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Enterprise UC & AV Consulting

Your service line, accelerated.

Embedded expertise for enterprise UC and AV. Solve capability gaps, de-risk complex initiatives, and deliver transformation outcomes without the overhead of permanent hires.

Trusted across enterprise verticals

Resources & Energy Financial Services Technology Healthcare Higher Education
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That "cheap" resource might cost you double.

Our True Cost Calculator reveals what offshore engagement invoices don't show - backed by research from MIT, Gartner, and McKinsey.

Calculate Your True Cost
Offshore Day Rate $450 + hidden costs
True cost: $962/day
vs
Experienced Rate $1,200 minimal overhead
True cost: $1,391/day
167% day rate premium. Only 46% true cost difference. The math might surprise you.

How We Engage

Flexible engagement models designed for enterprise service line owners who need capability now.

Resource Augmentation

Embedded UC/AV expertise within your service line. Fill capability gaps, support BAU escalations, and scale your team without permanent headcount.

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Project Engagements

Defined-scope delivery for complex UC and AV initiatives. From proof-of-concept through to full-scale rollout and transition to support.

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Strategic Advisory

Financial modelling, business cases, tender creation and review. CapEx vs OpEx analysis, multi-year service costs, license forecasting, and execution planning.

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MSP & Vendor Orchestration

Already have an MSP or project team? We provide the coordination layer across your existing vendors, ensuring alignment and enterprise-grade delivery.

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Why Service Line Owners Choose Us

The challenges you face require more than technical skills. They require enterprise context.

Solve Capability Gaps Immediately

Your roadmap is approved but you lack the specialist expertise to execute. Permanent hires take months. Contractors lack enterprise context. We embed directly within your service line and deliver from day one.

De-risk Complex Initiatives

Large-scale UC transformations and AV deployments carry significant risk. We bring proven delivery methodology from resources, financial services, and technology sectors where failure isn't an option.

Scale Without Headcount

Budget for projects but not permanent FTEs? Resource augmentation gives you senior expertise for the duration you need without the long-term overhead. Flex up or down as your portfolio demands.

Speak Your Language

We understand service line governance, enterprise architecture frameworks, and the stakeholder dynamics of large organisations. No translation required between technical delivery and business outcomes.

What Clients Say

Feedback from enterprise service line owners we've worked alongside.

We had a 12-month UC roadmap and zero internal expertise to deliver it. Within weeks of engagement, we had clarity on priorities and a realistic execution plan. The knowledge transfer meant my team could sustain it long after the engagement ended.

Technology Leader Resources Sector

We had ongoing challenges with our offshore delivery model and needed local expertise to bridge the gap. By bolting on specialist capability, we were able to maintain our cost structure while dramatically improving outcomes.

Technology Leader Financial Services

I was hesitant about bringing in another consultant. What changed my mind was the honesty about what was realistic and what wasn't. No overselling, no scope creep—just pragmatic advice that actually worked.

Technology Leader Higher Education

It's rare to find someone who can present to stakeholders in the morning and troubleshoot low-level technical issues in the afternoon. That combination of business-facing communication and hands-on technical depth is hard to find.

Technology Leader Enterprise

Enterprise Context From Day One

We've delivered UC and AV programs across resources, financial services, technology, and higher education sectors. That means we understand the governance frameworks, stakeholder dynamics, and approval processes that define enterprise delivery.

  • Navigate complex procurement and vendor management
  • Align technical decisions with enterprise architecture
  • Communicate effectively with executives and technical teams
  • Document properly so knowledge transfers and stays
About Our Experience
Enterprise boardroom environment

The Hidden Cost of "Cheap"

That offshore resource at half the day rate? Here's what the invoice doesn't show.

What You Pay For

  • Supervision time from your senior staff
  • Rework when requirements get lost in translation
  • Delays while they learn your enterprise context
  • Security remediation when compliance gaps surface
  • Re-hiring when it doesn't work out

What We Deliver

  • Enterprise experience from day one
  • No learning curve on governance
  • Proper documentation so knowledge stays
  • Compliance built in, not bolted on
  • Your project delivered, your reputation protected

Pay once for the right expertise. Lower total cost of ownership. Faster time to value.

True Cost Calculator

Compare the real cost of engagement options. Adjust the assumptions based on your organisation's experience.

Your Project Parameters

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Hidden Cost Assumptions

Uncheck to customize, or use industry-researched defaults.

MIT Sloan: 5-12 hrs typical for offshore management
8 hrs
Gartner: 67% of offshore projects require significant rework
35%
McKinsey: 27-45% average budget/timeline overrun
25%
Deloitte: 4-12 weeks typical onboarding for offshore
6 weeks

Offshore/Junior Resource

Apparent Cost (Day Rate × Days) $59,400
Hidden Costs
  • Supervision overhead$24,960
  • Rework (35% of deliverables)$20,790
  • Timeline overrun risk$14,850
  • Knowledge transfer$5,760
Total Hidden Costs $66,360
True Cost of Engagement $125,760 +112% over apparent cost

Experienced Consultant

Engagement Cost $158,400
Hidden Costs
  • Supervision (1-2 hrs/week)$3,120
  • Rework (5-10%)$11,880
  • Timeline overrun (minimal)$7,920
  • Knowledge transfer (faster)$1,920
Total Hidden Costs $24,840
True Cost of Engagement $183,240
Day Rate Premium +167%
True Cost Difference +46%
Risk-Adjusted Value Pay 46% more for certainty
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A Note on Honesty

We're being frank with you. Our day rates are higher than offshore alternatives. We're not pretending otherwise.

