Will 2012 be a year of malaise or will it be a year of breakthrough?
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January 2012
Will the year 2012 be a year of malaise or will it be a year of breakthrough?
The first signs seem to suggest that everyone is holding back and stagnation in business development will occur.
But there will also be companies that have the courage to use this period of great uncertainty
to create new opportunities with new ideas and innovative solutions.
The Financial Service Industry and governmental bodies have a great need to put the past behind them and to and move towards clear and simple solutions. These solutions are based on the latest technology as well as market conforming standardized solutions and will prevent the reliance of their already too complex existing system landscape that was build up over the past years.
In this area we can help you to get insight in the requirements and needs of the Business and also into the solutions that are available in the market for your specific situation.
This demands a different approach from the traditional waterfall method and also has a lot of consequences for the different aspects within the organization, both for people and resources.
Because we have many years of experience with these developments we can act as an independent and objective partner to define your strategy and then translate this strategy into a clear roadmap for your business based upon your Process- and System-landscape, supporting you in making the right choices of solutions in the market and also with the implementation of it within your organization.
An important part (regularly overlooked) of these programs is the decommissioning of the old IT landscape. The decommissioning of applications is rarely budgeted and plays no part in the planned project activities of the new developments and the consequences of this approach are a further extension of the IT Portfolio and thus more costs!
So take care involving the maintenance department from scratch. By mapping applications into a clear roadmap, it is possible to identify which parts of the applications portfolio should be replace and when as well as those that need a specific approach. Often in legacy applications, functionality has been added that doesn’t exist in new application but needs to remain somewhere in the application portfolio. Sometimes this could be solved by installing a specific solution just for enquiry information instead of customizing the new application and this also will reduce the costs!
The willingness to change or adjust your processes instead of customizing the standardized software with your specific requirements is a very important critical success factor when installing Package software solutions!!
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