Article – CMMI Initiatives

Striving for world-class Best Practices involves resistance to change in the firm’s corporate culture. For an integrator company like Si3, the quest for process improvement is more daunting with a business model designed for more complex delivery than customary software development projects.

Si3 has undertaken CMMI initiatives, with process improvement specialists in 3 core organization support sections which are:

Configuration Management
According to Gartner Research, Configuration Management (CM) is one of the most important components in a corporate IT environment.  Si3’s CM team has implemented the organizational process for central repository, versioning and change control. Two organizational repositories were formed to cater for project and departmental assets.
                               
Process Improvement
Following tasks have been undertaken:

• GAP analysis from CMMI perspective
• Creation of missing processes
• Implementation of gaps in existing processes
• Training of resources in defined processes
• Quality Assurance from CMMI on product standards for software as well as end-to-end integration projects.
• Detecting areas of improvement by applying measurement objectives to project data.
• Process Areas
• Requirement Management, Project Planning, Project Monitoring & Control, Configuration Management, Process & Product Quality Assurance, Measurement Analysis, Supplier Agreement Management, Requirement Development, Risk Management, Verification and Validation.

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Professional Testing Section

• As part of Verification and Validation process areas of CMMI, Professional Testing has the following aims
• To implement manual and automated testing for applications and branded ERPs
• Strategic placement of application testing services based on automated or manual tools

Benefits of CMMI are as follows:

• Improve delivery of promised performance, cost, and schedule
• Integrate all stakeholders into project activities
• Provide competitive world-class products and services
• Implement an integrated, enterprise, business and engineering perspective
• Use common, integrated, and improving processes for systems and software
• Implement proactive program management techniques
• Enable staff members to move between projects and still use the same processes

Create and improve processes that adapt to a changing business environment

Article - VAR

Value-Added Reselling (VAR) Group at Si3 brings its commitment to our local market place by addressing rapid networking growth of our country.

VAR business focuses on a specialized product-selling approach, aligning partnerships with leading technology vendors, packaging the product with integrated services and the objective to add value.

In order to address targeted technology needs, industry verticals have been identified, with our initial focus is on enterprise, manufacturing and mid markets. Demands of larger customers in telecommunications and public sector will be addressed as we grow from strength to strength.

Si3's VAR Group is committed to develop its technical infrastructure and key resources in pre-sales and sales functions, to serve the acute need for product integration. Si3’s Project Management Center of Excellence and quality assurance differentiators, augment our core expertise.

VAR professionals are geared up to take on challenges like Enterprise Security, Enterprise Voice-IPT Telephony, Unified Messaging, Routing & Switching and Network Reengineering Services, setting a benchmark to as a top networking product integrator in the country.