IT Consulting
IT consulting for decisions and delivery.
IT consulting for organisations making a technology decision or needing additional expertise to deliver a programme. Choose a focused assessment, CISO as a Service for ongoing cyber leadership, or specialist consultants working alongside your team.
Productised, advisory, embedded
Vendor neutral assessment
Senior delivery, named owner
Auditor ready frameworks
Context
What do you need from IT consulting?
Start with the decision you need to make or the skills your team is missing. CloudCoCo's IT consulting services cover assessments, CISO as a Service and specialist resource augmentation.
An assessment can help you examine a specific question about AI readiness, cyber maturity, cloud adoption, Microsoft 365 or cloud costs. CISO as a Service provides ongoing cyber leadership. Specialist consultants can work alongside your team where a programme needs additional expertise. The engagement models and capabilities below help you choose the appropriate starting point.
Productised decisions
AI Readiness, Cyber Maturity, Cloud Adoption, FinOps and Microsoft assessments
CISO advisory
Fundamentals, Assurance and Confidence packages on monthly retainer
Specialist talent
Senior consultants across SAP, Microsoft, cloud, cybersecurity and data
Programme delivery
PRINCE2 and MSP standards, value milestones tracked to business case
Who we serve
Two starting points. Three engagement models.
We work with organisations needing a fixed scope decision, and with leadership teams needing senior people sitting alongside them for advisory or project delivery.
Need help choosing an assessment, advisory engagement or specialist? Discuss your consulting brief
What we deliver
IT consulting capabilities
Productised engagements have a published rubric, fixed scope, fixed price and named senior consultant. CISO as a Service runs on monthly retainer. Specialist resourcing is available on a day-rate or retained basis, with the named individual on the contract.
01 · CISO as a Service
CISO as a Service tailored to your maturity, packaged for predictable cost.
Some organisations need ongoing cyber leadership without appointing a full-time CISO. Others need additional direction for a particular stage of growth, audit or change. CISO as a Service provides a retained advisory relationship, with the appropriate package determined by your current maturity and requirements.
We deliver CISO as a Service through three packages. Fundamentals for foundational hygiene with risk register, system hardening and baseline compliance. Assurance for pen testing, monitoring, threat intelligence and bespoke strategy. Confidence for MITRE attack simulations, war room exercises and continual assessment. Each package is supported by executive CISO experience, security architects and data analysts, with OnDemand access for incidents and board engagement.
02 · Specialist Resource Augmentation
Specialist consultants embedded in your team, named on the contract.
A programme may need expertise that your internal team does not have available for the delivery period. Examples include an SAP migration, ServiceNow rollout, cloud landing zone, data engineering work or security project. Specialist resourcing adds a named consultant to your team for an agreed engagement.
We supply senior specialists by skill profile, embedded in your team for the engagement window. SAP, cloud architecture, security, data engineering, programme management and business analysis. Day rate or retained, with the named individual on the contract. CV review, technical interview and contractual terms agreed up front. The consultant works to your tooling and the work product belongs to you.
03 · AI Readiness
AI Readiness Assessment delivered against a published rubric.
AI strategy at most organisations is shaped by whoever advocates loudest. Productised AI Readiness Assessments scored across data, infrastructure, identity, governance, use cases, FinOps and people produce a defensible baseline the executive team can act on.
Our AI Readiness Assessment runs over four weeks against a published rubric. Output is an AI baseline, a use case shortlist, a 12 month roadmap and a costed implementation plan. The deliverable is yours to keep, including the spreadsheet that scored your environment.
04 · Cyber Maturity
Cyber Maturity Assessment aligned to NCSC CAF and NIST CSF 2.0.
Choose the assessment framework around your organisation, customers and assurance requirements. NCSC CAF, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials address different needs. The scope should identify the framework and the decisions the assessment needs to support.
