Cloud Integration
Cast Iron Consulting Services
Our consultants are experts in solving integration problems and have solved virtually all of the integrationproblems you may be facing. As a result, most of our projects are delivered in days rather than months.
Consulting Offerings
- EasyStart Service Offering — This two-week, fixed-price program provides the close-and-personal experience necessary to ensure a first project's success. Participants will participate in hands-on training including architecture, design, development, and unit-testing activities.
- Fixed Cost Offering — Cast Iron also offers fixed bid engagements to our clients.
EASY Methodology
Cast Iron's E A S Y Methodology was created by practitioners for practitioners. It leverages the best practices learned from our many client deployments; mitigating risk and ensuring timely, cost-effective results. E A S Y comprises the following steps and augments clients' existing best practices: The E A S Y methodology outlines the activities and tasks involved in a typical Cast Iron project. It describes the steps in the process, and the recommended tasks that should be performed along the way. EXPLORE PHASE
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Functional and technical requirements Current and future architecture |
Establish the project scope, understand the business context and requirements Determine the conceptual solution architecture Develop a preliminary schedule and resource plan Obtain sign-off |
Statement of Work, consists of project scope, plan, preliminary schedule and conceptual architecture |
ARCHITECT PHASE
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Technical requirements Conceptual architecture Project plan and preliminary schedule |
Design the integration architecture Design the integration processes Identify external dependencies Update the schedule Prepare the test plan Plan the development, testing, and production environments |
Integration architecture and design Test plan Updated schedule |
SETUP & CONFIGURE PHASE
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Integration architecture and design Test plan Project plan and schedule Sample data tested |
Set up the development environment Integration configuration Unit and system testing Plan the production infrastructure Prepare the rollout plan Prepare the operations plan |
Rollout plan Operations plan Tested Cast Iron Integration Solution in QA and user acceptance |
YIELD RESULTS PHASE
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Deployment plan Operations plan |
Set up the production Cast IronIntegration Solution and the production environment Go live — promote the solution from QA into production Transition to your operations support Monitor and operate Write up production Event document |
Production event Business value achieved by the customer |