Enterprise integration assessment

The assessment process involves collaborating with clients to: 

• Ascertain, clarify and build consensus around your business vision and what you are trying to achieve in the marketplace 
• Analyze and assess your competitive position, current technology base and high level business processes 
• Advise the solution that best fits the parameters of all factors to meet your objectives 

Futica produces a comprehensive road map that sets the stage for initiatives with specific project definitions and requirements. Together with the client, Futica identifies the desired business and technology outcomes and benefits. We articulate findings and translate them into architectural terms. And delineate transitions required of people, processes and technologies.

The result of this process is a clearly articulated road map that documents a client's business vision and the steps required to turn that vision into reality with tangible business benefits.

A Futica assessment road map consists of the following elements

• Clearly defined objective statement 
• Desired outcomes 
• Benefits 
• Evidence 
• Clearly defined business requirements 
• Identification of relevant business processes 
• Identified financial, organizational and technical assumptions/constraints 
• Identification of client organization sponsors 
• Project management structure 
• Action plan for implementation phases addressing people, process and technology transitions 

Infrastructure, Information and Interaction components are critical to building a powerful unified solution.

Futica has a history of mastering complex environments - of creating and deploying solutions that blend new technology with existing systems to extend our client's investment. This strong integration background, coupled with our consultants' specialized competencies and architectural know-how, is at the core of our value.

Futica focuses on architecting and constructing solutions on a solid foundation, the critical success factor of every project.

Solutions are built using a comprehensive approach that includes the "Three I's": Infrastructure, Information and Interaction. The Three I's form the essential technology building blocks required for a comprehensive integrated enterprise solution. We consider these components in everything we do - from assessing clients' strategies to recommending and implementing the most appropriate technology.

Because Futica architects and consultants have deep and broad experience among all Three I's, we lower risk for clients by assessing an organization's complete environment and ensuring better integration among all levels of the enterprise. The end result - Futica clients gain a well-designed, thorough solution that is sound, scalable and expertly deployed.

Three I's 

Technology solutions incorporating the Three I's enable companies to form stronger, more effective relationships throughout the enterprise - from customers to supplier to employees - as well as gain cost-saving operational efficiencies and greater information utilization.

The Three I's encompass all components of the enterprise:

Infrastructure: 

• Back-end and enterprise application integration 
• Network engineering and security 
• Enterprise-level back-office systems, including hardware 

Information:

• Integration of various data sources as well as new technology solutions 
• Legacy business applications 
• Expansion of analytical and response ability through business intelligence systems 

Interaction:

• Branding 
• E-marketing 
• Usability 
• Creative design 
• Robust application architectures 

Unique to Futica is our Enterprise Partner Services organization, a dedicated team of consultants who architect and deploy mission-critical infrastructure solutions comprising enterprise servers, data storage, network management and security. Key partnerships with renowned technology leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Veritas and others allow Futica to lower risk for clients by ensuring infrastructure solutions are scalable, stable and reliable.

Methodologies 

Clients don't like surprises. Neither do we. 

Futica is focused exclusively on creating a greater return for our client's technology investment and delivering measurable, quality deliverables in 90-120 day phases.

Futica utilizes proven, repeatable methodologies that ensure the consistent, high-quality delivery of engagements. Placing a high priority on project delivery and process, Futica has created the Project Office - a dedicated team of experienced Futica talent chartered with creating and managing the framework that formalizes and applies enterprise-wide best practices in project management to Futica consulting engagements. The mission of the Project Office: every engagement results in a satisfied client. With this goal in mind, the Project Office team standardizes client feedback to ensure Futica project management processes are continually refined and improved to meet client needs. 

In addition to overseeing project quality, consistency and efficiency, the Project Office team is focused on the effectiveness and delivery of Futica methodologies.

Futica utilizes a number of unique methodologies that mitigate risk and ensure client solutions are well designed and consistently delivered on time, on budget, as promised:

STEPS 

All Futica engagements are delivered using our project management methodology known as STEPS (Futica Technologies Enterprise Project System). STEPS is founded on the principle that informed, integrated teams and agreed upon objectives provide seamless solution delivery. 

Based on the scope of the solution, Futica builds a cohesive, multi-disciplinary team for each project. This team remains intact and focused throughout the life of the engagement, eliminating lost time and project risk commonly associated with an "ad-hoc" team approach.

Futica collaborates with client decision-makers and end-users to determine the requirements, architecture and objectives of a project, agree on a plan, and follow a phased delivery approach. And because Futica understands that client needs often unfold as a project progresses, STEPS has the built in flexibility to adjust to new or altered requirements throughout project delivery.

Knowledge transfers

Knowledge transfers Empowering clients. It's what Futica is all about. 

Client involvement is a critical factor in building and delivering successful solutions.

Futica utilizes a knowledge transfer approach that minimizes risk and empowers clients, ensuring competency and long-term success by encouraging team involvement. 

We proactively incorporate knowledge transfer into every engagement, so Futica clients are involved directly in solution development, architecture design, data modeling and technology tools throughout the life of the project.

We include knowledge transfer as a key deliverable in our entire project plans, decreasing your support costs and improving staff development and retention. We measure our success by our clients' comprehension and ongoing manageability of their solutions.

For organizations that have more complex needs, Futica also provides formal training and professional development services. Futica's Professional Development experts help organizations transition business culture, leverage company-wide intellectual capital, maximize training budgets and educate and prepare employees for current and future roles.

Whether mentoring a client team throughout an engagement or providing formal professional development services, Futica utilizes a structured, success-oriented learning model called FIRM (Foundation, Immersion, Reinforcement, Mastery) for rapid, effective knowledge and skills transfer. As a multi-dimensional learning approach, FIRM can be tailored to both the organization's and individual's needs - from understanding technology basics across the enterprise to delivering highly individual "just in time" methods of reinforcing and enhancing previously learned material