Business partner frustrations are growing with IT’s current approach to delivering fast moving, customer-facing web applications. Most IT organizations and their contractors are well suited to address back end systems; but heavy processes built to ensure quality (CMM, waterfall, etc.) do not fit well with rapidly changing, customer-facing, highly visual web applications.
Optaros has developed an approach designed to predictably deliver stakeholder-facing web applications that delight your business partners. We conduct active, highly visual, rapid prototyping sessions with business sponsors in order to deliver rich wireframes of the final application instead of the typical requirements documentation and waterfall process offered by other consulting companies. After 5 years and hundreds of engagements, we are confident in our rapid approach and are willing to contractually commit to deliver these applications on time and on budget.
We know that we are different from traditional vendors you may utilize, but our differences make us well suited to be your preferred partner for stakeholder-facing web applications. To better understand how we are different, please review the table below and watch a short video from the CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority describing what it is like to work with us.
Click the link to hear more of the interview with Steve Snyder, CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority.
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Systems Integrator |
Offshore / Body Shop |
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Value proposition |
Customer-facing web apps, on time and on budget |
Outsourcing, long-term relationship, scale |
Lowest hourly developer rates for back end systems |
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Speed to deliver solution |
Rapid. We even commit contractually to meet the date at a fixed price |
Slow. The longer it takes, the more money the vendor makes |
Slow. The longer it takes, the more money the vendor makes |
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Interface with business |
Iterative – rapid user experience prototyping |
Waterfall – detailed requirement documentation |
Waterfall – detailed requirement documentation |
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Managed application support/hosting |
Yes |
Rarely |
Rarely |
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Software license fee reduction |
Significant. Deep experience with open source option |
None. Promote large, proprietary vendors |
None. Promote large, proprietary vendors |
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Risk application fails user acceptance |
Low. Prototyping ensures stakeholders see exactly what they will get each step along the way |
High. Waterfall yields surprises; not flexible to changing requirements |
High. Waterfall yields surprises; not flexible to changing requirements |
