Network Modernisation

Benefit from analyses and recommendations across your entire network landscape.

At a glance

The network is the underlying infrastructure that allows businesses to operate, and it needs to support modern application requirements and provide reliability, stability and flexibility in order for business initiatives to flourish.
 
We conduct a review of your entire network service, including LAN, Wi-Fi, WAN and Network Security. Then we define a strategy and roadmap to remediate and transform these services.
what we can do

Scope of Our Services

Network Cost Saving

We evaluate your network services to identify where we can optimise cost, whilst also improving the capabilities of the network.

Contract Benchmarking

By utilising our extensive global network services database, we benchmark your existing contracts and support renegotiations.

Strategy & Roadmapping

We work together to define a network strategy based on your objectives, then begin roadmapping all in-scope network services.

Cloud Readiness

We will assess your cloud strategy to ensure that your overall network strategy aligns with your cloud transformation goals.

Network Security

As network & security become more integrated, we ensure that any future strategy encompasses your network security requirements.

Network Procurement

Once we have defined a strategy, we can run a competitive procurement, select the best provider and negotiate pricing as well.

Business Case Development

We finalise a strategy & develop a dynamic business case to monitor the commercials of a network transformation programme lifecycle.

Service Operating Model

Service management is critical to delivering a capable network, and support is a critical component of network modernisation.

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Proven Results

We have delivered significant performance improvements, cost savings and availability enhancements across a variety of network technologies to clients in a range of industries.
 
Using specialised tools, we are able to measure the success of modernisation projects with objective results.
95 %

Reduction in Network Errors

20 %

Saved in Network Costs

50 %

Increase in Bandwidth

50 %

Faster Incident Resolution Time

What to expect

The Process

1. Discovery
2. Strategy
3. Business Case
4. Roadmap
5. Procurement
6. Implementation
7. Measuring Success
Close Open 1. Discovery
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Discovery & Requirements

The objective of this phase is to gain a comprehensive understanding of your network including connectivity, LAN, WAN, WiFi, security, support model, BCP, operational model, capabilities and current challenges. We achieve this with the following:
 

Documentation: We review your existing documentation and records. Ideally this should include current contracts for network services, utilisation reporting, IT roadmap, incident report, commercials, SLA reporting, network topology diagrams, etc.

Workshops & Interviews: We conduct a number of workshops and interviews with key stakeholders, including leadership, management and IT. Workshops are fully facilitated by the lead consultant with supporting presentations that feature current market trends.

Objectives: Finally, we will have a strategic requirements workshop to fully understand your vision and objectives for the future.

We would then provide you with a Discovery & Business Requirements document to validate our findings. This process helps bring together all project stakeholders together and fully align on next steps as well.
Close Open 2. Strategy
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Developing Your Strategy

Next, we consider strategic options to meet your requirements. We use an iterative process to identify options, condense them into diagrams and present them to you. Our analysis includes budgets, benefits, limitations, timescales, etc.
 
Following numerous workshops, the team will narrow down the options until we identify a preferred strategy. We then pull together a high-level strategy design with a detailed budget. This can then be presented to management to obtain approval to compile the business case.
Close Open 3. Business Case
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Building a Business Case

Following any preferred bidder or procurement decisions, we put together a financial business case, starting with updated  budgetary costs to reflect the accurate commercials. This will include:
 

Flexible and adaptable changes in migration scheduling and planning.

Assurance that the business case can be interrogated to get any viewpoint required using meta data on each cost.

A dashboard for visuals and pivot tables to export data, plus segmentation to show business cases for different business units.

CapEx & OpEx expenditure tracking.

Updating the budgetary commercials with values provided through the RFP, to track project costs through implementation.

Close Open 4. Roadmap
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Roadmapping 

Once a strategy has been defined, we work with you to develop the project roadmap, from procurement of any & all services to implementation. We take your priorities, pain points, geographic regions & criticalities into consideration.
 
We then provide a graphical timeline based on the way your organisation is structured which can be used to present the roadmap to all project stakeholders and internal customers.
Close Open 5. Procurement
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Procurement

We can easily integrate into your procurement approach, working to deliver a comprehensive RFP document that ensures a strong market response and meets your requirements.
 
We fully manage the RFP process including supplier Q&As and evaluation. We use an industry standard approach to scoring and agree a detailed evaluation matrix with the client ahead of releasing the RFP to the supplier short list.
 
Learn more about our procurement practices here.
Close Open 6. Implementation
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Implementation Support

We can also support you during the implementation in the following ways:
 
  • Project & Programme Management
  • Business Case Management
  • Technical architecture support
  • Supplier Management
  • Communication Management
  • Risk & Issues logging

Check our Project Management Office page for more information. 

Previous clients have found many benefits with these services, including: 
 
Delivering In-Scope: As we have managed the process from the start, we are best placed to ensure the project is delivered as defined in the requirements.
Mediation: As a 3rd Party, we can mediate contentious issues during implementation between the supplier & yourselves.
Stakeholder Management: Throughout the Requirements & RFP Process, we will have already built relationships with global stakeholders, helping drive the implementation
Client-First Approach: We will work to the methodologies & processes of the client, to work as a team and not “us & them.”
Close Open 7. Measuring Success
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Measuring Success 

A critical part of any project is to validate that investments have yielded positive results. We work with you to develop KPIs, then track their success using Excel, PowerPoint or Power BI to capture that data and present it back.

Our past projects

Case Studies

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Boots

In addition to 2000+ UK sites, Boots is a multi-service retailer that operates in multiple countries across Europe, Asia and the America’s. StableLogic audited the existing network arrangements, then undertook a business requirement gathering process and designed a new network strategy.

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VocaLink

Part of Mastercard, VocaLink run the UK Link ATM network and the BACS infrastructure which managers the transfers of funds between banks. As critical national infrastructure the reliability and availability of the network is key. StableLogic completed a network audit, benchmarking and contract negotiation to reduce cost and enhance service levels.

Our Network Modernisation Experts

Marios Michael

Marios Michael

Lead Consultant - Network

Marios has worked in the IT and Network space for nearly three decades. He brings a wealth of technical knowledge and strategic execution to drive successful project delivery. 

Dan Raanan

Dan Raanan

Lead Consultant - Network & Communication

Dan is an adaptable, experienced and creative consultant. He has successfully implemented projects working with a wide range of network technologies (LAN, WiFi, SD-WAN, SASE, and more).