Software Consulting
As an Ottawa-based custom software developer, we offer access to our in-house team of
professional consultants and analysts for projects such as:
CMS requirement analysis and consulting services
Understanding why you want to invest in a CMS solution and defining the first level
goals for your project helps to pave the way for success. When looking at available
CMS products currently on the market, you need a step-by-step methodology and experienced CMS
consultants who can safely navigate amongst the vendors. Our business analysts help define your
CMS requirements, technical and software infrastructure and will provide an unbiased opinion
on the current CMS market. Contact us now for a
FREE, no obligation consultation to find out how we can help
you meet your needs.
Web publishing process evaluation and recommendation reports
The design and maintenance of government websites requires strong governance of a
web publishing team, which includes technical, creative, managerial, translation, and
content experts. This team must adhere to a demonstrated web-publishing workflow to
ensure the sustainability of the web content and team member accountability.
Our experienced business analysts will consult with your stakeholders to determine the current
publishing process and then define team member responsibilities with the long-term goal of
ensuring the integrity of online content including adherence to your guidelines. The practical
business rules we will outline for you and your team will define the roles, responsibilities,
and expectations of team members, and will enforce accountability checks to ensure website
governance structures. Contact us now for a
FREE, no obligation consultation to find out how we can help you meet your needs.
Portal requirement analysis and consulting services
The main goal of a portal is to encourage interaction and dissemination of knowledge to each
role-based community user via a personalized and integrated view of the business content (tasks,
events, information, applications, and services) they need to do their work more efficiently
and effectively.
Understanding why you want to invest in a Portal and defining the initial goals for your project helps
to pave the way for your project's success. Contact us now for a
FREE, no obligation consultation to find out how we can help you meet
your needs.
Governance and accountabilty automation solutions
As part of this process, our business analysts will implement a website governance model to ensure
information provided on your website is both accurate and timely, and meets the needs of your
target audience. The provided governance model will facilitate the process of updating and enhancing of
your website through an efficient and comprehensive workflow system. A more efficient system
will enable your web publishing team members to spend more time focusing on other tasks outside website
maintenance such as marketing and promotional campaigns. Contact us
now for a FREE, no obligation consultation to find out how we can help
you meet your needs.
Requirements Analysis
In order to succeed, your project requires rock solid documentation and a
clear understanding of your goals and objectives prior to starting development.
Requirements analysis is scaled to your needs. It can include brainstorming
sessions, user analysis, data analysis, prototypes, etc. The end result is
a document that clearly defines your goals and the functions/features to accomplish
them.
During the analysis phase, you gain greater project insight. This insight
will lead to improvements and a more user-focused product. Contact us
now for a FREE, no obligation consultation to find out how we can help you
meet your needs.
Functional Specifications
For your software projects, you need a Functional Specifications report that
describes what the software can do and how it is going to do it. This report
lists the software requirements, the web environment, the database needs. The
report provides enough detail about how your software should look and run that
any software developer could follow it to build your software.
Contact us now for a FREE, no obligation consultation to find
out how we can help you meet your needs.
Information Architecture Plans
Developing a solid site information architecture is an important first step
to be completed before developing and designing your site. The information
architecture organizes your site into logical categories of information providing
an intuitive environment for users to find information of interest.
Working with you, MarketAccess organizes your information and develops a navigation
approach. To complete the architecture may involve brainstorming sessions,
workgroup sessions, and/or independent research.
Prior to undertaking any project, MarketAccess provides a detailed schedule.
The schedule highlights the work to be completed, the process, milestone activities
for review/feedback and completion dates.
All projects are expertly managed by experienced project managers to ensure
your project is completed on time, on budget and meeting your standards.
Contact us now for a FREE,
no obligation consultation to find out how we can help you meet your needs.
Site Review, Recommendations, and Implementation
Is your site designed with usability and accessibility in mind? Is the information
on your site intelligently organized with an intuitive interface that is easy
to navigate aimed with precision to your target market? Not sure? MarketAccess
can help!
We will review your site with your target market in mind. We will look to ensure
your site has addressed important usability and accessibility standards. We
will review your information architecture to ensure it is intuitive and efficient.
As part of our analysis, we may review the graphical design of your site and
propose minor revisions to greatly increase the effectiveness of the site to
your target market. Upon completion of our review, we provide detailed recommendations.
Your internal team can implement the recommendations or, if desired, MarketAccess
can complete the revisions in a timely and efficient manner. Contact us now for a
FREE, no obligation consultation to find out how we can help you meet
your needs.
On-site Consulting
Even the most skilled professional needs help sometimes. Our consultants can
work with you on site to provide your team the help they need. Our knowledgeable
and talented staff can provide a variety of services, including:
- Workshops and Presentations
- Accessibility Assessments
- On-site Training
- Site Implementation
Recent Examples
Our in-house Business Analysts have recently provided the following consulting
services:
- Treasury Board Secretariat
- State of CLF Compliance Report
In cooperation with the Treasury Board Secretariat, MarketAccess
conducted a State of Compliance review that only the experts in CLF could
deliver. Included in the report were recommendations designed to increase
the rate of compliance and improve accessibility of GoC websites.
- Industry Canada - Innovation Portal Vision Document
MarketAccess worked with Industry Canada to develop a vision and site architecture
document for the Innovation Portal, a site that raises Canadian awareness
of the importance of knowledge and innovation.
- Public Service Commission (PSC) - Intracom Recommendations
Document
MarketAccess teamed with PSC to develop an Intranet requirements analysis
document, recommending the future direction of the PSC Intracom network.
Intracom is the central Intranet, supporting the internal distribution and
sharing of knowledge for 1500 PSC employees nationwide.
- Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) - IMT Recommendations
Document
Working with the Information Management Technology group at ACOA,
MarketAccess produced a vision document report, describing in detail the
requirements for an intranet site that is a support tool to approximately
800 people.
- Canadian Heritage- PCH Intranet Site Architecture
MarketAccess worked with Canadian Heritage to design an intranet web site
structure report and architecture that included recommendations for integrating
future content and applications. Canadian Heritage knew they could depend
on MarketAccess and MarketAccess delivered.
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our Business Consulting projects.
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