APPROACH
ASCEND'S APPROACH EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS
At Ascend, our approach is grounded in enabling you to grow revenue, realize cost savings, and reduce risk. Resources are carefully selected, effectively deployed, and constantly reviewed to ensure that a solution that answers your business needs is being delivered on time and within budget.
This approach includes:
Elite team of highly experienced domain experts
Relationship-driven engagement model that delivers high quality solutions
cost-effectively.
Unique methodology that takes you from business vision to finished IT
solution successfully, rapidly, and cost-effectively.
Our goal is to satisfy both our business and technology stakeholders to a degree that exceeds expectations. We believe we are meeting this goal, as our client list is 100% reference-able.
Elite team of domain experts provides dual expertise
Our consultants are experts in both business processes and information technology capabilities. Their subject-matter expertise includes deep knowledge of:
- Banking
- Benefits Outsourcing
- Financial Services
- Health care
- Insurance
- IT Governance
Our consultants are highly experienced, full-time, salaried employees. Many are veterans of America’s most prestigious consulting organizations. Their specialized knowledge and objectivity enables them to architect solutions with best-of-breed products.
Our management team averages 20 years of experience in the field, and our engagement model ensures you of access to these top executives.
Relationship-driven engagement model provides total accountability
Our experts work cooperatively as a team, and can integrate into your in-house IT team as well. We also partner with select providers to augment Ascend’s own expertise. For example, for routine IT work we partner with onshore or offshore development companies. This enables us to make the most cost-effective use of resources and pass the savings along to you.
Throughout the engagement, and regardless of the inclusion of partners or in-house client resources, Ascend retains total accountability for the success of the project. We view our association with clients as a relationship of trust, and manage engagements accordingly.
A non-billing executive oversees each engagement to proactively manage the engagement against goals and within budget. We also utilize a structured review process to ensure that the solution being created directly answers your need.
Unique Catapult methodology delivers a quantum leap in process improvement
Our unique Catapult methodology enables us to transform your business vision into a delivered solution. Our special requirements definition capabilities build consensus among vision stakeholders, develop a definitive technology framework for successful solution construction, and generate a plan and communication mechanism for key activities.
Based on industry best practices, Catapult addresses the full solution life-cycle, including alignment, design, development, software quality assurance, and management.
Use of Catapult ensures that your IT solution will successfully address your business needs, thereby significantly reducing your business risk. And the methodology delivers that solution in a way that improves solution quality and shortens development time, all while containing project costs.
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