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For more information about how Alpha Bay solutions can reduce costs and
improve revenues for your retail enterprise,
call us at 801-838-7600.
Alpha Bay is an industry leader solving complex projects
by providing solutions that bring together software,
hardware, processes, and people to meet your business
goals. Alpha Bay understands that a key part of running
a successful business is focusing on what you do best,
so we offer a variety of services to help your business
make the switch to Alpha Bay AIRS.
- Systems Integration / Consulting Services
- Alpha Bay Hosting Services (SaaS / ASP)
Alpha Bay is an industry leader solving complex projects
by providing solutions that bring together software,
hardware, processes, and people to meet your business
goals.
The success of any project is based on a solid foundation, which starts at the cornerstone. Alpha Bay’s “Adaptive Integrated Retail System” (AIRS) delivers a comprehensive enterprise solution and framework, which is that cornerstone. We have established partnerships with leading vendors that allow us to quickly and easily integrate with their applications to add value to the AIRS Suite, or we can develop a customized solution to integrate AIRS with your existing infrastructure.
Alpha Bay’s Systems Integration Services provide a quick, convenient, and cost-efficient solution for retailers. Whether you choose to purchase AIRS as a point solution, or you implement it as an enterprise solution, Alpha Bay delivers well-executed and timely results.
Needs Analysis & Prototyping
The first step in any system integration program is to evaluate the business needs. We take the time to understand your business and your enterprise software goals, including your key objectives and priorities, as well as your current limitations and pain points. We use this information to identify opportunities to improve on business and technology processes through the implementation of new technologies and better integration of existing components. We will develop a prototype based on our analysis that will allow you to see the synergies that will be achieved through the successful implementation and integration of your enterprise systems.
Comprehensive Solution Design
After we complete a thorough needs analysis and show you a prototype of an integrated solution, we will develop a detailed and comprehensive solution to address all of your needs, incorporating AIRS software with third-party packages or in-house software as appropriate. The solution design will take into account all of your business objectives, as well as any time, budget, or resource constraints that exist for your business. Based on our detailed needs analysis and technical evaluation of your systems, we will develop an innovative solution that is custom-tailored for your unique requirements.
Project Planning
One of the most daunting parts of an enterprise software implementation project is the planning. That is why we develop a detailed project plan for each project that covers all aspects from beginning to end. The project plan provides a framework that the team relies on to ensure that each step of the system integration project is completed on schedule and within budget. The plan also helps the business to understand how the end goals will ultimately be achieved, by seeing the logical progression that occurs between initial design and migration on to new systems and interfaces.
Data Migration and Optimization
A key element of system integration projects that is often under-appreciated or over-looked is data migration and optimization, also known as ETL. The term ETL refers to the set of processes for extracting the data from the existing systems, transforming the data for improved processing and reporting, and loading the data into the new system. Legacy systems often store data in ways that are not optimized to meet all of your business needs. For example, older databases often lack standardized values or field types between different systems or contain inaccurate one-to-many or many-to-many relationships between data fields. Optimizing the existing data before loading it into a new enterprise system is a critical step in the system integration project that will help to ensure effective and accurate systems and reports upon completion.
Application Installation & Configuration
When implementing enterprise-wide systems, businesses have a lot of decisions to make about how system should be architected, what hardware to use, and how both the hardware and software should be configured. These decisions affect a variety of technical aspects of the system, such as the accessibility of the system across various networks and VPNs, the availability of the system during outages or maintenance, and the performance of the system during peak usage. Implementation decisions also have far-reaching consequences with regard to business operations, as business rules must be defined and enforced to support or restrict users when performing various processes within the system. Our System Integration Service will help you evaluate both the business and technical requirements to ensure your enterprise solution is installed and configured in the most effective way for your business.
Custom Programming of Applications & Interfaces
The Alpha Bay system was built from the ground up by a talented team of developers using advanced strategies that allow us to easily adapt the software to fit our customers’ needs. If the built-in software configuration capabilities do not address your business needs, our development staff can quickly customize the application for you. In addition, Alpha Bay development resources can build interfaces to seamlessly pass data between Alpha Bay software and other applications. Companies often do not recognize that the data interfaces between applications are as critical as the applications themselves. Our developers will work to ensure that any data transmission between applications is secure, accurate, and reliable. The AIRS development approach is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide interoperability and support easy linkages to legacy systems. Because AIRS was architected as an SOA application instead of just adding SOA services onto a legacy system, the AIRS solution uses the same SOA web services that it provides as interfaces to other applications and services. Therefore you are assured of high performance interfaces that can truly deliver real-time results.
Documentation & Training
People are a critical component in any enterprise software implementation, thus providing users with the documentation and training that they need to use the system are key pieces of the system integration project plan. It is essential that staff members have all the information they need to effectively use the software, and ensures that the company gets the full benefit out of all the features it provides. Quality training, both during the implementation project, and ongoing refresher training and new-hire training, increases employee productivity. Alpha Bay can create a custom training program for your business, including a combination of training documentation, train-the-trainer courses, and computer-based training.
On-site Support for Maintenance & Upgrades
After your solution has been fully implemented, the work doesn't end there. To ensure that your enterprise solution continues to provide all the benefits your business needs, Alpha Bay provides on-site field support and maintenance services to our customers for both software and hardware aspects of your enterprise solution. Our technology experts can handle your day-to-day maintenance, or serve as a resource when it comes time for upgrades or expansion of your current system. Alpha Bay can serve as the single point of contact for all of your retail IT needs.
