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What We Do

For some time now the question ‘What do you do?’ has been a little bit of a long answer here at Cooper & Co.

We have a diverse range of interests but there are key underpinning motives, values and desires about improving our world with a mix of commercial and non-commercial sustainable activities.

These are captured in our revised one pager ‘ Cooper & Co: What We Do’ which holds at the core our values of developing best practice entrepreneurship, disruptive and sustaining innovation and business technology strategy.

The activities are grouped as follows, all around the core activities of Business Technology Strategy which we define as tech and tech enabled business large and small.

Cooper & Co – Investing, delivering and managing Business Technology Strategy

Enterprise & Mid Market Segment

Commercial

  • Large Transaction Due Diligence Consulting (pre and post transaction, buy and sell side representation e.g. acting CIO/COO)
  • Expert Opinion and Mergers & Acquisition consulting – advisory support with a focus on technology, operations, strategic alignment and execution
  • Project Consulting (e.g. acting CIO/COO and similar) strong background in marketplaces, real-time, finance and trading and high volume retail

Non-Commercial (Pro Bono / Volunteer)

  • Social channels sharing best practice
  • Special Interest Groups (advocacy)
  • Best practice and industry commentary blogs

Tech Startups

Commercial

  • Angel equity – cash investment
  • Advisory Consulting – commission based referral to experts facilitating trade sales
  • Products (creation, development, experimentation, joint ventures)

Non-Commercial (Pro Bono / Volunteer)

  • Tech Startup Ecosystem Advocacy
  • Mentoring / Assistance (e.g. Pitch coaching for SydStart)
  • Community Events (e.g. SydStart now StartCon) and Industry Associations / Policy 

Enpoma Alpha Is Coming

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Application Portfolio Management has finally come of age and is available instantly for all large and small firms in the form of Enpoma for Apps – Enterprise Portfolio Management for everything from simple apps to complex mission critical multi-server platforms.

The pre-release (alpha) version of Enpoma for Apps is entering limited testing with enterprise prospects in a few countries. Some of the simpler screen shots will give you a feel for what it looks like.

Enterprise Portfolio Management (EnPoMa) is a small simplified centralised approach to managing large complex distributed sets of assets.

In this case we are focused on the technology and operations ecosystem assets (systems, vendors, stakeholders, responsibilities) much of which is generally referred to these days as apps even though in the enterprise world these apps may involve hundreds of servers, interfaces, people and other assets and liabilities including full stack inhouse and external components and IaaS, Paas and SaaS costing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Enpoma for Apps is a mobile, tablet and web app for enterprise senior management and their direct reports helping deliver strategic insight & management of an organisation’s technology.

  • Typically 80% of a large enterprise enterprise tech and operations s budget is spent on business as usual (i.e. keeping the lights on) the remaining is spent on pruning (decommissions/upgrades/consolidations) and innovation.
  • The idea is to help them innovate more by better managing risks (e.g. vendor, technology, concentration, geo, skill, key person) and opportunities (consolidation, diversification, acquisition etc) and more.
  • Enpoma gives you dashboards that pinpoint areas to focus on and more importantly what is not being focused on. Where you are making progress on understanding (the stages of knowing) and where you need to do more.
  • The app is available for instant deployment via our platform provider and thereafter accessible via the web and native mobile apps with granular access security controls
  • You can read more on our earlier Enpoma product announcement.
  • We are using a major platform as the foundation for the Enpoma innovation suite so we can focus on your business technology management and strategy challenges while our platform provider handles the significant burdens of high end security and reliability for the enterprise market
  • All the usual major certifications and security are covered by the platform including but not limited to –
    • ISO 27001 / ISO 27002
    • CISSP / CIPP / MSSPs / SAS 70 Type II / SysTrust
    • TLS / SSL end to end
    • TRUSTe CPS / JIPDC / EU SH

If you would like to participate in this limited release trial your firm could qualify for early access and discounts for the first year of use so please contact us using the form below.

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Please note that while most of our target market are likely to be larger firms, smaller technology centric firms and early adopters who want to be ‘ahead of the game’ strategically (e.g. for an upcoming investment or merger/acquisition) or who are operating a complex/diverse technology environment will also benefit.

If you heard about us via a closed audience notice (e.g. professional forum or direct mail) please let us know via the comments.

Enterprise Portfolio Management

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Building on years of work in large enterprises, we are pleased to announce a Beta release for the next Cooper & Co product – Enpoma.

Enpoma is an Enterprise Portfolio Management tool for tracking applications used in large organisations.

Enpoma lets you track, profile and analyse the strategic aspects of your applications like risk profile, team accountability, interfaces/integrations, life cycle and much more.

Enpoma is based on years of large scale work done in financial markets from large global retail and institutional banks to more niche investment banks. The key benefit are equally valuable in government and semi-government bodies as well as industrial firms.

Typical firms of 10,000 or more employees need to track hundreds or thousands of applications with diverse technologies and yet require consistent management tools for strategic and scenario planning and accountability.

Do you know the risk profile of every app in your organisation? What deployment platforms are you most vulnerable on? What coverage do you have for your mitigation planning. What system dependencies do you have across applications, application instances, locations, teams, Paas, IaaS, SaaS, open source technologies and more?

Rapid Security Review Package

Running a web based or web enabled business?

Consider this comprehensive and proven risk analysis, identification and prioritisation service.

Help prevent serious security risks from online attacks that could slow or cripple your business or negatively impact your reputation.

We will run an on-premise or web based workshop to identify major architecture elements (depending on your location).

We will design and run a scan of all your major providers and a reasonable number of dedicated internet accessible infrastructure that you specify.

You will receive an itemised report by major infrastructure group prioritising the risk areas tactically and strategically.

In less than a week you could receive the peace of mind that comes from knowing your risk levels and the specific areas you can address to reduce your risk level.

Cost $4,890.

Notes:

  • Not to be used in conjunction with any other offer.
  • Order this services means you agree to have your infrastructure scanned via the web on all accessible end points.
  • We only use tier-one automated scan services from global recognised specialist providers in conjunction with proprietary tools and information services
  • Limit of one legal entity per customer per purchase and limit of three days professional services commitment per package purchase.
  • Prices are ex-GST.