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Brady’s Quick Start Physical Trading Solution
A ComTechAdvisory Whitepaper
CONTROLLING IMPLEMENTATION AND
SUPPORT COSTS
As previously noted, although often required and demanded by users, configurability will almost
invariably lead to increased implementation timescales and costs. In part because the users
simply cannot know the true capabilities and flexibilities of the solution at the outset of the
project and, the software consultants and specialists cannot know the true complexity of the
customer’s business.
Developing this understanding on both sides only
comes with time and familiarity despite the best and
most careful project planning...and without it, the im-
plementation effort can become elongated and/or de-
railed as previously undisclosed factors are uncovered
and false starts occur. Once implemented, on-going
support can be increasingly problematic as well de-
pending upon the implementation decisions that have
been taken. In other instances, the user has selected
the software for a specific purpose or commodity and
does not need a lot of the built-in functionality. In this
instance, care must be taken to ensure a clean and fo-
cused implementation…though perhaps leaving room
for use of some of the provided but currently unneed-
ed functionality in the future. The conundrum then
becomes how to implement the solution to meet the
requirements in a way that is most expeditious and yet
does not close the door on future modification of the
initial configuration and available functionality.
In order to provide a comprehensive solution that can
grow with the user’s business and yet one that can be
implemented in relatively short time frames, vendors
have proposed various approaches. Most often, these
approaches utilize “use cases” that define a fixed
scope of processes and functionality at the outset in
order to implement faster and with reduced risk of
time slippage. Brady’s Physical trading solution Quick
Start program is one such approach.
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