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We know what to do – in theory and praxis.
Our experience includes IT operations and projects in companies of all sizes.
Our expertize covers commonly used technologies, project management and Information security frameworks.
Sharing the passion for IT systems that have an impact on the success of companies and driving progress, we worked on shared projects for several companies over the last 17 years.
We filled different positions but often on related topics within the same project for companies in France, Germany, and India.
The shared experience combined with the different points of view helped us to evolve our skills and expertise to complement one another in the most efficient way.
Today, we combine our skills and expertise to deliver high quality results in the most efficient way to Ancre, Phare & Canaris customers.
IT Architecture and Strategy Consulting
We are most productive, when we are at our well-equipped workstation. We understand our productivity as your benefit. Therefore, we do our work from our office whenever possible.
Only few situations require our presence on site. If such situations occur, we will be there. But only then. Most of the time, we will provide our service remotely. To safe your and our time and work on results.
We don’t want to come to your office just to present ourselves. We mitigate meetings whenever we can. Our strengths and productivity sources from straight communication and the focus on results.
We keep that communication asynchronous whenever possible, to allow you to work on the shared topic, when it suits you best.
Whenever indicated, we switch to synchronous communication and join an online-meeting, scheduled call or simply have a chat, to move a certain topic forward.
Like a doctor, who will not start any treatment before having understood your concerns, our first actions are aimed to understand your trouble as well as your possibilities. We will collect the relevant information in an interview and provide you with the summary, to double check if we got things right. While we have a structured approach for the interviews and templates to assure, we cover all relevant points, you will not need to fill questionnaire and forms.
Based on the delivered input, we will define a strategy to tackle your troubles and to resolve them. We will share the strategy with you and enrich it with drafts and sketches where we feel it is important to get a good understanding of the advised result. Again, your feedback will be required, to assure that we are alligned on the result and the way to achieve it.
The agreed strategy will be the base for all actions during the implementation. Usually we will not have all details to finish the task and the implementation phase will start with collecting details, reverse engineer existing systems and organizing data. Whenever possible, we will provide you with a proof of concept and setup things in parallel to existing solutions. As a last step, we will assure a smooth transition to the newly created systems or situation for you and your teams and provide you with runbooks, and documentation to takeover the operations.
We started our journey in Information Technology at a time where the Microsofts Operation System was MS-DOS, Screens used to have two colours and Windows was only one of many applications. As members of the micro generation that learned typing on typewriters in Middle School and moving over to personal desktop clients in Highschool we understood quite early in life, that technology expertice is a key to a high productivity – and that it can only be achieved by continiosly learning and upgrading our skills.
From the moment we entered the active workforce, we were involved in driving technology based change in traditonal industries. On our quest for deeper expertise, we took a significant step forward by joining one of the worlds leading software companies in 2005 & 2007.
Since then, we grew our technology expertise by countless trainings, courses and lessons that allowed us to successfully fill different roles in tech companies and specialised teams in different industries.
While some may feel uncomfortable with permanent change, we understand ourselves as technology enthusiasts, enjoying new technologies and embrace each and every opportunity to master the next level.
While we accumulated expertise in many techonogies without having it certified, a lot of our technology expertise is certified. Starting with the touch typing certificate earned in middle school – we know, that’s not relevant to you, like a lot of the certificates we collected since then – we achieved proven expertise for different technologies, including Network Technology (CCNA), Operation Systems and Applications (Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist) and are active members on different training portals, with numerous awarded trophies and batches.
If you want to know about any specific technology expertise, please contact us.
Even before digitalization, there were a large number of different project management frameworks.
Due to the mapping of the different project management methods in digital tools and the degree of adaptation of both frameworks and digital tools that varies from company to company, there are probably as many project management methods as there are companies.
Against this background, it seems almost presumptuous to call oneself a project expert in general. We do it anyway. The basis for this is the fact that we were forced to deal with a considerable number of project management methods due to our involvement in projects of all sizes in a large number of different companies.
Accordingly, our expertise extends to both classic methods that are based on a controlled environment and the possibility of a clearly defined result even before the start of the project. But also on methods that take into account the fact that a controlled environment is often only given to a limited extent and that the goals of the project can change during an ongoing project due to different factors. In our observation, the success of a project usually has very little to do with the chosen project management method or the tools used to implement it.
Often, project participants outside the project management team lack specific knowledge about the method used, as well as how to use the tools. Projects using traditional methods are often not adapted to changing conditions and new requirements. In modern, agile projects, there is often a lack of understanding of operational requirements, which often leads to problems with relevant requirements for compliance with certifications and accreditations.
In addition to our experience in the design of different tools for the successful mapping of project processes and requirements, we not only know how to impart the necessary knowledge to project participants in order to be able to act successfully in the respective project and operate the necessary tools.
