Consulting
Cast Iron Consulting Services
Our consultants are experts in solving integration problems and have solved virtually all of the integration problems you may be facing. As a result, most of our projects are delivered in days rather than months.
Cast Iron consulting services are offered through our dedicated staff or certified partners. Our resources are available globally to provide quality support.
- Select Partners — Select partners have gone through the rigorous Cast Iron Immersion Program ensuring the support they provide is up to Cast Iron's high quality standards.
- Partners — Many partners have established their own integration competency centers using the Cast Iron Solution and offer consulting services directly to customers.
Consulting Offerings
- EasyStart Service Offering — This two-week, fixed-price program provides the close-and-personal experience necessary to ensure a first project's success. Participants will participate in hands-on training including architecture, design, development, and unit-testing activities.
- Fixed Cost Offering — Cast Iron also offers fixed bid engagements to our clients.
E A S Y Methodology
Cast Iron's E A S Y Methodology was created by practitioners for practitioners. It leverages the best practices learned from our many client deployments; mitigating risk and ensuring timely, cost-effective results. E A S Y comprises the following steps and augments clients' existing best practices:
The E A S Y methodology outlines the activities and tasks involved in a typical Cast Iron project. It describes the steps in the process, and the recommended tasks that should be performed along the way.
Explore Phase
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Functional and technical requirements Current and future architecture |
Establish the project scope, understand the business context and requirements Determine the conceptual solution architecture Develop a preliminary schedule and resource plan Obtain sign-off |
Statement of Work, consists of project scope, plan, preliminary schedule and conceptual architecture |
Architect Phase
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Technical requirements Conceptual architecture Project plan and preliminary schedule |
Design the integration architecture Design the integration processes Identify external dependencies Update the schedule Prepare the test plan Plan the development, testing, and production environments |
Integration architecture and design Test plan Updated schedule |
Setup & Configure Phase
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Integration architecture and design Test plan Project plan and schedule Sample data tested |
Set up the development environment Integration configuration Unit and system testing Plan the production infrastructure Prepare the rollout plan Prepare the operations plan |
Rollout plan Operations plan Tested Cast Iron Integration Appliances in QA and user acceptance |
Yield Results Phase
| Inputs | Activities | Results |
|---|---|---|
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Deployment plan Operations plan |
Set up the production Cast Iron Integration Appliance and the production environment Go live — promote the solution from QA into production Transition to your operations support Monitor and operate Write up production Event document |
Production event Business value achieved by the customer |