Oberon’s vision assessment helps organizations
ensure success of automated publishing project
The Need for Change
Organizations struggle with the vast amount of information being created, managed, published, and duplicated across the enterprise. Quite often, companies look to Enterprise Content Management Systems to solve their problems, only to find themselves still dealing with high costs of content production, translation and delivery, no improvement in publication quality, and the inability to meet ongoing demands for quicker publishing cycles.
Oberon has assisted many customers make the transition from current processes and systems to automated publishing solutions that deliver real value to the organization, including:
- Increased authoring productivity
- Reduced authoring and publishing costs
- Improved accuracy, consistency and relevance of content
- Quicken time-to-market
- Simplified IT infrastructure
- Lower total cost of ownership
Through our many implementations, we have found that the most successful were those where the customer and Oberon have a thorough understanding of the business drivers, project requirements, use cases, as-is process and value criteria on which success will be measured. Oberon’s Vision Assessment is a proven methodology for ensuring this success.
The Vision Assessment
Oberon’s experience and solutions are typically centered around standards-based software which will allow organizations to use an automated publishing approach to capture content from across the enterprise and then seamlessly store and manage that content in a content management system (or file system) so that it can be dynamically extracted and assembled according to your publishing requirements. The processes supporting the authoring, review, approval, management, and publishing of your content are highly collaborative and critical to your business. Utilizing XML and related standards is the only sure way to protect your information investment and ensure accuracy and productivity.
The Vision Assessment allows us to effectively architect the to-be process, develop an implementation roadmap and plan, and estimate costs and return on investment that will meet or exceed your needs. Our ten step Realized Value Product Development process provides you the assurance you are maximizing your investment. With this methodology we not only deliver an application that will meet your needs technically, but will also meet your company’s business objectives.
Our methodology at a high level includes the following steps:
- Determine Business Objectives
- Develop Requirements
- Develop Use Cases
- Document "As-Is" Process
- Determine Value Criteria
- Architect "To Be" Process
- Develop Implementation Roadmap and Plan
- Implement Solution
- Test Solution
- Realized Value Assessment
The Vision Assessment addresses the first seven steps of our Realized Value Product Development process.
Conducting the Assessment
The Vision Assessment begins with a workshop to perform a cross-functional analysis of your business processes and information flow, your hardware, software and business infrastructure, as well as technical and business requirements. We then assist your team in the development of a vision for the appropriate Automated Publishing Solution Architecture to best fit your business needs.
In the workshop Oberon will interview representatives from all the teams affected by the project in order to get a thorough understanding of the following:
- Business Objectives
- Business Requirements
- Current Technologies and Processes
- Key Use Cases
- Value Criteria
Following the workshop, Oberon will analyze the information, follow up with appropriate personnel to collect additional information, and develop the Vision Assessment document. Oberon will provide your team with a document detailing all the information gathered in the workshop. The document will also detail an architecture for the “to-be” process, a return on investment analysis and a roadmap, plan and estimated cost of each phase of the implementation. Our implementation experts then review these documents with your organization, thereby providing you with a solid foundation for your future projects.
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