Fast Lane
Professional Services
Mastering the Digital Era
Digital transformation is organizational change that uses digital technologies and digital business models. At its core, it is about challenging assumptions that delivered past successes, testing the ways in which value is delivered to customers and changing organizational operations, culture, revenue models and more.
Mobility, social networking, Cloud, Big Data and the Internet of Things are driving new business scenarios for digital business. These forces are innovative and disruptive on their own and together, they revolutionize business and society in a way that has never been seen before.
Fast Lane Consulting & Professional Services is a different type of consulting group. Our subject matter experts not only understand the solutions and skills required in today’s rapidly changing technology world, but we also take the extra step of empowering your team via coaching and mentoring to get the job done.
Services Overview
Strategic Advisory and Network Deployment & Adoption Services
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Technology-Specific Services
Cloud, Security, Wireless & Mobility, and more
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Vendor-Specific Services
Cisco, Microsoft, Red Hat, VMware and more
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Our Services at a Glance
Strategic Advisory Services
In the early stages of evaluating new technologies or solutions, our advisory services will help you to reach decisions faster and with greater confidence.
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Strategies Workshop
The objective of this workshop is to level-set the joint understanding of a group of executives in preparation for follow-up events like our Innovation/Ideation Workshop or Business Outcomes Workshop. This may include clarification of terms, common understanding of challenges and insights into what is doable. Such workshops usually also include suggestions about skills and processes relevant for a certain technology or solution area.
We currently offer the following workshops:
- Digital Transformation Strategies (per vertical / industry)
- Cyber Security Strategies
- Collaboration Strategies
- Cloud Strategies
Innovation / Ideation Workshop
We recommend conducting an Innovation/Ideation workshop to develop an architectural and technical strategy aligned with the requirements of your business. In this, we invite tech and business leaders to meet and discuss outcomes, identify challenges, outline opportunities, and share ideas.
Our workshops are usually a day long. Our facilitators will lead the discussion, using group discussions, individual work, team activities, conversation mapping, visual modeling, and group presentations to maximise benefits for all. All activities are designed to generate new ideas as well as to identify those with the highest impact. When the day is done, we will complete post-processing activities to document all data and visual artifacts generated, summarize all generated ideas and recommend next steps.
Business Outcomes Workshop
While an Innovation / Ideation Workshop delivers insights, this workshop delivers proposed architectures and solutions aligned with previously identified ideas and desired business outcomes. By employing a business canvas model approach, this workshop allows Fast Lane to model use cases based on your specific business needs and to create rapid prototyping proposals for one or more solutions meeting your requirements. The workshop will identify your current pain points, deliver a customized roadmap with concrete next steps and a detailed outline of resources needed to build your digital business architecture. The workshop also supports the creation of a business case, ROI and value analysis of the proposed solutions.
Assessment (Discovery) Services
Every project starts with an accurate assessment of the current situation. This is the baseline for every business outcomes conversation and subsequent solutions design. We recommend performing such an assessment before investing in a Business Outcomes workshop involving all key stakeholders of the company.
Strategy and Architecture Consulting
This service can be part of a Business Outcomes Workshop or can be consumed as a standalone consulting service. We build on the outcome of one or more innovation workshops to work with your teams to develop your strategy with regards to technologies, architectures and solutions. This includes a review of your existing approach as well as the development of a comprehensive architecture for your entire organization. In addition, we will determine the value of integrating legacy assets, identify potential issues and suggest the best approach to minimize risk.
Solution Design
This service provides the conceptual design of one or more proposed solutions outlining estimated costs, benefits and risks. Once the preferred solution has been selected, we will provide a detailed design including implementation and migration scenarios.
Strategy & Portfolio Consulting
Today’s solutions tend not to be monolithic. They require the coordination of multiple partners coming together to provide all the required building blocks and services. To complicate matters further, assisting customers in achieving their desired business outcomes requires horizontal as well as vertical expertise and focus.
Challenges
If you are a vendor, a distributor, a system integrator or a service provider you will in all likelihood have to choose to focus on a number of verticals and solution sets.
Challenges could be:
- How does your solution fit into the current product and customer ecosystem?
- What kinds of partners are best for what you offer and who are your best partners?
- What does a marketing alliance or partnership look like?
- What are the use cases that best highlight your solutions capabilities?
- What standards will you align your solution towards and what is your participation in those organizations?
- How will you train and support your sales and sales enablement teams beyond the typical speeds and feeds?
Our Services
We are here to support you during that phase by working with you to determine your focus areas as well as the ecosystem of partners required to come up with corresponding solutions.
We offer:
- Coaching and consulting on defining your solutions portfolio
- Assessment criteria to formulate ecosystem partnerships
- Coaching and consulting on defining your GTM strategy
- Providing skills assessments tied to delivering on business outcomes
- Competitive positioning and research and delivering that information to sales teams
- Sales enablement strategy to focus on building the sales strengths to effectively position your solution/product and sell
Network Deployment & Adoption Services
There are a number of considerations that can affect a smooth deployment of new network technologies and therefore user satisfaction. We always have the right solution for you, no matter how little or how much support you need.
