No two projects are alike. The Blue Vertex implementation methodology ensures success for your project while minimizing risk, development cost, and time to operation. We consider the culture of your organization, project team, project scope, and the technologies to be employed when identifying the tasks and deliverables for any project implementation.

Our implementation methodology framework consists of four phases each of which includes several critical deliverables. We are proud of our reputation for not only delivering successful solutions, but also sharing valuable implementation best practices with our customers.

Define Project Scope Identify Requirements Plan Resources and Timeline Specify Acceptance Criteria	Prototype New Technologies Specify System Architecture & Design Specify Component & Interface Design Model Data Structures Specify Mappings & Translations Develop Component & System Tests	Configure Development, Test, and Production Regions Develop & Test Components Configure & Test System	Pilot & Acceptance Test System Convert Data Rollout System Manage Transition & Training Perform Project Assessment

Definition and Planning

We help you define a realistic project scope aligned with your needs and resources in addition to identifying key metrics for measuring project success.

Identifying business and system requirements is vital to success. Our professionals will help your team elicit and document accurate and comprehensive business and system requirements. This allows us to develop an achievable project plan and to identify staff needs during and after implementation.

Acceptance of the solution by the business community may be a simple or extensive process, but it is vital to lasting change. Blue Vertex will assist you with the definition of acceptance criteria that correspond with your business and systems goals.

Design

We will evaluate and prototype any technologies that we plan to leverage. Effective prototyping reduces the risk of adopting new technology and may be critical to the success of your project.

Blue Vertex will architect a solution that will satisfy scalability, throughput, response time, availability, maintainability and other key system requirements. We have experience developing detailed specifications that can be used by your immediate project team or outsourced to third parties.

Development and Testing

Experience with integration technologies, internet technologies, databases, and programming languages makes Blue Vertex a logical choice for development and testing deliverables. We will work with your infrastructure team or third party vendors to configure regions for development, testing, and operation. We can help your team develop software components, configure services, and manage the development process.

Our consultants have experience with formal test planning, test case design, and test execution and management. Our testing approach fits the solution as well as your organization and ensures that all defects and issues are resolved.

Acceptance and Operation

Depending on the nature of the project, we may recommend piloting the solution before full rollout. Some solutions call for a formal acceptance testing process that may require as much planning and management as a system testing process, while other solutions involve a simpler set of acceptance tests. Blue Vertex can work with your technology and business teams to ensure acceptance and successful piloting before supporting data conversion and rollout activities. We will help your team manage the transition and tune the system.

We also transfer knowledge to your organization so that your staff can operate, support and enhance the solution.

We confirm that your needs have been met by our services and will work with you to assess the implementation process and the measurement of results according to the metrics we established during the Definition and Planning phase.