Strategy, assessment and the honest answers.

Customer first and flexible. We invest the time to understand your business, then give you the strategic clarity to invest with confidence. Including when the honest answer is "not yet."

What Advisory covers

Four ways to get to a decision you can defend

Engaged together as a full assessment, or individually where you already know which piece is missing.

Why choose SMYL for Advisory?

An assessment is only worth having if the people writing it are willing to tell you not to buy anything.

Genuinely independent.

We assess before we recommend, and we will tell you when the right answer is to wait, not to buy.

Methodology informed by Microsoft Catalyst.

Used alongside our own AI frameworks, rather than a generic strategy consulting template applied regardless of platform.

No obligation to implement with us.

An Advisory engagement stands on its own. The recommendation is yours to act on however you choose.

Grounded in delivery experience.

Recommendations come from 20+ years of actually implementing Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, not from strategy alone.

Built for sequencing decisions.

Not just a single yes or no, but help deciding what to do first, second and later, rather than only what to do eventually.

FAQ

Common questions

Specific to the Advisory practice.

What does a Solution Assessment or Business Case engagement typically cost?

It scales with how much of the current estate needs reviewing and how many stakeholders and workflows the assessment covers. A focused Business Case engagement is a smaller, fixed scope piece of work; a full Solution Assessment across multiple systems takes longer. We scope this in an initial conversation rather than quoting a flat rate.

When is the right time to bring in Advisory rather than going straight to Implementation?

If you already know exactly what you want built, you can go straight to Implement. Advisory is the right starting point when you are not yet sure which platform, module, or sequencing is right, or when you need a business case to take to budget holders before committing.

What do we actually receive at the end of an Advisory engagement?

Typically a written assessment of your current state, a roadmap sequencing near and long term priorities, and, where relevant, a business case document built to support an internal funding decision. What is included is scoped upfront so there is no ambiguity about the deliverable.

What happens if the honest answer is "not yet"?

You get that answer, plainly, along with the reasoning and what would need to change for the timing to make sense. We would rather tell you to wait than sell you an engagement that is not the right fit yet. That is the basis the practice is built on.

Start with an assessment

Get the honest read before you commit budget.

Sixty minutes with the team who would run the assessment. You'll hear how we would approach it and what you would walk away with.