Pique Solutions has an expert team of business and IT consultants dedicated to supporting IT procurement decisions and migration justifications and implementations on both the business and the technical levels.

Our Economic Justification and Migration Support Services include:

• Migration Intelligence (e.g. research of migration trends, drivers and benefits realized by companies that conducted similar migrations to that evaluated by a client)
• Business, Strategic & Technical Value Assessment of Planned IT Procurement or a Migration
• Development of Migration Business Case
• Development of IT Procurement Business Case
• Migration Project Management

For the Technical Feasibility Assessment, Technical Value Assessment and the execution of a migration project, Pique Solutions relies on our nation-wide partner network of mid-tier Systems Integrators. Under Pique's project management, the Systems Integrator partners provide the following migration services:

• Migration Risk Assessment (e.g. risks to business continuity)
• Assessment of Impact on Applications and Database
• Development of Migration Roadmap
• Migration Execution

In addition to the traditional TCO-based economic justification of an IT procurement or a migration from one platform or tool to another, Pique Solutions evaluates a broader set of business value drivers that are of interest to business decision makers who influence migration decisions, such as the effects of migration on the following:

• Productivity
• Competitiveness
• Business Processes
• Customer and Supplier Relationships
• Performance and Availability of IT Solutions
• Time to Market
• Ability to rapidly develop integrated business solutions

To assess the feasibility and the business and technical value of migrations, Pique Solutions uses a proprietary interactive Migration Justification and Value Assessment tool. The tool captures the typical migration costs and value drivers such as planning costs, licensing costs/savings, installation and deployment of new platform, application porting costs, ongoing server administration costs, migration labor costs, support costs, as well as cost and value drivers that are not directly associated with migration such as consolidation savings, scaling costs, support cost savings, maintenance, re-training, upgrades, etc.

Pique Solutions has expertise in the following types of migrations and technologies:

• Oracle, Sybase, MySQL to SQL Server Migrations
• Solaris to Windows Migrations
• Java to the Microsoft Application Platform Migrations
• Sun SPARC Infrastructure Migrations
• Oracle, IBM to SharePoint Migrations

Examples

For examples of our recent Migration Intelligence research and IT Procurement and Migration Business Cases, please follow the links below:

• The Business Case for Migrating from IBM to the SharePoint Platform: The Cost Advantages
• The Business Case for Migrating from Oracle to the SharePoint Platform: The Cost Advantages
• White Paper: Benefits of Migration to the SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Platform: An Enterprise Perspective (summary of a research study of 240 ITDMs)
• White Paper: Migrating from Java to .NET: Market Trends and Key Benefits (summary of a research study of 220 ITDMs)
• The Business Case for SAP Migration from Solaris/SPARC to Windows Server
• White Paper: Trends in Unix Migration: Enterprise Perspective
• The Business Case for Procurement of Microsoft Visual Studio Quality Assurance and Testing Tools
• Research Brief: Achieving Balance Through Platform Coexistence
• The Business Case and ROI Model for Microsoft Visual Stuido with MSDN