Our Approach- Outsourcing To Appian Analytics
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Benefits of Outsourcing
How We Work
Project Approach

Benefits of Outsourcing
There are a number of benefits and cost savings a company can realize through outsourcing:

• Management & Oversight Savings – You save on both your time and the cost related to managing employees.


• Line Item Management Simplicity – Rather than managing more employees you can focus on one line item from your outsourced vendor.


• Increased Business Focus – Businesses that outsource are able to focus on what they do best and not waste time on “non-core” business functions.


• Payroll Tax Savings – You save on the employer’s portion of each employee’s payroll tax as well as worker’s compensation cost which combined can be as much as 12% of pay.


• Healthcare Savings – You save on every increasing healthcare costs which can easily be $1,000 per employee, per month for an employee with a family.


• Incentive Savings – You save on vacation/sick pay, retirement incentives such as 401(k), performance bonuses, and other forms of incentive pay.


• Overhead Expense Savings – You save on a large range of ancillary expenses related to having employees work on your premises including: computers, telephone, internet, offices, administration, recruiting, insurance, and many other expenses.

How We Work
Appian Analytics provides top quality data analysis and software development for our customers' most challenging, data intensive problems. Our goal is to provide the best product to the customer while delivering solutions that are easy for the client to use, implement, and understand. Indeed, it is the core philosophy of Appian Analytics that every client solution must be clear, succinct, and insightful. All our work is driven by the goal of reducing complexity for our clients while providing rigorous data analysis, statistical analysis, report and database automation, data management, and custom software development solutions.

While it is true that each client is unique and requires a unique approach, Appian Analytics does apply certain time-tested methods of delivering successful client projects. Our approach is based on formal process and people management principles. The groundwork of these principles were identified and developed by the Department of Defense. The original research was developed by the Software Engineering Institute and is collectively referred to as the Capability Maturity Model (CMM).

Project Approach
In general terms, clients can expect a project delivery experience based on the following set of work steps. Again, all projects are different and the approach may differ based upon the size, type and scope of the project. Obviously, larger, more complex projects will require a more comprehensive work plan while simple projects may be addressed with less detail and client interaction.

Pre Project
Review Issues

• Describe your situation and business requirements
• Brainstorm solutions with Account Manager
• Identify budgetary constraints, think through ROI, and consider cost to benefit trade-off scenarios

Develop Proposal

• Analyze requirements and brainstorm optimal solutions
• Select the most appropriate project lifecycle model
• Establish project scope, work plan, resource requirements, project timeline, and pricing

Project Kick-Off

• Construct detailed work plan and identify "binary" milestones
• Select staff with the appropriate functional skills and related industry experience
• Identify and begin data gathering and documentation
• Perform quality assurance
• Manage client relationship and ensure customer satisfaction
• Provide varing levels of project visibility to the client as needed

Project Completion

• Perform additional quality assurance and testing
• Review and finalize documentation
• Conduct interim client review sessions

Project Delivery

• If needed, deliver incrementally on milestone events
• Review project with client on-site and/or off-site
• Set future check-in date to confirm quality and customer satisfaction
  

Stop wasting time on data and focus on your business!
Outsourcing to Appian Analytics is a snap