Services
IT Foundation
Build the technology foundation required to scale digital transformation, AI, cyber resilience, and growth.
Organizations cannot scale data, automation, AI, or autonomous functions without a secure, reliable, and cost-effective technology foundation. Aging infrastructure, fragmented applications, immature cloud environments, inconsistent support models, and cybersecurity gaps can limit agility and increase transformation risk.
Ankura helps organizations strengthen the technology backbone required for digital and AI maturity. We assess current-state IT capabilities, modernize infrastructure, improve system resilience, establish governance standards, strengthen cybersecurity, and align IT strategy to broader business objectives.
Offerings
- IT Strategy and Operating Model
We help organizations align technology priorities, governance, decision rights, and operating models to business objectives. Our work helps leadership teams clarify how technology decisions are made, how IT investments are prioritized, and how technology functions support enterprise strategy.
- Infrastructure and Cloud Modernization
We support modernization initiatives that improve scalability, reliability, resiliency, and cost effectiveness. This includes helping organizations evaluate legacy environments, improve cloud maturity, rationalize infrastructure, strengthen performance, and create modernization roadmaps aligned to business needs.
- Cybersecurity and Resilience Foundations
We help organizations strengthen identity, data protection, threat monitoring, recovery, and cyber governance capabilities. A resilient technology foundation requires cybersecurity controls that protect critical systems, support operational continuity, and reduce exposure to business disruption.
- IT Cost Optimization
We help leadership teams evaluate technology spend, rationalize investments, and identify opportunities to reduce complexity and improve efficiency. Our approach focuses on improving transparency, reducing avoidable cost, and helping organizations align technology investments to measurable business value.
- IT Due Diligence and M&A Support
We support IT diligence, carve-outs, integrations, and separation planning to reduce transaction and transformation risk. For private equity investors, corporate development teams, and deal stakeholders, technology diligence can uncover operational risk, stranded cost, cybersecurity exposure, integration complexity, and value creation opportunities.
- AI Governance and Architecture Standards
We help organizations establish the foundational standards required to support trusted and secure AI adoption. AI readiness depends on more than algorithms. Organizations need secure architecture, governed data, clear accountability, resilient infrastructure, and technology standards that support responsible adoption at scale.
IT Due Diligence Expands into a Comprehensive Technology Transformation
A manufacturing company engaged Ankura to assess whether its technology environment could support future growth, revealing key integration challenges, modernization opportunities, and technology risks. Building on these insights, Ankura developed a transformation strategy encompassing manufacturing application planning, enterprise systems integration, stakeholder alignment, and an enterprise integration roadmap. The result was a more scalable technology foundation, a clearer path to systems integration, and a technology investment strategy aligned with the company's long-term growth objectives.
The Ankura Difference
Ankura brings a business-first perspective to IT modernization. We do not treat IT Foundation as a standalone technology project. We connect infrastructure, systems, cybersecurity, operating model, and governance decisions to the business outcomes organizations need to achieve. By combining technology, cybersecurity, transaction, risk, and transformation expertise, Ankura helps clients build a foundation that supports faster delivery, improved reliability, lower technology risk, and scalable growth.
Key Contacts
- Thomas Montgomery
Senior Managing Director
New York, NY
- Jim Shand
Managing Director
Dallas, TX
- Meade Monger
Senior Managing Director
Dallas, TX