Services

Services for your business

Intro

About our services

We provide various services for your business. The goal is to help our customers with their challenges at any stage of growth - from start-ups to enterprises. Many of the challenges that the cloud introduces require deep knowledge of the product, which is understandable. Thus, we believe that if you lack knowledge or resources, you need a strong partner that will guide you through the storm - Plectrum Engineering.


*We offer services remotely or on-site, upon agreement.

Consultancy

Our engineers offer their long-term, hands-on experience with various production environments to guide you through your challenges. We always try to find the solutions that best fit customers' needs, which may include financial constraints, speed of delivery, complexity, a team that is not yet mature enough, etc.

  • Support with complex projects and issues
  • Lack of knowledge
  • Low maturity of a team

Assessment

Many times, customers do not have proper documentation in place, making it very difficult to identify all potential issues that may arise during the adoption of new technology. Our team gathers all available information about the client's IT system and provides a thorough analysis of the possible impacts of specific technology adaptations (e.g. cloud environment) while documenting its requirements.

  • Missing documentation
  • Blind spots in architecture
  • IT compliance

Architecture

Before any IT system can be migrated or transformed to a new platform, there is a need to create a high-level architecture design that covers all important technical and business aspects. We can help you define the high-level and detailed IT systems architecture, including all integration flows, required modifications, implementation details, and estimated costs of the components used by the IT system.

  • Missing high-level architecture diagrams
  • Anti-patterns and incorrect usage of technologies
  • Unknown moving parts in the system
  • No cost estimation

Build

With our team's extensive experience in implementing and using various technologies, we are able to build a customized environment for our customers based on the selected set of technologies and information obtained from the assessment and architecture phases. This ensures that the environment is prepared for the deployment of a specific IT system. Once the new environment is ready, our engineers assist with the initial deployment of the IT system, including the necessary knowledge transfer.

  • Not enough resources
  • Lack of knowledge of industry-standard tools
  • Platform for an MVP
  • Greenfield infrastructure to avoid future technical debt
  • Missing ready-to-use infrastructure

Migration

It seems that everyone is already in the cloud, but don't be afraid if you are still on-premise. If you have always wanted to move to the cloud but lacked the knowledge or courage, we are here to help. Our team will guide you through the process, help you choose the cloud provider that best fits your needs, prepare a migration strategy, and ensure a successful migration to the cloud.

  • Choosing the best provider to fit your needs
  • Moving from on-premise to the cloud
  • Lack of migration strategy

FinOps

Using cloud services is fun, until you receive your first invoice. This can often be a huge surprise. But don't feel bad. Cloud providers offer a vast amount of services which automatically introduces complexity. Engineers need to have deep knowledge to understand all the costs involved. We are here to help you navigate through these fees to remove surprises. Our solutions are fit for your budget expectations.

  • Surprisingly high invoices for cloud services
  • Savings and discount possibilities
  • Navigating through overall costs
  • Finding a solution that fits the budget
  • Costs forecast

War Room

You might be familiar with the situation where there is a problem with either a non-production or production system, and you end up spending a lot of time and money to solve it. From our experience, most IT problems can be easily solved by gathering the responsible teams together and challenging them - war room. Many times, different teams struggle with proper and clear communication, which means that solving an issue becomes a never-ending story.

We are ready to help you with organization of troubleshooting session (war room), manage communication between teams, and provide you with our deep-dive technical knowledge to solve the problem.

  • Communication and collaboration
  • Insufficient skills for troubleshooting
  • Business continuity

DevOps Accelerator

DevOps Accelerator is a program for businesses to boost and/or bootstrap their internal DevOps teams. Companies that struggle with lack of experience, too junior team, issues with architecture or roadmap, etc. can use our services to educate and level up their team. We can help you define an educational roadmap for your DevOps team, guide you through architectural difficulties, or just map inefficiencies we see with proposals for corrections.

Our team can join your team either virtually or on-site and spend some time together to locate all the blind spots and help you efficiently increase the seniority of the critical team in your business.

  • Increasing maturity of a DevOps team
  • On-site and/or remote knowledge-sharing
  • Bootstrapping of a DevOps team