All professional services engagements utilize Dewpoint’s (DSDS) Methodology:
· Discover
· Solution
· Deliver
· Sustain
Begin at any point within the process, or select a single step based on your project needs.
Dewpoint Fast Facts
| Headquarters: | Lansing, MI |
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| Address: | 1921 East Miller Road, Suite B Lansing, MI 48911 |
| Regional Offices: | Southfield, MI, Indianapolis, IN and Columbus, OH |
| Incorporated: | 1996 |
Dewpoint experts help companies tackle complex IT solutions to secure and best utilize critical data, increase efficiency and manage costs. Unique to Dewpoint is its strong team of certified project managers, who participate throughout process to ensure best practices and on-target delivery. Industry leaders such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Symantec and other key providers partner with Dewpoint in order to deliver the latest hardware and software solutions available.
Founded in 1996, Dewpoint has grown to be a key business partner for major companies throughout the Midwest, and is currently one of only 18 Sun Executive Partners in the nation. Dewpoint significantly impacts enterprise practices across numerous industries, including retail, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, higher education, media, publishing, commercial banking, and insurance. Over the past 12 years, key acquisitions and success have allowed Dewpoint to expand from its headquarters in Lansing, MI to additional locations in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio.
What We Do
Dewpoint specializes in designing and implementing leading-edge server and storage, identity management and enterprise security solutions. All our consulting engagements and technology solutions are backed by comprehensive support and maintenance long after the project is done.
CONSULTING
- Identity Management
- Business Intelligence & Data Warehouse
- Enterprise Security
TECHNOLOGY
- Computer Systems
- Storage Solutions
SUPPORT
- Project Management/PMO
- Datacenter Support
How We Add Value
In order to ensure consistent delivery of all of our products and services, Dewpoint incorporates the following activities into each and every project we engage in. Our clients not only benefit from a reliable product delivered on time, they are also reassured by the fact that there is project management oversight and a quality assurance plan in place to provide repeatable performance for every engagement.
Dewpoint's Engagement Model
DISCOVER - SOLUTION - DELIVER - SUSTAIN
Our solutions can be adapted to meet clients where their needs currently exist. Each offering can be customized to fit the needs of the engagement.
DISCOVER
In the discovery phase of any project, we are looking to gain an understanding of the environment. This typically consists of a high-level or strategic overview of the project, a discovery exercise of the business and/or technical environment.
SOLUTION
The purpose of Solution is to design, and develop solutions to requirements. Solutions and designs encompass products, product components, and product-related services and processes.
DELIVER
The Deliver phase consists of implementing a desired solution, product or product component. To ensure consistency in delivery and leverage best practices, we have an archived set of templates for all project deliverables, such as the acceptance plan, a typical project work plan, a typical communication plan, a quality assurance plan, test cases, etc.
SUSTAIN
The final phase of the Dewpoint project approach is Sustain. Sustain provides enhanced support of the finished product, final knowledge transfer to the client, user support and to service additional needs.
Project Management Approach
At Dewpoint, Project Management is a discipline. We apply principles, concepts, tools and techniques to improve project performance and organizational effectiveness. We believe Project Management adds value by improving the probability of delivering consistently successful projects.
Dewpoint Project Managers recognize that they must be flexible and adaptable to be effective. Thus, although we embrace PM framework set forth by the Project Management Institute's PMBOK, we also realize that effective Project Managers in turn recognize that projects in different environments and of different types require variations on the basic Project Management principles, requiring ad hoc and collaborative efforts among project stakeholders.
Our approach to Project Management emphasizes skills like scheduling, cost estimating, and statistical risk management and encompasses complex disciplines such as scope definition, procurement management, human resource management and communications. Dewpoint Project Managers provide a systematic, process-oriented approach that covers every aspect of project management.