Digital TransformationSAFe ImplementationManagement ConsultingBusiness IntelligenceEnterprise ApplicationsManaged IT servicesStrategic Staffing
What is digital transformation?
Digital transformation, at its core, is the the implementation of new technologies, talent, and strategies to improve business operations. Transformation changes how you operate and deliver value to customers. It’s also a cultural change that drastically alters the way companies view business processes. However, every company’s digital transformation journey will look different. Digital Transformation at REVISION is tailored to the specific challenges and needs of your company.
Why digital transformation is important
An organization’s digital transformation changes how the business functions. It affects its processes, workflow, and culture, and enables data from across the organization to be used jointly. The power of joint data will enable a business to benefit from more collaborative ways of working across the organization, a higher level of employee innovation, and productivity.
Is digital transformation the future?
Spending on Digital Transformation is estimated to grow at a rate of 17.1% per annum, reaching $2.3 trillion by 2023. The reason for such investment is the unpredictable nature of our future. In order to remain agile and changeable in the face of adversity, they must adapt digital transformation into the fabric of their day to day business.
What does digital transformation mean for businesses?
A REVISION partnership connects companies to powerful, leading-edge capabilities, aligns organizations to clear courses of action, and builds the skills and mindsets required to embrace new tools and technologies, delivering value long after the end of any engagement. REVISION helps companies move and connect like never before, maximizing the power of technology to serve even greater ends.
How will digital transformation impact customer experience?
As a result of your digital transformation, you can see and track more about your customers, enabling you to provide a personalized experience for the client. It is due to the lack of alignment, automated systems, and data integration that companies are unable to provide greater personalizations to their clients.
What is the agile SAFe methodology?
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), created by Dean Leffingwell in 2018, is a set of organizational and workflow patterns designed for medium to large organizations. The framework is a body of knowledge that promotes alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. The SAFe framework enables cross-functional teams to collaborate effectively and deliver successful outcomes.
How SAFe agile works
There are 10 fundamental concepts in SAFe:
These Lean-Agile Principles make up to foundation of how SAFe agile works to scale your large enterprise.
Take an economic view
Apply systems thinking
Assume variability, preserve options
Build incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles
Base milestones on objective evaluation of working systems
Visualize and limit WIP, reduce batch sizes, and manage queue lengths
Apply cadence, synchronize with cross-domain planning
Unlock the intrinsic motivation of knowledge workers
Decentralize decision-making
Organize around value
© Scaled Agile, Inc.
Who uses SAFe agile?
SAFe is used to scale agile methodologies in place such as Lean, Kanban, and Scrum. The importance is to recognize that SAFe is more about scaling up in larger teams and organizations, rather than for smaller teams that do not require the SAFe methodology.
What is the purpose of the SAFe implementation roadmap?
The SAFe Implementation Roadmap describes the steps an enterprise should take to implement SAFe methodology in an effective manner.
The SAFe Implementation Roadmap consists of an overview graphic and a 12-article series that describes a strategy and an ordered set of activities that have proven to be effective in successfully implementing SAFe.
© Scaled Agile, Inc.
What is an agile environment?
The definition of Agility is “the ability to move quickly and easily.”
An agile environment is one that, through principles and processes, fosters “the ability to move quickly and easily” in project management. An agile environment is all about culture, and culture is defined by people. As a result, agility is constantly nurtured within the company through the actions and principles that the employees follow.
What is the agile SAFe methodology?
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), created by Dean Leffingwell in 2018, is a set of organizational and workflow patterns designed for medium to large organizations. The framework is a body of knowledge that promotes alignment, collaboration, and delivery across large numbers of agile teams. The SAFe framework enables cross-functional teams to collaborate effectively and deliver successful outcomes.
What is the agile value delivery process?
By delivering a standard value on which all teams can focus, cross-functional teams can identify the “why” of their work. As a result of assisting our customers with their digital transformation, we can improve their engagement, time-to-market, team productivity, and quality of their solutions.
Companies with agility built into their business operating system launch frequently and react to market and customer changes. Therefore, they are able to prioritize the right work quickly which aids in happy customers and financial growth.
What is a scaled agile partner?
SAFe training and consulting services are provided by Scaled Agile Partners for enterprises and organizations. As part of the Partner Network, known as Platform Partners, users can visualize, manage, and execute Agile principles by using platform tools based on SAFe.
Read more about REVISION’s Bronze Partnership.
What is management consulting?
