Adding to our achievement of the highest levels of partnership and certifications with our technology partners, VD's Professional Services team supports its consultative capabilities by also having received management certifications and accreditations such as:

• Project Management Professional (PMP) (Project Management Institute [PMI])
• Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• ISO/IEC 17024:2003
• Information Technology Services Management (ITSM)
• International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI)
• CompTIA
• Systems Security Professional (CISSP)/International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium (ISC)2
• Plus specific regulatory accreditations for healthcare, financial services, government and more

Examples of current vendor certifications include:

The ultimate outcome from engaging with our technology pathfinding professionals is that clients become more agile and innovative, secure, and compliant. To learn more about how Derive Technologies can address your needs, BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION

Vd Network leverages the vast collective experience of its team professionals by means of a set of standardized and well-documented IT problem-solving approaches we call SolutionPathsSM. Continuously honed over the last twenty years to incorporate a steady evolution of practices and technologies over time, they reflect the company’s insights into business consulting workflows, process and client support best practices, and more..

SolutionPathsSM enable Vd Network to support repeatable, high-quality engagements of any size and create tailored solutions for clients while profiting from past experiences..

Across such practice areas such as data centers, cloud computing, remote office operations, networking, security, and others, Derive applies SolutionPathsSM to such tasks as: Strategic project planning and blueprinting—customized for your organization and its specific needs Business structure assessments—to help create or amplify IT best practices Process and workflow standardization Facility walkthroughs and technology inventories IT risk management Current- and future-state technology assessments—including the best possible leveraging of existing infrastructure and systems, along with migration and upgrade pathways to newer, modernized computing paradigms (e.g., from on-premises to a hybrid cloud strategy) Financial and operational modeling—including IT capital planning to help your organization realize its desired technology and business goals Security assessments Compliance reviews Benchmarking, testing and diagnostics IT sourcing, procurement and support contract solutions To learn more about how Derive Technologies can address your needs, BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION.

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

The VD Networks Management Office (PMO) builds long-term client relationships as it develops and supports enterprise-level execution standards for all project engagements.

With expertise gained from over two decades’ worth of projects spanning a highly diverse set of clients and service offerings, VD Networks Project Managers are flexible and easily adjust to working within each stakeholder’s individual corporate culture.

At VD Networks, the PMO ensures that PMs directly collaborate and communicate with clients throughout a project’s lifecycle, while transitioning them into ongoing maintenance and support. As trusted advisors, VD Networks PMs work with C-level, director-level, and technical engineering personnel and play an integral role in securing long-term client satisfaction and retention.

VD Networks PMO sets and upholds best practice standards; the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) implementation framework is followed for every project. As part of this protocol, PMs review all scope details including deliverables, task dependencies, and prerequisites with the client prior to delivery.

The PMO’s project governance provides a clearly defined process for our PMs to use. This includes technical discipline templates along with project metrics which set the stage to ensure implementation efficiency. It also empowers PMs to perform effective planning, communicate to the project team at all times, deliver within scope, perform effective issue escalation and risk mitigation, and implement change orders as required.

The VD Networks PMO provides an ongoing relationship for clients. PMs have access to all VD Networks and Partner resources to best advise our clients. All of this ensures a seamless client engagement, whereby all project milestones are executed in a timely manner and remain within an allocated budget.

VD Networks follows the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) implementation framework for each of its projects. VD Networks Project Management Office (PMO) mandates its project managers (PMs) to directly collaborate with clients and effectively communicate throughout the entire project lifecycle. VD Networks PMs are expected to perform effective planning, define critical project milestones, remain within budget, perform RAID management (Risks, Assumptions, Issues, Dependencies), promote effective quality assurance, execute change orders when required, and provide project documentation.

An explicit project plan outlining initiation, progress, and completion of tasks and pertinent milestones is employed to guarantee project timelines and goals are met. Certain key goals are essential to this framework.

For each project, VD Networks PMs concentrate on ensuring the following global objectives:

• Customer satisfaction
• Project timelines are on or close to the schedule
• All stakeholders understand the overall project goals, scope, and objectives
• All parties understand the project success criteria
• Effective communication between teams and the project’s executive sponsors
• Project escalations and action items are recorded and addressed in a timely and professional manner

VD Networks' PM responsibilities and tasks include but are not limited to:

• Project kickoff meetings
• Ensuring compliance with a client’s preferred communications method (i.e., formal project plan, weekly status meetings, etc.)
• Client status reporting and meeting minute reporting
• Risk management and mitigation
• Coordination of all required VD Networks and customer project resources
• Handling of all required project and issue escalations
• Efficient processing of all required project change orders
• Certify that all project deliverables are successfully completed
• Project completion sign-off; project closure meeting and “lessons learned” discussion with the client

To learn more about how VD Networks can address your needs, BOOK A FREE CONSULTATION

VIRTUAL WORKPLACE

The world has been revolutionized by virtual workplaces—or virtualization which has distinct meanings to different individuals and companies.  We at VD Networks look at it as upgrading flexible productivity from an organization’s workforce regardless of their physical location.

VD Networks leverages the comprehensive collective experience of its team professionals by means of a set of standardized and well-documented IT problem-solving techniques that we call SolutionPathsSM. Continuously sharpened over the last several years to incorporate a continuous development of practices and technologies over time, they reflect the company’s insights into business consulting workflows, process and client support best practices, and more.

The COVID-19 pandemic shocked the world into new dimensions for change, working as a wake-up call for global organizations to have strong support systems for virtual workplace operations in place so: 1) their workforce can easily cooperate and remain fruitful no matter where they are, and 2) full and efficient use is made of any endpoint hardware they procure.

Picking the proper combination of virtualization solutions is essential to ensuring the success of your overall IT technology strategy.

VD Networks maintains strategic partnerships with leading virtualization partners, including Microsoft, HPE, VMWare, Nutanix, and Citrix, among others.

Our professional services team has the knowledge and expertise to develop and implement an appropriate virtualization strategy for your organization.

SolutionPathsSM facilitates VD Networks technologists to support repeatable, high-quality engagements of any size and create tailored solutions for clients while profiting from past experiences.

Across such practice areas such as data centers, cloud computing, remote office operations, networking, security, and others, VD Networks applies SolutionPathsSM to such tasks as:

• Strategic project planning and blueprinting—customized for your organization and its specific needs
• Business structure assessments—to help create or amplify IT best practices
• Process and workflow standardization
• Facility walkthroughs and technology inventories
• IT risk management
• Current- and future-state technology assessments—including the best possible leveraging of existing infrastructure and systems, along with migration and upgrade pathways to newer, modernized computing paradigms (e.g., from on-premises to a hybrid cloud strategy)
• Financial and operational modeling—including IT capital planning to help your organization realize its desired technology and business goals
• Security assessments
• Compliance reviews
• Benchmarking, testing, and diagnostics
• IT sourcing, procurement, and support contract solutions

SolutionPathsSM facilitates VD Networks technologists to support repeatable, high-quality engagements of any size and create tailored solutions for clients while profiting from past experiences.