturing insights for better future delivery.
This service is ideal for organisations delivering complex or mission-critical projects. With in-depth analysis, actionable recommendations, and strategic insights, we help ensure your projects deliver value, meet business goals, and contribute to long-term success.
Our Decommissioning of Cloud Services offering is designed to help organisations securely retire outdated, redundant, or no longer required cloud resources. With a strategic and compliant approach, we ensure the smooth dismantling of cloud services while preserving data integrity, minimising operational risk, and optimising IT efficiency.
Service Highlights
Comprehensive Audit & Assessment
We begin with a full audit of your cloud environment, identifying all active services, associated dependencies, data locations, and compliance obligations. You’ll receive detailed reports highlighting potential risks and priority areas to address throughout the decommissioning process.
Strategic Planning & Execution
A bespoke decommissioning roadmap is developed to guide the secure and efficient retirement of cloud services. This includes clearly defined timelines, resource allocation, and step-by-step execution plans. Our approach ensures all data is safely backed up or migrated, and any residual data is sanitised in accordance with compliance and security standards.
Risk Management & Compliance
Every decommissioning task is carried out in strict alignment with regulatory requirements and internal governance policies. We implement comprehensive risk mitigation strategies and contingency plans to ensure continuity and minimise disruption to ongoing operations.
Data Retention & Secure Destruction
We manage critical data in line with your retention policies—archiving, transferring, or securely destroying information as required. Our certified data destruction services ensure that no sensitive data remains on decommissioned systems, reducing the risk of future breaches.
Final Validation & Documentation
Upon completion, we perform a final validation to confirm all targeted services have been successfully decommissioned with no residual risks. You’ll receive full documentation of the process for audit readiness, compliance, and future IT planning.
Key Benefits
- Cost Reduction: Eliminate costs tied to unused or underutilised cloud resources.
- Enhanced Security: Remove potential vulnerabilities by ensuring complete data and access point sanitisation.
- Regulatory Compliance: Ensure all actions meet UK and industry-specific regulations and internal policies.
- Operational Efficiency: Simplify your cloud estate, freeing up IT resources and improving manageability.
This service is ideal for organisations seeking to streamline cloud infrastructure, reduce costs, and maintain high standards of security and compliance during digital transformation or platform migration.
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