Systems Integration

Technology Planning - Information technology is a key enabler of business strategy. In order to be successful and meet the relentless need for improved productivity, businesses must be able to rapidly implement new technology opportunities while minimizing risk. BlumShapiro Consulting delivers a vision and roadmap that targets business value creation and improves the performance of IT organizations. We help you:

• Increase effectiveness while reducing costs
• Enable management of new and more complex technology
• Freeing resources to work on priority IT initiatives

BlumShapiro Consulting works with you to make the right IT investments for short and long term return on investment and select those technologies that will enable future success.

Software Selection - BlumShapiro Consulting provides you a structured, methodical approach to selecting software systems. We rapidly define your specific business objectives and requirements and develop an operational model of your future optimized state. With your objectives, requirements, and operating model we facilitate several vendor sessions or "test drives" of the respective software solutions, so you can visualize how the software would meet your needs and support daily activities. The test drives are scored and the cost / benefit of each option is analyzed and summarized to clearly present to you the key differentiators of a decision.

After a vendor is selected, BlumShapiro Consulting supports contract negotiations by working with you and the vendor to negotiate the project approach, schedule, terms and conditions. With all the pieces in place, BlumShapiro now works with you and vendor to create a detailed project plan that identifies the challenges and risks and accurately measures the time, effort, and cost of implementation providing you a basis to move forward with confidence and rapidly execute to achieve project objectives.

Systems Implementation - BlumShapiro Consulting is dedicated to helping you streamline operations, gain competitive advantage, and achieve efficiency through the deployment of superior business software and other important technologies. We help you effectively implement key systems by performing:

• Planning - Seasoned BlumShapiro project managers know the steps to a successful implementation and will work with your team to lay out and manage to the right project plan. We will translate your strategy and business objectives into requirements and a prototype system design. We will work closely with you on the technical aspects of the project to make sure the design is properly implemented.
  
  
• Product Implementation - BlumShapiro has deep implementation experience and a proven track record implementing and deploying solutions from leading technology providers. Our experienced resources minimize the risk, disruption, and cost while accelerating value creation.
  
  
• Training - Training is a crucial element of your implementation. We provide you the flexibility of on or off site training to enable everyone to maximize the value of the solution being implemented. We also provide you customized end-user training to ensure a smooth roll-out.
  
  
• Roll-Out - Upon configuring your solution, everyone needs to get on board. This involves communication, training, and tight execution. Our project managers will work closely with you to make sure the implementation is completed on-time and right the first time.
  
  
• Post Implementation Support - There are always growing pains with new technology and processes. BlumShapiro stands ready to guide.

Project Management - Applying a disciplined approach, BlumShapiro Consulting helps clients maximize the value of new initiatives or rescue projects that are under performing. We use our extensive experiences managing people, process, technology, and culture to augment our clients existing capability. We act as an extension of your management team to ensure progress towards business and project objectives. Uniform rules, procedures, and regular communication of project status of timeline, risk, cost, and challenges ensure that emphasis and focus are put on the most critical areas keeping the project on track. Decision-making routes and processes are clearly defined, deadlines, costs and resources are controlled systematically and all project management processes are coordinated to ensure they remain in alignment with one another. The result is you get more speed, flexibility, and quality.

Call us to learn more

Our Systems Integration Services are customized to your organization's needs. We would welcome the opportunity to talk with you about how our Systems Integration Services can help to implement strategic tools to provide more value and contribution to business performance improvement.

Jeff Ziplow
BlumShapiro Consulting
29 South Main Street
P.O. Box 272000
West Hartford, CT 06127-2000
860-561-4000
jziplow@blumshapiro.com