Our Approach
Following initial visits to the clients organisation, our consultants will have secured a ‘top-level’ understanding of the business needs and have formulated initial plans as to potential solutions. We will then follow a tried and tested project methodology supported throughout all phases by a rigid monitoring, reporting and control process.
A common mistake in IT projects is a failure to understand the full scope of software functionality required. This critical success factor drives our attention to detail approach during the early stages of a project and ensures that we accurately model our clients business needs.
During project delivery our Consultants focus on five interrelated IT factors that we believe contribute to improved IT performance:
- Integration
- Productivity
- Innovation
- Knowledge
- Infrastructure
Evo-soft Ltd also focus on four core indicators that measure IT performance:
- Productivity
- Utilisation
- Execution
- Adoption
These factors are monitored closely during the project lifecycle of: design, development, implementation and go-live.
Business Change Management
Business Change Mangement pairs the objectives of the organisation with our understanding of what measures and drives strong IT performance. Our approach takes into account organisational structure, strategy, people, culture and processes to deliver optimal IT functionality and stakeholder value.
Project Initiation - Workshop
The workshop initiates the project, it is during this phase that our consultants map the clients working processes. During the mapping process all working processes are rigorously vetted to ensure that relevancy, efficiency and best practice are achieved.
It is Evo-soft’s belief that our clients optimise the software application best when training is tailored to vetted business practice. As such training is scheduled just prior to, and during the transition into the new software. The training is held on the client’s premises thus ensuring the training is practical and understandable for the typical user. In addition, clients may book specific supplementary training (on-site or remote), to address the implementation of new software functionality or to revisit previous training.
Systems Analysis (Business Process Assessment)
Reviewing software creates an excellent opportunity to review internal business processes. Senior consultants at Evo-soft Ltd are able to help you analyse your business and demonstrate efficiencies in business process. Making simple changes in an area can often produce a significant financial gain, not to mention the benefits of the reduced labour.
Analysts can provide varying levels of assistance:
- Providing a professional strategy for improvement
- Simply identifying areas that could be improved
- Completion of the more comprehensive Return on Investment analysis, which details both the costs and financial benefits of the suggested course of action
Bespoke Development
The correct application of bespoke development can greatly enhance a client’s performance. However, traditionally bespoke development has been an area capable of escalating costs in both development and maintenance of a client’s software package.
When bespoke development is needed, Evo-soft Ltd encourage our clients to maximise the benefits they get from bespoke development by keeping costs to a minimum. This is accomplished by:
- Reducing and sometimes eliminating the need for the client to have further bespoke development. Within our specialty fields of Importation & Distribution, Seasonal Goods, FMCG, Auctioneering, Document Management, and CommoditiesTrading, our tailored versions are already feature-rich in the standard requirements for these industries. The value of our enhancements are conservatively estimated in excess of 6 figures for some verticals and are provided complimentary to clients, thus reducing the need for much of the bespoke development traditionally required.
- Communicating effectively (in collaboration) with the client before undertaking bespoke work. Evo-soft’s unique holistic approach ensures our clients business needs are clearly understood. If additional bespoke work is truly necessary, a well defined project will keep costs down and disruption to a minimum.
- Reducing upgrade costs because of the development flexibility and upgrade strategies of the Microsoft platforms.
