THE TIE WAY
Our approach is simple. We work closely with our clients as one unit focused on designing and implementing Retail Oracle Solutions (Retek). The key to our approach is high-powered teams, combining our seasoned professionals with the people that know your business best, your staff. This collaborative blended team approach gives us the ability to reduce implementation costs for our clients and accelerate the knowledge transfer process.
OUR METHODOLOGY
The TIE Method ™ was developed to ensure the effective use of the Oracle Retail Solutions footprint within your environment, maximizing the return on your investment while minimizing the time to benefit.
Distinguishing characteristics of our methodology:
During our CRP & GAP analysis we listen and understand your business and your organization’s goals – focusing first on your business processes and the objectives of your project
Designing the solutions that best fits your business needs – recognizing that your organization’s goals and requirements are unique.
Creating focused, high-powered teams – combining clients and consultant resources together in a collaborative, “one jersey” team. Utilizing short duration, high-intensity projects segments with specific goals and hard deadlines
Establishing an environment of continuous knowledge transfer –
Enhancing your ability to manage and maintain the solutions after implementation.
Recognizing the critical importance of user-defined, robust system test-
and the important role of system performance testing and tuning throughout the lifecycle of the project.
Focus on end-user readiness – aside from system testing, user readiness is the number one area where system projects fail. We believe in the early focus on end-user participation, training documentation preparation and procedure development.
OUR TEAMS COMES FULLY EQUIPPED
Leveraging years of Oracle retail Solutions (Retek) experience, we have compile a comprehensive set of proven project assets to create our industry leading toolset, the TIE Toolkit™.
The Toolkit includes templates, scripts, deliverables and project management aids that cover the full lifecycle of a system implementation. The TIE Toolkit ™ supports our methodology, the TIE Method ™, which will help streamline, organize and jumpstart each stage of your project.
PROJECT PLAN AND PROJECT ORGANIZATION TOOLS
We use a highly structured methodology and project organization approach which ties together all of the project analysis and deliverables from requirements definition through testing and implementation. Our fully integrated project approach has been adopted by many of our clients as their standard internal project methodology.
PROCESS ANALSYIS AND DESIGN TOOLS
We use a business process decomposition model that divides the business process into its fundamental hierarchical components. This breakdown becomes the basis for mapping process flows and determining area of project responsibility.
REQUIREMENTS TEMPLATES AND GAP ANALAYIS DATABASE
The requirements definition captures the target business functionality and is cross-referenced to our process decomposition analysis. Our gap analysis database can then be used to compare the requirements to delivered system functionality.
TESTING PLANS AND TEST SCRIPTS TEMPLATES
These templates are the foundation for creating extensive testing plans that cover unit testing of customizations through the development of fully integrated cross module test cases.
