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Engineering for change
Enterprise software should evolve along with its users. As a company grows, becoming more competitive, offering new products and services, and expanding into new markets, it should be able to readily change its applications to accommodate new requirements and demands.

ILOG Consulting’s primary goals include engineering for change. As part of their best practices, ILOG consultants help customers create applications designed to keep pace with business requirements.

In approaching customer needs, ILOG consultants look not only for technology for today, but at the customer’s people, processes and technology now and in a future workplace enabled by ILOG technology. They expand the practice of requirement engineering to include change engineering, which involves defining the nature and frequency of changes:

• What are the customer’s pains or opportunities?
• What strategies does the customer currently use?
• How will the introduction of ILOG technology impact the customer’s organization and strategies?
• What future changes are likely, and how can we match the customer’s evolving needs?
• What is the rate of change now, what should it be, and what can it be?
• How can the customer best manage change?

These and other questions are taken into consideration in putting together a solution that will support the customer through years of service.

ILOG Consulting’s best practices include a series of discreet steps aimed at defining the development effort:

• Discovery Workshop – A two-day exercise to get a high-level grasp of the customer’s needs
• Assessment – A two-week effort to determine the scope, schedule and resources needed to usher in the new technology
• Iteration One – The actual elaboration, construction and transition of the first phase of development

Based on the results of these steps, industry knowledge and extensive experience with similar deployments, ILOG consultants help build a forward-looking solution that, among other things, enables and even promotes change.

Learn more about ILOG Consulting at http://consulting.ilog.com.