The Need

Developing applications for the Internet is a fast moving field. It is difficult for organizations focused on their services, products, operations, sales, and customers to step back and look at their projects with a viewpoint that comes from current design patterns. Broad knowledge of emerging trends in user experience and cloud technology is critical for success.

The Solution

Scio's consulting services provide our clients with technical and planning, assessments, and reviews based on our hands-on experience in the field. Engagements can range from early stage assistance for new projects to technical assessments or spot code reviews. Our consultants bring a peer-based point of view along with their experience from a wide range of commercial projects. Your project will benefit from the knowledge of a partner in the field with proven practices that go beyond the lofty, academic assistance often provided by global professional services firms.

Scio's Approach

Our software development lifecycle is the base process for our consulting services. We bring together a set of practices and experience specific to each project, but there are some key areas of interest we address directly with targeted engagements:

Application Planning

• Planning for business models, operations, user experience, technical architecture, and infrastructure.
• Application of direct product experience, balanced to your project and market.
• Focused engagements that are specific to your needs and allow you to direct your resources to your core business needs.

Design Reviews

• Peer-level reviews of existing designs for user experience, technical architecture and infrastructure.
• Collaborative engagements that respect your team's domain expertise and leverage Scio's expertise in Internet applications.
• Reviews that help you make critical decisions on priorities, costs, and the road map you are on to complete your project.
  

Technical Assessments

• Clear, specific assessments of technology, code, infrastructure, and the technical issues that often just need a "second set of eyes."
• Honest, upfront judgment on our ability to address your needs before you engage. If our skills do not match your needs, we’ll help find someone who can.
  

Operational Reviews

• Business process reviews to ensure your application is providing the best support possible for your critical "back office" operations.
• Integration reviews to help assess where links between your online data and supporting business services could be stronger or provide better value for decision support.
• Customer support reviews to help judge the alignment of support with customer retention and product enhancement.

Release Management

• Reviews of your software development cycle with an eye to moving to the model users expect in an on-demand world.
• Reviews of processes for formal and Agile-based product and application development teams
• Understandings of current practices, customer expectations, integration needs, feature planning, and strategic product management in the on-demand world.
• Experience from many industries, customer types and product models for your consideration.