Education & Research
We align institution and IT expectations to maximise past network investments and exploit best practice and new technology to create cost effective agile, resilient, secure and high performing networks tailored to education and research collaborations and digital service delivery & support anytime, anyplace, anywhere
Education and Research networks differ to corporate networks in terms of utilisation, availability, end users, control and complexity. Support varies from a single person to large teams.
A resilient secure campus network is mission critical, complex and costly.
Broad Consultation, Network Architecture & commercial astuteness are key to attaining expected outcomes
Traditional campus network boundaries now extends to the data centre, cloud, workplace, and home. Knowing where to invest & what to configure, operate and manage is key for success
What we see
Declining revenues
Federal Government Constraints and reducing funding, loss of international students, declining domestic students
Employment readiness
The value of attending university is also being questioned from an employment ready perspective, impacting student numbers and course choice
Sector structural reforms
Dependency on short term education income to fund long term research to attract funding, researchers and improve university rankings may not be viable for all
Hybrid Blended learning
Hybrid and blended learning and teaching transformation post COVID-19
Increased Competition
Declining sources of revenue through increased competition nationally and globally
Critical Infrastructure challenges
Higher cost, cyber risk and complexity of administration and IT support services and associated infrastructure
How we can help you
Discovery
Reviews
Business Cases to invest in solution design
Gap analysis
Architecture
Design
Roadmaps
Business Case for go to market
Market Assessments
Procurement
Supplier Selection
Traceability matrix
Change Management
Network Automation deployment
Acceptance test & handover
Review
Monitor
Dashboards
Alerts
SLA reporting
Proactive and Predictive reviews
Monitor network and security events
Troubleshoot
Respond
Escalate
Remediate
Proactive playbooks for common network tasks and incidents
Proactive and Predictive reviews
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Smart Footprints Client list
Meet The Team
Founder & Consultant, Customer Success, Business Data Analysis, Dashboards, Visualisation
Bill Efthimiou
Consultant - CCIE Network Engineer, SD-WAN, Cyber & Cloud Network Engineering
Ray Burquest
Consultant - TOGAF Network Architecture, Cyber & Automation
Alex Grande
Transformation Leader, Strategy, Product and Services - specialization in Network Services including IoT/OT
Ravi Dayal
Consultant - Business Analyst, Digitisation, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
James Sankar
