Such studies can be a great way of testing competing options or getting buy-in from stakeholders. IPL has much experience of rapid prototyping techniques and will bring rigour and process to the study to ensure it yields a meaningful outcome.

Business requirements rightly say little about how they might be implemented using existing infrastructure or new technologies. IPL consultants will evaluate the pros and cons of a range of technical options, making recommendations on their viability and likely cost.

IPL has extensive experience in taking agreed business requirements and documenting a coherent set of detailed technical requirements. Our deliverables contain everything that any systems integrator, whether IPL or another supplier, will need to realise the proposed system.

Although this is an integral part of defining detailed technical requirements, some of our clients simply want a specialist architect to design an appropriate solution architecture to support their business.

IPL is as comfortable working in a client-side advisory role as it is acting in a supply capacity. The range of services that IPL offers includes: procurement support, project review and audit, technical project management, and design authority.

Having provided consulting services in several sectors for over 25 years, IPL has amassed a wealth of high-value expertise in various specialist technical domains. Examples include telecoms standards & technologies, encrypted communications, motorway IT and communications infrastructure, geospatial and mapping technologies, mobility applications, police operational intelligence, resilient and distributed database architectures, etc.