VCS Technologies Inc.

VCS

ENTERPRISE and eBUSINESS REQUIREMENTS and STRATEGIES
- helping clients move to their next generation of software for 25 years-
VCS Technologies Inc.
1 Damascus Drive, Caledon East, Ontario, Canada, L0N 1E0, 905 584 4598, vaselenak@vcstechnologies.net

Consulting Services:
VCS specializes in the strategizing, planning, requirements definition, architecting, specification and procurement support for enterprise and internet ebusiness implementations.

Example Services include:
Evaluation and recommendations on I.T. business technologies, product management strategies, online service offerings
Definition of functions and specifications, including data models, use cases, process flows and architectures for ebusiness and enterprise implementations
Identification of trends, new products, vendors and technical standards, for next generation business system solutions
Pricing, cost, resourcing, and implementation planning including project plans and budgets, risk and organizational analyses
Design of procurement processes and documents including RFIs, RFPs, and requests for quotation, evaluation of vendors and proposals, contract and negotiation support

Some VCS Clients:
VCS has been asked to help a number of top tier organizations in North America and Europe including Microsoft, IBM, Teleglobe, Ericsson, Industry Canada, Transport Canada, CMHC, MetLife, ManuLife, Aetna, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Government of NWT, etc..

Example Projects include:
Advised Microsoft Canada on product and service alliances for their ecommerce platform
Advised Industry Canada on an internet strategy for program and service management
Developed enterprise content management technology strategy plan and specifications and identified organizational and service staging implications for CMHC.
Defined functional specifications and service release strategy for a safety information data warehouse for Transport Canada
Identified current gaps and strategic options for moving to a next generation ERP platform for town of Richmond Hill
Advised Teleglobe Inc. on a global electronic commerce service and channel strategy, and the service architecture and organization required
Trained IBM personnel in U.S. and Europe on the competitive environment for ebusiness products and services, and the positioning, strengths and weaknesses of IBM products
Developed client engagement methodologies and alliance partner and strategy recommendations for ebusiness services by Ericsson Canada Inc.
Designed the functional and architectural plans for world wide internet payment services for the Ericsson Europe $ billion (US $) global ebusiness project
Advised Telus on enterprise wide online payment fraud control strategy and technologies
Defined ecommerce functional requirements for Medera health information portal, then subsequently advised on project implementation and supported client project relations
Advised Valu-Net Corporation on web portal services, defined the product offerings and price points, developed channel and merchant marketing plans and collateral
Defined the business functional, process and data requirements for the CFI grants management application, and developed the 2 stage RFPs for this $ multi million project
Advised Big Picture Inc. on features, market, product, cost and channel implications of the repositioning of their e-business products and service
Advised DeXit and Ericsson on mobile commerce product and service strategies, and developed architectures, functional definitions, and data flows for wireless payment services
Designed ecommerce, payment, and order management applications for RealCommerce

VCS Consultants:

VCS provides a team of experts and technologists as required for an engagement. Consultants include recognized leaders in technical specification, financial systems, marketing strategies, organization development, business development, transactional systems and product design.

Example Deliverables Include:


Analysis of requirements and environments.
system needs and objectives from interviews and document reviews,
high level system architectures and interoperation with legacy applications,
applicable technical infrastructure and standards within the organization,
structured interviews of needs at technical, management and executive levels
analyses of current concerns and future objectives regarding the new system
Definition of functions, architecture and processes
identification of current constraints, priorities and issues for the new system
functional requirements statements in a hierarchical organization of points
information process flows organized by responsibility and business function
business cases for the risks, opportunities, costs, benefits of using the new system
Development of requirements specifications
functional specifications of target systems for development or acquisition
use cases for UML compliant definition of user interfaces to the target systems
conceptual data models for the definition of data elements and entities to be supported

Identification of technology options and implications
fit and gap analysis regarding suitability of current applications
cost, timeline and risk analyses for the strategic options available to meet requirements
recommendations as to approach in engaging technologies and / or solution vendors
Research available technologies and approaches
best practice analyses and surveys identifying current approaches and benchmarks
technology surveys of current and merging standards, protocols, and approaches
vendor surveys of application, platform and development products and services
Manage or support procurement of new systems
target budgets and timelines for the employment of vendor solutions
contract terms and conditions in the best interests of the VCS client
tender policies and documents for eliciting appropriate vendor proposals
bid evaluation and cost and risk analysis as a basis for decision making

Company Details

Year Established: 1980

Company Information

Mike Vaselenak
Title: President
Area of Responsibility: Research/Development/Engineering
Telephone: (905) 584-4598
Fax: (905) 584-6463
Email: Click Here

Services

Ecommerce And Ebusiness Product And Service Planning And Implementation Consulting