Find out how an Alpha Bay Systems Integration and Consulting Services can reduce costs and improve revenues for your retail enterprise. Call us at 801-838-7600.
The success of any project is based on a solid foundation, which starts at the cornerstone. Alpha Bay’s “Adaptive Integrated Retail System” (AIRS) delivers a comprehensive enterprise solution and framework, which is that cornerstone. We have established partnerships with leading vendors that allow us to quickly and easily integrate with their applications to add value to the AIRS Suite, or we can develop a customized solution to integrate AIRS with your existing infrastructure.
Alpha Bay’s Systems Integration Services provide a quick, convenient, and cost-efficient solution for retailers. Whether you choose to purchase AIRS as a point solution, or you implement it as an enterprise solution, Alpha Bay delivers well-executed and timely results.
Needs Analysis & Prototyping
The first step in any system integration program is to evaluate the business needs. We take the time to understand your business and your enterprise software goals, including your key objectives and priorities, as well as your current limitations and pain points. We use this information to identify opportunities to improve on business and technology processes through the implementation of new technologies and better integration of existing components. We will develop a prototype based on our analysis that will allow you to see the synergies that will be achieved through the successful implementation and integration of your enterprise systems.
Comprehensive Solution Design
After we complete a thorough needs analysis and show you a prototype of an integrated solution, we will develop a detailed and comprehensive solution to address all of your needs, incorporating AIRS software with third-party packages or in-house software as appropriate. The solution design will take into account all of your business objectives, as well as any time, budget, or resource constraints that exist for your business. Based on our detailed needs analysis and technical evaluation of your systems, we will develop an innovative solution that is custom-tailored for your unique requirements.
Project Planning
One of the most daunting parts of an enterprise software implementation project is the planning. That is why we develop a detailed project plan for each project that covers all aspects from beginning to end. The project plan provides a framework that the team relies on to ensure that each step of the system integration project is completed on schedule and within budget. The plan also helps the business to understand how the end goals will ultimately be achieved, by seeing the logical progression that occurs between initial design and migration on to new systems and interfaces.
Data Migration and Optimization
A key element of system integration projects that is often under-appreciated or over-looked is data migration and optimization, also known as ETL. The term ETL refers to the set of processes for extracting the data from the existing systems, transforming the data for improved processing and reporting, and loading the data into the new system. Legacy systems often store data in ways that are not optimized to meet all of your business needs. For example, older databases often lack standardized values or field types between different systems or contain inaccurate one-to-many or many-to-many relationships between data fields. Optimizing the existing data before loading it into a new enterprise system is a critical step in the system integration project that will help to ensure effective and accurate systems and reports upon completion.
Application Installation & Configuration
When implementing enterprise-wide systems, businesses have a lot of decisions to make about how system should be architected, what hardware to use, and how both the hardware and software should be configured. These decisions affect a variety of technical aspects of the system, such as the accessibility of the system across various networks and VPNs, the availability of the system during outages or maintenance, and the performance of the system during peak usage. Implementation decisions also have far-reaching consequences with regard to business operations, as business rules must be defined and enforced to support or restrict users when performing various processes within the system. Our System Integration Service will help you evaluate both the business and technical requirements to ensure your enterprise solution is installed and configured in the most effective way for your business.
Custom Programming of Applications & Interfaces
The Alpha Bay system was built from the ground up by a talented team of developers using advanced strategies that allow us to easily adapt the software to fit our customers’ needs. If the built-in software configuration capabilities do not address your business needs, our development staff can quickly customize the application for you. In addition, Alpha Bay development resources can build interfaces to seamlessly pass data between Alpha Bay software and other applications. Companies often do not recognize that the data interfaces between applications are as critical as the applications themselves. Our developers will work to ensure that any data transmission between applications is secure, accurate, and reliable. The AIRS development approach is based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) to provide interoperability and support easy linkages to legacy systems. Because AIRS was architected as an SOA application instead of just adding SOA services onto a legacy system, the AIRS solution uses the same SOA web services that it provides as interfaces to other applications and services. Therefore you are assured of high performance interfaces that can truly deliver real-time results.
Documentation & Training
People are a critical component in any enterprise software implementation, thus providing users with the documentation and training that they need to use the system are key pieces of the system integration project plan. It is essential that staff members have all the information they need to effectively use the software, and ensures that the company gets the full benefit out of all the features it provides. Quality training, both during the implementation project, and ongoing refresher training and new-hire training, increases employee productivity. Alpha Bay can create a custom training program for your business, including a combination of training documentation, train-the-trainer courses, and computer-based training.
On-site Support for Maintenance & Upgrades
After your solution has been fully implemented, the work doesn't end there. To ensure that your enterprise solution continues to provide all the benefits your business needs, Alpha Bay provides on-site field support and maintenance services to our customers for both software and hardware aspects of your enterprise solution. Our technology experts can handle your day-to-day maintenance, or serve as a resource when it comes time for upgrades or expansion of your current system. Alpha Bay can serve as the single point of contact for all of your retail IT needs.
Find out how an Alpha Bay Systems Integration and Consulting Services can reduce costs and improve revenues for your retail enterprise. Call us at 801-838-7600.