Software Defined WAN Toolkit

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Assure your organization evaluates strategies and procedures related to the interface access methods to physical and virtual servers, Load Balancers, privacy systems, sensors, Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and intrusion protection and prevention systems.

More Uses of the Software-Defined WAN Toolkit:

  • Collaborate with the product team to implement middle and long term Strategic Goals on the Product Development roadmap.

  • Manage: effectively manage vendors, contracts and maintenance agreements for products and services in assigned portfolio.

  • Establish that your project prepares technical architectural and implementation design documents and work with the Project Management to develop the Implementation Plan.

  • Drive Continuous Improvement of efficiency and accuracy through the use of technology and expansion of service Management Tools to automate and digitize existing manual Business Processes.

  • Assure your venture complies; monitors the use of software and hardware through the network and provides for on going identification and resolution of User Needs.

  • Be certain that your enterprise evaluates, recommend, and selects potential new technologies and coordinates implementation with Network and Systems teams.

  • Make sure that your operation complies; implements and analyzes various Network Security procedures and techniques to assure top Network Security is achieved.

  • Make sure that your planning complies; sets up administration and service accounts, maintain System Documentation, tune system performance, enterprise monitoring, and install system wide software.

  • Coordinate and schedule third party installation and maintenance of network hardware, software, and telecommunications services.

  • Control: setup printers, patch and plug in phones and desktops to the network, configure network setting on devices.

  • Ensure your business evaluates, select, and recommends new operating systems and Test Software as it relates to network communication, implementation and performance.

  • Methodize: work closely with production leadership, engineers, and department leaders to understand and address needs.

  • Solidify in depth knowledge in multiple Cloud Technology domains, systems integrations, and telecommunication technologies.

  • Use industry Best Practices to provide superior Customer Services in all areas because of rapid changes in information and telecommunications technologies.

  • Confirm your group complies; conducts on going support to identify methods/techniques for improving the use of existing hardware, software, and to improve written documentation.

  • Collaborate with various partners as Account teams, Sales Engineering, Product Sales, Professional Services, Support Services and Partners to improve customer Product Adoption, resolve usage barriers, and drive.

  • Establish that your strategy serves as primary IT support during disaster situations to help return mission critical, mission essential, or business unit essential applications and data back online.

  • Manage: research, evaluate, assess feasibility with Proof of Concept, pilot new technologies, solutions and Delivery Models to transform products and services.

  • Ensure your organization helps develop and drive efforts to provide assessments of new technical networking systems to help improve performance and resiliency.

  • Guide: plan, conceive, architecture, design, acquire, build, adapt, implement and deploy secure, scalable and Innovative Solutions to solve complex problems.

  • Manage work with other consultants and Sales Team members to design and execute Active Directory migration, consolidation, collapse, upgrade solutions based on client requirements and Design Specifications.

  • Be certain that your project analyzes issue reporting patterns to identify potential systemic problems and suggest potentially Corrective Actions.

  • Secure that your planning responds to User Support calls either by phone or by site visit, performs diagnostics, and makes needed repairs or modifications as warranted by the type of call.

  • Ensure you are able to correlatE Business issues around Software Defined Network technologies and operational Business Processes and be able to create an architectural solution specific to a given customer or segment.

  • Enforce a sound IT general controls environment through the development of, and training on, organizational wide Policies and Procedures.

  • Control: track, report, manage and optimize Service Levels and project status for products and services in assigned portfolio.

  • Ensure secure, fault tolerant, robust, reliable delivery of products and services and meet Service Levels.

  • Follow up and document all issues and note current status, open and pending items, and prepare reports for incoming teams.

  • Establish that your organization performs functions related to planning, installing and troubleshooting network components and connectivity.

  • Secure that your project complies; this positions duties are generally defined and require significant independent judgment in determining work methods for the accomplishment of desired results.

 

Save time, empower your teams and effectively upgrade your processes with access to this practical Software Defined WAN Toolkit and guide. Address common challenges with best-practice templates, step-by-step Work Plans and maturity diagnostics for any Software Defined WAN related project.

Download the Toolkit and in Three Steps you will be guided from idea to implementation results.

The Toolkit contains the following practical and powerful enablers with new and updated Software Defined WAN specific requirements:


STEP 1: Get your bearings

Start with...

  • The latest quick edition of the Software Defined WAN Self Assessment book in PDF containing 49 requirements to perform a quickscan, get an overview and share with stakeholders.

Organized in a Data Driven improvement cycle RDMAICS (Recognize, Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control and Sustain), check the…

  • Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation

Then find your goals...


