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It is very costly and time-consuming to build your own expertise in software application implementation and support teams to maintain those applications once in production. And once the research and development of this software is complete, the annual cost to your organization to continually maintain the staff and infrastructure in which you just invested can be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Oberon Technologies provides you with the software development, services and infrastructure to complete your project at an affordable cost with the quality of software products and service you would expect from your own internal staff. Since your business is not software development, you can focus your time and energy on manufacturing the products you do sell and service.

With over 35 years of cumulative product development, Oberon has created an infrastructure and methodology that keeps our software development, implementation and product support at the highest quality level possible. Our proven 10-step product development process provides you with assurance that you are maximizing your investment. With this methodology we not only deliver an application that will meet your needs technically, but will also meet your company’s business objectives. Our realized value methodology, at a high level, includes the following steps:

Determine Business Objective
This critical first step guides the entire process to ensure that your project stays within scope and that every component of the project is designed to meet the primary business objective.
Develop Requirements
Differentiating between what is a requirement and what is a “nice to have” helps determine priorities and ensures the project stays within scope.
Develop Use Cases
How will your new system be used? What is the ideal process for using your new system? Will your system be used differently by different types of users? These are the questions that use cases help to answer.
Document “As-Is” Process
Knowing your current process helps to determine what works and what doesn’t work. It is also necessary in determining how to transition from your current system to your new system.
Determine Value Criteria
Do you need to improve productivity? Improve speed-to-market? Provide better customer service? Expand your product offering? In order to set priorities, determine return on investment, and justify expenditures, it is necessary to understand the value a new system will bring to your organization.
Architect “To-Be” Process
The new process may be a modification of your “as-is” process or may be an altogether new process, based on your business objectives, solution and process requirements, use cases and value criteria.
Implement Solution
We will work with you to recommend, develop, integrate, modify, and/or deploy the right solution to meet your specific business objectives.
Test Solution
Oberon thoroughly tests the system based on your requirements and use cases to ensure that it is ready for production when we deploy it in your organization.
Train Client on Solution
Oberon will provide training on the solution to your organization so that your users are ready to use the system when it goes into production.
Realized Value Assessment
Based on the business objectives and value criteria, Oberon will work with you to determine the return on investment (ROI) for your system.

In addition to building and implementing applications, we work with our customers to define an appropriate business model for application support as your systems mature or grow. This can be performed on a monthly, quarterly, or even semi-annual basis. We work with you to determine the best maintenance business model for you and your clients, and then create a program to support this model.