Your new bespoke software solution must support your commercial objectives
and accommodate your plans for growth. To achieve this, we make sure every
one of our team develops a deep understanding of your business.
Typically, there are a number of key stages in any implementation:
- Firstly, you’ll get to know Compsoft: how we work, what we can
offer and if we’re right for your business. At the same time, we
learn about you: your business objectives and how this solution will
help to achieve them. We’ll establish together whether a project
is viable - and we’ll also give you a broad indication of what
it might cost.
- Next, we’ll involve the people who will create your solution:
the project manager and software developers. They’ll learn about
your business processes and suggest ways that a solution might underpin
them. We’ll recommend ways of creating an application that best
suits how you work and will maximise your return on investment.
- Then we’ll draw up a discussion document outlining project objectives,
functionality and processes, timescales, and a closer estimation
of cost. Through an iterative process, this is refined into
a specification: detailed enough for us to agree but flexible enough
to allow for the changes which are inevitable as the implementation progresses.
- For your peace of mind, we’ll then draw up a fixed-cost proposal.
This includes a project plan with agreed timescales and milestones
throughout the development cycle.
- Your involvement will continue as your application is developed. You’ll
meet regularly with the Project Manager and the development team to review
progress. Together, we’ll be able to identify any changes or problem
areas in good time and, as early as practicable, you’ll be able
to see your application grow on the Web.
- Testing continues throughout the project, using our proven quality
assurance tools and methods. We’ll deliver the application for
further acceptance testing and for dual running with your
existing system, if there is one.
- With any system, there’s a period of ‘bedding in’.
The system will only go live when you’re completely happy. You’ll
then be handed over to our support department, who’ll be on-hand
whenever you need help.
Thus another successful project is completed, on time and to your satisfaction.