IT Consulting & Advisory Services

This is an IT consultancy. You give us your tech estate; we analyze it, spot where there are problems or risks, and provide a pragmatic approach for fixing them. Standard consulting services might include IT assessments, tech strategy development, platform and vendor selection, cloud strategies, security assessments, and overall project management.

It is important to recognize the difference between a consultancy and a reseller. While a reseller will sell you stuff, a consultancy tells you what to buy and why they recommended it. At TrnDigital we help implement the plan afterwards, too, think migrations to Office 365 and beyond into Power Platform or Azure initiatives.

Consulting is strategic; it decides what happens next and builds out the plan. Managed services are operational; someone else runs your infrastructure, monitors it, and keeps it running for you month by month.

Some combination of both is common practice. At TrnDigital, our consultants advise and design solutions alongside managed service delivery, meaning that the same folks responsible for designing your strategy will implement it post launch.

Digital transformation consulting uses modern technology to transform how a business operates, serves customers, and competes. Consultancy spells out what needs doing, chooses which technologies will do it, plans projects in order, and trains staff for the transition.

TrnDigital starts by looking at your goals before choosing any solutions, then aligns those goals against the Microsoft portfolio of cloud computing, productivity, and artificial intelligence offerings. For full details on our digital transformation services, please see our offerings.

Our Microsoft 365 Consulting practice delivers strategic guidance on implementation, deployment, and maximizing value from Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Exchange Online, and even Copilot. Everything from license planning to architecture, governance policies, security setups, migrations, and adoption.

Here's how we do things at TrnDigital, a Microsoft Gold Partner. We right-size Microsoft licenses. We design SharePoint/Teams architectures. And we set up governance practices that keep your information safe and discoverable.

Organizations waste money licensing Microsoft 365 functionality they aren’t using yet. The consultant audits the redundant licenses, the unused functionalities, the missing governance, and any SharePoint or Teams sprawl, tackling each problem in sequence.

Results tend to fall into familiar patterns, better-defined architecture, improved governance practices, increased adoption rates, and greater readiness for Microsoft 365 Copilot. Because Copilot relies upon good governance, that’s important.

IT consulting fees are based on project scope, consultant experience level, and engagement type. Typical engagement types include time-and-materials engagements, capped fee projects such as assessments and roadmaps, and retainer arrangements for advisory and fractional CIO services paid monthly.

At TrnDigital, project scopes are established after a discovery call, and we issue a proposal outlining the deliverables to guarantee clear understanding of our fees before we do anything else. Schedule a call to get your quote now.

Scope determines timelines. Scoping out a project or building a prototype will take weeks; executing a complete digital transformation strategy roadmap will happen step-by-step across several months. TrnDigital runs rapid prototyping exercises lasting between two and four weeks, culminating in a fully functional prototype that can go through user testing before any full-scale rollout.

The IT strategy roadmap defines where your technologies are right now, where you want them to be, and how many projects you need to get there. In my experience, these include current-state assessments, initiatives ranked in priority order, scheduling, project owners, budgets, and expected returns from each move along the way. At TrnDigital, we create roadmaps based on business needs, technology priorities, culture, and returns, and help set up Digital Operations teams to keep things aligned.

Choose your Microsoft consultant by validating whether or not they are a certified Microsoft partner, checking their credentials, requesting testimonials from peers in similar industries, and assessing how they handle any go-live support. Ask questions about who will be working on your project, what their security and compliance philosophy looks like, and what constitutes success to them.
TrnDigital is a Microsoft Gold partner that supports clients all over Greater Boston and throughout the U.S., particularly within regulated industries like biotech and life sciences. Meet the team behind TrnDigital here.