Strategic Advisory & Benchmarking Insights

Empowering IT Leaders with Data-Driven Strategy, Compliance, and Optimisation

Modern IT decision-making requires more than technical knowledge—it demands strategic alignment, objective benchmarking, and measurable outcomes. As organisations face growing pressure to reduce risk, modernise platforms, comply with complex regulations, and extract more value from IT investments, having a trusted partner with deep technical and commercial insight becomes essential.

ITgility’s Strategic Advisory & Benchmarking Insights portfolio supports CIOs, IT leaders, and architecture teams with the guidance, assessments, and financial modelling needed to make informed decisions. Whether navigating cloud adoption, platform transitions, security risk, or cost rationalisation, we provide the frameworks and data to align technology strategy with real business impact.

Key solution areas include:

• IT Strategy Alignment Using Info-Tech Research Group Frameworks
  We leverage proven tools and methodologies from Info-Tech Research Group to assess IT maturity, define strategic goals, and align IT roadmaps with organisational objectives. Our advisors facilitate workshops, assessments, and prioritisation exercises tailored to your business model.

• Infrastructure Health Assessment: Mainframe, x86, and Network
  Identify performance bottlenecks, risks, and modernisation opportunities across compute, storage, and network layers. Our platform-agnostic assessments span IBM Z, virtualised x86, SAN/NAS, and network infrastructure—providing baseline analysis and actionable improvement plans.

• Security Posture Review Aligned to POPIA, GDPR, and NIST
  Evaluate your organisation’s security readiness against leading frameworks such as NIST CSF, POPIA, and GDPR. We assess policies, controls, identity access models, and threat exposure across your hybrid IT estate, delivering compliance-focused recommendations.

• TCO and ROI Modelling for Hybrid Infrastructure
  Compare capital vs operational expenses across infrastructure models, including VMware, Nutanix, Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI), Pure Evergreen, Dell APEX, and HPE GreenLake. Our financial modelling tools help you assess break-even points, lifecycle costs, and investment impact based on your usage profile.

• Vendor-Neutral Technology Selection Framework
  Make objective platform decisions based on functionality, cost, scalability, and vendor roadmap. We help clients navigate technology evaluations—from virtualisation and backup to networking and AIOps—without vendor bias, ensuring a best-fit outcome.

Why ITgility?

• Independent advisory expertise: Trusted, vendor-neutral guidance across strategy, operations, and procurement

• Deep platform knowledge: Expertise across mainframe, cloud, hybrid, storage, and infrastructure

• Data-driven assessments: Quantitative benchmarking, scoring models, and maturity gap analysis

• Regulatory-aligned recommendations: Strategy and implementation plans mapped to POPIA, GDPR, FSCA, ISO and NIST standards

• Business outcome focus: Clear deliverables aligned with agility, compliance, risk mitigation, and cost optimisation