Consultancy Services

Introduction

The consultancy services from Axello are primarily meant for media companies in Europe that need expertise and resources in streaming media technologies and need products or services from media vendors. Axello helps those media companies with insights, intelligence, research, and experience in relation to streaming media technologies. This covers anything in relation to strategy, business, technology, and innovation as part of Axello’s ‘connecting quadrants’ approach. This can relate to hands-on help on solution design, hands-on project management help, transfer of knowledge or support in selecting a vendor up to for instance strategic advice towards C-level or help in defining a full team for the development of a new product that requires streaming media technologies. Axello works very closely with its partners in providing the right expertise and resources needed.

Market Knowledge – Axello is in constant talks with both media companies and media vendors alike. As Axello also helps media vendors through its business acceleration, it has a good overview on both sides of the spectrum in regard to streaming media technologies. Axello is able to identify market trends and typical challenges in the market that media companies have, and also what solutions media vendors have to offer. Not only that, Axello also talks with media vendors more deeply and therefore knows of new innovations and technologies on the horizon and can relate those to media companies quicker.

Experts Only – Axello believes expertise is key and you can only have expertise in a number of areas. Therefore, Axello works closely with a network of partners that are experts in their respective fields for which Axello has no or too little expertise. Whether these are partners specialized in regard to specific resources, services, or have certain expertise, Axello believes it should offer ‘the best in class’. Axello’s extensive and trusted network of partners will make sure the right experts will be at the right place.

Service Models – Axello has a number of service models available. Most models are fixed to ensure standardization between partners. But tailored models are available on request as well. Most service models offered are based on a project, fixed, fixed per period, and/or usage-based, depending on the type, duration, and size of the services requested. With all models offered, this can be done for both long and very short timeframes. Just contact us to get an overview of our models.

Advice

Axello has built up unique expertise that is relevant for the media companies of today, in order for them to be successful with streaming media technologies tomorrow. The first consult for advice is offered for free which can be requested by contacting us. For advice that Axello does not offer as part of its expertise, it works together with partners.

Vendor Selection

Choosing a vendor can be a tedious process. Not only in researching which vendors there are, setting up requirements, which one is a potential fit and negotiate pricing, but also to look through the marketing messaging and have real knowledge of the potential vendor. Within the expertise that Axello has, Axello is well-equipped to shorten this tedious process by already having done the research on the different media vendors and has standardized processes for vendor selection in place. This saves costs and shortens the time for a new solution to be in place.

Cost Reductions

Especially with streaming media technologies, scalability comes with increasing costs. There are however often new technologies and innovations that can help reduce those costs. It is often that it is just a matter of knowing what possibilities there are, in order to determine where and how costs can be minimized without impacting quality. Due to the expertise that Axello has, typical simple cost-savings can be applied without much impact on the current solution. Just contact us to find out where we can help.

Tenders and RFxs

Tenders and RFxs are typically mandatory for public organizations but can also be useful for commercial organizations in order to facilitate the process of vendor selection. However, it is often that setting up such a tender of RFx can be a lot of work, and often due to lack of knowledge, not the right questions are asked and information is requested to ensure the right vendor is selected. Axello can help to minimize the work in creating such tenders or RFxs that fit within the expertise of Axello based on available blueprints but also to ensure they fit with what needs to be achieved. Due to the fact that Axello also is very aware of media vendors, this shortens the time and avoids unnecessary work.

Research

Often it is very beneficial to do proper research before any action is taken and this counts even more for streaming media technologies. Streaming media technologies change very rapidly and taking wrong decisions in used technologies, products, services, infrastructures, and such can have a huge impact on the bottom-line. It could just mean higher costs, needing to change technologies or vendors rapidly or the fact that usage costs are way higher than expected. But it could also use the ability to change quickly with new developments of the market, putting you back in comparison to the competition.

Axello believes that research is important to ensure you remain future-proof in streaming media technologies. By providing research into technologies, markets, vendors, competitors, or else it can give you a competitive edge and ensuring that you stay ahead of the game. Please contact us to find out what research we can do for you or whether we perhaps already made that research for you.

Training

To get the right knowledge and information across, training is a well defined way of doing this. Training is often seen as something very expensive, but it is known that with more complex topics, training, in the end, is way more cost-effective than someone researching on their own to get certain knowledge in. Not only that, multiply this with a team of people in combination with online training and the savings achieved can be very interesting.

With streaming media technologies, due to its constant ongoing changes, it often makes sense to do training, especially in relation to new topics to get a head-start. This also makes sure that basic knowledge is guaranteed among all team members which by individual research, often is not the case. Axello offers training itself and together with partners, both standardized and tailored, to make sure you keep up to date on developments in streaming media technologies.

Resources

Running projects in relation to streaming media technologies – such as for instance an OTT-project – are typically a very costly exercise if it is outsourced. But often there is no other option, as resources with the right knowledge are not available or would need serious commitment. Even with smaller projects this often is the case.

Axello has built up a portfolio of specific people with years of experience in streaming media technologies. Whether this is from project management, program management, solution architecting, development, network architecting, cloud specialists, streaming specialists, or anything else, available at your fingertips. Just contact us to understand how this can benefit you.