WHY ATEX CONSULTING

Enterprise System transformations are very different from traditional applications implementations. Their failures are mainly due to the lack of proper understanding and management of all the critical interdependencies between the elements of these solutions. The benefits of vendor-provided integration result in tight interdependencies between all solution components such as embedded best practice business processes, application configuration, data management, security profiles, and technology infrastructure. Equally important are the organizational requirements for staff readiness and potential reassignment of organizational roles and responsibilities involved in any Enterprise System implementation.

ATEX experts have a deep understanding of these critical interdependencies. Each expert brings over 20 years of hands-on experience managing transformations from multiple perspectives and roles-- as clients, as consultants and as forensics experts:

• As clients, they have gained an understanding of the internal pressures and challenges of such business transformations including adapting to COTS-based solutions from highly customized internal legacy solutions.
• As consultants, they have experienced the often conflicting finely defined contractual arrangements with the client’s expectations of the consulting organizations services, the COTS product functionality and their vendors’ support and development organizations.
• As forensics experts analyzing failed implementations, they have learned to identify patterns for success and the associated anti-patterns that cause program failures.
  

We, the ATEX Team, believe that our skills and experience are our key differentiator. Our in-depth understanding of the critical interdependencies of implementation projects, combined with the experience gained from this unique multidimensional perspective, allows us to provide our clients with pragmatic, actionable and effective advice that is appropriate to the specific situation. Free of conflicts of interest to provide implementation services, we are solely focused on advising stakeholders and PMOs (Project Management Offices) on the most appropriate path forward to achieve their expected results.