Infogain Assessment Services 2007 Subtitle or Speaker Name Designation (Arial Regular, 18 Point)

Infogain Assessment Services

2007

Subtitle or Speaker Name

Designation (Arial Regular, 18 Point)

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What is Assessment? Why Assessment? Infogain’s Assessment Methodology Qualification Phase Pre-Execution Phase Execution Phase Methodology Assessment Outcomes Target Areas Infogain’s Service Offerings Infogain’s Value Proposition Infogain’s Experience


What is Assessment?What is Assessment?

Determine objectively the state of architecture and technology of the underlying product or solution

Determine the “State-to-Go” and execute a gap analysis

Underline Pros and Cons; use appropriate weighting coefficients.

Prescribe prioritized solutions relative to overall strategic business interests.

Provide the road map with business case presentation.


Why Assessment?Why Assessment?

A structured methodology to introspect current landscape, and look into desired landscape

Undertaken by trained consultants to add values to business proposition

Supported by tools and analytics to objectively transform data into strategic information

It’s a 3600 analysis incorporating views from all stakeholders


Infogain’s Assessment ModelInfogain’s Assessment Model

Pre-Execution Phase :

Define Scope

Define Methodology

Identify Pre-requisites

Identify: Executive sponsor(s)

agents or people who are responsible for making the project happen;

advocates who want the project;

targets who will be the focus of the change made possible by the application;

What are the viewpoints of each such constituency regarding the intended

solution and its objectives? Do they align or diverge? Analyze.

Finalize the interview schedule.

Execution Phase :Assess current landscape

Determine future landscape

Gap Analysis and Prescriptive Solutions

Road Map

Business Case

Qualification Phase :Identify if IG is qualified to do the job?

Create a high-level synopsis of customer’s requirements

Create a general mapping of requirements with knowledge artifacts.

Verify if Infogain has competency in requisite knowledge base.


Qualification PhaseQualification Phase

Use this phase to assess whether Infogain is ideally positioned to perform the assessmentexercise.

How to do qualification assessment? Create a high-level synopsis of customer’s requirements. Create a general mapping of requirements with knowledge artifacts. Verify if Infogain has competency in requisite knowledge base.

Who should participate? CSO Lead/Practice Head/CTO Architect/Business Analyst

Create a Backend Support Team if it is assessed that Infogain should participate in theexercise. The backend support team is a part of the assessment team and helps the principalassessor by doing backend research, evaluation etc. On several occasions, the principalassessor does the job staying onsite with customer. The backend support team can provideinvaluable services by supplementing additional research documents, doing backendsimulation or any other tasks that may deem necessary. Keeping an offshore team improvesproductivity.


Pre-Execution PhasePre-Execution Phase

The pre-execution defines the broad level understanding between Infogain and the customerfor the assessment assignment. Use the pre-execution phase to accomplish the following:

Define Scope Define Methodology Identify Pre-requisites (Inputs from customer)

Who should participate? CSO Lead/Practice Head/CTO Principal Assessor Backend Support Team is to participate in this phase

During this phase, identify the people whose inputs are important to accurately understandcustomer’s requirements, and the business objectivity or business necessity.

Based on important stakeholders’ list, finalize an Interview Schedule. Accordingly identify the interviewer. The interview can be either teleconference-based or face-to-face. The transcript should be recorded. The interviewee for accuracy of the content should validate the recorded transcript.


Execution Phase.Execution Phase.

After the successful completion of the pre-execution phase, the exercise enters the next phase,

i.e., the execution phase. The execution phase has following distinct components:

Assessment of the “Current State” (of the entity) Determination of the “State-to-Be” Gap analysis between “Current State” and “State-to-Be” and Presescriptive solutions Prescription of Prioritized Solutions Roadmap for further work to implement prescribed solutions Business case to establish ROI

*Please refer the Assessment Handbook Document for more details.


MethodologyMethodology

Assessment Methodology


Assessment OutcomesAssessment Outcomes


Project Execution Approach AreasProject Execution Approach Areas


Infogain’s Service OfferingsInfogain’s Service Offerings

Architectural Assessment• SOA• BPM• Portal• Enterprise Application Integration

Technology Assessment• Tools • Infrastructure

Platform migration


Infogain’s Value PropositionInfogain’s Value Proposition

Successful in using Dual-Shore Model in Assessment Projects

Formalized Assessment Guidelines

Dedicated Assessment Team coordinated by CTO

Highly experienced researchers as a part of the team

Leverages inputs from external research source• Proactive discussion with Gartner Research Analysts

Leverages Infogain’s Knowledge Management Base


Infogain’s ExperienceInfogain’s Experience

Align Technology Alibris Emerald Health Services VMWare BroadVision


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