Feasibility Studies
Hytec provide a comprehensive range of solution proofing services to help our customers take the risk out of IT investment.
Overview
In today’s complex and fast changing environment, IT solutions have so many interlinking and interdependent touch-points, it is vital that only the most thoroughly considered IT initiatives gain traction in order to realise the value of investment.
The consequences of not fully testing a proposed technical solution prior to commissioning deployment are usual not only costly but also usually of serious detriment to the organisation's efficiency and ability to perform its key role.
It is therefore of paramount importance that a rigorous feasibility study is undertaken prior to any decision being taken regarding implementation.
Whilst this can be achieved by internal resources it is normally the case that political agendas form and gaining an unbiased view of the likelihood of project success and benefit realisation becomes nigh on impossible to objectively gauge.
Why Hytec?
Hytec are frequently engaged to corroborate the validity and likely success of an IT project before any major spend is committed to and we readily understand that the underlying requirement of most organisations is to de-risk their IT investment from the outset of the process.
Our vendor- neutral stance and external expert status is combined with our rigorous best- practice assessment framework which can assist organisations to ratify their major IT initiatives as fit for purpose.
The Hytec feasibility study process extends through four clearly defined stages to assist organisations to validate technical, functional, acceptance, gauge general interest in a solution and make the leap between solution design and deployment.
Proof of Concept (PoC)
The Proof of Concept stage should be undertaken early in the development cycle and entails building a skeletal version of the proposed solution to validate technical approaches on key parts of proposed technical solution.
A well conducted PoC exercise is used to:
Validate technical feasibility
Identify potential pitfalls
Identify limitations
Determine the scope and level of customization required
Undertaking a thorough Proof of Concept exercise also helps to identify likely performance issues or bottlenecks.
Prototype
The prototype stage provides a more "complete" implementation allowing further examination on the feasibility of the solution from a functional perspective as it is "layered" on the technical solution. However, neither a PoC nor a Prototype should be considered production- quality. These are solely for early determination of the feasibility of the technical or business solution.
Pilot
A Pilot is intended to be production quality - albeit on a smaller scale but building on the findings of the PoC and Prototype stages in order to validate approach, minimize risk, and help determine scope and effort.
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