Consulting
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