What we're showing you is that day rate is not total cost. The research behind these defaults comes from IEEE, MIT Sloan, Gartner, Deloitte, and McKinsey studies on offshore outsourcing outcomes. The hidden costs are real - supervision, rework, delays, and re-onboarding add up.

Every organisation is different. Adjust these assumptions based on your own experience. If your offshore engagements have been smooth, lower the percentages. If they've been painful, you already know these numbers are conservative.

The point isn't that we're cheaper - we're not. The point is that paying once for the right expertise often costs less than paying twice for the wrong one.

Research Sources

These industry studies inform our default assumptions. We encourage you to review them and calibrate based on your organisation's context.

  • IEEE/SINTEF (2019) - Offshore projects showed 181% cost deviation from estimates, with some categories exceeding 400% overrun. View study
  • MIT Sloan Management Review - Study of 50 IT outsourcing cases found hidden costs consistently eroded projected benefits. View article
  • Gartner - 67% of offshore projects require significant rework; only 30% of tech projects deliver on promises.
  • Deloitte 2024 Global Outsourcing Survey - 59% of companies report dissatisfaction with offshore outcomes; 70% have brought work back in-house. View survey
  • McKinsey - 70% of software projects exceed budgets by 27-45% average; additional 10% each for transactional and monitoring costs.
  • CIO Magazine - Cultural and organisational differences add 3-27% to outsourcing costs. United Technologies (acknowledged offshore leader) saves just 20%, not 50-80%. View article
  • Harvard/Rice University Study - Each 1-hour increase in timezone difference reduces synchronous communication by 11%. View research

Delivery in Practice

Anonymized examples of how we've helped enterprise service line owners succeed.

Resources & Energy UC Transformation
Challenge

18-month backlog of UC projects, internal team stretched thin, vendor relationships deteriorating

Engagement

6-month embedded augmentation

Outcome

Cleared backlog, established room standards, rebuilt vendor relationships, trained internal team for BAU

Financial Services AV Rollout
Challenge

200+ room AV refresh across 12 sites, tight deadline, multiple integrators to coordinate

Engagement

Project oversight and integrator coordination

Outcome

Delivered on time, 15% under budget, zero escalations to executive steering committee

Higher Education Teams Rooms at Scale
Challenge

Rapid pivot to hybrid learning, 150 teaching spaces needed Teams Rooms capability

Engagement

Standards development + deployment oversight

Outcome

All spaces operational for semester start, standardized support model reduced helpdesk tickets by 40%

Industries We Serve

Deep experience across enterprise verticals with distinct UC and AV challenges.

Resources & Energy

Enterprise network transformations, remote operations centres, and safety-critical communications infrastructure.

Financial Services

Global collaboration space rollouts, trading floor AV, and security-conscious UC deployments.

Technology

Rapid scaling, M&A technology integration, and developer-focused collaboration environments.

Healthcare & Life Sciences

Clinical collaboration platforms, research facility AV, and compliance-driven deployments.

Higher Education

Large-scale teaching environment delivery, research collaboration, and multi-campus infrastructure.

Government & Public Sector

Procurement-aligned delivery, secure communications, and public accountability standards.

From Strategy to Commissioning

Whether you're deploying 20 rooms or 200, we provide end-to-end capability across the full AV and UC lifecycle. No handoffs, no gaps, no surprises.

  • Room type standards and technical specifications
  • Integrator coordination and quality oversight
  • Network integration and UC platform alignment
  • User training and support transition
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Modern meeting room with AV technology

Common Questions

What enterprise service line owners typically ask before engaging.

For resource augmentation, we can typically embed within 1-2 weeks depending on security clearance requirements. Project engagements usually begin within 2-4 weeks after scoping and SOW finalisation. We maintain capacity specifically for enterprise clients who need to move quickly.

We embed directly within your service line, working alongside your team. This isn't body shop contracting - we operate as an extension of your capability, attending your standups, using your tools, and aligning to your governance. Minimum engagement is typically 3 months, with most augmentation relationships running 6-12 months.

Both. Most enterprise engagements are hybrid - on-site for workshops, stakeholder sessions, and critical delivery phases, with remote work for documentation, design, and BAU support. We're based in Perth but work nationally and have supported APAC-wide deployments.

Knowledge transfer is built into every engagement, not bolted on at the end. We document as we go, create runbooks, and conduct formal handover sessions. The goal is always to leave your team more capable than when we started - not to create dependency.

We sign your NDA and work under your IP agreements. All work product created during the engagement belongs to you. We've worked with resources sector, financial services, and government clients with stringent confidentiality requirements - this is standard operating procedure.

That's often where we add the most value. We can provide the technical oversight and orchestration layer that ensures your existing vendors deliver to enterprise standards. Think of it as having a technical lead who speaks both vendor and enterprise - bridging the gap between what was promised and what gets delivered.

"The cheapest resource is rarely the cheapest outcome."

Let's discuss your engagement.

Whether you need embedded expertise, project delivery, or strategic advisory - we're ready to help your service line succeed.

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