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| X by 2 offers a variety of strategy and architecture services to meet our clients' needs. From discovery and planning to design and implementation to post-implementation experience, we have the architecture expertise and experience necessary to fulfill the diversity of our clients' needs throughout all phases of a complex project. Yet for any individual client, we can tailor our services to focus only on those specific, identified needs, when and where assistance is required. |
 Discovery and Planning Services
Whether it is enterprise applications or integration, in our experience we have observed a tendency for companies to move too quickly from functional requirements to system implementation, whether it be custom or a package solution. Often under-emphasized, or sometimes even overlooked, is the crucial step of architecture planning and definition. The result is solutions that fall short of expectations, do not adapt well to changing business needs, and cost more than they should to maintain and support. Solution planning and architecture definition helps conceptualize the solution, explore buy and build options, and create a foundation for meeting functional and non-functional requirements over time at the lowest possible costs. X by 2 offers the following discovery and planning services to set projects up for success.
 Business due diligence
Buy vs. build analysis
Package and solution evaluation
Return on investment (ROI) analysis
Application architecture and strategy
Integration architecture and strategy
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Design and Implementation Services
Establishing architecture direction and strategy is one thing. Applying them as implementation teams translate business and system visions into engineering blue prints that can be executed is another matter. After all, knowing the rules of the game is different from actually playing the game. Adhering to established architectural principles, understanding the trade-offs and making judgment calls while facing implementation deadlines and pressures require experience. Whether the implementation strategy calls for leveraging internal programming talent, on-site or near-shore staff augmentation, or offshore development, X by 2 offers the following design and implementation support services
Detailed design and specification
Prototyping and risk management
User interface architecture
Service oriented architectures
Implementation strategy
Advanced software development
Architecture oversight
Project management
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Turnaround and Continuous Improvement Services
Applications in the real world must deal with real world demands - changes in business and functional requirements, changes in accessibility requirements and number of users, changes in personnel, etc. Despite best intentions, there is a tendency by designers and developers to overlook these important long-term considerations. To ensure applications in production support ever changing business demands at reasonable costs, X by 2 offers the following, highly-critical, post-implementation services.
Architecture audit and refactoring
Performance and scalability optimization
Project rescue and turnaround
Education and knowledge transfer
Agile methodology adoption
Benefitis capture
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