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Data Design
has provided purpose-built software solutions for many industries and
agencies since 1986.
Project
Philosophy:
Our philosophy of software architecture is
driven by the practical needs of our customers, instead of relying on
the wish that specific technologies will somehow provide the fix.
If your organization has experienced the
frustration of a long and costly implementation, only to find that the
end product fills few of the original requirements, then you have seen
the natural consequences of the technological approach to software
based solutions. If this disappointment is followed by a project
to phase out the system in favor yet another system that is selected,
procured, and implemented using all the same methods, then it's time to
try a different approach.
Project
Management Method:
We refer to our project-management method as
"collaborative integration", because all successful projects pull their
talent from a diverse pool of skilled and caring contributors, and
deliver solutions that work within a changing landscape of existing
legacy systems. Data Design will assemble the team needed to
integrate with any system you have, and to perform any needed migration
into Fleet Express USA.
Project Focus:
Our project focus remains on the end
product; not the technologies used to produce it. Experience
shows that a focus on anything else is like taking your eye off the
ball. By keeping all phases of the project focused on the
end-user's application software, we never lose sight of the factors
that create a successful result. Even though needs such as
up-stream reporting may be seen as originating away from the end-user,
it is still that end-user that must provide those reports. Using
this trickle-up approach to information management tends to produce a
system that can meet the needs of the managers "on the ground" while
maintaining all of the data needed for executive or legislative
reporting.
If you receive funds from the US Government,
then you can think of GPRA reporting requirements as a good test of
proper system design and integration. If your current system
requires you to "jump through hoops", or "guess" at your GPRA numbers,
then you're living with an example of poor system design. When
GPRA is required, it will not be satisfied with any integrity unless it
is implemented in a manner that is both seamless and transparent to the
end-user. Fleet Express USA has all the hooks for GPRA
built-in.
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