Acolyst stands at the pinnacle of innovation by focusing on clients’ current and future technology needs. By understanding our clients’ operations and technology requirements, Acolyst is able to craft solutions driven by their goals and objectives with the ability to comprehend and recognize a program’s life cycle is evident by a strong track record of successfully initiating, planning, executing, delivering, monitoring and controlling projects from inception to completion.
Acolyst is a committed partner to its clients. As such, Acolyst remains engaged with its clients after the insertion of technology and system deployments by providing industry-leading services and support.
Acolyst employs analysts that are trained and utilize Acolyst’s project management approach that takes maximum advantage of extensive experience managing projects of all sizes, across a large number of industries. Acolyst follows a standard project management and software/system development methodology to efficiently and effectively manage unique requirements; identifying and incorporating process improvement such as streamlining and standardizing processes; managing project progress, and identifying and mitigating project risks.
Acolyst identifies milestones that are aligned with key deliverables and dependencies, tracks plans, progress and issues against these milestones. The milestones are scoped, named and identified in a manner that is equally understandable to business-oriented as well as technology-oriented participants. Milestones are also associated with objective criteria in order to eliminate any ambiguity regarding their completion. This maximizes understanding among all participating parties.
Analysis
Acolyst’s success is centered on the use of its documented templates and checklists that have been collected, created, and modified from years of lessons learned and best practices. Acolyst consists of experienced Business, Solutions, and Technical Analysts who have extensive Project and Program Management experience, including PMI or equivalent certifications. Below is an image of the types of analysis work we do.
Requirements gathering is a critical part of software development. Software projects with any degree of complexity need clearly defined requirements to enable the design, development, testing, and deployment of a software solution. Requirements that are poorly gathered or defined often result in software that fails to meet end users needs and business objectives. This often leads to expensive rework, cost overruns, and missed milestones for a project.
Acolyst’s Requirements Elicitation & Visualization Methodology (REVM) combines Acolyst skilled analysts with a robust toolbox of elicitation techniques to quickly understand and capture an organization’s activities, workflow, business logic and decision points in order to align business needs with the IT solution. Collaboration tools are used during the requirements gathering to ensure there is a consistent stream of communication and agreement among all parties involved.
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Tools
As mentioned within Acolyst’s Whitepaper on Data Governance, there are three main product tools that are used to help with continuous process improvement as related to data; CA ERwin Data Profiler, CA ERwin Data Modeler, and Acolyst’s Workflow Data Management Application for Data Governance, VENE.
The utilization of a data profiling tool, CA ERwin Data Profiler, allows the data to be assessed, identifying cross system data overlap, and making sure the information is consistent. Data profiling also collects metrics and statistics that tracks the effectiveness of Data Governance across the enterprise and helps highlight errors that require attention. The metrics establishes measures for monitoring information, performance, and actions to continually improve enterprise data quality.
An organization gains the most advantage from data models created using common standards and processes that are consistent with the enterprise’s view of the data. The data model can be thought of as the foundation for expressing a shared vision and a tool used for communication. It allows for a view to be created inspecting the similarities and differences between the data elements. We use CA ERwin Data Modeler to accomplish this.
Acolyst’s VENE has the ability to alert, track, notify, escalate and approve Data Governance standards and policies during the improvement and modification stage for maturing Data Governance within the organization.
Acolyst’s Workflow Data Management Application for Data Governance, VENE, allows for a standard process of verifying and modifying a data and metric definition, ability to provide and document business justification for the change, and submitting it for approval. The workflow process collates all requests in each cycle and redirects them to be approved. Once the data and metric receives all levels of approval, the change is then implemented and tracked. Implementing the change request process has enabled a stronger sense of trust and accountability across IT Executives.
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