IT Consulting& Advisory
Technology strategy and architecture decisions grounded in your business goals. We help you decide what to build, buy, fix or retire — before you commit budget and time to the wrong one.
Technology decisions grounded in business reality.
IT Consulting & Advisory is for the decisions that come before a build: what technology strategy actually fits your business, whether an existing system should be extended or replaced, and how a proposed architecture will hold up once it's in production. We bring engineering experience to those decisions, not just frameworks and slide decks.
Because Fountain also builds and operates software, our advisory work is grounded in what's actually feasible to deliver and support — not just what's theoretically ideal. Where you want independent input on a vendor, platform or in-flight project, we provide that assessment directly.
What we deliver.
Technology Strategy
A technology direction that maps to your actual business priorities, not a generic best-practice list.
Solution Architecture
Architecture review and design for systems before — or during — they're built.
Digital Roadmaps
A sequenced plan for what to build, integrate or modernize, and in what order.
IT Modernization
Assessment of legacy systems and a practical plan to bring them current.
Architecture Review
Independent review of a proposed or existing system architecture before you commit further investment.
Vendor & Platform Evaluation
Objective comparison of platforms or vendors against your actual requirements.
From challenge to production.
Understand
Business requirements, systems and constraints.
Architect
Design the right technical and operational solution.
Build
Engineer and integrate the platform.
Deploy
Securely move the solution into production.
Operate
Monitor, support and continuously improve.
Built beyond the prototype.
Enterprise-ready architecture
Recommendations grounded in what holds up in production, not just in theory.
Security considered from day one
Architecture and vendor guidance that accounts for security posture from the start.
Scalable platforms and infrastructure
Advice that accounts for where your organization is headed, not just where it is today.
Integration with existing systems
Recommendations that account for what you already run, not a clean-slate assumption.
Performance-focused engineering
Architecture guidance grounded in real engineering constraints and trade-offs.
Maintainable and documented outcomes
Roadmaps and assessments your team can act on directly.
Deployment and operational support
Advisory that considers who will operate the system once it’s live.
Local understanding, global standards
Guidance shaped by regional delivery experience and current practice.
How it fits together.
One partner across the lifecycle.
Strategy → Build → Operate
Architecture-first approach
Software + Cloud + Infrastructure
Post-deployment support
Questions we hear about IT Consulting & Advisory.
Both — many clients move from an advisory engagement directly into a build with us, though the advisory work stands on its own if that’s all you need.
Yes — independent architecture and vendor review is a common engagement, whether the system was built internally or by another company.
We assess options against your specific requirements, integration needs and total cost of ownership, rather than a generic feature checklist.
A written assessment or roadmap — current-state findings, a prioritized set of recommendations, and where relevant, a proposed architecture or implementation plan.
No — we work with organizations at different stages of maturity, scoping the advisory engagement to what’s actually useful at your size.