CASE STUDY:
Overview of Case Study
Our client is a global wholesale company. The company had begun the work to replace their Point of Sale (POS) system and had partnered with a company to write a solution. We were engaged when they realized that they needed a large and complex centralized system up and running in a colocation datacenter within 4 months. The company had not purchased nor architected the solution but needed it up and available to meet the project delivery dates.
Our Challenge
To help a client-architect, design, procure and implement the solution to make it available for the development team to deploy in 4 months..
Our Approach
We partnered with the company to analyze their project, technical solution, and implementation schedule so we could be sure we could deliver in the time allotted.
People
The staff lacked the skills to architect and implement a new Point of Sale system
We analyzed the skillset of their existing staff and recommended that they invest in both training as well as some additional staff to support the new technologies being deployed
Process
We met with the development team and analyzed the requirements
We architected the solution and facilitated procurement
We implemented and project managed the solution end to end to ensure a timely execution and budget adherence
Technology
We architected the solution based on the requirements for their Development, Staging and Production environments
We implemented the full development environment and the minimum for staging and production to allow for a more phased approach and costing for the client
Results
We delivered their new POS solution within the 4 month timeline. When we completed the project, our client saw:-
Architecture
- Completed in 3 weeks
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Phasing Approach – Budget
- Allowed for a 40% reduction in the current year budget spend and alignment to deployment for better amortization
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Delivery
- Delivered the complete environment 1 week ahead of schedule
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Budget
- Negotiated an additional 2% off the procurement budget
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