Datavibes

Engagement Strategies

Datavibes offers several engagement strategies that are flexible enough to allow clients to exploit specific strengths of their organization, as well as the abilities of our development teams.

The engagement models primarily differ from each other in how the tasks and the responsibilities of the project deliverables are shared.

The ability to choose a specific engagement strategy affords the following benefits to all Datavibes' clients:

Risk Avoidance: By expanding the scope of relationship at a comfortable pace.
Higher Quality: By developing the mutual process maturity to minimize the inherent project quality deterrents like communication fidelity.
Pain-free Transition: By having established a mutual comfort and "knowledge beacons" with lower risk strategies.
Reduced Cost: By validating and testing the tools, processes, and management approaches before committing the larger resource.

Staff Augmentation
Staff augmentation is the most basic engagement strategy. It allows Clients to assess the capabilities of Datavibes without any significant long-term commitment. Therefore, the Client controls the knowledge transfer process.

Staff augmentation allows clients to engage resources from Datavibes' team, or ones that Datavibes can hire to help them deliver a specific project objective. Among Datavibes' many strengths are:

Experienced Project Managers and former developers act as recruiters. Most recruiters have technical development OR project management experience of 3+ years.
Localized recruiting: Project recruiters have the resources and ability to hire external resources within the client's local area, which reduces the travel costs and overheads on projects.
Consulting Company resources: Unlike the traditional staffing-only companies, such as Adecco, Kelly, and Modis, Datavibes appreciates the needs of clients and maintains a highly accurate database of skilled and proven experts, thus allowing us to deliver actual results.
Specialization: We specialize in Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, Web Services and SOA resources. We are specialized with the tools and technology and both functional and technical packaged application consultants, such as SAP, ORACLE - Peoplesoft/JDE/Siebel, Microsoft Dynamics, COGNOS, MicroStrategy, etc.

Benefits of Staff Augmentation:

Risk Free: Total control over the hiring process, project deliverables, management strategy, and terms of engagement.
Project Execution Speed: By having the highly competent specialists available as needed. Normally we are able to fill a project staffing need within 8 - 12 business hours.
Cross-Platform Technology Skills: The recruiting team has the ability to meet a diverse set of client requirements from virtual CIO, project manager, developer and to do so across a variety of technology domains such as developers on legacy and current development environments, packaged application implementation, and functional/technical resources.
Technical Fit: Our processes involve a detailed understanding of the consultant's background, skills, and references before presenting them to clients. Our 90+% success rate in interviews are indicative of our resource manager's ability to find the most appropriate consultants. Our exact fit is a result of technical expertise, as well as environmental and cultural considerations.
Cost-Savings: Reduces the project lead time and cost by nearly eliminating the technology learning curve. By selecting consultants with relevant experience, the gap within the business domain is also reduced. We bill for time and materials, so there's no over-use (overtime) or under-use of resources.

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Co- Managed Services
Co-managed services offer Datavibes' clients a low-risk strategy to sample the efficacy of the outsourced model in a client environment. Client managers retain project management aspects, which allow the project development teams to work directly with project leaders.

There are several key characteristics of co-managed solutions:

Phased Outsourcing
High Rewards
Flexibility
"Any-Shore" Capability
Extended Resource Base

Benefits of Co-Managed Services:

Risk Avoidance: Clients develop a shared expectation and knowledge model that leverages the competencies of both Datavibes and the client organization.
Validation: The project management team can better calibrate ROI models based on the enhanced visibility into each others' processes and practices.
Immediate ROI: The project teams can identify sources of high costs and high risk. Clients can then engage strategies specifically tailored to significantly reduce costs and avoid risk.
Smooth resource ramp-up: Project teams are able to plan for optimal resources and in many cases, for the least-case scenario. This brings with it the assurance that any additional resource requirements for project engagement can be met by the partner.

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Fully-Managed Project
The fully-managed project model is especially suitable for the clients looking for a dependable partner to take on the task of managing a complete solution lifecycle and delivering the results as mutually agreed in the SLA (Service Level Agreements).

Typically, our experts take complete ownership of your project from start to finish. We assess the client's needs and then assemble a complete team under our own project management to design and execute the optimal solution for the client's organization.

Datavibes' teams are measured on the business benefit delivered. Characteristics of fully-managed project models are:

Fixed costs
Service level oriented
Full benefit of Datavibes' methodology
Diverse platform competency
Full task visibility
Reduced costs for offshore development

Benefits of Fully-Managed Projects are:

Risk management: Fixed price model versus a time and labor model.
Comfort: A team of experts develops your solution.
Longer-term benefits: A team of experts allocated to the project for an extended time, as opposed to a project model, while providing ongoing maintenance and support.
Reduced Costs: Less ongoing knowledge management overhead.
Innovation: The ability to engage process and industry experts to offer innovative approaches.

Dedicated Offshore Center - Center of Excellence
The Dedicated COE model allows clients to take advantage of the offshore centric solution strategy without incurring the additional project management overhead OR demanding any additional management bandwidth.

This model is most suitable for clients that have an increasing, but irregular demand for specialized software development such as software product companies. Using this strategy, companies engage Datavibes' offshore resources to develop competence on specific products or to train resources to further develop, product, and support the product from offshore.

Datavibes builds a dedicated unit to function as an extension of the client organization, sharing administrative functions, as well as resource allocation and project management roles. Characteristics of the Dedicated COE model include:

Reduced costs
Shared risk
Full benefit of Datavibes' methodology
Specialist skills that could be deployed for maintenance, new development, or customer support.
Full task visibility
Reduced costs for offshore development

Benefits of the Dedicated Offshore Center are:

Risk management: Fixed price model versus a time and labor model.
Flexibility: Afforded by a team of professionals with precise, demand-oriented skills.
Comfort: A team of experts develops your solution.
Longer-term benefits: A team of experts is available on the project for an extended time as opposed to a project model.
Reduced Costs: Less ongoing knowledge management overhead.
Innovation: The ability to engage the process and industry experts to offer innovative approaches.

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Build-Operate-Lease-Transfer (BOLT)
Using the BOLT model, Datavibes builds and manages a center of excellence (COE) for a fixed period of time. At the expiration of the agreed amount of time, the center, its developed infrastructure, the people involved, and all processes are transferred to the client's organization.

The BOLT model is suitable for companies with a consistently high demand for software development, or any other process centric work that could be cost effectively executed from remote locations such as insurance companies or large healthcare groups.

Characteristics of the BOLT model include:

Reduced start-up costs
Shared risk
Full benefit of Datavibes' methodology
Specialist skills that could be deployed for maintenance, new development, or customer support.
Full task visibility
Reduced costs for offshore development

Benefits of the Build-Operate-Lease-Transfer (BOLT) model are:

Risk management: Fixed price model versus a time and labor model.
Flexibility: Afforded by a team of professionals with precise, demand-oriented skills.
Scalability: Rapid ramp-up/ramp-down capability.
Comfort: A team of experts develops your solution.
Longer-term benefits: A team of experts is allocated to the project for an extended time.
Reduced Costs: Less ongoing knowledge management overhead.
Innovation: The ability to engage the process and industry experts to offer innovative approach.