Management consulting is the practice of supplying organizations with the right tools and processes to improve their business performance. Organizations enlist the help of management consulting experts to evaluate, observe, and analyze the business processes. As an outcome, consultants create tailored outcomes to target specific problems within the organization.
Why management consulting?
Today’s executives need a strategic partner who can offer a complete, unbiased view of their organization and help them navigate opportunities for change to move towards the future. More often than not, organizations lose sight of the big picture amongst the hustle of day to day operations.
What is included in consulting services?
REVISION offers Performance Management, Business Process Reengineering, Strategic Planning, Organizational Realignment,Governance, and Program and Portfolio Management.
What does management consulting services do?
Our Management Consulting Services solve challenges such as:
- Business strategies that are poorly articulated
- IT priorities that are misaligned with stakeholder needs, leading to unhappy stakeholders and customers
- Organizational structures that are not arranged effectively, creating silos and lack of synergies between teams
- Programs and portfolios that are not organized or planned to successfully achieve strategic objectives
- Unclear or continually shifting work priorities, leading to a confused and demotivated staff
What’s organizational development?
Organization Development reinvigorates an organization and realigns teams to a common mission and a path forward. Organizational Development enables an organization to better deliver value to their customers and to better address challenges that are currently hindering their success. REVISION’s approach is to holistically assess current issues and threats and recommend solutions that increase effectiveness, value and customer satisfaction while also bearing in mind employee morale and opportunities for growth.
What is business process analysis?
Performing business process analysis provides consulting and training services that help clients define and improve business processes to create more efficient and effective organizations. These services can be provided as a standalone project or delivered in advance of, or coordinated with, the development of technology-based client solution. View our article to find out if your business might benefit from business process analysis.
What is management consulting?
Management consulting is the practice of supplying organizations with the right tools and processes to improve their business performance. Organizations enlist the help of management consulting experts to evaluate, observe, and analyze the business processes. As an outcome, consultants create tailored outcomes to target specific problems within the organization.
Why is performance management important?
Performance Measurement and Management Systems provide:
- A measurement system/framework for understanding.
- Tracking.
- Motivating individual and organizational efforts and ensuring they are directed toward achieving organizational strategic objectives.
Find out more on our article on the benefits of performance management.
What does business intelligence mean?
Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term comprised of infrastructure that collects, stores, and analyzes data in order to produce data-driven decision making in a company. Business Intelligence systems act as a catch-all process to capture meaningful data generated by a business and create reports, performance measures, and trends that inform management decisions.
What is the role of business intelligence?
An organization can harness the value of data with the use of business intelligence.
Why is business intelligence important?
Did you know that 7 out of 10 business rate data discovery as very important?
Effective use of Business Intelligence helps businesses create a holistic picture through data.
In recent years, digital advances have had a profound impact on every aspect of our day to day lives, including the world of business. Through these digital developments, companies now have the tools and strategies they need to better understand their customers as well as themselves.
When to use business intelligence?
It is time to invest in Business Intelligence when:
- You have big data but no way to create value from your data.
- You are relying heavily on a few people in your department to invest their time in creating spreadsheets, pie-charts, etc.
- There are way too many softwares to keep track of, the system is too complex to monitor.
Who uses business intelligence?
In virtually any business process, business intelligence (BI) can be valuable. It allows companies to view their data more holistically, empowers their staff to analyze the data for efficiencies, and enables them to make more informed decisions. Departments such as sales, marketing, finance, and operations use business intelligence. Analyzing customer feedback, measuring results with business goals, and sharing data are all significant aspects of BI.
Can business intelligence meet business expectations?
REVISION utilizes business intelligence to align business outcomes with actionable data. BI offers businesses tools that can provide insights about an organization’s current state. We use that data to help businesses create positive change, eliminate wastefulness, and adapt to market or supply trends.
How can you benefit from business intelligence?
Through BI, REVISION solves many business challenges including:
- Legacy data warehouses that have failed to deliver the promised value
- Centralized BI that stymies rapid delivery of requests
- Complex architectures that are costly to maintain
- Immature data governance and standardization of information
- Business stakeholders building “shadow IT” solutions
What is data analytics?
Data analytics is all about analyzing raw data to make conclusions about that information- which includes finding patterns, recognizing outliers, and identifying trends.
What questions can business intelligence answer for my business?
Here is a taste:
How do we analyze customer behavior and buying patterns? What are sales patterns and how do we track them? What is the best way to streamline business processes and operations?
Challenges driven by lack of data result in lost opportunities to deliver value and insights on improving your operational effectiveness. By providing a set of targeted services that result in near-term objectives tied to value-based outcomes, and a long-term strategy to sustain that value.
