INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
Business users’ expectations about “the way they work” has evolved. The pressure is mounting on IT to provide their users with a modern digital workplace platform where users have access to the business information they need from any device, anytime, anywhere. IT needs a two-speed strategy to meet the challenges: A fast IT approach to deliver innovation and slower approach for the maintenance and support of legacy systems.
ASL Business Solutions’s portfolio of Infrastructure Services empowers IT to create modern, digital workplaces that deliver greater business agility, faster time to value and improved operational effectiveness. With vast experience on Microsoft platforms, our team uses repeatable best practices and pre-built assets to provide high-quality, end-to-end design, delivery and management of solutions.
From on premises solutions you manage in-house, to hosted and cloud services to managed services, we offer business solutions to help transform IT from a provider of technology to a broker and enabler of technology. It’s an opportunity to improve your organization’s competitive advantage.
Our team helps your IT department take advantage of new technologies to become a center of innovation and an enabler of change. At the same time, we help you utilize your existing investments—including line-of-business applications. The result is an enterprise that maximizes the Microsoft platform with less complicated, more agile infrastructure services.
Create a dynamic, modern IT infrastructure environment that is efficient, scalable and extremely flexible
Reinvent productivity by empowering employees to work smarter with our unified communications and collaboration solutions for Office 365, Skype for Business and messaging migration
Empower employees with greater flexibility to get work done on a variety of devices, when they want, where they want, with our desktop and workplace infrastructure solutions
Adapt quickly with a private cloud that enables business units to deploy new services on-demand, while helping to reduce costs and operational risk through centralized management
Most organizations know when it’s time to start deploying new systems and applications. But the high cost of purchasing new technology — along with the complexity and disruption of deploying it — can make upgrading a challenge.
ASL Business Solutions’s Desktop and Workplace Infrastructure Solutions make upgrading your environment easier than ever. With thousands of successful implementations, we have the expertise to help you create a cost-effective strategy. Maybe you need our Desktop Transformation services to support the latest Microsoft Windows operating system. Perhaps you’re bringing new tablet and mobile devices online. Or you might want to upgrade to the next version of Microsoft Office, SharePoint Server, Exchange or Lync. Whatever your needs, you can rely on us to develop a plan and implement it successfully.
You can also take advantage of our ASL 360° virtualization services that cover everything from desktop virtualization to server virtualization by standardizing the workplace environment and minimizing application migration issues. Avanade’s Communications and Collaboration Managed Services – based on Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and Lync – help IT do what they do best by filtering out distractions and reducing complexity.
Our Desktop and Workplace Infrastructure Solutions can help you can turn your technology vision into a reality, quickly and cost-effectively. Our solutions help you:
Upgrade to current versions of Microsoft technology
Better support evolving business requirements — from mergers and acquisitions to diversification
Lower overall operational and capital expenditure costs while improving business productivity and efficiency
Speed the transition to new applications with proven application and data migration frameworks and zero-touch deployment services
For organizations that want better business agility in IT operations and increased business efficiency, while maintaining control over the IT environment, a private cloud is the answer.
ASL Business Solutions can help you design, implement and maximize the move to a private cloud. Our private cloud solution offers insights into IT resource usage and costs, and helps improve process and compliance controls.
ASL Business Solutions’s Private Cloud solution is built on the latest Microsoft technologies including Windows Server 2012, System Center 2012 and Avanade’s own Cloud Services Manager software. These technologies enable IT to improve productivity, optimize operations, lower costs, tighten security and reduce your environmental footprint. ASL Business Solutions also offers scalable infrastructure managed services that can help you rapidly cut costs. We offer a comprehensive selection of managed services including Service Desk coverage, Workplace Services, Data Center Services, Network Services and Security Services.
We partner with you using an individualized approach to plan and execute private – and increasingly hybrid – cloud solutions. The benefits realized are many:
Simplification: Rein in existing sprawl of physical/virtual infrastructures; standardize and consolidate infrastructure
Automation: Implement process standardization, governance and automation
Enhancements: Enable self-service capability, providing business units with better agility, visibility, control and satisfaction with the IT services they receive
Responsiveness: Give your employees the ability to capitalize on opportunities and market changes
A transformation to Office 365 requires skilled planning and execution. Email, presence, instant messaging, unified communications, social and data analytics must work together in new ways that enable new ways to work. But integration is not automatic in today’s hybrid world, especially with an enterprise’s backend systems. Address the integration challenge incorrectly or incompletely and risk business disruption. A cloud transformation strategy needs to take legacy applications into account and include a strategy for continuing maintenance and management.
ASL Business Solutions’s Services for Office 365 helps enterprises take advantage of the latest communications, collaboration and data analytics services on the Microsoft Cloud. ASL Business Solutions’’s proven expertise with Microsoft technologies is delivered through services, migration methodology and tools that focus on the key aspects of a successful cloud productivity environment. Additional services include the development of new applications and interfaces, such as portals, for Office 365, including integration with applications that remain deployed on-premises as well as managed surround services for the Office 365 ecosystem.
ASL Business Solutions lifecycle of services for Office 365 include:
| PLAN | ENABLE | SURROUND | ENHANCE |
| Roadmap & Strategy | Program & Project Management | Level 2/ Level 3 Application Support | Service Adoption |
| Health and Value Assessment | Service Enablement | Service Requests | Line of Business Integration |
| Environment Preparation & Remediation | Release Planning & Execution | Incident Management | Application Development |
| Migration Planning & Execution | Enterprise Voice | ||
| Change Enablement |
ASL Business Solutions has individuals certified in deploying, administering, managing and enabling Office 365 . We leverage this wealth of experience and expertise in cloud services not merely to move clients to the cloud but to help them use the cloud to drive growth, reinvent productivity, increase agility.
ASL Business Solutions Services for Office 365 help our clients to:
Reduce risks through holistic transformational planning to ensure business continuity
Faster return on investment through cost-saving implementation processes and integration with line of business systems
Achieve greater agility with a successful engagement that positions your organization to take advantage of the transformative potential of Office 365
Increase productivity and user acceptance through training and change management that minimizes disruption
Free IT staff to focus on new, strategic initiatives by having our team of experts manage the surround services of the greater ecosystem