Technical Needs Analysis

Technical Needs Analysis is the technical piece of a project's "requirements" phase, frequently called a "Discovery". Octobertech can work with your Strategic and Creative Services team to define and document the functional requirements and their technical implications for an interactive project.

High-level system design is critical to an interactive project which involves more than flat marketing collateral. As the Web is increasingly becoming a way of conducting business, the technical needs of Web sites are becoming more complex. Octobertech's technical architects are experienced in creating, documenting, and communicating technical system designs for a variety of projects. Projects include: intranets, extranets, content management systems, knowledge management systems, and hybrid applications which integrate with client's back-end legacy systems.

Octobertech offers prototyping services which would supplement a needs analysis or technical discovery assignment. Prototyping is a way to convey a project's strategic and functional requirements set by creating a representative interactive model. Also known as "Throwaway Prototyping", this practice can speed the lifecycle of a project by defining the requirements of a project in a clearer way than typical functional specification documents.

Our consultants consider themselves interactive application specialists and have a background in both systems engineering and the web arena. We can offer significant value as programmers versed in both current and legacy platforms, databases and languages such as PHP, XML, Java, MySQL, DB2 and Lotus Domino. We also offer customization of open source packages such as Koha, Drupal and Joomla.

Despite the fact that Web applications have matured, it is still a common struggle for large companies to completely integrate their Web site with existing infrastructures and enterprise applications. Octobertech's consultants can help make decisions about integration efforts and design architectures that leverage existing information stores.