Stanian

Application Footprint Cost & Sizing is a service based on establishing an estimated cost for a specified application system footprint, using detailed knowledge and understanding of application estimating, benchmarking and the E2E IT design processes, along with knowledge of all the disparate cost drivers around software, hardware and labour; a structured methodology is used considering size, cost drivers, complexity factors, risk & contingency, commercial cost drivers such as overheads and profit margins to generate an expected fully loaded price that can be compared on a like-for-like basis.

The classic service provider will typically provide clients bids based on internally developed work breakdown structures that drive an internal development estimating model which in turn generates the price quoted in a prospective bid.

Footprint sizing can determine the efficiency, effectiveness, and the productivity that underlies the price and determine the accuracy or otherwise of the bid price.

The Best Practice Advisory service is a service that enables clients to obtain independent assessments, comparisons and gap analysis of their existing processes, organisation design, metrics and frameworks against a set of established industry best practices. Examples of this service are:

Systems Integrator Insight is a service that enables clients to gain detailed insight into prospective system integrator partners for new application integration solutions. To determine the respective strengths & weaknesses, areas of expertise, geographic coverage, core competencies etc

Contract Negotiation Advisory is a service that provides best practice advise on contract negotiation for hardware, software, applications, networks, support or outsourced services contracts. If you are about to procure a major IT contract of any type we can provide guidance on key points of negotiation and recommendations on key terms and conditions. This is a best practice review service which is not a legal review, however, the service can be extended to use a certified legal expert.

Contract Pre-Contract Assessment is a service that enables planned contracts that have been developed to be assessed against best practices and a gap analysis/set of recommendations to be prepared prior to contract signature. This is a best practice review service which is not a legal review, however, the service can be extended via legal opinion through a certified legal expert.

Benchmarking of IT Systems is a service based review that offers our clients a structured methodology for providing a baseline on IT performance, based on the comparison against a peer group through 5 key dimensions:

• Cost (through assessment of Efficiency against peers)
• Productivity (through productivity of Full Time Equivalent staff)
• Quality (through Service Level Agreements)
• Time-to-Market (through understanding the delivery by phase)
• Processes: through process frameworks such as :
  • ITIL Information Technology Infrastructure Library
  • CMMi Capability Maturity Model Integrated
  • CobiT Control Objectives for Information Technology ….and others

A comparison can be performed against internal peers, external peers or vendors.
As a "typical" organisation does not exist we conduct benchmarks across a range of IT Services that match client requirements. This covers analysis across any individual or combination of:

• Application Development &/or Application Support & Maintenance (including any any ERP implementation (Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Finance & Admin, HR etc)
• Infrastructure benchmarking (covering High Level Overview assessment of all IT key areas: Desktop, Wide Area Networks - Voice & Data, Servers - Mainframe, Mid-range Unix and Wintel, Help Desk & Service Centre

Comparative metrics and based on regularly refreshed component based databases of peer projects.
This service is offered through a certified measurement expert through our alliance network partners.

Business Process Modelling & Analysis is a service that can provide support in the mapping and documentation of existing business processes and planned redesigned business processes. Investigations will focus on business mapping and then quantification of the costs and effort and resources currently expended within these processes which can then be analysed and drive out a new business process design and/or the baseline design of a new composite application. A composite application is the welding together of functionality and data from existing disparate applications to provide a new solution outcome in process, functional and data terms. This service is offered through a certified business process expert through our alliance network partners.

Business Process Knowledge Mapping is a service that takes any key business process, decomposes this process and then maps the detailed underlying human knowledge (explicit or tacit) that is used to effect that process. This is a very powerful method of extrapolating detailed human knowledge intellectual capital that can be recorded and reused within the organisation as part of the organisations knowledge management assets. This service is offered through a certified knowledge management expert through our alliance network partners.

Business Key metrics & KPI’s is a service that focuses on the review, assessment and identification of gaps within an existing management metrics system. This could be in context of any key business application you run. Examples might cover, metrics for application development, service level agreements, process metrics, CRM, email, knowledge management, risk management, compliance, security, enterprise architecture and many more. The service can be extended to help the development of new key business key performance indicators and dashboards/scorecards for management controls. This service is offered in partnership with a certified measurement expert through our alliance network partners.

Case Management Vendor & Product – Evaluation & Selection Design is a service that focuses on the design, build and completion of a scoring and evaluation model for assessing competitor products prior to acquisition. The service will utilise best practices in creating such models, along with experience of the key criteria that should be used for evaluation and selection purposes and knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the vendor solutions, capabilities and pricing models. This is an objective and impartial service that breaks through subjective preferences and ensures alignment with key organisation policy and technical architecture and Information Systems strategy. Examples covers evaluation of technologies is areas such as Enterprise Resource Planning, Customer Relationship Management, Supply Chain Management, Content Management, Email & Archival, Portals, Knowledge Management Tools, Call Centre Technologies, and many others…

Case Management Vendor & Product – Vendor Due Diligence is a service that focuses on conducting an independent assessment of a prospect vendor(s) and their product(s). You may have already made an internal decision of your preferred partner and wish to quality assure your decision is the right one before making a serious financial, time and resource commitment. This exercise can cover business and/or technical due diligence as required.

Case Management Vendor & Product – Vendor Comparisons is a service that looks to provide a rounded assessment of specific vendor(s) and their product(s) looking at a broader range of criteria for peer products that may influence procurement decisions.