Systems Integration

Executive Alliance provides expertise in integrating processes and technologies for Human Capital Management. Specifically, we assist organizations looking to improve the integration of processes with the technologies that support these processes. Our areas of expertise include strategic planning, process improvement, technology improvement, implementation, and project management services. For information on vendors who provide specific human capital management software or services please click on the Software Service Providers link.

Our Approach

Our versatile team of highly regarded industry experts helps clients to maximize their investment in people and technology.  Using our proven methodologies and tools, we will help improve systems integration by aligning processes with technology to meet your human capital management strategy. 

Our approach includes several phases:

Assessment and Gap Analysis

We will conduct a through and objective analysis of your organization’s processes, organizational capabilities and technologies with the objective of identifying inefficiencies in the current processes and workflows.  

System/Process Analysis & Design

Using the results gathered in the Assessment and Gap Analysis, we will help you to prioritize processes for re-design and begin to map these future processes to gain the most efficiencies from the implemented or new technology. 

Development

The development phase is a critical milestone in the project and an opportunity to build the business needs defined in the Assessment and Gap Analysis into the implemented or new solution. During the development phase, we will facilitate design sessions with your organization’s resources and vendor subject matter experts to ensure the new system is designed and configured according to these defined business needs. 

Integration

Executive Alliance will collaborate with all necessary parties (external vendors, internal functional resources and subject matter experts) to prepare for the design, build and communication of new interfaces.  We believe that one of the key success factors in ensuring the new interfaces are properly working is to communicate early and often with all necessary parties. In addition, we will work with the organization to recommend an approach for validating data and defining the Criteria for this validation. 

System Testing

We will work with your organization and to define all aspects of system integration, performance and user acceptance testing events.  We will conduct a testing “kick-off” event to communicate the goals and objectives of testing, employee roles and responsibilities in the testing phase and the purpose of well defined scripts and acceptance criteria.

System Training

The transition to using upgraded or new technology solutions will only be successful if all system users and  administrators are properly trained and prepared to use the new system.   During this phase, Executive Alliance will work to ensure that the standard vendor training materials have been tailored to address new process and/or policy changes that have been identified in earlier phases of the project. We will document the training needs and strategy to include the roll-out strategy, logistics, dates and times of sessions, and training formats.   

Implementation

The final steps to transition to a new solution include coordinating resources and tools to ensure the implementation is smooth and seamless to the organization. Executive Alliance will lead the effort to ensure that all known issues resulting from testing are validated, including final data conversion before declaring the “system live” status.    In addition, all user profiles will be validated and tested prior to moving security to the production environment.  

Post Implementation Review & Knowledge Transfer

During the post implementation review and knowledge transfer, our objective is to ensure that your organization can independently assume key responsibilities for maintaining the new system on an on-going basis. Knowledge transfer starts early in the project, and we will build upon this knowledge with each phase. At the conclusion of the project, Executive Alliance will ensure that all project related documentation, decisions and deliverables are documented and stored in a central project repository for you to access after go-live.