Implementation

Implementation-where the PLM concept becomes reality in your world. Perhaps, the most critical aspect of DevEX, Selerant's team works with your team to create a plan with clearly defined tasks.

Beyond mere definition, Selerant's implementation team works closely to ensure every step is thoroughly understood and agreed upon before implementation begins. The collaboration continues as the implementation progresses with distinct scheduled checkpoints for your team to provide validation, input, and feedback for current and future phases.

Throughout the entire implementation process, your team will have direct access to your Selerant's team profile-including specific technical and functional skills. You will also have instant access to Selerant's award-winning technical support as well as your own project team.

While each implementation is as unique and distinct as the company itself, Selerant has four phases for each implementation.

Four Phases of Implementation

Phase 1: Blueprint

Selerant's Professional Services Team will assess and audit your organization to create a Blueprint for the implementation. This will include a rudimentary assessment of who will be directly affected by DevEX within and outside of your organization. In addition to the basics, Selerant will also benchmark specific tasks and functions as well as examine methodology currently in place.

As a Product Lifecycle Management solution, DevEX by nature contains many automated processes. The Selerant Professional Services team may be able to make recommendations that can significantly relieve overwhelmed resources or costly time delays.

As with all phases of implementation, Selerant views itself as a service to you and will make suggestions, but the final sign-off for the Blueprint will rest with your corporation. (However, some technical requirements and specifications must be met for the implementation itself.

Phase 2: System Configurations & Rough Pilot

The rehearsal phase, Selerant takes the information learned during the Bluepring phase and utilizes it to refine the configurations to customize DevEX.

Before DevEX is launched with your configurations, Selerant will launch a Rough Pilot phase. This pilot phase will feature your data on a Raw DevEX system without any configurations unique to your organization. This will allow you to see an approximation of what your system will look like. It will also make the configuration stage of this phase much easier because you will have a significantly greater idea of what your data looks like on DevEX. The pilot will not be launched throughout your enterprise, but on a single location where the Selerant Professional Services Team is present.

Once the Rough Pilot is launched, the System Configurations can begin. This Configurations stage enables Selerant to customize DevEX to ensure your corporate information is securely launched in the implementation. This includes your basic data (your locations, plants, employee information, vendors, etc.) as well as your corporate culture (processes and standards).

Depending on the suites and add-on toolsets selected, this phase can be extensive.

Phase 3: Training & Deployment

The most exciting phase for Selerant, the "Go Live" phase, DevEX is launched to your corporation. Selerant will rely completely on what you want to do for your corporation. Many corporations want to roll out a simultaneous launch worldwide. Others want to roll-out with a more toe-in-the-water approach. Selerant works with you to determine which approach is best for your organization, based on your size, the scope of DevEX, your timeline, and your objectives.

Regardless of the approach you select, Selerant highly recommends having a "Train the Trainer" session before launch with key personnel from each location that will be utilizing DevEX.

Phase 4: After Care and Maintenance

After implementation, all of Selerant's customers have access to Selerant's renowned technical support, which adheres to ISO 9001:2001 certification procedures.

Your Project Team leader will also have direct access to the Selerant Professional Team Leader assigned to your corporation.