Consulting

Consulting Services

ETG’s Consulting services flow out of its Market Analysis services. We know the IT market and the products and their implications. We know what products exist now and which ones are still in the "presentation-ware" or "futures" phase. We also understand business-oriented as well as technological issues, and the synergies between them. Based on this understanding, we can propose an infrastructure or application solution that best meets a company’s near- and long-term goals and ensures the alignment of the company’s business and IT goals. ETG’s consulting strength lies in such up-front strategic and tactical planning. Our partners (or your IT staff) perform the actual implementations.

ETG offers the following types of consulting services:

	Assessment of a company's IT systems and operations, with an eye to the business strategy against which its IT strategy should be driven;
	Management and/or technical workshops to deliver a presentation that reviews ETG's findings, recommendations, and best practices resulting from the assessment;
	Management and/or technical workshops to present technology trends that are relevant to reducing an organization's costs or increasing its revenues;
	Generation of RFPs (Requests for Proposal);
	Development of proposals;
	Research and development of custom White Papers in our technology areas of coverage;
	Development of marketing collateral and help in developing marketing strategies;
	Preparation of presentations for and to management, technical, and marketing professionals;
	Generation of "eyes only" documents for competitive analyses and market analyses;
	Product and company positioning advice;
	Competitive Sales Guides and competitive Sales Force training to explain in sales force language how to sell a technology or product and how to best answer objections. In fact, ETG's analysts have received the highest possible ratings by the IBM and Compaq World Wide sales forces for past competitive Sales Force training and Guides in the areas of database management, operating systems, real-time, and client-server computing.

Our Goal

ETG’s Consulting Services' goal is to provide objective, third-party consultants with in-depth IT planning experience, but with no hidden agendas. The ETG consultants assist with the evaluation, reviewing, and defining of key technology directions with the highest value to the organization. In performing any of its consulting services, ETG consultants act as fully participating members of the organization’s IT programs.