IT Consulting

Technology Strategy That Drives Growth

Oronts provides IT consulting services from Munich, Germany, offering strategic technology guidance backed by hands-on engineering expertise. Our consulting services include architecture reviews that audit current systems for bottlenecks, security risks, and optimization opportunities. We perform tech due diligence for investors, acquirers, and leadership teams, evaluating code quality, architecture, team capabilities, and technical debt. Our digital transformation consulting creates roadmaps for modernizing legacy systems, adopting cloud infrastructure, and implementing automation across organizations. We offer CTO-as-a-Service as a fractional CTO engagement for startups and SMBs who need technology leadership without a full-time commitment, covering team guidance, architecture decisions, vendor evaluation, and technology roadmaps. Engagement models range from ongoing advisory sessions to embedded consultants working alongside your team for 3-6 months, or focused workshops for specific challenges. Our industry experience spans e-commerce and retail, financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and IoT, SaaS, media and publishing, logistics, and education. Our Pimcore consulting helps businesses select, implement, and optimize Pimcore PIM and DAM solutions, from initial architecture planning through production deployment and ongoing optimization. We help with build-vs-buy decisions, technology selection, team hiring and training, and aligning technology investments with business outcomes.

We help businesses make better technology decisions, from architecture reviews to full digital transformation roadmaps.

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Consulting Services

Strategic technology guidance backed by hands-on engineering expertise.

Architecture Review

Deep audit of your current systems to identify bottlenecks, security risks, and optimization opportunities. We use TOGAF and ISO 25010 frameworks for structured evaluation.

Tech Due Diligence

Technical assessment for investors, acquirers, or leadership covering code quality, architecture, team capabilities, and tech debt.

Digital Transformation

Roadmap for modernizing legacy systems, adopting cloud, and implementing automation. We follow DASA DevOps and SAFe frameworks adapted to your organization's size and culture.

CTO-as-a-Service

Fractional CTO for startups and SMBs who need technology leadership without a full-time hire.

Pimcore Consulting

Strategic guidance for Pimcore PIM and DAM implementations. We help you plan data models, design workflows, and optimize your Pimcore platform for product information management at scale.

Security & Compliance

GDPR readiness assessments, SOC2 preparation, penetration testing coordination, and security architecture reviews. We identify vulnerabilities and build compliance roadmaps tailored to your regulatory requirements.

Process & DevOps Optimization

Engineering workflow audits, CI/CD maturity assessments, and agile process improvements. We analyze your development pipeline end-to-end and implement changes that reduce cycle time and increase deployment confidence.

Product & Growth Strategy

Technical product strategy, build-vs-buy analysis, and technology roadmapping. We help you prioritize features, evaluate vendor solutions, and align your technology investments with business growth objectives.

Engagement Models

We adapt our approach to your needs, from one-time assessments to ongoing advisory.

Ongoing

Advisory

Regular strategic sessions with your leadership team. Technology roadmap, architecture guidance, and vendor evaluation.

3-6 months

Embedded

Our consultants work alongside your team for a defined period. Hands-on implementation with knowledge transfer.

1-5 days

Workshop

Focused sessions to solve specific challenges like architecture design, technology selection, or process improvement.

Our Consulting Methodology

A structured framework refined across hundreds of engagements.

1

Stakeholder Interviews

We begin with structured conversations with leadership, engineering, and product teams to understand goals, pain points, and organizational dynamics.

2

Technical Deep-Dive

Our engineers audit your codebase, infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and architecture. We measure technical debt quantitatively using industry-standard metrics.

3

Gap Analysis & Recommendations

We map current state against industry best practices and your specific business goals, identifying the highest-impact improvements with clear ROI projections.

4

Actionable Roadmap

You receive a prioritized roadmap with timelines, resource requirements, and success criteria. Not a generic framework, but a plan built around your team's actual capacity.

Technology Maturity Assessment

We evaluate your organization across five critical dimensions. The chart below shows the average pre-assessment profile of mid-market companies before our engagement.

Infrastructure3.8 / 5
Development Practices4.2 / 5
Security3.5 / 5
Data Strategy2.9 / 5
AI Readiness2.1 / 5

We help you reach 5/5 across all dimensions.

CTO-as-a-Service

Executive-level technology leadership, without the full-time overhead.

What You Get

  • Strategic roadmap
  • Architecture decisions
  • Team mentoring
  • Vendor selection
  • Budget planning
  • Board-ready reports

vs Full-Time CTO

  • Fraction of the cost
  • Flexible commitment
  • Immediate start
  • Diverse cross-industry experience
  • No recruitment overhead

Engagement Highlights

Anonymized outcomes from recent consulting engagements.

FinTech

Legacy monolith blocking feature velocity

Designed microservices migration roadmap. Team shipped 3x more features within 6 months.

3-month embedded engagement

E-Commerce

Platform selection for multi-market expansion

Recommended headless architecture with Vendure. Launched 4 new markets in under a year.

6-week advisory

Healthcare

HIPAA-compliant infrastructure modernization

Migrated to AWS with compliance automation. Passed audit on first attempt.

4-month CTO-as-a-Service

Industry Experience

Cross-industry perspective built from hundreds of consulting engagements across Europe.

FinTechE-CommerceHealthcareManufacturingEducationLogisticsEnergyReal EstateMediaTravel

Our Open Source Plugins & Bundles

We develop and maintain open-source Vendure plugins and Pimcore bundles. Production-tested in real client projects.

