Why You Need These from Us

STRATEGIC PLANNING
What it is:
A comprehensive process that assesses an organization’s IT readiness, documents the current situation, recommends changes to improve the immediate situation and carries the organization through the next three to five years.
Why it is needed:
Without a technology strategy, IT systems are inconsistent and pieced together. An effective strategy reduces costs and keeps costs down by spending only when needed. It ensures that systems are more than adequate to support organizational growth.
Why it is needed from Creative Innovation Solutions Group:
The answer is vision, creativity and innovation – strengths of the founder, Randy Kellum – that laid the foundation of creating a total organization that meets today’s demand of doing more with less. Extensive experience of IT management in large, fast-paced organizations provides a corporate culture that sees the big picture and solves problems in an organized manner.

MANAGED SERVICES
What it is:
Typically focusing on the network and the day-to-day operations, managed services covers the entire organization from planning, staffing, policies and procedures, day-to-day network management, programming and all the functions associated with a Chief Information Officer or Chief Technology Officer.
Why it is needed:
Executive level management services are expensive and in most cases beyond the financial reach of small companies. Yet, loss of functionality, or downtime of support for day to day needs is also costly.
Why it is needed from Creative Innovation Solutions Group:
Years of experience designing successful systems and infrastructure, the ability to see the big picture and having the vision, creativity and innovation to provide CIO/CTO services at a level of expertise out of reach of many small to mid-sized companies. With flat rate fees CI Solutions Group provides 24/7/365 monitoring, backup and disaster recovery, website services, professional technology consulting, hassle-free vendor management, managed services, and even smart phone integration and support.

ENTERPRISE SYSTEMS
What it is:
Also known as ERP, this is the backbone to supporting the entire business organization. Among the areas of support are CRM, customer service, order entry, inventory management, warehouse management, transportation management, finance and others.
Why it is needed:
Integrated ERP solutions provide the total picture of the health of a business and facilitate a smooth business flow, by providing efficiencies not available in multi-vendor, multi database, non-integrated systems.
Why it is needed from Creative Innovation Solutions Group:
Creative Innovation Solutions Group understands that everything ultimately drives to finance. ERP must be combined with project management to be successful. The success of CI Solutions Group comes from truly understanding how to configure the ERP system to best utilize key functionality and features. We resolve areas of weaknesses and risks before the planning starts in order to dramatically increase the likelihood of the project’s success.

VIRTUALIZATION
What it is:
Rising in popularity and in use, virtualization combines many physical servers and is a must in driving down IT overhead and reducing ongoing costs of managing the infrastructure. For example, 21 physical servers could be combined into two physical servers and 21 virtual servers.
Why it is needed:
The future is cloud computing, but as a hybrid which combines the internet with a private cloud to maximize security. Such a structure reduces costs for overhead, management, maintenance and licensing.
Why it is needed from Creative Innovation Solutions Group:
Creative Innovation Solutions Group is a partner with the leading virtualization software in the world — VMware. Managing Partner Randy Kellum’s 20+ years of experience with the IBM Midrange systems gives CI Solutions Group a competitive advantage for its clients. Using the functionally similar VMware, Kellum’s IBM experience provides insight for better implementation and support of this premier program.