DESIGN FLEXIFRAME®
The Dangers of Compartmentalized Information Management Design
Designing individual process segments or integration handoffs may seem less demanding of business stakeholders. The danger is that the resulting solution can be a reflection of long-standing political boundaries and project funding mechanisms. This can negatively impact your MDM project by creating several common pitfalls
Design stalemates
Two different user groups with different needs make non-compatible or conflicting demands on a product. In the end, neither community is vested.
Design silos
Due to internal communication barriers, the first ‘around the world’ process design insight doesn’t happen until the testing phase, at which point much of your budget and timeline has been expended. By now, your program’s options are limited to reactive escalations, prioritization of budget and development time, and change orders.
Under-described design
Designs are vetted using simplified, manufactured data which does not represent all the exceptions and design variables. More detailed design exceptions are not identified until late in testing and can have a wide-ranging impact to redesign effort, budget, and business acceptance.
Break Down Barriers with a Design FlexiFrame®
Infoverity’s Design FlexiFrame® is the foundation of a cross-functional process and integration design framework for mastering, editing and querying master data assets.
The Design FlexiFrame® includes:
- Business and Systems Interaction Models depicting the interactions among functional stakeholders and systems
- Accountability matrices aligning personnel to roles and tasks in the creation, editing, and querying of master records
- Prototypes to overlay functional tasks, system integration inputs/outputs, and attributes in context throughout the information life cycle
- Functional and technical design specifications
- Integration into Infoverity’s Testing FlexiFrame® solution
The Benefits of a FlexiFrame®
Infoverity’s Design FlexiFrame® provides benefits across your Information Management program, including:
- Faster business buy-in and solution delivery
- Reduced errors and change orders
- Improved budget accuracy
- Smoother implementation
- Better adoption within your organization