Ensure that your IT plans and capabilities meet business expectations and needs by developing a rationalized and coordinated plan.

Portals and websites evolve over time in iterations that include global deployments, platform updates and migrations to the cloud, foundational and business functional updates, and regular content and design updates. At LDS, we define the best practices that evolve these channels economically and with scalability over time as the need for each site to have and follow a Roadmap and a Rationalized Release Plan.

In LDS's Roadmap and Rationalized Release Planning services, we ensure that IT plans and capabilities meet business expectations and needs by developing a rationalized and coordinated plan that carefully balances the strategic technical direction for the channel, with the prioritized and ready needs of the business. At times, these concepts are not naturally aligned, and yet each aspect of the portal’s evolution is certainly dependent on the availability and readiness of the other. At LDS, our job is to consider these plans, interests, priorities, technicalities, and business impacts – then to recommend a logical path forward for the portal’s Roadmap.

Value

Effectively planning portal releases in an iterative way dramatically affects program budgets and the timely realization of the portal’s business strategy.

Deliverables

LDS Roadmap and Rationalized Release Planning services execute on a series of best practices and protocol in order to produce the deliverable we refer to as the Roadmap and Rationalized Release Plan, which typically covers an 18-24 month period in which all major portal components are staged and implemented. It bundles the key portal features identified earlier in analysis into several (usually four to six month) release segments by determining the necessary timing and sequencing based on business value, interdependencies, constraints and enablers.

LDS Cloud Assessment and Roadmap is a focused inquiry and planning exercise relative to an organization’s nascent cloud strategy and future opportunities. The result is a plan that considers the opportunities and implications of cloud enablement on far more than infrastructure – a roadmap that rationalizes IT planning with online channel strategy and encompasses planning, organizational change, migrations, development, operations and governance.

Further Information

Please contact John Fee, LDS Vice President, Sales for more information.