What is Somerford's Technical Value Assessment (TVA)?
The Splunk Technical Value Assessment (TVA) is a complimentary offering from Somerford Associates designed to provide a holistic evaluation of your current Splunk environment — technically and strategically. Whether you're aiming to modernise your service, optimise costs, or improve platform adoption, the TVA delivers a clear, actionable roadmap tailored to your business.
Technical Value Assessment Explained
Learn how the TVA helps organisations like yours enhance your Splunk implementation, identify improvement opportunities, and align platform usage with business goals in our short explanatory video.
What's Included in a TVA?
A Splunk Technical Value Assessment is a comprehensive review of a customer's existing Splunk environment. Its primary goal is to determine how effectively Splunk is being utilised and to identify opportunities for improvement to maximise its value to the organisation.
Here's a breakdown of what it typically involves:
Here's a breakdown of what it typically involves:
Assessment of the Current State
Evaluating the Splunk deployment architecture, data ingestion methods, search efficiency, configurations, and overall health of the platform.
Identification of Issues and Gaps
Pinpointing any misconfigurations, performance bottlenecks, data onboarding challenges, unused features, or areas where Splunk could be better leveraged.
Review of Use Cases
Understanding the current business and technical problems Splunk is solving and identifying potential new use cases that could provide further value.
Analysis of Data
Examining data quality, data lifecycle management, and adherence to best practices for data onboarding and normalisation (like the CIM - Common Information Model).
Evaluation of User Behavior
Reviewing how users are interacting with Splunk, identifying training needs, and suggesting ways to improve user adoption.
Recommendations and Actionable Steps
Providing a detailed report with specific, prioritised recommendations and actionable steps to optimise the Splunk environment and achieve better outcomes. This often includes advice on architecture improvements, search optimisation, data onboarding strategies, application utilisation, and governance.
The Splunk Technical Value Assessment helps organisations understand if they are getting the most out of their Splunk investment and provides a roadmap for achieving greater efficiency, performance, and return on investment.
Splunk Technical Value Assessment Two-Phase Process
The TVA is a two-part engagement delivered by Somerford's certified Splunk consultants and Business Value experts. It focuses on maximising your return on investment by identifying underutilised features, performance bottlenecks, and untapped business value.
Phase One: Technical Health Check
A detailed technical assessment of your Splunk instance, also known as a Splunk Health Check, that ensures your deployment aligns with Splunk best practices.
This includes:
- Assessment of deployment architecture and infrastructure
- Data ingestion methods and data quality review
- Evaluation of indexing, search performance, and dashboard efficiency
- Review of access controls, user roles, and governance
- Identification of errors, misconfigurations, or ongoing issues
- Comprehensive report with prioritised recommendations and best-practice solutions
Phase Two: Business Value Consulting
A strategic consultation with one of our Business Value Consultants to align Splunk usage with your business goals and identify untapped opportunities.
Focus areas include:
- Review of current use cases and exploration of new, high-impact applications
- Evaluation of user behaviour, adoption, and training requirements
- Business-oriented roadmap tailored to your goals, data, and capabilities
- Optional Value Consulting Activities such as:
- Prescriptive Value Path (PVP): Benchmarking current maturity and benefits
- Data Source Assessment: Ensuring the right data is being ingested
- Investment Value Assessment (IVA): ROI, NPV, and future value projections
- Splunk Success Framework: Onboarding and capability-building for new users
Key Benefits of the Somerford TVA
Somerford Technical Value Assessment Overview
Explore how a TVA can transform your Splunnk environment, from unovering technical issues to aligning data use with strategic value.
