Avalon’s experience has shown us that the most successful projects begin with a business plan that identifies the objectives and clearly lays out the metrics for success. To facilitate this, Avalon has created a series of formal, fixed-price, Assessment offerings. Each Assessment is a rapid but powerful process that includes identifying key stakeholders, developing an overarching strategy and laying out a realistic plan that identifies the right technology to support your business objectives.
Working with your organizations and users, we identify and define the functional requirements, use cases and workflows required for a successful solution. While the deliverables of an Assessment are tailored to best meet the unique needs of each client, an Assessment is often followed by the architecting of a rapid prototype or pilot that provides a window into how the solution will fit into your current infrastructure. We then work closely with you to lay out implementation approaches that integrate internal and external services like social networking, SaaS services or even custom and legacy software. The goal is to mitigate your risk and prove out the approach given the nuances of your organization.
Our Assessments also address how to engage users and manage the change that comes with introducing new ways of collaborating and accessing information. We help you build a plan that avoids alienating users and one that ensures the solution will scale with your organization.
Enterprise Search Assessment
The Enterprise Search Assessement is intended to align technical requirements to business objectives for any Search initiative. Avalon's clients have found this Assessment useful in the development of vendor RFP specifications and in developing ROI models to attain executive sponsorship.
In the Assessment, Avalon Search experts will review key Search concepts; show how other organizations have deployed Search; document your primary needs for content indexing, security, Search, and retrieval; apply best practices in user interface and architecture design to proposed solutions; and, recommend specific steps and projects so you can be confident that your customized Enterprise Search Road Map will help you reach your Search-related goals.
Avalon's Search Assessment can be tailored to a specific search engine or applied to the product you've already deployed to maximize your return on investment.
Align Search project business requirements to Autonomy IDOL technical features.
Align Search project business requirements to Vivisimo Velocity technical features.
Intended to ascertain whether out-of-the-box features provided by Vignette’s OEM Search bundle will sufficiently meet business requirements; useful in determining value from Vignette’s AST Search bundle; useful in properly scoping requirements for a Vignette Search project when an external Search platform (e.g. FAST, K2, Velocity, etc) is in place.
BPM Assessment
Intended to gain understanding of key business processes and key performance goals in order to define and prioritize opportunities for process improvement. The assessment is a first step toward effective modeling of the true business processes, providing the necessary foundation to drive process change resulting in real business ROI.
e-Learning Assessment
Intended to assist in identifying current training capabilities in relation to the organization’s actual needs; interviews are conducted with various levels of the organization to identify training and non-training gaps in order to develop a customized road map to improve current training challenges.