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Assessment (Discovery) Services
Every project starts with an accurate assessment of the current situation. This is the baseline for every business outcomes conversation and subsequent solutions design. We recommend performing such an assessment before investing into a Business Outcomes workshop involving all key stakeholders of the company.
Solutions Design
This service provides the conceptual design of one or more proposed solutions outlining estimated costs, benefits and risks. Once the preferred solution has been selected, we will provide a detailed design including implementation and migration scenarios.
Prototyping
This service is designed to build a fully functional prototype in order to validate all aspects of the design before moving to a rollout of the solution. Even with a lesser amount of customization, it is highly recommended to include this phase into every digital transformation project to ensure a smooth implementation.
Deployment
Our experts will have developed detailed design and migration plans including performance and scalability requirements, security considerations, and programmability and automation as part of the design phase. In this phase, our experts are available to manage the whole project and to deploy all or parts of your new or updated infrastructure.
Mentored Install
This service consists of one or more on-site design and deployment workshops including related knowledge transfer and additional mentoring once the workshops have been completed. The purpose of these workshops is to help you deploy solutions with expert assistance in a controlled and mentored environment, thus optimizing your investment in technology, time to deploy and effectiveness of the implementation.
Fast Lane experts are here to support critical parts of your solution design and deployment. This includes Solution Architects (SA) and Field Engineers (FE) trained in designing and deploying a variety of solutions. Whatever the gap, we apply deep experience and passion to help you design, deploy and operate the solution(s) best suited for your business.
Fast Lane will provide resource(s) to perform various mutually agreeable E4H services for your company. Resource(s) will operate under your daily direction and are provided on a Time and Materials basis. Fast Lane resources typically provide the following types of E4H services:
- Assessment / Audit
- Best Practices Guidance
- Plan / Design
- Implementation
- Mentoring/Coaching/Shadowing (including Mentored Install)
- Optimization
- Prototyping
- Documentation
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Adoption Services
The famous line “if you build it, they will come” does not always apply for IT solutions. There is no point in investing a lot of time and money into solutions that are not appreciated and embraced by your end users.
New technologies and solutions should enable users to be more productive and should change the way that people work together. This depends heavily on end user adoption based on positive user experience. Our adoption services will help you to develop suitable utilization strategies in order to maximize your return on investment.
Technology-Specific Services
Cloud technologies are a key element of Digital Transformation. A number of organizational challenges like access to new customers and markets, the need for maximum flexibility, cost reduction, etc. are driving the need for cloud-based architectures and consumption models.
Level up. Build your cloud, your way.
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As a leader in optical technology for nearly 2 decades, Fast Lane has built an optical team of experts and engineers who are responsible for different services including design, installation, maintenance, training, and workshops. Our optical networks have been used to interconnect Data Centers, as well as to provide core infrastructure for the data transport between different remote locations and headquarters.
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IT has changed the way we live and work. Businesses and individuals rely on IT infrastructures more than ever before and companies deploy the latest modern communication infrastructures such as clouds, tablets, smartphones, wireless, collaboration solutions as well as intelligent data center and storage solutions. As more of our life is cyber-orientated, however, so cybercrime is increasingly a problem.
Let us help you before the bad guys sneak in.
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Wireless solutions are the foundation for increasing your workforce’s productivity, enhancing collaboration and improving communication between employees, partners and customers. Our experts can help you to design and deploy high-performance, highly available and secure wireless infrastructures.
Keep pace with the challenges of a mobile world.
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Vendor-Specific Services
In addition to our vendor independent Cloud Consulting and Professional Services we offer AWS specific support.
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With many years of experience in Cisco technologies, a global presence and hundreds if not thousands of experts, Fast Lane is the perfect partner for any type of Cisco-related services.
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If you are planning a migration project, looking to improve the availability of your systems, optimizing your software licenses or considering a Microsoft-based cloud solution, we are here to help. Our experts are here to support your solution design and deployment. We apply deep experience and passion to help you design, deploy and operate the solution(s) that works for your business.
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NetApp’s full suite of products including Cloud Data Services, Converged Systems, Data Storage Software, Data Infrastructure, Backup and Recovery, create a total solution for today’s multi-vendor data center. Along with completeness comes complexity. Fast Lane has the experts to help you understand and manage these products as well as the services to help you build them into your infrastructure and optimize your investment.
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From strategic advisory, architecture design and proof of concept to adoption and education, our experts can help you to get the most out of your technology investment.
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With our strong bench of Open-Source gurus, we assist customers with a wide range of services, starting with strategic advisory, architecture design and proof of concept to adoption and education. We follow SUSEs path of services with discovery, design, deploy and optimize phases.
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As a VMware Partner and Authorized Training Reseller, Fast Lane works with clients to implement a wide array of VMware solutions. Our consultants design, implement, and customize VMware solutions for our customers. These solutions include installation and configuration for the vSphere product suite, VSAN, vSphere Replication and Disaster Recovery, and VMware HA.
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