Looking at what vendors and systems exist to meet your needs? Athena consultants can help you with:

• Business case preparation for purchase justification
• Feasibility Analysis – Athena offers four levels of feasibility study
• Assess present systems and processes to identify your requirements
• Prepare RFP or RFI
• Identifying potential vendors and products

Selecting a vendor.

• Assist in your vendor selection process
• Attend vendor/sales demonstrations and assist in evaluating the products/services
• Analysis of vendor products against your requirements for best fit

Have purchased a product - what do we do next?

• Lead or support your team from the planning phase through Roll-out and Post Go Live support
• Review your present systems, policies and processes against new system functionality
• Recommend best practices, opportunities for ROI
• Work with other system administrators to understand the import/export processes and requirements and develop efficient interfaces
• Design and conduct configuration assessments for system setup
  • Configuration examples: Pay Rules. Genies,. Advanced Schedules, Access Profiles System Settings, Workflow, Process Manager, Leave Management and Analytics (e.g. Visionware)
• Prepare and conduct surveys for internal use - benchmarks, success definition, process redesign

Planning & Implementation are underway.

• Provide technical support & system expertise - configuration, system setup, testing and validation
• Provide system documentation
• Develop and deliver customized training programs and reports

System is in production - What more could the system do for us?
We have new entities/facilities/employees to put into the system.
We have new programs/policies/rules we need to implement.

• Advanced configuration and system setup to fully utilize application functionality and solve your most difficult system issues/problems
• Review your present systems, policies and processes against new system functionality
• Recommend best practices, opportunities for ROI
• Design and conduct configuration assessments for system setup for new inputs

We are looking at improving the ROI.

• Analyze your current system setup, internal policies and practices for optimization
• Identify opportunities to achieve better ROI through revising system settings and configuration, addressing organizational issues impacting the system (bottlenecks, workarounds, controls, process and policy gaps, etc.)

We are struggling with poor system performance.

• Perform a system health checkup
• Diagnose problems and recommend system solutions to improve performance
• Problem Examples: Slow navigation response time, interface run time has increased significantly, reports run very slowly or fail to complete, punches are lost from data collection devices, overall system instability

Upgrading Our Access Control.

• Evaluate how to limit and control employee and visitor access to your facilities
• Identify the vendors and products that fit your organization and systems
• Assist in the integration of this technology with your existing systems

We are upgrading our current system.

• Familiarize your organization with the next version's functionality
• Lead and support your team through the planning and conversion phases
• Identify differences for training and internal communication
• Provide customized training on the new product