Cross-Industry IT Consulting

Planet Consulting offers a wide range of strategic IT consulting services that can be leveraged in any industry. These services include the following:

Staff Augmentation

Planet Consulting offers comprehensive staff augmentation services. No matter how big or small the need, Planet Consulting can fulfill temporary and/or long-term personnel requirements. With a proven track record of quickly locating and delivering qualified candidates, Planet Consulting can provide consultants who not only understand technology, but who can offer experience specific to your industry. Planet Consulting has the ability to quickly locate consultants with expertise in system architecture, project management, business analysis, application development, database administration, quality assurance testing, technical documentation, and technical and help desk support.

Application Development

Successful application development requires deep technical expertise, and at Planet Consulting we understand the complexities involved in this area. As such, we deliver application development specialists who can address multiple technology platforms and languages. With a thorough understanding of application servers and integration methods, our consultants can design and build application solutions that are reliable, scalable and secure. Planet Consulting’s specialists have a demonstrated ability to develop high-quality, custom applications on time and on budget.

Systems Integration

Acquiring new technology is critical to remaining competitive and keeping up with customer demands. However, implementing new technology often requires integration with older, existing back-office systems, and if individuals aren’t familiar with both the new and old technologies, it can lead to a delayed go-live and costly downtime. To ensure a smooth and seamless systems integration, Planet Consulting offers comprehensive integration services, including implementation, configuration, development, processes, policy, methods, procedures, testing, training, cut-over and back-log. Whether it’s a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) application, enterprise resource planning (ERP) or a customer relationship management (CRM) system, Planet Consulting will seamlessly integrate your enterprise.

Project Management

Complex IT projects require skilled IT management. By locating and providing an experienced, well-matched project management team, Planet Consulting enables organizations to successfully carry out projects from concept to execution. Planet Consulting’s comprehensive project management services encompass every detail of a project, such as establishing a sound architectural foundation, defining business, user and operational requirements, and creating functional specifications documents. With Planet Consulting’s project management services, no detail is overlooked. Our team develops the master project plan and schedule, ensuring that all project aspects are clear and concise.

Business Analysis

Events occur every day, in every business. An event can be as simple as entering a password or as complex as a tax audit. For many organizations, significant events only surface from piles of reports that are periodically provided by business applications. In many cases, any significant events reflected in those reports occurred long ago and their impact (negative or positive) has already been felt.

This collection of data can be overwhelming and difficult to analyze and make readily available. With Planet Consulting’s business analysis services, data collection and presentment is made simple. We design, develop and implement data warehouse and decision support solutions that deliver real-time information so that the right decisions can be made while events are still in progress. With Planet Consulting’s business analysis and data warehouse services, organizations can consolidate their disparate databases onto a single platform. Businesses are thus taken beyond reactive, report-driven operations and enabled to recognize, respond and resolve events on a timely basis.

IT Infrastructure Upgrades

Whether it’s the result of mergers, acquisitions or business growth, many businesses are operating on outdated platforms. Such outdated infrastructures simply can’t support current business requirements and often don’t provide the proper safeguards to address today’s security threats. With Planet Consulting’s IT infrastructure services, businesses can consolidate, standardize and extend their infrastructure. The result is a reliable and secure platform.

Planet Consulting’s IT infrastructure services begin with a thorough assessment of an organization’s current business processes and technology infrastructure. Planet Consulting ensures flawless system performance through rigorous testing and quality assurance. We provide a working prototype for usability, testing and training, and refine it as needed to deliver the final solution. Our end-to-end infrastructure solutions offer initial planning and implementation, as well as education and training to make your knowledge transfer and system upgrade seamless.

QA Testing

Organizations implementing new applications or systems trust Planet Consulting to test applications before they go live. With Planet Consulting, institutions can rely on a seamless transition, and remain confident that no problems will arise after actual production. Our consultants design and deliver application testing plans that shorten test cycles and confirm business rules and data integrity.