Apogee Communications Technologies - For Turn Around Specialists

Apogee Communications Technologies, Inc.
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Incorporated in 1994, providing consulting services in the New York Metro area in communications technologies - security, networking, systems architecture, design, implementation, certification and deployment
Turnaround specialists need to manage technology risk too.

Typical turnaround situations result from companies that have over extended themselves and need urgent cost reductions.

There are often 3^rd party products (see our product focus page) that can provide extremely cost effective solutions to these problems. Other problems can be avoided by adopting a sensible technology strategy.

Perform a security risk assessment. Use it to write a corporate security policy and make sure it is enforced.
Consolidate servers. Eliminate an administrative nightmare and security headache.
Leverage the Internet to provide low cost communications between offices, employees, and customers.
Don't reinvent the wheel. For example, companies like Akamai, Real Networks, Digital Fountain, InterNap, etc., have patented solutions to many media distribution problems that it is not cost effective or even legal to replicate.
Avoid vendor lock-in wherever possible and use open, standards based, products. Otherwise you will be held hostage by the vendor, and probably have been.

“Linux, Friend or Foe” Economist, 12 April 2003
Get rid of ad-hoc customer and user databases. Start out with an LDAP based repository for ever person and entity you do business with. This will become the heart of a CRM system later on once growth takes off again.
Start an Enterprise Architecture Initiative. This need not necessarily be expensive or disruptive and potentially can drive down operational costs significantly.