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Consulting

Ixxus Consultants have a wealth of both industry specific knowledge and technical expertise; we pride ourselves on being able to offer straight, independent advice and practical solutions. Amongst the services our consultants perform

Areas

Business consultancy
Solution architecture
Information architecture
Functional architecture
Technical architecture
Design
Project management

Deliverables

Strategic enterprise, solution architecture

Information architecture
- Data source analysis
- Index structure
- Content volatility
- Index updates and synchronisation
- Preferred terminology
- Taxonomy support
- Thesauri
- Mappings
- Classification and metadata tagging

Business case/ROI justification

Technology selection

RFI/ITT production

Architecture audit

Solution architecture specification

Functional specification

UI evaluation and design

Security architecture

Solution road map

Expert technical assistance

Solution health check, monitor & tuning

Proof of concepts

Research and Development

Intellectual property in Ixxus is growing as we become known as the industry expert in Intelligent Search� and Intelligent Content Management�. Our leading industry experience in defining information and solution architectures enables us to continually refine our best practices and consulting accelerators. This benefits our customers in that we are able to deliver solutions quicker and at reduced risk. We are increasing our investment in our own IP by building "knowledge" products in the industry verticals that we specialise in and generic products in gaps we identify in the search and content management markets. Whether our IP feeds through into better consulting advice or better solution delivery, we aim to offer our clients innovative solutions. Areas of R&D for Ixxus include;

Industry methodology documentation
Best Practice models and Consulting templates/accelerators
Foundation information architecture models and examples
Common risk registers and mitigation techniques
White papers and Case studies
Publications and Seminars/conference speaker materials
Industry/technology proof of concept demonstrators
Shrink wrapped niche products
Open Source Research & Development