Mobile Commerce Products And Service Planning And Implementation Consulting Consulting and Implementation Services: Specialist in wireless value added services and solution strategizing, planning, design and development. Have helped world scale organizations identify wireless business opportunities, design services in response to those opportunities, and then develop wireless products and services. Clients have included: - Ericsson Communications for the design and prototyping of a North American wide wireless commerce payments service that leverages from Ericssons wireless operator and mobile phone products. Deliverables include: - use case information flows across component processes - Topologies and high level architectures for mobile device, applications and enterprise interfacing - Functional Definition including key functions, interface functions, and database elements - DeXit Inc. for the definition of a short range wireless micropayment service solution for the retail environment - Realcommerce Inc. for the conceptual design of an order management mobile extension to web based e-commerce in support of the direct sales and logistics functions - Aegiss Technologies (partners) for the development of an open standards SyncML server designed to support rules based real time data level interfaces to multiple wireless and wireline devices Business Strategy: - The regulatory and technical standards that will determine the winning approaches. These standards range from networks (GSM, CDMA, TDMA, D-AMPS, GPRS, EDGE, UMTS, etc.), to data (WML, SMS, WXML, BlueTooth, WAP), to security (WPKI, EMV, 3D SET, WIM/SIM etc.) - The mobile devices that will prevail, and their future functionality (PDAs, palmtops, handsets which may be dual slot or dual chip), wireless terminals, RF readers, etc) - The killer applications that will ensure success (face to face commerce, short range commerce, location based commerce, real time commerce, internet extension commerce, automated commerce, etc.) - The winning players that will drive the value propositions as well as market leadership (telcos, network carriers, financial institutions, micropayment service providers, internet application vendors, terminal manufacturers, etc.) Service Planning: - Determining the regulated framework in which mobile commerce will operate in Canada and globally, including government, standards setting bodies (both technical and public), government and market incumbents policies, etc. - Identifying product strategies, alliances and technical development plans, budgets, SWOT analyses, market projections, etc. - Business development planning including competitive analyses, opportunities and gaps identification, alliance opportunities and etc. - Project management support for product and service development, prototyping, implementation, market testing, and rollout Product and Service Definitions: - The underlying platforms that are key to mobile commerce success and the vendors positioning in this new arena (mobile certification, fraud control, online commerce platforms, wireless servers, eWallets, wireless portals, protocol bridges etc.) - Defining product plans including product and service proposals, functional requirements, components, and suppliers, etc. - Designing and documenting the wireless payment technology and service architecture, internal and external interfaces, data flows, and enterprise integration tools and processes - Documentation and presentation of product designs for management, technical developers, and third parties Product Development (with partners): - System design using life cycle product development, domain analysis, case studies, scenarios analysis, architectural and system design - Development methodology support including quality assurance, software implementation planning, software development process mapping, E-R modeling and UML methodology - Protocols and standards capabilities including HTTP, DNS, SMTP, POP3 , WML, HTML, HDTML, XML, JavaScript, Java, JSP and ASP. - System programming capabilities including Windows 2000, Unix flavours, Linux, Palm OS, Symbian and ODBC databases and data structures Sales and Marketing: - Subject matter expert for proposals, presentations, and negotiations with potential mobile commerce service providers or licensees - Position papers and competitive analyses for mobile commerce payments differentiation and market penetration - Proposal writing and proposal team management for solutions component of large and complex mobile commerce service or product offerings - Technical sales and client relations support

Ebusiness Content Management Planning And Implementation Consulting VCS Technolgies provides stategy and implementation planning services for end to end content management systems, including: analysis of business processes and their applicability for Enterprise Content Managemetn (ECM), functional requirements definition for ECM and associated ecommerce, data warehouse, personalization, portal, document management and publishing functions, survey of current technologies, vendor offerings and best practices in North America for ECM implementations, development of a data / content / information model as the core concept for ECM planning, definition of technology principles and a solution architecture for ECM, portal and data warehouse enabled business processes, identification of costs and benefits drivers and resourcing estimates for implementation of ECM, functional specifications (use cases, process flows, functional priorities) for the required ECM solution and support for implementation planning for initial service releases. Typical consulting Project: VCS technologies advised a line of buisness within Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC)on their requirements for next generation content development and dissemination through the web. VCS rationalized and docuemnted the functional and system requirements, identified applicable vendor solutions and architectures and technologies, and advised on the implementation implications of the project, including the identfication of cost and benefit drivers. VCS then went on to develop busienss functional specifications (use cases, process flows and functionality staging) for this project.

System Requirements Analysis The analysis of requirements and environments. Deliverables here have included system needs and objectives from interviews and document reviews, high level system architectures and interoperation with legacy applications, applicable technical infrastructure and standards within the organization, structured interviews of needs at technical, management and executive levels analyses of current concerns and future objectives regarding the new system

Technology Architecture Definitions Design of functional, architectural and process responses to those requirements, and where requested, identification of current constraints, priorities and issues for the new system functional requirements statements in a hierarchical organization of points information process flows organized by responsibility and business function business cases for the risks, opportunities, costs, benefits of using the new system

Requirements Specifications Development Development of requirements specifications based on the above analysis and suggested responses: functional specifications of target system requirements as a basis for software development or acquisition use cases for UML compliant definition of user interfaces to the target systems conceptual data models for the definition of data elements and entities to be supported by the target system

Technology Options And Approaches Evaluation Identification of technology options and approaches to meeting those requirements, fit and gap analysis regarding suitability of current applications cost, timeline and risk analyses associated with the strategic options available to meet the identified requirements recommendations as to approach to be taken in implementing the business objectives and engaging technology and / or solution vendors

Technologies And Solutions Survey And Evaluation Researching of available technologies and approaches best practice analyses and surveys identifying current approaches and benchmarks in the particular application area technology surveys of current and merging standards, protocols, and approaches vendor surveys of market leading and emerging application, platform and development products and services