Milestone Success Consulting

Features

Benefits

• Leveraged during critical points in the product/project life cycle in one-week increments.
• Can be scheduled to support any product-related activities.
• Offered at a heavily discounted rate based on total usage.
• Includes an initial kick-off meeting during which a customized consulting plan is developed that matches the right resource(s) to your specific needs and scheduling requirements.
• Monthly no-cost coordination calls are held with an IONA Consultancy Manager to review and refine the schedule, identify upcoming resource needs and ensure satisfaction.

• Improves ROI and reduces time to market by leveraging our product expertise to support critical activities.
• Saves money by providing access to highly specialized IONA consultants at a heavily discounted rate.
• Guarantees that you receive the consulting support you need when you need it.
• Ensures that the best resource for a given task is reserved in advance.
• Enables on-going communication about how IONA Professional Services can best support you.
• Highly flexible and customizable to your project needs.

Service Deliverables

Prerequisites

Sample activities are listed below, but your IONA Consultancy Manager will work with you to develop a customized plan of action that meets your unique requirements and ensures your success. This plan is reviewed on a monthly basis and includes the following activities:

• Providing project planning, architecture and design services.
• Planning for specific milestones, including developing risk mitigation plans and test plans.
• Developing a proof of concept to validate our technology's ability to meet specific requirements.
• Helping to develop an application and maximizing performance.
• Resolving configuration or deployment issues.
• Enabling additional functionality.
• Eliminating scalability problems.
• Identifying potential security breaches.
• Optimizing your organization's IT infrastructure.
• Providing mentoring in IONA products or technologies.

None. You can, however, combine this offer with an Elevated Support Contract, an IONA Dedicated On-Site Technical Account Manager, or any of the other standard IONA offerings.