APIMA™ Methodology

Kovarus is committed to increasing efficiency, performance and cost-effectiveness of its customers' IT operations. With multiple certifications and years of experience reviewing, architecting, integrating, delivering, and supporting industry-leading storage and networking technology, the Kovarus technical team provides strategic, unbiased advice about infrastructure strategies and technology supported by unmatched service. Each step of our five-phase APIMA™ methodology produces deliverables that analyze, document, and guide your organization throughout the project.

Phase One: Analyze

Identify business objectives, assumptions, constraints, and requirements
Assess capability against goals & provide recommendations
Generate next steps and produce a go-forward strategy

Phase Two: Plan

Logical, physical designs for infrastructure & operations
Identify, incorporate and/or adapt usable components
Design qualification against requirements

Phase Three: Integrate

Implementation of infrastructure & operations
Verification and user acceptance testing
Knowledge transfer workshops and documentation

Phase Four: Manage

Proactive management services
On-demand support services
Maintenance & warranty tracking for hardware & software

Phase Five: Automate

Assess current processes and identify automation opportunities
Document events and thresholds and remediation process workflows
Implement tools and/or scripts to automatically execute the workflows