GLOBAL PRACTICE AREAS
Impact Innovations has a strong track record of consistently architecting and building solutions for large, complex, high-touch projects and programs — on time and on budget. You gain rapid, adaptive, cost-effective solutions by taking advantage of our disciplined project execution approach, multi-disciplinary teams, and a seamless ability to blend the right mix of necessary resources to meet and adapt to your specific needs.
In order to focus our expertise on processes which have the most impact to our customers, we maintain five Global Practice Areas. Our consultants and developers have deep experience in each of these areas and can quickly leverage this knowledge and existing assets to recommend and build solutions which will deliver immediate value.
Following are Impact Innovations’ current Global Practice Areas:
Application Development and Integration
Impact Innovations delivers interoperability among various solutions from multiple vendors. This integration helps our customers reduce content redundancy and facilitate information exchange among business users. Our responsive, vendor-agnostic approach ensures flexibility, leverages open source where feasible, and maximizes your return on investment.
Business Strategy
Strategy and architecture services from Impact Innovations can help you successfully assess, plan and design an enterprise-wide IT solution that supports your business goals. Using our expertise and proven methods, these services can provide a strategic road map and technical design for an effective implementation.
ECM Practice
Our Enterprise Content Management (ECM) practice provides end-to-end ECM solution consulting and implementation. We help organizations classify, manage, and retrieve unstructured information, ensuring the relevant content is available to the right people at the right time.
Migration Solutions and Services
Our Migration and Conversion practice is built to offer turn-key document back-file conversion services/solutions as well as systems migration from one platform to another. We understand the importance of our customer’s data, so we safely and effectively migrate legacy applications and client data, reducing risk and minimizing downtime.
Records Management
Our Records Management (RM) practice focuses on providing subject matter expertise in the area of records management and corporate compliance. We implement robust electronic records management solutions in a compliant manner, enforcing business rules and corporate governance.
ENTERPRISE CONTENT MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Implementation of separate, siloed content, document, and workflow solutions have resulted in increased overhead and inefficient workflows and have limited the use of information across the enterprise. Concern about inefficiency and the regulatory mandates governing information is driving a more strategic content and information management mindset.
Impact Innovations’ Professional Consulting Services help organizations classify, manage, and retrieve unstructured information. Our consultants apply proven methodologies and a disciplined approach to address the business, technical, and operational challenges of enterprise content management.
Impact Innovations Consulting Content and Information services offer a holistic approach to address:
- Strategy and Analysis
– Enterprise document management strategy.
– Process and organization assessment and design.
– Technology and application architecture strategy and planning.
– Vendor product selection.
- Design and Development
– Taxonomy and metadata design and development.
– Enterprise and federated search services.
– Enterprise document management solution design and implementation.
– Application integration and custom development.
– Application testing and computer system validation. Content analysis, transformation, and migration.
Content and Information services enable you to deploy a common technology platform that can be leveraged across the enterprise to support content integration and re-use while ensuring compliance. Our approach reduces cost, improves business agility, and reduces the risk of non-compliance.
TESTING AND INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION (IV&V) PRACTICE AREA
The Testing and IV&V Practice Area provides independent services to our clients for verification and validation of their technology solutions. Each phase of our approach tightly integrates with the software development lifecycle. The Impact Innovations Systems IV&V process provides a framework of gates for each development phase, providing entrance and exit criteria. IIS understands that many organizations offer Software Quality Assurance and IV&V services, however, these services result in software defects and missing business functionality. IIS Testing and IV&V Practice Area consists of individuals with technical and business area expertise, allowing for thorough analysis of the software and ability to tightly integrate with the development team and understand the software development approach and deliverables.
The Testing and IV&V Practice Area primarily focuses on enterprise wide software solutions. Best practices and the IIS approach have been implemented leveraging various Quality Assurance and Control tools.
| Review of Process Framework & Management Techniques |
| Activities by Phase |
| Requirements Validation |
- Develop a high level test strategy and plan based on client requirements.
