Analysis & Design

Datacom’s analysis process is about understanding business needs and documenting those in an unambiguous manner, for use during planning, design, development , testing and communication of the intended solution to all business stakeholders.

The design process defines how the solution will be built and implemented into the required systems infrastructure.

In the past these two processes could be provided satisfactorily by one or two people, but the complexity and richness of modern software solutions requires role, skill and task specialisation. Datacom’s people have the expertise to analyse your requirements and design software solutions that meets your business needs. Our experts fill a number of roles:

• Business analysts
• Usability analysts
• Solution architects
• Technical architects
• Integration architects
• User interface designers
• Security designers
• Test analysts

The critical success factors for an analysis and design team are:

• Project management: Management of the scope, budget, and elapsed time creep that is endemic in this project phase
• Requirements analysis: A clear definition of business requirements that are realistically classified into priorities and real business value. If you are provided a requirements document where 95% of the requirements are classified as “mandatory” with no value assessment or justification, start again
• Functionality definition and User Interface design: A focus on clarity and completeness –  gaps will result in poor quality and extended testing durations, with significant cost and time-to-market impacts
• Solution and technical design: Defines the technical delivery of the analysis deliverables so that Build teams can then efficiently deliver the intended solution

In an IT world of constant exciting change, our analysis and design goals and real achievements over decades of providing mission critical customer solutions continue to be:

• Managing and delivering to customer needs and expectations
• Providing analysis and design deliverables that underpin successful project delivery
• Providing solutions that contribute significantly to the success of our customers