Solution Design & Implementation
Industries eXcellence™
Solution Design, Software Configuration & Implementation Approach
Engineering Industries eXcellence™ consultants are cross-functional experts possessing technical expertise fused with experience in multiple business domains developed over 20 years of industry participation. As a highly project-oriented consulting organization, we employ agile methodologies in order to leverage the experience of our consultants to design and build value-driven technology solutions that meet the specific business needs of our customers. Our consultants work closely with our customers, often coming to be thought of more as internal employees rather than external specialists, in order to truly understand each customer's specific business environment and culture, facilitate the free flow of information and ideas, and ultimately deliver a high-quality digital solution that fully meets and exceeds all customer expectations.
Solution Design, Software Configuration & Implementation Activities
1. User Requirements Specification
Each initiative starts with customer requirements gathering and analysis. In this phase, our consultants spend time with key customer stakeholders in order to fully understand their business case and points of pain. Once the determination is made that Engineering Industries eXcellence has the right skillsets and capabilities to design a solution to address the customer's issue, a User Requirements Specification (URS) can be developed.
The URS documents and details each end-user use case that will be required of the proposed system. This is an area where Engineering Industries eXcellence consultants have deep expertise. The goal is to gather and define all of the system requirements, so that the final result is a solution that is both useful and beneficial to the company and its end users.
2. System Design & Solution Proposal
In addition to defining user requirements, our consultants draft a system design document that details the specific business processes that will be modeled and streamlined using the proposed software system. To successfully prepare this document, Engineering Industries eXcellence consultants apply their professional industry experience and understanding of the customer's unique business operations to guide them through the process of visualizing the future process workflow as it will exist in the future software solution.
This is where the cross-functional expertise of our consultants brings most value, as their business knowledge and experience allow them to apply their technical expertise in a process-driven way in order to meet the customer's business needs. When the user requirements specification and system design documentation are completed, a solution proposal can be presented.
3. Functional & Detailed Design Specification
Once the solution proposal is accepted by the customer, a Functional Design Specification (FDS) document is created in order to give a high-level overview of every function of the new system. The FDS ties everything together by explaining exactly how the user requirements defined in the URS will be addressed within the process workflow defined in the system design document.
The FDS is then translated into an even more detailed document known as a Detailed Design Specification (DDS), which details exactly how each function of the system will be addressed from a software development perspective.
4. Software Development & Configuration Management
In the development phase, our Software Development team uses technical information in the Detailed Design Specification to learn exactly how to build the final system and what the specific input and output data will look like. Development is executed in an iterative cycle, as new requirements are almost always discovered during the system development phase and can be easily added in as change requests thanks to our agile development methodology.
All programming and development are done in an isolated development environment, where our team can use test data and procedures to discover bugs before they are introduced into production.
5. Quality Assurance Testing & Go-Live
In the final phase before go-live, our team creates a Software Quality Assurance (SQA) environment with identical hardware and software to the final production environment for testing purposes. All newly developed content is then moved from the development environment to the SQA environment for thorough testing and acceptance before being put into the final production environment. This critical stage ensures that all content being used in production is stable and proven to minimize risk.
Industries eXcellence™ Advantage
Because our process is founded on planning and analysis that puts the customer and their requirements at the center of the software development lifecycle, the result is the delivery of a high-quality software solution that is guaranteed to meet all business and technical requirements. You have the business need, and Engineering Industries eXcellence™ has the knowledge, experience and methodologies required to meet and exceed it.
Interested in speaking to one of our experts? Contact us at info@indx.com.
