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A business strategy to select and manage customers to optimize long-term value. CRM requires a customer-centric business philosophy and culture to support effective marketing, sales, and service processes.
- Development of Business Objectives
- Alignment with Business Approach
- Business Process Re-engineering and Change Management
- Software Analysis and Procurement
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- Instituting Best Practices
- Implementation & Testing
- Training and Support
- Performance Measures and Surveys
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Horizon provides software IV&V services to ensure that projects
proceed to final acceptance in a systematic manner. That is, project
milestones are met, deliverables are acceptable, and risks are effectively
managed.
- Software Strategy and Product Evaluation
(Technical due diligence)
- Alignment with Business Approach
- Requirements Tracing
- Document and Process Reviews
- Acquisition Assistance
- Risk Management
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Identifying needs and refining requirements. Applying technology and market knowledge to develop business case and determine feasible alternatives and risks. Analyzing and constructing business processes and utilizing financial skills to develop Economic Analysis of costs and benefits. IAW DoD_OMB and Clinger Cohen Act regulations. Formulating an action plan to initiate and support organizational goals.
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Business Case Analysis
- Alternative Identification
- High-Level Cost Assessment
- Benefits
- Risks
- Feasibility
- Business Process and Data Map
- Recommendation
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Economic Analysis
- Alternative System and Process Analysis
- Cost Analysis
- Cost Modeling
- Present Value Analysis of Alternatives
- Cost Justifications and EA documentation
- Correlating costs to client budget categories
- Risk Assessment and Mitigation
- Alternative Refinement
- Recommendation and Action Plan
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Computer Technology is rapidly evolving and with every change comes the increased potential for vulnerability. We must stay informed regarding how these changes affect the protection of IS and the data stored within them.
- Assess security needs and capabilities
- Develop a purposeful security design or configuration
- Physical Security Assessments for Storage, Processing, Destruction
- Network Security Risk Analysis, Firewalls and Intrusion Detection
- Penetration Testing and Port Scanning
- Implement required controls or safeguards
- Change Management to an established baseline securely
- Certification and Accreditation Methodology Based on DITSCAP, NISPOM, FIPS Pub 102
- DoD Security Test & Evaluation, Security Technical Implementation Guidelines (STIG) Implementation
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Analyzing needs from enterprise and department level perspectives. Building a roadmap of business processes, systems, and data to feed into overall objective. Managing deployment of Human Resources, Financials, Supply Chain Management, and Customer Relationship Management systems.
- Analyze User and Management Needs
- Construct Business Process Maps
- Business Process Re-Engineering
- Information Architecture Design
- System Requirements and GAP Assessment
- Data Mapping and Data Transfer
- Blueprinting
- Transition Planning and Interoperability Assessment
- Integration and Implementation Management
- Testing
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Blending business knowledge and technical expertise to design user
centric intuitive applications. Understanding enterprise initiatives
and incorporating applicable policies and standards into the development
process. Performing user tests, prototyping and IV&V to minimize
costs and increase level of success with implementation.
- Business Case Analysis
- Business Process Mapping
- Functional and Technical Requirements
- System Design and Development
- Prototyping and Testing
- Help System Development
- User and Administrative Training
- Life Cycle Documentation (IEEE Standards)
- Intranet Development and Maintenance (Web Applications, Portals, Content Management, LDAP)
- Transactional Custom System Design and Development (Web/Client Server)
- Configuration Management
- Independent Verification and Validation
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A Data Warehouse is a repository of integrated information, available for queries and analysis. Data and information are extracted from heterogeneous sources as they are generated....This makes it much easier and more efficient to run queries over data that originally came from different sources.
- Customer Analysis and Strategy
- High-Level Data Model Design
- Data Marts Design
- Data Modeling
- Metadata Strategy
- Extraction Transformation and Loading (ETL)
- Business Intelligence
- Implementation Planning and Testing
- Implementation
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Horizon can help you take raw data to the knowledge level. It only becomes information when it becomes relevant to your decision problem. Clustering, finding relationships or full statistical analysis.
- Customer Analysis and Defining the problem
- Design of Data Collection
- Confirmatory Methods of Analyzing Data
- OLAP (on-line analytical processing) Query Tools
- Reporting the Results
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