Technology Strategy
Multi-year IT roadmap aligned to business objectives, budget cycles, and the regulatory ground you stand on. Output: a roadmap your CFO can defend.
Service · Strategy & Enable
Advice that doesn't carry a quota. doesn't resell on the side. doesn't pad timelines. doesn't carry a quota.
Senior architects on retainer, structurally separated from our resale business. You get the recommendation, not the upsell — and we put that separation in writing on every engagement.
17+ years regional
50+ senior architects
Vendor-neutral by contract
What we advise on
Six rooms we are usually called into.
Each engagement is scoped, fixed-price, and time-boxed. Most run four to eight weeks; outputs go to your board, not a salesperson.
Architecture Reviews
Independent assessment of existing architectures — risks, gaps, optimisation opportunities, and a prioritised fix list.
Vendor Selection
RFP design, evaluation criteria, proof-of-concept management, and unbiased shortlists. We name our biases up front, and we exclude resold vendors from the comparison frame.
Security Posture Assessment
NCA ECC and SAMA SCF gap analysis with prioritised remediation roadmap, effort estimates, and a board-ready summary.
Cloud Strategy
Workload classification, provider selection, hybrid architecture, and migration sequencing — with the cost model attached to every recommendation.
M&A IT Due Diligence
Technology risk assessment, integration complexity scoring, and post-merger IT integration planning for buyers and sellers.
Vendor neutrality, in writing
Two practices. One firewall.
NAS partners with 100+ vendors. Our advisory practice is structurally separated from our resale business — different P&L, different compensation, and a contractual commitment that the recommendation does not depend on what we sell.
Pays only for advice given.
- ✓Fixed-fee engagements priced on scope and seniority — not contingent on anything that comes after.
- ✓Recommendations include at least two named vendor comparisons, including options we do not resell.
- ✓Architects are not allowed to carry product-revenue compensation. Their bonuses are tied to engagement quality only.
- ✓Conflict-of-interest disclosure shipped with every deliverable.
- ✓Right of rebuttal: you can ask any vendor we excluded, why.
Sells solutions, separately.
- ✓Run by a different leadership team — different commercials, different SOWs, different P&L.
- ✓Salespeople carry quotas; advisors do not. The compensation gap is enforced, not implied.
- ✓Engagement and resale contracts negotiated independently — you can split or combine them.
- ✓You can take the strategy and never buy a thing from us.
- ✓Or buy from us, knowing the strategy was scoped without the agenda.
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Separate P&Ls
100+
Vendors evaluated, neutrally
Engagement rhythm
Four to eight weeks. Same cadence, every time.
Time-boxed phases with named deliverables. You see the working artefacts every week — no big-reveal at the end.
01 · Discover
Stakeholder interviews, current-state audit, business-objective alignment, regulatory framing. Two weeks; ends with a confirmed problem statement.
02 · Analyse
Options framing, vendor scan, financial modelling, risk register. Two weeks; ends with a shortlist and the trade-offs spelled out.
03 · Recommend
Roadmap, recommended path, vendor comparison, sequencing, dependencies, cost model. Two weeks; ends with a board-ready report.
04 · Hand-off
Stakeholder presentation, Q&A with rebuttal rights, implementation guidance — handed to whichever delivery team you choose, ours or otherwise.
Why this works in the region
Local experience, vendor-neutral lens.
17+
Years regional
Years of regional delivery experience to draw from.
50+
Senior architects
Senior architects and consultants on staff.
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Countries served
KSA, Egypt, and Oman, with engagements across all three.
100+
Vendors evaluated
Vendor partnerships excluded from the advisory frame.
Outcomes powered by this service
What this enables.
The same engineering wraps into a different reading for executive stakeholders — outcome-led, not feature-led.
Outcome
Decisions that age well
The same advisory practice framed as the resulting architectural posture: vendor-neutral, decision-documented, designed for the business state in 5–10 years.
Read the outcome page OutcomePass the NCA assessment first time
The security-posture assessment framed as the regulator-ready outcome: 47 ECC controls mapped, evidence pack ready, zero remediation findings.
Read the outcome pageBefore you brief us
Five things people ask first.
How long does a typical IT strategy engagement take?
Most strategy engagements run 4–8 weeks: two weeks of discovery and interviews, two weeks of analysis, and a final two-week phase to produce and present the roadmap. Complex organisations may run longer.
Is your consulting advice truly vendor-neutral?
Yes. Our consulting practice is structurally separated from our resale division. Consultants are not compensated on product sales, and every recommendation includes a rationale comparing at least two vendors.
Do you work with government and semi-government clients?
Extensively. Government and semi-government clients make up the majority of our KSA advisory work. We understand procurement cycles, NCA requirements, and Vision 2030 alignment reporting.
What does a security posture assessment cover?
We perform a gap analysis against NCA ECC v2.0 and SAMA SCF controls, interview key stakeholders, review existing policies and architecture diagrams, and deliver a prioritised remediation roadmap with effort estimates.
Can you run workshops remotely?
Yes. We deliver discovery workshops, design thinking sessions, and roadmap reviews via MS Teams or in-person at your premises in Riyadh, Cairo, or Oman.
Facing a complex decision? Ask without the sales pitch.
Book a 60-minute discovery call with a senior NAS architect. No deck. No vendor names. Just the question on your desk and our take on it.
Sample deliverables
A roadmap, an architecture review, a vendor comparison. Ask and we will share redacted samples from comparable engagements.
Request samplesSee what comes out
Read case studies for evidence of advisory engagements that shaped a long-term technology programme in the region.
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