The Owen Group

Before installing a messaging application, The Owen Group gains a thorough understanding of the network topology, location of routers, server and workstation hardware capabilities. Often overlooked are corporate culture and company policies. The Owen Group helps companies find the right “fit” and establish workable messaging standards.

• messaging migration
• messaging coexistence
• messaging strategy and planning
• messaging upgrades and enhancements
• Lync Server (IM, chat, Live Meeting)
• Unified Communications
• Voicemail in your Email

We start with comprehensive on-site interviewing of IT staff, management and end-users to identify LAN usage and critical applications, analyze hardware (including all file servers, client servers, gateways and workstations), and work scheduling. We then compile a detailed report including current status, a hardware and software inventory by user and system, and our recommendations for a DR plan that addresses the needs revealed during our information search (encompassing security, access, response to vandalism, etc.). Our team can map out client hot site, warm site, and Software As a Service options.

Extensive, real-world specialization and experience with virtualization, including:

• Hyper-V 2008 R2
• System Center VMM 2008 R2
• VMware vSphere
• Microsoft and VMware co-existence
• Virtual desktops, think clients
• Virtual Servers
• Virtual Storage
• Storage Dedup

Streamline collaboration and communication with:

• SharePoint 2010
• Windows Server 2008 R2
• Exchange 2010, 2007
• Lync Server, OCS Server 2007 R2
• Live Meeting 2010

We specialize in security audits.  Having experience with the FBI and DOD, we have performed many one-time, quarterly-, and annually-recurring audits for various industries as Federeal, Non-Profit, Fortune 100, Global, and Small Businesses.

• ISO 27001 (formerly ISO1779:2005)
• PCI DSS
• SAS70
• ITIL

Some reasons corporations use The Owen Group for business process optimization are to: minimize cost, maximize throuput, and to increase efficiency. TOG can dramatically lower your turn time for a process, allowing you and your organization to spend cycles on what matters most–your core competencies and your business differentiators. We see ROI on business process optimization along the lines of 3 months. Now isn’t that what being a good partner is all about?