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Collaborative Services Overview
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Collaborative Overview
Collaborative is a fast-growing business and technology consulting firm with 25-30 percent average annual revenue growth.
Business leaders recognize Collaborative’s consistent growth.
Boston Business Journal names Collaborative fourth-fastest-growing private company in 2003, eighth in 2004 and 24th in 2005; eighth largest IT company in 2006, seventh in 2007.
Software Magazine places Collaborative on prestigious Software 500 in 2003, 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Collaborative thought leadership has been featured in several leading publications and at numerous industry events.
Collaborative earns a spot on Inc. Magazine’s 2004 Inc. 500 and the 2008 Inc 5000.
Successful and quickly growing
Recognized in the media
Thought leadership
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Our solutions approachPartnering with our clients
Aligning business and technology initiatives enables our clients to achieve results that deliver business value.
Business Experience
Solution Architecture
Technology Knowledge
Solution Delivery
A keen understanding of enterprise business issues
and operations, with practitioners across multiple
disciplines and skill sets.
A discipline aimed at building the right solution for each client, based on their specific needs and business objectives.
FLEXIBILITY
Our flexible delivery model allows us to work with clients in the way that makes the most sense for the situation: as a trusted advisor, in a blended team scenario, or as a dedicated project team.
Business
Technology
Archite
cture
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Our Team
• Employee based firm consisting of 250+ full time colleagues• Senior level resources• Our colleagues have come from industry and consulting backgrounds
We employ a more experienced and professional workforce than almost any other consulting firm. We pride ourselves on having blended the best aspects of large global consulting firms and small focused boutique consulting firms.
Typical Consulting Firm
Collaborative Consulting
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Delivery Model• Collaborative is organized to maximize the leverage of our most senior
consultants across the entire enterprise to the benefit of our clients. Our National Team provides thought leadership, methodology, work products, and delivery oversight.
National Practice
• Local teams, solution centers and the operations center provide delivery capability, skilled resources and infrastructure.
• Maximize Client Value• Balance Cost• Provide Flexibility
Boston Office
NY/NJ Region
Raleigh Office
Solutions CenterCapability
Corporate Headquarters
Maine Office
Providence Office
NH Hosting Center
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Success stories
Retail and CPG Healthcare
Financial Services
UtilitiesHi-Tech
Insurance
Pharmaceutical
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Collaborative Consulting Services
Business Intelligence
Business Architecture
Application & Data Integration
Software Quality & Performance
IT Architecture & Implementation
Pilot & Implementation
Planning & Roadmap
Architecture & Blueprint
Assessment & Current State
Strategy
Strategy Delivery
Program & Project Management
Insurance Healthcare Financial Services Pharmaceutical Retail / CPG
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Business Intelligence
Business Architecture
Data Integration
Software Quality & Performance
IT Architecture & Implementation
Pilot & Implementation
Planning & Roadmap
Architecture& Blueprint
Assessment & Current State
Strategy
Strategy Delivery
Program & Project Management
Collaborative Consulting Services Overview
Collaborative is a business and technology consulting firm that enables our clients to transform their operations to improve business performance. From strategy through implementation, we execute projects with a pragmatic & programmatic approach to change.
Business architecture focuses on business strategy enablement and business process articulation, implementation, management and improvement.
Business intelligence is about harnessing enterprise information to provide insight into business performance and empower business decision making.
IT architecture and implementation services translate business goals and needs into an optimal solution design and plan for technology build out and operations.
Data integration services focus on linking disparate systems and data within an enterprise to improve their value, performance, usefulness, and functionality.
Software quality and performance services drive improvements into existing and planned applications, such as improving their quality, reliability, capacity, and performance.
Program and project management is the practice of successfully managing complex project and in-flight initiative portfolios using formal project portfolio management activities and techniques.
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Business Architecture
services translate business
strategies into a high
performance operational
blueprint, providing a roadmap
of incremental change to
transform the business.
Business & IT Alignment
Business Operations Assessment & Transformation
Business Process Management
Organizational Change Management
Develop a discipline within an organization that includes process definition, measurement, and improvement, through an effective governance structure.
Business Architecture Overview
Design technology enabled processes and organizational structures, and identify information requirements to achieve specific performance goals.
Translate strategic goals and objectives into a comprehensive plan that prioritizes business and technology initiatives by the value to the enterprise.
Assess the business operations architecture to design a desired state and roadmap that achieve business goals and objectives in a rapidly changing business environment.
Technology Enabled Business Process Design & Roadmap
Define the organizational change program that communicates the business need and change impact, and determines the incentives and support structures that enable successful execution of the change.
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Business Intelligence (BI) Overview
Business intelligence
is about harnessing
enterprise data to provide
insight into business
performance and
empower superior
business decision making.CPM
BI Strategy
Development of a comprehensive plan for BI that addresses core insight, decision-making, and performance measurement needs, prioritized by value, cost, and feasibility.
