Core Competencies include:

Solution Planning

Prior to beginning your project, Patriot's Business Objects Staffing Solutions will work with you to explore and recognize your business requirements and expectations. By investigating your needs through a number of initiatives, we partner with you to refine the planning process so you achieve the best results from your Patriot's Business Objects solution:

• Discovery and Validation Workshop. As the first step in ensuring success for your projects, we create a workshop in which we will help you document your goals and challenges. Our experts will use the information gathered and plan a roadmap for you project success. Moreover, we also help to create a clear, articulate strategy and share it with stakeholders to build support for your project.
• Scoping and Planning Service. Supported by expert architects and project managers, Patriot's Business Objects Account Management helps you in defining your projects. The Scoping and Planning Service provides you with project initiation deliverables, including the project charter, project success plan, timeline, and resource estimate. This enables a smooth evolution to the design, build and deployment phases of your implementation.
• Balanced Scorecard Service. Our scorecarding workshop will transform your business strategy into action. Our consultants work with you to highlight your objectives, identify key indicators and measures, and set up a pilot scorecard to monitor results for future initiatives.
• Migration and Conversion Rapid Assessment Services. Patriot's Business Objects Consulting helps you determine the requirements of your migration and conversion projects. We first conduct a rapid audit to assess your existing infrastructure, architecture, performance, and capacity. We then deliver a project plan for the migration or conversion process—to make the best use of existing resources, limit risk, and ensure successful results.
• Data Quality Rapid Assessment Service. Your performance management initiatives depend on quality data. To ensure the success of your management project, we enact a five day assessment which will review data quality issues and uncover any problem which must be addressed. We will then set a baseline for ongoing data quality strategy; help reduce project risk from poor data quality; and educate business leads on data quality and shows them how to improve it.

Solution Implementation

Patriot's Business Objects Staffing Solutions offers three levels of service based on the requirements of your business. In each case, the Patriot's Business Objects System Development LifeCycle (SDLC) is used to manage the implementation.

• Project Services. Using the Patriot's Business Objects SDLC, we manage or co-manage with you the complete software development lifecycle. Everything from analysis to deployment and operation will be covered by our comprehensive service. Our approach to your success is based on teamwork and accountability. We share the responsibility for the quality of the deliverables and overall project success, whether it is a single department project or a complex enterprise deployment. This can include first-time implementations of Patriot's Business Objects or migration projects that take advantage of the latest Patriot's Business Objects offerings. These services can also leverage our offshore capabilities.
• Oversight Services. If you've chosen to do the majority of work yourself or have enlisted the services of a Patriot's Business Objects partner or other third party, our consulting team works alongside to proactively manage your implementation. Oversight Services provide a framework for a multi-party engagement, thus allowing you to leverage both partner and Patriot's Business Objects expertise to maximize service value and project delivery. The Oversight framework provides proactive assistance at critical checkpoints during the implementation, along with technology and application expertise.
• Ancillary Services. You may want to own your software project for its entire lifecycle. In this case, Patriot's Business Objects Staffing Solutions can provide discrete service packages to assist you during the process (e.g., security review, capacity planning, performance tuning, model and report optimization). By bringing in additional Patriot's Business Objects resources, you can leverage specific expertise at the right time to help augment your project team and to ensure your project success.

Business Improvement Services

Following the deployment and operation of your software solution, we can help you target opportunities to further extend your investment to align with new or evolving business strategies or take advantage of new capabilities.