Identity Management
Enterprise Solutions
Enterprise solutions are services, applications, or other significant business changes that affect more than one organizational, functional, and/or technical area, and that combines a number of variables into a cohesive business solution.
eMentum's Approach To Enterprise SolutionseMentum brings a comprehensive approach to solving enterprise challenges by offering solutions well suited for organizational and business needs. Our services begin with the acceptance that an issue exists, continue through the implementation of the solution, and end only when the user community has adopted the new business environment. eMentum provides assistance with planning, management, and delivery of the solution by bringing together a cross-functional team to augment clients’ resources, and integrate seamlessly within client cultures.
- Ensure that information technology systems are funded, developed, and operated to provide the greatest level of performance, manage risk, and provide robust services
- Effectively manage the portfolio of capital assets, including information technology, to ensure that resources are wisely invested
- Integrate the planning, acquisition, and management of capital assets into the budget decision-making process
We customize our methodologies according to the specific performance goals and measures that need to be realized. This allows us to deliver solutions accepted by the business and to accelerate technology programs through up-front planning and development.
eMentum also involves our clients in every step of the software development life cycle, from planning to technical handover, so the ownership of the solution is clear. Every decision and every task is driven by business need and managed by a business owner so that our clients can be confident they are receiving a solution that is functionally, as well as technically, solid.
Risk ManagementIf an organization jumps from problem identification to a technical answer -- without first evaluating the end-to-end impact of the problem in terms of the processes, organization, and information -- unforeseen requirements and expanded scope can cause cost and schedule overruns. This, in turn, means that other important initiatives may be delayed or cancelled.
- Jumping from problem identification to a technical answer without first evaluating the end-to-end impact of the problem in terms of the processes, organization, and information
- Choosing a solution based on cost and/or speed of delivery, rather than ensuring that the functional requirements are defined in advance
- Delaying analysis of the problem because you hope it will "just go away" or the next administration will reverse policy
eMentum ensures that all requirements are tied to one or more business goals and objectives. These requirements are then decomposed into their process, role, information, system, and technical components so they can be managed by the appropriate experts. We then place all requirements under traceability controls to ensure they are delivered as approved, and under configuration controls to enable effective scope management.
If an organization chooses a solution based on cost and/or speed of delivery, rather than ensuring that the functional requirements are defined in advance, it increases the likelihood that the solution will not be well received by the user community, that there will be intentional reluctance to using the new system, or, in the worst case, avoidance by resisting the change or by the creation of manual work-arounds.
eMentum includes on the program team the applicable subject-matter experts from eMentum and from the stakeholder business teams. These SMEs advise the program on usability issues and ensure that the defined requirements accurately reflect business needs. They also serve as members of the user-acceptance test team, and as advocates when the solution is released into the production environment.
If an organization delays analysis of the problem – hoping it will "just go away" or policy will be reversed – it risks non-compliance, which may be reported to oversight agencies and to the public, raising questions about fiduciary responsibility and integrity. eMentum uses our client’s enterprise architecture as a guide to the approved roadmap, allowing us to ensure that functional, information, application, and technical proposals are in line with the overall strategic direction. This approach ensures “audit readiness” for internal and external oversight.
Our Clients SucceedeMentum’s approach to enterprise solutions allows the target solution to be selected by, managed by, and controlled by the users who will be impacted most by the solution – and allows eMentum to ensure that these users’ needs receive primary attention.
Our approach ties everything back to the business need and its strategic direction so our clients can be confident that the solution will assist them in delivering on their performance goals and objectives.
