ComputerTree Professional Services

Some organizations have requirements that go beyond basic installation services and are looking for expertise in fulfilling a turnkey solution. To meet those needs, ComputerTree established our Professional Services Group, staffed by experts who will help you assess your technology needs, provide on-site deployment, best practices and integration services.

Two core practices that work together
ComputerTree Professional Services is comprised of two core offerings. Each is a highly effective, complete offering and each is designed to complement the other. Companies using our services together benefit from the program's efficiency and synergy. ComputerTree Professional Services can also guide you to other resources, such as on-going support plans and blocks of hours that can help maximize the ROI on your solution.

ComputerTree Deployment
Want to tighten up your organization?s authentication and security practices? Or bring older networks up to date with the latest features of Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server? The ComputerTree Deployment Team can help you deploy these business-critical tasks and ensure you understand your technology investment at every step of the process.

The ComputerTree Deployment Team is comprised of an agile group of highly skilled engineers. These seasoned and Apple Certified professionals provide onsite consulting for large-scale deployments or can help with smaller complex jobs — whether you need a presales assessment, a migration or integration plan, or hands-on configuration of Xserve and Xserve RAID systems. The ComputerTree Deployment Team can also build custom solutions to meet the specialized needs of your network and organization.

Don't know where to begin? The ComputerTree Deployment Team offers onsite assessments. Based on your objectives, they'll audit your computing environment and deliver written recommendations for your specific project and solution. At that point, you can choose to engage the Deployment Team for further assistance.

Management Services, Project Management and Custom Services
ComputerTree provides customized solutions and services for organizations seeking to deploy Apple hardware and integrate it with their existing infrastructure. Our broad knowledge base of best practices garnered over hundreds of successful deployments will allow delivery of on-time and on-budget solutions.

Our clients gain access to our technical expertise and domain knowledge, spanning a wide range of application types and industries. Our consultants have open access to Apple's own engineers, as well as access to a large pool of software partners and developers. Plus, you'll get the expertise you need through all stages of a project, including:

• Project planning and management
• Authentication, authorization, and security planning
• Legacy systems integration and migration to Mac OS X Software programming
• Customer Server Deployment monitoring and maintenance

Clients will also benefit from our leading-edge technologies and standards that ensure the highest level of performance, flexibility, and interoperability. Whatever your challenge — migrating from a legacy system, growing market share, improving customer service, reducing operational costs, streamlining business processes, publishing information securely, or other critical organizational needs — ComputerTree will develop the technical solutions that meet and exceed your goals. We have experience in building many types of solutions:

• Content management for Print, Web and Video Production
• Software migration planning and Custom Imaging
• Directory systems
• Document authoring and management systems
• Service request applications
• Disaster recovery site-to-site deployments
• Asset tagging and hardware imaging
• Shared business productivity managers
  

ComputerTree also specializes in the following Integrations
Integration with existing enterprise IT infrastructures including Active Directory (with single sign-on support), LDAP, Microsoft Exchange, all with the power and flexibility to manage your OS clients and provide policy management and centralized services.

Deployment, Monitoring and High Availability
Bringing best practices and efficiency to help ensure the best management and deployment of Mac OS X desktops, ComputerTree Consulting Services can help customize and create a wide variety of deployment scenarios.

Need help setting up a Mac OS X server to provide DNS, DHCP, LDAP, even Failover capabilities or Security Monitoring? ComputerTree Consulting Services can help you get going and bring expertise and innovative solutions to help maximize your investment in Mac OS X Server.

Migration
From Mac OS 9 to the latest version of Mac OS X, or from Windows-based architectures to more open formats (including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, and file, web, and print services), or from other UNIX backends, ComputerTree Consulting Services can help.

Collaboration and Mobility
Need a QuickTime Streaming Server for distributing video and audio content over your intranet or extranet? QuickTime Streaming Server is included at no additional charge with Apple Xserve and Mac OS X Server. Let us help you implement your system.

