Fundraising Assessment for Digital Native Businesses

IO Connect Services Fundraising Assessment for Digital Native Businesses (DNBs) evaluates your architectures preparedness for the next stage of growth.

IO Connect Services performs a Well Architected Review uniquely adapted to address the needs of DNBs and investor a like to ensure application architecture is aligned with cloud best practices and provides guidance for improvements to the AWS infrastructure and application design.

The AWS Well-Architected Framework for DNBs covers key concepts, design principles, and architectural best practices for designing and running workloads in the cloud.

IN this review IO Connect Services specifically addresses:

Merger & Acquisition Readiness

• Well architected, documented implementations build trust with investors increasing valuations. The ability to easily integrate as part of a merger or acquisition reduces investor overhead and accelerates growth.

Expandability and Reliability

• Reliability ensures continuous revenue and customer satisfaction, expandability ensures you are ready to enter new markets. Each are essential for maintaining competitiveness whilst facilitating growth.

Seasonal Scalability, Eliminate Planning Inadequacies

• Ensure the product implementation is designed and implemented to facilitate automated scale-up and scale-down to meet seasonal and marketing demands. Eliminate barriers in planning & design by leveraging cost effective, scalable AWS technologies.

Deliver Predictable User Experience

• Eliminate performance problems that can drive customer dissatisfaction, evaluate geographic deployment, and edge proximity to end customers to enhance experiences.

Identify Complexity & Hindering Processes

• Overly complex interfaces & integrations diminish user experience.
• Unnecessary complexity creates challenges identifying causes of frustration and abandonment

Security & Trust

• Evaluate Architecture hardness, security best practices are make or break for all businesses, even more so for DNBs
• Review regional compliance and reporting expectations such as GDPR.

Our Approach

IO Connect Services goal is to provide the customer with a reliable, scalable, cost-effective architecture where the per transaction cost is known and savings can be realized immediately upon completion.

• 1 Day Workshop to understand business model, objectives, and outcomes. Assess current application architecture, deployment and infrastructure, . Workshop attendees will be expected to be prepared to provide relevant data upon request in areas such as performance, licensing, reliability, cost efficiency, security, compliance, seasonality, team skills and executive sponsor.
• 2 Week evaluation and architecture design review

This assessment will enable you to identify where AWS Aurora, EC2, S3, DynamoDB and more can improve performance, scalability and uptime including the associated cost implications.