Let us provide an overview of our approach to upgrades, so that you can understand our approach better. Click on a phase title to read more about it.
If you need more detail on any part of our service, you may contact a representative.
 Interrogation:
The iConsortium is providing value to upgrade customers well before other providers' offerings would even be relevant to your project.
How do we make this possible?
From 2 months to 1 year prior to your upgrade, we will install our proprietary Application Monitor which will track the usage of all programs and system processes during your daily business. By auditing the reporting results of this tool, we can help your company eliminate unused development and prioritize the remaining tasks. This tool alone could reduce your upgrade analysis by as much as 50% along with additional features that you can read about below.
Another offering that the iConsortium offers early on in your planning stages is an architecture review and the iBOX Sandbox Solution Stack:
While installing our Application Monitor, our technical staff can review your current capacity and make recommendations to help you design your architecture requirements. These recommendations will be based on our knowledge of the changes in processing and server loads in the 8.x releases.
The iBOX Solution Stack was designed to provide customers an affordable way to work with and analyze 8.x releases prior to their implementation. By combining this solution stack, preliminary foundation training, and the Boomerang toolset, your team will be much better prepared to receive the greatest value from your upgrade.
If the upgrade is from a current World installation, the upgrade team will also provide strategies and migration specific tasks that a customer can accomplish prior to the assessment to better prepare for the upgrade.
Investigation:
The assessment of your upgrade using the iConsortium's methodology will clearly define the clinical execution of the project. Our goal is to base any project on the timeline and budget, with prioritization of all tasks and goals based upon those limits. Too often, projects such as these will run out of control because of a lack of clear task based goals and communication of those priorities from the top down of an organization.
This assessment phase of the upgrade engagement will engage our senior upgrade personnel to provide the following:
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Findings review of the Application Monitor results and priority matrix design
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Identify current processes and evaluate the existence and quality of documentation and scripting
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Evaluation of all 3rd party and legacy systems affected by the upgrade and their respective level of effort
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Highlight any obvious "quick wins" for enhancement or use of new functionality to create greater immediate value from the upgrade
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Prioritize remaining goals
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Project plan design and resource/budget planning
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Net change training identification and component based training plan
Installation and Initiation:
The iConsortium will provide the installation, upgrade, and data migration of your current systems to the present or new architecture.
During this process, we will provide knowledge transfer of new technologies as well as a comprehensive system surface test to validate the upgraded system stability.
In parallel to these procedures, our implementation team will kickoff the project with identified formalized net change training based on the selected components from the assessment. They will also use this time to orient the internal staff on the clinical execution methods, detailing the project plan into required tasks and assignments.
Implementation:
Our implementation team will work with your internal staff on specific goals of delivery throughout the implementation phase. This includes the scripting and testing of existing procedures, retrofitting of customizations, and implementation of new release functionality. This phase of the project will clearly defined goals, and will have a fixed window of opportunity for enabling value added components. It must be stressed that any components that are not highest on the priority list and risk meeting the predefined deadlines and budget will be moved to post go-live enhancement projects.
Iteration:
Throughout the implementation phase, the technical team will refine the conversion processes, isolating all areas that can be automated through scripting, as well as optimizing the system to create the most reliable conversion in the shortest time frame possible. This process is a mastery of the data, programs, and systems to deliver the optimum performance.
Isolation:
This phase, also known as the Dry Run, is a very valuable full simulation of go-live, which provides a clear view of the successes and potential issues that may arise. By committing your team to replicate a portion of your production, along with strategic timing to validate closing procedures, you will be guaranteed a worry free go live procedure.
Inversion:
With no more than 2 weeks of external support, your business should be able to run smoothly with enhanced productivity. The final task of the team should be to create a project briefing on successes realized and outstanding recommendations for enhancement of your systems.
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