What is business intelligence software?
Business Intelligence Software is a segment within Business Intelligence. Business intelligence software is a type of application software that houses the tools necessary for retrieving, analyzing, transforming and reporting data used for business intelligence.
What is enterprise application?
An enterprise application (EA) is essentially a software system platform. It is a complex system designed for scalability. Enterprise applications are developed by enterprise architecture to carry multiple major business processes. Businesses adopt an enterprise system to control business processes through a simple, single software architecture.
What is the most important function of an enterprise application?
REVISION’s experience has illuminated that the roles of Business Intelligence (BI) and Enterprise Applications (EA) are often misunderstood or unclear.
Organizations without an EA struggle to articulate the business needs for a formalized discipline. REVISION focuses on business process optimization which is supported by people and technologies that are often misaligned to achieve corporate objectives. With REVISION’s focus on business outcomes, we help our clients understand where technology impacts these outcomes in the most fundamental way. We can help you identify those fundamental impacts in your application stack to achieve better results.
What is enterprise application?
An enterprise application (EA) is essentially a software system platform. It is a complex system designed for scalability. Enterprise applications are developed by enterprise architecture to carry multiple major business processes. Businesses adopt an enterprise system to control business processes through a simple, single software architecture.
What is enterprise applications integration?
As an organization grows, the complexity of enterprise applications increases. Businesses start to depend on multiple varying applications to provide services. However, when there is no communication between enterprise applications, the business fails to connect information flows and produce effective outcomes. In order to close the communication gap between different enterprise applications, we use Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Enterprise Application Integration is a “middleware framework” to create channels for data to travel between applications.
What is salesforce?
REVISION partner, Salesforce, is the world’s leading customer relationship management (CRM) platform. Salesforce uses cloud-based software to better connect businesses with partners, customers, and potential customers. Salesforce allows companies to track customer activity, market to customers, and many more services. Our expertise includes enterprise application-enabled transformation programs, along with the design and implementation of Salesforce solutions using the latest Lightning innovations.
What is cloud computing and virtualization?
Virtualization platforms allow IT services to be created in a virtual environment, using resources that were traditionally tied to hardware. As the foundation of cloud computing, virtualization allows more efficient use of physical computer hardware.
The virtualization process converts physical hardware into virtual machines, while cloud computing is used to store transformed data.
REVISION performs cloud computing with AWS, Google, and Azure. In addition, we utilize VMWare and Citrix for Virtualization solutions.
What is CRM?
CRM refers to a Customer Relationship Management Software. The job of a CRM system is to track all communication and nurture relationships with leads and clients for business owners. It is an all encompassing software that hosts, or manages, all your customer relationships in one place.
REVISION works with the following CRM Software providers:
What is a CMS platform? What does a CMS do?
A CMS platform (content management system platform) refers to software that allows the user to manage various digital content such as blogs posts, and website creation. With a content management system for your website, you can have complete control over your digital presence. In other words, it means having the ability to update any digital content to your liking. CMS platforms keep your site organized and up to date.
REVISION provides its customers with the following CMS platforms:
What is ERP and how does it work?
ERP, Enterprise Resource Planning, software is a form of software that is used by organizations to manage day-to-day activity such as accounting, sales, marketing, finance, human resources, project management, risk assessment, and more.
A company’s ERP system patches together the computer systems within an organization and enables easier communication and information sharing between departments.
What is EMR software and how does it work?
Electronic medical records software (EMR), also referred to as electronic health records software (EHR), is a collection of medical information, pertaining to a patient, that can is created, stored, and updated on a computer. An EMR software is the platform that hosts the digital collection of medical information containing medical history, vitals, tests, diagnoses, etc.
REVISION uses the following software to cater EMR solutions:
What is ITSM and ITIL?
Although ITSM and ITIL are usually a packaged deal, they perform distinct and crucial functions.
In Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) , information systems are managed so that they deliver value to customers. Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a library of standardized practices that guide the overall lifecycle of IT services within a business.
REVISION has extensive experience with ServiceNow and Service Desk software in providing ITSM and ITIL solutions.
What is data analytics?
Data analytics is extracting meaning from raw data using computers. Where the aim is to organize and model the data to draw conclusions and identify patterns.
What is enterprise application?
An enterprise application (EA) is essentially a software system platform. It is a complex system designed for scalability. Enterprise applications are developed by enterprise architecture to carry multiple major business processes. Businesses adopt an enterprise system to control business processes through a simple, single software architecture.
What is Smart Client application?