BI Architecture & Implementation
Development of plans and architecture for BI technology systems and environments, including data, ETL, storage, analytical models, and presentation/management layers.
Developing an understanding of aspects of the corporations performance against KPIs such as financial measures, market metrics, operational and customer performance metrics.
Data Warehousing
Strategy, design, and implementation services around the practice of data warehousing as it related to the creation and usage of business intelligence.
BI ConsolidationBringing together of disparate BI platforms to crate one unified, simplified infrastructure that can be leveraged across the organization.
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IT Architecture & Implementation Overview
IT architecture &
implementation
services translate
business goals and
needs into a smart
design and plan for
technology build out and
operations.
Architecture Strategy
Assessment & Visioning
Technology Governance
Development Services
TechnologyEnablement
Development of a comprehensive technology architecture plan based on business objectives, the current environment, and the envisioned future-state.
Assessment of existing SOA, web or integration strategies/deployments to identify opportunities for improvement and building a “to be” vision for future deployment.
Development of SOA, web and integration technologies and software, from architecture development to coding and deployment of solutions.
Development of SOA or technology governance model that provides rules, management, and oversight of technology environment and operations.
Delivery and deployment of SOA, web or integration-enabled technologies into the active application environment / production environment.
Application Portfolio
Optimization
The cataloging, measuring, planning and migrating of complex application environments to determine which applications can be bolstered, consolidated or retired.
SOA Architecture & Implementation
Development of SOA architecture plans thru to SOA technical development and deployment.
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Data Integration Overview
Data integration
services focus on linking
disparate systems and
data within an enterprise
to improve their value,
performance, usefulness,
and functionality
Data Quality
Data Governance
MDM Strategy & Implementation
Information Management Strategy
Development of a comprehensive strategy based on business objectives, the current environment, and the envisioned future-state
A focus on the sources, transfer and usage of data as it relates to quality, including completeness, latency, accuracy, and other quality dimensions.
Development of the oversight rules, management, and control schemes as they apply to data environment.
Creation of master data management strategy, and deployment of MDM technologies including definition of systems of record, common data definitions, and MDM governance models.
Data Integration
Architecture, design and deployment of data integration environments that serve both operational as well as analytical environments. Employing techniques such as ETL, EAI, ESB and others.
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Software Quality & Performance Overview
Software quality &
performance
services drive improvements
and ensure scalability and
stability for existing and
planned systems, including
improving overall quality,
reliability, capacity, and
performance.
PE Advisory Services
Organizational and operational planning, strategy and design services for transforming internal capabilities.
Understand the QA process and establish a clear roadmap, gaining buy-in, conducting the QA process, and measuring success.
QA Process Assessment &
Strategy
Performance Engineering Assessment
Developing a clear picture of system capabilities helps companies form a strategy to enable seamless growth.
Leverage QA automation tools in conjunction with your QA process to enhance efficiency, and improve test quality and coverage.
QA Automation & Tools
Implementation
Production Performance
Rescue
Minimizing disruption and quickly restore functionality, stability, performance, and capability.
Specific QA strategies and processes for SOA-enabled systems and environments.QA for SOA
Application & Service
Performance Mgt.
Optimizing the performance of specific applications and services within a system.
Includes test infrastructure, functional validation processes, and a Test Data Strategy
QA Test Data Management
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Program & Project Management Overview
Program & project management
is the practice of successfully monitoring and managing complex
project and in-flight initiative portfolios using formal project portfolio management activities
and techniques.
Program + Project Management Office Outsourcing
Program Management Competency Assessment
Program Delivery Assurance
Program Management Outsourcing
Helps organizations understand proficiency levels of its project managers and outlines
training and mentoring needed to address gaps
Independent project reviews to ensure quality is planned and executed from the start of the project
Provides clients with immediate end-to-end PMO capabilities, including innovative tools and processes, as well as a pool of knowledgeable professionals with broad and deep skills
Off-shore Project Management
Management of remote and distributed software and technology projects
PMO
Assessing existing PMOs or establishing an organization to centrally coordinate the management of projects to ensure seamless and effective communication
Portfolio Management
Planning & Execution
Enable businesses to eliminate redundant projects, improve resource allocation and align work with business goals
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Industry Focus
Some industries are have more complex IT requirements than others, especially those where the performance of their core operations is intrinsically linked to the usage, performance, and effectiveness of their information technology investments.
Insurance
Retail / Consumer Products
HealthcareFinancial Services
Information and
Technology enabled
industries
Heavily transactional in nature, with enormous data sets and high
transference/connectivity requirements.
Information-intensive
Complex interaction models
Mission-critical data
Complex systems environments
Complex system environments and complex system/project
portfolios
Mission critical data operations with serious customer impact of
transaction or data failure
Complex multi-tier distribution models (e.g., agent-consumer,
retailer-customer)
Characteristics of performance-driven industries
Pharmaceutical
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