SmartStart

Unify Consulting Services

SmartStart

Unify Professional Services

Customized Services to Meet Information System Objectives

Unify's Professional Services personnel know how to build high-performance client/server applications right the first time. Unify professional consultants employ a unique client/server development framework, with the industry-specific experience and expertise to bring the power of object-oriented technology to your application design.

Get Off to the Right Start

The SmartStart Development Program provides a customized package of professional services to give your project team the foundation of knowledge and experience needed to meet your information system objectives. The program is designed to assist you in making the transition to the development of open client/server applications.

Knowledge Transfer for Corporate Developers

Whether your organization is part of a large, centralized IS effort or an internal entrepreneurial development shop, you can tailor the SmartStart Program to provide knowledge transfer and to meet organizational goals and resource needs. Corporate project leaders benefit from the precise, step-by-step planning process provided by the SmartStart Program.

The program provides a firm foundation in development strategy, standards, and application roll-out to accommodate varying development requirements during the life of a project.

Streamlined Development for VARs

Value-added resellers find the SmartStart Program saves valuable development and deployment time. In the early design phase of application projects, the program helps VARs to built-in client and server processing principles which optimize performance once an application is deployed in a client/server environment. VARs also benefit from the thorough application "portability check" (available only from SmartStart) which ensures that an application meets optimum portability requirements.

Technical Leverage for System Integrators

System integrators benefit from using the SmartStart Program as technical leverage at the front-end of development projects. By partnering with Unify Professional Services, system integrators receive technical support for their clients at a critical phase in the project life cycle. The Smart-Start Program supports the unique needs of system integrators by providing development professionals who know how to make client/server development projects successful.

Program Services

The SmartStart development program includes a customized mix of classroom training, individual mentoring, team facilitation and executive briefings. Working with Unify's Professional Services team, your "blueprint for success" can be tailored to include:

Review of your company's strategic business plan
Review of your company's information technology plan
Selection and scope of the designed Unify VISION application
Outline of the SmartStart Project
Unify VISION product training
Definition of the development environment and preliminary development standards
Construction of the SmartStart Project application by your team and Unify professional services personnel
Ongoing partnership activities, such as project planning and review sessions.

Program Approach

The strategy for Unify's SmartStart approach begins with a determination of the success requirements for your first Unify VISION project. Next, a representative portion of the application is selected and taken through the development process. During the development process, Unify professionals transfer knowledge at every step. The successful completion of your SmartStart project serves as a model for subsequent development.

SmartStart Program Benefits

Participating in the SmartStart Program makes the difference between marginal and absolute success in implementing open client/server applications. Your development staff gains:

In-depth understanding of Unify VISION client/server application development tools and methods
A customized "blueprint for success" to implement Unify technology in your unique environment
Early and continued success in delivering client/server solutions
Confidence and self-sufficiency in building and maintaining Unify VISION applications
A strong partnership tailored to meet your organization's needs.

The SmartStart Program helps you meet the following objectives: train your core development team in the product basics, establish and refine client/server starter development standards, reinforce and extend your formal training in a real-world development environment, build early organizational support for your first Unify VISION project. The SmartStart Program gives you and your team a solid launch into the full-scale development process.

For More Program Information

To receive more information about the SmartStart Program and how it can help get your organization off to the right start in application development, call 1-800-24-UNIFY.