The Need of Business & Technology Consulting Group in Software IT Organization

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I still remembered 2008, when there was highly demands from the client to guide on their Product or Project on Functional Part by preparing Wire-frame / Scratches, Scoping etc. At that time iTunes or Google Play was new. But, now time has changed. There are millions of applications are available in the Market with ready made Simple Tool for wire-frame to guide client on Functional Part.

Now a days, most of organization is facing project fails scenarios on the Software Development. The reason is due to not having detail clarity on the Technical Points.

The detail clarity in the sense:

• Automated Business Rules are not finalized while sending Business Proposal.
• Infrastructure Architecture is not finalized.
• High level SOA Level Architecture is not identified.

The second thing, Most of the organizations are in false assumption to consider Functional Scope as a complete Scope. It is true but it is just a Project Discovery Document phase. The other technical phases should be consider while sending Business Proposal or SOW to client.

Looking at current scenario and market trends, every organization is suffering to get Large scale Enterprise level project which is having complex Big Data solutions, Cloud Strategy etc. The main worried for him is they do not have any immediate action plan to tackle this situation.

So, What client is expecting from Service provider to Guide him on?

The Answer is Business & Technology Consulting Group who can guide him on Business & Technology point of view that includes Competitor Analysis, Advise on Latest IT Trends and Best Practices, Advising and Selection of Web & Mobile Framework.

1. The need of Business & Technology Consulting Group:

Today we all are live in Digital World with increased amount of structured and Unstructured Data. In order to make project or product successful there are multiple scenarios needs to be taken care like:

• Does this project require to integrate Cloud Solutions?
• Does this project require integrating Big Data Solutions?
• NoSQL DB Implementation
• Scalability Point of view

The trends are the same that was in 2008 but organization has to change approach to battle this situation to divert into Technology Consulting.

The organization should start this group today or in near future to get advantage of this below things:

• This model is highly suitable to Technology Partner.
• This model can help organization to track complex project which is having require detailed technical consulting in Pre Sales Stage only.
• This model can convert Client’s Idea into Reality by providing Consulting Service.
• This model can Identify Technical Consulting Strategy, Road Map and Phases wise Development Execution.
• This model can design the scalable Server Side Architecture
• This model can implements Big Data with Cloud Solutions Integration.
• This model can gives Solution to client in terms of Business as well Technology Point of View.
• This model can Define Revenue Generation Strategy to client to their Product.

The prime role for this group is to facilitate favorable working atmosphere, proper Business & Technical consultation, knowledge about Market Needs, anticipated changes in technology which have direct impact on client business growth etc.

I reckon it was 2008, where I started my career as a Mobile application developer and worked on multiple platforms such as Android, Symbian, J2ME and BlackBerry than worked as a Business Analyst, Technology Consultant etc.

Over the 6 years, I was lucky enough to get practical experience on overall Software Development Life cycle that includes Analysis, Development & Consulting.