Consulting, implementation, optimization and mentoring services provide the best results by optimizing your solution processes and performance.
We have highly trained professionals who work with you throughout the life cycle of your solution. With this premise, we offer the best there is in products and services for enterprise management excellence in your organization.
“Project management is the application of knowledge, abilities, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet their requirements. Project management is performed through the mentoring of project management processes: start, planning, execution, monitoring and control, and closure. The Project manager is the person responsible for fulfilling the objectives of the project”, Guide to the Project Management Book of Knowledge, 2004.
Through the use of proven Project Management planning and control methods, the project’s objectives will be defined and reached with multidisciplinary team cooperation within three realms (project scope, time and cost).
Defining the correct path to project success is the goal our proven methodology proposes to surpass. This path consists of a life cycle that connects the beginning to the end of the project, where the main activities and deliverables are also defined.
The project team manages the project tasks, which generally involve:
The aim of this service is to perform installation and component homologation in the customer’s environment, according to pre-defined hardware, software and network requirements.
Installation refers to making the application available for access and the homologation validates the application interfaces with network, e-mail, database and dependent services.
By definition, the Installation service provides the application with all its functionalities for access on the customer’s internal network (intranet). The customer is responsible for providing the application with external access (internet), since it is the customer who has dominion over the security rules and network configurations of its environment.
The aim of this package is to provide a ready virtualized environment (VMWare or Hyper-V), with the Linux operating system and SoftExpert Suite already installed. This environment is already approved and has all the components related to the operating environment and application, configured and adjusted for greater performance and better use.
The Linux Environment + SoftExpert Suite (virtualized environment) installation package refers to the availability of a virtual machine developed by SoftExpert ready for customers to use, only requiring timely adjustments to the network, datacenter and dependent services.
The customer is responsible for loading the purchased environment into the structure of their virtualized systems (VMWare or Hyper-V) as well as making the application available for outside access (internet), since it is the customer who has dominion regarding security rules and the network configurations of their environment.
The aim of this service is to identify the working model and company management, its weak and strong points, training requirements, project success factors, use scenarios and process flow.
In the context of SoftExpert’s solution implementation process, this is without a doubt the most important service. The origination of decisions and actions taken according to the customer’s specific needs and requirements will develop from this. The way in which the system will be parameterized and, as a consequence, all the business processes served by the application will be based on this stage.
Through interviews with managers and users, as well as by an analysis of system documentation and the existing processes, a study will be conducted of the existing processes, company objectives and the needs and expectations for improvements to the organization through the use of SoftExpert applications.
Based on the information studied, process reference models will be drawn up. These models are a way of representing the business process at the company where implementation is occurring. The models are differentiated into models that describe the current situation (called the “AS-IS” models) and the models that express the desired future situation (called “TO-BE” models).
Among the options available in the system reference model, the most suitable alternatives are selected to meet the company’s requirements, with the AS-IS model being drawn up according to need.
The Application Setup service enables the creation of environment parameterization standards to serve the proposed scenario. By guaranteeing maximum use of the functionalities, it further enables the customer future independent system administration.
The initial configurations and parameterizations of the record and process flow standards are performed. Involvement of the key users in the configuration activities is of vital importance in order to ensure their satisfaction and full compliance with the established standards. Following standard definition, key users continue the process and conclude the necessary data input to complete parameterization.
Reduced scale simulations are also performed to validate the defined standards thereby guaranteeing successful multiplication activities.
Information generated by the Discovery service (process mapping and definition of customer’s specific requirements) serve as a valuable source of reference for parameterization activities.
No matter how well the team has been trained and engaged in the implementation process, it is natural that doubts and questions will arise during the first stages with a new system.
The aim of the Go-Live Support service is to help users, on-site, to ensure system entry into production and to follow its use for a period sufficient to complete operationalization of the new solutions.
The users will feel more comfortable when beginning to use the new application as they will have a consultant next to them ready to answer any questions. Initial doubts are quickly clarified and the level of attention offered at this time is much greater.
Another important benefit is help in overcoming change resistance, natural in any implementation process involving new applications.
The Go-Live Support is conducted in a system production environment where users will be free to voice and solve their new application doubts directly with the consultant, helping them in their work.
The management system audit is always a time of high stress and anxiety for an organization, no matter how well prepared it is. Even though the normative requirements are clearly defined in relation to the audit, there is always leeway for subjective interpretations. It is possible that some unnoticed detail may slip through, jeopardizing all the effort and dedication put in up till that.
With the aim of minimizing risks and providing a state of calm for the customer at this important and decisive moment, SoftExpert offers the Pre-audit Assistance service.
A SoftExpert consultant, specialized in the ISO 9001 standard, applies a checklist to see if, from the point of view of the SoftExpert systems, everything is in order. Any anomalies are immediately identified and timely action plans for dealing with them can be put into practice.
There are many typical situations that deserve attention before an audit is conducted, such as the release of to do tasks, alteration to action plan deadlines, premises in documents and system access, among others.
Concerning the audit, prevention is always better than cure.
The processes are based on the running of an organization. They represent the manner in which an organization transforms inputs into outputs, adding value to its products and services, satisifying its customers and producing results.
Process mapping enables a view beyond isolated functional activities and provides an integrated and hosiltic vision of these activities, transforming itself into an important management instrument.
After all process mapping service there is the task of automation and measuring of some process. That´s a task that requires time and resources. Despite having its importance recognized, organizations do not always have the ideal conditions for prioritizing this activity. With focus on this need, SoftExpert offers the Process Mapping, Automation and Measuring service. A SoftExpert consultant specialized in process tools is responsible for transferring, to the system, all processes and their respective indicators, already previously defined by the customer but which have not yet been inserted into the system. Thus, a team of the customer’s professionals can dedicate themselves to more value adding activities for the business and leave this task of a more operational nature to SoftExpert.
The SoftExpert consultant, together with the customer, also conducts an analysis to verify the feasibility of automating the process via the SoftExpert Workflow component, resulting in automatic control of the flow. Process automation minimizes the transfer of tasks, thus reducing cycle times. The system not only guarantees an improvement in production but also that all process instances follow the same rules and are in accordance with the defined process model.
Further to mapping and automating, it is also important to measure and monitor. Measuring is a pre-condition for the effective management of an organization’s processes. Should the customer so wish, the SoftExpert consultant can also conduct an analysis to identify suitable indicators for enabling monitoring and measuring of the process performance, all in an integrated manner via the SoftExpert Performance component.