IT Landscape Assessment
You can't decide what to change until you can see the full picture
A complete map of every system, every connection, and what it all costs. An independent read of your IT landscape. We map what you run, test it against clear criteria, and show you what to fix first.
We assess IT landscapes for -
- organisations that can't decide what to change until they see the full picture.
- teams where every system feels critical and nothing is documented.
- companies where IT decisions are made on assumptions, not facts.
- leadership that needs an independent view before they commit to a direction.
- businesses where the technology has outgrown the people managing it.
Too many systems, and no single view of them
Your landscape grew one tool at a time. Each was the right call when you made it, but together they have become hard to see, harder to change, and expensive to keep running. Before you can decide what to modernize, replace or secure, you need a clear picture of what you actually have.
Who is this for?
This is for the CIO, CTO or IT director who has inherited a landscape they did not fully design, and now has to make decisions about it. The moment is usually a turning point: a modernization plan on the table, a fragmented stack that has become risky, costs no one can explain, or the shift from running a service to running an IT organisation. You want a neutral read before you commit budget and people to the next move.
A clear picture, and a place to start
What you get
You get an independent assessment of your IT landscape, written down and explained. We map every system, the connections between them and the running costs, then test the landscape against quality criteria for security, compliance and governance, set for your organisation. The result is a report that covers eight areas: your organisation, the reason for the assessment, the system landscape, the infrastructure, the processes, the quality criteria, the risks, and our advice. We don't do this from a distance. An analyst and an architect work alongside your business and IT people throughout, through interviews, process demonstrations and your own documentation.
A neutral second opinion
An outside read from people with no stake in the current setup.
A full landscape map
Every system, every connection, and the running costs, in one view.
A tested risk picture
Security, compliance and governance, checked against criteria set for your organisation.
A clear improvement focus
Where the real problem areas are, and what to do about each one.
The low-hanging fruit
The changes that cost little and pay back quickly, named so your team can start.
What to expect
How we turn an assessment into a decision you can act on
Understand
We start with a scoping call to agree what the assessment covers and why. We confirm who we need to speak to, which documentation we need, and what a useful result looks like for you.
Map
We map the current landscape: every system, the connections between them, and the running costs. This gives you one view of what you have, often for the first time.
Set criteria
We define the quality criteria the landscape will be tested against, for security, compliance and governance. The criteria are set for your organisation, not pulled from a generic checklist.
Assess
We map your business processes onto the landscape and check the fit and the gaps. We test against the criteria, the process gaps and known best practices, with your experts in the room.
Advise
We write up the findings across eight areas, set out the risks, and point to where to start. You get a neutral read, a clear focus for improvement, and the low-hanging fruit, in 1 to 2 months.
The team beside you
Two people lead the work: a business analyst and a solution architect. They spend around 200 hours together across 1 to 2 months, working with your business process experts and your IT people, your architects, IT managers and administrators. The assessment is run by European specialists, and everything we look at stays in Europe.
Where it sits
In our Digital Acceleration Framework
The IT Landscape Assessment is where our Digital Acceleration Framework starts. Think of the framework as a house: data is the foundation, legacy replacement clears out the old pipes, security is the walls, automation frees up time, and strategy is the long-term plan that holds it all together. You cannot plan the house until you have surveyed the ground. The assessment is that survey, a clear read of the current landscape, so the work that follows, modernization, data, automation or security, is built on fact, not assumption. Design, build, run and defended in Europe.
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Not sure where your landscape stands?
30-minute IT Landscape Assessment consultation
Free 30-minute consultation
Start with a short scoping call. We agree what an IT Landscape Assessment would cover for you, and whether it is the right next step.
What we cover in the call
• What is pushing you to look at the landscape now.
• Which systems, processes and risks matter most to you.
• Whether an assessment is the right next step, or something lighter is.
What you leave with
• A clear scope for the assessment.
• An idea of the effort and timeline involved.
• An honest view of whether we are the right partner for it.
If an assessment is not what you need, we'll tell you. That is the point of the call.
The ten questions you're already asking
It is a structured analysis of your IT landscape: the systems you run, how they connect, what they cost, and how well they hold up against criteria for security, compliance and governance. You end with a written report and clear advice on what to do next.
We map every system and the connections between them, add the running costs, then map your business processes onto that landscape to see where they fit and where they gap. We test the result against criteria we set for your organisation, with your experts involved throughout.
Around 1 to 2 months, depending on how quickly we get access to documentation and people. The effort is roughly 200 hours, spread across an analyst and an architect.
A scoping call to plan the work, access to the documentation you have, a demonstration of your key processes, and time from your business process experts and IT people, your architects, IT managers and administrators.
No. The assessment is an analysis, not a change to your systems. We work around your team's availability and we do not touch production.
Yes. We have no stake in your current setup, so the read is neutral. Where things work well, we say so. Where they do not, we say that too.
Yes. Security, compliance and governance are part of the criteria we test against, set for your organisation. The assessment flags risks at the level of architecture and process. It is not a penetration test, which tests one system the way an attacker would. If you need that, we can arrange it separately.
A Software Health Assessment looks inside one application, at the code, the technical debt and the build quality. An IT Landscape Assessment looks across your whole environment, at how the systems, processes and costs fit together.
A report covering eight areas: your organisation, the reason for the assessment, the system landscape, the infrastructure, the processes, the quality criteria, the risks, and our advice. Plus a clear focus for improvement and the low-hanging fruit to start with.
That is your call. The advice points to what to fix first. If you decide to act, the same picture feeds straight into the work that follows, modernization, data, automation or security. You are never locked in.