Although consultancy is often regarded as a "black art" by many people, and as an unnecessary high cost service by others, it is an essential tool for understanding a customer's requirements. Only by researching, questioning and using our experience and knowledge to understand and document your business and functional requirements can we ensure that your software implementation will meet your expectations and perform as intended.
In relation to bespoke development or systems integration projects the objective is to "define a problem" for our software engineers and interface designers to solve through computer programming. These requirements may be met using some of our existing products or may require some degree of modification or customisation. Only by defining the issues can we determine the best way forward.
Our highly skilled business analysts and systems architects can provide a range of consultancy services:
Scoping Exercise
The scoping exercise is used to define the problem and suggest possible solutions. It may not actually lead to a formal proposal - it can be the case that the scoping recommends a specification be written or that more research is required.
Feasibility Study
The Feasibility Study uses technical information and cost data to determine the economic potential and practicality (ie feasibility) of a project. The Feasibility Study uses techniques that help evaluate a project and/or compare it with other projects.
Functional Specification
A Functional Requirements Specification describes what is required to meet the users' business needs. Functional requirements specify which actions the design must provide in order to benefit the system's users. Functional requirements are determined by the question and interview of stakeholders, users, and task analysis of the current system.
Project Plan
The Project Plan is used to guide both project execution and project control, document planning assumptions and decisions, facilitate communication among project stakeholders and document approved scope, cost, and schedule baselines.
Business Process Analysis
Analysis and review of operational processes and effective underlying information technology to identify duplication, errors and complicated information flows, where improvements can be made. Help companies and organisations to capture, understand and improve their existing key processes.
Systems Integration
Review and analysis of systems to be linked to avoid duplication and data inconsistencies.
Information Audit
To assess the relevance, usefulness and effectiveness of the activities performed during the organisation's information life cycle (the life cycle activities are: collection, storage, use, access and disposal of information).
Systems Audit
Analysis and review of your existing IT infrastructure to determine areas that can be optimised through update and configuration or optimised through replacement or addition of existing or new technologies.
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