The job of a person involved in consulting services includes feasibility studies, advisory services, construction supervision, strategy formulation, and policy studies. Other functions include preparation of key documents such as tender documents, training, quality control, financial and accounting services, environmental or social impact studies, economic and financial analysis, professional editing, and public information provision. Consulting services is needed when a business or organization needs someone in a certain field that they don’t currently have. The need arises when the services to be done by this expert are for temporary basis only or the service is not available inside the country.
In the state of California, there is a company that offers consulting services to its clients since the late 1970s. 2020 IT Services has been providing its services for over 35 years already. Aside from providing information technology services to the state and local government, 2020 IT have also provided its service to the federal government and some commercial markets. In this company, they provide consultants for permanent and contractual basis. If a client wants a short-term employee or a long-term one, 2020 IT are able to provide it.
Under the 2020 Consulting service of the said company, they offer at least three services to businesses. It includes Senior Software Engineers, IT Solution Architects, and System Administrators.
In 2020 Consulting, the software engineering service package includes research, design, development and testing of computer software systems. This software engineering consultants can plan, develop specifications, determine scope of work, program, implement and test applications. Aside from its numerous work specifications, the consultant is also involved in the complete development life cycle of the software product which includes Java, Enterprise Java, C, C++, Windows NT, Ruby on Rails and PHP.
For the IT solution architect service, the consultant is responsible in the translation of customer requirement and turns it into technical business requirements and solutions. Aside from its translation service, the architect also provides a technical solution and the technical oversight for the project. In the said technical solution, it includes design, development, integration, and deployment into production.
In the system administrator service of 2020 Consulting, the businesses are assured that the consultants can provide what they need since all of them are experts in Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Windows. The system administrators are also skilled in the everyday configuration and operation of the IT environment which includes computer software and hardware. System administrators are also involved in system configuration, installation, patching, and backup and restore process, email, user account, and network operation.