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Planning | Implementation | Training

Proper planning is critically important to the success of any system implementation. A major reason for our firm's long-term success has been our emphasis on helping clients plan their implementations in detail. Our planning capabilities fall into two categories: generic and product-specific.

Generic planning involves such activities as:

• Definition of user requirements
• Mapping of workflows
• Cost/benefit analysis of alternatives
• Recommendation of network, hardware, and software tools and configurations
• Development of detailed system specifications

Many clients have typically researched Business Intelligence products thoroughly and have identified the Seagate product family as their tool of choice. Having chosen this tool, these clients rely on WTG and MHI to provide Seagate-specific planning tools and consulting that will enable them to deploy these tools rapidly and effectively.

These Masterpiece-specific tools are:

• Seagate-ServicePack
• Seagate-MHI Planning Kit
• Seagate MHI Shortcut Review

For clients interested in taking advantage of all of the features and capabilities of Seagate, Myers-Holum and WTG offer the Seagate-ServicePack, which:

• Educates clients about Seagate products, examining in detail the specific client needs addressed by these products.
• Produces a detailed deliverable in the form of a workplan - i.e. a "roadmap" for the client's implementation of Seagate products.
• Provides estimates of the accounting and IS resources that will be needed for specific implementation tasks, thereby allowing clients to precisely budget resources required for varying implementation scenarios.

Seagate - MHI Planning Kit

Some clients require somewhat less assistance with Seagate implementation planning. They already know exactly what they want. Their focus is on installing the product and accessing appropriate data quickly and cheaply. However, they also want guidance on their customization efforts, as well as estimates of resource requirements and time-to-completion. MHI and WTG have developed an approach that will help these clients to customize their Seagate implementations efficiently, as well as provide them with the resource planning estimates they require. Contact your local MHI office for a Seagate-MHI Planning Kit.

In addition to the above services, Myers-Holum and WTG offer a wide spectrum of other products, services and training for Seagate users. Consequently, we have been able to compile an impressive array of procedures, proprietary software tools, and experiences that can shave significant resource hours and days-to-complete from virtually any Seagate project. Over the years, many clients have called on us to work on projects that were foundering for want of a solution that we had already developed for other clients. MHI and WTG have extensive Seagate project planning experience. Whether your Seagate project is in the planning stage or has already begun, MHI and WTG can bring valuable tools and experience that will allow you to expedite your implementation and save on resources.

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Seagate Software - Implementation

As experienced Seagate Certified Business Partners, MHI and WTG can assist any company in a broad range of industries to smoothly and effectively implement their chosen Seagate product.

Our typical Seagate implementation engagements include several of the following activities:

• Installing hardware and software
• Writing reports to client specifications
• Creating Info Views
• Customizing system features for unique aspects of client businesses (such as unusual fiscal calendars)
• Providing custom front-ends with Visual Basic, Visual C++, or any other appropriate tools
• Developing extensive, user-friendly documentation
• Establishing appropriate security measures to protect data and reports from corruption and/or unauthorized access, and Automating the appropriate scheduling and distribution of reports.

In the course of many implementations, we have been able to compile an impressive array of procedures, proprietary software tools, and experiences that can shave significant resource hours and days-to-complete from virtually any Seagate project. Over the years, many clients have called on us to work on projects that were foundering for want of a solution that we had already developed for other clients.

We also offer a full range of planning, implementation, training, and maintenance services with the following complementary best of breed software tools:

• SAP R/3
• BroadVision: One-To-One Enterprise, Financial, Knowledge, and Tools
• Informatica: Powercenter, Powermart, Business Component, Powerconnect, and Powerplugs

As businesses gather increasing volumes of data, tools and processes to draw this data together for analysis and sharing and to increase the efficiency of business processes become necessary. MHI and WTG can provide flexible solutions to meet diverse distribution, security and integration requirements using Seagate Software products and many other tools.

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Seagate Software - Training

As Seagate Certified business Partners, WTG and MHI are committed to providing a complete solution to client needs. In order to meet requirements for training, WTG and MHI provide Seagate Certified trainers as needed. MHI and WTG provide both basic Seagate Software training courses and client-customized courses that focus instruction on company-specific software and data. As experienced consultants in their own right, our trainers can also teach and demonstrate effective shortcuts, common problems and solutions to students.

Our ability to deliver training that passes on in-depth knowledge of how client systems fit together is one of our firm's greatest strengths. Our work invariably involves the integration of Seagate products with existing accounting packages and databases, and we take an enormous amount of pride in our skills as integrators. Our custom training program can show employees not only Seagate product basics, but how these tools interact and function within the scope of other, existing IT tools. In other words, we can instruct users on the uses of Seagate products as they would use them every day on their own.

We are particularly strong in training personnel at companies which are integrating Seagate products with one or more of the following software tools:

• SAP R/3

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