Vendure Data Hub Plugin

Enterprise ETL & data integration plugin for Vendure. Visual pipeline builder, 9 extractors, 61 transform operators, 24 entity loaders, feed generators for Google Merchant & Amazon, and real-time monitoring.

VendureETLTypeScriptE-Commerce
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Pimcore Asset Pilot Bundle

Intelligent rule-based asset organization for Pimcore 12. Priority-based rule engine with Twig path templates, expression language conditions, async processing via Symfony Messenger, localized folder structures, audit logging, and unused asset detection.

PimcoreDAMPHPSymfony
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More plugins coming soon. We actively contribute to the commerce open-source ecosystem.

Frequently Asked Questions

Consulting focuses on strategy, decisions, and roadmaps, helping you understand what to build, which technologies to adopt, and how to structure your engineering organization. Development is the hands-on work of writing code, deploying infrastructure, and shipping software. We do both, but they serve different purposes. In a consulting engagement, our deliverables are architecture diagrams, technology assessments, vendor evaluations, hiring plans, and prioritized roadmaps. We guide your team and shape decisions rather than writing production code ourselves. For example, a consulting engagement might involve auditing your current monolith, recommending a migration path to microservices, and defining the team structure needed to execute it. A development engagement would then involve our engineers actually building those microservices. Many clients start with consulting to define the right approach, then transition into a development engagement for execution. This separation ensures you invest in the right solution before committing engineering resources.
Advisory engagements start at €3K per month for regular strategic sessions with your leadership team, covering technology roadmap reviews, architecture guidance, and vendor evaluation. Architecture reviews and tech due diligence are project-based engagements typically ranging from €5K to €25K, depending on the size and complexity of the systems being evaluated. CTO-as-a-Service ranges from €5K to €15K per month depending on the level of involvement, from two days per month of strategic guidance up to near-full-time embedded leadership. Every engagement starts with a free scoping call where we understand your challenges and recommend the right model. We provide transparent pricing with no hidden fees, and all consulting deliverables are clearly defined upfront. For larger organizations, we offer workshop packages covering specific challenges like cloud migration planning, build-vs-buy analysis, or team capability assessments, typically priced between €3K and €10K per workshop depending on duration and scope.
Yes, and this is one of our most common consulting engagements because the wrong decision here can cost years and hundreds of thousands of euros. We start by analyzing your specific requirements in detail, separating genuine differentiators from commodity features that existing products already handle well. Then we evaluate relevant vendor options against those requirements, factoring in licensing costs, integration complexity, customization limitations, and vendor lock-in risks. We calculate total cost of ownership over a three-to-five-year horizon, including not just licensing but also implementation, maintenance, staffing, and opportunity cost. Our recommendation is never dogmatic. Sometimes buying a proven platform and customizing it is the right move. Other times, building gives you the competitive advantage worth investing in. Often the answer is a hybrid approach: buy for commodity functions like authentication, payments, and CMS, then build custom logic for your core business differentiator. We present our analysis with clear financial projections so your leadership can make an informed decision.
Absolutely, and in fact the majority of our consulting clients are non-technical leaders. We specifically design our consulting to bridge the gap between technology and business, translating complex technical decisions into terms that CEOs, COOs, CFOs, and board members can evaluate and act on. Our deliverables avoid unnecessary jargon and focus on business outcomes: cost implications, risk assessments, timeline impacts, and competitive advantages. For example, instead of debating Kubernetes versus ECS, we frame the conversation around operational cost, hiring requirements, and deployment speed for your specific situation. We participate in board meetings, investor presentations, and leadership offsites, providing the technical perspective that helps non-technical decision-makers ask the right questions and evaluate proposals from vendors or internal teams. Our goal is to give you confidence in technology investments without requiring you to become technical yourself. We act as your trusted translator between business strategy and engineering execution.
A typical CTO-as-a-Service engagement involves two to four days per month of dedicated time from a senior technology leader. We attend your leadership meetings to provide technical perspective on business decisions, guide your development team on architecture and best practices, and make infrastructure and tooling decisions that align with your growth trajectory. We evaluate vendors and technology partners, negotiate technical aspects of contracts, and create technology roadmaps that tie directly to your business goals. We also review your engineering processes, recommending improvements to CI/CD pipelines, code review practices, testing strategies, and team workflows. Monthly deliverables typically include a technology status report, updated roadmap, and prioritized action items. Unlike a full-time CTO, you get diverse cross-industry experience from someone who has solved similar problems across dozens of companies, at a fraction of the cost. Engagements usually run six to twelve months, though many clients continue on an ongoing advisory basis after the initial intensive period.
Yes, we help with the full hiring lifecycle for technical roles, drawing on our experience building and evaluating engineering teams across dozens of organizations. We start by defining role requirements that accurately reflect what your team actually needs, avoiding the common trap of overspecified job descriptions that filter out strong candidates. We create structured technical interview processes with scoring rubrics that reduce bias and produce consistent, comparable evaluations across candidates. Our team can participate directly in technical interviews, evaluating coding skills, system design thinking, and architectural judgment. Beyond hiring, we assess your current team's capabilities through skills mapping exercises, identifying gaps and recommending targeted training, mentoring programs, or team restructuring. We also help with onboarding plans that get new engineers productive faster, reducing the typical three-to-six-month ramp-up period. For clients using our CTO-as-a-Service, hiring support is often included as part of the overall engagement since building the right team is fundamental to technology success.

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