We also specialize in bringing order to all projects that are too agile or the necessary degree of flexibility in classically managed projects.
By definition, a process is a series of actions or steps taken in order to achieve a particular end… which is a pretty universal and we are not experts for every scenario that fits the definition.
Our expertise lays within the scope of business processes that circle around information.
No matter if the process is internal and aimed to manage and organize work within your company or if it is about shipping information to your partners and customers. It is vidal to have the needed information at the right place and in time to assure the fluency of the process.
Our expertize includes a variaty of different tools to realize this as well as vertified Information Security Knowhow to assure the required information security and confidentiality, that is required to comply with relevant rules and to protect your business and your internal information.
Digitalization by definition is the adaption of a system, a process or even a piece of media to be operated with the use of computers and often the internet.
The process of Digitalization consumes resources and depending on what you are digitalizing, you should be sure that the effort is worth it.
Before starting the digitalization of anything, you need to bring it to a good shape and condition. You also need to be sure to have the right tool for the digitalization process and to make use of the result.
That can be quite easy, if the focus is on a physical item, but if you plan to digitalize a business process, at lot of aspects need to be considered.
After a successful process digitalization, everything is information, that needs to be managed and stored in a resilient, secure and compliant way.
Our expertise in the field of digitalization combines the aspects of process expertise, tool expertise and information security expertise, which are all relevant to achieve a good and reliable digital business process.
Our Core Team Members have working experience in broad palette of industries. While to some “IT” is “IT”, we know that the role and importance of IT-Systems and the way they need to be operated varies to a high degree.
We are used to the elevated requirements of highly regulated industries, like the laboratory industry, and the advanced needs of data security and integrity.
We know about the high-performance requirements for high end online retail business as well as the even more advanced needs of fluent real-time experience in the gaming industry from firsthand working experience.
But we know that not every business needs to meet high compliance standards or real time performance, which always comes with a price tag. Often IT needs to be simple to use and robust.
Our experience in different industries, allows us to understand the needs of your business and find solutions that meet your requirements and keeping your budgets on hardware, licenses, and support at a reasonable level.
We understand that even highly technical work needs to be done by following unwritten cultural rules.
Our core team has working experience in diverse constellations, including several local scenarios within Europe but also multi-national settings.
We worked for US Companies in France, for French Companies in Germany and India and are used to overcome challenges that arise when different working cultures meet.
We do not only adapt to the situation but are used to help other project members and peers to better understand the needs of each other.
No matter the cultural background, at the end of the day, everyone enjoys progress and a successful project outcome. Our experience helps us to keep the shared goals in focus while respecting the different ways to work and contribute.
While we enjoy direct and straight communication, like it is usualy seen in smaller businesses, we have working experience in medium and large businesses as well as enterprises.
It is our goal to provide structured, clear and complete basis for decision-making to each of our customers. Documentation is not a addon service to us, but integral part of our work.
However, we will adapt the level of detail and form of both to your companies’ specific needs. Our experience allows us to cover a wide range, starting from small and simple documents for smaller audiences up to elaborated decision papers and documentations, to meet your internal process requirements.
Even if your requirements include several management levels of decision taking, steering committees and several stakeholders, we are able and willing to provide you with all required input to drive your project through the internal processes.
The same goes for documentations of our work. No matter if you prefer brief handouts or are required to store complete documentations, we will provide you with it.
If you do not have specific demands, existing templates from Ancre, Phare & Canaris will be used. If that’s not what you want, we are happy to work in your designs and templates or directly work within your existing documentation and frameworks. This will raise the benefit or our work for your company and keep it simple for your stuff to use our input as it is provided in well know form and structure.
A customer is a customer isn’t true. Of course, there are huge differences between private and business customers and company internal customers are again a different topic.
Our journey led us through different scenarios including 1:1 B2C Sales Situations, huge B2C Support organizations, B2B technical support departments, fully automated information shipping in B2B settings as well as countless internal and external shared work and collaboration situations.
Based on this experience and backed by technical expertise in solutions spanning local telephone systems, local and cloud-based customer support tools and modern work collaboration solutions, we are most qualified to help you identify, design and implement the right solution for your business case.
While a typical expert will advise you to achieve your goal with the product, he is an expert in, and the practitioner will try to solve your problem the same way he has solved a problem in the past. Our wide scope and the different fields of experience and expertise we are combining, allow us to focus on what’s best for you.
Of cause, there are reasons why new technologies evolve and new features bring new possibilities. And we would love to talk to you about modern solutions and automated processes with auditable logfiles. Supported by AI technology and bots for required support.
But sometimes you simply need an old school file server, a local telephone appliance or a simple ticket system. That’s fine for us and we will love our work if you love the result.
