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What is discoverconsultancy?
discoverconsultancy describes the business consultancy services offered by MSM.  These services complement our expertise in custom software development and support, giving our clients a complete end-to-end service.

Respecting MSM's core values of honesty, flexibility and quality, our consultants apply their skills and knowledge to deliver you an outstanding service, whether it be running requirements workshops or selecting a new software package.  Our consultants all have many years of business experience in a wide range of industries and are able to quickly integrate themselves into your company, rapidly understanding your business issues and constraints.  We pride ourselves on being ethical and impartial - if a package solution rather than bespoke development fits the bill, we won't put our commercial interests first as we believe that by earning your trust over the long term you will continue to use our services.

Our consultancy services include:

bullet point discoverfeasibility
Make use of our consultants’ business analysis skills to undertake IT feasibility studies in diverse business areas. We explore the operational and technical feasibility of alternate solutions, fully outlining the risks and cost benefits of each.  This process allows us to make and justify recommendations as to the best way ahead for your company.  We can also help you measure and evaluate the business case for IT investment.  Read more about consultancy...

bullet point Requirements Analysis
Using our in house methodology (discoversuccess), our consultants undertake requirements gathering for any type of software project.  With previous experience in a huge range of sectors from logistics systems to medical research our approach is suited for all sizes of project.  Our Consultant facilitates a series of workshops and interviews with your project team to identify and prioritise both functional and non-functional requirements.  The key deliverable is a comprehensive Requirements Document against which accurate estimates can be prepared or which can be used as part of a tender process if appropriate.  More complex solutions or environments may warrant development of a set of prototypes of the key screens to help verify the requirements and avoid ambiguity, in which case one of our experienced Developers would work alongside the Consultant.

bullet point Detailed Specification/Use Cases
After the Requirements Document is produced we can provide detailed Use Cases that describe your proposed solution in much greater detail. Use Cases are used to document how your users will interact with the new system and along with a set of detailed prototypes of the solution can act as a technical specification for the development team. As well as being an industry standard approach for preparing detailed specifications Use Cases are also invaluable when it comes to preparing software test plans.

bullet point IT Strategy
Because we don't represent a particular package or product, or hardware vendor, we can apply our wide experience of many different clients' and industries' IT strategies to develop a best practice strategy for your unique needs.

bullet point Procurement Management
Using our years of experience of competing on the other side of the fence we can assist you in your software procurement projects, undertaking all tasks from initial requirements gathering and product research right through to managing the tender process and negotiation.  We will ensure that you ask the right questions and give you the confidence to know that your chosen solution meets the requirements of your business.

bullet point Data Migration
Moving from one system to another?  We can provide advice and technical help on all aspects of data migration including data cleansing and de-duping, data mapping and transformation rules through to writing extraction and import routines.

bullet point discoverwebcheck
discoverwebcheck is our well-proven process to assess web sites according to a variety of criteria.  You will receive valuable advice on improving the design, compliance and usability of your site.  Our understanding of search engine optimisation for our own web site will ensure that you can achieve the best possible search engine ranking.  Read more about optimising your web site...

Why Choose MSM?
We combine our experience and expertise gained from many years involvement in IT and business with listening closely to what you really want. Our ability to quickly understand diverse business issues and to communicate effectively at all levels allows us to provide you with the best service possible.

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Our consultants are experienced enough to tackle any business problem in any industry. Assignments might take from 1 to 100 days and should not be limited to IT problems. We want to help you gain competitive advantage.

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Last updated 08 May 2008

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