Disaster Recovery
ComputerTree Professional Services can help you deploy custom site-to-site and disk-to-disk-to-tape disaster recovery solutions. Thanks to our low cost Apple Xserve RAID, this is a perfect fit for the ComputerTree Professional Services to help you build this solution and meet your contingency disaster recovery plans within a reasonable budget.

Custom Enterprise Video Podcasting Solution
Thanks to Mac OS X Server, Xsan, Xserve, and Xserve RAIDs, ComputerTree Professional Services can help you deploy a scalable intranet podcasting solution for your business. This solution allows you to make available video and audio content to your employees through subscriptions to internal podcasts via iTunes (Mac and Windows compatible). This allows marketing, HR, training, and sales to communicate easily with employees. This content may also be synched up to an iPod.

Professional Training
ComputerTree Professional Training offers a comprehensive curriculum that address a broad range of technical proficiencies, whether you're an IT or creative professional, a Help Desk support person, service technician or Art Director. By design our courses will deepen your knowledge and facilitate your implementation of Apple's Mac OS X operating system, professional digital applications and Adobe's Creative Suite.

Mediaspectrum Solutions Partner

Infrastructure Strategy & Assessment
Infrastructure success requires assumptions and strategies that include corporate-wide business goals. We can help an organization successfully strategize and implement Infrastructure initiatives by providing strategic planning services to assess current infrastructure and identifying enhancements to support the deployment and operation of new business applications on a scaleable, secure network.

Our Infrastructure Strategy solution combines a set of structured activities and robust diagnostic tools that focus on business value and time-to-market results as well as assess an enterprise's ability to execute and transform its business as the market demands. This solution can be used to evaluate technologies, initiatives and opportunities on both a current and future basis in order to maximize successful infrastructure decision-making.

Delivering Successful Professional Services On Time and On Budget Mediaspectrum provides end-to-end technology integration services for the entire Media 2.0 platform. We help enterprise clients integrate not only our solutions but technical infrastructure, application software, operational and business support systems, supply chains, and networks as well.

Ensuring Your Success
Given today's ever-changing information technology environment and your focus on achieving multiple strategic initiatives, effectively managing your programs can be a challenge. Your complex and multidimensional programs require enterprise level management and collaboration across projects, business units, and geographic areas in order to minimize budget overruns, deadline extensions, and project failures.

With Mediaspectrum, our experienced professionals can help your business reduce the risk of project failure, effectively prioritize program initiatives, optimize internal resources, deliver on stakeholder expectations, and improve return on investment. With solutions for ad sales, supply chain management and production automation, Mediaspectrum offers a complete suite of tools to revolutionize your business.

Advertising 2.0
An intimate and elegant experience. With solutions for ad sales, supply chain management and production automation, Mediaspectrum offers a complete suite of tools to revolutionize your business.

Content 2.0
The Ultimate Print and Web Content Management Solution. The industry's only pure Web-services based editorial and content management system is helping media companies streamline content production and deliver content virtually anywhere.

Community & Commerce 2.0
The right content with the right ad to the right person. Mediaspectrum ties the entire Media 2.0 platform together with solutions that help build online communities and generate revenue through new business models.

The Mediaspectrum Cloud
Revolutionize Your Media Organization ... In today's media landscape, all media companies and particularly publishers of multi-channel products need to drastically streamline their businesses while at the same time increasing sales. But how?

Legacy technology vendors offer nothing in the way of cutting complexity out of your IT. In fact, they do the opposite. They still require you to have huge server rooms, endless office space jam packed with servers that have expensive cooling and power needs. You need to manage bandwidth, networks, storage and a barrage of software stacks that include operating systems, databases, application servers and portal servers. Worst of all, they typically consist of legacy applications that run on desktops with layers of proprietary "web" technology hard coded to them.

Then there's the people, endless people, with out-of-date skills and completely decentralized. You need a team of experts to install, configure and keep these systems running across multiple environments — the development environment leads to testing to staging to production to fail-over. All of this to just support a single business application, running a true multi-channel media organizations requires many more.