Technology appraisal, Systems evaluation

Changing markets, business priorities, and increasing global opportunities enterprise IT is put under constant pressure to be agile, deliver the right business process capabilities at the right time, and remain within budgets. 3MK brings extensive large-enterprise consulting experience to offer an impartial, practical, and highly customized:

• Technology appraisal and systems evaluation: where we help clients understand the capabilities of products and solutions in context to their current and future business needs, evaluate hardware and software scenarios, and make informed business decisions
• Roadmap development: Once the business stakeholders are in a position to make informed choices on technologies, we begin by an extensive business requirements gathering process, ensuring every user scenario is mapped, and articulated in the to-be state. Post this, we create a roadmap outlining the solution roll-out, customizing them to specific business requirements, and implementing a scalable set of tools for the business units
• Architecture planning: 3MK has worked with numerous organizations in helping them develop an architecture plan to integrate the various information elements: software, hardware, data, processes, and security concerns across the chosen technology platforms. Working in synch with the stakeholders, we have successfully articulated simplified architecture solutions for seemingly complex situations.
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Working in synch with the stakeholders, we have successfully articulated simplified architecture solutions for seemingly complex situations. Our services include the following:

• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Assessment— helping our customers realize the promised benefits of leveraging an SOA approach
• Architecture Assessment—assisting in solving quality problems in performance, scalability and extensibility
• Application Security Assessment— helping focus on security from the inside out
• Usability Assessment—increasing customer retention through improved analysis, prototyping, and user-centered design
• Quality Assurance Assessment—transferring QA best practices to improve quality and efficiency and provide a foundation for test automation
• Database Assessment—tuning performance, optimizing your database, and auditing security audit
• Business Intelligence Assessment—evaluating existing environments and providing roadmaps for achieving specific business objectives.

Business requirements and roadmap

A clear-cut road map is a vital part of successful project management and application development. This helps guide users / clients through a process that elicits their business requirements and facilitates accurate application development.

3MK has worked with numerous clients to understand their business and draw out a comprehensive road map through a tried and trusted process, which involves:

• Interviewing subject matter experts and relating needs
• Organizing complex information into understandable subject areas
• "Translating" technical language into business language and vice versa
• Ensuring stakeholder involvement at all levels of involvement
• Drafting clear and concise written documentation for users and technicians
• Working successfully with multidisciplinary teams

3MK’s techniques include

• Requirements engineering
• Solution Envisioning exercises
• Joint requirements development (JRD)
• Experienced business analysts
• Functional use cases
• Proof-of-concept / prototype
• Unified Modeling Language (UML)
• Agile Software Development