Approach > IT Perspective on Optaros Approach

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

Value proposition

Customer-facing web apps, on time and on budget

Outsourcing, long-term relationship, scale

Lowest hourly developer rates for back end systems

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

Interface with business

Iterative – rapid user experience prototyping

Waterfall – detailed requirement documentation

Waterfall – detailed requirement documentation

Managed application support/hosting

Yes

Rarely

Rarely

Software license fee reduction

Significant. Deep experience with open source option

None. Promote large, proprietary vendors

None. Promote large, proprietary vendors

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