Blue Sky Technology Partners provides a full range of Professional Business Technology Consulting Services to ensure the success of Client projects. The Professional Services we offer encompass the full lifecycle a project – from Needs Analysis through Specification Design, Development, Implementation, Training and Support.
Blue Sky’s Professional Services are fully customizable to meet your requirements of project scope, schedule (duration, time), budget, and other considerations.
Custom Development
Blue Sky Systems Customization or Custom Application Development offers clients the ability to get software systems that meet unique, special, or “verical business industry specific” requirements that cannot be readily or realistically addressed and fulfilled using commercially available “off the shelf” software.
Requirements Analysis
Blue Sky’s Requirements Analyses services include interviewing key users (or “stake-holders”) to develop a detailed understanding of what they need and expect the system to do (“functional requirements”), how work gets performed (“work flows”), users of the system, their roles, and their hierarchical relationships (“usage classes”), specific information to be managed (data definition), reporting requirements, systems integration strategy, and other relevant information.
Functional Specifications
Blue Sky’s Functional Specifications development services provide for the formal translation of Business Requirements (emanating from the Nees Analyses) into detailed software programming instructions for Client review and approval (to ensure that the requirements are properly understood), and for delivery to the software development, and implementation team.
Project Planning
Blue Sky’s Project Planning services include analyses of the requirements, functional specifications, project scope, impact on various functions, development methodology, data conversion requirements, integration requirements, reporting services, key user schedules, budgets, required resources, task completion timelines, and other business factors, to develop a best case scenario, or approach, for successfully implementing a system.
Interactive Prototyping
Blue Sky’s Interactive Prototyping (if needed) is the development of a “demonstration system” (limited functionality – as required to verify common understandings about the planned system) or to demonstrate, conceptually, how a fully customized and implemented system will appear and function. BlueSky Interactive Prototyping offers an opportunity to reduce the risks of traditional development by showing and actual system before full-scale programming is performed.
Implementation Support and Data Conversion
Blue Sky offers Implementation Support and Data Conversion services to help accelerate the successful deliveery and adoption of system. Data conversion services involves the translation one form of computer data to a different one, usually for the purpose of application interoperability, or capability of using new features. It is imperative that data conversion be regarded and managed as one of the most important steps in the implemention a system.
Reports Development
Blue Sky’s Reports Development services provide for the creation, access, and or delivery of system data in whatever format(s) Clients require. Typically, the best way to accomplish this objective is to examine copies of all critical existing reports, regardless of whether they are in Excel, Word, or some other format, and to use the existing reports, combined with a “wish list” of additional reports sought, as a “template” or guide for developing a new Reporting Strategy and actual Reports.
Training
Blue Sky offers User Training to teach staff the best, most efficient, and most valuable ways of using the system to accomplish the business objectives identified in the Requirements Analysis and other phases of the development project. Training can be provided in numerous ways: on-site, virtually, via the web, in documentation, or through the creation of training videos (additional costs may apply for some of these).
Integration Services and Financial Integration
Blue Sky Integration Services offer substantial additional value to the software by eliminating the need for duplicate or redundant data entry. The most common for of systems integration is between Blue Sky and whatever Financial System is in use (e.g. QuickBooks, Quicken, Peachtree, Dynamics, or other similar systems).
Customer Support and BlueSkySaaS System Maintenance
Blue Sky Customer Support and BlueSkySaaS System Maintenance provides ongoing Telephone, Email, Help Files, Forum, Web-based, (and, if necessary, Live-In Person) support for Clients and the software. Blue Sky’s Maintenance plan includes patch releases, scheduled upgrades, and new software releases (differs by module or subsystem).
Blue Sky Technology Partners can serve as you Small Business Technology Partner for Professional Business Technology Consulting Services.
