Scenario

MORE EXAMPLES

Merger and Acquisition evaluations

Preparation and execution of outsourcing plans

Budget constraints and
changes in direction

Rapid Growth within
your company and team

Platform and vendor selection and oversight

THE PROBLEM

You are suddenly unsure that your current technology platform meets your current or future needs. Maybe the business has changed, maybe there are new service offerings available, maybe your competition is heating up. Finding and evaluating alternatives, and planning for the implementation of an alternative platform aren't on the radar for you or the business right now. How do you verify you need a new platform and what that platform must contain? How do you determine the shape and timing of the new platform integration? Finally, how do you work with the business to help them learn the new platform environment?

THE SOLUTION

Inventivity offers custom services to address platform and architectural change decision-making and management. We have experience building technology architectures and platforms for small and large companies. We have proven vendor selection experience, as well as a strong history of architectural development. And we have a wealth of business process development experience ‹ both creating and changing processes to allow your business to function and finding ways to encode the business logic and processes in the IT infrastructure in ways that increase productivity but don't strip you of flexibility to address changing market conditions.

THE PROCESS

A platform development engagement begins, as with all our engagements, with a shared understanding of your goals for the process. Every engagement is different in the details and we need to understand your goals in order to meet your needs.

Next, we work with the technology leadership and the executives to evaluate the state of the current platform, in the context of immediate and long-term business and IT goals. This allows us to create a set of requirements that describe the needed functionality of the new platform and prioritize those needs.

Finally, with a common set of goals, we dig in and help make the decision...whether that means selecting a new vendor and implementing a new platform, starting from scratch with a new architecture and developing a migration strategy to get from your current state to the new platform, evolving your existing platform, or helping determine if outsourcing the platform work is a wise decision ‹ we offer the expertise and experience to help you make the right choices.

While our recommendations are a tremendous source of value, we don't avoid the difficult tasks. We can help with management of the decision making efforts, documentation of the architecture and platform, interfaces with the rest of the business for requirements gathering or dissemination, and the implementation of the new platform. We bring our years of project management and change management as well as relationships with vendors who can do the work and methodologies for making those platform implementation projects a success.

THE RESULT

Changing technology platforms is always a risky decision for a business. With Inventivity's years of experience in selecting and implementing platforms for development, back office systems, and development environments, we can ensure that your business does not miss a step while making large-scale changes to your infrastructure.

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