The Advisory Council

Providing Scalability and Flexibility to Meet Growing Business Demands

TAC provides IT Experts, Products and Workshops, all intended to augment your internal IT organization, just as CPA firms do for Finance, and outside counsel does for Legal. Our EaaS (Expertise-as-a-Service) model is designed to support the critical needs of a new day's demands upon IT.

TAC Expertise-as-a-Service™ (EaaS™) Includes Unique Hardware Reliability Benchmark Offering

Expertise-as-a-Service� (EaaS�) is a concept designed to provide today�s IT organizations of any size with a flexible, scalable, networked set of services, skills, products and tools that, like SaaS, provides the ability to:

Minimize investment / fixed costs
Scale resources
Access a broader range of capabilities
Obtain personalized support
Accelerate delivery
Provide ubiquitous access

The Advisory Council provides complimentary webinars featuring speakers from our Expert Decision Support Network. Our webinars highlight the practical and actionable nature of their advice, while describing the successes they have achieved for our clients.

TACadvisory Teleconference: Data Center Consolidation — Centralized IT Pays Off

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 at 4:00 PM EDT

TACadvisory Teleconference: The Sun Maintenance Dilemma — Oracle’s New Support Policy

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 at 4:00 PM EDT

Critical Skill and Information Gaps in 21st-Century IT Organizations

As IT teams manage enterprise environments, they are confronted with issues for which they don�t have either sufficient skills or the proper information to resolve. To compensate, many IT organizations have relationships with research firms for information or consultant firms for external skill sets. However, there are many issues research firms don�t cover, and for which it’s not feasible to engage a consulting firm.

Decision support services, in the form of CPA firms and outside legal counsel, have long supported the Finance and Legal organizations by advising them on tactical and strategic decisions facing the enterprise. Until the establishment of The Advisory Council, IT organizations did not have a similar service that they could cost-effectively retain.

The Advisory Council engages an Expert Decision Support Network to provide IT organizations with enterprise-wide access to actionable advice for resolving the IT challenges and issues you face. The Expert Decision Support Network is comprised of more than 200 Experts, covering 97% of IT practices areas; helping your organization to access key expertise whenever you need it (see bios of a selection of our Experts). Providing advice through both Personal Advisory Reports (see a sample PAR) and Expert phone calls, our Experts help your organization identify action plans for the best path forward.