STEP 2: Set concrete goals, tasks, dates and numbers you can track

Featuring 999 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of Process Design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Software Defined WAN improvements can be made.

Examples; 10 of the 999 standard requirements:

  1. What Software Defined WAN data do you gather or use now?

  2. What is a worst-case scenario for losses?

  3. How does the team improve its work?

  4. What are the affordable Software Defined WAN risks?

  5. Do staff have the necessary skills to collect, analyze, and report data?

  6. How do you improve Software Defined WAN Service perception, and satisfaction?

  7. What is the Software Defined WAN Driver?

  8. What area needs the greatest improvement?

  9. Will Software Defined WAN have an impact on current Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery processes and/or infrastructure?

  10. How do you manage Software Defined WAN risk?


Complete the self assessment, on your own or with a team in a workshop setting. Use the workbook together with the self assessment requirements spreadsheet:

  • The workbook is the latest in-depth complete edition of the Software Defined WAN book in PDF containing 994 requirements, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...

Your Software Defined WAN self-assessment dashboard which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next:

  • The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard; with the Software Defined WAN Self-Assessment and Scorecard you will develop a clear picture of which Software Defined WAN areas need attention, which requirements you should focus on and who will be responsible for them:

    • Shows your organization instant insight in areas for improvement: Auto generates reports, radar chart for maturity assessment, insights per process and participant and bespoke, ready to use, RACI Matrix
    • Gives you a professional Dashboard to guide and perform a thorough Software Defined WAN Self-Assessment
    • Is secure: Ensures offline Data Protection of your Self-Assessment results
    • Dynamically prioritized projects-ready RACI Matrix shows your organization exactly what to do next:

 

STEP 3: Implement, Track, follow up and revise strategy

The outcomes of STEP 2, the self assessment, are the inputs for STEP 3; Start and manage Software Defined WAN projects with the 62 implementation resources:

Examples; 10 of the check box criteria:

  1. Cost Management Plan: Eac -estimate at completion, what is the total job expected to cost?

  2. Activity Cost Estimates: In which phase of the Acquisition Process cycle does source qualifications reside?

  3. Project Scope Statement: Will All Software Defined WAN project issues be unconditionally tracked through the Issue Resolution process?

  4. Closing Process Group: Did the Software Defined WAN Project Team have enough people to execute the Software Defined WAN Project Plan?

  5. Source Selection Criteria: What are the guidelines regarding award without considerations?

  6. Scope Management Plan: Are Corrective Actions taken when actual results are substantially different from detailed Software Defined WAN Project Plan (variances)?

  7. Initiating Process Group: During which stage of Risk planning are risks prioritized based on probability and impact?

  8. Cost Management Plan: Is your organization certified as a supplier, wholesaler, regular dealer, or manufacturer of corresponding products/supplies?

  9. Procurement Audit: Was a formal review of tenders received undertaken?

  10. Activity Cost Estimates: What procedures are put in place regarding bidding and cost comparisons, if any?

 
Step-by-step and complete Software Defined WAN Project Management Forms and Templates including check box criteria and templates.

1.0 Initiating Process Group:


2.0 Planning Process Group:


3.0 Executing Process Group:

  • 3.1 Team Member Status Report
  • 3.2 Change Request
  • 3.3 Change Log
  • 3.4 Decision Log
  • 3.5 Quality Audit
  • 3.6 Team Directory
  • 3.7 Team Operating Agreement
  • 3.8 Team Performance Assessment
  • 3.9 Team Member Performance Assessment
  • 3.10 Issue Log


4.0 Monitoring and Controlling Process Group:

  • 4.1 Software Defined WAN project Performance Report
  • 4.2 Variance Analysis
  • 4.3 Earned Value Status
  • 4.4 Risk Audit
  • 4.5 Contractor Status Report
  • 4.6 Formal Acceptance


5.0 Closing Process Group:

  • 5.1 Procurement Audit
  • 5.2 Contract Close-Out
  • 5.3 Software Defined WAN project or Phase Close-Out
  • 5.4 Lessons Learned

 

Results

With this Three Step process you will have all the tools you need for any Software Defined WAN project with this in-depth Software Defined WAN Toolkit.

In using the Toolkit you will be better able to:

Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a business challenge or meet a business objective is the most valuable role; In EVERY company, organization and department.

Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project within a business, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'

This Toolkit empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Software Defined WAN investments work better.

This Software Defined WAN All-Inclusive Toolkit enables You to be that person.

 

Includes lifetime updates

Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.