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At Safira, we recognize that an IT project’s success is measured only by tangible business results. Our consulting services bring to your organization an exclusive and rare combination of talent for clear understanding of business goals, deep technological expertise, breadth of vision and focus on achievement.
Work closely with our senior consultants and partners. The direct and close involvement of Safira’s top people in your critical initiatives and projects is our commitment and assurance of your success.
While dedicated to solving higher order issues and consistently rethinking how technology best serves business problems, our Consultants still work regularly in implementations projects, close to development teams. This practice makes all the difference when it comes to delivering feasible, effective and viable advice to IT decision making.
Development Consulting
We advise organizations on how to streamline in-house and outsourced development projects, based on our own years of experience in working closely with IT departments. We help establish a sound and efficient project framework, tailored to your organization’s needs and processes that produce significant benefits:
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Lower TCO of custom solutions |
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Faster time-to-market |
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Lower project risk |
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Supplier independence |
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Quality assurance |
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Standards based |
Our Development Consulting practices are based on Safira’s solution process framework that enables the repeated success of our Custom Business Solutions.
This effective combination of methodology, processes, techniques, best practices, tools and reusable software is a key enabler for any technical team undertaking a development project in any technology.
Enterprise Architecture Consulting
The benefits, as well as the hard challenges, of agile application interoperability and integration are well known of every CTO of a complex organization. In such organizations, the proliferation of disparate and heterogeneous systems that need to interoperate in order to build an agile and connected enterprise is a common scenario. This interoperability is a key factor in leveraging the existing applications to quickly respond to new and changing business drivers, and to rationalize the usage of IT resources.
Safira has a significant history of working in integration projects with many different systems and technologies. This history has given us a thorough understanding of enterprise applications and of infrastructure and architectural issues of application integration. Our Architects can offer you expert advice on how to design, plan and build a solid enterprise-class architecture that enables agile interoperability between disparate heterogeneous systems.
Business Case Consulting
When it comes to solving a specific business problem, Safira has the knowledge and experience to find the most adequate technical solutions. Since the problem definition and scoping, through analysis, requirements specifications and implementation guidelines, a team of Safira’s highly qualified Consultants, Architects and Analysts provides your team with the required technical skills to assist you in finding the most effective solution. Involvement of our Consultants during the early stages of the problem definition has significant benefits.
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Risk reduction. From assessments of the actual IT preparation status to support the desired initiatives, to the dependencies on other systems, applications and processes, we anticipate every possible factor that might undermine the solution plan. |
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Increased efficiency. Our real world experience allows us to define feasible, yet demanding, implementation solutions that make the most out of your IT budget and rationalizes the usage of resources. |
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Measurable results. Safira helps devise solution programs that clearly identify the solution’s requirements and corresponding mappings into business results. It clarifies how the solution will meet business goals and allows for easier measurement of the solutions ROI. |
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Controllable progress. |
We can help to:
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Produce functional and technical requirements specifications. |
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Make comparative analysis of market solutions and assess the adequacy level to a given problem |
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Devise implementation methodologies and plans for specific projects, based on tried and proven techniques and methods. |
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Develop technical guidelines for architectural sanity, implementation robustness and security, scalability and manageability. |
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Elaborate RFP documents and evaluate solution proposals. |
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Assure the quality of project deliverables and assess the overall solution’s requirements compliance. |