Projects and Outsourcing

Project Management

As businesses today increasingly focus on capitalizing on their IT and network investments, implementing new and improved technologies into their business infrastructure can be a daunting challenge, even for the most technologically advanced company. A deployment failure can carry a significant impact that can often threaten a company's viability in the marketplace. For this reason, more and more businesses are reaching out to strategic partners like GURU to help them successfully implement and manage their IT initiatives.

By working with our project managers, GURU is able to bring years of managerial experience and technical expertise to your project, thereby ensuring its success and completion, often under budget.

Our project management experience includes:

• Scalable planning, from the conception to closure
• Scope definition
• Milestone identifications
• Cost and time management
• Progress reporting
• Change controls
• Action item management
• Quality management and problem solving

Through our technical project experience, we have worked with companies to achieve success in:

• Microsoft Exchange upgrades and migrations
• Active Directory deployments, migrations and Forest/Tree consolidations
• Server Farm deployments and upgrades
• Server consolidations
• Large scale workstation rollouts and imaging
• Company and server/workstation relocations

Outsourcing

An increasing number of companies today are turning to IT outsourcing to help them achieve their technology goals and support their greatest assets, their people. Why? Because it makes business sense. GURU currently provides full IT staffing for small, medium and large companies across the mid-Atlantic region. By working with our clients, we've helped them realize not only the cost-savings and efficiencies of IT outsourcing, but the practicality of outsourcing as well, which include:

• Engineer redundancy (ever have an employee go on vacation?)
• Access to years of experience through an indigenous network of engineers and professionals
• Executive level IT management
• Access to emergency service solutions
• Access to emergency service solutions
• Diagnostic expertise
• Planning and strategy

Our IT outsourcing solutions do not end there. Often large projects and provisional staffing requirements present unique and temporary challenges that GURU can help your company meet. Through staff augmentation, GURU is in a unique position to bring expertise and redundancy to your existing IT and business infrastructure. Whether it's a network-wide implementation or simply filling in while your current staff is on vacation, GURU can provide the expertise and versatility your company requires in today's business world.