- Understand business purpose of technology solution.
- Evaluate existing process for gathering requirements.
- Assess stakeholders involved in requirements gathering.
- Review requirements against business purpose of solution.
- Build and document the foundation of the use cases for test purposes.
- Understand performance metric goals.
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| Design Verification Analysis |
- Review design against supporting architecture.
- Assess design for white box unit testing.
- Assess design for black box test scenarios.
- Pinpoint integration points and design.
- Identify design points requiring automated test scripts.
- Map design to requirements.
- Perform gap analysis.
- Document findings.
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| Development Evaluation |
- Review development, unit testing, and deployment techniques and standards.
- Evaluate unit testing methods.
- Code review and assessment.
- Code management approach assessment.
- Identify areas requiring automated test scripts.
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| Test Strategy and Planning |
- Determine testing approaches
✔ White Box Testing
✔ Black Box Testing
✔ Performance Testing
✔ Functional Testing
✔ System Testing
✔ Usability Testing
✔ Stress Testing
✔ Security Testing
✔ Negative Testing
✔ Compliance Testing
✔ Integration Focused Testing
- Review initial testing plan and break down plan into further detail as required.
- Communicate testing activities, including stakeholder involvement.
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| Test Script Development |
- Build any required environments in support of testing activities.
- Customize packaged IIS test scripts.
- Develop automated test scripts, as required.
- Develop data population scripting.
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| Conduct Testing |
- Perform testing as defined in the Test Strategy and Planning phase.
- Gather results.
- Perform results analysis.
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| Results Analysis and Reporting |
- Assimilate findings.
- Perform findings analysis.
- Draft and finalize recommendations.
- Document results and recommendations.
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MIGRATION SERVICES
Our Migration and Conversion practice is built to offer turn-key document back-file conversion services/solutions as well as systems migration from one platform to another. We understand the importance of our customer’s data: the information needs to be produced or re-purposed with precision. The practice is comprised of two focused areas as follows:
- Systems Migration – Our migration experts maintain of set of utilities, scripts, and documented procedures on how to migrate and/or move information (e.g. data, content, records) from a source to a target solution. Our conversion migration support team also serves our professional consulting teams on various migration engagements and acts as a trusted advisor.
- Document Conversion – Our conversion practice team focuses on digitizing the paper-based, film, and/or electronic media into reusable/consumable content based on the customer’s requirements.
DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
Impact Innovations has a strong track record of consistently architecting and building solutions for large, complex, high-touch projects and programs — on time and on budget. You gain rapid, adaptive, cost-effective solutions by taking advantage of our disciplined project execution approach, multi-disciplinary teams, and a seamless ability to blend the right mix of necessary resources to meet and adapt to your specific needs.
This means we encounter and understand nuances and subtleties that can’t be seen from afar by typical firms. It means we can transfer knowledge and insight from specific functions from other industries to deliver immediate impact to your organization. This collective intelligence enables us to deliver superior applications more quickly and consistently than our competitors.
Our responsive, vendor-agnostic approach ensures flexibility, leverages open source where feasible, and maximizes your return on investment. This technology-neutral viewpoint fosters high product quality and user adoption rates by exploiting the benefits of the latest technology in an agile, user-centric application development environment. The result: Your users gain access to more useful functionality at a lower cost.
Impact Innovations’ Application Development Services include:
- Application Development and Systems Integration
- Customer Data Integration
- User Experience Design and Implementation
- Enterprise Information Management (Data Warehousing, ETL (Extract, Transform, and Load), and Master Data Management)
- Product Selection and Implementation
- Agile Business Process Management
- Billing Managed Services (Insurance)
- Legacy Modernization
Impact Innovations also has expertise in key technology areas such as:
- SOA (Service Oriented Architectures)
- BPM (Business Process Management)
- RIA (Rich Internet Applications)
- Open Source Technologies
- Web 2.0
- Collaboration
- ECM (Enterprise Content Management)
- Portals
- Security and Identity Management
- Taxonomy
- Enterprise Search
