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Brady’s Quick Start Physical Trading Solution
• Hosted by vendor – Removes the need for the
customer to acquire, deploy and configure com-
plex hardware and places the onus on the vendor
smoothing the project plan. Additionally, users
gain access to the system from day one of the
project.
• Project scope focuses on Brady presenting the
solution and ensuring that the customer under-
stands what it provides and how it is used. – This
means that those who understand the software
the best take responsibility for the project scope,
ideally eliminating issues associated with not fully
understanding the system’s capabilities as previ-
ously mentioned above. It further places the em-
phasis and responsibility for understanding the
business requirements on the vendor as well. In
which case it is also very important for the cus-
tomer to be confident in the vendor’s business
knowledge. The vendor also provides training of
the users (up to 6) – ideally the core team who will
then train other users on how to use the system.
By following these principles, Brady is able to offer a
fixed price and fixed duration for the implementation
project, at a lower cost and over a shorter duration
than would otherwise be possible. The whole idea
behind Quick Start is to get into production quick-
ly with a standard product deferring any changes or
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other complexities to post-implementation once the
users have gained real-world experience and truly un-
derstand the capabilities of that standard configura-
tion. Often users will discover that the core product
provides capabilities they had not fully appreciated
at the outset and can, via small business process ad-
justments, forgo any code changes or functional ex-
tensions, allowing the vendor to better support the
product going forward. In essence, the approach is to
implement ready to use software following a series of
tightly scoped and controlled steps that are designed
to ensure that the solution is used and understood
correctly by the users.
Following a successful go-live, any configuration addi-
tions or changes can be defined based on a much bet-
ter understanding of how the core product and default
configuration work – ensuring that time is only spent
where it will really make a difference.
The Brady Quick Start approach ensures that the us-
ers gain a working system that covers the basics for
Base Metals. This naturally includes a lot of functional-
ity from physical contracts and derivatives to invoicing.
“Out of the box” the system is complete with standard
reports and more than sufficient functionality to run
the business from day one.
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