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Not many companies can brag about providing services such as needs analysis and implementation planning.  Farragut can and does boast extensive experience in these areas because planning is at the heart of every project we undertake.

Key Benefits of Structured Planning

Users are clearer about their business goals and objectives
Project scope can be quantified more easily
A system can be built that meets everyone's expectations

Capabilities

Farragut performs a Needs Analysis by working closely with customer teams to identify GIS needs and potential GIS applications, and quantifying their associated requirements.  The resulting document generated by Farragut includes such topics as:

How maps and mapped information are processed
Functional mapping requirements
Spatial analysis requirements
Data requirements
Staffing and personnel
Hardware and software requirements
Training requirements
Organizational issues

Additionally, Farragut identifies immediate and long-term needs, and prioritizes those needs by department and within the context of the organization’s current mapping environment.

Recommendations to a customer typically include, but are not limited to the following:

Identification and prioritization of GIS applications
Catalog of current data and data sources
Database development priorities
Database design recommendations
GIS software recommendations
GIS hardware/network recommendations
Recommendations for training and staffing
Identification of GIS organization issues

Farragut produced a Needs Analysis for the City of Broomfield, Colorado addressed mapping needs within the City and provided a roadmap for the integration of GIS throughout the City.

Subsequent to the Needs Analysis, Farragut researches and documents an Implementation Plan to provide a roadmap for implementing GIS.  Key elements associated with implementing a GIS are discussed, and strategies for the integration of the GIS into an organization are defined.

The Implementation Plan examines the following issues related to GIS implementation:

Strategic vision
Operational organization
Hardware and software
Database development
Application development
Training

Farragut provided a comprehensive Implementation Plan for Delta County, CO that is guiding their implementation and integration of GIS within the County.

To request more information on this service, go to our information request page.

 

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