Implementation Management

ARGO solutions are custom-tailored to meet our clients' exact specifications. We perform an interactive evaluation and analysis to:

  • Properly align the project scope and timeline to each client's business case
  • Identify key logistics to ensure a successful implementation

Our general implementation management deliverables include:

  • A high-level scope document
  • A phasing strategy
  • A project timeline
  • A risk management assessment
  • Cost estimates
  • Defined resources, roles, and responsibilities
  • A project governance structure

Integrating Solution Architectures

We develop an integrated solution architecture configuration with industry-standard communication and security interfaces that are tailored to your needs.

Our solution architecture accounts for:

  • Integrated components and methods
  • Security and user authentication
  • Database integration
  • Third-party software requirements
  • Failover and disaster recovery
  • Deployment, testing, training, and production environments

Implementing Your Solution

By combining our best-of-breed solution templates with a proven design and development process, we produce a solution that is custom-tailored to meet your needs. ARGO guides you through the following phases:

  • Business requirements analysis
  • Functional and technical design
  • Customization and integration
  • Testing and deployment

Our solution implementation deliverables include:

  • Requirements-based customization and integration scope
  • Functional and technical specifications
  • A customized solution
  • Testing and production support
  • Status and budget reports

Configuring and Maintaining Your Solution

ARGO experts provide on-site training to help you prepare your:

  • Pricing
  • Policy
  • Limits
  • Business rules
  • Testing parameters
  • Training

We also help you:

  • Install and configure your environment to ensure you maximize your ARGO solution's benefits
  • Maintain your customized solution in your environment to ensure your staff have the knowledge and experience required to confidently support deployment

Planning and Testing Your Solution

ARGO analyzes and stress tests your solution to ensure your environment is correctly sized.

Hardware Sizing

ARGO determines the physical hardware requirements you need to support your custom solution based on:

  • ARGO's historic metrics
  • Deployment strategy
  • Number and type of users
  • Number of locations
  • Your historic and projected transaction volume and mix

Bandwidth and Response Time Analysis

We use variable volume and bandwidth scenarios to:

  • Provide expected response times and network usage projections
  • Determine the bandwidth you need to meet or exceed your line-of-business service level agreements.

Stress Testing

ARGO simulates field load conditions to identify and resolve any system or environmental bottlenecks. We test capacity in failover scenarios to validate that a partial configuration will support your full volume.