Our implementation and migration planning process begins with a comprehensive "Needs Assessment".   This assessment drives the establishment of management objectives and a baseline from which implementation and migration strategies can be developed. The following needs assessment steps inform geographIT^®'s implementation and migration process:

• Identification of departments and programs using or potentially benefiting from GIS
• Documentation of current GIS staff resources
• Assessment of staff training requirements
• Evaluation of existing hardware/software and network infrastructure
• Inventory of available data resources

With your needs assessed, geographIT^® builds GIS implementation and migration plans to define the future system architecture and the GIS organization required to support the enterprise system. You'll benefit from the clarity of plan-related, task-oriented activities that describe:

• Phasing of hardware and software acquisition
• Database creation or migration activities
• Implementation or migration of GIS applications
• User training

The plan's schedule reflects the sequence and duration of implementation activities. The plan's budget includes anticipated labor, hardware, software, and training costs with documented assumptions used to develop the budget and schedule.

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