Most IT assessments end where the hard part begins.
Allegheny County set out to evaluate and modernize its IT environment. The County engaged Avèro for gap analysis, systems replacement planning, and the consulting support to carry recommendations into execution rather than leaving them in a report.
An assessment that stops at findings has handed the County a problem statement, not a plan.
Allegheny County, home to Pittsburgh and one of Pennsylvania's largest county governments, undertook an initiative to evaluate and modernize its IT environment. The engagement spans IT strategy gap analysis, systems replacement planning, and ongoing software consulting support.
Legacy platforms in the environment carry the constraints that accumulate over long service lives: integration limitations, reporting constraints, and inefficiencies in how data moves between systems. Those are not failures of any single product. They are what happens when systems are added one at a time over years without a governing architecture.
Avèro's approach identifies gaps across systems, processes, governance, and compliance, benchmarked against industry practice, then works with stakeholders to define business and technical requirements and develop phased roadmaps aligned to the resources actually available.
The differentiator is what happens after the findings. The work extends into system replacement decisions, implementation planning, data migration strategy, and long-term IT investment planning, so the County moves from assessment to execution without a second procurement to figure out what the assessment meant.
A gap analysis you can actually execute.
Current-state assessment translated into requirements, replacement decisions, and a phased roadmap sized to the resources the County actually has.
IT strategy gap analysis
Gaps identified across systems, processes, governance, and compliance, benchmarked against industry practice rather than assessed in isolation.
Current-state documentation
A documented picture of the existing environment including integration limitations, reporting constraints, and data flow inefficiencies.
Business & technical requirements
Requirements defined with stakeholders, written to support both replacement decisions and eventual procurement.
Phased roadmap
A practical, phased roadmap aligned to available resources, sequenced so the County can execute against it rather than aspire to it.
Systems replacement planning
Replacement decisions supported with implementation planning and data migration strategy, so each decision carries its execution path.
Long-term IT investment planning
Investment planning that extends past the current cycle, giving the County a basis for budgeting technology over multiple years.
Implementation-ready, not shelf-ready.
Gaps named and benchmarked
Findings across systems, processes, governance, and compliance, measured against practice elsewhere rather than described in the abstract.
Requirements ready for market
Business and technical requirements documented to a standard that supports procurement without a second discovery effort.
A roadmap sized to reality
Phasing aligned to the County's actual resources and budget cycles, which is what separates a plan from a wish list.
Strategy work is where independence pays off earliest.
An IT strategy engagement sets the requirements that every later procurement is judged against. If the firm writing those requirements also sells implementation services or carries reseller relationships, the requirements tend to describe what that firm happens to deliver. Avèro sells neither, so the requirements describe what the County needs.
Independent by structure No resale · No implementation stake · No referral fees
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