create your own website for free

Slate Communications    

Your Digital Future Partner

Vision: Ensure excellent end-user experience for any end-user, any application, any time, anywhere

Slate Network Health Assesment

Find network troubles before trouble find you

Also referred to as the CCIE-in-a-box assessment, the SNHA discover all devices on your network, where they reside and how they link together. Proactively monitor and analyse network configurations to identify configuration problems early. Apply deep analysis and insights to optimize your network, avoid outages and identify rogue devices. Easily inventory and visualize multiple topology layers and network constructs, such as VLANs, routes and virtual networks.
The final deliverables include an executive overview report, including a network health score, and technical detail listings of issues that your IT organisation, or Slate can remediate.
 

Slate Network Performance Assesment

Stop the blame game and take the war out the war-room

The Slate Network Performance Assessment (S-NPA) deploys network packet analysers at strategic monitoring points in your network to triage application / network issues, triage and assist with remedial action. It monitors unified communications (UC) deployments, network security performance, applications, and troubleshoots complex network traffic including VM environments.
The final deliverables include an executive overview and technical detail reports of issues that your IT organisation, or Slate can remediate.


Slate Cloud Migration Assessment

Successfully migrate to cloud

Move your servers, apps, databases, and other workloads to Azure using the migration approach that’s right for your business. There’s no single cloud migration process that works for every organization, but the main implementation stages are similar for all organizations and industries: define your strategy, make a plan, ready your organization, and adopt the cloud—then govern and manage your environment.


Slate O365 and Cloud Accelerator

Improve Productivity and Performance When Working-from-Home or On-the-Go. Remote/Cloud users can continue to work as if the application itself was running on a local server.
With recent COVID-19 events impacting everyone, companies are taking swift measures to protect the well-being of their employees and quickly roll out work-from-home initiatives. It is important to keep your employees safe, but with the majority working-from-home and remote locations, network and application performance can become incredibly unpredictable, and slowdowns can quickly impact business. Is your organisation prepared for a remote workforce?



Slate End-User 

Experience Assessment

De-risk your cloud migration projects and manage performance before, during, and after migration.

Migrating apps, data, and workloads to the cloud has allowed organizations to focus resources on agility, flexibility, and innovation—while avoiding capital expenditure. Compute, storage, middleware, or entire stacks can be provisioned on-demand without the hassle of managing the delivery infrastructure. Unsurprisingly fully 96% of companies are using the cloud today and 81% have a multi-cloud strategy. But giving up dedicated data centres and moving to multi-tenant environments comes with its own risks and pitfalls of limited visibility, constant flux and cloud-native complexity.
The Slate EUX Assessment assist you to validate performance before and after cloud migration, quickly identify and resolve issues, get monitoring and observability across your cloud-native apps, ensure SaaS apps meet business needs, setup SLAs based on the performance your users actual experience and provide application dependency maps of key applications.

Slate Network Architecture Review

Future-proof your network

When it comes to their wide area networks, enterprise and campus networks, companies need to plan to provide a seamless end-user experience, while at the same time maintaining a robust core to provide a scalable and easy to operate architecture. Recent COVID-19 events forced companies to design infrastructure to cater for a remote workforce and ensure user productivity and improve security. Hybrid networks are the new norm and migration to cloud and SD-WAN are key considerations.
The Slate Network Architecture Review is a review and analysis of relevant network artifacts (e.g. network diagrams, security requirements, technology inventory, DMZ, performance reports ) to identify how the network architecture and controls protect critical assets, sensitive data stores and business-critical interconnections in accordance with the organization’s business and security objectives, including your cloud strategy.
The Network Architecture Review service is intended to help customers review their existing architecture for industry best practices, identify problem areas if any, and provide a clear and concise path for growing the network based on business and technology requirements. This review will focus on the data center, hybrid, campus, core and edge networks to address any immediate concerns and provide a recommendations document based on the organisation’s business goals.
This service includes the following phases: Phase 1: Information gathering. Phase 2: Analysis and documentation. Phase 3: Findings and recommendations. 


Slate Network Management Performance Review

Vendor agnostic assessment of network management platforms and improvement roadmap

Applications are getting more complex, multi-platform, multi-tier, and span physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud environments. IT struggles to identify root cause and typical enterprise has multiple tools in silo’s used by multiple teams. This fragmented approach no longer works. Collaboration is a MUST! In a digital future it is required to reduce silos and encourage cooperation between teams, provide common information to all teams and management, provide relevant stakeholder views with a single source of truth and to get to the answer faster and use less staff hours to do it.
 Slate NMPR is a vendor-agnostic evaluation of network management platforms, infrastructure for compliance, availability and best practices. It provides enhanced visibility into network infrastructure, network operations and an assessment of network utilisation and analysis of capacity.
The final deliverables include relevant recommendations to improve network management platforms and operations across IT silos and a roadmap to complete end-user experience visibility, eliminate visibility gaps, reduce outages and reduce outage durations.






About Us





Slate Communications is a Networking and ITC Consulting firm focussed on helping our clients to do what they do best.

We can help unlock your potential, by using intelligent technologies. 

We have extraordinary people who work tirelessly to deliver value to clients, people and communities.

We come to work every day wondering how can we help our clients reach their mandate faster, with better quality and lower cost.

Modernisation is a journey and we believe in cultivating a blend of people, processes, and technologies to transform the business into a more efficient organisation.

The company’s leadership brings about breadth and depth of experience in the many industries, and driving our experience and capabilities into large and complex organisations. 


Partnering for Success

Contact Us

Contact Us

+27 (0) 833261091

info@slatecommunications.co.za

Kruger Rd, Strijdom Park, Randburg, 2169