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INTELAPHASE's deployment methodology is based upon our experience in delivering best practices in the PLM and BSM industries. We have divided our implementation framework into seven distinct phases, which ensures that key milestones are reached before later phases begin.

The seven phases are:

Project Definition and Assessment
Solution Analysis and Design
Solution Build and Test
Solution Implementation
Technical Infrastructure
Data Migration, and,
Solution Support and Evolution

INTELAPHASE will apply our vast Project Management experience to ensure that all work is completed on time and within budget, and that the client’s goals and objectives are achieved.

INTELAPHASE has developed a framework and approach to ensure that every deployment meets our client's expectations and is delivered on time and on budget. We have combined our traditional strengths in large-scale enterprise systems implementations and project management together with the latest technologies, applications, and philosophies to form a robust enterprise framework.

PLM has to do with managing every aspect of a product throughout its entire life span, from concept through end of life. In the past, these activities all happened within the four walls of a company. Today however, since there are many companies involved in the design, planning, manufacturing, and support of products, this can become extremely complex to manage.

PLM spans many divisions and organizations so it therefore takes a cohesive effort and buy-in from all parties involved to make this application a success. INTELAPHASE provides critical experience, expertise and know-how to deliver better business outcomes from your PLM implementation.

PLM systems support areas typically not addressed by other enterprise applications in a single, coherent system:

Program management tool to support orchestration and collaboration around innovation and product change.
Repository for all intellectual property related to products (specifications, CAD, CAE, etc.).
Repository for the company item master and bill of materials.
Supports the management of changes to intellectual property and supports other organizations.
Initiate change requests and allow for the authorization and orchestration of change order implementation.
Supports Corrective Action Requests for changes that do not require engineering approval or consultation.
Single-source of truth for intellectual property that may be propagated to other enterprise applications and external suppliers.
Single point of collaboration around intellectual property.
Provides system for managing supplier access to intellectual property.
Provides a system for managing product quality issues including a closed-loop corrective action process.

PLM is an important tool that many companies have yet to deploy. Yet, like any tool, success is determined by the alignment of business need and business process with the PLM technology. This requires careful planning and experienced personnel to deliver a better business outcome.

It is critical that business teams understand that they are doing far more than merely implementing a PLM enterprise application—they are changing the way work and collaboration happens.

The business objective is to create the infrastructure to drive issues related to PLM and make it invisible. By this, we mean, the business team invests its energy in driving the business on top of the PLM system and don't get bogged down in problems and challenges related to the PLM tool itself.

Server Automation

Simplify change and configuration management

Our clients require information to manage unwieldy change and configuration tasks without drowning in unnecessary details. By automating processes like patching, configuring, updating, and reporting on servers, it enables consistency, compliance, and complete insight into your data center. The best practices are to:

Enable rapid and targeted changes without scripting
Support roll-back of incomplete or incorrect changes
Maintain a historical baseline configuration for one-click comparison and remediation
Run out-of-the-box and ad hoc reports on compliance, inventory, provisioning, patch and deployment
Gain both big picture and granular views into your server infrastructure

Automate provisioning across every environment

The best practices are to provide:

Full-stack, automated provisioning in physical, virtual, and hybrid cloud data centers
Automated OS installation and configuration with support for all major operating systems
Support for virtual template-based, image-based, and script-based provisioning

Keep compliance under control

The best practices are to provide real-time, policy-based compliance auditing based on built-in content and user-defined rules to meet regulatory, security or operational needs. Remediation should be automatically generated, and be deployed automatically or manually via repair, rollback, or configuration updates. We favor systems that offer pre-configured policies for regulatory and security standards to accelerate your time to value.

Server Monitoring

Server monitoring has become an essential aspect of managing critical IT systems and infrastructure. Here are common attributes that need to be monitored:

Disk space
CPU usage
Server performance
SQL server monitoring
Exchange server
Event logs
Monitor log files
Services, and,
Room temperatures

While server monitoring can provide information about problems, it can also provide for trending and help identify ways to improve the system. The best practice is to generate graphical charts that depict the attributes. With this data, you can optimize settings to improve system performance.