Astral

Strategic & Business Consulting

It's good to talk to a professional. Someone who can see the big picture. Consider the best options. And implement the appropriate technology.

Astral offers Strategic Consulting Services that examine your business issues at the grass roots.

We listen to your needs. Define your project. Deliver the solution.

Our strategic services include:

• Information Management Strategic Consulting
• ECM Strategic Consulting
• ECM Business Consulting

Information Management Strategic Consulting

At Astral we undertake analysis and long-term planning for your organisation's information management.

We define a framework by which to manage your information and develop a plan of initiatives to implement the new structure. 

Astral can advise on standards and best practice specific to your industry. Our extensive experience combines with our detailed consultation.

We will assess your current information management practices and processes using our ECM maturity model. This helps determine the most appropriate approach for introducing or extending the role of ECM in your business.

Typical deliverables include an Information Management Framework and an ECM Strategy.

ECM Strategic Consulting

This service focuses on the feasibility of implementing an ECM system and identifies the best implementation approach to achieve the desired business outcomes.  This applies to clients who may have already invested in ECM technology and those who are yet to select a product.

Astral will consider:

• The culture of the organisation
• Where the organisation currently fits in the ECM maturity model
• The short term business benefits that can be achieved
• The long term business outcomes of priority to the organisation

Astral will provide accurate and detailed estimates for all components of a proposed implementation project.  These include external services, hardware, software and time commitment of internal resources.

We can also provide an evaluation framework to assist in the vendor selection process.

Typical deliverables include Business Case, Implementation Approach and Gap Analysis.

ECM Business Consulting

The focus here is on the non-technical implementation tasks of an ECM project.  These include:

• Business change management -changes to the business processes and procedures as well as managing the expectations of how the system will impact the end users.
• End user enablement -ensuring training needs are understood and that training is delivered in the most appropriate medium to achieve the best outcomes.
• Solution design prototyping - making sure we get it right, first time. By prototyping we ensure the feedback of end users is incorporated into design. Impact on current business process is also understood.
• Content migration analysis - Astral work with you to determine which content needs to be migrated to the new solution and the best approach for performing the migration.

Typical deliverables include Business Change Management Strategy, Training Needs Analysis and Recommended Migration Approach.

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