Our Cyber Maturity Assessment runs against NCSC CAF, NIST CSF 2.0, ISO 27001 or Cyber Essentials. Output is a prioritised remediation backlog and board level readout. Fixed scope, fixed price, named senior auditor. Recommendations include controls outside our reseller portfolio where they fit best.
05 · Cloud Adoption
Cloud Adoption Assessment with five year TCO across your shortlist.
Cloud direction decisions get made under vendor pressure, then unwound when the cost trajectory or sovereignty profile becomes clear. The right answer balances workload mix, sovereignty, FinOps target and operational capacity. A structured assessment produces a defensible decision rather than another supplier pitch.
Our Cloud Adoption Assessment runs Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework and AWS Well-Architected scoring against your estate, with a five year TCO across the options on your shortlist. Application dependency mapping and migration wave planning. Sovereignty profile assessment with hyperscale, sovereign and private cloud fit. Named senior consultant on the contract.
06 · Microsoft Optimisation
Microsoft 365 Optimisation with savings modelled before deployment.
Most Microsoft estates have unused entitlement worth more than the next planned purchase. E5 customers using E3 features. Copilot seats deployed without Purview groundwork. Sentinel licensed but not optimised against the new commitment tier model. A productised assessment surfaces the savings before deployment commits.
Our Microsoft 365 Optimisation maps licensing right sizing across E3, E5, F3, Business Premium and Frontline. Unused entitlement for Copilot, Sentinel, Defender and Purview. Copilot readiness and Purview gap analysis against your records retention schedule. Entra hardening recommendations. The savings model is signed off before deployment work begins.
07 · FinOps Maturity
FinOps Maturity Assessment with operating rhythm recommendation.
Cloud cost overruns are usually an absence of operating rhythm rather than a tooling problem. Most FinOps tools are licensed and partly used because no cadence has been built around them. Effective assessments recommend a cadence aligned to your finance cycle, not a generic monthly template.
Our FinOps Maturity Assessment scores against the FinOps Foundation framework, identifies anomalies, optimises reservations and savings plans, and designs a chargeback or showback model tied to your business unit structure. The deliverable includes an operating rhythm recommendation aligned to your finance cycle.
08 · Transformation PMO
Transformation programmes run to PRINCE2 or MSP standards.
Transformation programmes most often fall short at the operating layer rather than the technical layer. Workstreams overlap, dependencies go unmanaged, value milestones dilute, the business case slips out of view. PRINCE2 or MSP keeps the value realisation discipline visible to sponsor and steering.
Our transformation roadmap and PMO service runs to PRINCE2 or MSP. Phased plan with named owners, dependencies, risks and value milestones. Workstream leads named for each technical and business strand. Monthly progress published in plain language to the sponsor. Value milestones tracked against the original business case.
Why CloudCoCo
Why customers choose CloudCoCo for IT consulting and specialist resourcing.
What sets our delivery apart, in measurable terms.
Productised and predictable
Fixed scope, fixed price, fixed completion date for every productised assessment. Useful when finance needs predictability and procurement needs auditability.
CISO as a Service
Fractional CISO advisory through Fundamentals, Assurance and Confidence packages, with executive CISO experience supported by security architects and data analysts.
Specialist resource augmentation
Senior consultants across SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, cloud architecture, cybersecurity, data engineering and programme management. Day rate or retained, named on the contract.
Vendor neutral assessment
Recommendations include products outside our reseller portfolio where they fit your environment best, with the rationale documented in every deliverable.
Senior delivery, named owner
The senior consultant or specialist who scopes the engagement delivers it. No partner sale and junior team handoff, on any engagement model.
Frameworks recognised by your auditors
Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework, AWS Well-Architected, NCSC CAF, NIST CSF 2.0, FinOps Foundation framework, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials.
Outputs are yours to keep
Including the spreadsheets, policy templates, runbooks and risk registers. No proprietary lock in on consulting, CISO retainers or resource augmentation.