SOA Solution Sessions
Tightly-Scoped & Highly-Focused Answers & Reality Checks!

• Do you have a specific SOA question that you’d like answered in-depth?

• Would you like help addressing a particular SOA Technology, Methodology, or Sociology challenge?

• Would a quick and independent “Reality Check” increase your confidence in your SOA plans and directions?

If so, we can help!

SOA Solutions Sessions get you the answers and independent evaluations you need…Quickly. Efficiently. Effectively.

Measure Twice, Cut Once…

Sometimes you need an independent, knowledgeable opinion…

• To confirm what you’re planning

• To validate what you’re hearing from another source (like a vendor)

• Just to make sure.

Sometimes you need a trusted advisor. Someone well-informed, experienced and impartial who will ask the tough questions that…

• Challenge your assumptions

• Ensure you haven’t overlooked the obvious- or the subtle nuance.

Our clients often ask us to conduct limited scope, short duration and highly focused engagements to assist them with their special SOA needs…

• Research: Augment your busy staff by having us conduct an investigation and report our findings

• Questions: Help you find an independent answer to a vexing question

• Reality Checks: Quickly evaluate proposals and plans, providing an independent assessment and validation of strategies, tactics, directions and assumptions.

Scope and Approach

Working under a non-disclosure agreement, we will assign the appropriate Subject-Matter Experts to your SOA Solution Session. The team will review written, graphical and electronic material that you provide and will research relevant 3rd party and industry approaches to validate your proposals and plans. Based on your materials, the available information and our own knowledge, expertise and experience, we will…

• Analyze plans, proposals, strategies, tactics, directions and assumptions

• Provide our conclusions regarding their practicality in achieving your business and technical objectives

• Present our recommendations to improve their feasibility and effectiveness.

We will develop and facilitate a presentation that includes our…

• Findings…Objective information obtained during our investigation

• Conclusions…Opinions developed after analysis and consideration of the facts in the context of our expertise and experience, and your business and technical goals

• Recommendations…Suggested courses of action designed to maximize success.

These highly-focused and limited scope SOA Solution Sessions generally require no more than 5-7 billable days to produce the actionable results that you need.

Contact the I/S RESOURCE GROUP to explore how a SOA Solution Session will answer your SOA questions and jump-start your SOA initiatives.

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