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- EA Benefits
Consulting Engagement
- Rose Solutions, in cooperation with Sparx Systems, has
prepared a standard benefits analysis consulting engagement, which
investigates the value to that particular customer of the benefits they
could gain from EA, and establishes the basis for a benefits realization
plan.
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- TOGAF 8 Training
and Certification
- TOGAF 8 training and certification
is now available in Australia!
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- Virtualization
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Rose Solutions started building
products using Connectix technology before Microsoft bought it, and actively
participated in the beta program for Virtual PC, reporting several bugs that
were fixed in the 2004 release. We have provided consulting advice to
federal government departments and multinational software companies on how
to best leverage Virtual PC, and what issues to look out for. Our team of
virtualization engineers have built hundreds of servers for uses ranging
from training, testing, and live production use, both of prototype systems
and as the normal home for the applications. If you want to talk over ways
you could leverage Virtual PC 2004, we would be happy to bring our
experience (and all the optimization tricks we have learnt) to your project.
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Microsoft
Skills Assessment for Organizations
- Delivered as a consulting service
supported by a Microsoft web application and online assessments, a Microsoft
Skills Assessment for Organizations provides training needs analysis through
to individually tailored skills development plans that leverage Microsoft
public and private content (from Office Online through to books and training
course modules). Rose Solutions also represents each of the suppliers
Microsoft used in constructing the offering, and so can help you even if
your requirements don't quite fit the Microsoft offering.
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- QA of architecture, design, test plans etc
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Our suite of experts can provide a
second opinion - whether as a formal QA step in a process, or as on-the-job
mentoring on application architecture, design, and test strategies. This can
be a great way to reduce the risk in your process.
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- Software (Licensing) Advisor
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Our licensing team is led by a
certified Microsoft Software Advisor, who was trained by Microsoft in how
their licensing works when he was at Microsoft - now you can have a
knowledgeable expert on your side of the licensing negotiations, rather than
just relying on the licensing provider (who usually has an incentive - their
commission - to make you buy more than you really need). Whether to
help you in the negotiations, or just sanity check your normal provider,
involving Rose Solutions can correct the knowledge imbalance.
We also have lots of experience guiding
customers in choosing between different product versions, and hence getting
the minimum bill for the functionality they need. For example, one customer
saved millions of dollars by changing how their developers and testers would
be licensed. A smaller customer saved a few thousand per mobile user when
they discovered SQL Developer was the right product for their users, at $99
a copy, rather than SQL Standard Edition.
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- One interesting note - we usually find
customers have a lot of products and benefits they don't know they have
paid for: we love helping them to leverage their existing spend!
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- Microsoft Relationship Advice
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Lots of customers and partners of Microsoft
want to leverage Microsoft as much as possible, but find it difficult to
work with their massive splintered bureaucracy. Our principal, Steve,
is an ex-Microsoft
staffer both in Australia and in Redmond, and can help you understand how
you can leverage different parts of Microsoft, and guide your steps through
the processes.
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