Using Smart Client, you can perform server-based operations over HTTP connections through an Internet application. Smart Clients are IT systems featuring enhanced features and applications.
Check out how REVISION utilizes Smart Clients for its customers.
What are managed IT services?
Managed IT services exist so that companies can outsource particular tasks to field experts to reduce operation costs, improve quality of service, and enable internal teams to perform company-specific priority tasks.
What IT services does REVISION provide?
REVISION offers the following services:
- Data Maturity Assessment
- Data Governance Enablement
- Data Platform Assessment (Technology)
- Cloud Migration Deep-Dive
- Master Data Management Assessment (MDM)
- Data Ops Enablement
What is cybersecurity?
Cybersecurity is a collection of practices and tool used to protect networks, devices, and data from unauthorized access. Most digital threats can be prevented by investing in cybersecurity. REVISION’s approach in streamlining security and compliance is anchored in eliminating security blind spots and accelerating innovation, transformation and growth.
Why is cybersecurity important?
REVISION believes that cybersecurity is the foundation of every successful process or technology – whether it is eDiscovery, managed review, or adapting to new standards like a remote workforce. Faced with security challenges, today’s executives need a proactive partner who can anticipate and neutralize threats before they materialize. REVISION recognizes very strongly our responsibilities and accountability in holding our partner organizations in compliance and prepared for audit.
Do companies need cybersecurity? Is cybersecurity worth it?
Companies absolutely need cybersecurity measures to most appropriately combat challenges such as:
- Outdated security solutions.
- Vendor promises with light interchange or integration.
- No “SPoG” (single pane of glass) providing ‘executive-readable’ threat intelligence.
- Sophisticated cyberthreats.
- Increasingly far-reaching compliance requirements.
- Myopic Standards and Policies weakening privacy and trust.
What are federal cybersecurity regulations?
The United States federal government does not have a comprehensive federal law regulating cybersecurity and privacy. Instead, companies are left to their own devices to comply with a complex list of laws that indirectly effect cybersecurity.
Not to worry- our team of technologists have more than 100 years of collective experience in cybersecurity and information assurance, having served the Department of Defense, international airports, State and local government agencies and more. We optimize critical business processes — including information governance – for organizations who want to protect their data, technologies and workflows.
What is configuration management?
Configuration Management establishes and maintains consistent performance and functionality for your IT assets by making sure they are known and tracked at all times, including future changes. REVISION has the tools to help improve everything from service uptime and reliability all the way to a smooth recovery in the event of a disaster.
What is an organizational assessment?
REVISION believes the goal of an organizational assessment is multi-fold. Most obvious is the desire to gather data to assess cultural health and identify organizational issues to increase the value of proficiency, strengthen inclusion and increase the cultural competency of an organization’s workforce. Nested within these goals for the assessment process is a valuable opportunity to lay the groundwork for organizational development and engage stakeholders in taking ownership and responsibility for contributing to creating an inclusive environment that embraces the rich diversity of the organization.
Check out our case study to find out more about how REVISION conducts IT organizational assessments.
What does Duo Security do?
As a vendor of cloud-based two-factor authentication, Duo Security specializes in the provision of authentication services.
Before users access your customers’ applications, Duo enables you to verify their identity and the health of their devices. By doing so, Duo eliminates lack of oversight and strengthens your cybersecurity through two-factor authentication and endpoint visibility.
What is strategic staffing?
Strategic staffing, also known as workforce planning, is a human resource strategy to make sure your organization has the workforce it needs to deliver strategic and operational plans. Therefore, a successful business will utilize strategic staffing solutions to employ the right number of people with the right skill sets to reach its current and future operational goals.
What are the benefits of strategic staffing?
- A strategic staffing plan creates a sustainable system to easily identify and resolve problems that arise during the recruitment process.
- Gives companies a clear idea of who needs to do what job, and how through effective screening processes. In turn, eliminates over-hiring, and wasting time as well as resources.
- Saves time by creating consistency and eliminating uneven hiring structures and incorrect staffing levels.
- Increases staff utilization by hiring the right people for the right seats.
Why strategic staffing plans are important
Essentially, strategic staffing plan gives employers the opportunity to “test drive” resources with limited risk before hiring and ensures companies have the right number of permanent and temporary employees for their business to run efficiently.
How strategic staffing differs from traditional staffing?
Strategic staffing is about forming a long-term strategy based on return on investment. Strategic staffing efforts keep business goals in mind and align recruitment with the priorities of the company. Traditional staffing focuses on current priorities for conveniently and reactively filling an open position as fast as possible.