Consultancy & Analytics

Know exactly where you stand, before you commit a penny of programme budget

You've got Intune, SCCM, twenty years of Group Policy and a board asking for a Windows 11 plan. What you don't have is an evidence-based picture of what's actually there. That's what these engagements deliver, in days, not quarters.

Advisory & assessment

Facts first. Then decisions.

Each engagement below is a discrete piece of work you can plug in on its own, or use to build the case for a wider modernisation programme.

Modern Workplace As-Is to To-Be Assessment

A structured consultancy review of your entire endpoint management environment (Intune, SCCM, Active Directory, Group Policy, identity and device provisioning) that de-risks any Intune or Windows 11 project before it starts.

What you get

  • As-Is assessment report
  • Gap analysis
  • Prioritised To-Be roadmap
  • Tailored Statement of Work for the implementation phase

Engagement shape: Typically 5 days (5 to 10 for larger estates).

A documented baseline and an agreed future state, so your programme is built on facts, not assumptions. For a London university, this assessment led directly into a full Intune and Windows 11 implementation.

Group Policy Analysis & Modernisation Readiness

Data-driven analysis of your entire Group Policy estate (single or multi-domain) using our Scout discovery tool and specialist methodology: GPO inventory, scope and targeting analysis, settings review, identification of what migrates natively to Intune, and detection of legacy configuration that won't, plus an engineered route for it: where a setting has no native Intune equivalent, we build the alternative as scripted configuration or detect-and-remediate packs, piloted before production.

What you get

  • Per-domain analysis reports
  • Consolidated cross-domain summary
  • Prioritised recommendations
  • Statement of Work for the migration phase

Engagement shape: Scoped per domain; scales cleanly to multi-domain, global estates.

An evidence-based view of the GPO estate that removes migration unknowns. For an international law firm, this analysis fed directly into the GPO-to-Intune migration scope, and unblocked a stalled modernisation programme.

Observability & Event Management Discovery

A workshop-driven discovery that untangles overlapping monitoring tools into a clear consolidation and cost-reduction strategy, capturing requirements, mapping every tool against them, and recommending what stays, what goes and what's missing.

What you get

  • Requirements baseline
  • Tool landscape evaluated against requirements
  • Strategic consolidation and optimisation recommendations
  • Statement of Work for the rationalisation programme

Engagement shape: Two to three weeks; up to 15 workshops across your teams.

An objective, independent view of the monitoring estate that carries weight with leadership and procurement. Recent engagements have untangled overlapping monitoring estates for two major financial-services groups, delivering consolidation strategies leadership could act on.

Modern Management Consultancy (draw-down)

On-demand access to senior Intune, Entra ID and endpoint expertise, delivered remotely: failed deployments, configuration remediation, GPO-to-Intune policy work, Windows Update investigation, packaging improvements (the problems that don't fit a fixed scope).

What you get

  • Senior specialist time, consumed as you need it
  • Root-cause fixes, not workarounds
  • Documentation of every change made

Engagement shape: Draw-down blocks: minimum two consecutive days; around 20 days is typical.

Issues resolved in days that would take weeks of internal trial and error. For a motorsport team, we cleared outstanding Intune issues, migrated GPOs and updated app packages, leaving the platform stable and fully operational.

Application Packaging Training (5-day programme)

A structured five-day programme that builds a fully self-sufficient internal packaging team (foundations and discovery, MSI/EXE engineering, PSAppDeployToolkit scripting, Intune integration, release governance and retirement), finishing with a capstone assessment under exam conditions.

What you get

  • Five structured training days, tailored to your calendar
  • Hands-on lab work across the full packaging lifecycle
  • Capstone assessment confirming the skills uplift

Engagement shape: 5 days (a condensed two-day overview is also available).

A team that can independently package, test and deploy applications through Intune, removing the external dependency for good. Delivered as a tailored five-day programme for a security and facilities-management business, and as a focused two-day edition for a healthcare group.

Fair challenges

What clients ask before an assessment

We already run Intune. Do we really need an assessment?

Having Intune and having a roadmap are different things. Most assessments we deliver are for estates where Intune is deployed but co-existing awkwardly with SCCM and Group Policy. The assessment tells you what's working, what's conflicting and what to do next, in priority order.

Couldn't our own team do this discovery?

Given months, probably. Our tooling inventories every GPO, application and policy in days, and our specialists have spent their careers inside large, complex estates; they recognise the patterns and the landmines on sight. You get in one week what internal discovery delivers in a quarter.

Won't the report just tell us what we already know?

Some of it should; that's how you know the evidence is sound. The value is what you don't know: the conflicting policies, the unused applications, the cleartext credentials in decade-old preferences, and a prioritised path through all of it that leadership can sign off.

Is this just a sales exercise for a bigger project?

The deliverables stand entirely alone. You own the report, the roadmap and the Statement of Work, and you're free to deliver it with anyone. Most clients keep us on because the assessment proves the working relationship, not because they're locked in.

Our estate is multi-domain and frankly a mess. Can you even analyse it?

That's the estate this service was built for. The methodology handles multi-domain environments, duplicate GPO names and undocumented sprawl as standard; mess is the reason to analyse, not the reason to wait.

Start with the facts

A scoping call takes half an hour. You'll speak to a senior specialist, not a salesperson, and you'll leave knowing exactly what an assessment would cover for your estate.