IT Consulting Montreal

Most firms on this search will also sell you what they recommend. We run the assessment as its own engagement, priced apart from any build, so the plan survives you saying no. In Quebec there's a second reason to keep them separate: a project that acquires, develops or rebuilds a system holding personal information needs a privacy impact assessment, and the people designing it shouldn't be the only ones marking it. CCIE-led, bilingual, covering Greater Montreal.

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The short answer

What does IT consulting in Montreal actually cover?

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An independent read of what you run, then a plan you can fund. An inventory of the estate, an architecture review, a cost baseline per system, and a plain statement of what's about to fail. Quebec adds one thing to the front of that list. If the project touches personal information, a privacy impact assessment isn't a document you write afterwards to satisfy somebody. It's an input that changes the design, and it's cheaper to run before the architecture is chosen than after.

The services

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Each one has its own page: what we scope, how we run it and what you get back. Start with the one you need, or ask us to run them together.

Does IT consulting need somebody in the room?

Part of it does. The assessment week is where an engineer walks the estate, opens the racks and finds the system nobody documented, and that's also where the privacy assessment stops being theoretical. Our engineers travel for it, booked against your change window and quoted rather than buried. The rest is a document set, and a document set doesn't care where it was written, only which language it has to be readable in.

What needs somebody there

  • The estate walk, and the undocumented system that turns up on it
  • The roadmap review, where it gets argued rather than presented
  • A cutover rehearsal, where the thing that fails is physical

What the distance does not change

  • Architecture review, and the written design that comes out of it
  • The cost baseline per system, with renewal dates on it
  • The privacy assessment, and whether it reaches the design in time
  • Delivery in French, which is a staffing question

Assessment visits are booked against your change window, and we quote the travel.

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Who you get

Who writes the plan

One principal architect, from the first estate walk to the roadmap review. The consultant a Montreal organisation brings back is the one who'd have to build the thing, not a pitch team that hands you over once the signature is on.

The work

What we take over

  1. What you have now:

    A three-year plan somebody's vendor wrote

    What the engagement leaves:

    An inventory your own team could start building from on Monday

  2. What you have now:

    A spend baseline nobody can reconcile against the estate

    What the engagement leaves:

    A cost baseline per system, with the renewal dates on it

  3. What you have now:

    A privacy assessment started after the architecture was chosen

    What the engagement leaves:

    A written architecture, and the reason behind each choice

  4. What you have now:

    An architecture decision made by whoever was loudest in the room

    What the engagement leaves:

    A privacy assessment that shaped the design rather than describing it

  5. What you have now:

    A compliance answer written for the Commission rather than for the system

    What the engagement leaves:

    A document set you own, in the language you need it in

This is the shape of a Montreal consulting engagement, not a single client.

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Questions

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Consulting is the read. Services are the running. A consulting engagement produces an inventory, an architecture, a cost baseline and a roadmap, and it ends with a document set you own. Services are what happens every month afterwards. We sell both and price them separately on purpose, because a recommendation bundled into the thing being recommended isn't a recommendation.

When it acquires, develops or overhauls an information system or electronic service delivery that collects, uses, communicates, keeps or destroys personal information. That covers more projects than people expect, including replacing something that already works. The assessment has to be documented, kept, and produced to the Commission d'accès à l'information on request, so the useful time to run it is before the architecture is chosen.

We can build it, and the assessment is priced and delivered apart from any build, so the recommendation survives you saying no. You get the inventory, the architecture and the costed roadmap as a document set you own. Take it to us, take it to your incumbent, or hand it to your own team.

Yes. In Quebec the question worth asking any consultant is whether the deliverables arrive in French or only the meetings happen in it. A roadmap your board reads in English and your staff work from in French is two documents, and somebody has to pay for the second one.

Fixed scope, fixed price, quoted after a short scoping call rather than from a rate card. The number moves with the number of sites, the systems in scope, and whether a privacy assessment is part of it. We don't bill an assessment by the hour, because an hourly read rewards the wrong thing.

Often, and it's usually the better arrangement. An independent assessment doesn't require replacing anyone. Your provider keeps running what they run, we document what's there, and the roadmap says plainly which parts they're well placed to do. If the honest answer is that they're doing it right, that's what the document says.

Yes, across Greater Montreal. The assessment walk needs somebody on site, so distance matters for that week and for very little else.

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